• TeezyZeezy
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    2 years ago

    Yeah, I use dolphin to play older games like Pikmin and older GameCube/Wii stuff

    Took me a while to map the buttons right for pikmin but I figured it out. I love piracy

  • CommunistWolf
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    Regularly, yes. Beats trying to keep old consoles alive. Is there something specific you want to do?

    Making an emulator useful often involves piracy, of course.

  • whoami
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    yes…zsnes, a ps2 emulator that I don’t remember the name of (pcsx2?), dosbox…that and virtualizing other OS’s

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      Regular VMs aren’t emulation. They use various hardware and software features to isolate themselves from the host OS, allowing them to run a completely different guest OS, but they’re not emulating the OS, they’re actually running the code on your CPU as-is. The only time that involves emulation is if you want to run a VM for a different CPU architecture than the host. Then you need a CPU emulator.

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    I’ve used various kinds of emulators. I used console emulators (mostly old ones such as Gameboy and SNES) quite a while ago, when I was around 12 years old. I got into it because I found it fun to jailbreak and exploit my iOS devices and in the process stumbled onto emulators, then found that I tend to like older games more than newer ones.

    Now, I constantly use CPU emulators for testing my programs on RISC-V, different ARM variants, PowerPC, etc. Most of my programs are written in Go, which outputs a static executable that depends on nothing, so it works really well with emulation. I’ve also used CPU emulation for running VMs that I used for the same purpose (testing my software).

  • FuckBigTech347
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    Yes many different kinds. For game console hardware but also for things like RISC-V computers.

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    I use them on my phone and PC, have been for years. I remember playing N64 games on basically any computer in high school cause Project64 could be put on your flash drive lol

  • BenEarlDaMarxist
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    I play a lot of Pokemon rom hacks, so yeah, I use them, mainly My Boy for GBA and Drastic for DS.

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    of course…for gba, for nes, for snes, for psx, a couple of times for ps2