Emulators

Could anyone give a good description of how an emulator is made and the basics for making an emulator?

 

Your planning on making an emulator? sweet! Okay, the basics are: Getting the game,for the system being used, able to play.... yeah, I'm no good at these graphical stuff, it's better jsut to post on Homebrew sites,where there are lotsa inventors... ;D

Oh, and I think this should be on Technical help...

 

ok thx for the tip

 

I know that but that's not my problem. :-\

 

You have to be skilled in C and assembler, and know a lot about the consoles like it's memory mapping and stuff.

It's not an easy task.

 

Take the Project 128 guy for instance; he's going through some strong turbulence in his production. :

 

If you want to experiment with creating an emulator, there's certainly no harm in trying. Whatever you do, don't try a PS3 emulator or whatever, start with something like 'Chip 8', and move up to NES afterwards if you're feeling cocky . The first step, of course, would be to thoroughly understand the console and all of its specifications. Then that's generally where mad C++ skills come into play.