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Because afaik emulators, especially of older consoles, have to mimick in software every aspect of the original hardware of the console. This obviously takes a l
by amilios 11y ago
Because afaik emulators, especially of older consoles, have to mimick in software every aspect of the original hardware of the console. This obviously takes a lot more computing power than just what the original hardware needed to run the games. I don't know how this situation has changed, however, as the latest generation of consoles are x86 based.
- jayrox 11y agoIt's not so much the software that they need to mimic but more so the hardware. They have to emulate the hardware to be able to run the instructions on a different cpu/gpu/audio architecture than what the game was built for. That's why it takes a much more powerful system to emulate a much weaker system.