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Preservation starts in the present, does it not? I think one thing that's easy to forget, some of the old school emulation, like early SNES emulators, came abo
by asveikau 4y ago
Preservation starts in the present, does it not?
I think one thing that's easy to forget, some of the old school emulation, like early SNES emulators, came about when the hardware was still kinda current or recent.
- eru 4y agoYes, the timelines match up pretty well: The SNES was released in Japan in 1990. The first SNES emulator in 1994 could run a few homebrews; I'd say SNES emulation proper started in perhaps 1996 with Snes96, but that's a judgement call. The Switch was released in 2017. We are in 2022 now.
- asveikau 4y agoNice observation. I hadn't realized how parallel that timeline is. I just remember playing games on a pentium 2 in '98 that were published in '94.
- roywiggins 4y agoAnd Nintendo 64 was released 1996-7, UltraHLE was 1999. And apparently early GBA emulation predated the GBA? https://emulation.fandom.com/wiki/History_of_emulation#Game_Boy_Advance https://emulation.fandom.com/wiki/History_of_emulation#Game_...
- Vanit 4y agoiirc GBA emulation got an early head start due to leaked documentation (citation needed).