fwiw most emulators now are pretty "plug 'n play". No settings to fiddle, rarely even controller button assignments, and the number of bugs continually shrinks

fwiw most emulators now are pretty "plug 'n play". No settings to fiddle, rarely even controller button assignments, and the number of bugs continually shrinks. You can fiddle, and get 1080p out of your N64 emulator, but that's usually not required, in at least the past few years. Further back (possibly significantly) yeah, they were pretty awful for everyday users.