January 4th, 2000
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The following is a research paper composed by Mike Gastonguay about emulators and roms :
Here is a question for
you. Where are your old Nintendo and Sega Genesis systems? If you
are like most avid gamers, your answer is "In my attic"
or "In the back of the closet". If you are like me,
you'll think to yourself "Gee, I wish I could play my old
Mario games a couple more times". You'll be happy to know
that you can play your old favorites without the hassle of
climbing into the dusty attic. Emulators and Roms make it
possible.
Emulators and Roms allow you to play video games on your
computer. The games they play were originally designed for home
gaming systems such as Nintendo and Sega Genesis. Emulators are
the programs that are used to load and play the games. Each
emulator plays it's own specific type of file. There are many
different types of emulators that play games for almost every
imaginable system including home gaming system including the
outdated Atari and Apple IIe systems. There are usually multiple
emulators emulators for each gaming system. The files of the
individual games are called roms. Roms are loaded on to emualtors
in order to start the game. The size of rom files differ. Newer
games with complex graphics and quality sound might result in a
larger rom files while older games with primitive sounds and
graphics are usually smaller in size. Rom files are usually found
in ".bin" form. For example : The rom file for NFL
football might be "nfl_ftball.bin"
Some emulators are more popular than others. These emulators play
the games from popular home gaming systems. Nintendo emulators
play games such as the original Super Mario Brothers series and
the original Legend of Zelda series. The most popular emulator
from the original Nintendo Entertainment System is
"Nesticle". Other Nintendo examples of Nintendo
emualtors are "BasicNES", "BioNES",
"Famicom Fan Plus", "Famtasia", and
"WinNES". Nintendo's sequel, "Super
Nintendo", is also availble. Games such as Donkey Kong
Country and Super Mario World can be played on Super Nintendo's
emualtors. Super Nintendo's most popular emulators are
"ZSNES", "SNES9x", "SNEmul",
"NLKE", and "SNEeSe". Gamers who like Sonic
the Hedgehog and the original NHL Hockey will enjoy the following
emualtors for the Sega Genesis... "Genecyst",
"Kgen98", "vGen", "Dgen" and
"Megasis". Emulators are also available for newer
systems such as Nintendo 64 and Sony's Playstation. For those of
you who enjoy Super Mario 64 and GoldenEye, you'll enjoy
"UltraHLE", "Nemu64", "Project
Unreality", "True Reality", and "Sunset
64". These are the most popular Nintendo 64 emulators
available. Playstation gamers can enjoy a round of Crash
Bandicoot on one of the following emulators... "Bleen",
"PSX Bios" and "PsyKe".
You can find many web sites that allow you to download different
emulators and roms files. Some of the pages that I found that
provide a large amount of emulators and roms are the Wonderful
World of Emulation, Emunation, and Uncle SNES-ters roms and Emus.
There is a listing of the top 50 Emulation and rom pages at the
following address... http://www.swiss-online.net/top/emu. For a
web page with links to some popular emulation and rom download
sites, visit the following page...
http://www.geocities.com/mentoskid/emulation.html. There is also
an on-line version of this research paper at that address.
There are many noticable benefits to using emulators and roms
instead of traditional home gaming systems. There is usually no
cost for emulators and roms. New home system game can cost
anywhere from $20.00 to $70.00. Even used game will still cost
anywhere from $3.00 to $25.00. When playing older games,
emualtors and roms are considered more reliable. Older systems
and games are extremely sensative to moisture and dust. These
game often lock up or scramble graphics due to this sensetivity
factor. Emulators also allow users to save pictures and sounds
from the games they are playing. Through this, you could send
your friends an e-mail with some pictures of you throwing the
Super Bowl winning touchdown or disembowling an opponent fighter
in the Mortal Kombat tournament. (How Attractive!) Despite these
advantages, I do not recommend using emulators and roms of newer
systems such as Nintendo 64 or Sony Playstation. The roms files
of newer game are larger than other roms files and will take up
considerable space on your system. Game play of these roms is
often less quality than the regular home gaming systems. Newer
gaming emulators do not allow save features or use of
accesssories such as rumble packs or additional buttons. Other
than these exceptions, I recommend the use of emualtors and roms.
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