First of all, I’m sorry for not bringing up content in a while, I’m back. I’ve decided to write more detailed posts, so expect better content in coming days.
Wouldn’t it be so good if you were able to play the exclusive releases done for consoles, on your own PC, at your comfort? If you’re a hardcore gamer, this post is certainly a big treat for you. You’re going to be updated with the best emulators for each of the gaming consoles available, till date.
Various Gaming Consoles
What is an Emulator?
Imagine a situation – You can communicate in only English, and you need to talk to a Chinese who can only converse in Chinese. Now how can you do that? The most probable thing is, you’ll find a third person who knows English as well as Chinese. Then you’d ask this third person to translate your words to Chinese and vice-versa. This is exactly the function of an Emulator. An Emulator translates(emulates) the coding done for a specific machine, to the coding of another, so that you can run it onto the second machine for which it is not coded.
The List of Best Emulators available for Gaming Consoles
| Gaming Console | Emulator |
| PlayStation 1 | ePSXe |
| PlayStation 2 | PCSX2 |
| PlayStation Portable (PSP) | PCSP |
| Microsoft X-Box | Xeon |
| Nintendo Gameboy | Visual Boy Advance |
| Nintendo Gameboy Advance | Visual Boy Advance |
| Nintendo Gamecube | Dolphin |
| Nintendo 64 | Project64 |
| Super Nintendo | ZSNES |
| Nintendo NES | FCEUX |
| Nintendo Wii | Dolphin |
| Nintendo Vrtual Boy | Red Dragon |
| Sega Dreacast | Chankast |
| Sega Saturn | Satourne |
| Sega Genesis | Fusion |
| Sega Master System | Fusion |
| Sega Game Gear | Fusion |
I’m off playing Mario. :P
It is quite difficult to configure these emulators and necessary PC Hardware must be present in order to play games in complete graphics.
Let me know if you need help in configuring any of them. :)
Thanks for such a wonderful categorization I did’t try this simulator/emulator coz right now I’m working on AIRiPad.air which is used on iPad development.
Good Luck with it.