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BETA YOURSELF GAME EMULATION

THE BASICS

■ Learn the lingo

etting into emulation, it feels like you have to master an alien tongue before you can find what you need. Broadly, though, emulators are just apps that mimic old hardware. Some of them need BIOS files (firmware used for hardware initialisation) and you will also need ROMs – virtual copies of cartridges – although some systems use tape or disk

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