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What is an Emulator?

I am on a website looking at a ps1 emulator because a guy told me that if i download an emulator i can play any ps1 game i want, so is an emulator a program that has EVERY game inside it, or is it a program that will let me play any ps1 game i have on my computer?>

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    An emulator is a program that "emulates" (or "mimics") another.

    A ps1 emulator is a program that runs on your computer... that will play and run all the ps1 games.

    See, ps1 is a console system that hooks up to television sets... like the old Nintendo from the 80's. But you can get Nintendo emulators now and play all those old games on your computer.

    An emulator is the program that runs the games... it pretends to be the console. But you still have to download each individual game

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    An emulator is a system that can let you play the ps1 on the computer instead of buying it. No you do not put your ps1 games in it. you can download the ps1 games. But you the emulator first.

  • 1 decade ago

    well that is what an emulator does it plays old/new games on a compuuter, i myself use a NES and SNES for most of thee good games and you will need a thing called a ROM this is the actual game and the emulator is like the system, but have a good virus protection program and beware some.... inappropriate images have popped up while i was searching for some games so be careful

  • 1 decade ago

    It's a program that allows you to mimic things such as video games. It doesn't come with all of the games, but you can play them on the emulator by downloading ROMs (which are basically the games). However, you'll have to search for ROMs on some ROM sites, such as ROMHustler, CoolROMs, and 1ROM, but sometimes you might have to search Google, too.

    And if you need help setting up, email me.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    An Emulator is like an on-computer game system and it plays roms, you can get all that at 3roms.com but I would not suggest it because, it is Piracy and that is illegal.

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