BETA YOURSELF
BETA YOURSELF GAME EMULATION
If you love retro gaming but lack the space to store 57 old consoles and home computers, Craig Grannell can help you enjoy classic titles and systems by emulating them instead
Drop a ROM
ROMs area bit of an ethicalgrey area. So whenever possible, buy legit copies of readily available classics or new games for old systems, like Hunter’s Moon.
THE BASICS
■ Learn the lingo
Getting 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 images instead.
■ Focus on faves