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It's honestly good advice, but I much prefer original hardware when possible. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/retrogaming

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is a CD vs FLAC discussion.

[–] SkunkWorkz 4 points 4 months ago

Not really, some emulators forgo accuracy for speed, since some emulators are unplayably slow when you turn on the 100% accuracy. Speedrunning some games that rely on glitches/exploits have to be done on original hardware or an FPGA solution that’s 100% accurate. Otherwise some glitches just won’t work since a software emulator lays out the memory differently, doesn’t do the instructions in the exact same order or is just too fast. So emulators are lossy.