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Game Boy Zelda Comes With Source, Sort Of
Jamie found a fun story about a 90s Zelda Game Boy ROM that shipped with the source code- not so much on purpose, but more because the linker padded out the last meg of ROM with random memory contents, which happened to include game source code.
> This emulation craze is fairly recent.
What? I really mean it what?
I remeber running sonic (megadrive) on a low end pentium (133) back in the day, albeit with no sound.
I also remeber using various earlier emulators on my amiga before that (speccy and such).
Maybe you have a differnet definition of recent than me though.
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"Maybe you have a differnet definition of recent than me though."
No, he just apparently has a different definition of "craze" to you. Being the only person in your state to emulate a megadrive on a low-end Pentium without sound doesn't mean that's when the emulation craze started. That was just you pushing the boundaries of what was available at the time. The average gamer wouldn't have understood you back then if you said the word "emulation" to them.
Only in recent years have so many people been emulating earlier consoles and arcade games on their home PCs, with pretty faithful representation of the original experience.