is there a future for emu?

**trippplet1** · July 17th, 2002, 04:28

Emulation, as we know it has topped the charts. Thousands upon thousands people have been turned into happy campers(im one of them).
My question is: is there a future for emu? A lot of people think that once you hit your peek, its all downhill from there. For now, emu is still hanging in there, but will we ever see our jaws drop like we did when ultraHLE came out? Of course there will be updates to perfect the games and emulators we use now, but what happens when there isnt any thing else to do?
So basically im saying: is emu a dying race or is there still a tank of gas left in it?

:sly:

**2bzy4ne1** · July 17th, 2002, 05:29

Emus will never die if we have a community this big.

**tooie** · July 17th, 2002, 07:19

as long as there is new consoles coming out then emulation will not likely die, if you some day see a little box that is used for the home PC and all gaming and that is the only box .. then yes emulation will be dead. The only way I see that happening is if microsoft truely has a complete monoply. Will you ever see your jaw drop again .. who knows, not likely with n64 emulation, but what about sometime down the track when you have game cube, or the PS2 .. I am sure pj64 could drop the jaws on lots of people who have never seen emulation yet

**Doomulation** · July 17th, 2002, 09:56

the emulation scene for n64 is faaaaaaaaaaaaar from dead right now. many new plugins has come out, which are better than ever. it made us drop our jaws.

so, no! emulation is not dying!

**RPGlover12** · July 17th, 2002, 12:55

its not most likely dyin for the n64 and other old consoles but for the new systems like ps2 gamecube and many othes aren't gonna be emulated soon we need about 5 more years to get it to work perfect or maybe less but we need a miracle to make ps2 games work cause still we can't emulate dreamcast games so i think its dyin only for next gen consoles

**Rocketman_mab** · July 17th, 2002, 20:17

The biggest problem that emulation is facing is that of the consoles going to discs instead of carts. The discs make the games files HUGE. Cart console emulators are still being worked on to make them compatible with all of the games.ie proj64. And until it has achieved this it will be alive and well. However, I can't see it to continue to thrive until it is common to be able to find PSX,PS2,and Gamecube games available for easy download.

Imagine this:

You just downloaded the latest Gamecube emulator and then downloaded your favorite game at 50MB/s from a file sharing program. You now have 20 Gamecube games on your 300gig hard drive. You then play the game on your 20 GHz system with 10gig of RAM and the latest 1gig video card.

The problem it's all running on your Windows 2020 OS.

If Pj64 keeps us busy til then we can count on it staying strong, but if we find ourselves with a perfect n64 emulator and waiting for the ability to play disc oriented games, then we can count on a gap of time where emulation is at a low point.

**Allnatural** · July 17th, 2002, 21:09

Originally posted by Rocketman_mab
The biggest problem that emulation is facing is that of the consoles going to discs instead of carts. The discs make the games files HUGE. Cart console emulators are still being worked on to make them compatible with all of the games.ie proj64. And until it has achieved this it will be alive and well. However, I can't see it to continue to thrive until it is common to be able to find PSX,PS2,and Gamecube games available for easy download.

I don't see this being a problem. PSX emulation is very strong right now. If you ask me, I think emulation of the cart based systems is the problem because it has a warez nature to it.

**Smiff** · July 17th, 2002, 21:32

i think the problem will be the complexity of the systems... making an n64 emulator is really f**king hard... no way would i want anything to do with a GameCube emu project.... f**k that lol :p

**trippplet1** · July 18th, 2002, 00:31

is there any way to compress and squeeze those large files to maybe, i say 250 to 300mb? id go for that

**LD.** · July 18th, 2002, 02:21

Depends on how much data is on the disc really. A few Dreamcast ISO's can go as low as 20-50 Mb, while others are more like 300-400Mb.

Besides, when games come on discs, you can just buy them. There won't be any problems with bad dumps and all that stuff

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