Collecting vs. My Wife

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Sat Jul 14 08:58:51 2001

Mike Ford skrev:

>>>The good emulations look EXACTLY like the original games, because they
>>>actually run the original rom code. Fancy controllers and building kiosks
>>>just make the illusion complete.
>>
>>First of all, there is no such thing as a perfect emulation.
>>Secondly, even the CRTs differ. Might not matter if you've got bad eyesight,
>>though.

>Human eyes at best are no great test to perfect emulation. Nostalgia for
>the original can cloud your perceptions though, fortunately I live in an
>area with dozens of huge arcades that include the old games in free
>sections. I prefer a modern crt under emulation, to the old TV style
>original displays.

Actually, human eyes are the only relevant test to perfect emulation. I
couldn't care less what code was run, it might just as well be a dozen dwarfs
inside the cabinet, peeking poking in real time. It's quite easy to discern
what's a real Neo Geo.
Perhaps is this turning into yet another originality debate. =)

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