I love emulators. Since I was able to play Super Mario 64 on my Windows 98 PC back in 1999, I’ve had a fascination with how emulators can not only run games at various speeds but also improve others.

SSX Tricky is one of my favorite games of all time. I have two PlayStation 2’s nearby so I can play it whenever I want. What I can’t do, however, is play it on them without the drive squealing or ...

TL;DR: ePSXe 2.0.18, the first major update in nearly 10 years, adds native support for CHD image files, enhancing file compression and quality. The update also improves DPI awareness, audio reverb, ...

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Microsoft has released an update for its Prism emulator that adds support for x86 apps that require AVX and AVX2 extensions, such as Ableton Live 12. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

MMO 15 years after it was shut down, Star Wars Galaxies is still getting massive updates thanks to this restoration project—like a Helldivers-style galactic civil war Life Sim 10 years later, I still ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...

PSX2 is a new PlayStation 2 emulator for Android, building off of PCSX2 and PCSX2_ARM64. The app is available in the Play Store for $5, or you can build it yourself for free from its source code.

We’re now several months into a brand new Nintendo generation, and waiting impatiently for important information such as the release date for Metroid Prime 4 and the whereabouts of the next 3D Mario ...

Here at Ars, we’re big fans of classic console emulators that go beyond providing perfect re-creations to those that actually improve on original hardware with new features we could only dream of as ...

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