because emulation is actually really taxing on processing power.
Basically, the system is strong enough to outdo the prior system, but it cannot faithfully imitate it. When you emulate something, it means you're imposing not only the capabilities, but also the limitations of the older system. It's a 'workaround' to make system A work on B - and this is actually difficult to process.
The Super Gameboy add-on for the SNES is actually fitted with the original Gameboy's hardware, because despite the SNES being a 16-bit console, it didn't have enough power to emulate a different console.
Nintendo manages to keep retrocompatibility on their hardwares because they actually leave a portion of the old system's hardware inside.
Basically, think about why there's no emulators for PS4 yet, despite some computer specs being thousands of times better. It's because of this reason, teamed with many others (such as cracking the system, development etc.)
A workaround would be to fully reprogram the game on the new hardware instead of attempting to emulate it - this way, you can use the processing power to its fullest extent instead of giving a chunk of it to emulation.
Basically, the system is strong enough to outdo the prior system, but it cannot faithfully imitate it. When you emulate something, it means you're imposing not only the capabilities, but also the limitations of the older system. It's a 'workaround' to make system A work on B - and this is actually difficult to process.
The Super Gameboy add-on for the SNES is actually fitted with the original Gameboy's hardware, because despite the SNES being a 16-bit console, it didn't have enough power to emulate a different console.
Nintendo manages to keep retrocompatibility on their hardwares because they actually leave a portion of the old system's hardware inside.
Basically, think about why there's no emulators for PS4 yet, despite some computer specs being thousands of times better. It's because of this reason, teamed with many others (such as cracking the system, development etc.)
A workaround would be to fully reprogram the game on the new hardware instead of attempting to emulate it - this way, you can use the processing power to its fullest extent instead of giving a chunk of it to emulation.
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