Legitimacy of "lagless"

[Mortificator]

it's a very good approximation of what the original game designers created. An emulation. An imitation.

Do you even know why they're called emulators? Hint: it is not the game that is being emulated.

No

OK, I'll explain it.

The PCB is "the real thing". MAME is an emulator. It emulates.

It emulates the hardware.

I take one of my PS1 discs, put it in a PC, and play it in ePSXe. You'd have be be insane to say it's not the real game, because the real game is in the machine, being played.

I make an image of that game and play it in ePSXe. Nothing changes.

The real game is the code. The disc / ROM chips / whatever is just the storage medium. Emulator, Super Gun, and port users play on different hardware than in the arcade, but the game is equally real on all four platforms.

I wonder if book forums show the same confusion about Kindles and the like? "It's not the real book, even though every word the author wrote is the same, because it's not on paper!"

[system11]

Do you even know why they're called emulators? Hint: it is not the game that is being emulated.

Yes

OK, but I'll try to be clever with semantics while actually parading my ignorance like a banner of pride.

Note how two can play at the childish comment edit game.

[Vyxx]

Guys, this is beginning to get a little too close for comfort.

[mjclark]

I wonder if book forums show the same confusion about Kindles and the like? "It's not the real book, even though every word the author wrote is the same, because it's not on paper!"

Yes- if they had page turning or speed reading competitions, the Kindle users would experience less page turning lag and therefore be accused of cheating. They would also be savagely condemned as inferior for not having the "real experience" of owning the books.
The actual book owners would buy translations of their favourite books in languages they don't understand in order to "support" the publishers and would be indignant that the Kindle owners didn't do the same.
It would be generally held that only books from a single japanese publisher were worth reading and all other books were rubbish because they were "too slow" or didn't have enough letters on each page.
Also anyone who downloaded their ebooks from torrent sites would be publicly shamed by insecure booksellers who were only members of the forum in order to profit from it financially by touting their own bookshops.
But then again, it is possible to take some metaphors too far

[Despatche]

I wonder if book forums show the same confusion about Kindles and the like? "It's not the real book, even though every word the author wrote is the same, because it's not on paper!"

Your point is true, but the above is worse than car analogies and you know it.

[louisg]

Oh holy hell, this thread is the lamest thing I've seen in a long time. Did someone above just post that emulators are better than PCBs because they have save states-- in a thread asking if just having lower latency is cheating? Not to mention all the points bloodf already covered.. that's.. um.. wow.

Anyway, my two cents are this: You're not playing Raiden; you're playing slow-ass bullet hell games.. and you're worrying about *lag*?



(yeah, I like bullet hell stuff too, I'm just trollin' )

[RNGmaster]

Oh holy hell, this thread is the lamest thing I've seen in a long time. Did someone above just post that emulators are better than PCBs because they have save states-- in a thread asking if just having lower latency is cheating? Not to mention all the points bloodf already covered.. that's.. um.. wow.

Anyway, my two cents are this: You're not playing Raiden; you're playing slow-ass bullet hell games.. and you're worrying about *lag*?



(yeah, I like bullet hell stuff too, I'm just trollin' )

Play Dragon Blaze and let's see what's slow.

[Demetori]

KINDLESHMUPS?

[Mortificator]

Note how two can play at the childish comment edit game.

It would be one, since I didn't edit your comment. That's beneath me.

[austere]

Removing everything but a single word of post is editing though. Quite often legitimate editing, however in this case you failed to quote enough of what he wrote to show that he was obviously being sarcastic in response to a very condescending post.