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Roxor128 — Emulation Overkill
Published: 2010-04-17 16:58:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 6114; Favourites: 33; Downloads: 59
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This goes Beyond The Impossible .Here we have Super Mario Bros running inside a NES emulator, running inside DOSBox, running inside a Windows XP virtual machine, running on a Windows 7 real PC.
And guess what?
The game is still playable!
Yes, even with all that emulation and virtualisation overhead, the game is still playable. If I hadn't tried it for myself, I wouldn't believe it was possible.
Host system:
Quad-core Phenom II 955, 3.2GHz
4GB RAM
GeForce GTX285 graphics card
Windows 7 x64
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Ha ha! True. I actually had to do a bit of hunting in order to find an NES emulator for DOS. They're pretty scarce these days (programs for DOS, that is). Of course, the whole purpose of doing this is just showing off what's possible with modern computers.
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I heard that you like emulators, so I put emulators in your emulators!
One more serious note, you might be intrested in my latest deviation...
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Now I want to see you do that... inside a "Parallels" Windows emulator on a Macintosh.
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Sorry, I don't own a Mac. Just x86_64 PC hardware. I suppose I could replace the Windows XP virtual machine with one running Linux, though, if only to get a bit more variety in the operating systems in use.
If I were to add another layer of emulation, or emulate anything more complex at the bottom level, the results would be too slow to be usable. You could say that the point of this image is to show the current limit of usable emulation depth. Still, four levels is pretty impressive.
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Oh. my. god. That is beyond the impossible. Favorite to you.
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I wouldn't be surprised if you can buy a new computer and pull this off now.
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huh? why would I need a new computer, I got just last year. I even got to put it together.
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Well, if it's that recent, you can probably pull it off now.
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Yeah. Just need to get all the emulators...
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goddammit stop linking to tvtropes
you're going to trap us all YOU FOOL
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TV Tropes: enhancing lives one tab at a time.
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For the record, I wrote entry number 203 on You Know You Read Too Much TV Tropes When , and I'm guilty of it. 52/222 open tabs are TV Tropes.
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oh lawd.
I have progessed from having 50 tabs open on tvtropes
to having TWO windows open, with bout 80 tabs EACH
I do some silly editing every so often though
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Chances are the number will drop as you get familiar with the most common tropes.
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I spend my days trying to get through indexes lol
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why is the XP machine not running virtualbox running linux, with the emulator running through wine?
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Two parts to that answer:
1. This covers all the emulation platforms I have which can be used for, lacking a better term, recursive emulation.
2. This much recursion is a strain on my processor. If I added another level (especially something as complex as Linux) the NES game would be unplayable, and it's slow at this point. Things could be worse, though. That same NES emulator running under MS-DOS on a real 486DX/33 is so slow it's pretty-much unplayable.
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Windows 7 > XP Mode > Virtual Machine (Linux) > DOSBox > NES Emulator
Would be even further.
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While I'm sure that would be technically possible, it would be so slow it would be unusable.
I've tried using Windows 98 in a virtual machine and it's a bit sluggish. To be honest, I'm not sure why XP runs faster in the virtual machine that 98.
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Don't tell me you never considered trying it yourself.
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I do believe you have arned my respect. Amazing. I honor you, good knight of the digital table. Your efforts have been recognized.
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To be honest, I'm surprised I'm not getting a bunch of comments saying "Hey, cool. You tried that as well!".
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Hehe, yeah, honestly, I am as well...
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Just goes to show how much computing power is available now compared to 25 years ago.
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Hope your computer doesn't blow up from the Explosive Overclocking.
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No need to worry about that. My system isn't overclocked at all.
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It's faster than the same emulator on a real 486DX/33, but still slower than a native Windows emulator. Either way, I still suck at the game.
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Yo Dawg! We heard you like emulation! So we put an emulator in your emulator so you can play while you play.
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Somehow I was expecting that particular piece of Memetic Mutation to show up sooner or later.
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And you just keep Potholing every single link , right? This isn't the wiki to try and go for All Blue Entry . Or, All Grey Entry ... Whatever...
Hmmm...
ChekhovsGun. Nope, CamelCase won't work.
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Yes, I definitely read too much TV Tropes. More than 20% of my browser tabs are TV Tropes, and the total is a three-digit number (#203 on You Know You Read Too Much TV Tropes When , which I added).
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There's only one way to settle this...
...
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Give the developers time. They'll get it working eventually.
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I think it's a problem on my end, though.
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Don't let me stop you from trying it yourself.
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Nope, that it can't
But yeah I think I'll wait... To make my plan... COMPLETE! *evil laughter*
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What troper is complete without at least the thought of an Evil Plan?
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A troper who's not evil?
Although to be a troper you have to be at least a frequent dweller of the Internet (s optional), which leaves one everything but innocent... So every troper has at least an inkling of evil in them!
Man, I should WAKE UP before TALKING TO PEOPLE. I keep forgetting to do that.
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