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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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To answer a question: Is it possible to emulate one system inside another several times and still have the results usable?
The answer was "Yes. It is indeed possible."
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Another troper? Yay! I love things like this, though. With all the "layers" or whatever you call them.
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Layers is as good a term as any.
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Not to mention all the other stuff like Steam and Winamp already running in the background as well... that only adds to the awesomeness of this!
A fellow Troper? Shweet... 
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What's awesome about having a lot of programs running at once? Doesn't everyone do that?
Besides, it's not like they'd have much (if any) effect on the emulation, given the emulation would all have been confined to one processor core, and the host system has a quad-core CPU.
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it is now also on the Beyond The Impossible page on Tvtropes, you have earned it. awesome!
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Well, anyone with a suitable computer could have pulled this off. I wouldn't be surprised to find examples elsewhere of other people having done something similar.
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This really is Crowning Moment of Awesome in Real Life.
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It seems that at least one other person agrees with you, given that I found a link to this among the Real Life Crowning Moment Of Awesome examples at TV Tropes a couple of weeks ago and I know I didn't put it there.
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That's where I found it, I thought you put it up there and that you are a fellow troper.
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You're half right. I am a fellow Troper, but I'm not egotistical enough to put a link to my own work on a page like Crowning Moment Of Awesome.
If someone else thinks it's worthy of a link there, who am I to argue?
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I think that should qualify as a Crowning Moment Of Awesome for the PC.
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Thats a lot of hoops but your computer is jumping pretty good
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I think it's the job of geeks to make computers jump through hoops.
Of course, this is really just showing off. I called the original file for the screenshot "bragging.png" for precisely this reason.
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