emulators?

[aimeekitty]

sooooo I haven't looked into emulators for years... but I'm trying to figure out the best way to keep and be able to play some older classic games I like. Those of you who use them, could you tell me more? :) Can you use them with MAC & PC?
Do they really work like the old games actually did, or are there drawbacks?
which do you use?

I think once the holidays are over and we start converting the garage, I'm going to set up the Xbox, ps2 and maybe the dreamcast and Snes on a switchbox on the living room tv so that we could play any of them easily. But I'm not sure if my SNES even works anymore. :) I'm trying to figure out the best way to do all this.

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[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

for my personal, I use a dual 2.5 ghz power pc (mac G5) with 2.5 gb ddr sdram. *_* I hope that's fast enough? sadly, I got this machine to be able to do my animation stuff, but I've been so busy that I haven't been able to. (all the work I've done recently has been completely by hand, and scanned and composited by the people I worked for, so I didn't really have to use my system for it)

I'd be great to EASILY be able to play some of my favorite older games again without having to disconnect, connect, and then deal with grainy resolution issues on my monitor (my flatscreen computer monitor does not get along well with gaming systems resolution for some reason, even xbox has a bit of "wow, I can see every pixel in a BAD WAY" going on...)