Re: Video games - collectors market on the horizon?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Impmon  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Check out the emulation sites and newsgroups.  It isn't uncommon for people
>>to buy the xbox to only use it as an emulator rather than for any present
>>games.  Of course the people who were around when these emulated systems
>>were originally on the market have the disposable cash referenced in the
>>main post of this thread to do this.
>Wouldn't Dreamcast be easier?  DC doesn't need mod chip to play
>emulator.  Unless you want to play MAME with new or recent arcade games
>or play recent consoles (N64 for example), DC can handle most emulated
>system just fine.

The Dreamcast can't handle anything past NES at full speed with sound, no
frame skipping, etc., except maybe with hand-written and hand-optimized
assembly code, which emulator authors aren't doing much of.  No Genesis,
no SNES, no PCE/TG-16, no Neo-Geo (and Neo-Geo wouldn't fit into the DC's
memory anyway).  No GBA, for that matter.

Also, PC emulators port easily to the Xbox since it's so much like a PC.
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