609: The State of Emulation
Retronauts
Retronauts
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🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
While it started exclusively as an activity enjoyed by a small demographic of ultra-nerdy young people with knowledge of obscure websites, emulation has gradually blossomed over the past thirty years into something we all do regularly—often while obeying copyright laws. Without emulation, most retro games would be entirely inaccessible to all but the select few with the cash available to purchase pieces of decades-old plastic that are only increasing in price and decay. And would our little podcast even exist without emulation? It's a thought too terrifying to dwell on.
This week on Retronauts, join Bob Mackey, Read Only Memo's Wes Fenlon, and Zophar's Domain founder Zophar (check out his YouTube and Twitch channels) as the crew discusses the many big moments from emulation's history—and how the subject has recently become more relevant than ever.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on Retronauts, you must delete this podcast within 48 hours of downloading. Oh, yeah. Hello everybody welcome to another episode of |
| 0:24.6 | retronots. I'm your host for this one Bob Mackie in this week's topic is |
| 0:32.0 | emulation a topic we rarely touch upon which is |
| 0:36.0 | pretty funny because without it we would not be able to do our jobs and I dare say few |
| 0:41.1 | people would care about retro games if emulation didn't exist. |
| 0:45.0 | So I last touched upon this topic about let's say 600 episodes ago |
| 0:50.0 | so I figured it was time to check back in and see what has happened in the last 11 years since we talked about emulation. |
| 0:57.6 | Before I go on any further, I want to introduce our experts who know so much more about this topic they will bring great shame on to me |
| 1:04.6 | but it's no fault of theirs. |
| 1:06.4 | Who is our first guest on the line here? |
| 1:08.6 | Hey Bob, that's me. |
| 1:10.0 | West Finland, senior editor at PC gamer. |
| 1:13.0 | Very happy to be back on the show. |
| 1:15.4 | And glad that you picked me for this episode |
| 1:17.1 | because I've been doing a newsletter about emulation |
| 1:20.3 | for the last, Jesus, it's been a year now called |
| 1:23.7 | read-only memo and I'm sure you sell yourself short I'm sure you know lots of |
| 1:28.0 | emulation but excited to be here to talk about it. |
| 1:30.6 | Thank you and who is our other guests on the line new to |
| 1:33.8 | retro-nots? Hi my name is Brad I'm more commonly known as Zofar you may have heard now that |
| 1:40.6 | to me that is a legendary name in terms of the subject we're talking about today |
| 1:46.9 | Brad I can call you Brad is that correct okay. |
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