Emulators, cores, and the architecture behind preserving and playing classic games today.
Nintendo Switch Online launched in 2018 with 20 licensed NES games, suspend points, online play, and a subscription-dependent access model.
Nintendo's 2024 case against Yuzu ended in a $2.4 million judgment and permanent injunction, without a contested trial on broader emulation law.
How rollback netcode predicts remote inputs, restores deterministic state, re-simulates missed frames, detects desyncs, and balances delay with artifacts.
How cartridge dumpers read ROM, mapper banks, save memory, and metadata-and how repeated reads, hashes, provenance, and safe handling establish confidence.
How emulators serialize CPU, memory, devices, clocks, and pending events-and why completeness, determinism, versioning, and validation matter.
Configure RetroArch native cloud sync safely with a primary device, non-destructive backups, matching directory rules, conflict tests, and secret hygiene.
Organize lawful game dumps without losing provenance: verify hashes, preserve masters, track transformations, and build auditable metadata and artwork.
How PCSX2's early commercial-game boot proved PlayStation 2 emulation viable, and why that milestone was only the start of decades of hardware research.
How the Ninth Circuit treated intermediate BIOS copying in Sony v. Connectix, what the ruling protected, and which questions it did not settle.
How integer scaling, aspect ratio, scanlines, masks, bloom, interlacing, and sampling interact when reproducing CRT-era video on flat panels.