Best answer. Architectural differences cause most of the issues
Emulation
Dominic Foster
Ian Watson
Why did Microsoft and Nintendo use the weirdo PPC platform in the Gamecube, Wii, and Xbox 360?
Jaxon Cook
Ok so I'm pulling the 1s and 0s out of my asshole, but imagine that requesting something like a = b + c on SNES hardware looks like 0001100101110011 (which would make the cpu draw two values from some places and save their sum to a third place). Now if you send the same set of signals to your PC's processor you won't get jackshit, because it's physically built to understand a completely different set of commands than SNES. So instead you have to code a program which simulates the way SNES works which then interprets commands from SNES games. Massive, massive overhead.
Joshua Nelson
Why did you capitalize the word "Forums" like an autist?
Brody Hernandez
The problem with emulation today is people recommending old as fuck emulators that are shit.
Here's the best emulators:
SNES: USE HIGAN ZSNES IS SHIT
PS1: Use Madnafen
PS2: literally buy a fat PS2 and soft mod it then install games to it's HDD PCSX2 is shit
3DS: Citra
Saturn: Madnafen
David Taylor
PS2 emulation is spotty because they do bandaid solutions
Jaxon Wood
a lot of irony in this post
Dylan Lee
People still use ZSNES? There's a few ROM hacks that literally have special instructions for ZSNES that say you can't use ZSNES for it.
Dominic Rivera
People are literally retarded and haven't looked into the emulation scene since they downloaded ZSNES 10 years ago
Connor Bell
Because phone posting