Welcome to part two of my article series on console emulation in Linux. In the last article we were discussing emulating the various Nintendo systems, anything from NES to Nintendo DS and even the legendary VirtualBoy. If you haven’t read that article, or have no clue what emulation is, I suggest you take a quick look at that one first. This time we’re going to shift our attention from Nintendo and instead take a look at some systems from SEGA, as well as the Sony Playstation.
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Welcome to this blog’s first article series! Over the coming weeks we are going to be discussing console emulation in Linux, and what options there are for us out there in the Linux world. Throughout the articles I will focus on regular consoles as well as portable ones. I might go into older consoles (meaning anything that came out more than 10 years before I was born), but I don’t have as much experience with those as more modern consoles - so I don’t know yet. But for this article, we are going to take a good hard look at the Nintendo family, from the NES to the NDS!

If you’re more of a SEGA or Playstation guy, hop on over to my article on those systems!

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