It’s a more convenient save than the savegame. It won’t make a forced savegame but by doing a SaveStates you can charge it later for X, Y or Z reason. A SaveState is basically like you’re taking a picture of where you are in the game and you’ll be able to charge it if you die or if you turn the emulator off. The savegame is a backup of you progress that the game or you do when you pass a checkpoint or most of the time when you finish a level and it’s stored in the cartridge -with emulators in a separate file that the game can get access to. SaveState: Don’t be confused with the term savegame.
It’s like the BIOS of the computer to make it easy to understand. People over the internet have found ways to dump those cartridges to play them on your computer and now even on your smartphone.īIOS: It’s a little file that reproduces the internal software of the game console it came of. In order to play them now with you emulator, you need to get a file that contains your games. ROM: In the 80’s and 90’s and early 00’s games were sold in cartridges and not in CD or DVD. But first we need to make clear some vocabulary so here is some explanation for the people who don’t know what is emulation:Įmulator: Software that runs games of another game platform and reproduces its functions. Today we’re gonna talk about emulation on MacOS in other words how to play NES, SNES, Game Gear, N64 games on your Mac.
