Emulation Cross

Emulation Cross is a blog that crosses emulation and gaming. We're going to do cross reviews of multiple emulators, versions of games, and talk about gaming in general.

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Emulation Cross!  Hyrule Warriors

Emulation Cross! Hyrule Warriors

When I first named this website, I figured most of the content would primarily be cross emulator/console analysis of games. While that hasn't exactly worked out as I'd expected, I've still been

  • Justin M. Chadwick
    Justin M. Chadwick
29 min read
The Curious Case of Xbox Live Arcade Demos on Xenia

The Curious Case of Xbox Live Arcade Demos on Xenia

By the time the Xbox 360 came out, my interest in modern gaming had already started to wane. While I did own an Xbox 360, I didn't have many games on it and

  • Justin M. Chadwick
    Justin M. Chadwick
7 min read
Rethinking Open Source: The Challenges Behind Establishing a Modern Emulator

Rethinking Open Source: The Challenges Behind Establishing a Modern Emulator

Emulator development has never been simple, but contemporary emulators face a tremendous set of challenges created by the modern era. Having witnessed some of the trials developers have gone through personally, I feel

  • Justin M. Chadwick
    Justin M. Chadwick
17 min read
The One That Flourished: A Look at melonDS 0.8

The One That Flourished: A Look at melonDS 0.8

Two years ago, I declared that Nintendo DS was entering a golden age with several new emulators ready to challenge the established normal.While I'm by no means declaring the other emulators I

  • Justin M. Chadwick
    Justin M. Chadwick
8 min read
Shovelware Shuffle - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Wii)

Shovelware Shuffle - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Wii)

Sometimes I buy random shovelware from the store and then play it in Dolphin as part of verifying that the emulator isn't messing up. Sometimes I find hidden gems that the developers put

  • Justin M. Chadwick
    Justin M. Chadwick
7 min read
Tales Through Emulation - NASCAR The Game: Inside Line (Wii)

Tales Through Emulation - NASCAR The Game: Inside Line (Wii)

I don't even know what to say about this game. The Wii version of, NASCAR The Game: Inside Line is one of the most interesting games I've ever played. It cost me ten

  • Justin M. Chadwick
    Justin M. Chadwick
12 min read
A Deep Dive into the Sega Saturn and Saturn Emulation

A Deep Dive into the Sega Saturn and Saturn Emulation

I'm not a big Sega person, but when I saw a SegaCD unit for cheap in a Goodwill, I had to grab it. I had this vision of playing all those weird FMV

  • Justin M. Chadwick
    Justin M. Chadwick
24 min read
Emulation Projects Using Patreon are in Real Danger

Emulation Projects Using Patreon are in Real Danger

RPCS3's Patreon account may not have been suspended or shutdown, but a huge blow was dealt to the emulation community. Atlus, the developers of Persona 5, have used threats to RPCS3's cashflow in

  • Justin M. Chadwick
    Justin M. Chadwick
3 min read
Lifting the Mask on the Ever Enigmatic Red Steel

Lifting the Mask on the Ever Enigmatic Red Steel

Every time there's a huge feature merged into Dolphin, I always say in the dev channel, "I never imagined X would work in Dolphin before Red Steel." Ubershaders, Dragon Quest X,

  • Justin M. Chadwick
    Justin M. Chadwick
12 min read
Tales Through Emulation - Etrian Odyssey (Part 1)

Tales Through Emulation - Etrian Odyssey (Part 1)

Foreword Tales Through Emulation is a series of articles about playing through games on various emulators and sometimes alongside console. Not only will I judge the game, but the experience the emulator provides

  • Justin M. Chadwick
    Justin M. Chadwick
8 min read
Dolphin Developer Resurrects Incomplete Wii IOS Feature

Dolphin Developer Resurrects Incomplete Wii IOS Feature

The Nintendo Wii is infamous for being built off of its predecessor, the GameCube, with a few extra features added on. Most of the new hardware and features can't be accessed directly by

  • Justin M. Chadwick
    Justin M. Chadwick
3 min read

Falling in Love with a Series I've Never Played

One of the perpetual issues surrounding emulation (and now gaming in general) is copyright law. It's not even just piracy: more and more games have rules when streaming and content uploaded to YouTube

  • Justin M. Chadwick
    Justin M. Chadwick
5 min read
Looking Toward the Next Generation of DS Emulators
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Looking Toward the Next Generation of DS Emulators

As we've seen happen before, there are sometimes multiple generations of emulators for a single system. One of the most obvious examples of this would be the SNES. The early days of the

  • Justin M. Chadwick
    Justin M. Chadwick
12 min read

Welcome to Emulation Cross!

Emulation Cross is my new blog where I'm going to write about a variety of topics within classic gaming through an emulation perspective. My inspiration to this came years ago when I ended

  • Justin M. Chadwick
    Justin M. Chadwick
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