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Emulate vs Romset - What's the difference?

emulate | romset |

As a verb emulate

is to attempt to equal or be the same as.

As an adjective emulate

is (obsolete) striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.

As a noun romset is

(video games) a group of related rom images required to emulate a particular game.

emulate

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Verb

(emulat)
  • To attempt to equal or be the same as.
  • To copy or imitate, especially a person.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.}}
  • (obsolete) To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.
  • * 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 146:
    • But the councell then present emulating my successe, would not thinke it fit to spare me fortie men to be hazzarded in those unknowne regions [...].
  • (computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device

    • Related terms

    * emulation * emulator * emulous

    See also

    * mimic * copy * imitate * simulate

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.
  • * Shakespeare
    • A most emulate pride.
    ----

    romset

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (video games) A group of related ROM images required to emulate a particular game.
  • * 2000 , "Ben Castricum", Searching for a Swedish/Finnish C64 romset'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.cbm )
    • I am looking for a rom dump of a Swedish or Finnish C64. They seem to have an alternate romset than the ones used elsewhere (probably because of the characters used in those countries).
  • * 2001 , "Paul Irvine", NeoGeo'' (on newsgroup ''uk.games.video.misc )
    • You are right re the romsets , MAME uses different sets for a lot of games, you can't intermix Neorage and MAME sets.