Obsolete Obsolenities

With the steady flow of new emulators, it seems that many emulators fall completely behind in emulation and are abandoned, or forgotten. Many of these emulators become worthless due to superior emulation being available elsewhere. This page serves as an obituary to all emulators like this.
Proprietary Arcade Emulators

Nicola Salmoria's MAME and Dave Spicer's Sparcade have collectively replaced many emulators. Here is a list of emulators that these emulators have thrown to oblivion: Nicola's own Crazy Kong, Mr. Do!, Multi-Pac, and Rally-X emulators. Allard van der Bas's Crazy Climber, Galaxian, Ladybug, and Pengo. Ishmair's The End. Pengo from an author unknown to me. Micheal Cuddy's Time Pilot. Juan Hose Epalza's Mr. Do!, Lady Bug, and Mr. Do's Castle. Virtual PCB, the Centipede and Millipede emulator. Space Invaders in any shape or form. Phoenix emulators (that may play Pleiades). Kong! by Gary Shepherdson. Vanguard by Brian Levine.

The authors that created these obsolete emulators paved the way for what currently exists. In many cases, their code was modified, or added on to new emulators. To sum this up very quickly, new emulators come out, but the old ones should still be honored.

Mars Attacks!

VeNES, a discussed emulator from Y0SHi and Mr. Snazz has been proclaimed dead after its web page was removed, and Y0SHi withdrew from the project. Mr. Snazz has not been available for questioning, and furthurmore, for programming.

Trep Impalium

TrepSNES was obliterated shortly after Trepalium agreed to port SNES '97 to MS-DOS! Trepalium and The Teacher now are working hard together to provide a healthy competition to ESNES!

Pee See B.

Yvan Rivard's Gameboy Emulator, PC Boy, has been layed to rest after being idle and never playing any real Gameboy ROMs for over six months.

He knew the Coleco from Adam

ColEm for MS-DOS was replaced by AdamEm, Marcel de Kogel's Colecovision / Colecovision Adam Computer emulator. The new emulator is basically an update under a new name that supports another similar system.


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