Emulator

Oct 26 2024

So, a little while back, I created a pretty basic emulation website. I thought it was kinda cool, so I decided to make a post explaining how I made it.

First off, you need a website. I personally really like the look of Github’s markdown stylization, so I went with this repository as a template. For the actual emulator part I used a little framework called EmulatorJS (which has a basic code starter on it’s website, when you click the code editor button) and I customized it a little.

Finally, the actual thing we need to emulate games, the game roms. I cannot necessarily tell you what link I used for these, but then again I also technically cannot tell you to look up “[game name] rom” in google.

Anyways, after getting the roms I simply made folders in a directory named after the game system those games belong to (EX. /nes or /n64), and used the on-website code generator to make the template for the pages. Technically, you can run up to PS1 games in your browser, but since my website is based off of Github and Netlify, I was unable to upload a whole PS1 game, and unfortunately EmulatorJS doesn’t support external links for the rom source section.

You can find my little emulator website at emulator.archiiv.cc.

Anyways, I’ve been ARCHIIV, and I hope you got something out of this post. Thanks for visiting.