A: The kind of emulation this site is about, is the practice of playing old, or new, console games on your computer!!! It allows you to re-live the classics. Like Mario Brothers, Missile Command, Donkey Kong, Pong,  in the arcades, and play them on your computer using a "Emulator".

A: ROM stands for "Read Only Memory". 

Which basically means you can't delete it,

or modify it. A Rom is, (Usually), a exact

copy of a game that was once on a cartridge,

and put into a computer. EG: Super Mario

Brothers was on a cartridge for the Nintendo.

A: Emulators are programs that people make

for your computer, that will load, and play

the Roms you download. ON YOUR

COMPUTER!!!! Wh00p!

A: Most of them are. In fact, almost all

emulators are free. To my knowledge, there

are only a few Emulators that cost money. 

Like bleem!, a Playstation emulator that costs

30 dollars. Another commercial emulator is

the Magic Engine, it is a emulator for the a

system made by NEC, called the Turbo Grafix,

and  that emulator costs somewhere around 35

dollars. I know there is also and emulator for

the Gameboy, and another Playstation

emulator for the MAC.

A: In one word, Yes. Emulation is legal as long

as you only download the ROMs you own. For

example, if you own Zelda for Nintendo, you are

allowed by law to have a backup copy of it. So

you may download Zelda, and play it to your

hearts content. :)

A: Well, there are a lot of places actually. People

put them up on web sites, chat rooms, FTP

servers, newsgroups, bulletin boards. If you spent

a little time, I'm sure you could find ROM for that

game you had long long ago.

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