Emulating an Emulator

[jankusanagi]

Now that I think about it, playing original Xbox games on Xbox One/Series is exactly this. The console is running an Xbox 360 emulator, and then it runs the 360's original Xbox emulator to play the game.

Wow, that sounds... non-optimized ?

 

[Tonberry]

I’m using gbSp on my Vita. So technically I’m emulating an emulator emulating an emulator lol.
What’s funny is that it’s a BILLION more times stable than mGba ever was for me.

 

[RageBurner]

Its possible. I remember running NGPC games inside a GBA emulator.

 

[Xdqwerty]

Emulating compilations that themselves use emulated versions of games

 

[Max]

I remember playing NES games on PPSSPP

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

I've played a bit of Red Dead Redemption on Xenia running on Wine (bur Wine isn't an emulator). It was playable but I ended up playing the game on Ryujinx with better performance.

Other than that I'd try to avoid that emulator inception situation. For example I'd avoid playing a switch port of an arcade game and would play the original directly in FBNeo or MAME, specially with Retroarch's shaders and preemptive frames which are a must have for me at this point.

 

[Clippy]

I heard you like emulating in an emulator.