Has any one tried to emulate an emulator within an emulator?

[Amag0k1]

I am trying to figure out how far we can take this, like if we emulated an Amiga or something and then ran an emulator of another system within that, only to run even more emulators within it. Like going all the way down.

Yes i know this is stupid, but who has done this or is up for the challenge in doing it?

 

[Samatonic]

I tried to emulate the PS1 games on the PPSSPP one time, didn't work for a long time.

 

[MasterEn]

i don't think you could go very far with this. the main problem is that every game system more or less has it's own language that it speaks in. this is why it takes a long while to port games from one system to another if it is even possible. i heard that the banjo kazooie games had to be rebuilt from the ground up for the xbox 360 because it had a hard time interacting with the n64 data.
the best bet for your idea is to make a game, then have it be included in another game, then have that game be included in another game, and so on and so on. animal crossing for the gcn has nes games in it as a quick example of that. nes games inside of a gamecube game. that's as far as anyone has gotten. just 2 different generations of game systems.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

PSvita -> Andrenaline -> Pac Man World -> Pac Man

(Pac man world includes the original pac man as a game mode)

Idk if you can go any deeper than this

 

[bjork]

Surely it should be doable. Like if you emulated a Dreamcast and ran a Commodore 64 emulator on that? But I don't know how far back you could go with the emulator you want to put emulators onto before it became unfeasible? Also I have no idea how any of it actually works so I'm mostly guessing.

 

[cola?]

stack as many virtual machines on top of each other as you can then emulate a game with a built-in emulator. like the animal crossing NES games

 

[solidbatman]

Could start with a windows VM (if you consider that an emulator) and begin the chain there.

 

[Doc X]

The best example I can think of is maybe testing on the PCSX2 a Brazilian compilation called "Super Coleção 7.784 Jogos", since it has pretty much all SNES, GEN, SMS, NES, and Atari 2600 games on it.

If I'm not mistaken, some 32X games such as Knuckles' Chaotix are included in the Genesis compilation. With this in mind, the most that could probably be done with said compilation is the following:
PCSX2 > PS2 > Super Coleção > Genesis > 32X > Knuckles' Chaotix

Here's a list of the emulators used in "Super Coleção 7.784 Jogos" to emulate each console:
ZSNES (SNES)
Kega Fusion (GEN)
MEKA (SMS)
RockNES X (NES)
Stella (Atari 2600)

 

[RageBurner]

I tried to emulate the Neo Geo Pocket Color inside Visual Boy Advance-M, and it actually runs pretty well.