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Message: [QUOTE="AceOfAces, post: 16654, member: 41314"] Sometimes. Some games wanted the .bin file instead. For ages it didn't allow live disc swapping so stuff like Monster Rancher was unplayable and playing multi-disc games was complicated. You generally had to download plugins from external sites rather than them being bundled with the emulator. You had to make sure you had the right bios file because there was not usually a home-made emulated bios. If you're ancient and are used to fiddling stuff in batch files, running stuff from DOS, etc. it was fairly easy, but that's not the PC experience for a lot of people born in the 90s or later, and of course being an emulator at the time there was some chunky CPU overhead and it could be pretty scattershot on whether a game worked, and if it didn't work, if it was your fault because of a misconfigured setting (what's a tooltip lmao) or if it was just a problem with the emulator (compatability wikis didn't exist, for example). Xenia is still like this but most other emulators are a lot better at explaining themselves nowadays. RPCS3 is probably the next problematic one because PS3 games can do some really weird things like load a UI layer over an FMV and RPCS3 is not set up to cope with that, so playing the Masoukishin games on them is awful. [/QUOTE]

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