1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (870+ words) Stella’s official download mirrors publish SHA256 hashes alongside each build. It takes thirty seconds and it is worth doing, especially on Windows where executable installers are the most common malware delivery method in the emulation space. Compare the output against the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (674+ words) The core technical distinction between these three projects is the difference between low-level emulation (LLE) and high-level emulation (HLE), and it explains almost every other difference in this article. None of these three projects charge for the emulator itself. All…...

4+ week, 19+ hour ago   (1296+ words) The emulator itself is legal in most jurisdictions, including the US, under the same reasoning that has protected console emulators since the Sony v. Connectix ruling in the early 2000s: writing software that mimics hardware behavior, without copying Sony’s copyrighted code, is…...