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[llafnwod]

Huh? Your link is to some guy's recommended system requirements for his SNES emulator. This does not prove that it requires a 2.5GHz dual-core processor to successfully emulate a SNES. Perhaps a better programmer could do it with lesser hardware? Or a larger team of developers could spend more time optimizing performance?

Also, "recommended" system specs usually don't mean that much, especially from smaller/independent developers who likely don't do much testing and probably just recommend whatever system they use.

The only thing we know for sure is that people have been continually finding ways to push technology beyond what we previously assumed was possible.

There are many SNES emulators with lower system requirements; BSNES is a famously (and overly) accurate one. My point was only that useful software emulation on a different architecture generally requires hardware many times more powerful than the system being emulated. Even contemporary computers are only just reaching the point that the emulation of the PS2, a thirteen year old system, is practical for an everyday consumer machine. The PS3 is a much more powerful machine, and backwards-compatibility is a feature Sony has not made itself known for in recent years.