What's the difference between emulating and going through an old Game Cube? And where do you draw the line between emulation and not emulation? For example, when the Super Nintendo machine was remade (REDESIGNED) in the 1990's, was that a form of emulating as it was a different machine version than the original? You might say no as the same cartridges were used.

In the past few years, Nintendo came out with a new Nintendo machine that looked like the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) but smaller. Now, in these newer machines, the old games may be on the hard drives (HD) or on discs as opposed to cartridges, meaning they were copied and no longer in their original form or format. So, in other words, the hardware and software may have changed. So, wouldn't any of that be a variation of emulating the original games onto new formats and hardware?

Remember Mario All-Stars, a Super Nintendo cartridge video-game that contained a few those classic Mario games all on that same cartridge? So, it came out in the early 1990's, around 1993. It had games like Mario 1, Mario 2, Mario 3, the Lost Levels, etc. So, when they put those Nintendo games onto a Super Nintendo cartridge for SNES, was that not a form of emulating? All my questions here are trying to address the blurry line between what might be and what might not be emulation.

Are you trying to only endorse copies of games that are approved and endorsed by Nintendo as oppose to recommending anything that could be downloaded onto a thumb drive and easily shared to people everywhere, anywhere?

Did you know that you can play emulated NES and SNES and other games on the Wii and on the Xbox and Playstation 4 and many machines and computers? Well, it takes a bit of hacking into those machines. But these machines are computers. So, basically, anything that a computer can do, a video game console either can do or should be able to do if you hack it enough.