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Introduction
Hello, welcome to the Zophar's Domain FAQ! Here you will recieve answers to questions related to emulation you may be afraid to ask. This FAQ is now frequently updated, and will be quite comprehensive. If you've got any questions (not answered by the faq) or comments, feel free to mail me. I'm going to try to keep this FAQ up to date and in depth, and I can't do it without you.

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What is a FAQ?

A FAQ is an acronym for "Frequently Asked Questions". Sadly, most of the times, they're unanswered,.

Why Write a FAQ?

A lot of emails go to people like emulator authors, webpage maintainers, and other people, all asking the same questions. Due to the amount of them, you usually cannot get a personal response, and sometimes it can even take a long time to download all the email and sort it out. Hopefully this will decrease the stress on such people, and you'll always get a response out of here.

Nowadays, people don't usually treat other people nicely when they ask harmless, innocent questions. Usually you don't even get a response that isn't a flame(insult). Most of the time you get a "go find it yourself, dipsh*t". Don't even try on IRC, you'll get kicked and banned instantly. This is the place where you can go find the answers yourself, so you don't have to face possible hate and humiliation at the hands of a**holes who expect you to know and read everything. You could read this as an example of why a good FAQ is needed.

What is in this FAQ?

Intro: You're looking at it.
Emulators: Questions pertaining to emulators.
ROMs: Questions pertaining to ROMs.
ROM Hacking: Questions and hopefully documents (soon) pertaining to ROM Hacking.
Miscellaneous: Questions about Zophar's Domain, Frontends, and other miscellany.

Thanks to:

Nitro : For writing the original FAQ.
Zophar : Because he's cool and a nice guy, even though he's a slavedriver sometimes.
Teeth : For finding mistakes in everything, and making me laugh.
Sardu: For his emulators and gory games.
Sean Morley: Because he kicks ass.
Ron Jeremy : Because he kicks ass.
Infinitefish: For the background.
You: for reading this!



Table of Contents


Emulation

General Questions

What is an emulator?
How do I use an emulator?
Are emulators legal?
What kind of system do I need to run them?
How do I use an emulator?
What is the best kind of emulator?
Where can I get the latest version of emulator X?
Will you send me any private betas?
Where can I download/get reg codes for the full version of emulator X?
This stupid emulator doesn't work!!!
It says I need Dos4gw, CWSDPMI, DOS32 or something like that.
This stupid emulator is slower than old people f***ing!!!
So, how do I speed the emulators up?
I don't have enough RAM, but I've got 64 MB!!!
What is a GUI?
How do I configure this emulator without a GUI?
How do I write an emulator?

More Specific Questions
Online emulator documentation section.
Are there any emulators that run on console systems?
What's the best emulator for system X?
I only can see 1/4 of the screen in Retrocade!
How do I get blood on Neo RAGE?
How do I speed up ZSNES?
How do I use that cheat stuff in SNES9x?
Where can I get the ultimate MAME FAQ?
What's all this CPS1/CPS2/CPS3 stuff?

The Future of Emulation
When's the next version of emulator X going to be released?
Will there ever be a SNESticle or a NESticle 64?
When will an emulator for a specific system/rom be released?
Where are the N64 emulators?
When will there be a half decent PSX emulator?
Where/when can I get a CPS2/CPS3 emulator?
Will there ever be a CPS2 emulator?
Is there an emulator for Mortal Kombat (midway games), and Lethal Enforcers(konami)?

ROMs

General Questions

What is a ROM?
How do I play a ROM?
Are ROMs legal?
Where can I get ROMs?
Where do I get ROM CD's?
I'm clicking pictures the but I don't get any roms!!! Plz fix the link!!!
Why doesn't Zophar's Domain distribute commercial ROMs?
How much RAM do I need to run a ROM?
What is a checksum?

More Specific Questions
This stupid ROM won't run with this stupid emulator!
This Super-FX game is broken! Why? Can you fix/crack it to make it better?
I can't find this ROM!
I've got a ROM that's not emulated yet!!! Should I sent it to an emulation author so he can emulate it?
Why can't I get anything off The Dump?
What are these BS games for the SNES?
Help! How do I get through this game?
Is it possible to emulate the Simpsons?
What is a trainer?
Why the hell does everybody want CPS2 ROMs?!? You can't play them!
Are there such things as commercial PSX ROMs?
What are the file formats of NES/Famicom/Dendy games?

ROM Hacking

What is ROM Hacking?
Is it legal?
How do I ROM Hack?
How do I translate? Is there some program to do it?
Where can I get hacked ROMs?
Where can I get Translations?
I can't run the ROM! It's this stupid ips thing!
When will a translation for X be released?
Is anyone translating X?
Where did RPGe, DeJAP, and Shadow go?
Wait a sec... you're no ROM Hacker, you suck!

Miscellaneous

Zophar's Domain

Why am I banned from the message boards?<
When will I be unbanned?
Why are some of the people there so negative and mean?

Frontends
What is a frontend?
Where can I get frontends?
This stupid frontend doesn't work!

Miscellaneous
Who's that Sardu guy everybody's thanking?
Why won't any emulator authors reply to my emails?
What's Saddam Hussein doing in Callus?
Where do I get ProlSNES?
What happened to Squareplanet?
Why am I almost immediately kicked/banned from IRC Channels?

Weiners don't use drugs!

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