Basic information about emulator files and how to convert emulator files
About emulator files
Emulator file formats are related to emulation software and data formats that contain exact or near-perfect duplicates of the original source (tapes, floppy disks, console cartridges, ROM memories).
Emulator software basically imitates another program, platform or device (mobile phones, game consoles or printers etc.). Very popular are emulators of gaming consoles (Sega, Nintendo, Sony Playstation), old 8-bit or 16-bit computers (Sinclair, Commodore, Atari, Amiga, Apple) or arcade machines emulators.
Emulation software is popular, because older applications and games often do not run well, on modern operating systems such as Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows 7, or do not run at all. The most popular emulators are Amiga Forever, Commodore Forever, ZSNES or DOS Box. There are many sites on internet with the information about emulation of old programs or games, emulator downloads and emulator file archives.
You can check all emulator file formats sorted by name in our Emulator file type category, that you can access from the main page on the left category bar.
How to convert emulator file
Emulator files are create for single purpose, to emulate the content, usually on other platform. Some applications can simply open them so users can view and edit their contents. Other application can mount the emulator files and use it in its virtual drives and mimic the behavior of the original disk inserted in the physical drive on its native platform.
Simply check our database for the emulator file extension you are looking for and in the table below its description you will see a table with software, sorted by platform and actions, that is able to perform a specific action with the emulator files, such as open, convert etc..
You can also click on each software to open its own web entry on our website, that often contains additional useful information about it, such as developer, website, reviews or other useful articles.
Information about how to open emulator files can be found in another of our articles - Basic info how to open emulator files.
