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> > A software emulator can not run a physical ROM cart, right?

> It absolutely can.

Cool, I have bsnes running on my PC, where do I plug in the cart? ;-)

You misunderstood my point there, which is probably my fault for not being clear but I was comparing the software emulator to the complete hardware device provided by Analogue.

Someone else mentioned the Polymega which is a device that runs software emulators but has physical interfaces for carts, which is probably more in line with what you're thinking about.

Thanks for sharing the rest of the details, it was informative!