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Oh, sure, they're no substitute to a "hardcore" retro gamer. Folks who won't be happy with anything short of an FPGA recreation (if not original hardware) outputting to a Sony Wega, or a powerful modern computer getting a real workout doing fancy render-ahead tricks to fake real-hardware input latency (so: remarkably low, by modern standards) and neat multi-step high-fidelity CRT-mimicking shader output, won't be satisfied by the classic consoles. But they're damn good for what they are, and especially for folks who don't know WTF an emulator is, or do but don't want to mess with them—the Nintendo ones, at least, the rest seem to have fallen short on one or more important measures.