[bombcar]

This strikes at the root of the Biggest Controversy™ - if you beat a video game arcade cabinet on an emulator, did you beat it?

Things can be named analogously - if I have a machine that plays Wii games for me, and nothing else, I'll call it "the Wii".

[ssl-3]

I have an old PSP that has only ever been used to play emulated NES games.

Shall I call it an NES?

[mghackerlady]

Does it boot straight into NES games? Does it have an NES cartridge slot? Or controllers? What about the never used expansion port on the bottom? Is it in a NES shell?

[ssl-3]

> Does it boot straight into NES games?

No.

> Does it have an NES cartridge slot?

No.

> Or controllers?

No.

> What about the never used expansion port on the bottom?

It does have an expansion port that I've never used.

> Is it in a NES shell?

No.

> [so it's not an NES, then]

It's mine, and I can call it whatever I want. :P

[mghackerlady]

>It does have an expansion port that I've never used.

so not an NES one, then

>It's mine, and I can call it whatever I want. :P

that's fair, I call my switch lite a playstation 7. It'd be disingenuous to present it to others as an NES, however. If it meets most or all the criteria above, then it wouldn't be

[mikepurvis]

> if you beat a video game arcade cabinet on an emulator, did you beat it?

Yes for the purposes of your own personal sense of achievement, no for the purposes of speedrun records.