Editing PC game (section)

==== Emulation ====
{{Main|Emulator}}
Emulation software, used to run software without the original hardware, are popular for their ability to play legacy video games without the [[computing platform|platform]] for which they were designed. The operating system emulators include [[DOSBox]], a DOS emulator which allows playing games developed originally for this operating system and thus not compatible with a modern-day OS. Console emulators such as [[Nestopia]] and [[MAME]] are relatively commonplace, although the complexity of modern consoles such as the [[Xbox (console)|Xbox]] or [[PlayStation]] makes them far more difficult to emulate, even for the original manufacturers.<ref name="xboxemulation">{{cite web| url = http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/xbox360_05.asp| title = Xbox 360 Review| access-date = September 12, 2006|date=November 2005}}</ref> The most technically advanced consoles that can currently be successfully emulated for commercial games on PC are the PlayStation 2 using [[PCSX2]], and the Nintendo Wii U using the [[Cemu]] emulator. A [[PlayStation 3]] emulator named [[RPCS3]] is in development.
Most emulation software mimics a particular hardware architecture, often to an extremely high degree of accuracy. This is particularly the case with classic home computers such as the [[Commodore 64]], whose software often depends on highly sophisticated low-level programming tricks invented by game programmers and the [[demoscene]].

Other projects aim to bring compatibility of older games and its features back to modern platforms such as WineVDM (for running 16-bit games on 64-bit Windows), nGlide (for enabling [[Glide (API)]] to other video cards), IPXWrapper (for enabling [[IPX/SPX]] based LAN play).