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Potential dangers of emulators? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by SpaceTurtle224@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Hypotheticaly if instead of searching for my old Ps2/Xbox360 discs i downloaded a rom could the emulated games infect my computer once ran? (if this breakes the rules im sory)

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[–] farcaster@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

For emulators which use recompilation techniques, I suppose it's technically possible to make them execute malware. But writing your malware in legacy XBox/PlayStation code to embed it in roms would also make it some of the most sophisticated in history just to infect a handful of retrogamers so I think it's very unlikely..