Emulators in games

This is page is about licensed games that had emulators in them, whether they were compilation discs of older games, or games that just had emulators hidden away in them.

Ports

Konami Collector's Series: Castlevania & Contra

This is a 2002 PC release of the first three Castlevania games and the first two Contra games for the NES. It uses the iNES emulator. The changes in this port are very minor, and mostly include a 2002 copyright added to the title screen, and a few typos corrected in Simon's Quest. Additionally the NES version of Jackal was also included on the disk, but there is no formal way to play it. The rom has to be extracted.

Sega Smash Pack Volume 1

This was a compilation of Genesis games for the Dreamcast. It featured a Genesis emulator and a plain-text document on how to use it. You can read the full story about it here.

007 GoldenEye

In 007 GoldenEye for N64, there is a fully-functioning ZX Spectrum 48x emulator that nobody knew about until 2012. The game also has 10 ROMs in it too, all of which were made by RARE. You can read more about it here.

Download: Patch (Replace with pre-patched verion if you can)

Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask

The GameCube versions of these were ran off a N64 emulator.

Pokemon Channel

This is a game for GameCube that contained a emulator for playing Pokemon Mini games. Hackers removed the emulator to make a stand-alone Pokemon Mini emulator for GameCube, and because of their efforts later Pokemon Mini emulators were made by reverse engineering it.

Download: SHizZLE's Pokemon Mini Emulator