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Some time after Super Smash Bros Melee's "challenges" and the Tales Of series' "titles", Microsoft and Sony decided that they wanted If you want to apply the idea to every single title from their library (of course, wiser heads prevailed afterwards and the option to opt-out was given to devs). Enter the "Achievements" or "Trophies" system on the PS3, X360 and eventually Steam, among other systems. These play older games with achievements there are tied to the system, though many games (Xenoblade, Kirby Mass Attack, Megaman 9a couple ways...) had an implementation of the idea independent of the system OS. You fullfill some arbitrary condition in-game Either by playing with a modified emulator and the console displays a popfan-up claiming you unlocked that achievementcreated achievements, adding it to a list with some points so or games that you can brag about it online, or more rarely have some reward. These achievements range from ridiculously simple and mundane (finish boss 1, finish boss 2, finish game) to intelligent ones encouraging you to play in new ways and milk the game dry (finding rare enemies and doing challenging tasks), to grindy tedious ones (play one million times, kill one billion enemy, beat the trillionbeen re-HP boss with an under-powered character one HP at a time)released on Steam. Some people want this sort of stuff in their retro games. So modified emulators were indeed produced for that specific goal --

This is the [http://retroachievements.org/download.php download page] for customized emulators made by folks at Retroachievements.org based on GPL-licensed emulators with achievement support included. They will appear as overlays during gameplay. The source code is available [http://github.com/RetroAchievements/RASuite here].

Shame however that the achievements proper that can be got from the site aren't that interesting (supposedly due to limitations with the emulator's achievement system), but you can develop ones yourself. The list of achievements are [http://retroachievements.org/gameList.php here].

==Steam PS1 Re-releases==One recent Some older games get re-release of N20 for the PS1 released on Steam was found out to be an emulated PS1 ISO bundled with a modified build of '''PCSXachievement support, like the [http://store.steampowered.com/sale/final-R''' (with HLE Bios) to support Steam Achievementsfantasy/ Final Fantasy] games.

Per emulator license, the developer released the source One recent re-release of N20 for everything but the PS1 on Steam was found out to be an emulated PS1 ISO scrambling part bundled with a modified build of [[PCSX-R]] (which was figured out anywaysusing HLE BIOS). The achievement system is commented, and relies on monitoring PSX addressesto support Steam Achievements. Tweaked, it could be the basis for a new build of PCSX-R with achievement support. The source can be found [http://mega.co.nz/#!iIJ1VSwD!ZhcSHqejMGecopiqMfHnUsNhx_LRuUv4k3zrXrHNqUo here].