Talk:Emulators on Windows

Too many emulators

For systems like the NES shouldn't we cut down the list of emulators to recommended. or at least recommended and non recommended active. or some combination of well known, active, and recommended. (which has 20+ emulators)
This article should list emulators that run on current machines with decent specs (IMO).
No point listing older/low emulators when there is a large list. it Makes more sense to at the top of the article suggest the console specific page for older/less demanding emulators.
In my opinion many of the emulators listed work fine on a low/mid spec computer from a decade ago without including ones i've mentioned to possibly remove.
For more demanding/harder to emulate systems it may make sense to include those emulators due to the absence of emulators that would work on older hardware. but i see no point in mentioning those emulators unless there is a significant reason to mention them in 2024 or in the future.
I do understand people may have older systems that need older emulators but it would be better to redirect them to somewhere to find those emulators instead of clogging up the feel of the articles on this site for no reason other than the possibility of extremely old systems using this site to find emulators. Instead maybe have a note at the start of the article to direct them to a better resource?
the articles here would be read to have the first emulators be the ones most recommended but at the bottom would be the recommended for those much older systems. maybe make an article or redirect them to a different site for this extreme case if it is seen as necessary. to both improve their experience on a older system finding emulators and people on newer systems finding emulators.

To put this short. shouldn't this site remove emulators that have better alternatives instead of keeping them here for the possibility of this site being used to recommend emulators to a old system. instead make a separate article for that case or redirect them for their sake and for the sake of people on newer systems finding emulators

If I'm to be honest, I'm not sure of the point of this page given Windows is the dominant OS, and pretty much any major emulator will have a build for it. It'd just be a "best emulator" list, without giving the actual reasoning for why a particular emulator would be the better choice.

+ Yeah, i think we should get rid of older and non-active/obsolete emulators, there are already dedicated pages for that;

Talk:Main_Page#win9x.2C_dos_or_other_.22ancient.22_emulators

• Emulators_on_DOS
• History_of_emulation

Ahayri (talk) 08:49, 10 January 2024 (UTC)