What skills/knowledge/background are required to create/build an emulator?

[jayesh390]

What skills are required to create/build an emulator? I mean knowledge of what domain is required to create/build emulators like computer science or electronics or some other or both? Suppose I want to build a Nintendo 3DS emulator. What kind of background do the folks who develop emulators have?
This thread/post might be in wrong category. I don't know exactly where to post it. Sorry.

 

[Desmond]

First of all you need to have a thorough understanding of the system you are trying to emulate.

Next, you need to have a thorough understanding of the system on which you are going to implement the emulator as well as system programming on the target system.

Next, you need to have a plan of how you would implement such a system on another system.

That being said, you need to at least know C programming as well as ASM.

 

[a_k_s_h_a_y]

coding power over 9000!

 

[jayesh390]

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