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Potential dangers of emulators? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 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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[-] echo64@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Practically, yes. There was a zsnes exploit that did exactly this back in the day.

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