[Guide] PS3 & emulation vocabulary

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Thanks for your comments and corrections!

I have corrected LLVM, PPC, PPE and LLE, also added PPSS.

HLE = High-level emulation, attempts to simulate the response of the system rather than accurately recreating its internal design

Attempts to emulate rather than simulate. Simulation means you don't have the underlying system but rather you have a model that evaluates the outcome based on certain parameters in order to make predictions and adjustments. Maybe an example can be given that high level emulation is emulating firmware functions or the API that a game uses.

I am sorry to argue but I think that simulation actually is the correct word in this case. Simulation means that you want to make something to behave the same way (as a legacy system did for example) without making the inner functionality exactly the same. Here is a good discussion about the topic with some examples also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21746...simulation

Anyway, I think you all get my point in the HLE explanation, and maybe there isn't just one correct answer!

No worries DaHandy, suit yourself! However take a look into that thread in stackoverflow, I think the guy Stan Graves only has it correctly (*Vaskez too). Wikipedia and popular stackoverflow answears aren't always the correct ones.

I'll be more specific. I took a class in the university once, that was called "Simulation techniques". I took it because I thought it was somewhat related to emulators. I talked to the professor about it and told him about console systems being "simulated" in programs for the PC. He quickly corrected me and explained that in the simulation we don't have the system itself. We only consider the things that matter for the outcome (consider, not implement!) and then according to parameters we investigate scenarios, deduct conclusions etc. Anyway it might be a technicality and also the definition might be lax anyhow, so.. whatever