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Being able to program in assembly is not a neccessity to writing an emulator. Understanding assembly, especially for a specific machine, will certainly aid in ones understanding of the machine in question though.

 

Assembly is nothing more than human readable machine language. Binary representation using symbols. Thus, understanding the assembly language of a given machine, would give you more insight into how the machine actually works.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_Language

 

If I am not making sense or something, forgive me......I just had 4 impacted wisdom teeth removed Thursday afternoon and I'm heavily medicated right now lol

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Most *older* (if not all) console games are written in Assembly, as well as the console's CPU instructions.

 

Yes, knowledge of Assembly is not necessarily required to write an emulator, but understanding it makes it a lot easier to understand how data is processed in the hardware and how "machine-code" works.

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