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[–] Gamio ago 

I've done a bit of virtual machine gaming, (Star Trek: Armada 1&2 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein). Biggest issue I've encountered with it was getting the virtual machine running correctly and even then it was a fairly simple process of just booting XP into safemode and installing the correct software. A few games I couldn't get running was Fallout3 and Fear but it was easier to get them running on my native OS than it was to mess around with trying to get them running on a virtualization of XP.

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[–] pangaea [S] ago 

You ran the original pc games or console versions on emulators?

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[–] Gamio ago 

PC versions of course, why would I set up a virtual machine to run an emulator?

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[–] wickedsteve ago 

Which games don't work?

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[–] pangaea [S] ago 

a few need for speed games, halo 2

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[–] Foul_Knave ago 

any suggestions?

You can find a rig that plays XP-era games literally in a dumpster, and XP is laughably easy to crack.

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[–] pangaea [S] ago 

Also if I went the dual boot route I would get some really spectacular performance on modern hardware :P (see my specs in OP)

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[–] pangaea [S] ago 

I could probably even slap together a rig out of spare parts, perhaps with some dirt cheap ones on Ebay. Though with a VM I can play those games while doing other things on my main machine, or even copy/paste the entire system to other machines.