Bleem!

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Image:Bleem! 2.PNG bleem! was a commercial PlayStation emulator released by the bleem Company in 1999 for IBM-compatible PCs.

To combat software piracy of the small downloadable emulator, the user had to buy the Bleem!-CD. A CD containing about 35 MB with a DirectX distributable and the actual version of Bleem! available at the time of the CD's printing. The rest of the CD was only for copy protection and nearly impossible to copy at that time.

Bleem! was also released in 3 other versions for the Sega Dreamcast to play the most popular PlayStation games Gran Turismo, Metal Gear Solid and Tekken 3. (See Bleemcast!)

Further updates to the emulator were free, until the company ceased operation several years later, due to lawsuits from Sony among other problems.

Use of low-level memory emulation and other risky technology mean that bleem! does not function on operating systems using the Windows NT kernel, such as Windows XP.fr:Bleem!