I think I have figured out that part of the Emulator application is an Interpreter (if we choose this route) , that the Emulator programmer writes that uses the native target binary as source code (basically) and this Emulators output creates a phony CPU that exists by the means of the storage of it's states. I'm interested to know if I have to translate machine code by hand to assembly or how that works?

The phony Emulators output is not compatible with the host in this case of study. The part right now I can't grasp is where does the Emulation stop and when can the host use it? If I Emulate the hardware it is still in the form that the host can not use. If I don't actually get foreign output I have not emulated anything but maybe translated.

I'm thinking that emulation is mostly a structured way to translate the program. Emulation seems like it is a painfully in-direct. Why not just translate it to begin with?