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Emulator operating system

It depends what you want to emulate...

Your buddy didn't erase the os on his phone, he loaded an app from the play store that allowed him to play old nintendo games.

There are a lot of emulators for older computers, games consoles, calculators etc...

(although there are 'legal issues' about getting the games onto your device etc....)
 
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Installing the firmware from a Gameboy on a phone? Technically it's impossible, because firmware is very closely related to the hardware it's running on. You can't simply run the same firmware from a Gameboy on a phone.
You can rewrite it of course, if you have access to the source code, plus the knowledge and skill to port it. But it would be a monumentally difficult task. And probably illegal.
 
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