esreveR
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Bombs are boring. The explosions they cause are not.
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Post by esreveR on Apr 4, 2011 15:16:36 GMT -5
After playing Raiden X for a bit, I simply decided that it wasn't true enough to the original and I wanted to play the PC version of Raiden II somehow. Well, instead I ended up downloading MAME and Raiden Fighters Jet, basically because I couldn't find the PC port on the internet, and I couldn't find Raiden II in MAME. It was well worth it and ever since I've been emulating many of the games I've played.
Though it's kind of weird having to buy the actual machines before I play them on a computer.
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Post by Vokkan on Apr 11, 2011 16:07:51 GMT -5
Must have been back in '98 or '99 when a friend hooked me up with a version of ZSNES. You weren't exactly showered with triple-A titles back then, and the whole world was alot smaller, so emulation really took you places. It was a gold mine full of games that, when you really think about it, was alot more impressive than what was shoveled out for the PlayStation at the time.
Even today I spend more hours with games from 85-95 than with newer titles, and I have dozens of untouched PS3 games in my shelves.
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geishaboy
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Like that movie Drunken Master, minus the kung-fu
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Post by geishaboy on Apr 20, 2011 0:35:54 GMT -5
A friend of mine introduced me to ZSNES almost 10 years ago and it just grew from there. I still play old 8 and 16 bit games via emulators quite a bit, there are just so many titles to get through it blows my mind.
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Post by retr0gamer on Apr 20, 2011 8:59:23 GMT -5
ZSNES for me. Being a megadrive owner that really wanted a SNES I was dying to play loads of the SNES games I missed out on. Must have been back in 1998 that I learnt about emulation. Downloaded ZSNES and found an Axelay rom and had a life changing experience.
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Post by Arkanoid on Apr 27, 2011 13:24:15 GMT -5
I think it was in 2000, my older brother had a friend who gave us a floppy disc (lol) that had the Nesticle emulator bundled with about 20 games that you could select from a menu (Punch-Out, Contra, Super Mario Bros, etc., the big names). Shortly after that, a friend from school let me borrow some kind of bootleg CD with a name like "300 Sega Games". This was basically the Genecyst emulator with an extra front-end menu for selecting the games which had screenshots for each game. I immediately played Shinobi III and Shadow Dancer which I had never played before. Sadly that disc was very scratched up and stopped working shortly after. After this I learned how to get the standalone emulators and ROMs and also got ZSNES. Now that I have a big hard drive and considering how small most ROM files are, I decided to go ahead and download just about every game for every cartridge based system in existence lol.
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Post by susanismyalias on Apr 27, 2011 14:32:57 GMT -5
Hell yes, NESticle and Genecyst!
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Post by Dee Liteyears on Apr 27, 2011 17:11:04 GMT -5
i think it was in the 7th grade. A schoolbuddy brought a cd with SNES9x, ZSNES and Genecyst. We played Super Butouden 2 and Alien Soldier all the time during the breaks^^ It was also the first time i was able to experience FF V and VI. Before that, I only could drool over my old TOTAL! mags
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Post by DPB on May 9, 2011 15:06:19 GMT -5
1999, before we even had an internet connection at home, my brother sent me some floppy disks from university with a load of SNES RPGs and Snes9x. At the time I'd just played through and loved FFVII, and it was great being able to finally play all the games we'd previously missed out on in Europe.
These days, I don't bother with emulators for anything other than the occasional multiplayer game. I can't help but feel a tinge of guilt for getting so many amazing games for free, and I buy official copies of older games now.
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Post by MRSKELETON on May 9, 2011 20:39:45 GMT -5
My first Emulation was around 2002 I think, My brother downloaded one of the first releases of Nesticle and a Castlevania rom. God, that game used to destroy me when I started playing it.
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Post by genkifan on May 10, 2011 22:45:18 GMT -5
I was a semi-big Mega Man fan when I was a kid, and one day out of nowhere my friend just busts out ZSNES with Rockman & Forte on his PC. I was like, "morals be damned, I need to play THAT!" I biked my ass straight home and played the hell out of that game. Then it was a slippery slope to freakin' GBC roms (boycott?), where I played Metal Gear Solid and Pokemon Silver before they hit the US (though I did buy them when they were released here). I also took the liberty of playing Bahamut Lagoon, which was like, revolutionary stuff for me back then (I actually beat the freakin' game, stupid last stage took like 2 hours!)
The only other thing of significance was when my friend and I got into KOF. It was one thing to have the garbage port of 99 for PS1, but something else completely to be playing KOF2K2 with hardcore arcade sticks on his giant PC screen.
I also have some funny ass stories about Bleem! (I actually bought like 5 PS1 games before I ever owned the console, don't ask), but that's a story for another time.
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Post by neomerge on May 17, 2011 0:49:14 GMT -5
The first time I ever heard of emulation was when I was at my friends house. His brother had found out about it and they were playing a bunch of snes games on it.
When I got back home I decided to try out some of these games for myself. The first emulator I downloaded was either Nesticle or Snes9x. At first I had some trouble figuring it out. I think I may have given up on it for a couple of days. Then I tried again and got it to work. I want to say the first game I played was some mario or zelda game. The first Snes rom I emulated was DBZ Super Butoden 2 or Legend of the Super Sayain. All I remember is both being great.
My favorite site back in the day was pe2000.net. Then after that got shut down I think It may have been some site called emurater. Then shortly afterwards I discovered planetemu (a french site most of you are probably familiar with) and I've been going there ever since.
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Post by [UNPERSON] on May 20, 2011 22:27:50 GMT -5
I remember back in 1999 (the simpler times, as in when I didn't even have speakers or www access) when I saw people playing Metal Warriors on a computer. I didn't know how that was possible, seeing how it was an SNES game. Two years later, when I finally got a computer that had speakers and didn't lock up whenever it tried to load an embedded MIDI, I finally figured it out. I remember getting all sorts of snes games, starting with a few RPGs then expanded, playing a bunch of games I remember reading about in magazines and thought I would never play (and that may still be true in some cases, considering that I'd probably die before they all get translated or even dumped).
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jackq
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Post by jackq on May 29, 2011 9:10:26 GMT -5
Late 90s, funnily enough led into it by Dragon Ball Z. Through ZSnes I managed to play all those awesome licensed dbz games that we of the west were deprived off. Yay!
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Post by X-pert74 on May 31, 2011 5:45:17 GMT -5
I think it was either DosBox, or getting Kaizo Mario World to run on my Wii. I don't really do much emulation.
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Post by ldorado on Jun 1, 2011 18:03:44 GMT -5
In 2004, I tried out a CD a coworker of my dad's gave to him. It had Gens and about 100 ROMs, although there was absolutely no save feature other than save-stating. When it stopped working, I downloaded Gens, then moved on to Meka W, ZSNES, and some NES emulator I forgot the name of in 2005. Thanks to vidya games, I taught myself Japanese and some Chinese.
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