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Post by F.A.I.L. Farm on Sept 30, 2012 20:05:14 GMT -5
The first time I got into emulation was using a SNES9X emulator on Win95 sometime in 1999.
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Post by The Great Klaid on Oct 2, 2012 13:12:58 GMT -5
It was on Windows XP, Tales of Phantasia I'm pretty sure. Trying to remember if I had actually tried playing Symphony of the Night first, but couldn't get it to run well on my sucky little computer...
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lightingman
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Post by lightingman on Oct 4, 2012 20:58:04 GMT -5
Batman for the NES fulscreened. With that old emulator that had the bloody hand mouse.
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Post by Narushima on Oct 5, 2012 4:03:23 GMT -5
NESticle?
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Lord Dalek
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Post by Lord Dalek on Oct 7, 2012 21:06:54 GMT -5
Yeah that definitely be NESticle. Not the best NES emulator by any stretch (Kinda depressing how many sound mappers it didn't emulate properly) but back in the DOS days it was the best.
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brew
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Post by brew on Oct 19, 2012 14:01:37 GMT -5
It must have been in 1999 or 2000 (so I was 11 or 12), I can't exactly remember how I heard about emulating games I just remember being really excited about being able to play Pokemon Red without having to buy a Gameboy.
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Post by gzegzolka on Jan 17, 2013 16:58:02 GMT -5
It was something about 10 years ago. I was proud win98 user, when one day it stuck me why not to play my Amiga1200 games under windows. It was silly idea to try to dig in my childhood memories, half of me know that pc and amiga got different hardware, different cpu, systems, etc, but both systems must storage those files somehow my other half thought - it's still data, maybe in different file format, but inside are files. I take all my dad old magazines about old computers and start to read them. After that I know one thing - emulation is possible. In very old times there were hardware You plug into amiga and it can run ms-dos and there was also software emulators to emulate pc/atari/mac/early consoles. With knowledge from past I start to dig in dial-up internet about emulation, I find there are Fellow and UAE to emulate Amiga under Windows. I try them and in fly, very fast, start to understood how to configure them, I was Amiga owner and I know every model hardware specification. I have chance to play most games I find attractive in old days. It was like an addiction I sunk into it, first I play just games, than I instal Workbench 3.1 under emulator, I find WinUAE, I start to dig in old OS tweaking it, installing games on HD, playing with visual look of graphic interface, checking how much modern day stuff I can do on that OS After two years I take a break, I have to concentrate on my education and finish secondary school. Still sometimes I back to WinUAE, there are some good games I like to play from time to time.
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samvirus
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Post by samvirus on Jan 18, 2013 16:33:19 GMT -5
Back in '03 my best friend was playing some Pokémon on his computer and it took me like 10 minutes before I had figured out he wasn't trying to prank me by showing me some random video...
Either way I ran back home and downloaded Visual Boy Advance to play me some Pokémon Ruby
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Post by pelham123 on Feb 1, 2013 15:20:39 GMT -5
Hi, first post here. I first encountered emulation back in '97. I was proclaiming the wonders of a newly discovered site, www.vgmusic.com in an IRC (I think it was AICN), when a user calling himself 'RAGE', said that he couldn't understand why I would listen to MIDI files of game music when I could just play the games themselves on my computer. I didn't believe him at first, but a half hour later I had Super Mario Bros. up and running on Nester. That was a great week... I remember waiting 6 hours for a Chrono Trigger ROM to download on my 28.8 kbps dial-up and then frantically searching for for Issue 150 of EGM, pouring over their "Top 100 Video Games of All Time" list... finally getting a chance to try all those US exclusive games... (I'm from Ireland see) A big highlight was discovering the translation scene, the deJap release of their Tales of Phantasia patch, (still one of my favourite JRPGs, atleast in terms of presentation quality and soundtrack) and the long wait for Star Ocean (gorgeous-looking, but somehow felt kind of empty) Do any of ye remember the Plasticman ROM site? That was a good one, and of course Vimm'sLair?
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Post by pelham123 on Feb 1, 2013 15:22:37 GMT -5
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Post by AfroRyan on Mar 13, 2013 0:52:52 GMT -5
I played through Mother (as Earthbound 0) in rew, a NES/GB emulator. It was simple, but accurate. It also supported save states so I didn't have to suffer through lame critical hits as regularly if I didn't want to (I didn't).
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Post by Montivagant on Mar 13, 2013 10:30:47 GMT -5
It has been a long time, but I believe the first emulator I ever used was NESticle back in 1997. I believe the first game I personally emulated on it was Bionic Commando. My mind was blown later that same year seeing Bahamut Lagoon emulated on ZSNES.
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Post by gbennett on Apr 11, 2013 3:09:49 GMT -5
1987. I had a Spectrum emulator, perhaps more a simulator, for my Commodore 64. I could use it to write programmes in 48K Sinclair BASIC and they did run, though I don't think loading and saving were supported. Machine code was definitely out, so even if it was there was no way to play most Speccy games.
Jump ahead to 1991. By then I had an Amiga and thanks to a bit of modem-trading I found some interesting treasures. There was a C64 emulator called, I believe, A64 which I was quite excited to try. As it turned out speed and compatibility were poor and I spent little time with it.
I also had an Atari ST emulator running a German version of TOS that worked to a point. For some reason it was unstable running in low and medium resolution, but it worked and was quite a sight to behold. I went around collecting what ST PD I could find to test it with.
The true miracle at that time was a copy of the Macintosh emulator A-Max. It was made to work with the physical system ROM from an actual black and white Mac, but I had a hacked copy with the ROM on disk. It worked beautifully. It somehow, miraculously emulated a 68000 based Mac at full speed on my 68000 based Amiga 500, and as it ran in hires/interlace had a higher screen resolution than the real thing. It ran everything I threw at it. It was astonishing. I had two computers in one.
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Post by wxbryant on Apr 11, 2013 15:58:52 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure it was 1997 when I discovered emulation. I know I was in middle school at the time and I also seem to recall the N64 having already come out on the market, so that sounds about right. I either first heard about it through some gaming e-newsletter I subscribed to at the time, or an online colleague told me about it and sent me some ROMs. I don't remember which happened first at this point.
I do know my first experience was with NESticle and I think the first ROM I played may have been Mega Man 3 (actually it was the JP version Rockman 3, but that was how the file was named). I want to say there was something else that I had tried first, but I don't remember what. The only other early experience I can recall is North & South, but I know that came after. I also remember having a pretty slow dial-up connection at the time, too, since I think it took me like two or three hours one night to download the other five NES Mega Man games once I found a site.
Plasticman sounds familiar but I think I mostly remember the One Stop ROM Hack Shop (or something like that). It blew my mind seeing the kind of new things that could be done with old games, and also finding out there's a whole world of games that were never released here in North America. I remember, when I found a translation for Ike Ike! Nekketsu Hockey-bu, I had so much fun with it that it made me want to find a used game store and see if they had Crash N The Boys: Ice Challenge. It hadn't yet registered why somebody had to make a translation...
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countzero
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Post by countzero on Apr 12, 2013 14:03:12 GMT -5
I remember my first emulator was NESticle. I remember that I'd hunt down ROMs at school (where they had a high-speed connection, as opposed to the dial-up I had at home), and download them to a floppy, where I'd take them home and play the hell out of them. I forget what the first game I emulated was - but I want to say it was, like Castlevania 3 or something. I also remember that I spent much more time playing emulators of 16-bit systems, as I didn't own a SNES or a Genesis, so those were the closest way for me to experience that side of gaming. I also hunted down a lot of translated ROMs too.
I want to say my first translated roms I played were Final Fantasy V and Tenchi Muyo.
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