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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2014 0:25:26 GMT -5
My first adventures in emulation were pretty basic. Nesticle and snex9x in the summer of 2000. It was a revelation to find out you could play all these old games...FOR FREE!!!
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Post by ReyVGM on Sept 5, 2014 11:16:26 GMT -5
Back then (1998 or something) I thought no one would even bother to release (dump) every single game, I mean, why would you want to dump crappy titles?
I was amazed when I saw rom sites that had pretty much every single game available for download.
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Post by Lash on Sept 5, 2014 14:21:53 GMT -5
I'm fairly-certain the first game I emulated was Metal Warriors (SNES)—which I played into the ground.
I remember frequenting pe2000.net (no longer around) to retrieve roms. They'd have you read through something about Bill Clinton and how it was perfectly legal to download any games that you already paid for/owned offline. (Then again, I also remember downloading music off Kazaa and the file turning out to be audio of Bill Clinton recommending I go to some website for free stuff.)
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Post by Amelia on Sept 6, 2014 0:07:53 GMT -5
My first was Super Mario Bros. with loopynes around 2000. I remember being really proud of figuring it out and calling my parents into the room to show it off. I fooled around with a bunch of NES games, but the first emulated game I seriously played was a fan-translated Pokemon Gold on SMYGB (I still tend to call Ampharos "Denryu"). The game wasn't fully translated, so I assumed the game was done after finishing the Johto region. It blew my mind when I discovered Kanto in the English version.
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Post by Woody Alien on Sept 6, 2014 4:45:35 GMT -5
I began emulating in about 2002 or so, with MAME (still using that), ZSNES, SNES9x for Chrono Trigger and DBZ games, and a Game Boy emulator (forgot the name) to play Pokemon Blue/Red which was all the rage back then. Others I've used are MEKA (just for WBIII the Dragon's Trap), Kega Fusion, GBA emulator for Final Fantasy Tactics and Mother 3 (sadly I never finished that one).
Only very recently I began emulating PSX games.
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Post by Ryzuki on Sept 17, 2014 13:54:18 GMT -5
I've known about emulation for a very long time but never bothered with it because I had no idea how it worked, nor a computer of my own. Several days ago I decided to give it a shot and after two long nights with next to no progress and nearly infecting my computer, I've finally got a game working-- Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. Unfortunately I don't think my shitty laptop can handle it as I can't get the sound to stop lagging whenever something moves. It's annoying, but tolerable during combat. During cut-scenes and the intro however, it's straight up torture on my ears; may as well not even bother trying to listen. Still, I'll finish it anyway since this is likely the only way I'll ever be able to play this game.
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Post by r0ck3rz on Sept 18, 2014 8:26:43 GMT -5
Well, the 2D era is much better emulated than 3D, so it could still be some bugs that need to be worked out for that particular game to run.
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Post by Ryzuki on Sept 18, 2014 14:36:20 GMT -5
Mayhap, but because I've seen others run it perfectly, I'm pretty sure my laptop is just too slow. Thanks for your reply though. This will likely be the only 3D game I'll emulate with my laptop... at least until I study a bit more about computers/emulation and upgrade my laptop. (Because right now I'm practically clueless)
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Post by lanceboyle94 on Sept 18, 2014 21:37:12 GMT -5
Mayhap, but because I've seen others run it perfectly, I'm pretty sure my laptop is just too slow. Thanks for your reply though. This will likely be the only 3D game I'll emulate with my laptop... at least until I study a bit more about computers/emulation and upgrade my laptop. (Because right now I'm practically clueless) It really seems to depend on the game, though. I've got a laptop with integrated graphics (as most are) and I've had varying levels of performance between games and such on emus like PCSX2, Dolphin and DCemu or whatever it was called. I've also had games that ran better on PCSX2 than on Dolphin (Midway Arcade Treasures 3 is the only one I can recall now) even though I'm certain that the former is the more resource-intensive of the two emus.
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Post by Joseph Joestar on Sept 19, 2014 9:18:12 GMT -5
Back then (1998 or something) I thought no one would even bother to release (dump) every single game, I mean, why would you want to dump crappy titles? I was amazed when I saw rom sites that had pretty much every single game available for download. I got into it around that time and I remember having exactly the same reaction. It was mind-boggling. In response to the OP, I tried to get into emulation in 96/97 to be able to play Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (which had just been translated into English and other languages); unfortunately I could never get the emulator to run very well and gave up. After that I got hooked on NES games, and it got me into hunting down and collecting NES games again.
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Post by elektrolurch on Sept 19, 2014 11:46:50 GMT -5
in 1999/2000 or something like that, ULTRA HLE and bleem. bleem worked well enough on my machine back then (p 166mhz and voodo 1 card;)), but ultra hle not so much. at probably the same time i tried some basic gameboy emulator......... i dont know why but it took me years after that to get into snes/mega drive emulation. maybe because the MD games I wanted (sonic&knuckles,sonic cd, comix zone,ecco) were readily aviable for windows anyway. funny that for most people here it were the late 90ies or early 2000s.
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Post by Ryzuki on Sept 19, 2014 14:00:08 GMT -5
EDIT: Y'know technically, I suppose Sega Smash Pack 2 was really my first emulation... way back when I was still in elementary school my teacher gave it to me as a gift along with a few other pc games. Mayhap, but because I've seen others run it perfectly, I'm pretty sure my laptop is just too slow. Thanks for your reply though. This will likely be the only 3D game I'll emulate with my laptop... at least until I study a bit more about computers/emulation and upgrade my laptop. (Because right now I'm practically clueless) It really seems to depend on the game, though. I've got a laptop with integrated graphics (as most are) and I've had varying levels of performance between games and such on emus like PCSX2, Dolphin and DCemu or whatever it was called. I've also had games that ran better on PCSX2 than on Dolphin (Midway Arcade Treasures 3 is the only one I can recall now) even though I'm certain that the former is the more resource-intensive of the two emus. That sounds rather frustrating. But yeah, I kinda just assumed Dolphin would be the best emulator for the job, so I haven't bothered with others yet. I'll look into that soon. Fortunately it still plays fairly well as is, it's just a shame I can't listen to the cut-scenes or music during battle. Once I find a way to fix that, I'll be a very happy person. Thanks for the feedback.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2014 5:15:22 GMT -5
Dolphin is really the only way to play GC / Wii games through emulation. The others he mentioned were for PS2 and Dreamcast emulation. I think the issue really is your hardware, though, but that's to be expected. A gaming laptop usually costs twice as much as a desktop with similar specs.
My suggestion would be to stick to 2D stuff and PS1. Kega Fusion can handle all your Sega needs from before the Saturn. Saturn emulation requires a pretty good set up to run, unfortunately, even though most of its games look demonstrably worse than its PS1 brethren.
Regular Game Boy, GBC, and GBA should be fine on a normal laptop. DS would probably be too much.
This is all coming from a guy who has spent the better part of the last two years trying to emulate pretty much everything. Eventually I just said screw it and bought a gaming laptop. Only issue now is that I can't get Chankast to work anymore, for some reason.
Oh, and you're also going to need a pretty big hard drive if you're going to get into emulating any CD-based games.
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Post by lanceboyle94 on Sept 20, 2014 13:00:16 GMT -5
Dolphin is really the only way to play GC / Wii games through emulation. The others he mentioned were for PS2 and Dreamcast emulation. I think the issue really is your hardware, though, but that's to be expected. A gaming laptop usually costs twice as much as a desktop with similar specs. My suggestion would be to stick to 2D stuff and PS1. Kega Fusion can handle all your Sega needs from before the Saturn. Saturn emulation requires a pretty good set up to run, unfortunately, even though most of its games look demonstrably worse than its PS1 brethren. Regular Game Boy, GBC, and GBA should be fine on a normal laptop. DS would probably be too much. This is all coming from a guy who has spent the better part of the last two years trying to emulate pretty much everything. Eventually I just said screw it and bought a gaming laptop. Only issue now is that I can't get Chankast to work anymore, for some reason. Oh, and you're also going to need a pretty big hard drive if you're going to get into emulating any CD-based games. I've actually got a lot of Saturn games running pretty well on this laptop, actually. It's surprising, 'cause I assumed SSF was gonna be quite resource-intensive on something without dedicated graphics hardware. As for DS, you're right; haven't tried NO$GBA but DeSmuME does run rather slow. PSP, though, that fares somewhat better; there's still some games that run somewhat slow, but others I've tried do run at a playable framerate! And as for PS2 and GC/Wii, it seems to depend on the game, as I've said. Of the very few Wii games I've tried (non-WiiWare) only a couple of them ran at a playable, consistent framerate, those being the two Pinball Hall of Fame games. The other one I've tried was Cruis'n, which ran well on menus but ran at about 20-30FPS during races rather than 60. As for WiiWare the only ones I've tried that ran at 60FPS constantly were Konami's ReBirth games, Pop'em Drop'em SameGame and I think Art Style: Rotohex as well. Art Style: Rotozoa, Mega Man 9, ExciteBike: World Rally and Art Style: Light Trax had framerate issues, and Light Trax had sound issues too.
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Post by Ryzuki on Sept 22, 2014 14:17:49 GMT -5
Much appreciated friends. Money is pretty tight lately so It'll be a long while before I get a gaming laptop, bit it'll happen at some point. I doubt I'll have much luck, but I still intend to try Gyakuten Kenji 2 and Rival Schools...eventually. In the end, I've obtained a fair amount of knowledge about emulation so no time wasted I suppose. Thanks again.
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