Your first time

[HigherHeat]

I dont normally start these kind of threads, but hopefully it'll get a lot of replies.

The first time you ever used an N64 emulator, which emu was it, and what game did you try?

For me, it was "Zelda, Ocarina of Time" with PJ64 v 1.2. I got about 16 FPS out of my old Celeron 533!

Dem was de days.

[Clements]

My comp was never powerful enough for N64 emulators, so I started with Megadrive, Snes and Gameboy emulators well before N64. I tried PJ64 1.5 on my 450MHz AMD K6-2 on tweaked it until I got 30fps (using Unofficial Daedalus on my integrated SiS530 Graphics I had) and got a few stars on Mario 64 and completed a few levels on Goldeneye 007 in single figure fps.

Got my new comp and spread to 1964 and Mupen64 and the rest is history.

[dnrobs]

ccs64 way back when

[Tagrineth]

My first emulator period was Snes9x 0.12. =)

And my first N64... that would be UltraHLE 1.0, without even an updated INF... to play Quest 64.

Got 60fps most of the time, with occasional dips to 40, on my 233MHz Pentium MMX with 160MB RAM and my trusty 12MB Voodoo2. =)


Edit: and OMFG! Your avatar is KY! ^_^!

[scotty]

I started emulating N64 properly a year ago, and I think that it was either F-ZeroX or Goldeneye I first played (with PJ64). Before that I would shink the emulator really small to get a fair speed, of course that was back when I was using my onboard intel graphics.

Originally I began with Snes9x V1.39, and then Nester, and (Win)Vice. Of course that is all updated. I still use Snes9x Primarily (Zsnes is still corrupting my computer) for Snes, theres nothing really good out there other than those 2. I use NNNesterJ as primary for NES(but sometimes use VirtuaNes and Jnes), and I still use WinVice because there isnt really a good commodore emulator out there that works as well.

I now try out every new emulator that comes out, and I just like to see how it stacks up with the rest. I think I am in for a few hours trying out the new 1964 when that comes out ("in the year 20XX AD" for those Megaman fans).

[Kaoss626]

original UltraHLE on a K6-2 450 and Voodoo II SLI so I could play Zelda

[cooliscool]

I started N64 Emulation with UHLE back in the day. I was running a P200 non MMX with a voodoo2 in it. Things ran ok (mario, zelda ran kinda good). I moved from uhle to 1964, to PJ64 where I'm at now. I've gone through alot of PC upgrades though. ;)

[Zilla]

My first time? She was a Ditzy Redhead......

:P

Nah, Uhle, read about it in 'Edge' magazine, and was blown away by the concept. :)

[Martin]

PUR - Project UnReality - back in the 90s. Heh, seems like a long time ago. :)

[vleespet]

Me too, with some demos.

[LazerTag]

Same here, some demos with PUR. An amazing work back then. I still remember missing the fanfair the morning UHLE 1.0 was released and hearing the rumors that it actually could run Mario64 and others. Took me almost 2 hours to find a download location that day which seemed forever. Seeing and hearing Mario that first time on my PC was astounding to say the least.

Now my first run in with an emulator on the PC in general was VSNES. Prior to that I did some Sinclair, C64, and BASIC (PC version) with my Atari and Amiga 1000.

Glad emulation has progressed from that, LOL!

[Remote]

Seems like a long time ago but probaly a early version of nesticle or snes9x, uhle was what got me hooked although...

[dnrobs]

whats an emulator period tho tag?


edit-ignore that question to much xmas SPIRIT ill be asking for the velocity of a migrating swallow next

[Tagrineth]

"My first emulator period was..."

Meaning my first emulator, overall, no specific system or anything. :flowers:

[Clements]

Period (US) = Full Stop (UK)

Period in the UK means something completely different which I won't go in to...

[Knuckles]

for me, UHLE 1.46fr, Mario64/Mario Kart 64/GoldenEye,
on my friend's P2 233, 128MB, Voodoo 3 2000 PCI , could play at full speed :)

this PC still exist and I still have the emu setup right here! I took it from a old CD I found where I burned the setup and the 3 roms on it(lost GE, the CD was crap).

[Kaoss626]

Clements... LOL... ummm I think it has the same meaning here

[Zuzma]

I'm from the US and I know it means a full stop (or ahem the other thing). I think there should have been some sort of comma there or something. Anyway online most people throw their grammar out the window since it's really not that important. Well er I don't exactly throw mine out the window I just really suck at writing. :)

[NeoNight]

um Think it it was nemu... ver .7a or something first emu ever was zsnes ver god knows what

[Zuzma]

:doh: I really should have read the first post more carefully. Anyway my frist time using an n64 emulator was project unreality. Seeing that N logo apear in wave race really got me excited about N64 emulation. Then when ultra hle was released I was blown away.. I mean it was just so sudden and the fact that I could see mario 64 running at 60FPS on my old PII 400 amazed me.

[Martin]

Seems like a long time ago but probaly a early version of nesticle or snes9x, uhle was what got me hooked although...
Those aren't N64 emulators. :P

[vleespet]

I still remember the Plasma demo running on PUR at my 486dx4 100 mhz, and the wonderful feeling I had at the moment that Mortal Kombat Trilogy showed its first startup screen.

[co_p3rth]

me.....
my first emu was... bleem
then zsnes
and so n64 (uhle) on p3 450 mhz
exciting memories :P
been upgrding a lot tho..... still crappy gfx card i guess :(
hope i get a new one later hehe :D

[ScottJC]

the first emu I used was Genecyst, of course now i use Gens...

The first N64 emu I used was Ultrahle, though i could never get it to work at the time ;), the first N64 emu I actually played a game on was Corn, with Mario 64 :P

[Modem]

The first emu I got into was... snes9x I believe. Just after I got my first computer in many years (I think it was 98'). Don't remember what version it was, but I got it mainly for playing Final Fantasy II (which, at the time, was not even close to perfect). Soon after that I got into Nes. :)

[Moose Jr.]

Corn w/Super Mario 64. The only thing that would run with sound on my 450/Banshee. :)

[linemu]

My first emulator was... ZSNES! I love that thing! It came with my SuSE linux distribution, so naturally installed it. I was very skeptical at the time, and I wondered "is this thing actually going to run any games?". When tried Donkey Kong Country my jaw dropped to the floor. "Oh My GOSH I Can play DK on my COMPUTER!!". ZSNES is still my favorite emulator.. I have never had a game that DIDN't work on it! Of course SNES is one of my fav. nintendo systems though.... (that thing had SOOO many awesome RPG'S) ;)

my first N64 emulator was Corn... I ran it on our windows computer that had crappy integrated graphics though.... but I was sort of awestruck that it could run the title screen of majora's mask. But the first n64 emu that I've really liked is mupen64, I can run it on my linux computer (which has a graphics card), and compatibility seems pretty good. But of course I'm still eagerly awaiting a Dyna-Rec. :D

[ShadowFX]

I first used UltraHLE 1.0.0 to play Super Mario 64. My PC specs back then was an old Dell computer, 333 MHz and a graphics card called STB Velocity 128 (4MB RAM). Used a Glide unwrapper to be able to use the emu).

Hehe, I still have the computer though, build it's been turned into a server since then :)

[vleespet]

We all remember the legendary emulators like Ultrahle, Corn, Project64, Nemu and more, but does anyone remember N64vm, Pagan, Blade64 and Sunset?

[co_p3rth]

i remember Pagan, and Blade64, but not Sunset and N64vm :/

[Hexidecimal]

Project 64 1.5, on my current rig, i only got into it because I wanted to play smash bros. then realized how awesome N64 was really and ended up working my way up to a full US set.

[My95ZR2]

My first emu was an old copy of No$GB playing tetris. Yeah, I had a gameboy, but when I found out that I could actually play them on the computer without having to buy them I fainted. It was about 97 when I got hooked on this stuff. Since then, I've gotten decently educated about it, and it always amazes my friends that I can do this type of stuff :p

Adam

[Zuzma]

I remeber sunset kinda.. wern't they working on another one called moonrise?? Also wasn't blade64 a recompile of another emulator??

[vleespet]

Sunset was released in 2 different versions at one time (at least, the last release), which are both supporting different games, and AFAIK Blade64 wasn't a recompile of another emulator.

[Gorxon]

PUR - Project UnReality - back in the 90s. Heh, seems like a long time ago. :)

Some long gone SNES emu was my first (before ZSNES was started)...but for N64 it was PUR. I was of course young/dumb enough to think that it ran commercial games, so I downloaded it (I didn't have internet at that time tho, had to download elsewhere... this was many years ago, hehe). And, of course it contained a virus. At that time I didn't have virus checker, nor had my dad, so most computers at home and at his small office got infected (he brought files from here to his office, thus they were infected). I stayed away from N64 emus for some time after that :P

[vleespet]

I still remember that I tried running everything with PUR, but after I saw the N-logo of waverace I was satisfied, but not for long, because that's the place where the whole bussiness ends. Mortal Kombat did something similar, and if I remember right Rampage 2 too.

[zAlbee]

oh man, i can't believe i missed this thread! i started with UltraHLE 1.0 myself... it never worked on my P133 with some 2mb ati card, so i just left it sitting there... then got myself a celery 566 and was playing smooth mario64, mariokart and zelda with that XGL200 wrapper =)

[rcgamer]

the first emulator i tried was dega for the sms. it worked awesome and i have been hooked on emulation ever since. but of course i switched my sms emulator to mekaw.

[Solidus777]

Mine would have had to been after an old issue of MaximumPC (I think it's called something else now) had a whole section on emulation. Started with a computer too slow to run even SNES emus at decent speed (30 FPS on Zelda: LTTP), then got this new one, which runs everything at a full 60. I remember that the first time I tried, the emulation hadn't been developed (UltraHLE's beta was still the best thing out at the time), but my first was... I think Mario 64.

[Lachp30]

A friend told me it was possible to play gameboy games on my computer - I did this with a 466, 12mb of RAM and with 1mb Graphics:P

[Davemc]

I read in my N64 magazine about UltraHLE back in about 1998/9 so I got on my PC and checked it out for myself.
The magazine was basically slagging it off and slagging PC gamers off too.
I downloaded Mario 64 and played it for a bit on my 200MHz K6 shit, ran alright, but not great. Then found SNES emulation, and because it worked fine with the computer, I stuck to it for a few years, before coming back to N64 emulation when I got a better computer. (2001)

[euphoria]

I saw UltraHLE 1.0.0 running Super Mario 64 on my friends computer running linux and wine back in '99. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Emulating windows (what i thought then, now i know better) and emulating Nintendo64 on top of that.
Then i got my copy of UHLE, SM64 and Zelda: OOT. Played Zelda through with my AMD K6-2 200Mhz == 3~6 fps on Hyrule Field ;)

[vleespet]

Ultrahle ran after overclocking my 486 (to 120 mhz) with Super Mario 64 at a playable speed. After I saw corn running at a high speed, I tought that some games would be emulated at a full speed at that system. Unfortunatly Corn and UltraHLE were the only real high-speed N64 emulators ever, so that wish never came true :(.