How did YOU get into Emulation?

[Tri-Force]

my story


It all started with Junior and Ms Pac Man.
I have always been a fan of the pac man games. my whole family is. one day i come home and find my father playing Ms pac man on the computer. i think to myself. "Cool" but then when i see it more closely i think "that sux" it was the Jroc version. not on an emulator but a totally horiable version of the game. yah the graphics were accurate and the colors dead on and even the ghost movements very close to the real thing. but the screen scrolled up and down. that hurt my eyes and my gameplay. i kept running into unseen ghosts when i went up or down. so we found other versions of the game that were not scrolling but not as close to the original.however it was pacman so i settled. then i wanted to play Jr. pac Man. so i went online and typed it into the search engine and only got this strange word "Rom" or "M.A.M.E" and i was like. ok this says nothing about Jr.Pac Man. but when i finally read all of one of the sites i discoverd the wonder that is ... EMULATION. from there it was to NES then SNES and finally i stumbled onto the N64 emulation scene while looking for zelda for SNES. i've been a geek ever since and dont think i will ever recover.

[mesman00]

good topic!

hmm, for me it was a little more than 2 years ago. i was in an aol chat room, and i just heard about this thing called UltraHLE, and that you could play n64 games on your computer. well, i thought WOW, and i grabbed a copy of this program. but i had problems. first of all, i had no voodoo card, and didn't even now what a glad wrapper was. also, i was never able to get the damn thing open, always had the hour glass, and then it was in the task manager when i hit alt-ctr-del, but never opened up. well, back then i was dumb, and didn't know the filename coudln't have any spaces. i always put it in a folder called "new folder" on my desktop. well anyways, i never read any faqs or anything, and never got UltraHle to even open.

but, UltraHLE opened the gate to me to others. Nemu64 was also coming out during this time, and it was something i could run (well, not really run, i had an ati rage pro and a pII 350).

anyways, after seein these to n64 emu's, i began to learn a little about emulation. i soon found that there were emulators for all systems. i got hooked on nesticle real quick, and it's been history since then.

however, now a days i don't find myself play emulated games on my computer. heck, i don't even have any emulators or roms anymore. i'm really just into the scene, and intrigued by the programmers. infact, i have been inspired to start my own nes emu, but it is in extremely, extremely, extremely (shall i say it again) early stages.

well, that's my history!

[Josep]

i started cause i was a dumb freeloader and wanted to see how many free games i could play on my comp without paying;) I was young and foolish then, (few months ago;)) j/k, no i've come to appreciate it more, its just i started through the whole, "omg you can play games on your comp that you really can't, FOR FREE." hehe

[Remote]

Honestly, I was, still am for that mather, looking for some adult content when those nasty pop ups invaded my monitor... I can still remember it like if it happened yesterday...I tried to close them by they just would not let me... I gave them the look but nothing... after badering the support hot line... I quietly mumbled to myself...why not? And here I am... It is my destiny, for better or for worse...

[Malcolm]

well I first got into emulation after I moved when I was 7. When we moved we put a lot of our stuff in storage till we could get the new house organized. When I finally got my stuff back I was carrying my NES and SNES box (one big moving box with all games and the consoles inside) I kinda slipped and the box kinda fell down 2 flights of stairs. Needless to say everything except for a few of the games were toast.

I got really pissed and I told some of my friends, that told me about Nester and ZSnes, and that where I, Malcolm the Village Idiot, came from.

:D

[Kakarot]

Here's my story:
One day at school (about 3 years ago now) I'm talking to a friend who was into some warez stuff when he told me about this program he found called an emulator. The one he had found was called ZSNES. After he told me what it was I was exstatic. When I came home form school that day I thought, "what about other systems and consoles? Can I this with the NES and other consoles also?. So I searched online and found a Gameboy emu called No$GMB. Then I searched for the roms he told me about and picked up Pokemon Red (no laughing damnit!!! seriously I like the GB Pokemon games ). After loaded it for the first time with fear it worked! and good too! Holy S**t I thout it really was a nintendo game on a pc and it didn't screw up my comuter!

So I continued on with all consoles except PSX and the N64 because I thought the roms were much bigger than they actually are. One day I said "what the hell!" and found Super Mario 64 and 20 minutes later to my suprise I had it (not bad for 56k eh?). I tried ultrahle but using it was so complex to me so I said F**k it! Months later I found the SM64 rom and decideing to lok online for another emu. I found Nemu which run the game badly (0.15 FPS) on my 300Mhz P2 64MB Ram 4VRAM IMPACT card system. I decided to read the Readme for Ultrahle and tried all of the steps and then I just hoped it would run a little better. Damn was I suprised when Super Mario 64 ran perfect before my very eyes! I couldn't believe it was the same game that ran with tons of errors and extremely slow now flawless at 25-30FPS. After I discovered the fun of the N64 this way (I hated it before because I perferred th PSX controller to the N64) I bought one and now have most of the games I used to download. In a nutshell (seriously) thats how I got into emulation.

PS. I'm living proof that emulation if anything helps nintendo since I bought my n64 after getting into emulation.

[Kakarot]

well I first got into emulation after I moved when I was 7. When we moved we put a lot of our stuff in storage till we could get the new house organized. When I finally got my stuff back I was carrying my NES and SNES box (one big moving box with all games and the consoles inside) I kinda slipped and the box kinda fell down 2 flights of stairs. Needless to say everything except for a few of the games were toast.

I got really pissed and I told some of my friends, that told me about Nester and ZSnes, and that where I, Malcolm the Village Idiot, came from.
Wow Malcom you had some really smart friends! Assuming they were around your age! :colgate:

[Remote]

Originally posted by Kakarot

PS. I'm living proof that emulation if anything helps nintendo since I bought my n64 after getting into emulation.

...and an induvidual can really make a difference...

[2fast4u]

well it started in 99 and - i have no clue where and why - i had heard about something called ultrahle and that it could play n64 games on a pc.
well there was a buddy with me so we decided to go on a hunt for n64 games. didnt take long these days ... probably 5 and we had a very nice rom site and like 30 mins later mario64 sucked thru a humble 56k line with bugging parents in the other room.
well i had a voodoo card and (the first comp i bought myself) a cyrix(!!) 6x86mx pr200 with 32 megs edo-ram - the harddisk was less than 1 gig. we started that program - holy shit - it started mario64 right away!! that was my start into emulation, i took a very large break in mid 2000 that lasted until about mid 2001 when i got interested again.

[pj64er]

i got into emulation when i was trying to find information about the then fabled Final Fantasy 5. After a while, i found a site offering a way to play it on the computer. back then, i thought Square decided to port a free version of it for the PC. I followed the instructions on the site, and it worked. after a marathon of FF5ing, i went back to the net and increased my "knowledge" of emulation...

[Tri-Force]

ah the good old days. . . when roms were just stumbled upon.;)

[Allnatural]

I kind of knew about emulation a few years ago when I saw Bleem on the shelf at Best Buy, but at that time I didn't really know what an emulator was. I had also heard once about some way to play N64 games on the PC (Ultra HLE), but since I had an N64 I didn't pay much attention.

Then, less than a year ago, some friends and I were discussing old video games. We got on the subject of Rygar, a game I had played many times, and I thought: "hey, some nut is sure to have a site dedicated to Rygar". I found a fan site, and I was only there to read about the game and remember old times, but the site author mentioned something called an "emulator" and game files called "roms". So I set to searching, and quickly found NESTen and a Rygar rom. Boy what fun.:) I soon found many more NES games, and eventually switched to FCE Ultra. Then came ZSNES, and eventually Gens. My first experience with N64 emulation was with Nemu, though I soon found this site and PJ64 (during version 1.2).

Now, here I am, and I have since added ePSXe and MAME to my emu collection.:) Despite a good size rom collection (~500) I don't play games very often. Watching the progress in the emu scene has proved far more interesting.:)

[Ogy]

Originally posted by Remote


...and an induvidual can really make a difference...

see all the stuff in my sig? i got them all after AND BECAUSE of n64 emulation , and i heard about more people who did the same (like n64 controllers 4 the adaptiod). and i am a true believer that emulation is HELPING the companies, i'm going to buy an arcade cabinet(is this the correct word?)sometime in the future just because of mame.


oh, and i played zsnes and sys16 before i got into emulation but UltraHLE really got me into it, i had no real problems with uHLE because i had(and still have :blush: ) the perfect computer 4 it (PII 350,Voodoo 2).

[Tri-Force]

pII? perfect???

[Slougi]

I wanted to play SoM2 desperately, it was never released in europe. So I found out about emulation :)

[Jaz]

Well I wanted to play Sonic 2 on my PC.. :D

[adi]

Well, i'm just a damn freeloader whos been enlightened by this very forum. Well done everbody! :)

[sk8bloke22]

gb emus is wat got me into...i stumbled upon a gameboy emu coincidently when looking for cheats for a game called 'alfred chicken' cos i was cack at it. then i got myself a megadrive, snes emu, attempted to work a neo-geo one and got nowhere, as only until now hav neo-geo emus become simple to use. then of course bleem and ultrahle got me hooked. both emus had so much promise to be something really great....

[Ogy]

Originally posted by Tri-Force
pII? perfect???

for uHLE.

[blizz]

I was bored.

[EdgeBlade]

I don't rember exactly how, but I do rember it was at least 5-7 years ago when I had a Power Performa Macintosh, the modem was a 14.4 I believe. I tried super nintendo emulators but they were too slow, or my computer was too slow for it, not sure.. And I got al my ROMs off the internet instead of Hotline and mIRC like I do now, how primitave ;)

[flow``]

Despite a good size rom collection (~500) I don't play games very often. Watching the progress in the emu scene has proved far more interesting.
Amen :)

I got into emulation at a friend's house. at the time i was hooked on quake.. it literlally ate up my '99 summer.. i was playing 50 hrs a week.. anyway

i was over at his house and playing quake, watching tv, you know, the normal stuff. so anyway, his dad is real cool and all and is into the same stuff we are.. sorta. he has a job as an autoparts designer [using autocad] and is into pc's and FPS games and all that. so my friend and i were playing quake and all of a sudden i hear "ITSMA ME! MARRRIOOO!".. and i turn around with this "Wtf" look on my face.. and low and behold it was mario on his f'n monitor?!

so anyway, i eventually got into emulation and roms and all that cool stuff. . and leads me to where i am now :)

[flow``]

oh yea.. i was usually on IRC on ETG, with other online gaming friends and it was like.. 2-4 am [somewhere in there] and i was bored.. and i ran across emulation64.com and tried the online chat thing.. which at the time was fux0red and i couldnt get on any of the freakin servers. so i tried it on mirc and somehow got on :)

so i hopped onto #emulation64 #n64dev and a few other channels i saw from smiff's site. i was a newbie around this era and spammed "hey" to every channel i was on.. and no one replied.. and then eventually this "Azimer" dude replies, and we got into a nifty little convo before my "awesome"[/sacrasm] HP comp decided to crash . then i eventually started to get more and more involved. :)

[hellknight]

my was 2 years ago my friend told me that he downloaded sonic 3 and that he can play it on computer.He told me aboout something called aemulator that can do this.On the site I found snes roms too and i wonder if that would work too.And it does so I thought there must be a way to play n64 games.I tried to search them and I found a site.and so I began to try.........and now i am here as emulation freek:alien:

[conkerman]

i got in around the time mame was playing about 100 games or so. i wanted to play a game or two on my p1-133 and i found mame to download somewhere. i couldnt get it to work, it was the dos version (no gui, god i was dumb) and i never figured out that it worked. so i got jrok's digdug2 emulator and played that for a while before mageX found me. it was directx3 if i remember correctly, and it made my toolbars turn finky colors, and it played pacman, donkeykong, galaga, all of the classics, and then one day i found a gb emu. no cgb yet, just gb. i had to rename each game to cart.gb to play it. i think it was VGB. Eventually found davesclassics, and i was there the night ultrahle was released. before that though, i had tried downloading the mario64 rom in aol3.0 and had all versions of project unreality, and played with the demos, so it wasnt a total waste of a download. so i had ultrahle, then i got a glide wrapper and almost creamed my pants (not really, but it was amazing), then eventually nemu came along, and corn, pj, tr64, 1964, apollo, others i forgot about (i guess sunset also came then, and n64vm) and then everything else, and here i am
conkerman

[Redah]

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[Smiff]

Originally posted by blizz
I was bored.


hehehehe

[2fast4u]

redah, smiff. wot the hell is the deal with cats?

[gokuss4]

i first started with gameboy emulation in about 1998 when no$gmb and SMYGB ruled the gb emulation era. it first started when my bro found out from some friends about emulation and he showed me it i was amazed as heck. so i started playing it and this is back than when i liked pokémon :blush:. so i started it and i finished it, than i said hmm... ill try some other emulation. so than i got with sega and downloaded sonic 2, 3 and sonic and knuckles and also sonic 2 and knuckles and sonic 3 and knuckles, than dbz bu yu retsuden and i loved it. than i started snes emulation (this was also back than when i had a 433mhz celeron and my v3 with 64mb of ram). i downloaded some dbz games and gundam wing endless duel i loved it. than came n64 emulation in late 1999. i tried several emu's like virtual 64 and others and it was ok but man they were slow, so i tried this other emu called guess.... UltraHLE. it was great but the textures were a little messed up so i tried to find a way to fix it so i found a voodoo 3 fix. it was great. i played some games from that day forward on n64 emulation. than i tried arcade in about late 2001 (yep). but before that i tried gba and it was slow. i had to put the frame skip on 1 or 2 to get a good frame rate. but than everything changed... I got A HUGE SYSTEM UPGRADE!!! first in mid 2001 i got an extra stick of 64mb which equals 128mb some games ran better. than at about November 2001 i got AN AMD ATHLON 900MHZ!!! than after that i got a stick of 128mb of ram all of them are pc133 sdram. so it all equaled 256mb of ram and with that 900 i also got a new sound card upgrade from a sound blaster 64 to a vortex au8810 and now just look at my system specs. when i got the amd athlon i tried some n64 emu's and most sites recommended pj64 or nemu so i tried both, and of course i liked pj64 better. so i had some trouble and i joined this board ^_^ but i figured most things out like the change blending if invalid for video card, and other things i figured and in this board i would just like to say i never EVER made a rom request ^_^. right now im just sitting back and relaxing on my computer. and waiting for nemu 0.8 and by that time ill have a geforce 4 ti4200 at least.

[Zero]

The Story :
I wanted to play some games that were never released in Europe so that was the main reason for me to get into the emu scene but that evolved from being a freeloader to a dedicated emu author.

And how the story ends .......... no-one knows :p

[yogaman]

Well I got into emulation when the friend told me that he could run N64 games on his pc. At first I couldn't believe that would be possible but soon I got my hands on the mysterious UltraHLE and after I got it to work properly I metamorphosed into an emufreak - it was then when I checked on emulators of older consoles like Nes/Snes/gameboy and all..... I also got into MAME. Well, now I'm also into a bit gameboy Advanced since emulation for that system is a bit more "active" than currently for N64 :D

[Jaz]

Originally posted by blizz
I was bored. You can't use that one, you're always bored. ;)

[Pheo]

my brother's friend had showed me that he could play nes games on his puter and i thought that was crazy. now i can play nes games on my gba with turbo buttons and save state.

[Jaz]

Sweet. I wanna get a Flash Advance Linker.. :D

[Renegade]

you insolent, no-good, ratbastardish son of Laius, HOW DARE YOU REQUEST ROMS! well, in a distant context really :D j/k

I got into emulation when my bro told me that he had a surprise for me after my exams in 1997 (?). I was pretty fired up, and once I peeked a leetle bit into the com room to see what he was up to. I could only see half the screen, and it was a good 10 metres away, but I could juuuuustt make out a little window and some moving thingy. I thought it was - what? - some sorta transformers game.

it turned out to be Mega Man X for the SNES (as I found out after my exams), running on SNES97 (an oooollllldddd emu). And at that time my brother was going through Sting Chameleon's stage without anything.

Months later I discovered emus for other systems. from then on, I was hooked. (my friends weren't as enthusiastic tho...)

[Renegade]

Originally posted by gokuss4
i first started with gameboy emulation in about 1998 when no$gmb and SMYGB ruled the gb emulation era. it first started when my bro found out from some friends about emulation and he showed me it i was amazed as heck. so i started playing it and this is back than when i liked pokémon :blush:. so i started it and i finished it, than i said hmm... ill try some other emulation. so than i got with sega and downloaded sonic 2, 3 and sonic and knuckles and also sonic 2 and knuckles and sonic 3 and knuckles, than dbz bu yu retsuden and i loved it. than i started snes emulation (this was also back than when i had a 433mhz celeron and my v3 with 64mb of ram). i downloaded some dbz games and gundam wing endless duel i loved it. than came n64 emulation in late 1999. i tried several emu's like virtual 64 and others and it was ok but man they were slow, so i tried this other emu called guess.... UltraHLE. it was great but the textures were a little messed up so i tried to find a way to fix it so i found a voodoo 3 fix. it was great. i played some games from that day forward on n64 emulation. than i tried arcade in about late 2001 (yep). but before that i tried gba and it was slow. i had to put the frame skip on 1 or 2 to get a good frame rate. but than everything changed... I got A HUGE SYSTEM UPGRADE!!! first in mid 2001 i got an extra stick of 64mb which equals 128mb some games ran better. than at about November 2001 i got AN AMD ATHLON 900MHZ!!! than after that i got a stick of 128mb of ram all of them are pc133 sdram. so it all equaled 256mb of ram and with that 900 i also got a new sound card upgrade from a sound blaster 64 to a vortex au8810 and now just look at my system specs. when i got the amd athlon i tried some n64 emu's and most sites recommended pj64 or nemu so i tried both, and of course i liked pj64 better. so i had some trouble and i joined this board ^_^ but i figured most things out like the change blending if invalid for video card, and other things i figured and in this board i would just like to say i never EVER made a rom request ^_^. right now im just sitting back and relaxing on my computer. and waiting for nemu 0.8 and by that time ill have a geforce 4 ti4200 at least.


and so...which flavour of cheese did you shop for at the supermarket finally? ???

[gokuss4]

so what if my story is long, its completely detailed, but you should be asking me when i shall get a new video card? the answer should be in the beginning of summer after school ends or at the end of my school quarter if i get my grades raised.

[mesman00]

raise those grades! :D

[gokuss4]

thanks ;)

[Macca]

the emulation monkey dragged me into it, sat me down on my computer and slapped me non stop for four days!, four fricken days!! you know how much it hurts to be slapped by a monkey for four days?.....i think not

[Malcolm]

It doesnt hurt as mush as being slaped for days by the Emu64 staff ;)

[Macca]

SHUDDUP and get back to work!! You know what happened last time and i bet you don't want it to happen.

/me get ready to slap :p

[Renegade]

make that cockslap :D

[Tri-Force]

back on topic please.

( I would make a great Mod):cool:

[Squall Leonhart]

I just wanted to play Pokemon (yeah, yeah, I know)
on GB and I came across a Norwegian Pokemon site with an "emulator" (big, scary thingy) and two/three roms.
So I played and thought: that is amazing! so I searched for "emulator" at altavista and bingo! I found The Emulator Zone and UltraHLE...

[RatTrap]

well.. the first time i got into emulation was with a c64 emulator for linux back when i used slackware.. some long time ago.. i got bored of linux and of that scene though coz i started programing on my own..

then i got into emulation again when i read an interview bout the first n64 emu author.. back then i used to hang out at ZD.. this is way b4 SwampGas though.. i was in a few other scenes back then too.. and some ppl screwd me with one of the sites i made for them so i ended up in trouble with da law :/.. and left for a while.. but not b4 i had the chance to see the fake ultrahle1.5 downloads out in a few places hehe..

thierd time.. i had not really used the pc for bout a year other than to email friends.. (was a very productive time in my life)..
i lookd for progress in n64 emulators since that's where i left about a year b4.. and i found out there had been alot of progress after ultrahle.. i was hanging out in the old nemu and ultrahle boards.. bothering smiff and others with stupid questions and i remember smiff putting something i had posted on the board.. up in his site..

i met bjz and a few others back in that board.. i think in the old ini-board or something hehe.. but i ended up in an emulation64 boards thread one day (this is b4 emutalk).. and stopd by the efnet channel #emulation64 just when a guy called Azimer (whom i already knew to be the author of Apollo).. was making a big deal about an old design on a website and how he reaaally wanted to change it.. i told him (a total stranger to him at the time).. "hey Azi.. i could make something for you".. and he wasn't sure.. like i said.. he didn't know me back then.. i was totally new to the channel and scene.. pretty much.. and i told him i would make a sketch and send him anyways.. and he could see if he liked it or not :).. well.. he did.. and we ended puting up the site not so much later :D.. if i had not met Azi i probably would'nt have found anything to do in this scene.. and might not even be writing this :p.. thank you aazzziiii :D..

the end..

[Eagle]

I wanted to play Final Fantasy 2J 3J and 5J which (at the time) all three were not available in the US.

[rob in london]

i think the first emu i used was a zx spectrum emulator for the amiga some time in the early 90s, can't remember what it was called, and then the brilliant UAE. its always seemed fun trying to run software from other computers

[Tri-Force]

hey i thought i would just bring this back up to the front since we have some new members that look like they are staying.

[Ketil]

i got into emulation coz i wanted to check out the WAR! mission in perfect dark.

[DuDe]

I got into it cause I wanted to play Mario64 :) And then I found out that there`s a whole load of systems emulated, so I got hooked.

[Eddy]

Stumbled, to Nesticle x.xx, oh shit, i coudlnt get enough! that was about 4 or 5 years ago, i found it when i was 9, searching for mega man pictures, and found a mega man game, it was a rom, then it told me to download the emulator, i was HAPPY :colgate: but i couldnt get the damn thing running, never knew about forums or nothing.

[Eddy]

btw ultrahle was big for me, damn, i remember that i bought a voodoo 3 just for that. I thnk that at least 3% of all voodoo cards where because of ultrahle :-P

[Malcolm]

I know I got my Voodoo 2 because of UltraHLE, man what a waste of $280

[2fast4u]

Originally posted by Malcolm
I know I got my Voodoo 2 because of UltraHLE, man what a waste of $280

same here. about a year ago though. 80 bucks still ... :(

[AlphaWolf]

<flashback>

I can't remember exactly where I started. Maybe somewhere during 1995? The first site I regularly visited was node99. (can't believe I never hear that name anymore, it went down due to a crappy ISP, surprised it never came back.) I remember playing a few nes games, then a while later dammaged cybernetics stole the nesticle source code. I remember commercial emulators were pretty common back then, (which caused a lot of the emu scene people to use linux because marat fayzulins linux ports were free) and managed to be a lot worse than the freeware ones at the same time. (Some things never change *cough*bleem*cough*)

I also remember people saying that it would be impossible to emulate a sega genesis because it was just way to advanced hardware. Sure enough, Markus Geitzen changed that. Then all of a sudden Genecyst just gets released one day out of nowhere. Then kgen comes developed by a guy who actualy worked for a software company that developed sega games. There was a bit of competition between those two.

When SNES emulation first came around, it went years with no sound until a bunch of kiddies leaked the first Snes9X beta (which was supposed to combine the goodness of snes96 and snes97, as well as add a few extras which none of the commercial emulators were near supporting). Later ZSNES was released, which pretty much blew Snes9X out of the water with its very first release, which supported a *LOT* of features, including sub screen addition and subtraction (sprite transparency), which was a big deal at the time for an snes emulator to do. Big time competition there.

Then much later after that the N64 came out and it was basicaly unthinkable to emulate it. Course all that changed once project unreality ran the MKT title screen, then not too shortly later Gordon Hollingworth showed up. It was about this time that lots of people started bitching about how emulation was getting too associated with warez, and lots of people bitched about how the "golden years" were over. Didn't bother me any.

Speaking of ultrahle, its what drove me to upgrade from my AMD K5 133mhz to a celeron 300a overclocked to 450mhz (already had a voodoo2 for quake2 and half-life) :P

</flashback>

I cant believe you actualy read that :happy:

[Tesla-Guy]

Originally posted by Tri-Force
including Martin and Tesla
lol y me specifically, am i a god or something? :P Neway here it is:
5 years ago when i was 10 i typed in www.excite.com : games
nintendo free. Many sites appeared and i chose a one which had the word "emulation" in it. I entered and read about emulators, roms, whatever. I dled Super Mario Bros 2 and NESticle i think. I played it a bit and thought, meh this is cool :P I searched and found about n64 emulators, nemu, ultrahle, project unreality or whatever and dled super mario on my old crappy P MMX 166MHz with a 2MB japanese gfx card and sound blaster 16, with nemu i think and i was wondering why it didn't work. I found about www.emulation64.com (i still remember its old design yacky - sorry whoever designed it :P) i was reading news frequently and suddenly about 2 or 1,5 years ago i saw about the mirc channels and i got in. First person i spoke to was Redah and second Quvack :)

[Anchel]

Someone lent me a pokemon game, then, looking for cheats, I've found pages about emulation.

[gokuss4]

it seems most of us used to be pokémaniacs here huh? ;) including me :D :P

[2fast4u]

Originally posted by gokuss4
it seems most of us used to be pokémaniacs here huh? ;) including me :D :P

im sure glad u ppl grew up :P

[mesman00]

i thoruoghly hate pokemon

[Tri-Force]

i like jiggly puff and clafairy (spell)

anyway what were your favorite (now closed) emulation sites. mine was Plasticman

[2fast4u]

by that time i just wanted roms, didnt care about the rest. :blush:

[Eddy]

yeah, pleasticman was a classic. Soo many neo geo roms, its not closed, but classicgaming.com was off the hook :-D

[Falcon4ever]

I also wanted to play my Commodore 64 games on the PC. So 5 years ago I searched the web if that was possible and yes it was. So i created a cable to copy my c64 from the old C64 diskdrive to my PC. Retro Rules.

[DuDe]

mame.dk was great... It has every god damn MAME rom I ever heard of... Oh well, we always have IRC, don`t we ;)

[AlphaWolf]

First I liked node99, then it went bye bye, then I liked archaic ruins, then it sorta dissapeared with parodius.com, after that I stuck with emu news service, which I bet many here don't remember because it dissapeared shortly after UltraHLE showed up. (around the time that the "scene" realy exploded). Haven't realy found a true favorite site since, none of em have been updated as frequently as they did back in the day (probably because there is way to much to keep track of now)

Zophars domain has always sucked, and always will :P. The Dump (http://www.classicgaming.com/thedump/genesis/) shall one day return with the death of the IDSA :D

BTW, I hate pokemon with a passion.

[Eddy]

danm, i remember all those sites, seem like yesterday when i used to get windjammers from the dump on my 33.3

[AlphaWolf]

The Dump will live in our memories :) Aside from that there are only two sites that I favored at one time that still remain, emucamp and daves classics (well sorta, vintage gaming network now). I dont remember why I quit visiting emucamp, daves classics simply sucked after a while. I have seen zophars domain a lot almost since day one, and it always just seemed like the ass crack of the emulation community.

[Eddy]

i never been a fan of zophar's, but vg (daves) has sure gotten gayer, popups, ect. Never heard of emucamp, but there was this one site, that had soo much roms, gotta try and remember the name. It was something like emuzone with sonic as the character of the page. And what about the top 25 emulation site toplist? damn, memories

[mesman00]

hey Eddy, will emudev.com ever be bacK? or do u just like having it in your profile?

[Renegade]

Vimm's Lair was ultra slow, but ultra large selection of US ENglish SNES and NES ROMs.

too bad they've destroyed all the ROMs. And...here's the best part...you get banned for asking why...for the simple reason that you didn't read the "FAQ", which doesn't say no shit...

yup plasticman was very good, but gave me a few bad dumps, had a very limited neogeo roms section, and was a bit slow.

[Slougi]

I remember a few years ago there was a site called Emunation or something. Fom what i remember it had lots of stuff as well :)

[rob in london]

i miss lazarus :*(

[blizz]

damm all the sites that have been shut down, ah well it's rather inevitable

[Slougi]

Heh, who cares though?

[Remote]

Originally posted by Slougi
Heh, who cares though?

Probaly no one...

[Tri-Force]

the site that I had as my HP was Emuholic.com but now i pretty much get my news here on the board.

[flow``]

i like to think emu64 serves the community with the fastest n64 news, which is usually picked up by more general sites like emuhelp and ngemu.com

but usually we get it first :]

[AlphaWolf]

Yeah whats flow spelled backwards? I own you pal. :P j/k. Yeah nice site but if only it were more broad. In all of my ranting, I forgot to mention that my current favorite is www.emulatronia.com. Although I can't fluently speak spanish, reading is easy. The site is very frequently updated with everything. Still not as good as the oldies though.

[Eddy]

yea emunation was cool now that i think of it, and yeah mesman im working on it, hopefully have it by the end of this summer up and running. Graphics are coming out real nice.

[sk8bloke22]

Originally posted by Eddy
i never been a fan of zophar's, but vg (daves) has sure gotten gayer, popups, ect. Never heard of emucamp, but there was this one site, that had soo much roms, gotta try and remember the name. It was something like emuzone with sonic as the character of the page. And what about the top 25 emulation site toplist? damn, memories

uwizone ? that place is total cack now, all u get is the Top 25 list, which then gets u nowhere, but other sites whose only real links are the wretched Top 25 list.

[mesman00]

sounds good eddy!

[Lillymon]

Back in 1999 I had just got a new computer (P3 450, nVidia TNT, cutting edge for the time) and an N64. My mum wasn't happy with the 3D gameplay of Super Mario 64 and also hated the joypad. She much prefered Super Mario World and the SNES joypad. But we'd sold our SNES in 1995 and had no way of getting a new one. However...

...I had heard of some way of getting old, 2D games working on a PC! This was exactly what I needed! So I got on the internet and found a nice ROM site. I downloaded SNES 9x and a few classics. I ended up playing the games more than my mum! :D But then, disaster! A full failiure of Windows 98 forced me to reformat my HD! No backups at all... the ROMs were gone and I vanished from emulation for almost a year...

...but in 2000, while on holiday in Tunisia, I found a couple of arcade machines (a CPS1 running Cadillacs & Dinosaurs and a Neo-Geo running The King of Fighters '98). I spent a two week holiday on them and came back as pale as I was when I left! :happy: When I got home, I wanted to keep playing them. But an arcade machine? No way. Then I remembered emulation. Could it help? I started up my PC and went searching... I didn't find my arcade games until much, much later. But I found some SNES classics instantly. Using ZSNES, I even started on Super Mario RPG, introducing me to my first serious RPG. Things were going great again! But, as fate would have it, Windows 98 failed again! Still no backups, my ROMs were lost again. And my interest waned as I rebuilt my installations...

...but emulation proved to much for me to walk away from, within months I was back and smashed through Super Mario RPG, then Tales of Phantasia, then Chrono Trigger, then StarFox, then the whole Donkey Kong Country series! Then I expanded, Genesis, NES, arcade machines, and then... Bleem! Whoa man, I felt like I did in 1993 when I first saw StarFox demoing in a local Dixons. Awe inspiring. My PC could do this! I was amazed! But then (you guessed it) Windows 98 failed yet again on me...

...but this didn't even slow me down! I was back and in the highs of it! I'd abandoned PSX and N64 emulation (all of the emulators ran too slow) and kept playing 16-bit games continuously. This time Windows 98 was proving stable, but my hardware wasn't. An HD crash. Perfect. One new HD later, I was going fine again! And I've been gaming ever since! Finding new consoles to emulate, and new games to try!

Well, that was quite a tale of hardship, huh? You should hear what it took to get the special effects in PSX Tales of Phantasia to work right... :P

[2fast4u]

sure hope u finally learned ur lesson and made some backups ...

[Tri-Force]

all right we got some new people so ill bump this back to the top. and i STILL havn't heard from Martin

[icepir8]

The very first emulator I used was a CPM emulator on a IMB XT. I was developing a video poker game that used a z80 chip. I needed an assembler for it and did not have the OK to spend $2000+ on a cross assembler. I did not have the time to write one so got this cpm emulator for msdos. The rest is history. I've use various emulators in the course of work.

I got in writing emulator when I fixed a graphics problem for F|res and TRWinGL. He then asked me to join him in working on TRWinGL.

:P

[Cless]

i got into emualtion from using snes emulators then moving on to psx emulators then from to N64 emus.

[Stezo2k]

final fantasy VII got me into emulation! :)

I had the game for my birthday back in Jan '98 i heard of this game a lot, but i never really played it. At the 1st few minutes i was like ??? but i carried on playing it cuz it was a present, i really got into the game and started to love it, this is one of the first RPGs i ever played. I completed the game in around 50hours (without chocobo breading & knights of the round,! i didnt know how to breed chocobos at the time hehe)

Later that year i got bought a PC by my family a celeron 333mhz with 32MB Ram.

I just wanted more after that epic final fantasy experience.
I happend to come across a psx magasine telling ppl about the previous final fantasies and read the whole 8 page article (i dont usually read lol) and noticed at the bottom of the 8th page in small print "there is a way to play these great games on your pc using an emulator, however this could dagage your pc"

So i decided to search on yahoo (when it was crap, lol) for final fantasy downloads, after about 20 minutes i found this great website with all final fantasy stuff in it and had the games for download, so i got final fantasy 5 (eng). I tried to load this on my pc, but to no avail. So i went back on the site and noticed other stuff for download like "snes9x for windows 95/98" so i thought this might be needed to run FF5, so i gave it a go and i was like WOW! I went back onto the site and it said these games were roms and snes9x was an emulator.

I used MSN search, and searched for snes roms, and i found this gr8 website called emulation avenue (www.emuave.freeuk.com) i got a few games like zelda, they worked great i loved em!

For my birthday in Jan 1999, i was bought a voodoo 2 graphics card for £70 and was really impressed with it.

A few months later i heard about this emulator called ultraHLE, it sounded promising and required a voodoo card (wehhhey:D)so i got it and got mario 64 from emuAve. i was really amazed when i heard my computer shout "its me, mario!" cuz i thought the emulator was fake, the graphics were amazing and still are.

Then i found other great sites like plasticmans emulation zone (plasticman.org/emu) and now i always check emulation news and stuff, im totally addicted 2 it :D

Stezo

[Olger901]

I got into emulation when I was about 8 years old. (about 8) years ago with windows 95. I discovered a program called snes9x that it could play snes games and i thought it was totally cool. I only didnt know how it worked so I asked help on the snes9x forum and they started to explain what emulation was all about and here I am !