How did YOU get into Emulation?

[Tri-Force]

How did EVERYONE Including you Martin and Tesla get into Emulation?

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.

 

[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]

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]

...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..

 

[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]

pII? perfect???

for uHLE.

 

[blizz]

I was bored.