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EdgeBlade

EdgeBlade

Brandonn
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 ;)
 
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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.
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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 :)
 
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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

hellknight

Banned
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

conkerman

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
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gokuss4

Meh...
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.
 
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Zero

Liar Liar Pants On Fire!
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

yogaman

Banned
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
 
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Pheo

New member
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.
 
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Renegade

Wearer of Army Boots
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...)
 
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Renegade

Wearer of Army Boots
gokuss4 said:
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.
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and so...which flavour of cheese did you shop for at the supermarket finally? ???
 
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gokuss4

Meh...
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.
 
Macca

Macca

New member
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
 
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