How did YOU get into Emulation?
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Squall Leonhart
The Reluctant Hero
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...
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
GODLIKE
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 .. 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 .. thank you aazzziiii ..
the end..
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 .. 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 .. thank you aazzziiii ..the end..
rob in london
amiga nut
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
Eddy
I Run This
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.
AlphaWolf
I prey, not pray.
<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)
</flashback>
I cant believe you actualy read that :happy:
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)
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I cant believe you actualy read that :happy:
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Tesla-Guy
Moderator
Re: How did EVERYONE Including you Martin and Tesla get into Emulation?
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 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 ) 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
lol y me specifically, am i a god or something?Tri-Force said:
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
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 ) 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 