How did YOU get into Emulation?
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sk8bloke22
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Eddy said:
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.
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!
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...
...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!
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...
icepir8
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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.
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.
Stezo2k
S-2K
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)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
Stezo
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
)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
Stezo
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 !