I do-
but it is a ramble
I did not have the internet growing up~
I started with NESticle and GENecyst in 97/98 (*both ran in DOS and were nes and genesis emulators respectively). Snes emulators were hit and miss on my old old old won 95 pc. We used to have to find the right ROM. Manually install the patch (making sure the name, region, revision, and header were all correct). Then compress the patched rom into .zip files (.sfc sometimes needed the .zip to be split across multiple 1.44 mb floppy disks)
i learned about emulation geeking out on forums at gamefaqs, RPGshrine, and phantasystarcave in the 90s at the public library and middle school. Gamefaqs obviously still exists, but rpgshrine (i think it is rpgclassics now) as well as phantasy star cave are worth looking intoand all are in a more or less look the same as they did 27 years ago.
Sure there was BLEEM in '99 (commercial psx enulator for pc) and BLEEMcast (i think that was a thing in '00/01 that let you play ps1 games on your dreamcast) but BLEEM along with Napster set the ball rolling for the DMCA hellscape we dwell in today.
"the end of the millenium"
sne9x
aeongenesis
romhacking.net
and
Zophar
changed everything.
after the 90's
countless sites filled with malware, bad roms, and bs plagued the internet
emuparadise was halfway legit but was destroyed through litigation and bad practices
coolrom never had the right version
Zophar's domain is an ancient bastion of a resource(that is still standing) but wasn't necesarily curated
romhacking.net is still chugging along
aeongenesis might translate another game by the end of the decade
libretro/retroarch is slowly getting the BLEEM treatment because of fake chinese "consoles" and N of course (i hope this doesn't happen)
but
spike and his crew have been doing the lords work for nearly a decade, staying ahead of the man, being above board, and always offering up surprise releases from so many talented folks that otherwise wouldn't see their work experienced by more than a handful.
heroes
that was a bit of a rant
im going to bed
but it is a ramble
I did not have the internet growing up~
I started with NESticle and GENecyst in 97/98 (*both ran in DOS and were nes and genesis emulators respectively). Snes emulators were hit and miss on my old old old won 95 pc. We used to have to find the right ROM. Manually install the patch (making sure the name, region, revision, and header were all correct). Then compress the patched rom into .zip files (.sfc sometimes needed the .zip to be split across multiple 1.44 mb floppy disks)
i learned about emulation geeking out on forums at gamefaqs, RPGshrine, and phantasystarcave in the 90s at the public library and middle school. Gamefaqs obviously still exists, but rpgshrine (i think it is rpgclassics now) as well as phantasy star cave are worth looking intoand all are in a more or less look the same as they did 27 years ago.
Sure there was BLEEM in '99 (commercial psx enulator for pc) and BLEEMcast (i think that was a thing in '00/01 that let you play ps1 games on your dreamcast) but BLEEM along with Napster set the ball rolling for the DMCA hellscape we dwell in today.
"the end of the millenium"
sne9x
aeongenesis
romhacking.net
and
Zophar
changed everything.
after the 90's
countless sites filled with malware, bad roms, and bs plagued the internet
emuparadise was halfway legit but was destroyed through litigation and bad practices
coolrom never had the right version
Zophar's domain is an ancient bastion of a resource(that is still standing) but wasn't necesarily curated
romhacking.net is still chugging along
aeongenesis might translate another game by the end of the decade
libretro/retroarch is slowly getting the BLEEM treatment because of fake chinese "consoles" and N of course (i hope this doesn't happen)
but
spike and his crew have been doing the lords work for nearly a decade, staying ahead of the man, being above board, and always offering up surprise releases from so many talented folks that otherwise wouldn't see their work experienced by more than a handful.
heroes
that was a bit of a rant
im going to bed
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