Anyone know the first ever game they ever downloaded as a ROM for an emulator?

[Johnson81]

From memory, I think it was F-Zero for one of the early GBA emulators. I may downloaded Snes9x but the GBA holds in the memory

 

[bjork]

The first one I ever got was X-Men vs Street Fighter on mame, took hours on dialup. Prior to that, a neighbor had provided all of the stuff I had emulation-wise. So I don't know what year it was, but pre-2000 anyway, if I had to guess?

 

[ZombieFish]

Pokemon Red around the time it had taken over my middle school. I forget where from, or on which emulator, but I was using my dad’s second-hand Pentium 1 with a sketchy 56k modem. It was a godsend, cause it was all my friend’s were talking about, and I couldn’t afford a Gameboy/games. Wasn’t till I found Link’s Awakening that I really fell in love though.

 

[AnonymousCookieMonster]

Mmmm i remember thinking 'oh this is a thing!' when the Genesis emulators for MS-DOS were coming out (~1995). Games i had were limited to, Shadowrun, Echo the dolphin, Phantasy Star 4.

As for the NES, probably SMB3 and Megaman 2-4.

(Remember Dial-up...speeds of up to 5k/s, though more like 3.5k/s)

Though, i do recall also getting Atari800 disks too. But mostly through the approved emulator and disks, which probably would include Castle Wolfenstein & Questron...

 

[OmegaPunch's icon OmegaPunch OmegaPunch]

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite from CDRomance.

 

[Cheela Cheela Cheela's icon]

play: Super Mario Bros
download: Pokemon emerald

 

[Nidstang]

Mega Man X

 

[Zachery2112]

It was Pokémon Red from emuparadise. The website is virtually defunct now, but they still have an active Discord server.

 

[Boo Man]

It was Pokémon Red from emuparadise. The website is virtually defunct now, but they still have an active Discord server.

i think i downloaded more virus's than games from that site XD

 

[Zachery2112]

i think i downloaded more virus's than games from that site XD

Lol, same.

 

[HatterTobias]

FIFA Street 2 for the PSP, had loads of fun times with it

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

Maybe some Pokemon rom hack?

 

[bobbytomorow]

My first experience with emulation was buying burned discs with emulators and roms already on them for my Dreamcast way back in 2001ish. From there I began using emulators on my PC. I can't remember my first rom specifically, too far back now.

 

[fake-kun]

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney for NDS.

 

[LiberoVulpesLiberoVulpes's icon]

Terranigma for the SNES.

 

[Deleted member 884]

Pokémon Gold in a non human language (2000/2001)

 

[Deean]

I'm sure it's a GBA game back in 2014, it's either of these 3
•Tekken Advance
•WWE Road To WrestleMania X8
•NFS Underground

 

[mana]

Mine's Mike Tysons Punch Out emulated with an early version of Nesticle. That damn emulator works, but it sucks ass. It's like playing on a dirty cartridge.

 

[vaçago]

The first individual ROM I downloaded was Castlevania Circle of the Moon to play on some early GBA emulator. Before that I had only played emulators from discs which came with ROM packs (I had a CD with ZSNES and a PS1 disc with imbNES).

 

[Morda Enthusiast]

Majora's Mask

I was so hyped and couldn't wait to play it, while it downloaded at 1 Mbps lol

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

God I love Finder's "newest first"
Though keep in mind, this computer originally had booting problems and had to be wiped last year so I don't truly know what the first was. But post Factory Settings, it's drumroll
wait wtf, it's Armored Core: Last Raven Portable?

It was also on OpenEmu

 

[starseeker300]

The old fan translation of fe6, the one where the name was translated as sword of seals instead of binding blade. i dont remember the website, but it was sketchy and i still wonder how i didnt get a virus

 

[Aisf]

Super Mario 64 I think.

 

[Antihero]

I went all guns and blazing by playing contra on Nes emulator

 

[Egg (McMuffin) Man]

It was Pokemon Stadium 2. I had the first game but really wanted to play 2 and even though retro games weren't expensive like they are today it was still out of reach for me as a kid (and I never saw it for sale anyway). Wanting to play that game is actually how I discovered emulators.