How did you find out about emulation?

[RomanZZZ]

For example, I met her in 2016 with project 64, my favorite game at that time was ocarina of time

 

[RustySK]

Oh man it's been ages... I wanna say ZSNES with Super Metroid? Or maybe VisualBoy Advance? Definitely around the early 2000s. Maybe '02 or so. Emulators have come a LONG way since. Stuff like Duckstation still kind of blows me away with how user-friendly it is.

 

[Scotty]

One of my friends in middle school had MyBoy on his phone.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

More than 20 hours ago cuz some stuff I had apparently came in with built-in emulation, but 15 was when I divided into it head-first.

 

[nobitakun]

Another post to make me feel old lol. 2016 your first emulation experience? gosh...

My first emulated game was Chrono Trigger in 1998 if I recall correctly. A friend told me to go to another friend's home, and then they showed me the magic through a Pentium machine.

 

[Clippy]

More than 20 hours ago

Same.

 

[CanicheSlayer]

When my brother and I got our first PC (1997? 1998?), one of our good friends told us we could play Super Nintendo games on it (on a floppy disk, he brought us Snes9x). That was probably the first time in my life I'd heard of emulators.

Edit : The first game I tested must have been Final Fantasy VI. The emulator wasn't quite perfect yet (a problem with planes, if I remember correctly).

 

[aquova]

In 2007 or so, I was watching an early "Let's Play" style video of someone playing through one of the old Genesis Sonic games. Before starting the game though, they actually left in some of their setup while they talked, and you could see the screen capture of them browsing through their files on their Mac and running the emulator. I was a Mac user at the time, and without having much experience with Windows, had always been told they were worse, less capable machines that couldn't do most things a PC could do. I remember being shocked not only that they weren't playing it on real hardware, but on a Mac like mine of all things. It honestly was quite eye opening, and I recall it really opened my eyes to learning more about both emulation and computing.

 

[RomanZZZ]

Wow, I really look like a baby compared to many here...

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

My best friend handed me a red floppy disk containing a copy of the primitive PlayGuy Gameboy emulator and Pokemon Yellow (IN SPANISH!). It blew my mind on SO MANY LEVELS that I immediately wanted to dig further to see whatever else was possible... And, because this happened in 1999, it was also cemented my love for the whole thing like nothing else would -- it was like getting an early taste of what the year 2000 had promised while also providing a huge bonus for kids really into the Pokemon anime, which was at the height of its popularity at the time.

 

[X y b e r - S k u ll]

It was 2008 and I found out about emulation through YouTube videos since I really wanted to play Chrono Trigger and Earthbound and I knew they weren't gonna be on the Wii shop anytime soon (Although CT did get put on there later that same year lol).

 

[JPchicre]

I would play old PS1 discs in my laptop, using an old emulator ,whose name i dont recall, that could read discs from the Drive. It was the late 2000 and my PS1 had stopped working years before.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

In my case it was in 2008 for the Sonic Gems Collection (2005) for the 6 Game Gear games that were emulation and as well as the 2 Vectorman that came out on the Mega Drive/Genesis that were also officially Emulated.

Although I also got to know the emulation on PC thanks to the VirtuaNES (Famicom/NES Emulator) in 2013 and also a Famicom/NES emulator for Android called NESoid in 2014.

 

[bjork]

In 1995 my cousin's boyfriend built a PC for my family, 486 that he had overclocked. It had floppy drives for both 3.5" and 5.25" so I asked him jokingly if it would run Commodore 64 games. He said, "you'd need an emulator" and that was the first time I'd heard that word. I don't know what the emulation scene was like at the time, because I didn't actually use one until a couple years later, but just the notion that it was possible seemed really cool. He had a SNES console copier thing too, he showed it to me by running some version of Street Fighter II that required multiple floppies to back it up.