How did you find out about emulation?

[Heinzu]

It wasn't that long ago, I think it was 10 years ago. I wanted to play some good NDS games there. But they were nowhere to be found anymore. I found a website where these games were listed as data. A friend then explained to me that you need an NDS emulator to play them. I had no idea what that was back then. He then showed me the DraStic NDS emulator, which ran perfectly. And that's how it was back then.

 

[JimNakajima]

My earliest exposure to emulation was seeing people make videos with ZSNES in the mid to late 2000s. That UI is still so cool to this very day.

I wouldn't get into trying it for myself until... I wanna say the early 2010s, when I tried Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga on Visual Boy Advance. Those were the days, though was more for testing purposes. Mother 3 was the first time I'd actually finish a game through emulation, after I found out about it through Chuggaaconroy's let's play.

 

[Yurokashi]

A kid in my class was emulating either Secret Agent Clank or Daxter on his Samsung tablet back in 2012 and I was blown away. Forgot all about it until it hit me in 2020. Decided to try out FFVII on ePSXe and it worked like a dream. Then I fell down the glorious emulation rabbit hole.

 

[Sumea]

Once upon a time there was an emulator and I knew of it the end.