How long have you been emulating games?

[Platinum_depth]

Oh a commentary in Spanish.

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Oh a commentary in Spanish.

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Oh a commentary in Spanish.

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Si :)

 

[NatalieZaki]

ever since i found out about one of the gba emulators on android i think it was My Boy

 

[Turd Curator]

Twenty something years by now.
Myself and a friend would get our games from some shitty, malware-ridden site called rom-world, that on a few occasions required a full OS reinstall by the time we were finished.
They'd use the goodsets roms and we'd have downloaded a bunch of games with (b) in the title, then wonder why they didn't run properly, as we had no understanding of good codes at the time

(b) would have been written with square brackets, but if I do that here, it gets the bbcode working and bolds my text

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

2020. Didn't think to use them beforehand.

 

[DragonMals]

Since 2006 LMFAO My father loves getting stuff through other means. I actually started gaming seriously through it aswell!

 

[LSDMemeEmulator]

I'd say I started around the early to mid 2010s but wasnt really able to play most of the things I wanted to play until recently once I built my gaming PC. I actually got some decent mileage out of my phone out of all things playing stuff like warioware which is surprising considering I'm not a fan of mobile gaming as a whole. Unfortunately I was doing that during the days you had to side load GBA4iOS to emulate anything, apple allowed them on the app store as Delta years later after I already stopped using my phone for anything like that. Great timing lmao

 

[partymembervii]

Ive been emulating since 2012, when i was in middle school. it all started with visual boy advance and a desire to games i always wanted to play but couldnt afford, playing mother 3 on my familys shitty little office pc

 

[SolidusSkink]

Probably around 16 years, a cousin showed me how to emulate sega genesis games after mine died and from there I branched out into trying out stuff from any platform I could learn about that had a decent emulator

 

[Pseudo64]

I think I have been emulating since 2015 or something. The first game I emulated and played was Conker's Bad Fur Day and it was, and still is, a blast.

 

[Pikachun]

since 2010 approximately. That fine night I discovered the world of video game emulation. It started with sega console games, and then it was off to the races

 

[NardoBoom]

In 1998 with Nesticle. Its been a great journey, seeing all the new emulators coming out, the updates, more systems and better compatibility. What a great time to be alive

 

[Geistmensch]

I remember my first experience with emulation was before I was even an adult. It was roughly at the middle or end of the 2000s. I can't remember if my first emulator was either ZSNES or ePSXe, but I can confidently say that use emulators more than 10-15 years.

 

[nintara]

i technically started in the 2010s by going on those online emulator websites and playing pokemon r/b, didn't get super far but had fun with it.

sometime in 2017 or so i tried to emulate the ps2 so i could play the early ratchet and clank games, which was something i was dying to do, but my dumb self at the time thought that each game had it's own bios and fruitlessly tried looking up "ratchet and clank bios" until i eventually gave up.

later around like 2020 (or maybe 19, idk tho), i thought to do it again, but this time i actually succeeded, and thus since i had already played the original ratchet and clank trilogy through the remastered collection, my first emulated game became ratchet deadlocked.

 

[NinjaSocks]

God, how long has it been? I think I started in 2003? 2004? My first emulator was either VisualBoyAdvance or Snes9x.

 

[General_Mailbox]

early version of epsxe around 2001? and visual boyadvance.. damn.. i felt like i was a pro gamer back then and boast it all to my friends.