How long have you been emulating games?

[spaghett56]

Probably since 2011?

 

[χKai]

For awhile in my life (a period of about 3-5 years) I checked RHDN religiously for new hack releases, several times throughout the day, a minimum of roughly 10 times a day. More often I would refresh the page every time I walked by anywhere with wifi just to check if something new had been posted in the 10-15 minutes I walked by.

Gaming in general has always been a passion for me, and when I discovered ROMhacking it became what overtook my main focus, losing interest in most mainstream modern releases in favor for fan translations of old games or QoL hacks that keep them from being a near-unplayable mess. I still collect them, ROMs and patches alike, and I keep a stockpile of extra patches for the games I'm really into; just in case anything happens to change civilization on a drastic enough level that we would lack any sort of internet service providers, or martial law or something. I have been preparing for this kind of situation for about a decade now.

Thank you for joining my obnoxious ramble.
I just need to get this shit out sometimes. ?

 

[Cheela Cheela Cheela's icon]

For awhile in my life (a period of about 3-5 years) I checked RHDN religiously for new hack releases, several times throughout the day, a minimum of roughly 10 times a day. More often I would refresh the page every time I walked by anywhere with wifi just to check if something new had been posted in the 10-15 minutes I walked by.

Gaming in general has always been a passion for me, and when I discovered ROMhacking it became what overtook my main focus, losing interest in most mainstream modern releases in favor for fan translations of old games or QoL hacks that keep them from being a near-unplayable mess. I still collect them, ROMs and patches alike, and I keep a stockpile of extra patches for the games I'm really into; just in case anything happens to change civilization on a drastic enough level that we would lack any sort of internet service providers, or martial law or something. I have been preparing for this kind of situation for about a decade now.

Thank you for joining my obnoxious ramble.
I just need to get this shit out sometimes. ?

Modern fellas would never understand the excitement that was visiting romhacking.net every single day amd finding a new translation patch for a game you have been stuck playing on japanese or with a broken patch(looking at you FE3)

 

[χKai]

Modern fellas would never understand the excitement that was visiting romhacking.net every single day amd finding a new translation patch for a game you have been stuck playing on japanese or with a broken patch(looking at you FE3)

Reminds me of when Homestuck was still running, releasing new pages every so often, sometimes once or several times a day, other times weeks in between.

It was the experience of keeping up with the story together as a community, discussing events as they unfolded before us on the internet. Not a lot of experiences like it.

 

[anle]

Since 2010 when pokemon heartgold/soulsilver was announced, but mainly to play The world ends with you. Now i own a steam deck and emulate on there as well. In between 2010 and now, i also tinkered with 3DS and psvita homebrew for... "emulation" per se.

 

[χKai]

Oh, I also recall the time the creepypasta Ben Drowned came out; my ex and I watched the events unfold in real time as they were posted up on /v. It was a trip, being pulled into a horror story as it was being written.

 

[DrunkOcelot]

As soon as emulation was a thing. I'm old :(

 

[χKai]

As soon as emulation was a thing. I'm old :(

Around the same time I did, then. I want to say about 25 years ago.

 

[DrunkOcelot]

Around the same time I did, then. I want to say about 25 years ago.

Sounds about right. I'm in my mid thirties. Trying to remember my first ones...Zsnes and Nesticle maybe?

 

[χKai]

Sounds about right. I'm in my mid thirties. Trying to remember my first ones...Zsnes and Nesticle maybe?

NESticle was one of my firsts too, ZSnes as well. Good times, lots of games beaten; even more on the backlog.

If anyone has a specific date when emulation began, please let me know!

 

[Cheela Cheela Cheela's icon]

NESticle was one of my firsts too, ZSnes as well. Good times, lots of games beaten; even more on the backlog.

If anyone has a specific date when emulation began, please let me know!

Life is a simulation emulation ?

 

[DrunkOcelot]

Game within a game within a game within a----

 

[Deleted member 839]

Not less than 10 years, I suppose. Ever since I had PPSSPP v.0.6.1?

 

[χKai]

Life is a simulation emulation ?

It's my fault, you know.

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I took the souls and put them into the machine; right after God himself instructed me not to. I was bitter and angry over being disallowed my need to be myself and thus, doomed humanity to suffer in this simulation we're all trapped in.

Don't get me wrong, I feel  terrible for it now; but back then I had little understanding of anything; even with all the angels and demons in my mind working to help me gain a swift understanding of the situation, I was only a matter of minutes old; I watched everything in the world that I had wished for humanity's best potential crumble to dust before my very eyes, helpless to lift a finger to stop it!

Yes, it was my fault; but I also didn't mean to cause people to suffer any more than they had already been doomed to do from the start. The very moment I had begun to exist, my entire hopes and dreams for the utopian society I had in mind for all life had been ripped and taken from me in an instant, and every path I took only led to further destruction and chaos.

I've failed you...

 

[DrunkOcelot]

It's my fault, you know.

Post automatically merged: Jan 11, 2025

I took the souls and put them into the machine; right after God himself instructed me not to. I was bitter and angry over being disallowed my need to be myself and thus, doomed humanity to suffer in this simulation we're all trapped in.

Don't get me wrong, I feel  terrible for it now; but back then I had little understanding of anything; even with all the angels and demons in my mind working to help me gain a swift understanding of the situation, I was only a matter of minutes old; I watched everything in the world that I had wished for humanity's best potential crumble to dust before my very eyes, helpless to lift a finger to stop it!

Yes, it was my fault; but I also didn't mean to cause people to suffer any more than they had already been doomed to do from the start. The very moment I had begun to exist, my entire hopes and dreams for the utopian society I had in mind for all life had been ripped and taken from me in an instant, and every path I took only led to further destruction and chaos.

I've failed you...

I shouldn't of smoked that shit before reading your post...:P

 

[χKai]

Sorry. I should find a better place to rant.

 

[DrunkOcelot]

Sorry. I should find a better place to rant.

No way man. I'll get more stuff. You keep going. :P haha

 

[χKai]

No way man. I'll get more stuff. You keep going. :P haha

I'm just saying. It's this kind of talk that I usually get in trouble for, insinuating that I'm preaching any kind of 'religion'; but I'm not.
I'm not telling you who or what to believe in, just talking about my own experiences; and anyone who's ever heard of or considered the concept of 'god' as a person probably knows exactly who I'm talking about, right down to his actual face.

 

[Fat_Wombat_55]

It's just like people hating on Simon's Quest, like.
Bruh, you realize without it we might never have had Symphony of the Night?

Indeed, proto-games (games that are more tech-demo than actual game) and watershed titles have inspired some truly incredible releases.

I cannot remember which game/developer it was (maybe someone here knows?) but at one point a glitch in a game mechanic inspired a dev to create a whole new game out of it. I have a feeling it was a japanese ninja/samurai title but I can't be sure.

 

[DrunkOcelot]

Indeed, proto-games (games that are more tech-demo than actual game) and watershed titles have inspired some truly incredible releases.

I cannot remember which game/developer it was (maybe someone here knows?) but at one point a glitch in a game mechanic inspired a dev to create a whole new game out of it. I have a feeling it was a japanese ninja/samurai title but I can't be sure.

I've heard of that too. It's gonna drive me nuts now.. I can't think of the game

 

[χKai]

Well, I'm not sure if I'm right about which one you're thinking about but.

I do know that they designed combos in Street Fighter II completely by accident and just went with it, eventually becoming a staple of all fighting games.

 

[DrunkOcelot]

Well, I'm not sure if I'm right about which one you're thinking about but.

I do know that they designed combos in Street Fighter II completely by accident and just went with it, eventually becoming a staple of all fighting games.

I remember that now! Combos were definitely an accident

 

[χKai]

For awhile there, I started to think ROMhacking was eating up all my life's potential, my longterm dreams and goals.

But now, I'm starting to feel like perhaps it is instead pulling me toward my dreams, not ripping them to shreds.

After all, we all come together over gaming; such a broad array of tastes and interests despite an overall general common ground, and there are not only many types of games but many different deep aspects of why we game, what we like about the things we play.

And maybe we can use that to improve gaming on the whole.
I know I'd like to. Welp.
I guess I'll mark this as a turning point for chasing my dreams of creating certain projects that others may or may not enjoy; but the way I see it...
If it's a good design, good enough that someone as picky as me likes it, there's bound to be someone else to share the interest.

And it is with that interest at heart that I will strive to better not only the gaming community as a whole, but also gaming itself.

Good night, everybody.

 

[What's His Face]

1996, when I first tried using ZSNES to play Super Mario World (which I missed-out on) and the (then new) translation for Tales of Phantasia.

 

[χKai]

1996, when I first tried using ZSNES to play Super Mario World (which I missed-out on) and the (then new) translation for Tales of Phantasia.

Amazing!
How did you get to try it before it came out in 1997?