How long have you been emulating games?

[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?

 

[DrunkOcelot]

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.

Vidya is love. Vidya is life

 

[Skeetos]

Started around 2007 playing Yoshi's Island on ZSNES. As a kid I'd watch a bunch of the earliest let's players play romhacks and thought that was cool that they could play those games on pc. Unfortunately for me I didn't understand fully as I was 6 years old and downloaded this specific rom and emulator in a preinstall from a website called GameFabrique. Virus laden but fun lol.

 

[What's His Face]

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

Oh, that's easy. It was created in 1996 in the last universe, before existence ended and recreated itself into this reality, where it was made a year later. That or it was a typo. Take your pick.

 

[Cheela]

Oh, that's easy. It was created in 1996 in the last universe, before existence ended and recreated itself into this reality, where it was made a year later. That or it was a typo. Take your pick.

I will quote myself for this one >:3

Life is a simulation emulation

 

[χKai]

Oh, that's easy. It was created in 1996 in the last universe, before existence ended and recreated itself into this reality, where it was made a year later. That or it was a typo. Take your pick.

Honestly, I wouldn't disbelieve you altogether; seen enough of the mandela effect firsthand to know better by now.

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Life is a simulation emulation

Don't you remember what happened last time?

 

[Cheela]

Don't you remember what happened last time?

 

[Tonberry]

Since 2002 (so around when I was 6-7 years old)I think, when my dad's friend gave me a disc packed with SNES roms.
After that I taught myself how to find roms on the internet. I still remember those Mode7 intros with the monkey on GBA roms. I thought those roms were "better" just because they had the cool keygen music and the cute monkey eating a watermelon

"That must have been banana.."

 

[χKai]

"Must have been banana.."

Blast from my past

 

[Retroviews]

Since 2005, when I started having a computer at home. Emulation was literally the first thing I looked up on the internet. The Snes 9x and some ROMS were the first things I downloaded. First I went after what I knew - Street Fighter II, Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country - and then I went after new things. I remember being very surprised by the size of the NES and SNES library, and I soon realized that I had only seen the tip of the iceberg and that there was much more to explore.

For a long time I preferred to play emulators on the consoles I had - PS1 (imbNES!), PS2, PS3, DS - I only started to better explore the options available for PC and Android a few years ago.

 

[Xdqwerty]

Ever since I was 7 years old

 

[ThatsNotRich]

I remember Neo Geo Final Burn Alpha... I think it was called . Had a hard modded Xbox that had a 500 GB HD so I had almost all of the games. Just focused more on cps2 and actually playing downloaded Xbox .ISO more often on link kai

And Visual Boy Advance or VBA

 

[Bluetal]

Good ol virtualboy advance to emulate pokemon fire red. I don't remember the year but it was the same time when nuzlocking first became popular on internet forums and on /v/ which is why I wanted to play pokemon again. This was in 2011 or 2012 I'd guess.

Is VBA still a thing?

 

[ThatsNotRich]

Good ol virtualboy advance to emulate pokemon fire red. I don't remember the year but it was the same time when nuzlocking first became popular on internet forums and on /v/ which is why I wanted to play pokemon again. This was in 2011 or 2012 I'd guess.

Is VBA still a thing?

Oh yeah VBA is still kickin

 

[CRTRebel]

I started using (Win)Kawaks in about 2012 essentially for those SNK and CPS games. Then I switched to the Retroarch frontend for convenience. But before then I always played with original hardware with a Sony CRT TV of mine (Trinitron). Now as for my favorite consoles I prefer to use the standalone versions of the emulators.

 

[ThatsNotRich]

Holy shit Kawaks " Quacks" good fuc**** times

I started using (Win)Kawaks in about 2012 essentially for those SNK and CPS games. Then I switched to the Retroarch frontend for convenience. But before then I always played with original hardware with a Sony CRT TV of mine (Trinitron). Now as for my favorite consoles I prefer to use the standalone versions of the emulators

 

[Bluetal]

Oh yeah VBA is still kickin

glad to hear that. i assumed that with the rise of multi-core emulation, a lot of standalone emulators for easier systems like the gba would lose steam. it's nice to know that it's still around.

 

[ThatsNotRich]

glad to hear that. i assumed that with the rise of multi-core emulation, a lot of standalone emulators for easier systems like the gba would lose steam. it's nice to know that it's still around.

VBA is available with retroarch VBA next or VBA-m
That's the only reason I don't personally use it anymore. I can't stand retroarch ATM. Unless I'm wrong and somebody has the standalone APK for VBA.

 

[bloodywing]

Quite a while I was around when emuparadise existed and cherryroms - was mostly snes. So since 2005

 

[starseeker300]

I think it was 2016 or something like that, i had just played fire emblem fates and wanted to try out older games in the series, so i found a fan translation of fe6 and booted it up on visual boy advance and the rest was history

 

[Ikagura]

At least twenty years if I can recall playing emulated games on an old PC on WinXP, I played a lot of 16-bits Genesis and SNES games.

 

[Azuris]

Since 2000 around.

I put my Pokemon Green Save Game on a Floppy Disk ;D
Also to play Dragonball Games, so Super Nintendo and Mega Drive.
Later i bought Bleem, but my PC wasn't really capable of running it.
I still have the Disc and a capable Win 98 PC, i should try playing with it.

 

[Solvalou]

Since the year 2000. Got my first desktop PC that year and free internet access thanks to a Juno disk my family got in the mail. There was a fighting game forum Fighters dot net that had a link to download the emulator NeoRageX and a KOF '99 rom. It took me all night to download the files on via 56k but it was worth it.

 

[Bakuma1997]

A NES Emulator for PSX, my 8 years dumb ass though Nintend ported Mario Party 6 to the PSX, best mistake in my life

 

[McDoob]

Technically, I started using emulators back in the '90s, since I wrote a little code for one of them. But, really, its only in the past few years that I got back into it. And recently, console emulation is one of my primary game setups. The Raspberry Pi 4 is really good for PSX level and below (and a couple above), they don't cost much, and basically sip electricity to boot. Since my Pi 4 is my only entertainment device besides my phone, that's why I spend so much time in RetroPie these days.