How long have you been emulating games?

[cousinDipp]

huh, guess its been over 8 years since i first learned how

 

[longestseason]

I started in 2012 with a GBA emulator on my Android tablet (can't remember the name of the emulator sadly).

 

[SylvanSwordstress]

Gosh, I think it would have been playing some of the old Zelda games back in around 2013, 2014? Ever since I got my own computer its been loaded with retro games and emulators.

 

[t3mpt0n]

Been emulating games since I was like 9 years old.

 

[Breakergrass367]

I think around 15 years? Since Vista, I was playing some Killing Instinct and SF2 turbo on Znes with a couple of friends around the neighborhood.

 

[Ethernoh]

Almost my whole life.

 

[Gafek Urslef]

My start was with VirtuaNES and SNES9x when I was a teenager.

 

[Duke_11037]

Pretty much since I've been on the internet, I would use those browser based emulators for gba games. Eventually a friend in elementary school showed me actual emulators on his phone.

 

[snes9x]

My older brother showed me Advance Wars on No$GBA circa 2002 and I aint ever looked back.

 

[Mecha_]

Probably at around 2011~2012 since my pc at the time was really bad and could only run GBA games on it.

 

[FlameSpice]

Since 2019 when i discovered it.

 

[NotGodlike]

Around 2000s, when mGBA and Desmume were a thing. DS games ran at like 10-30 fps, but it was whatever

 

[Nelson2001]

Since 2008 I have been doing the compilations of games such as sonic gems collection of gamecube in this case the game gear and genesis games (Vectorman 1 & 2) that you get to unlock both by spending many hours of play on the compilation that were emulation but official and physical, as well as the mega man x collection that were the first 2 games of the saga x of snes but officially emulated as well as the other games of the x saga as X3, X4, X5, X6 as well as the unlockable (Mega Man - Battle & Chase) that I could never unlock which are PS1 but also officially emulated and physically, But it wasn't until 2013 that I started emulating FC~NES (VirtuaNES), SFC~SNES (Snes9X), N64 (Project64), etc. you know on PC, because on Android it was not until the end of 2014 that also emulated NES.Emu, Snes9X EX+, MegaN64/N64oid, etc.

 

[vietcuong]

Since 2012, I remembered play COD MW (DS version) using DeSmuME. I don't know why that version appear on my laptop, maybe my brother download and put it in. For me, It was great experience, despite that fpt and performance wasn't good enough :))

I also downloaded and played many Pokemon GBC rom hacks in my Nokia phone with MeBoy. Unforgettable memories.

 

[legsrjust4show]

All the real emulator oldheads remember using ZSNES in the 2000s and turning on the snow effect. And also resetting the controls every time for some reason??? Why didn't I use SNES9x sooner.

It had to be around 2002 or 2003 when I was like 12. I remember asking my dad to look up on KaZaA (anyone else old enough to remember that?) for "Mega Man X3" since it was impossible to find a copy of it and we ended up downloading a rom, though I didn't figure out how to actually run it for like a year or two later and just had it sitting around in a folder called "Games".

I did not actually know how to use the internet outside of playing shockwave games based on cartoons so I didn't know I could search around online to figure out what we even downloaded.

 

[NobodyHere]

Almost as long as I’ve been playing games, memories are vague because I was rather young; I believe it was my second console (after my ds), a psp gifted by my mum with a bunch of GBA games on it.

Then a couple years down the road I really wanted to play the GBA Pokémon games (the psp was broken at this point because I was a dumbass child) so figured out how to emulate it on my laptop around the age of 10-12, I believe.

 

[Deean]

2011(14 years already wow)
i'm first emulating NES and CPS(dunno 1 or 2,the one with The Punisher in it) on my phone.It works well, because it's a built in emulator.
I tried MK3 on GBC then which was running so slow.

 

[Rifle Leeroy]

24 years or a bit less have passed now, it was 2001 or end of 2000 not sure but i was looking desperately for an old arcade game (Run & Gun) then i found M.A.M.E and from there the odysee began.

 

[Kremiso]

i got a PC extra late, around 2010, and it was also a not great model
so mostly MAME, Final Burn Alpha
8/16 bit systems emulation, all that i didn't had the real counterpart

 

[Platinum_depth]

2014 en el teléfono di mi madre las versiones viejas de My boy con un rom hack de Pokémon esmeralda y el Pokémon Ash grey así es como empecé en este mundo

 

[Nelson2001]

2014 en el teléfono di mi madre las versiones viejas de My boy con un rom hack de Pokémon esmeralda y el Pokémon Ash grey así es como empecé en este mundo

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[Ikagura]

(Very) early 2000's on a messy computer with Zsnes and Gens.

 

[FrayGuillermo]

Since I was like 11 years old, I somehow stumbled upon VisualBoyAdvance on the family computer. It's been a long pirate life

 

[sk4di]

Around 2012, when GBA Emulator MyBoy! got released.

 

[Leo-Dash]

Can't exactly pinpoint, but since 2007
And the very FIRST game I emulated was Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 3 on GBA with VisualBoyAdvance