The First Ever Emulator You Remenber

[Karnik]

As far as I'm concerned, in the nineties, on my dear old 386 PC, I remember playing NESticle (nes emulator) and  Genecyst (md emulator) obviously running on ms-dos: both with an attractive interface (the second with blood dripping on the screen) and which worked discreetly skipping a few frames, but the sound was sometimes crackly and lacked graphic filters.

Regarding handhelds, I remember a NO$GB (DMG-001 emulator), if I'm not mistaken, always for ms-dos.
And your?

 

[ATenderLad]

Was NESticle the one with the severed hand for a mouse arrow? Mine's that if so.

 

[Karnik]

Was NESticle the one with the severed hand for a mouse arrow? Mine's that if so.

It seems so to me.

 

[Waffles]

The first emulator I remember was Playguy. It came bundled with my copy of Pokemon Yellow.

But I also tried Genecyst and No$GBC at the same time.

 

[OmegaKatanaXIII]

The earilest emulator I could think of playing had to be nestopia or winkawaks and I had a blast with those emulators.

 

[Bonkers225]

Easily ZNES. First game played was Legend of the Super Saiyan RPG on the SNES. Underrated game. Played and finished with no translation at the time. Second game was probably DBZ Super Butouden 2, and third was Chrono Trigger.

 

[OmegaKatanaXIII]

Was NESticle the one with the severed hand for a mouse arrow? Mine's that if so.

I think I played on that emulator a long time ago I forgotten the name of that program so I vaguely remembered that emulator.

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Easily ZNES. First game played was Legend of the Super Saiyan RPG on the SNES. Underrated game. Played and finished with no translation at the time. Second game was probably DBZ Super Butouden 2, and third was Chrono Trigger.

Fellow Toriyama fan I see.

 

[Bonkers225]

Fellow Toriyama fan I see.

What growing boy wasn't?

 

[ATenderLad]

Easily ZNES. First game played was Legend of the Super Saiyan RPG on the SNES. Underrated game. Played and finished with no translation at the time. Second game was probably DBZ Super Butouden 2, and third was Chrono Trigger.

ZSNES was for sure the first emulator I actually finished games on, went from a novelty to an actual hobby. Tons of time spent sharing the keyboard to play Gundam Wing: Endless Duel with one of my siblings who loved the show.

 

[Karnik]

Easily ZNES.

Maybe you meant zsnes: the first version was for ms-dos, and then came the one for win95/win98.

 

[Waffles]

Oh, yeah. ZSNES was the first emulator I remember to feel... complete somehow? It worked flawlessly, was easy to use and didn't really get in the way.

 

[Karnik]

At that time the battle was between zsnes and snes9x on ms-dos: the former had a better interface, but the latter had greater compatibility with snes titles.

 

[Cu-Neo]

Mine was Visual boy Advance. The first game that I tested was Mega Man Zero 4 and My mind exploded when I saw that you could play retro games on a computer It was like opening the pandora box.

 

[Rayfox-Ryan]

The First Emulator I started using is the ZSNES and SNESX9

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at the time I started looking up Rom Hacks and Fan Translations of Japanese Super Famicom Games

 

[Strategist]

Definitively NESTICLE and ZSNES. First game I sought out to emulate was Final Fantasy V, after I found out that an intrepid band of high schoolers translated it.

 

[RyougiShiki66]

Neo Rage-X was my introduction to emulation. After that it was Visual Boy Advance.

 

[RageBurner]

Genecyst, if I recall correctly. Could run on a toaster, but I always hated the fact that the roads in Road Rash were buggy on it haha.

 

[ninjaalex]

Nesticle as well, had amazing emulation for the time and the cursor icon was the bleeding hand from Carmageddon. Then a bit later Mame, which had decent emulation for the games I wanted like Street Fighter II and Gunforce. My friend had a Spectrum ZX emulator, but I never used it.

 

[fake-kun]

DeSmuME.

My dad downloaded it on my PC after I begged him to buy Nintendo DS so that I could play Ace Attorney.

 

[Bonkers225]

Maybe you meant zsnes: the first version was for ms-dos, and then came the one for win95/win98.

Yup, that's what I meant. Forgot the S.

 

[baochan]

Definitely the unfortunately-named NESticle. The icon still haunts me. But just the fact that you could play Nintendo games on a computer blew my mind.

 

[Bonkers225]

Neo Rage-X was my introduction to emulation. After that it was Visual Boy Advance.

My first introduction to Neo Geo games. Still use it. Imo, the input delay here is the lowest out of all these emulators out there.

 

[baochan]

Also the original Zsnes had a hi-res mode 7 hack that was fantastic and I don't know why no modern SNES emulators do that. It also fit on a floppy disk with a single compressed ROM.

 

[Lukahn]

VisualBoyAdvanced. After yeras of watching those gameboy advanced reviews on magazines articles and imagining how those photos would play it out paid off.

iircl, I believe Pokemon Saphire was the first GBA game which I finished on said emulator.

 

[Clippy]

First instance of emulation I've ever seen in my life was my dad emulating PC on an Amiga. Pretty wild.

As for my own exploits? I think it was some ancient version of epsxe.