The First Ever Emulator You Remenber

*Recovers from laughing like a maniac at all the Nesticle Mentions*

Mine was a purple PSX disk that promised me Mario Party 6, instead i got a blue screen with white names and lots of the usual you find in a Multicart, but also lots of underrated games like Shatterhand or the Felix The Cat game, some games were (Poorly but still a nice touch) translated, the disk nowadays is broken, but one of the shards lies in a box on my room as a Keepsake
 
I think it was TempGBA and w/e SNES emulator they had for my PSP back in high school! Got to fall in love with franchises like Metroid that way. Always thankful for how moddable the PSP was/is.
 
For me it were (I don't even remember their names) emulators of SNES and NES on Pocket PC(Windows CE), that was insane. Still rememer how I was downloading FF IV rom with GPRS internet for like half hour or so.
 
My first ever emulator I ever played was My Boy.

I still remember my older cousin recommending it to me when he was playing Pokemon Emerald on the Second Gym
 
I found some games on a random cd when i was kid! (win98 era)
A few atari 2600 games and a few megadrive games!
they were bundled with their emulators which was:
  1. An ancient dos version of Stella, with forced fullscreen and as far as i remember forced WASD keymapping! also with flickering screen!
  2. An ancient version of DGen (v0.62 or something if i remember) with faulty and completely inaccurate emulation! such as messed up graphics and lagging music!
Interestingly enough, the faulty emulation of DGen actually made many games to sound better than original music wise!
Including:
  • Dragon Ballz: The music was louder and crisper in this emulator and didn't lag either! quite rocking!
  • Sonic3&Knuckles: Lagging in musics caused them to gain a different rhythm! especially Mini-Boss music gained quite a cool intro part!
I still kept that version of dgen somewhere in my backups, i'm fond of it even to today! ?
 
Zsnes was the only emulator I knew for a while before learning of epsxe.
 
The PPSSPP, I just randomly scrolling through many games and then I saw a familiar logo
I just straight up download it (without thinking much about what it's all about) the rest is history
 
ZSNES! A friend gave me a CD with a goodset and I thought that it was copy protection that I couldn't save, since I was playing it directly from the CD!
 
Mine was bleem! Got sick and tired of fighting over the PS1 with the roommates and that was the solution.
 
Nesticle, Genesyst and ZSNES for me iirc.

Not sure the order I discovered them though. Possibly forgetting something too... It was a long time ago.
 
The first emulator I ever ran was BGB. I left it behind quickly for VBA because that's what everyone else was using. Hard to imagine running an emulator on a PC these days! ;)
 
ZSNES like many here, and then VisualBoyAdvance. Thanks to the older brother of a friend.
You really cant forget this interface.

ZSNES_Interface_Windows.png
 
Don't recall how i came across it, but snes9x on my gateway desktop with Win XP. Spent days downloading and playing roms from a site called cherry roms
 
In the meantime I remembered ImbNES (it might be NES) for psx (mine with a modified chip).
A precompiled iso is even available here in the Chief's Repo.
I remember that the emulator only supported about ten nes mappers (the first ones), the sound was good but there were often scrolling problems and corrupted sprites here and there.
I first had to create a test compilation containing my favorite roms, create an ISO and burn it to CD-R. Then I tested the games on the PSX one by one, marking the list of those without defects, and then creating a new ISO to burn, with only the perfectly functioning titles.
Alas, often games that were perfect on the first stages turned out to be flawed on subsequent ones, damn it! ?
 
Along with VBA and SNES9x, I think the first Playstation emulator I used was PSXeven. A long time ago there was a bug with FF games that made the battle transition skip-loop extremely annoyingly. PSXeven was the first one I found that didn't do it. Thanks Emulator-Zone.
 
In the meantime I remembered ImbNES (it might be NES) for psx (mine with a modified chip).
A precompiled iso is even available here in the Chief's Repo.
I remember that the emulator only supported about ten nes mappers (the first ones), the sound was good but there were often scrolling problems and corrupted sprites here and there.
I first had to create a test compilation containing my favorite roms, create an ISO and burn it to CD-R. Then I tested the games on the PSX one by one, marking the list of those without defects, and then creating a new ISO to burn, with only the perfectly functioning titles.
Alas, often games that were perfect on the first stages turned out to be flawed on subsequent ones, damn it! ?
Woah! Epic! ? ??
 
Nesticle on ms-dos for me , for some reason every machine in my school computer lab had it installed, remember playing the Mega Man games and Akira on it.
 
For me it was back in high school biology class. Dude I sat next to was playing Fire Red on his phone and I asked how he was doing it, and he told me about gba4ios. been emulating ever since
 
I dont know if it was the 1st but for me it was ZSNES.
 
UltraHLE
My cousin installed it on our family computer, it couldnt save games though, as soon as the game closed the save was gone. So I replayed the start of Ocarina of Time multiple times never being able to progress much further than talking to zelda
I think it had:
Zelda Ocarina of Time
Golden Eye 007
Mario Kart 64
Mario 64
Bomberman Hero
Bio Freaks
Mace: The Dark Age
Wave Race 64
Pokemon Stadium
Rampage World Tour
Snowboard Kids
 
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ZSNES like many here, and then VisualBoyAdvance. Thanks to the older brother of a friend.
You really cant forget this interface.

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I miss these unique interface that scream 90-early 00's but I also understand normal-looking emulators.
 
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