The First Ever Emulator You Remenber

[Cu-Neo]

Visual boy advance on a Toshiba computer

 

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Thread 'The First Ever Emulator You Remenber'

Dec 13, 2024

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?

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[faceless0man]

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.

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

it was game boy advance emulator for me on mobile . played all pokemon games for the first time and became a fan

 

[laughingoctopus]

The one that really opened my eyes to emulation and was the biggest influence on why I continue to be heavily involved in emulation these days is zsnes. So much nostalgia for just the fucking UI on that thing.

 

[McDoob]

The first emulator I ever heard of was the one I contributed code to: ZSNES. Showing that particular project to some people I knew got my college tuition paid for.

Ah, those were the days...coding, caffeine, and copulating...not necessarily in that order! XD

The one that really opened my eyes to emulation and was the biggest influence on why I continue to be heavily involved in emulation these days is zsnes. So much nostalgia for just the fucking UI on that thing.

The UI really was the best part.

-McD

EDIT: After some thought, I suppose the first emulator I can remember actually using was the DOS emulator in OS/2. Not that I used it much, because I really didn't like OS/2, and quickly went back to DOS/Windows 9X.

 

[Deleted member 7989]

I commented this on another post. So I'll change my answer a bit. So my first was ZSNES, through a virus laden website with preinstalled roms. But one I remember using a lot because it was unblocked in my elementary school was something called VirtualNES. When you look it up now it leads to VirtuaNES which is something completely different. VirtualNES was an online NES emulator that had ROMs built in to the website alongside the emulator. I used them for a long time before they got blasted by Nintendo. It was a good emulator too. None of the games I played ever had any issues that I could notice. It's how I originally finished all of the classic Mega Man games and Castlevania. They even had some Pirate games on there like Somari.

 

[NipponMastaZero]

I remember it was ZSNES and SNES9x about 24 years ago. This was a really nice discovery at that time. :)

 

[Deleted member 132407]

UltraHLE, early n64 emulation

 

[kyujin]

My boy! I have discover consoles and portables existed because of is emulator, I was just searching of ways to download a game in a potato (rip galaxy y) and I found a lot videos of the emulator

 

[MasterEn]

gamecube with animal crossing. i put in the passwords to get the nes games.

 

[Teknopathetic]

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.

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

Does SNES station count? Its was a PS2 ''game'' with a bunch of SNES roms, played a lot with my counsins

 

[nonotz]

Bleem!

this image of the CD case will stay in my brain until the day i day prob

 

[suzakuryuu]

Unknown GB/GBC emulator back in 90s. I forgot the name, but I remember playing this at my friend's house because I don't own a PC back in the day.

 

[CaesariusMagnum]

My first experience with an emulator was Visual Boy Advance, so I guess I'm relatively new to emulating games.

 

[tigg]

NESticle

 

[Tonberry]

Probably snes9x.
I remember being jealous of a fiend who used zsnes just because I thought the UI was so neat.

 

[ZEGA ZONIC]

Kega Fusion in 2013.
The first games I got were Captain America & the Avengers, Beavis and Butt-Head & Cosmic Carnage.

 

[marky]

VisualBoyAdvance, a orginal one in 2004. It was my first emulator ever.

 

[Yukyon]

Snes9x, X-boy Advance and Daedalus X.
All on the OG XBox

 

[Anim8rDude Anim8rDude]

I am so glad I wasn't the only one who used NESticle as a kid. The icon of the program was, err, literally a pair of hairy coconuts & was not something I wanted the teachers at school see. Not when I was supposed to playing educational typing games anyway.

 

[MasterEn]

animal crossing on the gamecube. and then some random game controllers from the fair in the nearby city. and that one shopping channel that my aunt was watching one time when i was at her house.

 

[G_44]

The first emulator I used and tried was a Game Boy one, and I think it was from the Play Store.
Curiously, back then I had absolutely no idea how emulators worked. I only remember that a friend of mine who is a Pokémon fan helped me download Pokémon FireRed edition on that emulator.

 

[Razputin_Psycho]

My first emulators were visualboyadvance and ZSNES. If I want to be earlier, I guess Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask on GameCube.

 

[LightningmanEXE]

When I was maybe like, 10ish, I discovered someone on a laptop playing SNES games in the wild while on a family vacation. I was super confused about it and asked them, and they explained how it worked. I think after that I got a copy of ZSNES to play Kirby super star when we got home.

 

[Guilherme130]

GB and GBC on an online emulator