What was your first foray into Emulation like?

[Onionstarz]

My nephew had MAME on his windows ME PC, the 1st PC i ever used a lot.
1st game i played was a SNK fighter, it was either Samurai Shodown or KOF and some random "Adult" JP only arcade stuff.

 

[TentaclesMod]

So, when I was an small child, like 7 I guess? I was made to drop Pokemon because of the whole stupid satanic panic. At around 11 or 12 years old, I discovered that said panic was utter bullshit, showed to my parents, then got into a rebound into it. Then while browsing some spanish fanpages (I'm Venezuelan) they had roms in spanish and emulators and instructions on how to use them and I was so excited when I first got that Pokemon Sapphire rom running in VBA. Although it required a couple tries before I figured how to make it save since I would save within the game but after closing the emulator and starting it later all progress would be lost (it just required a small change in saving settings)

 

[DjQuick2008]

Was a snes emulator which i still use bsnes i think it is would have to go on my other laptop to check and see started on that around 2019 on my all in 1 pc. motherboard crapped itself but already had the emulator saved to a usb stick with the games so was able to recover it.

 

[minimug]

I was 11 or 12, It was in and 1999 i started using "Genecyst" and "Nesticle" (ridiculous names but real genesis and nes emulators back then). I played through a couple poorly translated famicom rpgs, but still stuck to my psx console and dreamcast until around 2002. I got into Zsnes one summer when Aeon Genesis started releasing some good translation patches. I didn't go head first into Emulation until about a decade ago. I am kinda OG now that i think about it... emulating for 26 years. I was copying those old .md and .nes files to floppy disks at the library and my middle school. I could not play snes games until usb drives became common because the files were often bigger than 1.44 mb (didn't have the internet growing up)