what was your first emulator experience?

DeAthWaGer · Post by **DeAthWaGer** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 10:35 am

I guess this would be the right place for this topic, or would "off topic" be more suitable? Sorry if this is so.

My first experience was when 3.5" shareware was popular, I found a disk at a local mall that had "Commodore 64 games" printed on it. I excitedly bought it, figuring having the games played on PC would load a lot faster than on my old C64 (what, like 5 minutes for Time Tunnel!?!? zzz.... zzz...). I think it was like 3 bucks.

It was an early C64 emulator and a few roms, and included a document on how to connect a C64 disk drive to a PC to copy over games you already had on 5.25 disks (a PC 5.25 drive wouldn't be compatible with C64 disks). I never bothered to made the cable (a few of the parts weren't available at Radio Shack and I wasn't "allowed" to order them), but the emulator wasn't very good anyhow.

A few months later Nesticle started getting into gear, and I grew a huge hope on the idea of emulation...

Hawq · Post by **Hawq** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:49 pm

This seems appropiate for it, for me probably Nesticle (classic if dodgy named), Genecyst or Callus (damn Final Fight & SF2 blew me away on it at the time on my mild PC)

MKE · Post by **MKE** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 3:01 pm

mine was with biones.

we had just gotten our coputer like 3-4 months before this (its a 500mhz celeron, had 64mb ram with a 16mb dx7 vid card)

i really wanted to play donkey kong, so i googled it and found a site (id post it if a mod gives me permission- the rom packs and stuff are sill there and up for download so im gonna pass on postin it..) that had a pack of like 100 nes games and the biones emulator.

well, at that time i had no clue as to what an emulator was, but i did know how to run them and everything- i wasnt that clueless then (ie. that i was using an emulator to play them on) and that they were called roms. and if it was illegal or what. (this was like ~4-5 years ago)

but about a month later i was talkin with a friend and he "clued me in" to the basics, and after that i went home and got the cvgs psx emulator-wich ran perfectly, and a zsnes and some roms.

but i had no idea if they were illegal or not until a year-ish afterwards.

Post by **Quzar** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:07 pm

NO$GB

Sir Savant · Post by **Sir Savant** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:45 pm

That gb emulator, the one that begins with "r". Its also a nes emulator. Res? Rey? I dont remember.

Pokemon roms. My friend at school showed it to us on the old, messed up school pc's.

Post by **Tyne** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:14 pm

I started with iNES, played Ninja Gaiden at a slow framerate - then Nesticle came out and I fell in love with emulation ever since! Heck, I stll remember when SNES emulators had sound but it was all wrong (I believe it was SNES9x that first had sound)...

Shapyi · Post by **Shapyi** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:01 pm

Around 1998, Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past on SNES9x. It was slow as all hell on my 100 MHz Compaq computer. I was in 7th grade... good times. The only reason I was attracted to emulation was because of Click n Play Zelda 3 clones.

Lartrak · Post by **Lartrak** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:01 pm

NESticle. Don't remember when, but I believe I first played it on a P1 100.

Caboose · Post by **Caboose** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:39 pm

SNES 9x for PC.

popley · Post by **popley** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:01 pm

NESticle was mine for ninja gandain.

Juan · Post by **Juan** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:10 am

Dark Savant0 wrote:That gb emulator, the one that begins with "r". Its also a nes emulator. Res? Rey? I dont remember.

REW. Gotta love that one

My first emu experience? My father bought a PC with 2000 games... I was expecting something like Quake II or whatever and i got MAME

that_guy · Post by **that_guy** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:52 am

Nesticle for playing Dragon Warrior.

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:54 am

When I first got a PC, I used to search for Final Fantasy-related stuff. I stumbled across a page claiming to have downloads of Final Fantasy V, but they didn't work. At first I thought it was a hoax, but I spent a few hours searching to see if I could find some working ones - and I finally did.

Of course, back then Snes9x couldn't handle transparencies properly, so about 10 minutes into IV and 30 minutes into V I became completely stuck

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Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:23 am

Reliving some of Turbo duo's greatest games.....and playing Goldenye on a 64 emulator, with improved frame rates, and such.....it was even better!!!

OldSkoolGamer · Post by **OldSkoolGamer** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:17 am

NESticle was the first one I ever used, but SNES9x was the first one that I really played games on.

cky2k3 · Post by **cky2k3** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:02 pm

i think no$gb was my first emulator experience that thing took me ages to figure out how to run and all i wanted to do was play tetris lol

Gmc · Post by **Gmc** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:34 pm

I was first introduced to emulators when a boy at school lent me this disk that had a partially translated pokemon gold on it, think the emulator was called dboy, cant remember...but yea, i ended up goin on the net and looking dboy up and finding all these emulators an stuff. I was amazed, lol.

CoasterKing · Post by **CoasterKing** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:04 pm

NESticle for me too. I can't remember when exactly but like Lartrak I was using a P1 100 at the time.

Skynet · Post by **Skynet** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:41 am

NESticle or NO$GB were the first really playable emulators I used.

I really wanted to get N64 and PSX emulation going in the beginning using UltraHLE and Bleem! demo. But on a PII 300, 64mb Ram with a 4mb video card... you can't get far.

tekkaman1 · Post by **tekkaman1** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:15 am

My first emu was No$Gmb, the Dos version.