My older brother got a Genesis emulator with a Dragonball Z rom (still in Japanese). He never really played it, but I was in a DBZ phase back then, so I was hooked.
How did you get into emulation?
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Posted 16 March 2007 - 01:26 AM
My friend was playing ROMs first, and I just ended up playing too. From then on I've been hooked.
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Posted 16 March 2007 - 06:25 AM
my bro started playing gamnes too uch and i started to play
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Posted 17 March 2007 - 10:05 PM
theres three reasons to this1) my friend told me about how fun they are2) i wanted to play all the classic games i missed out on and 3) i was bored up the @$$ at that time
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Posted 18 March 2007 - 12:09 AM
family, i got mame from my uncle afew years ago and recntly ive been intrested in it so i started downloading nowihave alot of the best emulators
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Posted 18 March 2007 - 03:24 AM
my friend, i went to his house and saw him having so many cool games i asked him how and got to know emulation and started playing it before i knew it.
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Posted 18 March 2007 - 03:32 AM
It was a couple of summers ago and my friend came over and got me FFIV-FFVI for an emulator and I was so excited I tried to play them all at once. It didn't work out very well.
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Posted 18 March 2007 - 02:20 PM
I heard about Bleem through advertising, so I tried it and it was nice to play psx games on the PC. A few days later my brother told me that there are Gameboy and SNES emulators too. First I couldn't imagine how they could work because I thought you have to connect the cartridges to the PC, until I heard of rom images. That was many years ago. Today i know a lot more about emulation 
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Posted 18 March 2007 - 09:15 PM
My story is really funny. I did not know they even exsisted until I was searching my assignments on my schools directory and found a file named emulators.The funny thing is there was a ton of them taking up about 560 MB of space.
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Posted 18 March 2007 - 11:56 PM
I still remember it like it was just yesterday. I was in fourth grade, they year pokemon red and blue first came out (and also the year i was introduced to the internet); and I was talking to my friend during recess when he tells me you can play Pokemon on your computer. POKEMON ON YOUR COMPUTER! I had Blue version for the gameboy but even so this computer concept intrigued me. So I followed his links to the Pokemon ROMS and went on a magical journey. Ha, I still remember that my first emulator was the No$gmb, and the first site I would haunt was CheeseROMS (now defunct I think). From Gameboy to NES to SNES to GBA to SEGA to MAME. I will never forget that fateful day.
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Posted 20 March 2007 - 10:25 PM
My friend introduced me and then i figured out i could play them on my dreamcast and it was over from there
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 01:20 AM
When I had only the Dreamcast and there were no great games to play I resorted to the emulation.
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 06:46 PM
A friend told me about them, because i said to him can i borrow ur games and gameboy, and he said no because you can just download them from websites, so that was good 
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Posted 21 March 2007 - 10:26 PM
Pokemon. Going on MaxPages sites looking up things like MissingNo and such and I saw play Pokemon on your computer...
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Posted 23 March 2007 - 03:22 PM
heh it was interesting, my next door neighbor mentioned it to me in passing about playing gamboy games on his computer, i asked him how and he said that i just needed an emulatot and a rom but i completely forgot about it for a few months then just out of the blue i saw the word in a forum so i decided to find about it. my first game was actually pokemon red lol...what can i say i couldn't have been more than 8 or 9 when i got into it
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Posted 23 March 2007 - 03:26 PM
i just really love playing video games that i wonder if i can play them on a pc. so i looked around and found this site. i really enjoy this now i get to play all my favorite games on the console and on my pc.
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Posted 25 March 2007 - 06:59 PM
My brother just downloaded a N64 emulator one day, with paper mario, and i was hooked.His friend actually gave us this site to try out.
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Posted 25 March 2007 - 08:15 PM
My first emulator was NESticle, back when it was the best emulator for NES. It ran in Windows 98, but it was actually a DOS program, so you could only use DOS joysticks or your keyboard. I don't remember my first games for it, but they were probably the first Batman and first Ninja Gaiden titles--those are two of the greatest NES games, and I beat them both on the NES itself, back before savestates or even emulation were invented. I know, I'm dating myself as an old man.
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Posted 26 March 2007 - 06:38 PM
I believe I was trying to find out the name of an older game I'd remembered, so I went on a search to try and find out what exactly it was called and where I could get a copy of it. Stumbled across a site dedicated to emulation and that's that.
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Posted 26 March 2007 - 06:43 PM
I download my first emulator N64, becouse want then play Pkmn : Stadium
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Posted 27 March 2007 - 12:24 AM
Hmmm. saw dudes at school playing old school games on the computers in the library during priv. and asked one of my buddies about it and he showed me it, but i didnt feel like giving him 10$ for an emu and a handful of roms... so i searched around myself and downloaded Gens and Sonic 3 & Knuckles as my first one... *sniff* brings back memories...*sniff sniff* (sonic 3 is fave because it was the first one you could actually SAVE!!!)
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Posted 27 March 2007 - 12:41 AM
my dad told me about it and i got into it because i wanted to be able to play gameboy pokemon without wasting all the batteries i was
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Posted 28 March 2007 - 08:21 AM
I was searching to buy Pokemon Ruby, but I accidently found myself a rom to emulate.
Edited by yonghyun123100, 28 March 2007 - 08:21 AM.
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Posted 28 March 2007 - 07:41 PM
The internet is how i got into emulation my first game was sonic and knuckles. From there i started playing world series 98. Then i found tecmo superbowl roms on the net for nes. I began making me tecmosuperbowl rom library; starting 98 to 2001. At first i thought sonic and knuckle was a freeware game from how i downloaded and install and played without an emulator. It was actual a emulator and the game built up in one engine. i should stop jabbering. i have never talked this much
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Posted 29 March 2007 - 06:39 AM
Saw an article WAY WAY, WAY WAY back in one of my dad's old magazines...Mentioned emulators, sort of, not really mentioned they were half-way illegal.had a picture of sonic in a go-kart.Didn't follow up until about 6 years later at the age of 13 when I needed to play Contra:Hard Corps, really, really, REALLY bad.Saw an article WAY WAY, WAY WAY back in one of my dad's old magazines...Mentioned emulators, sort of, not really mentioned they were half-way illegal.had a picture of sonic in a go-kart.Didn't follow up until about 6 years later at the age of 13 when I needed to play Contra:Hard Corps, really, really, REALLY bad.
