Oh man, I feel old simply thinking about it. I think it got into it around either elementary school or middle school, so roughly 9~12 years ago.Long story short(ened) : A family friend lent my family their Chinese emulation system (it was actually an attachment onto the SNES that played SNES games when you put them on 3.5" floppies, it didn't save the games though so RPGs were more or less unbeatable) and when we returned it they told us about ROMs and emulators. A few Yahoo inquiries (this was pre-Google, post-AOhelL) and I found NES roms. SNES and Genesis roms came later since downloading those huge(! at the time) files were demanding for dial-up. Oh and that SNES attachment? I recall seeing a few advertisements for them in the backs of video game magazines back then but I never learned its name or any details about it. Mod chips simply replaced the technology afterwards.
How did you get into emulation?
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Posted 30 April 2007 - 06:27 AM
One of my good friends had told me that you were able to play console games on the computer... after that I got zsnes and Joe & Mac! And now I'm hooked. ^^
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Posted 30 April 2007 - 07:59 AM
My friend told me about it, and I was in disbelief on how easy it was to find all these games. The first one was Pokemon Red, which I hadn't played in years.
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Posted 30 April 2007 - 06:19 PM
Through a roommate computer nerd.
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Posted 02 May 2007 - 04:41 AM
a friend told me a site to get an emulator to play gba games so i went and after that i just got hookedfirst emulator was visualboy advance . game was naruto ninja council 2
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Posted 02 May 2007 - 06:47 AM
great topic... My brother taught me about emulators, and the regulations that are supposed to be followed behind them, the firsts for me were ZSNES, and the first game was Shadowrun
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Posted 02 May 2007 - 06:51 AM
My friend gave me 1 rom and an emulator (that's vba alright...) then I got interested so I searched many sites by myself...
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Posted 02 May 2007 - 06:53 AM
lol i got into emulation wen i heard my kl asian mates talking about VBA..... koolio
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Posted 02 May 2007 - 06:55 AM
I watched my friend play through Chrono Trigger on his computer one summer, he taught me how to do it, and when I got my computer a few years later I decided to get into it myself.
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Posted 02 May 2007 - 08:50 AM
cant really remember what first got me into it but I'm so glad I did.
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Posted 03 May 2007 - 06:09 AM
one of my friends got me an emulator to play pokemon blue and red when they first came out all that time ago but i didn't even know what it was i just knew it let me play pokemon on my computer. Then another friend showed me a gba emulator when it came out.
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Posted 06 May 2007 - 03:19 AM
one day i really wanted to play ff6 so i went to vimm and i got the SNES9xW
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Posted 09 May 2007 - 04:56 AM
My boy friend told me that i was stupid for buying all my games so yeh >.>
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Posted 09 May 2007 - 08:08 AM
i got a CD with a pokemon game in it.then i went into the internet and found more about roms and emulators and eventually got hooked up into emulation
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Posted 12 May 2007 - 04:36 PM
long live google POINTS were deducted for this post by Excelsior.
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Posted 12 May 2007 - 11:05 PM
My friend hacked his PSP so I wondered if i could hack my PC my first game was Super Mario Bros.
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Posted 12 May 2007 - 11:16 PM
Well, one day my brother told me that a dude had Metal Slug, and he could sell it to me for $5.57 what I didnt know is that it was a rom, I didnt even had a computer for that day, so when I got one I was into roms since the first day I got a PC 
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Posted 13 May 2007 - 12:32 AM
Why pay for games (especially GBA games) when you can get them for free? That's why I use emulators today.
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Posted 13 May 2007 - 12:42 AM
got bored one day and decide to search for some
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Posted 13 May 2007 - 12:51 AM
I first got into emulation from a friend. We were playing DIablo 2 one day and then he asked if i wanted a SNES, NES, and N64 emulator, i said sure, not knowing what it was though. The emulators each had 50 games so i was set for some time, took me a while to understand how to get it to work and such though, being that i was only 11 at the time.
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Posted 19 May 2007 - 05:04 PM
A friend game me a copy of an arcade emulator... but I didn't know it's an emulator yet, then got into a Znes downloaded emulator and the it featured save states, yeh i need this thing... an EMULATOR ...more like the sands of time of Prince of persia 
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Posted 19 May 2007 - 07:44 PM
I decided one day I would just get a emulator of Paper Mario because I couldn't find the actual game and it went on from there.
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Posted 19 May 2007 - 09:05 PM
i dunno..
Admins are always bossing in this site!!
Isn't it nice to break rules?!!
Isn't it nice to break rules?!!
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Posted 19 May 2007 - 10:37 PM
I remember I walked into my friends room and he was playing Chorno Triggeron his PC amd thats when I learned about roms and emulators
