there are so many emulations now i think it'd be really cool if they just made them a little simpler to use. Some of us are only smart enough to know where to get them, we aren't computer geeks and don't know how or have the time to figure out all the special computer lingo to get a good emulator to work.
How did you get into emulation?
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Posted 19 May 2007 - 11:47 PM
I found it out on a forum. I cant recall the first emulater or rom I downloaded.
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Posted 20 May 2007 - 03:34 AM
I got my first taste of emulation from my dear older uncle, who was playing... some Genesis game or other on Genecyst. (yeah, this was a long time ago) I followed suit with the same emulator, but I can't remember what my first game was. Might have been Phantasy Star IV, but I wouldn't put that past my own personal bias. I only got carried away with emulation since I can't really afford most of the games I lust over, or even the systems to play it on. x_x; Trust me, if I had a nice, solid income, I would own every single game I've ever emulated!...Okay, maybe not every game, I'm sure Chronicle of Radia War would be tough to get a hold of.
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Posted 20 May 2007 - 03:58 AM
My brother was always talking about it. And then he mentioned that it would be a great way for me to play a bunch of classic games without having to buy the system/ game.
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Posted 20 May 2007 - 05:52 AM
My friend was talking about how she couldn't stop playing Earthbound on her computer. I asked how that was possible and she explained. I've been using emulators ever since :]
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Posted 20 May 2007 - 06:47 AM
A friend told me of sites with emulators when i got my pc, and i liked the idea of playing old games on my pc.NYO
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Posted 20 May 2007 - 06:49 AM
my frnd sent vba to me and a game and i really liked it and started playing
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Posted 20 May 2007 - 08:06 AM
i guess i found out about it just by accident, my first game was Toejam and Earl for Genesis although i don't remember what emulator
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Posted 20 May 2007 - 08:13 AM
I'd heard about it before on several websites, since it was about games that had not been released in english. 
I wanted to play them too, so I got a bit of help from a friend. 
I wanted to play them too, so I got a bit of help from a friend.
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Posted 20 May 2007 - 05:11 PM
Blame my brother. I remember him downloading SNES and I was just against it 100% but... surprisingly... when he downloaded those 1st roms, Earthbound and Secret of Mana. I was hooked! He wasn't a big rpg fan, but I definitely was, I had always wanted those on my own SNES but I never got the money to but it from my parents.
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Posted 20 May 2007 - 06:34 PM
A friend of mine had a genesis emulator, and was playing the Japanese game Sailor Moon. I went home and started playing around and got zsnes with street fighter 2.
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Posted 20 May 2007 - 08:15 PM
i saw a friend playing it and he game me the program and it just went off from there
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Posted 20 May 2007 - 08:21 PM
i didn't have money to blow on video games, so i used the power of google, the rest is history
Edited by EmuNinja, 20 May 2007 - 08:22 PM.
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Posted 20 May 2007 - 08:55 PM
I got into emulation because my snes console broke, i took it apart, and i really wanted to play a certain game
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Posted 24 May 2007 - 03:28 PM
i'm from the UK and round here paper mario never came out for n64, so i turned to the internetalso super metroid never got a gba conversion and i don't have a snes anymore
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Posted 24 May 2007 - 03:33 PM
I got into emulation when Pokemon first came out in North America. I wanted to get the game, and I found it online, and I just downloaded the ROMs. At that point, I downloaded games for MAME, GBA, N64, PS1, etc.
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Posted 24 May 2007 - 06:50 PM
i was going to buy a gba when my fren say why when there is emulator at first i wasa a bit skeptic about the idea and i prefer to play the handheld while actually feeling it so i went after it and bough it in the end but right now i m using emulator too and once in a while i will still buy gba games if there are really very good one's
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Posted 24 May 2007 - 08:33 PM
A friend had a modded XBox with every NES, Genesis, and SNES game on it, as well as a few full versions of XBox games. I couldn't believe such a thing existed...finally, all those games I stupidly sold away over the years...I could play them again! Hooray for emulation!
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Posted 25 May 2007 - 03:46 AM
For classes without comps, sleep and dream of gaming. When you have comp classes at school, it is funner to play emulators than to work. I got my first emulators from a friend over the system.
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Posted 02 July 2007 - 09:36 AM
I think I checked out Zsnes with a couple of games then went from thier, UltrHLE with SM64 and then just got more & more curious.
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Posted 02 July 2007 - 12:04 PM
about 10 years ago. I found out that we could play gameboy games on a PC! wow! so I downloaded quite a few of them. Then, I turned out to genesis and snes emulators. It was mostly to check out games that were never released here (Europe). but, not only. Then, I started working and spent most of my disposable income on videogames anyway, like buying games and all. Then, when the GBA and the DS were released, I got interested in homebrew development and here I am.
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Posted 02 July 2007 - 12:51 PM
I got into emulation after a school friend let me try some of their emulation once. When I got home, I couldn't stop thinking about it. I gave him a call and he sold me a gram of emulation. Ever since then things have got worse. I stole from my mother and I stopped going to school all because of emulation.
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Posted 02 July 2007 - 01:04 PM
I first heard about emulation from a friend of mine. Pokemon had just come out and was all the rage whilst I was a 7th grader. Parents wouldn't buy me a gameboy + pokemon so I was given a copy of No$GMB and the pokemon red and blue roms. Took a long time for the concept to click but sooner or later Stella, Nesticle, Gens, Zsnes, etc. caught on. Today I stick mostly with VisualBoyAdvance and Zsnes.
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Posted 02 July 2007 - 05:09 PM
A friend told me about playing pokemon gold on the gba emulator. Then from then on thats how i knew about emulation
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Posted 02 July 2007 - 06:00 PM
probablt from learning about zsneswin and games like chrono trigger and seiken densetsu 3 (sword of mana 2) 2 of the most AWESOME SNES GAMES EVER
