i wanted to play a game that i had in real life, but the cartridge had broken. as a result, i looked for a solution on the internet and found emulators/roms.
How did you get into emulation?
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Posted 20 November 2006 - 11:48 PM
First Time I discovered emulation was from my brother First Time I emulated was a year back The Snes9xFirst Game was Sim City
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Posted 21 November 2006 - 02:11 AM
I was on Gamespot.com, reading up on the first Fire Emblem game on the Famicom, in the forums. someone was asking if there was a fully translated ROM. I had no idea what he was talking about, until someone else posted a topic a few minutes later, posting a link to this website. After reading up about this site, I got an account and downloaded visualboy advance. I got Final Fantasy Quest for the original GameBoy, because I was very stupid when it came to openning files back then, so I wasted a whole bunch of points. It was the only interesting thing I had enough points for.
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Posted 21 November 2006 - 02:43 AM
Oh, so long ago, like in 1998. My first emulation was with SNES roms and emulator, ZSNES, so i got hooked, and then in 1999 I thought, hey, the Neo*Geo is a cartridge arcade system too, so i guess it can be emulated, and i searched, and i was right.I downloaded all the Neo*Geo roms and still play a lot.I do a lot of emulation, for many systems, I play more in emulation than in my consoles.Emulation and consoles are da bomb.
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Posted 21 November 2006 - 02:47 AM
I got a free laptop computer when i was in highschool that was pretty much useless to me, my friend mentioned that i could load it up with some emu's and make it a portable snes, nes, genesis.It was pretty sweet, only cost me $5 for a gamepad.
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Posted 21 November 2006 - 02:49 AM
when bought a neogeo cd of roms and a emulator that how i got into emulation.
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Posted 21 November 2006 - 05:01 AM
was looking around on the net for guides, ended up in a site which had emulators and roms. thus the begining of my current hobby.
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Posted 21 November 2006 - 05:22 AM
a friend told me about it, and taught me how to download the roms and emulator
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Posted 21 November 2006 - 10:46 AM
I found my way to a MAME website and couldn't believe what I saw, they were playing arcade games on their computers!!!! I was so happy I found it, I started downloading all the games I loved. Then I later found out they had the same thing for NES!!!! I couldn't believe it. That was a long time ago, lol.
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Posted 22 November 2006 - 12:59 AM
peeps at skool and glad they did 
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Posted 22 November 2006 - 02:38 AM
i wanted to play psx games and then i got into playing n64 roms
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Posted 22 November 2006 - 02:44 AM
My friends got into it years ago, wow brings back memorys 
well there wasn't much emulation around... rom sites were rare, so me and him set up a rom site which came up with 60k hits before getting shut down 
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well there wasn't much emulation around... rom sites were rare, so me and him set up a rom site which came up with 60k hits before getting shut down .
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Posted 23 November 2006 - 10:46 AM
I got an emulator off a friend at primary school. My collection now includes 15 different Consoles 553 roms and 35 emulators
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Posted 24 November 2006 - 07:17 AM
The first Emulator... a friend showed me their GB Emulator. I decided to download one, and my first game was Tail Gator. The memories......I hate that game now, though.
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Posted 24 November 2006 - 03:46 PM
I always wanted to play Nintendo 64 games...but I was no longer being sold in the shops.
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Posted 25 November 2006 - 11:17 PM
My older brother got an emulator, i don't know how he knew bout' it ,but once i started to play the japanese only (in english) Dragon Ball Z rpg, i knew i was hooked.
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Posted 25 November 2006 - 11:19 PM
I told my friend I want a GBA game and he said to play it on an emulator, I was like "What the hell is an emulator?" and he explained and gave me links.. I got hooked.
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Posted 25 November 2006 - 11:59 PM
My friend told me about emulation and I got addicted to games I've never heard about it. It also saves alot of money from buying these games.
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Posted 28 November 2006 - 08:33 AM
Cousin showed me at first, but it didn't work. Then I got a new computer and decided to try emulation again that was like 6 years ago found the site www.emurater.com and started downloading and playing. God, I miss that site.
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Posted 28 November 2006 - 08:35 AM
I found one on a school computer... and thus a legacy is born :-P
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Posted 28 November 2006 - 09:15 AM
I wanted to play Final Fantasy III again after I no longer had the SNES game, so I decided to look it up online. A friend told me about emulators and I immediately found the SNES9XW and a bunch of ROMs for it :D It's a lot easier to find old games that you can't really buy anymore. I haven't been too interested in trying the latest platforms in emulation since they haven't been perfected with all ROMs and I don't really have the need for them.
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Posted 29 November 2006 - 01:32 AM
A few years ago on another message board I said something about wishing I could somehow play Super Metroid on my computer, then someone told me about roms 'n' stuff.
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Posted 29 November 2006 - 01:56 AM
About 3 years ago I was surfing the net for information on an old Super Nintendo Game I have called Clay Fighters. thats when I stumbled onto EmuParadise. I didn't like the way the site was set up but thats were I got my first Rom, Chrono Trigger!!! I went to several other sites until I came to this one. Haven't really looked for a new site since!
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Posted 29 November 2006 - 04:57 AM
My friend got me into them. About four years ago he introduced me to VisualBoyAdvance and has developed from there. I think the first game I seriously played on them was Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis. I still love that game.
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Posted 30 November 2006 - 08:08 PM
Well, it began about 4 years ago when a friend gave me a url of a site that's because I wanted to play King of Fighters 98 in the arcades but when I arrived at the place always was full, so he told me to download the game from that site... so I did, searching the site I found another roms for SNES, N64, etc so I became an addict 
