How did you get into emulation?
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Posted 01 December 2006 - 08:05 AM
Got the idea from my friends...Never thought it would be fun until I tried it myself...
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Posted 01 December 2006 - 10:06 AM
I was curious and stuck a PS1 game in my computer and realized I could browse the files. I researched and found "BLEEM" which is utter crap and didn't even think to retry to like 2 years. I emulated N64 first, then SNES, and later everything. I was happy when I figured out how to make ISO files of PS1 games. That was the BOMB!
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Posted 01 December 2006 - 09:53 PM
I'm an avid internet surfer, but I'd never really stumbled upon emulation until a couple years ago. I think I was just stunned that you could play console games on your computer. I finally got a gamepad, and I've loved it ever since!
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Posted 17 December 2006 - 10:32 PM
My cousin gave me games to play on the computer and he showed me how to use an emulator, I was 5 and I didn't understand what he was doing. 9 years later, I recalled it when I downloaded an emulator and roms when I realized this was what my cousin showed me and now I'm using ROMS and EMULATORS
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Posted 18 December 2006 - 01:59 AM
I just figured you could get everything else on the internet, why not video games. I just searched for games and the rest is history. First game i think was Super mario bros.
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Posted 18 December 2006 - 02:11 AM
It pretty much started back when Seiken Densetsu 3 was first translated into English by Neil Corlett. Some younger kids I knew that went to school with me were talking about it and how to get it (we were all Secret of Mana fans, go figure). That's when I got introduced to SNES emulation... when Mario Adventure came out, that's when I really got into rom hacking... yea, so that's my emulation history for ya... besides the fact that I've really dropped off on the rom hacking a lot but haven't so much on just playing games through emulators.EDIT: random side note, a site that I went to a lot for a short time was The Cult of Kefka, too bad that site went down... even though it really didn't have a lot of roms... it was good at the time it was one the web, though!
Edited by Dragon Blue, 18 December 2006 - 02:13 AM.
Thanks to DownShift... whatever happened to him anyway?
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Posted 18 December 2006 - 02:25 AM
I blame the SailorMoon game and Kirby for getting me into emulation (SNES). Then I just started to download more and more and more and more. 
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Posted 18 December 2006 - 11:47 PM
A friend gave me project 64 (wat a legend!)
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Posted 19 December 2006 - 05:49 PM
I was talking to a friend about how it would be cool if you could play the old games from super nientendo and other consoles on the computer...and he said ...yeah you can
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Posted 19 December 2006 - 06:06 PM
My friend first introduced me to emulation, we played Gameboy games like Pokemon at first pretty good. And then my other friend had GBA emulator and he kept playing GBA roms that i loved, so i got into it. Now i have quite the collection
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Posted 06 March 2007 - 08:36 PM
My little brother actually brought it to my attention. I think he heard it from some kid in school one day and bookwormed some reasearch on the computer.Thank god, cause I have no other way of playing anything right now.
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Posted 06 March 2007 - 11:05 PM
I played FF7 and FF9 on the PSX.I loved them SOOO much that I wanted to play FF1-6 no matter what (I didn't know about them at all).Then my brother in law told me about emulation and all.I guess my first emulated games I played were FF1 and Castlevania on NES with VirtuaNES, and on the SNES Secret of Mana, FF5 and FF Mystic Quest with SNES9x.Since then I loved those systems and games so much I actually bought both consoles (used) and several games, including rare ones, for them. I still have no real copy of old Nintendo FF games, because they are WAY too expensive.
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Posted 08 March 2007 - 01:10 AM
I played super mario cart on my friend computer.Came home and he gave me a website, the first emulator was ZSNES (still the best snes one out there in my opinion) and i got all at once, super mario all stars + world, Chrono Trigger, and Secret of Mana.
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Posted 09 March 2007 - 02:52 AM
I got my first emulator from a friend which was project64 and then this year another friend showed me a vba and pokemon emerald and I decided to get emerald on a visual boy and I went looking for a site with a working rom and that is how I got into emulation
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Posted 09 March 2007 - 09:14 AM
What I remember is that a cousin of mine gave me a Famicom emulator with Kirby and Mario games.. By that time I didn't know what it was, I just played it all the time.Then, when I grow up I started researching information about emulators, and started making my collection of GB roms using the BGB emulator, which I really liked. And here I am... Almost living of emulators... Jej..
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Posted 10 March 2007 - 05:44 AM
i heard about this emulation by a friend..
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Posted 11 March 2007 - 01:47 AM
my friend told me about the vba and this site
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Posted 11 March 2007 - 06:35 PM
i was just looking for old games to play then i found roms
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Posted 11 March 2007 - 10:20 PM
I got into emulation when my brother said you could download old games, so I started doing it when I had some free time during summer
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Posted 12 March 2007 - 01:01 AM
a friend of mine showed me about emulation since he heard from it from another person, after that i just purely got hooked on it... i think he showed me a VBA one im not too sure after that i soon searched for other emulators and well... after that im here
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Posted 12 March 2007 - 04:21 AM
I saw my friend play on their VBA and i was like what is that?
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Posted 12 March 2007 - 04:22 AM
My friend got it for me. The first game I got was super mario World!
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Posted 12 March 2007 - 07:17 PM
i was searching some games and i saw super mario bros but i didnt know how to play...so i was trying everything and then get few emulators and rocks
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Posted 12 March 2007 - 07:19 PM
My friend from school showed some old rom website and that day when I got home I started downloading games. I'm all like this is awesome, I'm getting Nintendo games for free. Then I got into downloading GBA games and found this awesome site.
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Posted 14 March 2007 - 11:48 PM
My dad isnt reaally into gaming,so i didnt have that many videogames then he said i could do whatever i wanted on the computer so i started downloading roms 
