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[dmb062082]

This could be a fun one.

Ill make this short for real this time.

I dont really remember exctly how I stumbled into emulation  because I was a wicked big stoner at the time. I bought a pc like almost 3 years ago so if you wanted to you could infact call me a n00b but i think ive loged in more daily hours than alot of people for a few yr span. Ok here goes(what i can recall)

I was never a pc gamer from day one. I just didnt like computer games. Only game I could say I bought and played was ff7 and that was 3 years ago and only because it was like 9 bucks. I think I played a hour and uninstalled it. It was fun but boring and the 17 inch screen sucked cock. AOL was getting lame at the time so I needed something else to do other than try to meet women in AOL chats. Even though pussy did infact come through a few times.

I remember wanting to find porno games or something like that. So i found a few that were concidered abandonware and had a ball with those. I also found a few old games I remember playing as a kid via sega cd and 3d0 (wolfenstien and willy beamish.) I thought that was cool that they were free and all so that was a plus. At the time I had no idea what emulation was. Time past and some how some way I found out abut emulation, i dont remember where or how. I think it was zophar.net or some lame top50 site one of the two. I was like HOLY SHIT I CAN PLAY PAC-MAN!!!! FUCKING A.

I remember downloading mame and pacman and installing mame. I spent 4 hours trying to get pacman to work. I was trying everything ajusting sound and the whole 9. I also think i was unzipping pacman. My aol ass didnt know what the fuck to do. I had no idea that i had to set a rom path and I gave up. A few days to a week  later I had a urge to break out my old nes to play some mario and it hit me that i saw some nes emus on some emu site forget what so i went back and downloaded rocknes. Somehow some where i found a few roms at the time i didnt even know what irc was.

Not sure how but i selected the rom path, i think rocknes told me i needed to select a rom unlike mame. I played a few nes roms and was amazed and in heaven. Shortly after (few months of genesis nes and snes) it got boring, mostly because the size of the screen and the keyboard,  same plauge i have with reguar pc games. It just sucks. So for a few months I just found rpgmaker200 and played with that. Like a yr later (october or november 2001) I found out about emulation on the dreamcast and also dreamcast warez i forget what one came first honestly.  One of the reasons why i got a cable modem in the 1st place and left aol.

The site was dcemulation and i was there every and in the scene from the begining of emulation on the dreamcast to the death of the system and scene. It was a godsend for me and what really got me into emulation man.  Mainly because it was on my tv and because I had a controller, all i care about really.Ive been a huge fan ever since now having no life what so ever ( well sometimes i do allright) and playing and collecting and being a all around emu nut.

I jumped ship and got into the xbox emu scene about 6 months before the system launch from a friend who had ported mame to the xbox way before it even launched with a offical dev kit. So in a way you can say ive been in this scene longer than 99.9% of the people here but i dont like to brag.

Facts:
1. Ive owned a dreamcast longer than my computer. 9/9/99 was the day I got my DC.

2. my 1st internet experience was with the dreamcast. Sad huh? Excluding 1 day after school in like 97 I used a search engine for about 30 seconds and went to the high times website. Total time on the internet at school was 7 minnutes. Banning me from using a computer untill I purchaced my own thanks to sears credit.

3. three yrs ago i didnt know how to copy and paste! who is the fucking man!

4. my 1st web site ever created was with homestead, hooah!

True story.

[flattspott]

That is way too long of a post man. You could've warned us that it was going to be a novel.


I don't really know how I found out about them. I do know it was some Super Nintendo ROMS that started my obsession, then GBA, then everything else

[Beelzebud]

The first time I ever heard of emulation was when I stumbled across the website for Bloodlust Software.  They are the guys that made the NESticle emulator.  I already knew my way around a PC pretty good at that point in time, and hell, back in those days you could actually find web pages that had entire rom sets for download.  

I have been a PC gamer for a long time.  So to me being able to play console games on my PC was simply awesome.  Then about 6 months later Ultra HLE came out of nowhere.  Thats when I knew I was hooked.  I didn't enjoy playing hte N64 games as much as I enjoyed just seeing them emulated.  

Emulation is also what nudged me into buying an xbox.  I read about xSNES9x and knew I needed an xbox.

[Benji99]

Heh, a long time ago, back when I was in High School, I stumbled upon a few files with Gameboy game like names on a local BBS. They were obviously roms, and they played on VGB-DOS. Back then, there were practically no emus for any other system. Except for a few of marat's emus

[BLoTt0_AI]

Some time around the very early nineties I remember finding what I think was a gameboy emulator on a local bbs. There were maybe about 5 games, but the thing was they were all self contained executables. Since I doubt anyone would have ported that many gameboy games, I figure it must have been some sort of emu. I remember being a little dissapointed, since it didn't run very well on my 386 which had just been upgraded to have 4MB of ram and I had wasted a couple hours downloading it Kinda makes me wonder how long console emulation was really around.Other than that, my next experience was with one of the NES emulators several years later.

[x999x]

I was a Doom/Marathon whore at work, until one of our writers from england came to visit. He brought us Quake which was hacked to run on the Mac, and this was well over a year before the official  Mac release. He said it was "emulated" which lead me to a yahoo search on "emulation." From there I found http://emulation.net the ultimate resource for Macintosh Emulation.

That was in 97 I think it was, or 98.

Oh yeah, I'm a PC whore now, but I still own two macs (three soon).

[XDelusion]

A long time ago on my Amiga, when Spectrum and PC emulators began to pop up. I actually paid for an emulator once for it too, I forget what it was called, but it was a shareware Gameboy emulator called (something) Boy, and it worked VERY well on a low end Amiga, which I had a lot of at the time. Later I sold my soul (partially) and bought a PC, and got into Mame shortly after, from there on out I have been addicted.

[Bender_Unit_1]

I found out about it when I was in 6th or 7th grade. My friend gave me an atari 2600 emulator (old PCE DOS version). Therefore, I was introduced to emulation by a friend. From there, I just kept digging for more.

-Bender

[mamajo]

About 4 years ago when I was at my cousin's house and he had Pokemon Red on the computer. I had no idea what an emulator was or a rom, all we knew it was the same as the GB version and was free.

[L1qUid]

the first time i ever got my emulator rom was when i sold my dog WILLIS to the local flea market for a rom disk ... it was so worth it

[az4u]

Back in late 1997, a friend of mine in efnet irc linked me to zophar's domain, I was amazed to find out with PCNES I can play my old nes games such as G.I.Joe/jackal/mgs in my pc ! The came out neorage playing art of fighting perfectly on my p133mhz...ever since I started collecting roms/isos/chd, now I'm regarded as a hoarder due to my over 100GB (rom+iso+chd) collection

[room88]

In around 1994/1995, I went looking for classic games on the newfangled "web". I found a lot of REMAKES, which were awesome in and of themselves. (Anyone remember Kurt Dekkers classic remakes, or Jrok's PacPC, etc.?) However, the daily search eventually made me stumble across then-early emulators for the Colecovision, and MSX systems (especially on websites like Daves Videogame Classics.. thx c0nj ) . Later on I saw Atari 2600 emulation hit the scene and I just about freaked out

It's been a good ride since then, I've seen Mame come about from single arcade game emulators.. and I saw when NES/Gameboy emulation came about. When NES emulation happened, that's when the floodgates opened and you suddenly had things like Genesis emulation happen as well and shortly afterward, SNES. So it's been a great ride

I still like pc emus, but definitely these days, CONSOLE emulation is the way to go. That's why I love Dreamcast and now Xbox emu's. You just can't beat playing these games on any tv on a comfortable couch with a gamepad in hand. Sure you could do it with a pc and a tv-out, we all know that. But the Xbox is far more portable It's all good though

[lowry383]

One day I was in the library on the using the internet and this really nerdy kid was sitting by me playing final fantasy 2 or something. I realized, how the hell? That game is only for the old nintendo, how is he playing it on the computer? So I asked him and he showed me how emulators work and told me to go to pe2000.net to get roms. That site is no more though.

[dmb062082]

QUOTE (Shingotink @ Aug 26 2003, 01:34 AM)

Pretty easy one for me. In September 1999 I was looking for some info on some older arcade fighters and typed "retro games" into a search engine. I eventually clicked on a link to retrogames.com and the rest was history.

Bleh, vgn owns retroflames by far. And they own them every day. Even though c0nj has like 30 naked pictures of fatila up at his office, ive seen them!!!!1

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QUOTE (room88 @ Aug 26 2003, 06:43 PM)

Daves Video Game Classics was THE one.. I'm glad knowing it survived to this day when all the others died out.. I can't even remember the others names.. (Node99?) Who the heck knows. C0nj sit 0n j00!

hey fruit loop whats your other handle im sure i know you from efnet!