/vr/ - Retro Games

DKC3

Pokemon Red or Gold. I couldn't make the character move though. Circa 1999.

A Boy and His Blob with Nesticle

Mortal Kombat for SNES.

A DBZ game for SNES, probably Super Butouden 3.

>>5051075

similar
probably a mario game for me
though i do remember nesticle

>>5051059
Actraiser, had a Dreamcast with a SNES emulator disc and that was the first game I clicked on.

>>5051059
Final Fantasy V, on Snes9x, back in 2002. I had a pretty slow computer then, so the game ran like shit. I managed to play it all the way through, though.

>>5051075
>>5051096
probably Ducktales on Nesticle
I was completely speechless that I just loaded a Nintendo game on the computer

Sonic 3 & Knuckles

super mario bros 3 in nesticle

>>5051059
Something on Zsnes or Nesticle in 1999 or thereabouts. By God does the time fly.

A Link to the past. In the computer room of the school.

>>5051059
A partially translated Pokemon Gold.

Mega Bomberman on Sega genesis (of course I know pce version is better)

>>5051059
Probally Super Mario Brothers. I was alive through the late 70s and into the 80s. I remember being able to download and play these games via emulation sometime in the mid 90s. I never much cared for it, and stuck with real systems and tvs.

It may not have been the absolute first, but the one I remember as my "first" was BS F-Zero 2 on ZSNES. My cousin told me about this thing called "emulation" and I didn't know what the hell he was talking about.

My friend showed me some Warez sites in the late 90s but I can't remember what I played first.

>>5051316
>I was alive through the late 70s and into the 80s.

It's nice that you are still able to play games and browse the internet in your post-mortal state.

>>5051129

i remember that windows 95 nut icon
classic

anyone who chooses windows 98 over windows 95 is a fucking moron and deserves to be shot
sure, 98 has more shit, but its not timeless and motherfucking magical like 95 is
95 just has its own charm

>>5051059
MegaMan 1.

>>5051059
Japanese version of Pokemon Gold. It came on a CD with nesticle and NES roms on it too.

>>5051059
op pick related

>>5051059
I dunno but I remember the first rom I downloaded and emulated by myself was Pokemon Crystal and it was amazing.

The RPGe translation of Final Fantasy V, probably using SNES9X. Sometime very late in 98.

>>5051059
I think it was that awful TMNT NES game with Nesticle.

river city ransom back in 1998 with nesticle, you used to be able to download roms from ign back then but if you didn't own the cartridge you had to delete it after 24 hours

>>5051059
Conker's Bad Fur Day when I was a small child. I felt like such a genius for figuring it out.

>>5051059

>>5051640
Final Fantasy III for NES. Emulator was Nesticle. Must’ve been around February 2003.

Fucked if I remember. I'm sure it was in 97 or 98, though, after a friend introduced me to Brad Levicoff(sp?) of Zophar.net. Whatever it was, it was either something on ZSNES, Nesticle or Genecyst, back when the emulators were incomplete due to lack of sound, incorrect handling of transparencies etc.
In mid 98, I brought a few floppies with emulators and roms on them to school using a split self-executing rar archive, copied them onto several of the computers in class and the library and ran the exe so I could covertly play games in class.
I know the first game I downloaded for myself was Soldier Blade for TG16 and was incredibly pissed that Magic Engine had a time limit of five minutes before it would cut out and tell you to buy the full version. Nigger, if I wanted to spend money, why wouldn't I just get the real thing?

>>5051538
>>5051109
I beat it at work. I ran an after school thing for young kids at a local library, helping them with homework and showing them and their parents how to computer. However, I spent most of my time playing FFV and downloading MP3s. Good gig cuz despite it being a paying job, it counted towards my graduation required community service. : )

Earthbound Zero in the mid 90s was first, then Pokemon Green in JP.

>>5051059
I can't remember. I know it was on Windows 95 before Windows 98 though. I played a ton of games with a DOS only gamepad that stopped working when 98 launched. Literally the only downfall to 98 over 95.

The controller I got to replace it was leagues better and I used until those Radioshack ps1/ps2 controller adapters became the norm.

>>5051807
There was a guy that went door to door with cd-r burns of hundreds of games and emulators on a single 700mb burnt disk. He asked for $5 per cd-r. My dad bought one and it actually was legit full of hundreds of cart based games, but not N64 or Neo Geo. He also went around with binders full of Dreamcast games for $50, which I still actually have mine. I feel like lots of people had some random local postings from 2000-2005 or so for "loads of CHEAP games for your pc" on craigslist or some shit.

Anyway.....

He ended up attempting to rape a woman after getting jail time for selling illegal goods. She shot him in his bladder and it was rumored he lost the ability to have kids or get hard depending on who you ask. So, he hung himself behind the local Blockbuster. lmao. I still laugh years later, considering our neighborhood was all high class and shit, that stuff never happened.

>>5051059
When I was real little, my brother modded my Xbox. I played a lot of games on there, but I didn't know what emulation even was then. The first I played was probably The Legend of Zelda.

When I actually figured out what emulation was and decided to try it out, the first game I tried was Star Fox. On ZSNES.

>>5051059
Breath of fire II. I still have roms i downloaded in 01 and 02

Link to the Past.

Used a search engine that doesn't exist anymore and I can't even remember the name of to search for things I liked. Zelda was on the of the first things I searched for. Which led me to a Zelda fansite that had a page dedicated to emulation complete with downloads for emulators and ROMs. Within an hour of going online for the first time, I was playing LttP emulated.

>>5051059
earthbound in like 2005

Super Mario Frustration in probably 2008

I'm still so used to the old names since it's been over a decade

>>5051419
>I don't like USB mouse and keyboard support
>being able to minimize a window by clicking on it's button on the task bar SUCKS!
>why would I want DVD support?
Yeah, gotta love an OS that froze solid on a regular basis. 3.1, 98SE, or go home.

I remember when I discovered emulation. Some fat black kid showed me, and we played a bunch of shit in the library. I played some Gundam Wing fighting game on the SNES, but the first game I ever emulated that I played for more than 10 minutes was the Magic Knight Rayearth SNES RPG that I guess had been translated around that time.

>>5052078
Why don't like usb mouse and keyboard support

>>5052015
>Used a search engine that doesn't exist anymore
RIP AltaVista.

>>5051059
A megaman game in nesticle, circa 97 or so

>you will never again experience the late 90s / y2k golden era of emulation before the towers fell and changed everything

Zelda 2 on my 486 using Nesticle in 1997, I still have the folder of roms and saves from back then too
There's a bunch of silly terrible hacked roms in there that only run in Nesticle so if I wanna play them I gotta load up Dosbox

I didn't really have a computer powerful enough until my Pentium 2 350mhz PC.

IIRC I was using ZSNES first and was into fighting games, so likely Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. I'm not totally sure though.

Various Sailor Moon games. When I got the RPG running in English, I felt I had accomplished the greatest thing I ever would in my life. I might have been right.

>>5051059

Is this better than SoM? Playing it for the first time and this whole stunlock thing is weird and unfair at times

Shit, I don't know.

I have vague memories of my brother showing me Pokemon Emerald before it was even out in the UK and was stunned because you could play Pokemon on the computer.

I didn't really have access to my own computer until 2009, but I do remember playing Pokemon Red/Blue and Gold/Silver on my DS via Lameboy, so I'm sure it was that.

I also have a recollection of playing OOT on my Laptop using a PS1 controller with no analogue sticks. It worked quite well to be honest and I got to the final dungeon but lost my save, never had any problems with it and was able to assign all the buttons as well.

>>5051059
Xevious; around 1998 - 2000. It was on a shareware CD from (i think) Wizardworks, running in an extremely early MS-DOS build of MAME. That was my intro to emulation as a concept; Mario on Nesticle and Super Metroid on ZSnes followed shortly thereafter.

I googled "play Pokemon on a computer" just to see if anything would come up. It did.

I only had aol dialup at the time but I think the first emulated games I played a fair amount were FF1-3 on the Nesticle. I believe this was around 2001-2002.

The summer after I spent a lot of time at my grandparents, which they had broadband and a better computer, so I went to ArchNacho's and Tortilla Godzilla's websites where they had game reviews of roms on the SNES. I then downloaded a bunch of RPGs for the system, like FF4, FF5, Bahamut Lagoon, Live a Live, SD3, and a bunch of others I can't think of atm, and spent a whole bunch of time playing through them during that summer. Good times

>>5051059
When Chrono Trigger came out my older brother rented it and I apparently threw a shitfit because he wouldn't let me play it
Then years later he sits me down in front of the computer and it's the fucking intro to Chrono Trigger. Finally got to play it.

>>5051059
First ever emulated: Tales of Eternia on Bleem.

First ever emulated AND played all the way through: Chrono Trigger via SNES emulator (don't remember the name, but I think that one was based on either SNES9X or ZSnes) on a Dreamcast. Yes, really. I'm shitting you not. There was a SNES emulator on Dreamcast, which played Offspring's tracks in the background (GIVE IT TO ME BABY, UH-HUH, UH-HUH!) while navigating through the menu/GUI. FPS was pretty bad, but game played pretty well accuracy/stability-wise.

First ever emulated AND played all the way through WHILE fully enjoying the play-through with FULL effects and FULL speed: Phantasy Star II on KGEN '98 (yes, THAT one, THE ONLY existing emulator in the entire history of global emulation scene's existence which absolutely 100% PERFECTLY emulates Genesis'/MegaDrive's Yamaha sound. Even though both KGEN and Fusion were created by the legendary GOD that is Steve Snake, ONLY KGEN '98 is able to ABSOLUTELY ACCURATELY 1-to-1 emulate Genesis'/MegaDrive's Yamaha. Fusion can NOT do it 100% perfectly, for some bizarre reason)

>>5052078

yeah nobody cares about those extra features
if you need to use a USB kb/m and not ps/2 than you are doing it wrong
windows 98 looks like web 0.9 adware shit
windows 95 looks like a pure virgin

>>5051059
Can't even remember what it was. But it was slow shitty b&w. But still impressive for mid 80s

>>5051579
>but if you didn't own the cartridge you had to delete it after 24 hours
how did they verify that you owned the cartridge or not?

>>5051059
I think it was an NES game. Probably Mario or Metroid. Back in my day it took an hour to download Chrono Trigger.

Also, RIP plasticman and oneminuteleft :(

Pokemon blue or earthbound

>>5051059
Zelda 2. I remember the music being fucked back then

>>5051221
I remember that shit. In the second city it all just changed to glitched characters