>Your face when you discovered emulation

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Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:24:23 2014 No.1375989 [Reply] [Original]

>Your face when you discovered emulation

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:24:23 2014 No.1375990 File: 56 KB, 128x128, Doom Guy.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Best day of my life

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:27:22 2014 No.1375993 File: 22 KB, 228x281, 1390157651069.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:31:22 2014 No.1376001 File: 12 KB, 261x177, 1391229078209.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:31:52 2014 No.1376002 File: 30 KB, 384x367, grounder-is-surprise.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1375990 this I was a freshman in HS

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:32:22 2014 No.1376005 I used to own a retro video game shop and you little emulation punks ran me out of business because everyone decided they would rather steal a copy of Earthbound online than pay $150 for it. Fuck off.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:33:22 2014 No.1376006 File: 87 KB, 106x147, 1390529859365.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Life was never the same. I was the coolest guy in school

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:33:22 2014 No.1376007 >>1376005 >$150 0/10

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:33:52 2014 No.1376008 File: 228 KB, 943x648, 1388953894507.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:34:22 2014 No.1376010 File: 996 KB, 150x148, 1388697844244.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1376005 I know the caption says op but it's actually you

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:34:22 2014 No.1376012 File: 11 KB, 501x585, jew.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >First thing tomorrow I'm buying a 20-pack of floppies and getting rich off my classmates

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:34:52 2014 No.1376014 File: 127 KB, 250x375, screech_lgl[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It was iNES

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:35:23 2014 No.1376016 File: 34 KB, 210x226, mel-gibson-expressionless.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1375989 "I can have all of the games? ...Forever?"

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:36:22 2014 No.1376018 File: 52 KB, 364x366, ngbbs4a44372e3ad88.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] My mind was blown. It was the coolest thing ever to be able to play games on my computer, WITHOUT PAYING

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:42:23 2014 No.1376027 >>1376012 http://youtu.be/zOBroA2NPNY Don't copy that floppy!

Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:44:23 2014 No.1376031

>2009
>Gameboy SP had been broken for a while now, but I really want to play Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga
>Google "How to play GBA games on the computer" jokingly, expecting nothing at all
>Bunch of links, suspected all to be virus with a false promise then moved on
>Spot a yahoo answers
>"Same question I had?"
>Top answer "emulator-zone.com for machines,
coolroms.com for games"
>All below answers similar
>Visual Boy Advance
what a day
i know i masturbated four times that day as a reward for finding the golden ticket

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:48:23 2014 No.1376037 I remember dicking around with Genecyst and ZSNES back in DOS. Glorious.

Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:48:53 2014 No.1376040
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Emulation helped me play a lot of classics for the first time like Super Metroid, Yoshi's Island, and Kirby Super Star.

>mfw playing Pokemon Gold on the computer before it officially came out in the US.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:49:23 2014 No.1376045 >>1376031 I'm surprised how EmuParadise is able to host all the roms and isos that it does. I've gotten quite a few PS2 games from there, and it's pretty much at the peak of my connection, so something like MGS3 takes 10 minutes total.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:53:53 2014 No.1376051 File: 127 KB, 481x352, end.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1376027

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:56:23 2014 No.1376058 >>1376040 >Best thing ever >Not ketchup I call bullshit on that image.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:56:54 2014 No.1376061 File: 15 KB, 269x254, 1363379356162.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] "Th-they made another Metroid... after Super??? AND ITS ON THE COMPUTER!?!?" - one day 2003 my friend pulls Fusion up on his PC and I freak out.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 31 23:59:53 2014 No.1376068 I used that old NES emulator with the bloody hand. Shit was cool. First game I ever played on it was Batman for NES and then shadow of the Ninja. BLEW MY MIND

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 00:09:25 2014 No.1376086

>>1376068

Nesticle.

Somebody loaded that onto all the computers at school. I don't think I fully comprehended it at the time, but I remember playing Final Fantasy I and Kirby's Adventure during lunch hour. I didn't know how to download new games, so I always just played whatever other people had downloaded to the machine.

Then one time I copied the shortcut to a floppy disk, thinking that was the entire program. I was disappointed when it didn't run on my home PC.

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 00:11:55 2014 No.1376091
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>PC at school
>NESticle
>"What kinda hacker shit is this?"
>..
>CV1.NES
>CV2.NES
>CV3.NES
>LOZ.NES
>LOZ2.NES
>SMB.NES
>SMB2.NES
>SMB3.NES
>TETRIS.NES

>"Is that Super Mario Bros. 3?"
>Pick SMB3.NES

>mfw

>One week later return to class with burned CDs that had MAME and every decent game on it. And installed on every PC in class.
>No one passed that class that year...

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 00:19:25 2014 No.1376096 >>1376091 We used to have Project 64 in a hidden folder on our schools global network until some teacher found out and removed it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 00:30:13 2014 No.1376114 >>1376096 Kids would put their roms in a directory with like 20 subfolders, thinking nobody would find them there, not knowing the admins could just search the network by name.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 00:32:12 2014 No.1376119 >>1376114 >>1376096 Your highschools sucked, my teachers would play counter strike and snes games with us in the computer labs after school.

Legion of Anon Sat Feb 1 00:46:12 2014 No.1376145
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No lie, I literally fucking salivated at the thought of playing all my old games(that, at the time, I thought I'd never see/play again) plus new ones that I'd only ever heard of.

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 00:49:42 2014 No.1376148
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currently using this for my emulation.
I use it for GBA, genesis, and SNES but it does more than that.
It also has a camera, plays mp3s, holds SD cards, can view video on it and more only 47 bucks.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 00:52:12 2014 No.1376156 >>1376031 Holy shit you only discovered gameboy emulation in 2009 and thought it was a virus. You are a fucking newfag aren't you

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 00:56:42 2014 No.1376159 >>1376148 Too fucking small

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 00:58:42 2014 No.1376163 File: 164 KB, 499x351, 1391234318024.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1375989 My world was never the same...

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 00:59:12 2014 No.1376169 >>1376027 that's 90s as fuck also, reactions

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 01:05:12 2014 No.1376178 >>1376031 >2009 >"spot a yahoo answers" as your way of figuring out information What the fuck, that's like my grandparents trying to use the computer.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 01:05:42 2014 No.1376179 >>1376027 >[retarded dancing]

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 01:07:12 2014 No.1376184 >>1376163 Kinda amazing that the people who made that originally started out with some really shitty MK clone for PC.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 01:19:43 2014 No.1376212 >>1376005 >$150 No you fuck off!

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 01:27:42 2014 No.1376219
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>Read on old video-game magazine from the 90's while taking a shit.
>Chuckle to myself when I think how I could download every single game that was reviewed in 5 minutes.
>Wonder why I thought that paying £45 for mega drive games was reasonable.

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 01:27:42 2014 No.1376220

>try out ZSNES way back when it was popular
>first game I try is unplayable due to the transparency bug
>the other games I try are extremely clunky because I have no gamepad
>give up after a few hours

>a few years later, decide to CFW my PSP for piracy purposes
>discover the wonderful world of PSP emulators, which even back then were far more playable (I owned a PSP, I'm used to dealing with 20fps)
>at that exact moment, my face is severed in a freak pencil-sharpener accident
>mfw

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 01:29:42 2014 No.1376224 >>1376220 >my face is severed in a freak pencil-sharpener accident Gonna have to explain what happened here.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 01:31:42 2014 No.1376229 File: 22 KB, 480x360, thatsthejoke[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1376224

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 01:33:42 2014 No.1376234 File: 135 KB, 1179x675, 1350402010368.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1376229 I don't care about some damn joke. I wanna know more about the pencil sharpener accident.

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 01:41:12 2014 No.1376243
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I remember buying a CD full with NeoGeo games and a floppy with Sonic 2 for like 2 dollar. I was blown at the fact i could play Metal Slug everyday. Later i got from a friend a copy of Snes with like 500 roms. Was the shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 02:18:47 2014 No.1376276 File: 23 KB, 350x291, 1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw Back then NES was pretty much the only reliable emulation. Still awesome though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 02:26:17 2014 No.1376286 File: 54 KB, 361x365, crying-bear.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] and I was never the same.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 02:28:17 2014 No.1376290 File: 93 KB, 320x501, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] And this is the music that played http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0adMRtaA450

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 02:33:47 2014 No.1376295 File: 696 KB, 576x601, 1359073325974.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] That day was wonderful and full of magic. I even called my sister on the phone the told her I was playing The Legend of Zelda on the PC. She didn't believe me.

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 02:40:17 2014 No.1376304
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I was trying to run a japanese ROM of Pokemon Gold, back in 1999, but the emulator wouldn't work properly, direction input didn't work.

Anyway, when I could finally emulate it was great, but I also hated playing with the keyboard, I didn't fully enjoyed emulation until I got an USB pad to play, and a video card that allowed me to have a video out connection to my CRT TV. This was many years later so I didn't really enjoy emulation all that much at first.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 02:43:47 2014 No.1376309 File: 201 KB, 400x567, 1387770309716.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] pure joy is the best way to describe it. i remember i put some nes emulator i forget the name of on the school file network, and i always brought a controller to play with.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 02:45:17 2014 No.1376315 File: 79 KB, 254x151, 1391240756484.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I had the worst NES emulator for the longest time, and it was the only thing I had. Then I found a Gameboy emulator that was perfect Then I discovered Wayforward

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 02:50:47 2014 No.1376320 File: 1.89 MB, 336x199, edge-wrestler-gif.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Oh yes...

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 04:11:50 2014 No.1376389
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Heh... Genecyst, Nesticle and NO$GMB sold loads of old shitty PCs for me around 2003.

Got ex-school Pentium 1s for free, but they'd pulled the HDDs. Could only get <1GB HDDs for free, but with some work I could fit Win98, Office and a stack of games on 210MB drives.

Set them up at a local auction. As long as Sonic, Mario or Pokemon was on the screen I was getting $40 to $80 each depending on the day.

Preferred to play on real hardware myself at least back then. Usually play on emulators now because lazy.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 04:46:09 2014 No.1376427 >>1376234 HE MADE THAT UP BECAUSE HE DIDN'T FIND AN APPROPRIATE REACTION IMAGE

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 04:48:39 2014 No.1376429 File: 1.97 MB, 2617x1963, 1349148901533.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1376427 Bullshit. No one would make up such a tragic incident.

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 05:18:39 2014 No.1376460

I discovered emulation in the late 90s and even then I thought it wasnt something that could replace the real thing. It was kind of nice to try out all the NES games I only read about in magazines but NES carts at this time could be bought for almost nothing anyway. Guess it would have been different if I had discovered emulation as a kid

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 06:41:45 2014 No.1376543 File: 35 KB, 464x665, how.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] "I can play all of the Super Nintendo games? For free?" then there was the summer I spent playing MAME. What a fucking amazing year that was.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 06:55:15 2014 No.1376558 >>1376086 >Then one time I copied the shortcut to a floppy disk, thinking that was the entire program. YOU FUCKING I miss DOS and W95. Those were the times My first emulator was an old GB one with Pokemon. Then Nesticle, ZSNES, DGen...

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 07:09:32 2014 No.1376571 I was banned from my video games as a kid, for not doing homework. All I had was a Compaq with Windows 98 and ZSNES and a few other emulators. I played through so many games with a keyboard.

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 07:42:02 2014 No.1376604
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>in '98, my parents got our first PC from a store my cousin worked at, and he burned MAME, and a shitload of ROMS onto a CD-ROM for me.
and thus began a wonderful voyage of discovery.
Revisiting games I'd seen on machines down pubs, and Skegness arcades. Playing renowned classics I'd only heard of. Finding out Super Mario Bros. was very different from Mario Bros. Falling in love with pretty much everything in the Neo-Geo catagory. Encountering games like Gals Panic, Zero Zone, and Side Pocket, and having the embarrassment of making excuses to friends as to why they were under the 'favourites' tab. So many co-op games of Metal Slug, Shock Troopers, Ghostbusters, Growl, etc, etc.
That PC, with MAME, Carmageddon 2, and Quake 2 on it, as well as all the PS1 goodness, and Pokemon Blue, made 98 such a good fucking year.

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 07:42:02 2014 No.1376605

Then:
>ask your dad if you can use the internet
>turn on the PC with the modem on it
>BEEEP BRLZBRLRZTBLT TWEEEEYOOO RRNNNKKRRNNKRNKKK
>go to your favorite ROM site
>download Chrono Trigger
>wait 15 minutes
>finally done
>split the 4MB file up into parts with Total Commander
>put each one on an old floppy you're not sure if it even wors anymore
>transfer all parts to your own piece of shit Pentium and join them
>one floppy was corrupted, try again
>finally join the files succesffuly and start playing
>it was the Japanese version
>begin all over again
>finally put 100 hours of playtime into Chrono Trigger
>make screenshots and cut out all the cool sprites for your collection

Now
>look at a ROM site to find games you haven't played yet
>just download a huge pack of ROMs
>play each one for five minutes
>go back to 4chan

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 08:36:35 2014 No.1376663
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>15th birthday
>cousin is over because of Hurricane Katrina
>tells me he has this thing that lets him play N64 games
>boots up Project 64
>we spend the entire night play Super Smash Bros and Mario Kart 64
>my face

>>1376604
>and thus began a wonderful voyage of discovery

I'm that way now after downloading every single ZX Spectrum game (2,400 in total). Thank god the torrent came with instructions for them, because otherwise I'd be completely lost

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 09:48:24 2014 No.1376729 [DELETED]

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>Want to play SNES
>Get out Flashcart
>"I wish I could play Metal Slug"
>"Anon, why don't you just play those on yoru computer"
>"But Emulation still sucks"
>SNES9x is good now
>mfw playing Metal Slug three days straight.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 10:51:13 2014 No.1376784 I went into my brothers room once and I saw him playing FF6 on the PC and I was really confused. Then he showed me Chrono Trigger which I hadn't even heard of before (it was never released in Europe before the DS port) and a whole world opened to me.

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 11:16:42 2014 No.1376814

This might be the wrong place given that the retro deadline is considered the Dreamcast but I'm building a new computer and I intent to emulate PS2/CG/Wii games. I'm getting a GTX 780, is it going to be enough or would you guys recommend going for the 780Ti for better performance?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 11:30:42 2014 No.1376835 >>1376814 emulating those consoles (and pretty much anything else) is CPU dependent, not GPU

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 11:32:42 2014 No.1376837 >>1376835 is a 3.4GHz i5 enough? or should I grab an i7?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 11:46:12 2014 No.1376862 >>1376148 Bought that were, anon? Does it play N64 and Dreamcast?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 11:58:12 2014 No.1376881 >>1375989 Holy shit, must've been 2001 or 2002, I was about 10 or 11. Seeing all those roms just blew my mind, fuck. Amazing. First game I played as a rom was Lufia 2.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 12:03:12 2014 No.1376887 I discovered emulation when I found a floppy disk in my school's computer room full of Spice Girls nude pictures and a folder with Genecyst plus a bunch of Sonic and Streets of Rage games.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 12:05:50 2014 No.1376890 >>1376027 They actually made an official sequel to that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCyvw4w_yk

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 12:09:49 2014 No.1376898 >>1376837 I have an old i5 750 @ 2.6 GHz and it handles those consoles fine, so either one should work

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 12:10:20 2014 No.1376901

My first experience playing a game all the way through was the English patched FF5 on ZSNES in 1999. My feelings were something along the lines of:

>Holy shit I'm actually playing a SNES game on a PC"
>I'm playing a game from the other side of the Earth
>What the hell this game actually exists
>There are people hacking and translating games from Japan
>Why the hell didn't they release this

It only got better when I found Seiken Densetsu 3. Best winter vacation I had.

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 12:11:49 2014 No.1376904
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>>1376096
Back in High School our computer admin fucked up or something and made a network drive that could only be accessed by student accounts. After a few days the thing was filled with movies, games and gay porn.

>mfw someone replaced a guys multimedia project with gay porn then submitted it

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 12:42:35 2014 No.1376943 >>1376890 wtf, why are there klingons?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 12:47:36 2014 No.1376951 >>1376887 >floppy disk >holding more than two genesis roms

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 12:52:05 2014 No.1376953
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Ah, I still remember it.

>Sometime in 2001 my mother gave my SNES and some of my games thinking I didn't need it/use them anymore
>So much rage

And I regretted being so close beating Sigma in X1 and never been able to finish him.

Circa 2002 or 2003, I was 13 years old, a friend showed me Visual Boy Advance, me not believing such thing existed...

Then it began a journey of finding more things. VBA lagged to hell and back in my old piece of shit Windows 98, and ZSNES had no transparency effects. I then discovered SNES9x and finally finished that circle... AND got to play various gems!

However... Even with a cheapo gamepad for PC, I didn't felt like it was the same as playing on a console in front of an old TV.

>2008, I find out Wii can emulate retro consoles via modding
>2010 I finally get one, and got a classic controller and many things to make my experience as enjoyable as possible with my Sony Trinitron.

It also came to me in a good time, since 2009 more or less I began to feel dissapointment torwards 7th generation videogames, being mostly "realistic movies", with brown and gray. And FPSs.

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 12:55:08 2014 No.1376960
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I tried and tried and tried but I could not get emulation to work. I understood the gist of it but I had so many troubles.

But I kept with it. And eventually after screwing with ZSNES time and time again, I tried to run FF3.

And then this screen faded in.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 13:00:37 2014 No.1376964 >>1376951 Now that I think about it, it really shouldn't...how strange. But I'm really sure I got a floppy disk that day with some Sonic and Streets of Rage games...

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 13:03:07 2014 No.1376970 >>1376290 >http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0adMRtaA450 Really? What game has that on startup?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 13:16:38 2014 No.1376992 playing pokemon with a friend on no$gb. You could set it two player emulation, so we played pokemon together.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 13:28:37 2014 No.1377014 File: 27 KB, 500x377, 1391102638327.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I seriously could not contain myself.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 14:27:56 2014 No.1377136 File: 52 KB, 180x180, 1352522886111.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >I- I can play Zelda... on my computer? >But I need a controlle- >... >I can use my keyboard...?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 14:37:56 2014 No.1377157 File: 72 KB, 245x269, 1351740338483.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] When I first got an internet connection I discovered porn and emulation on the same day and stayed up for about 30 hours just jacking off and hoarding roms in parallel.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 14:41:26 2014 No.1377163 I remember it well. 2005, a friend links me to this awesome program he found called VBA. That was where it all started.

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Anonymous Sat Feb 1 15:10:14 2014 No.1377267
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>>1376045
I wish they'd get their shit together with redbook PC CDROM games. Every CD DOS game I've ever gotten from EmuParadise lacked music, and IsoZone's new hosting site (cloudstor.es) doesn't work on my ISP for whatever reason.

It was '01 or '02; I was 12 or 13. Demon's Crest was the first game I played to completion in an emulator. Using the keyboard!

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 15:27:30 2014 No.1377309 File: 39 KB, 460x232, 1390936876343.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] That was my face when I first launched Pokemon Red on my PC. Pretty sure the emulator I used was called Rew.

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 15:27:30 2014 No.1377310
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What a fucking day. I remember it like it was yesterday....

as a 12 year old 6th grader in the year of 1999, I was sick and home from school, right before the winter break was starting up. My first system was a super nintendo and I loved playing rpgs. Both of my parents were at work, and for some reason they were okay with me using my dad's laptop computer (probably because i havent discovered porn quite yet lel)

I fired up the compaq laptop, used the dialup internet and signed on through aol 4.0, and went lurking on a final fantasy website that i frequented. I learned that, I could play nes games, download them, and play them whenever I wanted? My parents would be ok with that, I thought, that way I'm not interrupting the phone line while I'm on the computer.

Admittedly I was not the brightest of 6th graders and I struggled to figure out what the hell a zipped file was, and what it meant to extract all that shit, but through the better half of the morning/early afternoon, I made it work, and by the time school was out, I was already an hour into an english translated version of ff3 for the nes.

I was living the 12 year old dream, playing rpgs that i was itching to play but never had the means.

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 15:38:31 2014 No.1377338
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>1996
>14 years old
>My parents never allowed me to own more than 1 gaming platform at a time
>Their logic was I'd become too addicted to gaming and forget about studies
>Whenever I got a new game console I had to get rid of the previous one
>Get my first PC that year
>Parents force me to get rid of all my gaming stuff since PC can play games
>Don't own any game consoles anymore
>Love my DOS fps, adventure and simulation games but really miss my Sega Saturn and also Atari 2600, NES, SMS, Genesis and SNES I previously had

>1997
>First learn about emulation through an article in a pc gaming magazine
>Article talks about available emulators for each system and links for downloading emulators and roms
>Didn't even usually buy that magazine, only bought it to pass time during a weekend trip to some relatives house
>mfw I learn that I can play Atari 2600 (Stella), NES (Nesticle), SMS (BRSMS) and Genesis (Genecyst) on my computer
>Can't wait to come back from the trip, get on the internet and try them

After I came back I tried them, everything worked and it was pretty fun. Then I learn about Snes9x (which didn't even have a GUI neither working sound back then and ran at about 20 fps on my computer) and NeoRAGE (same as Snes9x). But it was mesmerizing seeing Super Mario World and The King of Fighters 96 running and being playable on my computer, even with shitty framerates and no sound.

>mf again w I realized joke's on my parents, now I can play every game ever made for almost every system I've owned before and some I never owned

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 15:41:00 2014 No.1377343 File: 36 KB, 346x386, 1379294647442.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw discovering MAME

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 15:42:00 2014 No.1377346 File: 18 KB, 238x231, wet dream.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >emulation

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 15:52:16 2014 No.1377381 >>1376960 are you the guy who keeps bitching about the haunted train

NESfag Sat Feb 1 16:02:16 2014 No.1377419

-I discovered it at the age of around 9-10 I think, playing Nesticle under DOS. A friend of my brother gave us a few floppy with the emulator and about 100 games.

I was playing it using a fake SNES pad for it that came with the PC version of Streets Racer.

I discovered tons of games included famicom exclusives. I remember enjoying a lot Kyatto Ninden Teyandee as well as Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout for which I wrote down every password for each level on a piece of paper... and also Zombie Nations kicked my ass.

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 16:21:32 2014 No.1377478
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>2003
>Sister's bf is cool guy
>classic gamer and popular as tits
>introduces me to emulation
>plays Super KKK Bros. (SMB hack, you can guess what it i)
>laughing my ass off
>hands me a CD upon which he's burned emulators for NES, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, etc.

Best fucking day of my life.
He later ended up giving me his spare fat DS as a birthday present.

He left the picture after my sister slept with someone else. She ruined everything.

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 16:23:03 2014 No.1377492
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>Was 7 years old, 1997, a cold winter day
>Weekly visit to nans and uncles house as usual
>Was bored sitting around
>Cousins on the computer playing some shit
>He sees me bored
>"hey anon, come over here for a minute"
>Shows me and explains what emulation is
>His playing Pokemon on the computer
>I play it for like 30 minutes, amazed
>He then shows me what piracy is
>Loads Napster for music, Some dodgy pirate site for ISOs and ROMs and movies and shit
>mfw I learned everything I know now from this example

teach the young ones anons, give them the wisdom.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 16:27:02 2014 No.1377509 I was the fucking king of 2nd Grade, with my DBZ games, and Japanese versions of Gold and Silver. I blew several minds beyond belief >tfw im not special anymore

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 16:35:32 2014 No.1377540 >>1377492 >teach the young ones anons, give them the wisdom. Oh, but I did. Too bad he's one of those "if it's more than a year old, it's outdated shit" kids, who only plays games (most of the time online) that are currently popular.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 16:40:02 2014 No.1377561 File: 7 KB, 246x258, 1331685618024.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 16:40:32 2014 No.1377559 >>1377540 He's going to grow up to be a popular kid. Be happy for him because he's better than you.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 16:40:32 2014 No.1377560 >>1377478 beat the shit out of your whore sister

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 16:42:32 2014 No.1377573 >>1377478 >my sister slept with someone else >She ruined everything. Bitches and whores.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 16:43:32 2014 No.1377576 >>1377560 She no longer lives with us, she's moved out (older sister). He was seriously the closest thing I've had to a brother. I hated growing up as the only boy in the house.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 16:44:02 2014 No.1377581 File: 649 KB, 810x1080, 1384810842215.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1375989 that was a good year to live in

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 16:46:32 2014 No.1377591 >>1377559 cod kids arent the popular kids...

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 16:52:02 2014 No.1377617 File: 24 KB, 289x296, booboo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 16:58:02 2014 No.1377636 File: 30 KB, 400x400, 1306271857911.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hah jokes on you guys when I was back in my old shitty country, everything was literally emulated/pirated >mfw people actually paid huge amounts of cash for a game

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 17:12:02 2014 No.1377664

>>1377492
Woah dude. Where were you pirating digital movies in 1997? I'm roughly the same age as you, and I knew how to copy a music CD, and I was aware of technical wizards who could work some form of black magic to copy Blockbuster rentals for the PSX, but most people had dial-up internet and hard drives with the storage space of a couple single-layer DVDs. I didn't see people downloading movies until BitTorrent became a big thing. I knew a guy who had uncensored Jap-audio DBZ episodes from Kazaa, but even that was probably around '01 or '02.

>>1377540
Ugh. My little bro is like that. I hacked his Wii and gave him my PS2 with a hacked memory card, and between the emulators on those two systems I gave him every NES, SES, and Genesis game, as well as a bunch of PS2 games, some of which I went out of my way to download a his request over a period of weeks on my shitty satellite ISP. Any time I come home he's playing a new PS3 interactive movie.

He likes the anime I burn him, anyway. He loves Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell and Princess Mononoke. I'm gonna save Berserk and Spawn and the like for when he's a rebellious teenager.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 17:18:02 2014 No.1377680 >>1376970 No, thats the music that was playing in my head...ethereal...transcendent.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 17:27:02 2014 No.1377696 >>1377157 Man that must be like the greatest day of a kid's life right there.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 17:44:32 2014 No.1377731 >>1377636 You're welcome.

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 17:48:32 2014 No.1377740

>>1377664
>Woah dude. Where were you pirating digital movies in 1997?
Different anon. I remember downloading music videos in the late 90s. An MP3 was 3-5mb and the corresponding video was like 50mb so it usually wasn't worth it unless you really liked the song. I would start a download, go eat dinner and watch some TV, and come back to find it just finished.

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 17:51:32 2014 No.1377746

>>1377478
>take an HTML class at community college when I was like 12 and it was the new hot shit
>instructor is a few years older than me, seems like the coolest guy in the world
>burns me a copy of Windows 2000 and shows me how to use emulators and cracked PC games
I don't remember his name but I'll never forget visiting MegaGames for the first time

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 18:56:39 2014 No.1377930

>>1377664
Well I remember downloading full movies over dial-up back in 1999. More specifically, I remember downloading Star Wars Ep 1 and the first Pokemon movie (japanese subbed). And they were both in the same format:

>camrip
>.rmvb
>Around 90 MB filesize

It took each movie around half a day to download over dial-up. Sound and picture quality were on par with an old VHS tape recorded multiple times over in EP mode. But back then it was still an awesome feeling to be able to download movies over the internet that were still airing in cinemas (one of them not even airing in America yet) and watch them on your computer.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 19:04:26 2014 No.1377956 File: 6 KB, 236x285, HEY PAUL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1375989 >all dose games i loved and more shit I've missed out on >all on da computer >Gravis Gamepad Pro >mfw

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 19:13:40 2014 No.1377980 File: 32 KB, 111x171, 1378777644170.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This was everyone's avatar back then. OoT only ran at like 3fps. N64 emulation hasn't gotten much better since.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 19:15:40 2014 No.1377985 >>1377930 >.rmvb So this is a conversation I overheard the other day: >I wonder how dated the Facebook movie is going to be in ten years. Why didn't they make a RealPlayer movie back in the 90s? >They did. It's still buffering.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 19:16:40 2014 No.1377991 >>1377985 8/10 I smiled then I chuckled.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 19:28:10 2014 No.1378018 >>1377338 >They tried to protect you >You turned out to be a weaboo neckbeard videogame loving fag that browses 4chan all day

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 19:31:40 2014 No.1378025 >>1376005 >$150 your entire business didn't run on Earthbound did it

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 20:03:43 2014 No.1378118 File: 29 KB, 900x677, 1391303015392.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Basically shat myself

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 20:11:14 2014 No.1378132
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>>1377956
>trying to make the goddamn gamepad pro work with anything but Windows 95 and DirectInput
USB HID is the single best thing to happen to PC gaming in the last 20 years. Getting a single decent gamepad working was a fucking nightmare, let alone trying to get multiplayer going.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 20:18:13 2014 No.1378147 >>1378018 Hahaha, true. My parents were very controlling, and I think it backfired. Sometimes I wonder if I'd become a better adjusted adult if they'd left me on my own. On the other hand, maybe not. Maybe I'd be like CWC or worse.

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 20:24:00 2014 No.1378162
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>poorfag
>favorite game was Oracle of Seasons
>always wanted to play Oracle of Ages but when I had the money I couldn't find it in stores
>despair

>find out about emulation
>mfw I can finally play Oracle of Ages

I used my Seasons password to make it a linked game, and it was good.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 20:32:29 2014 No.1378181 >>1378162 that was a cute story anon

Anonymous Sat Feb 1 20:43:17 2014 No.1378216

>>1378181
I was single-minded as a kid. Yeah, it hit me later that I could play literally any Game Boy game, but when I first heard I could play games on the computer (by an older cousin, by the way), the first thing I thought about was Ages.

I remember my cousin had hundreds of games, and he actually only had the Jap version of it, but he taught me how to find them so I dowloaded the the emulator and the English version of it when I got home.

Anon, did you have one specific game you always wanted to play and then suddenly you could?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 21:21:46 2014 No.1378281 File: 17 KB, 400x398, th_thanks.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >2006-7 >want to play Mother 3 so badly >ask mom if she could import a copy >find out about emulation >heck yes >ask /v/ about emulation >they spoil that The Masked Man is Claus

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 1 22:08:46 2014 No.1378348 >>1378281 >heck yes lol

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 2 04:44:04 2014 No.1378960 File: 1018 KB, 500x291, fuck.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw I discovered watching youtube walkthroughs is better than playing emulations

Anonymous Sun Feb 2 09:48:16 2014 No.1379275

>friend of mine lends me his pen drive that had VBA with a bunch of games in it
>finally able to play 3rd Gen Pokemon

Shame it was that bugged copy of Ruby where you couldn't see the floor in the fire gym due to the fog. Only years later I realized this wasn't intentional.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 2 09:58:46 2014 No.1379285 File: 37 KB, 600x491, cap26.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >middle school computer class >going to vimms and using zsnes >tfw trying to play all the Square and Enix games before they had translations

Anonymous Sun Feb 2 12:23:03 2014 No.1379476
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Someone showed me a probably singel digit % translated pokémon silver. And pointed me to some site.
He was computer savvy, I was not, but after that I had the words "rom" and "emulator" and the curiosity of a kid to start using the (much slower) internet and start searching.

It wasn't an easy quest. I had to tread through many porn and pop up filled top 100 rom sites that looped around each other endlessly.
It wasn't like today where just inserting the name of a game prompts into "...rom/iso download". I had to search for the source and it took ages and effort. Then I still had to know how to make the emulators work.

It was all worth it.

Kids these days have a better search engine and everything ready for them with their fast internet and they are still dumb enough to think it's hard and complex. Much like fixing PC games takes like 5 minutes.

If I actually had a PC at age 6 like I asked my mom enumerous times I could have grown to be a hacker and work for NASA.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 2 12:39:03 2014 No.1379503 File: 773 KB, 320x240, well played.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1379476 > playing Mario 64 on UltraHLE way back when in the when > "You mean I can play fully working Mario 64 on my computer whenever?" Very . nicely . done . gentlemen.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 2 14:57:15 2014 No.1379760 File: 17 KB, 500x300, 1388852470486.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1375989 It was a day full of joy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 2 15:18:15 2014 No.1379804 File: 79 KB, 407x317, nyoron.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1377985 >They did. It's still buffering. Ouch. Just perfect.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 2 15:25:46 2014 No.1379825 File: 51 KB, 660x415, humpback2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >discover SNES emulation >"Everyone says FF3 is one of the best games ever, time to try this out" >boot rom >my face when

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 2 15:51:36 2014 No.1379905 I found this shit out when I was a kid when I was like 11, or so. Playing snes games on pc was so good.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 2 15:57:36 2014 No.1379919 File: 17 KB, 240x226, 1388912817510.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw I have always known about emulation, my stepdad used to emulate frogger, elevator action, root beer tapper, crazy climber >mfw I have always been a gamer

Anonymous Sun Feb 2 16:20:06 2014 No.1379965
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>Searching for game related stuff online in 2000
>"Dude, emulate that game! It's so good" on forum
>E-moo-late?
>Look it up and get a SNES emulator
>Download a MMX2 rom
>Mind completely blown at seeing a SNES game boot up on pc
>Download the rest of the SNES games I used to play the hell out of
>Do everything on keyboard until I finally buy a controller

Anonymous Sun Feb 2 16:27:36 2014 No.1379986
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>>1379965
> Tetris Attack on keyboard.
> RAKKA-TAKKA-RAKKA-TAKKA-RAKKA-TAKKA-RAKKA-TAKKA-RAKKA-TAKKA-RAKKA-TAKKA-RAKKA-TAKKA-RAKKA-TAKKA-RAKKA-TAKKA-RAKKA-TAKKA-RAKKA-TAKKA-RAKKA-TAKKA-RAKKA-TAKKA-RAKKA-TAKKA-RAKKA-TAKKA-RAKKA-TAKKA-RAKKA-TAKKA
Fucking in-vin-ci-ble.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 2 16:35:36 2014 No.1380013 File: 36 KB, 278x253, mcduck.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Knowing that I could play every game ever made me feel like a rich man.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 2 16:41:10 2014 No.1380034 File: 1.39 MB, 200x150, 1388449050684.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1379919 mfw I was a playing those original games your dad was emulating

Anonymous Sun Feb 2 16:42:40 2014 No.1380039
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>Downloading Nintendo 64 emulator with games from Kazaa in 2001 with crappy PC from 1999.
>TFW Ocarina of Time plays without 2D assets.

>No text.
>No HUD.
>No pause menu.

>Take days to figure out how to equip sword and shield.
>Take months to figure out how to C-equip shit.
>Take weeks to figure out how to get to the lower parts of the Deku Tree.
>Take days to get past Kaepora without seeing the text.
>Meet Zelda and learn first Ocarina song after months of playing. No fucking clue anymore.

I gave in that day and went out and bought a legit N64 cart and played the game properly.
A few years later I discovered SNES emulation, and reached like eleven planes of nirvana since that was a console I never had as a child.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 2 16:44:40 2014 No.1380048 File: 49 KB, 468x600, 1382655920023.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1380034 >mfw you're old

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 2 17:05:10 2014 No.1380105 File: 22 KB, 429x423, 1289872946026.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1380048 mfw I know... (;_;)

Anonymous Sun Feb 2 17:12:40 2014 No.1380119

>>1380048
Is this just a general consideration for being old? I found a weird scenario at a used shop today where a guy working at the place said that the 3DO they had for sale was older than he was, which then made me realize that '94 was 20 years ago. Hard to believe, even when I was scarcely aware of my Mario Land 2 at that time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 2 17:20:10 2014 No.1380130 >>1380119 Well technically I'm the youngest possible allowed on this website without being b&, which is still 18. So you're the least amount of old...but yes. You are old.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 2 17:23:40 2014 No.1380136 It's weird to think that I was actually the right age for Pokemon. (Being 10 y.o. in 1998.) I always thought that I was slightly too old for Pokemon, but naw it was for me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 2 17:27:10 2014 No.1380146 >>1380130 just curious: What age do you consider to be old?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 2 17:36:41 2014 No.1380163 >allowed to go online for a few hours a week >downloading ROMs while browsing porn sites on 56k >grab some guides of Gamefaqs in case I get stuck

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 00:00:44 2014 No.1381124 >>1380146 Well like most teens he probably thinks anyone above 25 is old >>1380130 To be honest you sound like a 14 year old at most

>>	random fact Anonymous Mon Feb 3 00:06:14 2014 No.1381138 It's interesting that when reading early XX. century novels men in their mid thirties were considered young.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 00:52:03 2014 No.1381239 >>1381138 Being exactly 35 years old, this makes me feel somewhat better. Thanks.

Anonymous Mon Feb 3 01:02:20 2014 No.1381257

This seems like a good enough place to ask. I downloaded epsxe so I could play me some jade cocoon, but when I try to load the ISO two boxes pop up saying:
>missing render texture extension
>no pixel format available
As far as I know I downloaded all the crap you need to make the epsxe work (A bio, a sizable plugin-pack that included GPUs, winasp, and zlib). What am I doing wrong?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 01:33:20 2014 No.1381291 File: 19 KB, 309x309, tumblr_n01n9rLhtF1qc1jg4o1_400.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1380119 >mfw 3DO is a few months older than I am

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 01:38:20 2014 No.1381301 >>1381257 Did you remember to actually select and configure your plugins? Also, use PCSX-R for better compatibility.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 01:40:20 2014 No.1381303 File: 2.99 MB, 194x162, 4534843.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >All these games I can play

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 01:42:50 2014 No.1381304 >>1381301 Just downloaded pcsxr. Do I need to download a bunch of crap for it, transfer over my epsxe stuff, or is it all-inclusive?

Anonymous Mon Feb 3 02:07:20 2014 No.1381348

>>1381304
nvm, got epsxe working. The problem was that I had the wrong driver selected (the pack I got came with like 20 of them, several of which were "pete's" whatever, and I didn't have anything more specific to go off of in terms of which one to go with). So yeah, trial and error.

Anonymous Mon Feb 3 02:09:20 2014 No.1381351
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http://www.consoleclassix.com/

used that site back in like, 2006 before I realized you didn't have to submit to adware and whatnot to just run the emulators on your computer.

I played a lot of NES games since they were the free ones, SNES needed a special license or something.

Mfw I used to play Castlevania with my wireless keyboard under a blanket on the couch across from my pc so my mom couldn't see me playing, I would just alt+tab out when she walked by

I was a pretty stupid 13 year old

Anonymous Mon Feb 3 02:33:21 2014 No.1381369 [DELETED]

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>>1381304 Dude forget about PCSXR or ePSXe. Go for pSX, has by far the highest game compatibility and you dont have to deal with stupid shit like plugins, though you cant use nifty stuff like D3D rendering and filters, I pesonally dont mind, I like my games pixelated as fuck belive it or not.

Now in topic:

>mfw I have always known emulation
>all of my early chilhood gaming was made on a shitty W98 machine
>playing battletoads vs double dragon, blades of vengenace, etc., on fusion
>playing psx games with emurayden through a bunch of pirated psx discs
>mfw the only console I've had was a dreamcast, and my sister had one of those NES knock-offs that apparently never existed according to her
>mfw I'm 17 yo and probably have a better emulation setup than all you shitfuckers together
>seriously take a look at pic related
>over 60 gb's on emulators and roms
>all worthy machines except the X68k included
>Full sets for all cartridge/diskette/cassette based machines except the Amiga and Atari ST

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 02:35:20 2014 No.1381370 >>1381369 Also Forgot to say that I'm missing the PS2, gamecube and wii because my computer cant handle them

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 02:37:20 2014 No.1381371 >>1381369 Congratulations on knowing how to download things.

Anonymous Mon Feb 3 02:38:20 2014 No.1381372

Oh man, it was way back when Gundam Wing was airing on Cartoon Network. I was lucky enough to have a computer in my room back then, and was browsing some Gundam Wing fan site when I came across a posting about a Gundam Wing game for the SNES that included a download link for ZSNES, an english patched ROM of the game and a link to Zophar's Domain. I already had gamepad that my mom had bought me one birthday along with some PC games, so I was set.

Anonymous Mon Feb 3 02:42:50 2014 No.1381378

My neighbor came over and downloaded Nesticles and Mega Man 1-6.

I beat the fuck out of them over summer.

After that we tried to find Mega Man X4 because I wanted to try a Playstation Mega Man, but we Never found it because we always searched for a rom instead of the iso.

After that I got SNES9x and Rockman and Forte, and then after that I got into RPGs.

Better days.

Anonymous Mon Feb 3 02:46:21 2014 No.1381381

It was 1996-97 and I had free run of the macs in our science lab before school. I remember getting a NES emulator to kind of run and it was pretty buggy.

I didn't think much of it, but I saw the promise. I kind of forgot it and tried to do it again that summer at home on the PC after surfing Zophars. spent the summer gaming it up.

went on IRC a lot, hung out in #emu

its been double edged for me. I love the opportunity to play, but I find I appreciate the games less because I didn't pay for them. if the game doesnt grab me in the first few minutes I've got thousands of others to choose from.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 02:50:50 2014 No.1381383 >>1381371 Yeah, not much of a work at all, click some shit wait a while and you're ready to go, but its surprising how unorganized people tend to be when dealing with this type of shit.

Anonymous Mon Feb 3 03:02:26 2014 No.1381390
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oh god i had nights like that

>tfw i discovered warez sites and mp3s in the mid 90s
>my brother told me that mp3s were stupid and took up too much space (compared to midi files)
>whines about it being illegal

and then napster became a thing and now he is the one who got a subpoena for torrenting evil angel porn

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 03:03:26 2014 No.1381392 File: 7 KB, 191x142, 1391414494623.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1381369 >mfw I'm 17 yo and probably have a better emulation setup than all you shitfuckers together >I'm 17 yo

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 03:17:56 2014 No.1381405 File: 29 KB, 512x384, 1384392901018.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1381369 you have yabause and satourne but not ssf

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 03:24:26 2014 No.1381410 >>1381369 >not using xebra/arbex for ps1 emulation you're doing it wrong

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 03:55:59 2014 No.1381442 File: 584 KB, 716x716, (())((.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1381369 >I'm 17 yo r u fkn srs r u fkn srs

Anonymous Mon Feb 3 04:03:29 2014 No.1381449 [DELETED]

>>1381405
Excuse me good sir for missing one single thing for a console I'm barely starting to emulate.

>>1381392
? You dont need to be of a certain age to enjoy older games

>>1381410
Talk about obscure japanese emulators. Never heard of it, gonna try it out.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 04:05:29 2014 No.1381450 >>1381442 Yo as in years old if thats what you mean. If thats not it it's probably some sort 4chan trope you're using that I ignore.

Anonymous Mon Feb 3 04:09:59 2014 No.1381453

Dude, I love pSX. I really do and am a fag that recomend it here often. It's optimized for toasters and simple for idiots.

But hell no that it has the highest compatibility rate. Most copy-protected titles and many obscure titles have problems running or even going past the intro screen.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 04:17:29 2014 No.1381467 >>1381453 Yeah you're right but its the one that will play the most known games that people play the most. Its not perfect but its the better one for most games, and if you have a problem with some games then you use ePSXe or PCSXR or what have you.

Anonymous Mon Feb 3 05:12:02 2014 No.1381518 [DELETED]

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>>1381449
>>1381450
motherfucker I understood you, it's the point is that being underage on 4chan is b& material
>pic related; what will probably happen to you if you keep mentioning that shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 05:13:32 2014 No.1381520 >>1381449 >You dont need to be of a certain age to enjoy older games But you do to post on this imageboard. Enjoy your ban, kid.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 05:40:32 2014 No.1381545 But isnt this a SFW board? BTW does ban in 4chan unable you from posting in this board or all boards? (not that I care about that at all)

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 05:41:02 2014 No.1381547 >>1381545 Global rule 2: >If you are under the age of 18, or it is illegal for you to view the materials contained on this website, discontinue browsing immediately.

Anonymous Mon Feb 3 05:57:32 2014 No.1381556 [DELETED]

>>1381547
The rules also say this:

"6.The quality of posts is extremely important to this community. Contributors are encouraged to provide high-quality images and informative comments"

So you can look over 2nd rule I think. Either way I dont thing an admin will ban somebody that isnt very far from 18.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 06:06:02 2014 No.1381561 >>1381556 It's to cover moots ass for legal reasons.

Anonymous Mon Feb 3 06:38:51 2014 No.1381585
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>Get a CD from the market when about 8 with all the classic sonic games on it.
>Sitting on it for years and just decide to take it to school to play on.
>Give it to everyone in I.T class.
>mfw by lunch time all the year 7 kids are playing Sonic in the Library.

It was crazy how fast games could spread back in high school.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 09:40:14 2014 No.1381776 >>1376027 http://youtu.be/OWPfcEOr2Yg

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 13:59:10 2014 No.1382139 >>1376058 >ketchup shittiest condiment out of all of them, get some fucking taste kid

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 14:05:28 2014 No.1382145 >retroarch >NTSC shader for muh scanlines >retrolink USB adapters >original console controllers >no-intro rom sets truly the best way to enjoy these games now. it's pretty much perfect.

Anonymous Mon Feb 3 14:11:28 2014 No.1382163

the one emulator that is easiest to operate will often be the most used, mainly because of the amount of people that wants to play but can't into pc at all, even more on countries where English is not the official language, for 5 years or maybe more that crappy VGS was sought and sold like hot pancakes on Poland since you only had to put a disk on the cd rom and hit play

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 14:13:28 2014 No.1382168 >>1382145 >muh scanlines why do you like those on? to me they don't look like the games did on old TVs

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 14:15:28 2014 No.1382172 >>1382145 >uses filters >USB adapters >emulation this truly is ferpection

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 14:15:59 2014 No.1382174 File: 74 KB, 1280x720, 1391454936748.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1377343

Anonymous Mon Feb 3 14:27:28 2014 No.1382204
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>be around 11
>browsing the internet because we just switched from dial-up to broadband
>amazed at how fast it was
>find something titled "how to play SNES games on a computer"
>downloaded all that shit
>I also discovered hentai that same day because there was an ad for it on the site I got the roms from

it was truly glorious

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 14:40:29 2014 No.1382221 >>1381585 this exactly happened to me except I downloaded them

Anonymous Mon Feb 3 14:48:58 2014 No.1382237
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>it's 1998
>nine years old
>casually browsing the internet for nintendo related sites as usual, discover a place serving nes games
>download donkey kong and several other games, they were tiny enough to finish quickly and fit on my floppy
>unzip, try to execute the .nes files
>none would run
>mfw

it took a while longer until i discovered nesticle and zsnes. not knowing english at the time didn't make the process easier

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 15:19:02 2014 No.1382303 Barely remember the nineties as a kid. First thing i learned to do on a computer was download and play roms. I think i got them off of rom-reactor but that site is dead as far as i know.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 15:21:33 2014 No.1382305 File: 52 KB, 518x593, orgasm face.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Mon Feb 3 16:34:03 2014 No.1382465

>>1381138
>>1381239
It's even more interesting when you consider that life expectancy in early 20th century used to be a lot lower and people started their adult lives a lot earlier. So theoretically people in their mid thirthies should be considered old senile geezers if they adopted today's standards.

Just shows how much youth-obsessed, immediatist and vain our culture is today I guess..

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 17:08:02 2014 No.1382516 >>1382139 no dude, pikachu loves ketchup, thats the joke

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 17:54:39 2014 No.1382585 File: 152 KB, 500x478, 1386226669304.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw the 17 yo kid's posts and many posts responding to him are now baleeted

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 18:01:39 2014 No.1382594 File: 660 KB, 4046x4046, 1386226669305.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1382585 >mfw he can't point out the one post he has left in this thread without admitting to being underage b&

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 3 18:03:09 2014 No.1382601 File: 1.68 MB, 294x195, bOBvqXQ.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] d-fend,eau..good times

Anonymous Mon Feb 3 20:07:30 2014 No.1382868
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My brother took private lessons of math to catch up with his class, and his teacher, a 30 something guy brought home a disc with MAME and Metal Slug and Metal Slug 2 on it, along with a lot of shmup.
Eventually years later when I got broadband I found out about SNES emulation, first game I finished was Chrono Trigger because a magazine I used to read as a kid always reccomended it but I never found it in stores.

Anonymous Tue Feb 4 00:28:14 2014 No.1383457
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>hear about gba emulation
>look up emulation
>just find the definition of the word "emulate" on Wikipedia
>figure it out when I get to freshman year of high school and actually learn shit about computers
>mfw I'm finally able to play Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories since I was never able after seeing that commercial around Christmas time when it first came out

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 4 00:34:44 2014 No.1383471 >>1382516 Pikachu confirmed for shit taste.

Anonymous Tue Feb 4 00:52:14 2014 No.1383512
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>>1375989
It only recently occurred to me that I can easily emulate PS1 games. I already had RetroArch set up and ready to go. There's now a whole new world of games I missed out on.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 4 01:16:44 2014 No.1383547 >>1382585 Always nice to see mods clearing the filth out.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 4 01:51:17 2014 No.1383614 File: 80 KB, 295x295, 1391468555157.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1375989

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 4 02:22:20 2014 No.1383680 I remember my big brother playing SNES games back in the 90's, he played the whole game of Robotech with no sound, I also remember this Genesis emulator that was dripping blood everywhere, and I played games like Comix Zone.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 4 02:26:22 2014 No.1383690 Looking back, it was probably the worst day in my life playing games. I spent a decade in that rabbit hole.

Anonymous Tue Feb 4 03:39:52 2014 No.1383797
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be like 12 i think
>no more "mom/dad please raise my allowance"
>no more "I hope those demo cabinets arent occupied again"
>no more "Time to go, son", "almost done! 5 more minutes!", "No, NOW" while at the mall arcade while trying to finish The Simpsons/Marvel vs.
>no more going to my greedy/rich friend's house who wont let me play the games i wanted
>no more "I'm sorry anon, I lost your game. Can i come over and borrow that?"
>all that money...saved

Anonymous Tue Feb 4 06:50:35 2014 No.1383995
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>>1375989
>"You mean I can get any game ever? For free?"

Since then, I've torrented every game for NES, Super NES, Genesis, n64, GBC, GBA and retro Arcade. I'm working on Playstation and Gamecube at the moment, but I'll probably run out of disk space till then.

Now I can just type in the name of any game, and it's there. Life is good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 4 07:14:35 2014 No.1384005 File: 2.88 MB, 240x180, 1391192399849.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 4 07:34:09 2014 No.1384015 >>1375989 Kitty :3

Anonymous Tue Feb 4 07:59:39 2014 No.1384036
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>see friend playing Pokemon on computer
>ask him how he did that
>"Oh, just look up an emulator anon."
>Go home, download VBA and Metroid Fusion
And everything was just golden.

>>1377492
>teach the young ones anons, give them the wisdom.
Oh good god I tried, but I gave up after watching my sisters' fail to get VBA working on my laptop.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 4 08:08:39 2014 No.1384040 >>1384036 I have taught all my friends about it. I study IT, and all the guys in my class and I just play Doom over the network and emulate old games.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 4 09:50:14 2014 No.1384137 >>1382585 >>1383547 Too bad there are lots of other pretty obvious underage b& in this thread.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 4 10:06:44 2014 No.1384159 Too bad emulation will never compare to the experience you get on playing on an old boob-tube TV having the game take full screen and not be obnoxiously upscaled, and being able to use a controller and actually enjoy having a physical copy of the game.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 4 10:12:17 2014 No.1384164 >>1384159 Guess what. I'm still having fun.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 4 10:13:46 2014 No.1384165 >>1384164 >im still having buzzword Anyone who has fun is actually playing games right now and not posting on /v/

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 4 10:15:46 2014 No.1384168 File: 13 KB, 360x361, bait 1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1384159

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 4 10:16:46 2014 No.1384169 File: 110 KB, 625x626, 1368818174421.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1384165

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 4 10:22:47 2014 No.1384176 >>1384159 I have controllers hooked up to my computer through a USB converter, though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 4 16:22:48 2014 No.1384934 File: 21 KB, 400x353, 1372362869336.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1375989 >mfw discovering emulation >mfw playing PSX games on my computer

>>	IaTM Tue Feb 4 18:44:38 2014 No.1385329 >>1384165 >fun is a buzzword God dammit /vr/, it hasn't even been a year. Please don't get any worse. We're the only /v/ board people don't hate yet.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 4 22:50:59 2014 No.1385851 >>1384159 >not putting emulators on your wii and using a classic controller to play them You're the cancer, anon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 4 23:38:04 2014 No.1385937 File: 884 KB, 500x450, 1391549599263.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i was like >pic releated

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 4 23:43:34 2014 No.1385941 >>1384159 you are one ignorant nigger

Anonymous Wed Feb 5 00:16:05 2014 No.1386007
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Shit when I discovered emulation I was still using a 33.6 modem. 2.5KBps was a good download speed and I had to wait 10-15 minutes for a Mega Drive rom to download. But fucking hell- dat feel when a whole MD library in a CD...

And then I took a look at three bookshelves worth of games I'd amassed over the years after many a lunch/b-day money saved, chore done and parent annoyed.

>mfw

I still have them all.

Anonymous Wed Feb 5 02:04:08 2014 No.1386194

>>1382204
>I also discovered hentai that same day because there was an ad for it on the site I got the roms from

Was it one of those things where you had to vote for the site to be put on some list no one ever fucking used and it always had some hentai image to get your attention? With shit like exhentai I wonder if people still pay for stuff like Hentai Key.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 5 02:13:07 2014 No.1386217 >>1385329 >We're the only /v/ board people don't hate yet. Except /v/ talks shit about this board all the time. And yes even though it's really shocking the things that post on /v/ are people.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 5 02:17:37 2014 No.1386225 >>1386217 >Except /v/ talks shit about this board all the time >/v/'s opinion counting at all for any reason ever We're not complete shit yet. There's hope.

>>	IaTM Wed Feb 5 02:18:37 2014 No.1386232 >>1386217 >Except /v/ talks shit about this board all the time. What could they say?

Anonymous Wed Feb 5 03:51:29 2014 No.1386332

>>1386217
When I was on /v/ I saw plenty of threads dedicated to talking shit about /tg/, which is usually agreed as the best board on this site. /v/ is filled with people anonymously being angry because that's all they think /v/ is capable of.

sage for meta.

Anonymous Wed Feb 5 04:02:49 2014 No.1386341
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>was very young
>brother was 6 years older than me
>he knew a bit about the internet
>i hated playing cricket
>brother always said he'd get me tons of free games if I keep bowling to him
>bowl to him for hours on end
>weeks later he gets around to getting me free games
>tfw Paperboy 2 and that's it
>accidentally fuck the computer up and harddrive needs to be formatted
>play cricket again for hours just to get paperboy 2 again
>one day realise I could search how to get free games
>figure it out
>never play faggot cricket with my brother again
>paperboy 2 all day erryday
>mfw

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 5 05:20:39 2014 No.1386389 >>1386341 wat

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 5 09:32:46 2014 No.1386645 File: 564 KB, 222x160, ha haa.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw discovered PCSX2

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 5 09:37:46 2014 No.1386651 File: 47 KB, 872x595, anymore.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1386645 >mfw I didn't have a strong enough PC for it until recently

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 5 09:54:46 2014 No.1386669 File: 56 KB, 400x300, Sperm.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1375989 Your face when I discovered emulation.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 5 19:45:10 2014 No.1387769 Ran OOT at 6fps in '01 or '02 but I was still amazed.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 5 19:51:12 2014 No.1387782 >>1386669 I saw a ton of those on your mom's face.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 5 19:56:12 2014 No.1387798 File: 25 KB, 335x327, 1373664865766.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Playing RC Pro AM, Kid Icarus, Zelda, Kung Fu, Ikari Warriors 2, Metal Gear, etc..on NES again. All that nostalgia comes flooding back. Good times.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 5 20:09:12 2014 No.1387837 File: 147 KB, 855x483, 1365225990485.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Wed Feb 5 20:38:42 2014 No.1387910
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I downloaded what I think must have been epsxe and tried to play FFVII with my actual disks. The opening fmv was choppy as fuck then froze. Became slightly buttflustered and deleted everything. I can't even remember what specs that pc had.

Took a few years later when some kid on omegle told me he was playing Earthbound and gave me a link for zsnes. Emulate everything now

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 5 20:43:12 2014 No.1387920 >>1377636 You are from Brazil, aren't you? I totally feel you man For me piracy was the normal thing until the goddamn blu-rays came along

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 5 21:08:16 2014 No.1387964 >>1378216 GTA. Played it for fucking hours.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 5 21:13:46 2014 No.1387972 >>1381239 Happy birthday

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 5 21:14:16 2014 No.1387974 File: 754 KB, 149x175, 1387283581024.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1380048 >mfw I played all those games in real arcade form as a kid too >28 years old

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 5 21:27:16 2014 No.1387991 File: 482 KB, 300x300, what is that music from.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1386651 >tfw finally playing SOTC, but it has massive slowdown, except for around most of the colossi (Basaran and Pelagia were the worst offenders)

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 5 21:46:48 2014 No.1388016 >>1385851 I actually jumped onto this so I would be playing games on a big TV easily, but the controls for the emulators I use feel very delayed, I dunno.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 5 21:51:48 2014 No.1388026 >>1386194 >still pay for stuff like Hentai Key Wait, what?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 5 21:53:18 2014 No.1388029 >>1388026 People actually pay for porn on the internet. I know, I know.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 5 21:55:48 2014 No.1388037 >>1388029 It's just crazy to think about with how easy it is to download gig after gig of it now for free compared to browsing random sites back then for a few images

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 13:02:02 2014 No.1389096 >>1387782 My mom's turning 90 this year Stifler

Anonymous Thu Feb 6 13:11:32 2014 No.1389107
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>>1388029
To be fair some times it's impossible to find a certain girl porn for free, so i have paid a couple times, it's not just paying for generic porn but paying for more of that girl that you crave at that moment

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 13:13:33 2014 No.1389110 File: 6 KB, 293x172, 01.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Am I in heaven ?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 13:15:02 2014 No.1389119 >>1389107 See, I can kinda understand that (it's not like I pirate every game), but instead of paying I'd still just skip to the next name on my list.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 13:23:31 2014 No.1389137 File: 78 KB, 999x434, 344554.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] hey guys can I get some emulation help? I want to play Sweet Home, but it's an .IPS file. I opened it with NEStopia and I get this message. Any help?

Anonymous Thu Feb 6 13:26:01 2014 No.1389142

>>1389137
an IPS file its a patch file, that is why nestopia says the target for that patch file could not be found

You need to get the original rom for that game and put both files (rom and ips file)on the same folder, both must have the same name i.e.

>Castlevania III.nes
>Castlevania III.ips

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 13:26:01 2014 No.1389145 >all these bullshit reactions >implying the first reaction to emulation isn't confusion and frustration from trying to get it to work

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 13:29:31 2014 No.1389149 >>1389145 >implying the first reaction to emulation isn't confusion and frustration from trying to get it to work Eh, may be for some people, but I read the readmes and forums before plunging headlong into it. There was no confusion, at all.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 13:30:33 2014 No.1389153 >>1389149 were you also 12 at that time?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 13:33:01 2014 No.1389160 >>1389149 Maybe my mistake was trying to emulate the PS1 first, but come on, this thread is an optimistic look to say the least, people certainly weren't in a super wonder world the first time they ran into an issue with an emulator.

Anonymous Thu Feb 6 13:36:31 2014 No.1389162

>>1389153
No, 14.
But I get your point.
>>1389160
Yeah, but it isn't too far fetched to claim joy at discovering emulation.
Discovering the hardships of it afterwards will obviously change your expression and may leave you feel molested, but for first reactions this thread doesn't look off to me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 13:50:01 2014 No.1389185 >>1389145 I had Gens. Download, run, open rom file. Quick and easy.

Anonymous Thu Feb 6 14:28:31 2014 No.1389249

>>1389160
I was because there was this kid in highschool on my bus when I was in elementary school playing OOT on the bus at 10fps on his shitty laptop. It was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. Frustration never came from emulators, it came more from a shitty dial up connection and a computer that always crashed.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 15:04:57 2014 No.1389326 >>1389142 Hey thanks man

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 16:21:46 2014 No.1389459 >running around the classrooms and shouting "i have an n64 on the pc :D :D" to all the girls because i got oot working on a certain poorly coded n64 emulator Oh god kill me

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 16:27:16 2014 No.1389463 >>1389459 In my experience, bitches love Zelda games. I've met so many women who were into OoT that never were the "nerdy" type.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 17:41:50 2014 No.1389581 File: 4 KB, 194x200, le corpsefucker faec xdxdxddd.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1375989

Anonymous Thu Feb 6 17:47:51 2014 No.1389592
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I've read about it in a video games magazine some time in the 90s and it blew my mind.

For some reason they've added the image of a NES-101 next to the article and for the longest time I believed that was some sort of cart-reading hardware for the PC.

Anonymous Thu Feb 6 18:35:38 2014 No.1389660
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>be 2001
>after another lousy day of high school
>go home to a new computer that actually has speakers for once
>find out that snes games can be played on a pc
>does more searches and downloads
>able to play games I haven't played in over a decade, only read about in magazines, haven't even heard of, and more

Anonymous Thu Feb 6 18:53:08 2014 No.1389676

>>1389145
I can say it was true for me.

1. I was 14, and already pretty computer literate back then. Even did stuff like removing copy protection for a couple of DOS games using hex editors, and some basic C programming.
2. I had read a magazine article about how emulators and roms worked beforehand
3. I would actually read readme files
4. Nesticle, BRSMS and Genecyst were all pretty straightforward to use. Download emulator, download rom, unzip emulator, unzip rom, run emulator, open rom, play. I'd say emulators today are actually more complicated.

The only trouble I had was finding out I had to manually turn on raster effects on Genecyst to make games like Road Rash work properly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 18:58:38 2014 No.1389685 >>1386669 They had emulation back in 1984? Impressive.

Anonymous Thu Feb 6 19:10:38 2014 No.1389709
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>HOLY SHIT SUPER MARIO WORLD ON MY PC
>Okay, okay, press Y to run.
>y
>y
>yyy
>yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
>pic related
>wtf this isn't working
Eventually I found out the default controls and made it to Vanilla Dome before giving up and going back to PS1

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 20:31:39 2014 No.1389806 >>1386645 How ironic, as God Hand hasn't worked worth a fuck on PCSX2 until very recently.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 20:50:08 2014 No.1389848 File: 139 KB, 1130x900, Carloak.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >MFW I'm a retard who can't figure out BIN files for PCSXR. Google says to just run it as an ISO but I just get a blank screen with no options. How do I fix it?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 20:58:08 2014 No.1389862 >>1389806 >recently I played it on PCSX2 around 2 years ago, it worked fine for me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 20:59:08 2014 No.1389864 >>1389848 What BIOS are you using?

Anonymous Thu Feb 6 21:05:08 2014 No.1389876
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I found out about it around when SNES emulators first started getting reliable
>Hanging out with my cousins playing some Smash 64
>One says he's bored, goes over to his computer
>My face when he starts playing Super Mario RPG

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 21:06:08 2014 No.1389879 >your face when the first time i played avideogame was on an emulator when i was 4 based nesticle.i had so many fucking roms consoles a shit :-)

Anonymous Thu Feb 6 21:12:47 2014 No.1389893
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> Be a computer kid
> Dad still gets lots of games on the computer
> Awesome 8-bit feel good + crazy PC98 fun
> Later learn I had been emulating stuff the entire time

Or "that feel when your dad soldered together a computer just so he could emulate stuff on it".

Anonymous Thu Feb 6 21:12:47 2014 No.1389894
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>>1377492
I've only got a younger sister, she doesn't play videogames much besides Phoenix Wright and Professor Layton, and whatever multiplayer stuff I had at the time. At least she's got pretty good taste in the little that she plays.

Anonymous Thu Feb 6 21:13:17 2014 No.1389895
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It was a strange experience, and sort of ruined me in a sense for a while. I just jumped from game to game to game, switching if it got too hard since there were a million other games to try.

It took me a while to actually work up the patience to actually sit and complete a game from start to finish without abusing save states, and ignore the thousands of other games I could potentially be playing instead.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 21:28:47 2014 No.1389913 File: 143 KB, 398x414, squire3.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >C64 on our Atari ST home computer? omg. (I couldn't get it to work, but then again I was like 10)

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 21:29:47 2014 No.1389915 >>1389895 oh god thats how i am right now, how did you get over it, anon?

Anonymous Thu Feb 6 21:39:47 2014 No.1389927

>>1389915

Just force yourself, and take it from me and everyone else that the experience will be worth it in the end.

Have a game in mind that you genuinely want to play (not just because you can), and see it through.

Otherwise, you're just wasting time. Man up if a game is too difficult, muster some patience if you find yourself getting bored and imagining the endless emulation library. Take a break, just don't burn out on meaningless sampling.

Hope that helps.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 21:50:17 2014 No.1389939 >>1389915 Watch Zetaplays. He is an ok reference considering how many games he plays. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vdYPj3_xFE

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 21:58:17 2014 No.1389947 >>1389927 >>1389939 thanks guys

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 22:02:47 2014 No.1389954 >Discover MAME in highschool >Do nothing for a week but skip school, listen to Can and play the Capcom D&D games

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 22:03:17 2014 No.1389956 >>1389947 Yes. There's thousands of games out there but he has a pretty good view. He plays a game long enough to form an opinion before stopping or continuing.

Anonymous Thu Feb 6 22:04:17 2014 No.1389959

First game I emulated was Metal Storm for the NES. It's probably my favourite NES game of all time, despite never playing it when it was actually out for the NES (which I owned at the time). I guess memories of emulation are stronger than those of actually playing the console

Anonymous Fri Feb 7 00:54:38 2014 No.1390268
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>>1389959
>I guess memories of emulation are stronger than those of actually playing the console
>mfw the only game consoles I've owned are a PS1, PS2, and Wii
>mfw I have great memories of games on old systems, though I never really go farther back than the NES and Master System

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 04:33:39 2014 No.1390504 File: 65 KB, 175x178, 1291937175828.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 04:38:40 2014 No.1390509 >Discover emulation >Get GBA and ps1 emulators >Replaying old games >None of them really compare to todays games >Just play Fire Emblem and Spiderman over and over Are there any games of those gens that actually aged decently enough to be fun today?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 04:57:09 2014 No.1390530 >>1390509 Why are you even on this board if you dont like old games?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 05:18:09 2014 No.1390556 File: 61 KB, 525x330, animu reaction image 03.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1390509 There are plenty. It would be easier to list some for you if you said what type of games you like. >responding to obvious bait

Anonymous Fri Feb 7 06:20:46 2014 No.1390646
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the first place I remember finding roms was something like Plasticman's Emulation World. After sharing the site with a friend and his brother, we were talking about the site and they asked if I'd gone to the other section of the site. The splash page at the beginning of the site had two choices: Plasticman's Emulation World and Plasticman's Hentai World.

What a discovery.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 06:23:46 2014 No.1390650 File: 90 KB, 320x224, 1391772224344.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1390530 >>1390556 why do you even care if he likes old games fuck that guy

Anonymous Fri Feb 7 06:48:46 2014 No.1390676
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> My first PC in 95
> Getting SF 2 on a floppy disk
> all those pc magazines with diskettes and cd

98

> my cousin had internet
> he downloaded a shit ton of nes and SNES (i played the NES but just the classics. I got a PS 1 the day it came out and was a sony guy. So i never played SNES)
> all those mega packs
> THAT DBZ game for the snes

> i still replay it

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 06:50:46 2014 No.1390679 >>1390676 my cousin told me there was a follow up to that game with the cell saga and buu saga i was so hyped when i got internet in 2001, searched and there wasn't such thing. the mother fucker.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 06:54:16 2014 No.1390687 >>1390676 Which one? I remember a lot of DBZ RPGs and a few fighting games, but which one is THAT one?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 07:12:16 2014 No.1390709 >>1390676 Hyper Dimension? That thing was sex.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 09:46:42 2014 No.1390914 It was fun at first but then i played some SNES games and realized they are shit. I installed Jedi Knight and AoE 2 and never looked back again. Fucking console scum.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 16:23:44 2014 No.1391653 File: 63 KB, 530x567, ultrafro-sun.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] > Discover emulation > What do you mean I can play ANYTHING made with the right hardware/software? > ANYTHING ohthepossibilities.gif

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 16:37:44 2014 No.1391678 >>1376276 >Getting into emulation when relaible emulators began existing. Newfag shit. iNES .5 bitch

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 17:42:44 2014 No.1391814 >>1377157 God damn, that beats mine. Hit level 60 in WoW (the cap at the time, took months back in the day) and had sex for the first time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 17:44:14 2014 No.1391820 File: 48 KB, 640x480, 1390198147415.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Discovered DOSBox So you are telling me I can play Magic Carpet AND Dark Sun: The Shattered Lands?

Anonymous Fri Feb 7 19:15:28 2014 No.1392062
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> Never limited by the use of physical consoles
> Can have all I want with just a push of a button, and some bandwidth
> Everything is mine and mine alone
> All this power over videogames
> No one can stop me
> mfw

Anonymous Fri Feb 7 19:18:28 2014 No.1392075

>>1391820
I'm grateful for DOSBox but they need to improve that shit. It's too inefficient. For most DOS FPS games I can't get 60+ FPS at resolutions higher than 320x240.

We should be able to play those old shooters at much higher resolutions and still get 60+FPS. I mean come on, they're fucking ancient.

Yeah I know, emulation requires a lot of resources. Still fuck that shit. DOSBox should be better.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 8 11:50:15 2014 No.1393576 >>1392075 Have you tried the latest SVN of the Daum fork? Look for DOSBox SVN Daum. It's the suggested version from the emulation general threads.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 8 13:44:24 2014 No.1393762 File: 182 KB, 1036x654, 1385315742062.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Discovered that my Sandisk Sansa with the Rockbox custom firmware can run GBC and GB games. Shame it was slower than it was supposed to be and couldn't play GBA games.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 8 13:47:24 2014 No.1393771 https://archive.org/details/MAME_0.151_ROMs enjoy, /vr/

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 8 14:10:24 2014 No.1393809 >>1393762 How the shit? That can't possibly be comfortable controlling anything at all.

Anonymous Sat Feb 8 23:47:04 2014 No.1394965

>>1377930
in 1997 it was either .rmvb or .viv

I remember watching Mortal Kombat Annhiliation in a postage-stamp-sized window in my browser opening week. .viv had some sort of black magic (I realize it was just streaming) that made it work whle it was downloading.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 9 16:14:09 2014 No.1396283 bump

Anonymous Sun Feb 9 16:23:39 2014 No.1396301
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>that one game you wanted to emulate years ago but you couldn't get it to work

what's her name, /vr/? pic related; I couldn't get Radiant Silvergun to work. I waited years to play it and it was more than I could have ever hoped for.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 9 16:52:39 2014 No.1396364 >>1396301 Space Station Silicon Valley N64 emulation is shit for anything that isn't the top 5 most popular games.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 9 17:02:27 2014 No.1396371 File: 1.93 MB, 320x454, deal with it.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I felt like an elite hacker god made man. I was like 12, I think. It was fucking awesome.

Anonymous Mon Feb 10 07:19:39 2014 No.1397581

>>1393809
It wasn't comfortable at all. You had to use the middle button for A, side button for B, play/menu/next/previous for a d pad and the rotating clicker for start/select depending on the way you were turning it.

It even played Doom and custom wads. First time I finished that game was on a bloody mp3 player.

Anonymous Mon Feb 10 14:33:37 2014 No.1398005
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>Live in ass-backwards country
>Barely any consoles or games get into the country and they're expensive as FUCK
>2001 browsing some random shitty probably geocities FF fan website
>random link says "play FF now"
>mfw this massive Library of games we never had was unlocked before me

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 10 15:09:37 2014 No.1398061 File: 141 KB, 280x268, neat.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] me on the right.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 10 15:14:07 2014 No.1398076 File: 29 KB, 500x500, 1376891078160.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw all the NES and SNES emulators I have ever tried have awful tearing, even after I turn on vsynch and play around with every tiny detail in video settings

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 10 18:12:55 2014 No.1398386 File: 96 KB, 250x193, get N.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1389145 >not having a bro-tier family member to teach you the exact methods of emulating

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 10 19:33:33 2014 No.1398506 >>1398005 That goat looks like Sarah Palin

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 10 19:57:03 2014 No.1398534 File: 76 KB, 600x800, BDLdF8PCAAEreIc.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 10 20:05:55 2014 No.1398543 File: 52 KB, 625x626, 1390703782197.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1398534

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 10 20:08:25 2014 No.1398549 >>1398534 ... m... MOM?!

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 10 20:32:25 2014 No.1398579 >>1398076 If you're enough of a patrician to get frustrated by that, you have no excuse for not trying RetroArch. It presents the gold standard for A/V sync

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 10 20:57:12 2014 No.1398635 >>1377309 >Rew I dunno if it was one of the best, but it was really simple to setup, I liked it. Is there a place where I can find it?

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