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Ex-emulation support group. Post your horror stories related to emulation and how it has affected your life. Pic related.

>> No.5185136

https://www.myinstants.com/media/sounds/crickets.swf.mp3

>> No.5185141

>Post your horror stories related to emulation
I emulated Clock Tower, nearly shat my pants

>and how it has affected your life.
Clock Tower is now my favorite game

>> No.5185150

>>5185131
>Post your horror stories related to emulation and how it has affected your life.
Emulation redpilled me into not paying good money for vintage plastique from ebay, maybe just an everdrive and my favorite console. The horror!

>> No.5185153

I once purchased a 599$ cd blank to burn my roms onto!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>> No.5185154

It ruined my marriage and i lost my job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>> No.5185157

But i still love metal slug. HEAVY MACHINEGUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>> No.5185180

>>5185131
Emulation made me realize that for every company that's still around like Bethesda or Activision or Nintendo, etc, who regularly have 9 figure budgets on games and still have the nerve to complain about their own customers "stealing" from them and how they have trouble paying their bills... for each of those companies, there are 1000 games made by no-name developers that tried their hardest and got no fame or fortune or anything.

They are the people who spent what meager budget they had wisely and the game still ended up being shit, the people who still don't get paid anything despite physical copies of their games being worth thousands of dollars on ebay now due to scarcity, the people who had the nerve to try out some weird idea that for whatever reason never caught on.

>> No.5185317

Anyone got a link to that?

>> No.5185326

But seriously Neo Geo collecting destroys lives (and minds), you're better off developing a meth habit or getting into gay prostitution

>> No.5185431
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>>5185131
I started emulating about 15 years ago, but back then even SNES ran shitty on anything that wasn't a powerhouse, but it was still worth it.

The intermediate years were up and down as I ditched some systems abd hoarded others when the prospects of passable Saturn emulation threatened to be doomed forever.

But gloriously breakthroughs were made and I was finally able to emulate even it and I could long last have a 100% CRT free house.

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>>5185431
>100% CRT free house.
Let me guess, the wife's son prefers LCD? /bait

>> No.5185504

>>5185431
You definitely didn't emulate 15 years ago if you "had issues" emulating SNES. That is some made up fantasy shit right here people.

An Athlon XP could demolish SNES at 2x resolution with filters. With a mid grade 9xxx ATI gpu.

>> No.5185539

>>5185504
>15 years ago
That was about 1992 right?

You're right, 12-14 years ago you could have emulated snes on a psp with no problems. You could emulate snes all day long in 2003 with any toaster around, even if you still had a W98 computer like I did.

>> No.5185543

>>5185504
Ehh I still remember SD3 running like ass when I first tried playing it and that was probably not much before 2003, it was in the 00's at least. There was some embellishment, I am just making fun of this thread after all

>> No.5185546

>>5185539
The psp actually does a far worse job than any 2003 pc ever did. But, it was also mobile hardware back when we didn't have a majority of our focus on mobile hardware.

>> No.5185551

>>5185546
Oh, I'm not arguing that, I'm just saying, it was even possible on a PSP, meaning computers of the time had no problem at all.

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>>5185131
>Expecting literally anyone to read that monstrosity of a caps-lock mess.

>Post your horror stories related to emulation
I emulate Armored Core and Ace Combat, my two favorite PS2 series, regularly and it's very fun. I enjoy the higher screen resolution a lot. Playing Ace Combat with a HOTAS is great, too.

>Post your horror stories related to emulation
I am now better at Armored Core and Ace Combat. Emulation got me interested in hacking/modding Ps2 games, specifically Armored Core. Emulation helps test changes quickly due to how fast it is to load up an .iso file. I got knee deep in a hex editor and learned all sort of things about programming and computers. Things like strings, ints, floats, their lengths, data formats, PS2 technical information etc... It got me interested in programming to help make hacking Armored Core a little easier, even though many of these programs didn't come to fruition. I didn't stop programming, though, and later programmed things unrelated to modding games. The result is that I enjoy my favorite games even more, having learned how they work internally, and I have become a better user of computers. Emulation has made me a better person and inspired me to expand my horizons.

If you're one of those "muh original hardware people," good on you. I can see the joy in collecting that stuff, and the nostalgia that comes with it. But don't demonize emulation just because I want more control over how I enjoy my software.

>> No.5185561

Emulation lacks soul, it can never recreate the true 90s gamer vibe. It’s like masturbation vs. sex with the real thing.

>> No.5185578

>>5185561
I think the "soul" is how much of your own soul you wanna invest in it. I enjoyed games I could never play the proper way (because eurofag) on emulation as much as I enjoyed the actual carts on the real consoles.

I am one of those guys that think the game itself is the important part though, so feel free to disagree.

>> No.5185580

>>5185431
The Dreamcast default date is 20 years behind to the day. (11/27/1998)

>> No.5185597

>>5185561
>It’s like masturbation vs. sex with the real thing.

Your example would be truer if it were paying a prostitute to have sex or masturbating. Both will get you off, one might be better but it costs a shit ton more.

Of course this example is for people who weren't alive back in /vr/ times and didn't buy games when they were cheap. I'm lucky that I didn't miss the boat and grew up then, but in the last couple years there have been a few games I had to re-buy (or ones I missed) and it felt as dirty as I'd imagine it would paying a prostitute for sex.

>> No.5185671

>>5185131
some people can't separate the software offers as an experience and the experience of shopping hardware; yes they are related, yes it's not same global experience playing the game without having bought the hardware or carts, playing it on TV set. However, the software/code, like it or, not standouts by itself and can be delivered in different ways.

>> No.5185710

>emulate everything for years
>fall for the hardware meme, spend a ton of money on consoles and flash carts and expensive PVMs
>eventually realize this isn't actually any better than emulating
>go back to emulation

>> No.5185780

>>5185710
who was that?

>> No.5185791

>>5185780
Not him but me

>> No.5185805

David Perez posted that 17 years ago.I wonder where he is now.

>> No.5185861

>>5185131
>2001

nigga how in the fuck do you have a neo-geo.com screenshot that old?

>> No.5186264

>>5185861
are you saying you don't?

>> No.5186356

Wow, that person has some kind of anxiety disorder I'm guessing?

>> No.5187201

>>5185131
Emulation made me bad at video games because I spent the early 2000s heavily abusing savestates in ZSNES instead of getting good like I had to on actual consoles.

>> No.5187203

>>5187201
lucky for you flash carts have save states

>> No.5187263

>>5185131
>horror stories
Once upon a time there was a board on 4chan where adults came to talk about their old toys
Then a bunch of redditots came along and started talking about emulation
So the whole place went to shit and no one lived happily ever after
The End

>> No.5187356

Been emulating since late 90s. I am 25 years old and I dont regret it, games are expensive on Brazil.

>> No.5187364

>>5187263
>old people don't emulate

>> No.5187378

>>5187263
all your old shit will die one day. emulation is the only path towards immortalizing video games unless you want to rebuild everything in a new engine.. rare but its happened a few times like with daggerfal

>> No.5187389

>>5185131
> 2001
> real hardware is better than emulation!
> written by some shit posting no-name on some shit-tier forum
thanks for giving us all fucking cancer, op.
>>5185150
indeed, anon. same.

>> No.5187403

>>5187356
>on Brazil
I think you mean "in Brazil."

>> No.5187425

>>5187403
bitch stfu “u” and “i” are next to each other on my iphone keyboard stop hating u broke ass nigga we all know that it was supposed to be “in Brazil” u fuckin try-hard lame ass old loser

>> No.5187427

>>5185710
wait wtf, this actually happened to somebody??

>> No.5187430

>>5187425
sorry i meant
>”o” and “i”

>> No.5188003

>>5187403
Hahaha thats right, gotta work on my broken english.

Funny thing is that I’ve played Pokemon on an emulator before I got my own gameboy and that was my first exposure to english. Unironically it helped me a lot to learn something

>> No.5188024

>>5188003
You're doing fine man, I guarantee your English is way the fuck better than his Portuguese will ever be.

>> No.5188037

>>5185431
Literally had an e-machine celeron that was a Christmas gift to the family in 1999 that couldn't run Max Payne 1 at a and I was able to play SNES games just fine on it with emulators 15 years ago. What were you trying to emulate them on?

>> No.5188872

>>5187364
>talking about something is the same as doing it
>talking about is the same as incessantly shitposting

>>5187378
I have shit older than you that will be working just fine after you die. The first Star Trek replicator capable of accurately reproducing a VCS will die long before the last real VCS does. But keep telling yourself that being a poor emufag is a noble cause.

>> No.5189278

>>5187403
Technically we're all on our country instead of in it because we live on the surface of the land instead of underground

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>>5189278

>> No.5189380

>>5187427
Happens to everyone when they grow up, kiddo.

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>>5188872
No one cares m8

>> No.5189620

>>5188872
>criticizes someone for shitposting while shitposting

>> No.5189793

>>5188872
So what? I'm allowed to emulate just never mention it in case it wounds your delicate sensibilities? You poor baby!

>> No.5189836

I emulated the psone port of diablo one

>> No.5190332

emulation is like a gateway drug to real gaming.
you start out small, using save-states and cheats, and before you know it, you're neck-deep in modded consoles and piles of plastic trying to get imported euro carts to run properly through your framemeister.
It's really sick what happens to you people.

>> No.5190606

>>5190332
>trying to get imported euro carts to run properly through your framemeister.
Once you buy a framemeister, the disease is terminal and it's time to kys.

>> No.5191501

>>5185431
>about 15 years ago, but back then even SNES ran shitty on anything that wasn't a powerhouse
I'm gonna go with Bullshit for $500, Alex.
snes9x ran perfectly fine on my families budget store-bought eMachines PC back in 2001.