/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5657598]

>tfw you first get into emulation

[Anonymous No.5657608]

>>5657598
A weird sense of doubt and then the realization that "the future" finally did do something amazing.

[Anonymous No.5657627]

>>5657598
I was an early teen, so I didn't have the money or a method to buy whatever I wanted on ebay.
There were a ton of games that I've rented or played at other people's houses and I was legitimately depressed because I thought I'd never get a chance to play them again. Discovering emulation felt like this video.

[Anonymous No.5657634]

It’s like gay sex. You don’t want to like it, but the second you actually try it you realize it’s actually amazing. You still hold on to your collectorfag/straight status but you can’t deny how it felt when the head of your penis entered into that bro’s anus.

[Anonymous No.5657635]

>>5657634
Sounds a little, bro.

[Anonymous No.5657638]

*gay

Things I refuse to emulate: Neo Geo outside of MAME. Fuck that noise. It takes half an hour to boot some Neo Geo games on the Wii on homebrew.

[Anonymous No.5657670]

>>5657638
Why the fuck are you using a Wii, at all? You got meme’d hard son. A sealed Raspberry Pi is $25 and will run that shit in seconds. Or borrow your mom’s laptop. Here’s a hint, don’t listen to Nintendrones handing out advice here.

[Anonymous No.5657678]

>>5657670
>A sealed Raspberry Pi is $25 and will run that shit in seconds
Yeah. Right. Those can't handle Neo Geo and you know it. Wtf does "sealed" mean in relation to a Pi anyway?

[Anonymous No.5657694]

the moment I discovered emulation I stopped playing new games.

[Anonymous No.5657696]

>>5657694
based and piratepilled

[Anonymous No.5657745]

>>5657678
Which Neo-Geo game are you having trouble emulating on your pi? Oh, are you just an angry troll who doesn’t even know how to set one up? Whoopsies.
Sealed means new in box, newfag.

[Anonymous No.5657749]

>>5657745
>Sealed means new in box, newfag.
Why would that matter, idiot? Why am I wasting my time, you've clearly never even download a Neo Geo game. Pi's can't even Genesis and Super Nintendo well.

[Anonymous No.5657752]

>>5657749
Troll Wii shill confirmed. Buh bye pedo!

[Anonymous No.5657756]

I immediately scrambled to emulate Nintendo 64 and was dismayed to find out my pre-2000s toaster could barely play shit

[Anonymous No.5657757]

>>5657752
^check out this projecting pizza joint owner
Man, imagine being so stupid you can't hack a Wii. Must suck for you.

[Anonymous No.5657791]

Fucking around with early NESticle and playing all the games I had only rented or tried at friends' houses but never owned, discovering a million stupid hacks with dicks painted on everything, early translation attempts. Fucking with early DOS Snes9x and having to disable the transparency layer to see anything, but still feeling like we were doing forbidden wizard shit because the console was still semi-current and we were a Genesis house. MAME was similar to the NES in that we started wracking our brains looking for obscure ass games we had played once or twice and never saw again, and then getting current releases as they were dumped. Most of all I loved that I could finally play on a crystal clear VGA CRT with ultra sharp pixels and not on a blurry old garbage TV anymore

[Anonymous No.5657816]

>>5657598
I was in fourth grade and my poorfag friend, who's dad got a computer once, taught me the joys of emulation and how to use some unpopular but rising site called Google to find roms and emulators. Emulation has been one thing that has helped keep me going thru the years, even when a year has only kusoge there's still great stuff in the past.

[Anonymous No.5657868]

Discovered emulation with NESticle and Genecyst around Christmas 1997. I bought some WAREZ compilation CD from the greasy dude on our local market to play the original GTA.
Eventually got to poking around what else was on the disc, installed Genecyst with no real idea what an 'emulator' or 'ROMs' were. Watched their chiptuned up installer copying over 'Sonic.smd, Sonic2.smd, etc' and had a mix of excitement and 'Nah, that can't be a thing...' only to have my mind FUCKING BLOWN when I started it up.
Coincided with first getting internet access at home so it was a pretty short leap from there to 'eMuLaTiOn ToPsItEs VOTE FOR US TO ACCESS THE FILES' and diving down a rabbit hole.

[Anonymous No.5658637]

in 2001 i got arrested for downloading roms and had to do community service for 7 months. fucking nintendo made my life hell

[Anonymous No.5658640]

>>5657627
i was waiting for the dog to go apeshit and bite her face off or something
i was pleasantly surprised by wholesomeness

[Circuit Shitty No.5658956]

>>5657598

[Anonymous No.5658961]

>>5657749
are you implying the Wii can emulate Super Nintendo well? simply lol

[Anonymous No.5658962]

I think Mario RPG was the first game I emulated. Game I always wanted as a kid but the damn thing never seemed to drop in price.

[Anonymous No.5659478]

>>5658961
>are you implying the Wii can emulate Super Nintendo well? simply lol
Update your emulator because fuck yes. I can emulate Starfox 2 at full speed (the finished version and otherwise) and anything else as of last year, and I was behind.

[Anonymous No.5659484]

>>5659478
Enjoy your lag which is literally double the pi's lol

[Anonymous No.5659496]

>>5659484
>Enjoy your lag which is literally double the pi's lol
Lies. If anything it's the only way around, but aside from that, Pi's can't even play a bunch of games without have a seizure.

I got my Wii hooked to a 1980 TV and there is no lag; I can do things that supposedly in only possible with tools, so there's no fucking lag.

[Anonymous No.5659513]

>>5659496
>there is no lag
Having actually measured both systems down to the millisecond, I'm not even going to bother with you. Oh by the way the emulators on Wii don't even have the latest changes which the Pi's do. Enjoy your Nintendo!

[Anonymous No.5659520]

>>5659513
>I'm not even going to bother with you.
Thank God.

[Anonymous No.5659564]

>tfw you discover romhacks

[Anonymous No.5659735]

>>5659484
This is 100% wrong

[Anonymous No.5659742]

>>5659513
>Oh by the way the emulators on Wii don't even have the latest changes which the Pi's do.
LMAO 'the latest changes' can't stop the Pi from being an underpowered piece of shit, scrub. Nothing can. You should choose your battles better.

[Anonymous No.5659875]

>>5657868
Nice, I started with NESticle as well. I remember early days of N64 emulation which was pretty hilarious. Getting into MAME and PS1 emulation in early 2000s was pretty neat. Never thought the emulation scene would be where it is nowadays.

[Anonymous No.5659926]

>>5657598
>Summer 2010
>Age: 12, on the verge of 13 on the oncoming weeks
>Windows Vista PC, personally my mother's, but I lack any internet
>Head to my local library's computer room, wanted to play some Zelda for whatever reason, and then discovered emulation.
>Downloaded Zelda: Majora's Mask, along with an emulator via CoolROM, saved via USB stick I used for school.
>Unpacked contents: Project64 v1.6, and a ZIP file for Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
>Playing Zelda: Majora's Mask for the first time... on KEYBOARD
>Keyboard controls seems cumbersome at first, but I could easily adapt to it's factors
>For the first time, I was bewildered: Playing a console game on a computer. It was mindblowing to me, back then...

And lo, my endless crusade of Emulation domination had begun when I go back to the Library to download some more ROMs & emulators, usually the ones I used to play back then, until some things catch my eye and play out of curiosity.

[Anonymous No.5659943]

>>5659742
What are you on about? Can your Wii even play PS1, Dreamcast, or MAME? Huh? It can’t play ANY of those?! LMAO! I guess you just got BTFO, then. It can’t even play PS1... and you’re trying to say it’s better than the Pi... What next, your SNES mini has better emulation than the Odroid?

[Anonymous No.5659947]

>>5659943
>PS1,
Yes
>MAME?
The rest of your post shows you to be a literal underage...or a very good bait.

[Anonymous No.5659967]

>>5659926
>One year later, late 2011.
>Moved back to the old trailer at the highway
>Parents are back together (was living with my mother in-town)
>January 2012, parents finally able to buy some wi-fi
>Still using that Vista PC
>No 60-min time limits, nothing could stop me... Apart from constant internet slowdown & that shitty caution icon, because people also use internet.
>Attempted to play 6th gen console games on a GPU-less 2GB RAM PC
>plays like ass
>Who cares, I got plenty of emulators to work with.

[Anonymons No.5659984]

>late 1999 or something
>Download nesticle
>Call my friend and tell him I'm playing ALL the NES games.
>Calls me a liar.
>Go back and forth a few times before he agrees to come to my house to prove it.
>Show him, he shuts up, and wants me to download all the fucking WWF games for him.

[Anonymous No.5659986]

>>5659947
Why no Dreamcast?

[Anonymous No.5659996]

>>5659986
No one cares is why because it could do it.

[Anonymous No.5660002]

>>5659984
It's still mind-blowing that we're at this point, I mean, as other have pointed out, the state we're in with emulation sounds like retarded totally radical DUUUUUDE talk of the late 80s. I remember "stupidly" saying to friends, "Man, wouldn't it be cool if you could have ALL the games on one game system (we did not call them consoles)?" /"Yeah, man! That'd be cool!" and we never gave it a second thought.

[Anonymous No.5660004]

>>5659984
It's still mind-blowing that we're at this point, I mean, as others have pointed out, the state we're in with emulation sounds like retarded totally radical DUUUUUDE talk of the late 80s. I remember "stupidly" saying to friends, "Man, wouldn't it be cool if you could have ALL the games on one game system (we did not call them consoles)?" /"Yeah, man! That'd be cool!" and we never gave it a second thought.
If we could go back to 1986 with a Wii and a loaded SD card people's heads would explode.

[Anonymous No.5660012]

>>5657598
Honestly, it was a sperg out. Nintendo banned me from Miiverse for something completely innocuous, something higher profile users got away with on a regular basis, so I decided to stop paying for their games.

[Anonymous No.5660014]

>>5657745
He clearly using encrypted ROMs with FBA

[Anonymous No.5660021]

>>5660014
Probably on the ROMs and FBA is one of the cores for sure (I'm that guy). If I want to play Neo Geo I just play on a PC or on Virtual Console.

[Anonymous No.5660046]

Discovering MAME as a kid got me into retro games and loving them more than modern ones. My friends at school were all talking about the newest games for ps2, while i was at home playing metal slug because i couldnt afford one.

[Anonymous No.5660051]

>>5660046
>My friends at school were all talking about the newest games for ps2, while i was at home playing metal slug because i couldnt afford one.
You lucked out.

[Anonymous No.5661142]

>>5658637
You can't get arrested 8 years before you were born

[Anonymous No.5661157]

>>5659520
I love that fucking picture and I'm stealing it from you.

Emulation is magical, though. Anything below PS1/n64 has pretty much flawless emulation nowadays (unless it's bizarre)