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When did you start emulating?

When emulators became good fast and stable.

Oh.
never year

>>725227529 (OP)
i played nes games through a browser emulater at 9 or 10 maybe

>>725227529 (OP)
20 years ago
>>725227881
Retarded emulators up to ps4 run better than OG hardware with the excpetion being ps3 for whatever reason.

Probably 2002-2004. I remember playing SNES and Genesis games.
With a fucking keyboard, lmao

dunno exactly but my first emu was Nesticle

My first video game ever was links awakening on an emulator when I was 4.
I grew up playing more on emulators than real consoles until my mum got a gamecube for me.
zsnes and virtualboy were my go to.
>>725228239
There are still lots of snes games I can only play on a keyboard just because thats how I grew up playing them. I tried playing megaman x on a controller and it felt so weird.

I have a picture of me and my brother playing Front Mission 3 on Zsnes when we were kids. Im gonna guess its 2000 or 2001

Playing Pokemon Fire Red using John GBA on my Galaxy S3 way back when

>>725227529 (OP)
like 17 years ago?

like the late 90s

I got the Sega Smash pack when I was a kid
Kid Chameleon was the shit.

>>725228440
oh wow I think my family had that printer

>>725227529 (OP)
snes, about 23 years ago. my cousin gave me the files and roms. all I remember was there was tons of games and I wanted to try them all. there was even some hentai game in there. amanda something maybe. could never find what it was

>tfw you were the kid who taught people in school about emulators
>everyone playing pokemon in class
good times

>>725228440
Undertale lost soul looking ass.

>>725228440
>Front Mission 3
>SNES
FAKE GAMER FAKE GAMER
nah jk, that does look like FM1 tho, rest were PS1 and up

If you never played the fan translation of FM5 on PCSX2 I definitely recommend it btw.

When I first got a computer in the year 2000, I remember getting a CD with ZSNES and some Genesis emulator as well as a shitton of games. That's why I love 16 bit games so much, specially JRPG.

>>725228440
That's awesome

>>725228440
Sovl photo anon

>>725228862
Youre right it was FM1. Idk why I thought it was FM3

>>725227529 (OP)
20+ years ago with snes9x and visualboy

>>725227529 (OP)
August 2013. Softmodding my Wii was like opening Pandora's box for me.

2001-2002 probably

>>725228949
sa'll good brother, Front Mission is S tier taste regardless

>>725228440
what was streaming like back in the day?

>>725227529 (OP)
vba on a low spec laptop that barely ran it at 60. I wanted to play the pokemon games I missed out on like Emerald.

>>725229068
Streaming??

>>725229068
>2000
>streaming

2002 is when I first discovered what emulation was iirc.

>>725228937
Wish I had more. I only have one other photo of me playing games as a kid. Surprised their isnt more considering thats all I did

>>725228047
Xenia and Xemu are still worthless and RPCS3 makes you sacrifice a goat just to make you remember PS3 still has no games.

>>725229179
99 for me. Pokemon on no$gb

>>725227529 (OP)
2009.

I have fond memories of emulating Bowser's Inside Story and Rhythm Heaven on DeSmuME.

2004. Nester, ZSNES, VisualBoyAdvance and Project64. i dont use a single one of those anymore

>>725227529 (OP)
I think that my literal first gaming experience was emulating. The "computer games" I had when I was like 4yo were a sega emulator and a compilation of roms. Back then I considered them just PC games tho
>>725228239
>With a fucking keyboard
What's wrong with it? I still play everything with keyboard or K+Mouse even today

>>725227529 (OP)
One day in 2000 dad brought home a CD from a friend from work that contained MAME.
I didn't know yet it was emulation tho.

2023 when I decided to play Demon's Souls on PS3

>>725228239
>With a fucking keyboard
Thats literally what everyone did.

>>725227529 (OP)
'03 or '04 with ZSNES

OH BOY, IS NESTICLE TIME

>>725227529 (OP)
2001 or 2002 playing pokémon yellow with this bad boy here

>>725227529 (OP)
1998. zsnes and one ps1 emulator i don't remember the name something connectcon? Good times, played a lot of parasite eve and re2

>>725227529 (OP)
I was 10, i played pokemon gold

>>725228107
kek accurate, probably started here at the time it was an insane amount of gameplay library to have an on a portable device. now i love emudeck on my steam deck but i am looking at getting something pocketable to do stuff up to like ps2ish

>>725227529 (OP)
zsnes then epsxe then so on

>>725227529 (OP)
Mid-00s I guess? It was pretty cool being able to just play games without arbitrary platform locks. I didn't have consoles as a kid so emulation was my first introduction to franchises like Mario.

>>725227529 (OP)
I played a game I'd played before on Nesticle
then I played a game I'd never played before on Nesticle

>>725229951
i love pixel snow

>>725227529 (OP)
sometime in middle school; i downloaded visual boy advance so i could participate in a binding blade relay run. ended up getting to most of the other jp only fire emblems after that, although i still haven't touched 1/2 and berwick saga

>>725229351
>Xenia and Xemu are still worthless
xenia i agree with but xemu runs everything you want it to as long as you arent some pedro trying to emulate on a $200 shitbox lol

>>725227529 (OP)
Only 3 years ago really; I decided I had enough with modern vidya and wanted to go back and play older stuff. Went through the loops to get as much physical stuff as possible but just realized I'm only limiting myself by buying from resellers who upmarket 'retro' shit at 300% price value, and that by emulating I'll have access to games I never would have known about or reasonably obtained. It made me feel a bit gross at first cause it felt like I was disrespecting the devs by not 'properly' buying it, but then I figured I'm probably doing those devs a diservice by NOT playing their games and potentially getting other people to play it.

Also if the OG suppliers of said consoles aren't gonna support the consoles and games, then I shouldn't have to give them or some other schmuck who just wants to make a quick buck my cash.

Early 10s with VBA to play Sonic Battle, Wario Land 4 & Sacred Stones
Truly one of the 7 wonder of the world. Got to play so many good games, and romhacks as well.

>>725229068
>>725229121
>>2000
>>streaming

My cousin installed UltraHLE on our PC, it couldnt save games though, so i replayed the start of Bomberman Hero and Ocarina of Time like 40 times.

>>725229068
we used to call it TV anon

>>725229068
well your mum had a stream of feces crawling out of her that sadly turned out to be more than that, so here you are

>>725227881
>>725228047
>>725229351
>>725230524
ur replying to a tendie he hates emulators cuz hes a paypiggie

>>725227529 (OP)
When I got my own PC back in 2002. Played through Metroid Fusion and Sonic Advance 2 on VisualBoyAdvance since I didn't have a GBA.

>>725229068
>all those anons not getting that he brought it up because of the old school webcam

>>725227529 (OP)
Back in the 90s the school's computer lab guy gave me a floppy with an MSX emulator and some games, I recall playing Contra and Zanac.

>>725227529 (OP)
I still find it funny how I got into emulation and piracy. I was a kid and just somehow stumbled upon it and it just worked somehow even though I didn't know what was going on.

>>725229068
My friend would download anime from IRC and send it to me through winamp somehow. It would stream but also download, and the stream was just buffering: the animation.

>>725227529 (OP)
Shortly after I got my first PC back in 04.

when i wanted to play old multiplayer games with friends

>playing sm64 and OoT with a keyboard and probably a bunch of broken visuals I was too young to think about
hell yeah

>>725229351
Maybe try not using a potato as a CPU.

>>725227529 (OP)
I started a hundred years ago with shit like NES and Genesis emulators, then I ignored it for decades and only recently (The past month) I got into it again. Dolphin mildly chapped my ass because it's the only one that inexplicably didn't have a "Oh use your Xbox controller" default setup so I had to bind everything myself, and then I cursed Nintendo when I booted up Twilight Princess only to learn that the fucking X Axis on the camera stick is inverted because in Japan left is right and right is left

It's been fun though, I've been mostly playing hack and slash games I missed due to console exclusivity and/or didn't even realize the games existed, and I've been playing around with some Switch games which can be reasonably pretty when you're massively overscaling the resolution. It is weird to never play a Pokemon game and then start one and it's crystal clear that everyone's 100% fucking those things non-stop off camera at all times. I thought it was just horny people memeing around but no, it's how the game presents it

>>725236324
>It is weird to never play a Pokemon game and then start one and it's crystal clear that everyone's 100% fucking those things non-stop off camera at all times. I thought it was just horny people memeing around but no, it's how the game presents it
the tera leak confirmed that the nu-pokemon devs are perverted furries. it's kind of disgusting really

>>725227529 (OP)
about 10 years ago now
used to take my shitty laptop to school and during the homework period when I finished my homework would pull it out and boot up custom robo

>>725230524
Xemu's great because you get the whole original Xbox boot sequence which pleases me greatly. Always loved that shit on the actual console

>>725237065
You can also download the virtual hdd with the original dashboard from webarchive.

14 years ago

>>725232274
Emulating Nintendo games makes you “a Nintendo adult as” cuck-kun

>>725227529 (OP)
I’m 27 and I’ve been emulating since probably 2006/2007. My dad set up a GBA and SNES emulator for me to play Pokemon and TMNT games, and I’d watch him play Mario RPG. I still emulate a bunch of games, especially PS2 games from my childhood. I’m also an autistic with an achievement addiction, so retroachivements adds replay value.

>>725227529 (OP)
2007, a kid transferred vba+all the pokemon roms to my usb

>>725227529 (OP)
I want to turn my steam deck into a switch but with all the emulators biting the dust over the last 2 years what's even my best bet currently?

I dunno, I'm a zoomer so probably 2009 or so with ePSXe

>>725227529 (OP)
nesticle

>>725227529 (OP)
The good old days

>>725227529 (OP)
im not brown

>>725239623
Yea you are

>>725227529 (OP)
early '98

First game I emulated was Super Butoden on the DOS version of ZSNES, then I went on a spree of JP ONRY SNES titles like Fire Emblem and Super Robot Wars.

iirc the first game i emulated was ff6 around 2003 or 2004
>>725228440
Based as fuck

>>725239623
clearly you are not only brown but a tendoid buypiggy as well

>>725227529 (OP)
I was in like 6th grade and found Project 64. I was so happy to be able to play the games I grew up with even though my family sold our 64 to get a Gamecube.

>>725230524
xemu's audio always bugged the fuck out on me, like the audio DSP wasn't being properly emulated so car games just had no engine noises (midtown madness 3, rallisport challenge)

>>725227529 (OP)
Middle school, I was so excited when I found about zSNES I biked to my friend's house to show him I could play Link to the Past ON A COMPUTER for FREE

>>725227529 (OP)
1999ish, but I didn't realise it was 'emulating' because I was like 8. Went to a PC expo and bought a CD that had Mame and every arcade rom, but just thought that Mame was some program that had games on it, not that it was an emulator.

Basically, God bless the autists and shut ins that make up the emulation industry

Whenever firefox got the addon to emulate games

1998 with snes9X

>>725239623
>im not brown
spoken like a true brownoid

>playing zelda LTTP
>get to dark world
>shitty monitor
>cant see a fucking thing

>>725229068
Your little brother or cousin watched you as you played games. That was streaming back then.

>>725228440
Looks more like a 90's picture

>>725242185
kek

>>725227529 (OP)
When the PSP came out

>>725227529 (OP)
When It became better/more convenient to play older games VS on older hardware

>>725228047
>ps4 emulator
uhhh name?

>>725227529 (OP)
When did you start breathing.

>>725242934
oh yeah, i forgot about that. Wait wasnt that emulator solely focus on getting bloodborne running perfectly from start to finish? I dont remember that emulator was used for other games besides than that

>>725243075
Works perfect on Dragon's Crown Pro which was the only game I wanted it for, at least

Translated FF3 on NESticle that would shit on you if it detected itself being run on the aforementioned.

Playing nes, snes, gb, neogeo games downloaded thru 56kbps modem in late 90's

>>725227529 (OP)
Never. Only poorfags emulate.

>>725227529 (OP)
Dolphin Sex

>>725227881
Keep simping for your favorite multibillion dollar corporation

>>725227529 (OP)
Pretty much as soon as I had internet. Started pirating immediately too. I torrented Diablo 2 over the course of a month over dial-up, and the phone bill cost more than the damn game would've lol.

>>725227529 (OP)
All the way back in the ZSNES days in the early half of the 2000s, before snes9x took over.

>>725227881
Tendie, your daddy has been using emulators for every single re-release of their older games.

>>725227529 (OP)
Mid to late 2000s, figuring out how to patch Mother 3 with the Fan Translation made me feel like a tech nerd since I was younger at the time

>>725243614
Actually, no. My first experience with emulators was with Nestopia on government-funded computers at summer camp.

Since the bleem and znes days.

>>725227529 (OP)
Nesticle
THANKS SHITLORD

>>725229068
There were French, Italian and German gaming channels on TV that played latest games and also talked about gaming news. I watched those even though I didn't understand a word they were saying.

>>725227881
Please don't talk about xenia like that :(

>>725227529 (OP)
As a kid. This was the first thing I ever emulated

>>725227529 (OP)
i forget what year it was but i remember the first thing i ever emulated was ff4 on snes

>>725244612
That ones going to be a work in progress for a veeeery long time.
I think it'll take most other emulators being outright finished for it to actually run Fable 2.

What's is the ideal retro gaming emulator for me, someone who hates PC gaming, hates Steam, hates Valve, hates Gabe Newell, hates half life, and wants the most anti-PC gaming device of all?

I want a gaming emulator that gives me the image of someone who hates Steam, hates Gabe Newell, and hates PC gaming in general.

I started emulating around 2008-2009 and started playing old Nintendo games like Mega Man and Final Fantasy when I was about 9. Eventually playing all the Mega Man games.
It eventually led me down to the Roll rabbit hole

>>725244759
What's funny was how when it made progress people were floored it was able to run halo 3 then it felt like it just.. stopped

>>725242241
It's almost like 90s technology didn't magically cease to exist in 2000.

>>725229068
A day or two if no one picks up the phone.

Shortly after discovering midis. Nesticle and Final Fantasy. Then finding out there were translations for all those games japs never released in english.
Spent $1900 on a p3 450 with a voodoo 2 for N64 emulation.
Zsnes for SNES. It worked better before they had to add superfx and the Megaman X2/3 chip.
Connectix VGS was great for playstation. Bleem was a joke. Epsxe was always garbage.
26 years later N64 emulation is still terrible. Those are the games that actually need remakes, so the camera can have real controls. Blast Corps has nothing else like it.

>>725245073
Ah well. I don't exactly feel like working on it either so I can't blame anyone.

>>725227529 (OP)
Back in 2007/8 when my brother downloaded project 64 and we would play pokiman snap and the stadium games.

>>725230524
>runs everything you want
Yeah no shit, what systems are those even for lmao. Who gives a fuck about consoles past ps2?

>>725227881
I didn't get any console back then because they were expensive but now i can enjoy every single one of those games for free

>>725227529 (OP)
Late 90s when our house got our first PC and I would look up nes, md, snes games I seen at the store or at a friend's but haven't played.

>>725245475
the only bad thing is (at least to me) is eternal sonta is pretty much dead locked to consoles, since it can't run on rpcs3 without constant crashing and it doesn't work on xenia

>>725229068
You had to come home in time to watch the new episodes of your favorite shows, and if you didn't, you WOULDN'T WATCH THEM.
Until the rerun next day. DVR recording was nice too.

I tried to run Xenoblade 2 last year after upgrading my RAM but my pc still couldn't handle the game.

we need more nerds working on emulators
my ps2 games still have glitchy textures like in AC4 or flickering shadows in KH2

>>725227529 (OP)
around 1998 with zsnes, nesticle, and genecyst
god bless you, shitman, i bow to the fecal lord

>>725246959
Is Xeno 2 still bad on emulator? I know 1DE and 3 run just fine but I've always heard about 2 being very bad on it.

>>725247117
I can't talk about it because my pc is kind of a potato by today's standards, but when I tried it still had choppy framerate for me. I assume it's my pc and not the emulator because I think I've heard people here have emulated it.