What's the first game you emulated Anon?
zombies ate my neighbors
Probably one of those NES Mario romhacks where he's naked and the koopas are penis heads and when mario powers up he gets a giant dick that turns 90 degrees upwards.
>>737969901Arcade games through mame:Metal Slug 1-31942Marvel v CapcomSnK
Earthbound
>>737969901clash of ninja 4
Pokemon Gold for sure. On my glorious 301MHz Pentium 3 processor. It couldn't even run GBA games at 100% speed.
Pokemon fire red on a middle school PC. Raced my friend to beating the game first, we can only play during the computer lab time they gave us
Ristar for the Game Gear on some slow, choppy JS/Flash emulator. My brother got really mad at me because he thought the audio stuttering meant the computer had a virus.
>>737969901smash bros melee
Every time I think about emulating something it seems like a bad and boring idea. Maybe Rogue squadron but I heard years ago emulating that is a pain in the ass and I'm too lazy to look up what it looks like now.
>>737969901The Japanese version of Sonic Advance 1.
>>737970126Hope your brother with downs has settled down by now
>>737969901probably landstalker.rented it once, had an amazing time; but never saw it again at my small town video store. thank you genecyst.(this was like 1998).
crash team racing and crash warped on psxfin. also played lego star wars on an early pcsx2 which made my shitty laptop scream
>>737969901Pokemon Ruby, Pokemon Crystal and Castlevania NES in that order
Terranigma. Illusion of Gaia was one of my favorite snes games and I was butthurt that it never came out in the US.
>>737969901Golden Sun and Golden Sun The Lost Age
>>737969901Four Swords Adventures.Never had it as a kid. Pretty decent imo.
>>737969901Conker's Bad Fur Day. I was young so I did it in one of those old sites that had emus built in called Vizzed. Surprisingly it's still around.
I'm not sure. I have vague memories of being at a friend's house and playing a Game Boy emulator running on DOS with Pokemon Red. I still haven't discovered which emulator it was. Later on I acquired some CD with a launcher and Mega Drive ROMs. I also remember renting Megaman 8 thinking I could get it to run on PC before I learned of emulation, only to get chewed out by my parents. Stingy bastards, that was uncalled for.
>>737970412I absolutely hated that game for the forced Gameboy advance shit I thought it was scummy as fuck.
Final Fantasy III (VI) on ZSNES
>>737970153My bad I'm thinking about rogue leader and apparently it's still shit to emulate.
>>737970153it had a pc version you could fuck around with https://archive.org/download/rogue_squadron_3dpretty much all the old lucasarts games had a pc version, even shadows of the empire
on dolphin? probably smelee. Outside of dolphin it was probably emerald on my phone
some 20% translated version of pokemon silver, most of the text boxes were just gibberish, but it was utterly magical>>737970078brother
>>737970632It's feasible if you have a strong PC I think.
>>737969901I'm not sure about first one exactly but I remember back in like 2007-2008 using this thing called PlayNow and I played Super Mario RPG in Japanese from it. Functionally speaking this program just had emulators built in (like ZSNES) and it auto-downloaded the roms for you.
>>737970983probably still a better option than retroarch
Valkyria Chronicles 2.
Gens.... home...
>>737969901Pokemon Yellow, after a family friend showed me what Emulation was in the first place.
>>737969901Pokemon rom hacks
>>737969901the Ignition Factor. was a neat firefighter game
Probably Diddy Kong Racing or Goldeneye in Project64 in like 2007.
>>737969901Forgot, it was either mgs1 or the megaman zero collection for the ds
>>737969901Sonic Battle
>>737969901many many gba games but the first thing i remember emulating on dolphin was lost kingdoms from from software. awesome game.
>>737969901earthbound on ZSNES
>>737969901i dont remember, probably Seiken Densetsu 3 and I didnt knew what it was, i didnt knew it was a sequel of Secret of Mana i just thought it was cool and I played it
>>737969901Gemfire on the NES. Didn't feel like going to the other room to play it on my nes.
>>737969901Pokemon mystery dungeon on gba with visual boy advance. It hurt my head
Probably MMX
Shadow of the Colossus
>>737970078Lentium 3 was so bad man
>>737969901One of the SNES games, my cousin put ZSNES with about every rom on the PCs we had when I was like, 5.
>>737969901Pokemon ruby
technically i played mario golf gbc on an in-browser emulator first, but the first time i downloaded an emulator was zsnes for earthbound
>>737970632I played it and beat it, Dolphin now has a "work around" for the shaders, but it'll still run like shit the first time you load a stage, just now you can actually play and beat it. You'll have to flip some switches in the settings in order to run it, but it does run.The sequel I had hit a few hitches where it was still unbeatable because of the lag.
>>737970078So YOU are the guy who still uses a shitty Pentium 3 and a shitty Voodoo 3!I caught you red handed, buster!
>>737969901Starfox. My cousin brought over a flash drive with a SNES emulator and just about every fucking game.
>>737969901EVO Search for Eden, I couldn't find it on it on Wii Shop Channel
Sonic 2 or the first Mario for Nes in a old computer in 2004
>>737969901Mario sunshine
>>737969901I played Zero Wing on my cousins modded xbox so that we could laugh at the intro since All Your Base was at its peak popularity First one I personally downloaded and played was final fantasy V
>>737969901pokemon FR/LGparents wouldn't let me have it because it was too violent (lol) so when I found out you could just download it off the internet and play on pc that was huge
Earthbound. I learned about emulation due to getting PBGGameplay's original Mario 64 Chaos Edition series recommended to me as a kid. I had wanted to play Earthbound on the Wii U eShop for months, but my dad didn't trust giving Nintendo his credit card information, so I had to learn the ways of the seven seas.I still remember downloading everything from doperoms.com and reading their hilariously outdated info on how you needed an "extremely strong PC" to emulate N64 games or above. LOL
I hate questions like this because they remind me how bad my autobiographical memory is. This is the kind of thing that I should definitely remember, because I was fascinated by emulation for quite a while and built a ROM collection and everything. But I don't even know which console it was.
>>737969901Earthbound in like 2006. Shit was ass
>>737969901Golden Sun I believe
I don't emulate because I'm not a poor stealing nigger
Armored Core 4 and For Answer
>>737969901pokemon emerald on an old ipod
>>737969901I can't remember but I think it was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade back in 2012 when I was 16 or Magical Drop 3.
>>737977050>I'm a retard who buys overpriced bullshit LOL
>>737977050Oh no, he's retarded
>>737969901Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones
>>737969901Pokémon Emerald in 2008 and I've been hooked ever since. I've emulated probably every video game system except for the 8th and 9th Gen Xbox and Playstations.
Zelda ocaweiner of time.
>>737977341Favorite sega genesis game you emulated?
>>737969901I don't remember the game but I do remember that Nesticle was the first emulator I ever used.
>>737969901Some randomass playstation motocross bike game.i got it to play on my real playstation i had, but the playstation got stolen.
>>737969901It's been like 20 years so I can't remember. Tales of Phantasia is probably my strongest emulation memory from around that time though. My PC was shitty and could only handle emulating 2D PS1 games at the max and even then, I'd get frame drops in the Phantasia areas with water and lava. Getting through that lava dungeon was miserable.
>>737977513I only emulated the first 3 sonic games and 3D Blast. I'm a turbo normal.
>>737977856Respectable
I remember the first time I learned about emulators was in computer graphics class in 2005 right after school started. I stumbled across a folder on my assigned computer that had Nesticle with some games. Thought it was cool and copied the folder to my brand new 64MB flash drive I bought with my birthday money that summer. I played Mario shittily with my keyboard and researched emulation at home after school that day. I haven't done a whole lot of it, though, I've encountered a lot of bugs over the years that made it frustrating, but ShadPS4 is doing pretty well with Bloodborne the past couple weeks. There was also a time a few years ago when I spent a weekend emulating LoZ: The Minish Cap and it worked flawlessly the entire time with an Xbox controller.I'm starting to trust it a little more as time goes on.
>>737969901In dolphin? Wind WakerIn general? Zelda LA DX 23 years ago
>>737969901Sonic 2
>>737969901Maybe I had incidentally played another first, but the one I remember trying to find and figure out for myself was Monster Hunter. It was early 2010, and after picking up and playing the Tri demo with my friend as my first MH experience, I wanted more. Whatever random pre-built PC he had couldn't run it worth a shit, and I'm assuming it was on PCSX2 and there's no way I understood plugins so I don't think I even got through the intro movie.
>>737969901pokemon blue
Final Fantasy 1
>>737969901Ever? Probably Super Mario World, but on Dolphin it was probably Wind Waker.
>>737969901I have vague memories of emulating Pokemon Gold before it was released in the west. Good times.
>>737969901Been way too long to remember, probably something through ZSNES. I sometimes got access to the early internet at my dad's work, and I would usually look for warez sites with PC game downloads. One time I found a site with some cool-looking games, but when downloading and extracting the zips they were just single files, so I didn't understand what they were or how to run them. That's the first time I learned of the concept of emulators/roms.
>>737979768Same. Didn't understand shit of course, but eventually you kind of memorized what the moonrune combinations in the menus corresponded to.
>>737969901Your mom
Silentu Hill on the duckstation
Super Mario RPG
Pokémon Emerald,that should be the default answer
>>737969901pokemon
>>737969901pokemon silver
>>737969901Mother 3.
>>737969901Either Final Fantasy 3 (VI) or Earthbound
>>737969901Link's Awakening on a browser emulator that didn't support sound or saving.
>>737969901Pokemon Blue in 1999
>>737969901i honestly don't rememberthe first one i played outside of testing was ff4, it wasn't really playable and i gave up on it because emulation was dogshit back then
>>737969901Knuckles Chaotix I think.
some random SNES games my dad set up for me when i was in ike 3rd grade. the first one was probably some ninja turtle game. thats how i found metal warriors which was based but way too complicated for me at the time. >rip dad thanks for being based
>>737970078Same here.I was talking with a classmate about vidya and he told me that he was playing Pokemon on his pc. I told him that it was bullshit and didn't believe him, so the next day he gave me a floppy disk with Pokemon Gold and the Virtual Gameboy emulator.
>>737969901Super Mario World on my phone so I could play it at school. The year after I did the same thing but on a calculator.
>>737969901Damn. That's actually a good question, OP. I don't remember for the life of me.I think my first console emulator was nesticle though, so probably an NES game at least.
>>737969901Castlevania Aria of Sorrow. I learned about it and emuparadise from a friend back in 6th grade.God, I remember later trying to play N64 games on keyboard, it was certainly an experience.
>>737969901Super Mario RPG on the family computer.
>>737970017
>>737969901Tales of Phantasia with the DeJap fan translation.
>>737969901Golden Sun or Mother 3, only two games on my ancient laptop. I dont remember a thing about Golden Sun.
>>737970017https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIgwrarqjYo
>>737969901moemon or touhoumon on school library computers
I remember playing Fire Emblem 6, it was also the first game I patched myself.
>>737969901Super Mario 64
I can't remember the first game I emulated, would have likely been a Super Nintendo game but the first game I ever saw emulated was Pokemon Green.
I don't even remember. The first game I remember is Fire Emblem 4 when I was like 10 or 11 but that definitely wasn't the first.
Mother 3I asked this very board how to do it, and they spoiled me on who the Masked Man was.
>>737969901Fan translation of Pokemon Gold in the summer of 2000, when I was ten and my older cousin had found an emulator and rom, before the game even came out in America. It only had the first five letters of Pokemon for the five hiragana it could fit, so all the names were wrong, and my rival said ‘shit!’ A few times, but it was incredible, playing this game so early. It got me into emulation in general, though I still bought games because the physical presence of a controller always beat keyboard and mouse. Now though I just get everdrives and shit for consoles and homebrews roms of what I want on what I have.
>>737969901Tales of Phantasia. Amazing game.
Pokemon on DOS no$gb emulator on my 386 in like 1999. Good memories.
>>737970632>>737970720>>737975676there's still really bad stutter when you go into the lock-on mode in first person view last time i tried it a few months a go.
>>737969901It's my first 2d fap to be honest.
>all the dumb edgy shit in Nesticle like the severed hand cursor>making filenames shorter so ZSNES could see them>playing Mario Kart and Smash Bros with strangers on the internet over Kaillera>one Saturn emulator existed and it was actually okay in speed and compatibility but it was made by a Japanese autist who refused to document anything in English and wanted you to do arcane rituals with file types to make an ISO boot>that complete GBA emulator that somehow got released before the GBA was available in stores>that complete PSP emulator that came out of nowhere when nobody had ever seriously thought about or worked on PSP emulation before, some randos showed up one day and were like "This plays every PSP game, enjoy it friends :)" and somehow it was real and not a ridiculous virus
>>737988421That sucks but it's not like it isn't exceedingly obvious from the first scene he shows up.
>>737969901Lego Star Wars for the GBA. I didn't even know it was an emulator at the time, I just booted up virtualboyadvanced.exe on the school computers back in the day and opened the rom. Really blew me away because I didn't even know you could emulate console/portable game on PC until that moment.
>>737969901Either Pokemon LeafGreen, because I didn't have an Action Replay and I wanted to catch Lugia and the emulator had a built in cheater or Forbidden Memories because I wanted to check if I was a stupid kid or if it was really that hard.
>>737969901Chrono Trigger, got pestered by a friend in high school that I HAD to play it by all means. He was based
>>737969901I liked Golden Sun and I wanted to play TLA but it wasn't out in English yet. I didn't know Japanese (still don't) and I didn't get very far, and my shitty computer only ran it at like 10fps because my mom wouldn't let me put games on the new computer because she thought that games made the old computer slow. She also still to this day loads her computers with all kinds of "anti-virus" malware like Kaspersky that slows her computer down and asks her 50 times if she's sure she wants to do something every time she tries to do something, and spyware is constantly popping up telling her to update her spyware and then forcibly shutting her computer down to update the spyware for her.
>>737980213I did that last year. I saw people praising DS obnoxiously but it got me interested enough to give it a spin with a few PS1 games. Duckstation actually holds up really well.
>>737969901Can't remember if it was Final Fantasy 4 (GBA) or Ace Attorney. One or the other.
>>737989669>>that complete GBA emulator that somehow got released before the GBA was available in storesReally? Which emu was that?
>>737969901I can't remember.... probably something on NES.Very likely Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles... It would have been on Nesticle circa 99. We couldn't believe how bad NES/SNES etc games looked on a monitor coz we'd grown up playing them on a consumer TV with an RF connection.
>>737972610The Firemen is about 100 times better.
>>737969901Action 52
>>737969901
>>737993682Might have been this too, I downloaded a number of Dragon Ball roms circa 1999 along with the DOS versions of ZSNES and Nesticle, not sure which one I played first. I think I went for SNES before NES but I played both that day.
>>737969901znes - Super Mario WorldProject64 - Super Mario 64ePSXe - Symphony of the NightDolphin - Wind WakerPCSX2 - Kingdom HeartsmGBA - Pokemon FireRed
>>737969901The first time I ever experienced emulation was at my cousin's house when I was 7-8. I couldn't tell you every game I saw but he had a Game Boy emulator with Link's Awakening, Japanese Pokémon Green and a bunch of other gamesThe first game I went out of my way to emulate was Oracle of Ages about 5 years later. I soon after got big into Megaman thanks to being able to emulate all the good games easily
>>737969901Kirby Super star
>>737989669>one Saturn emulator existed and it was actually okay in speed and compatibility but it was made by a Japanese autist who refused to document anything in English and wanted you to do arcane rituals with file types to make an ISO bootI never got that to work and to this day I haven't played a single Saturn game despite other emulators existing for it now
Test
>>737994183-icle
>>737969901chrono trigger
>>737969901Metroid on my PSP
>>737969901pokemon leaf green on a samsung galaxy y
>>737969901Pokemon Red
>>737969901Pokemon Gold when it was new in Japan.
>Ctrl+F "Pokemon">28 resultsMy fellow gentlemen. Pokemon is a certified childhood emulation classic.
>>737993479VisualBoyAdvance. The original developer started working on it based on leaked tech specs before the GBA was actually completed, and also somehow got ahold of a dev kit like a year before it hit the stores.
>>737969901Pokemon Ruby, with cheats on (because I didn't know english well enough to play without a guide AND cheats)
>>737996473sure but i never had to emulate it since i have all my originals from 98-99 on
my brother had an snes emulator and we would play a ton of games together, i have fond memories of the monopoly snes game
Seiken Densetsu 3I was going to play Tales of Phantasia first but it didn't run at all on the current build of ZSNES at the time.
>>737996819This but Clue.The game had to tell players to close their eyes so players can see their cards without others cheating.
>>737996673So do I, but I still emulate sometimes.
>>737969901I kind of have emulating nostalgia. Almost everything is on steam now, and the few that aren't are rarely worth emulating. Plus handheld games don't really exist anymore, it doesn't hit the same when the emulated game feels no different from a regular game.
>>737997203>Plus handheld games don't really exist anymoreWhat do you mean?
>>737969901Twilight Princess, a long ass time agodid not run well would drop to an unplayable level of frames when you hit the overworld I'm sure that isn't an issue anymore tho.
>>737997203>Almost everything is on steam now, and the few that aren't are rarely worth emulating
>>737969901Crash BashRan like shitThen I emulated Kirby's Adventure
>>737969901Final Fantasy 3(us) on a build of ZSNES so old it ran in DOSgood times
Getting a CD filled with emulators and roms in the late 90s was a surreal experience. Nesticle was the first shit that I launched, that hand cursor lives rent free inside my head.
>>737969901Japanese pokemon green.
>>737989034>no$gbshit was cash
>>737989669>playing Mario Kart and Smash Bros with strangers on the internet over KailleraAwful memories. I only tried playing mario party and it was downright impossible to finish a game ever. Either someone left, or connection dropped, or absolutely worse, games got desync and it took a while to understand that it was fucked up>that complete PSP emulator that came out of nowhere when nobody had ever seriously thought about or worked on PSP emulation before, some randos showed up one day and were like "This plays every PSP game, enjoy it friends :)" and somehow it was real and not a ridiculous virusI remember those threads. PPSSPP was literal black magic
>>737969901I don't remember, dad got us zsnes with the whole snes library
Some time in 2003 or 2004 I really wanted to play The Simpsons arcade game at home. I used Google and found a webpage that explained step by step how to do that with MAME. Once I got it working it didn't take long to figure out this program was more than just a Simpsons emulator.
>>737969901Probably a Final Fantasy game.
>>737997257You get get home console games running at lower framerates and resolutions. Handheld style games are a thing of the past. Closest thing you get now is ironically indie games on Steam.
>>737999428That's literally what handhelds have always been. Home consoles with cheaper video and sound chips, shitty screens, and games limited by the performance of the system.The handheld "style" came with the PSP, where every game replaced the combat with a shitty card game, or the DS, where you had to draw shit in the middle of a battle.
psp toradora vn
>>737999528Pretty sure most handheld games used to run at native resolution with solid framerates.
Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge
>>737999528Many handheld games have a pick-up-and-play game design, you can find plenty of interviews about it from things like Kojimbo talking about how he design Peace Walker differently from other MGS games.
>>737999649You'd be wrong. Handheld versions of games were notorious for performance issues and cutting corners to counter that.Super Mario Land couldn't even draw all the objects that would be in the screen's FOV.Mortal Kombat on portables ran like shit.This isn't even taking into account the fact that home consoles usually had serious performance problems (like Gradius 3 on SNES, or how Sonic the Hedgehog slowed to a crawl if you got hit with a lot of rings on you).
>>737999760But they generally still ran natively. Even then, it was mostly ports with those issues.
>>737969901Pokemon leaf green I thinkI didn't feel like charging my GBA so I thought what if I could play it on PC and looked it up. Thanks VBA
Katamari Damacy Some lags on my aging 2015 laptop but I'm having fun
smash bros melee my high school at the time found out I was teaching kids how to emulate and rip their own games where they took away a scholarship because of it.
>>737969901Something on Nesticle probably Maybe Dragon Warrior 2
>>737970486Motherfucker! They are making a ZNES updated version now, it's cool as fuck!
>>737969901 Pokémon emerald
>>737969901Fortnite
>>737970637I was so pissed when I found out the PC version had voices and also a longer soundtrack. Also the soundtrack was created to be a companion for the BOOK before the game even came out.
>>737969901Pokemon Sapphire
>>737969901The first Zelda.
>>737969901I guess technically pokemon g/s but I was 6 and it was something my family did on our home computer before I knew what emulation was.Of my own volition it was when I was 13 and I seriously cannot remember if I tried Project64 or ZSNES first. I definitely remember playing through more snes games though.
>>737969901tomato adventure gba
>>737969901Super Mario Sunshine
>>737970637Besides the next two Rogue Squadron games.
>>738000038>spoilerWhy did they even care though? That's fucked up
>>737969901Super Mario All Stars + World on znes
>>737969901Im 37 how the fuck am I supposed to remember my first emulated game of all things
>>738005036>Ah, President Benson! Where is your first lady?>My first lady? Hell, I don't know. I've had a lot of women. I lost my flower at the tender age of 15. I can't keep track of all of them.
>>737969901I don't remember. Either Pokemon Blue or some Final Fantasy on the SNES
>>737969901Pokémon Yellow. During computer class I saw some older kids playing it and it felt like witchcraft, I was fully on the pokemania but I never had a gameboy, only played sometimes on a classmate's GBC. I managed to get the info from them on how to do it and another classmate who had internet at home downloaded the NO$GMB, the Pokemon Yellow ROM and wrote some basic instructions on how to launch the game. It felt amazing being able to finally play the game properly.
>>738008163I found a copy of japanese yellow before it released in the states and played it on NO$GMB. I felt like a fucking god.
>>737969901Super mario rpg when I found zsnes as a child. Super Nintendo was the only one I didn't have, and only played at my cousin's house, so it was exciting for me
Sonic 2 Beta, I want to say, via Genecyst.Played with ROMs for a bit but eventually fell out of it (this was before I had broadband, only dial-up, so I couldn't download anything bigger than a few MB at most without tying up the phone line for ages) until I got into GBA emulation a few years later.
>>738008163For whatever reason the Gameboy was very unpopular were I lived, but pokemania was pretty high due to the anime, and so being more technically-minded I became that friend in my neighborhood. I prepared a floppy with NO$GMB and the roms, and went around installing and showing how to run it. A few of them were also friends of my younger sister that didn't know English that well yet, so had play a bit and explain how to access the pokeballs through the menus and catch the monsters.
Super Mario RPG, I think
FF6
That DBZ fighting game on the SNES.
Mega Man X
>>737969901pokemon red
>>738011583I remember playing it with my cousin in the zsnes when we figured out that pressing 3 would disable the water layer on the launch octopus stage, making it possible to complete the game since at the time the transparency effects didn't work and the water was all a solid blue square
>>737969901probably Castlevania 3, I already had Castlevania 1 on the Wii
