Did you get to play any Japan -only games before emulation?Share stories
>>12640920I had a 99999-in-1 cart with Bird Week and Nuts & Milk.
I imported sin & punishment when it came out.
Yes, but my stories are boring. I played Shenmue 2 for Dreamcast after a friend bought it. I downloaded a few fighting games for Dreamcast that never came out in the USA. By this time period we were already emulating so the novelty of Japanese games was not as much as it could have been.
>>12640920Come to think of it... I played a 50 in 1 GB cartridge with 50 actual games so there was bond to be something on thereI played emulation pretty early on though, 1998
>>12640920No.
What do you mean "before emulation"? Zoomers seem to think emulation didn't exist until RA but I was emulating NES, SNES and PS1 during the consoles' active lifespans.
>>12640920DBZ RPGs for famicoms.
I got a Chinese bootleg of Pokémon silver in early 2000 and beat it before it released here.
>>12641179>I was emulating NES, SNES and PS1 during the consoles' active lifespans.american 3rd worlds were still selling NESboxes when Nesticle for DOS was created????earliest emu i heard of were Bleem! discs for Dreamcast.and no, i am Gen X.
>>12640920before emulation didn't really existemulators were widespread and simple to use even in the 90sthough downloading an ISO for ps1 games was tough on dial-up
>>12641205>though downloading an ISO for ps1 games was tough on dial-upThat's when you just borrowed your buddy's games and burned them
>>12641179When do you consider NES to still be in its current lifespan? I think the last commercial game was 1994. Were there NES emulators in 1994?My first experience with emulators was in 1999, downloaded a Game Boy one, it worked but I believe something was wrong with the directionals because I remember not being able to use either up or down
>>12641274First actually usable and widely spread version of Nesticle was 1998
>>12640920I downloaded the PS1 Shaman King game and burned it to a disc to play it. Does that count? Did the same with a Prince of Tennis game for PS2. On a side note, that GS Mikami game is awesome.
>>12640920My dad bought me a Japanese copy of Pokemon Gold in Japan while he was there on a work trip. I brought it to school because nobody believed me and then somebody stole it.
>>12641179No you fucking didn't you liar. The emulation scene didn't start popping off until 1996 and at that point the nes had been long dead and the snes was on life support. And even the really early emulation was on an FMTowns and I know you didn't own that. But furthermore, there was basically zero reason to emulate up until that point anyway. Nes games were borderline free after 1995 and snes games were also dirt cheap in the used market. Even "grails". Hell earthbound was on clearance at my local hills department store and even then it took forever to sale. I got contra force at a rental store for $3. Anyway, stop lying zoomer
>>12641230Yeah thats me and my friends did. But for harder to find games or ones we just didn't want to buy we'd make a list and split it up among us so we'd each download one of them, burn, then share. I remember I was into a 5 day download of DBZ final bout and my mom picked up the phone and I had an autistic meltdown.
>>12641546>early emulation was on an FMTowns and I know you didn't own that.link the glorious nippon emu, anon.
>>12641569No idea where you'd find it these days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Computer_Emulator
>>12641471same, but it was Pokemon Red and before Pokemon was even known in the west. No one even knew what i was talking about when I would bring it up in conversations.
>>12641546The anon you replied to is full of shit about the NES and SNES but there were PS1 emulators on sale during the tail end of the console's lifespan. Steve Jobs even previewed it on stage during Macworld.
>>12641610If you reread my post, I never reference the ps1 at all because I know that. Hell, I bought bleem myself from EB games at the mall when it first came out. Still got it in my closet.
My dad had a job that sometimes sent him to Japan for business.One time he came back with a game boy game.He picked at random and it was an RPG, so there was zero chance of me getting anywhere in it. I couldn't read the manual or any in game text.In retrospect, I think it might have used bump mechanicsthis was it: Chachamaru Boukenki 3https://youtu.be/dTyYD3f3YIAEvery once in a while I'd put it in and play what I could, which was barely anything. It was a nice gesture on his part.
>>12641546I guess it depends on what you consider "during the consoles' active lifespans." We are further removed from the release of the PS4 than 2003 was to the release of the SNES, yet I'd still consider PS4 to be an active platform since it's not uncommon for people to still have them hooked up in their living rooms. People play consoles for a while after support is officially dropped. Not to mention SNES got support for quite a long time after the N64 came out. You could have played Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 on ZSNES day 1 (or tried to, at least. I don't know if ZSNES builds that old support the game) and that's a Nintendo game.
>>12641179Everybody knows what he means. Stop being a twerp.
Reminder Matei once told a story about getting SMB3 like a month before USA got it but get this, he claimed his mom traveled to Japan for work and that she somehow purchased SMB3, not the Japanese Famicom, but the USA NES one that didn't exist yet (and his answer for that is "i dunno how that was possible but she just got it"), and he told it to the camera with a straight face, he is that kid who claimed his uncle works at nintendo, he is that literal kid but an adult.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-xzEvB_vUMAround 15:30
>>12640920Pulseman on Sega Channel, which I recall having an English translation. Not sure if that specific ROM has ever been dumped though I think there's a fan translation out there.And Golden Axe 3, which was also in English.
>>12642041How did it feel to play these exotic games but only as a service? Didn't you wish you had them on cart forever?
>>12642052Yes but more so for Golden Axe 3. I had no idea it even existed but I assumed that it would eventually be released in the US since at the time it was normal for Japan to get games first. Pulseman was fun to play through a few times but I wasn't even upset when it wasn't included in the current month's list of games.As an aside, I could SWEAR there was a code for Golden Axe 3 that let you play the main game as any character, including the bird boss guy. As a game was loading it would list tips and cheat codes. But unfortunately if it did exist I didn't save it and I've never seen any mention of it online since.
>>12642069oh i bought a sega channel a few years back and it had golden axe 3 codes, I should probably post them for archives sake
>>12642079Nice try but if you actually bought a Sega Channel cart and tried to run it it wouldn't get past the startup screen. It needs hacks to even get to the menu, and the codes were only listed while games were being downloaded, so not possible to see now in any circumstance.
I grew up with a famiclone around 1991-1995 so I got to play a lot of jap only shit. From the top of my head- Recca- Layla- Adventure Island 4- Literally the whole Kunio Kun series
A bunch of Japanese MSX games in the early 90s. Later in mid-90s Japanese PC games through pirate CDs and emulated console shit which you could just pull from Usenet, Fido or IRC.
On the subject of early (recreational) emus, I was playing ZX Spectrum games on my 386 around 1992. I imagine the near compatible instruction sets helped a lot with performance.
>>12641305I remember 1998-2000 being the start of the normies buying PCs en masse era, and also when AOL and other ISPs exploded in popularity. It's probably not a coincidence that emulator development spiked at the same time.But yeah there were a lot of incomplete and buggy emulators around then and only a few stood out as actually usable. I remember most SNES emulators didn't have transparency and most Genesis emulators had trouble rendering the roads in Road Rash as one example. Sometimes you switch emulators for specific games or reboot into pure DOS mode for a performance boost.
>>12642202LTTP in the cave sections or with the torches were painful during early SNES emulation. Had to learn about layers.
>>12641610>Steve JobsHa! He dead, served him right for pirating
>>12640920I had a friend of mine whose dad picked up a 52-in-1 NES cartridge from somewhere in SE Asia when he was over there, I remember it had a bunch of Famicom exclusive titles on it along with more common titles that got US ports. From memory:>Front Line>Battle City>City Connection>Mappy>The Goonies (the original, not Goonies 2)I was over at his place a bunch and I borrowed it once or twice so I got to play some pretty neat stuff.
>>12641610There were SNES emulators in 95 or 96.SNES got discontinued in 98/99.For NES I remember Pasofami, which came out in 94 or 95, I think.NES got discontinued in 95 in the west but it went on until 2003 in Japan. By 2003 you could buy CDs packed with ROMs and emulators.Also there was an early N64 emulator in the 90s, which ran like shit on my 486.
>>12642020He's just probably miss remembering
>>12640920My japanese friend let me play Super Mario Bros. 3 before it came to the US. I knew about the warp whistle before The Wizard even came out.
>>12641582on the archive, where elsehttps://archive.org/details/family-computer-emulator-0.45
>>12642229>NES got discontinued in 95 in the west but it went on until 2003 in Japan.Famicom. no selfloving nippongoese would import a USA NES.
>>12642229>discontinued in 2003They weren't making new Famicoms. They were clearing all stock and 2003 was the point where they said "that's it we're out and we're not making new ones"
>>12642232He's bullshitting
>>12640920Yes, a couple of Dragon Ball Z games.
I had these 2 multicarts before learning about emulation in 1998 thanks to a CD full of games.https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/Contra_168_in_1https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/Supervision_16-in-1And both had a mix of japanese exclusives and global stuff.
