How did you get Introduced of This Whole Modding..

[DarkSpace]

By luck I miss-typed a website and ended up here. I liked it and stayed.

 

[Harsky]

Think it was during the playstation boom that I knew someone who had a chipped playstation and I spent a while playing fairly obscure Japanese shooters on it but I was a Nintendo fanboy back and it was really hard for me to get into modding back then because I had no computers and I lived in the middle of nowhere so I can't buy pirated stuff if I wanted to. Suddenly, I got a Dreamcast in 2003 and someone told me about how it can run burnt games on cd-r which was how I got into bittorrent as well.

Snowballed from then on. GBA flashcarts followed. Then modchips for GC, PS2, Xbox and now DS flashcarts followed by PSP custom firmware. How much money would I did I save by doing this? I think when I purchased my first car with the money I saved, I guess that's some serious downloading I've been doing.

 

[Dylan]

Someone I didn't even know added me on myspace and saw i played DS and recommended the cyclods evo. Thanks the gods for that fateful day

 

[Cyan]

it started in early 90' with SNES.
there were all new emulators for Snes, without sound, only a few games worked at very slow fps.
with school's friend we exchanged snes roms to play them on emulator.

At this time I heard about mod chipset to allow imported game (NTSC to PAL) to play without adapter (Super Turbo 2 wasn't enough for FF6 ending).

My neighbor bought an Snes Copier and did a lot of dumps (100~200).

Then in 2000 I got internet, but I don't remember well which was the first, GBA emulator or GBA Flashcards. All I remember was looking for GBA Roms and met KiVan on a forum before GBATemp was created.
So I think it started with GBATemp, in 2002

 

[DarkUli]

God it's been so long..

A few years ago here, in European territory (At least in Portugal), it was almost non-existant the internets we support now, so what we did? Modem with 56k power.

When I was around... Seven or such years old (Not sure), my dad introduced me to this emulator of GameBoy games. Man, it was awesome. It's have some games like Batman, or the Simpsons, and even Pokemon.

Eventually I lost track of that, and even though I wanted it so bad, my dad could never remember what he did with the program.

Fast-Forwarding a few years, I started to get GBA Roms by myself, with a better internet, The games were great, and VBA was of high-standards back in the day. By that time I heard of flashcards, but they were too expensive and I always thought they'd mess up my REAL GBA sooner or later, so I never got into it.

Fast-forward some more years, and the DS comes out. It was a total craze, I wanted one very badly, and even heard of some Combos, like flashing it and such. I eventually got one, but my parents never wanted me to buy an M3 Simply or an R4, too pricey, on some sites.

Now, I'm fifteen years old, monday comes my R4, I'm on easter vacation, and I got a plentifull hand of roms ready.

 

[techforumz]

I found these things called 'emulators'. Then I was watching some various NDS/GBA vids on youtube and saw this dude demonstrating a supercard mini. Then I googled around and found all these nifty DS versions.

Then I found GBAtemp via your DSTT review.

 

[Masta_mind257]

VBA is the beast that got me in, I used to play pokemans on it everytime. Then I moved on to my DS, got bored and found out about slot 1s and had to get 1. Now my PSP is CFW, waiting to get my Wii modded and my DS is on M3R (after a M3 Simply and G6 Real)

 

[ZenZero]

well, i first got VBA and then got interested from there

 

[Frozen_Fish]

A went to a mod-shops website looking for a replacement touch screens and they had the G6 Lite for sale, I googled it and the rest is history

 

[Sinkhead]

I was in the school library one day when I saw something blue sticking out of the bottom of a guy's DS. I asked him what it was and it turned out to be a SuperCard SD. He then told me about FlashMe and stuff but it seemed too complicated, but once NoPasses were released I bought a SuperCard Lite and SuperKey and, as they say, the rest is history

 

[TaMs]

Parents bought me some random pirate snes games because they were cheaper. Later on got some swap thing for psx for same reason and so on.
not so related to modding, but still.

Everyone is talking about flashcards, so i did have r4 for ds, but sold them both. And how did i find about it? I don't even remember anymore.

 

[HyoImowano]

I started out when Pokemon came out, me and my friends didn't have Gameboys so we downloaded emulators that could emulate two linked Gameboys so we could battle and trade. Soon after this I modded my Playstation (with the sole intent of playing Dragonball GT Final Bout no less). The rest is history. There actually used to be a store back in the 90's where I live, I think it was called Starland, they sold imports, mod chips, did mod jobs, etc. They got shut down around 2000 though.

 

[gimlianon]

I was browsing about ye ole intarwebz, when I discovered something called and "emulator." I downloaded said program and a couple of SNES roms, and I've been following the various scenes ever since!

 

[jalaneme]

Think it was during the playstation boom that I knew someone who had a chipped playstation and I spent a while playing fairly obscure Japanese shooters on it but I was a Nintendo fanboy back and it was really hard for me to get into modding back then because I had no computers and I lived in the middle of nowhere so I can't buy pirated stuff if I wanted to.

lol funny you mentioned that as where i used to live we had a next door neighbor who used to mod old playstations and his son had like over 200+ copied games i remember he even modded our playstations for free aswell it's a shame that my old modded playstation got nicked though

 

[jpxdude]

A few years back, I read an article in PCZONE about the advent of emulation. I quickly became a huge fan of the emulation scene, and a particular website called Dave's Classics (now vg-network) as well as Emulators Unlimited, a british run emulation site. I decided to explorer more into it, and invested some cash in an old gameboy back up device by BUNG HK, stuck with it since then!

In the process, modded my own gamecube, got into the DS flashcard scene since the original supercard (just after the movie player (M3 team) release, softhacked my PSP, then reviewed a bunch of flash cards for a website after that. Eventually modded my Wii, and i'm still here!

 

[xJonny]

Basically, I was entrigued by the ways of Mario Kart DS map changing on wifi (by Parasyte) and other exploits and that lead me to flashcarts that allowed you to play games' and when I first found about about the state of it, it was PassMes, flashing (perhaps which I felt was something that could brick DSs easily) and chunky slot-2s.

My interest died because of the price and the seemingly difficult work that had to be done. Later on, I searched again and heard that a new card called the M3 Simply was coming out and would have all these new easy features in a slot-1 and was very very tempted to buy. At this time I browsed GBATemp a lot as a guest. I was sitting on the prospect for weeks but then heard of a new card by the M3/G6 team called the G6 Real. Again I waited months for it - the fact that it would play 100% enticed me and I bought it (albeit probably for something higher that I could have) but anyway I found GBATemp to be a useful resource and decided to now be a lurker anymore after lurking for months and register up.

And months on, here I am.

 

[coolbho3000]

I was in the school library one day when I saw something blue sticking out of the bottom of a guy's DS. I asked him what it was and it turned out to be a SuperCard SD. He then told me about FlashMe and stuff but it seemed too complicated, but once NoPasses were released I bought a SuperCard Lite and SuperKey and, as they say, the rest is history

Pretty impressive, you got from zero to mod of GBAtemp pretty quickly I'd say.

Anyway like many people I got started with VBA, then when I purchased my DS I followed the early modding scene closely (although I had no flashcarts to speak of). Then, after not checking the modding scene for many years, I only purchased my flashcarts (R4, Supercard SD) when I wanted to back up/restore my Pearl save.

 

[Bob Evil]

I used to cam movies in the cinema for someone ... this was about 18 years ago, when I first started doing it ... and he used to sell the copies ... and after awhile, when things like the GameFighterPro and MultiGameHunter started coming out for the SNES & Genesis/Mega Drive, he expanded into that market ... and it's just been a continuous thing for me since then.

I've always been around piracy since the VIC-20 days, but I never did anything other than play copies people did for me, until I got into "semi-professional" piracy, at the end of the 80s.

 

[di33yuk]

i came across it my self, being a kid grownig up around computers and consles always like something for nothing, same as my tv and internet

managed to mod psp's my ps2 tryed my 360 and i found some nice info from here about the twilight mod for the wii, did have that game when it first but not nomore plus wii's in cash converters lol will have it soon

oh and i have my ds that has m3simply wich i found on ebay

 

[PlooBloo]

When my dad bought a modded Playstation.