What was your first/formative emulator experience?

[caipora]

Mine was SneStation, a SNES PlayStation 2 emulator with almost the entire SNES library, it had savestate and everything, i almost had a heart attack when i was a kid and found it on a quiosque with my mom. The thing is that it occupied waaaay too much space on the Memory Card, more than any other game at the time.

The first experience with computer emulation was with Project64 when it had that MSPaint red and cyan icon lol my friend gave me a pen drive with it alongside with a game: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I remember to find it really weird that i couldn't jump. Key settings were weird too.

 

[Bagel Le Stinky]

Using project 64 playing kirby

 

[tabzer]

NESticle was my first experience.

 

[toolazytosearchitmyself]

The way I remember it I was at my cousin's place and he had a NES emulator and some games on his computer. At that time I didn't know what a NES or emulator is. I played a few minutes of Zelda and didn't like it.

 

[Paolosworld]

ZSNES as a baby

 

[Jayro]

NESticle for DOS, but it still ran in Win95/98. (I preferred it to NESticle 95 TBH.)

 

[ProtoKun7]

First emulator I remember using was FCE Ultra (NES). I also remember playing Sonic the Hedgehog on an iPaq Pocket PC but I don't recall what the Game Gear emulator for it was called.

 

[anjanimal]

Playing Pokemon Emerald in No$GBA.

 

[Deleted member 559230]

I learned about ROM's before any emulators existed. I found some on a dialup BBS system and discovered you can copy games using a physical game copying device. This was in the late 1980's. Fast forward a few years and the Internet became mainstream and websites started to exist. This is how I found "Super Pasofami", was using websites. At first emulation was rough, there weren't any accurate ones back in the day and the ones that did function didn't do so that well. So I was around to have experienced BBS and game copiers, witness the birth of the Internet and the creation of emulators. Ah, sweet memories.

 

[DaFixer]

Remember a Spectrum emulator (Spectrum Simulator) on my C64.
On the pc it was jnes, on my P1 166mhz pc back in the day.

 

[eyeliner]

ZSNES, downloaded from Zophar's domain.

 

[Ryccardo]

Hard to say, might have been anything between NO$GMB or VisualBoyAdvance (since of course Game Boy + elementary school meant POKEMON, I was lucky enough to get a PC in 2001, loved downloading guides/maps/fansites and wanted to replicate that), ePSXe (What? This thing (barely) runs the Bust-a-move-4 bootleg a friend gave me out of his 300 copied disc collection and my PS1 doesn't?), or VICE (Thanks to my uncle who gave me a "Basic and Pascal for scientific problems" book and apparently that was the first implementation of Basic I found lol)
Either way that was between 2003 and 2004

 

[Xdqwerty]

VisualBoyAdvance and Project64 and Snes9x

 

[Fien]

In the earlier '00's my cousin bought a CD with a old version of Bleem! on it, a PS1 emulator. I tried it with Moorhen 3 and didn't used it after that.

Some years later, 2004, I found ePSXe to play Crash Bash intensively on it with save states (making it easier). I remember some levels needed "frame skipping" to run at the correct speed because my PC wasn't fast enough. It was a Pentium III 667MHz with 192MB RAM and a ATi Radeon 9200 SE.

 

[AncientBoi]

My first one was the PPSSPP on my PC. It ran fine until I tried to play KILLZONE™. Tried many tweeks, but I still got glitches.

Then I installed RetroArch, and the same game ran smoothly. Weird

 

[Anxiety_timmy]

GBA on an ipad mini, I played a good chunk of fire emblem on it, with some mother 3.

 

[impeeza]

NESticle

 

[Ligeia]

My first emulator experience was when a friend burnt me a Dreamcast CD packed with SNES games... My mind was blown away. I bought my Dreamcast especially for that.

 

[impeeza]

Bleem! I remember running it on my first pc

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humm and what you tell me about VirtualPC!!!

and Connectix Virtual Game Station

You made me melancholic!!!