What Was Your First ROM?

[Edgedancer]

Pokemon Red and Blue. I remember it got deleted when my Dad redid the computer and I went looking for it again but I had no idea what I was really doing. I was about 6 by the way.

 

[Anakir]

The first ever game i played was a game called SkiFree with this little guy.

He gave me nightmares for many years to come.

But the first rom i ever got was Pokemon Crystal emulated on PC. Holy shit it was the most awesomest thing ever. Remeber playing with a mate called Brandon he was from Holland.

LOL. I played that too! And same, he gave me nightmares 'cause he just ran out of NO WHERE from the side and eats the human.

It scares me everytime, but I still play it.

Super Dodge Ball on Neo Geo. Damn, that brings back memories.

 

[amptor]

Megaman X on SNES.

 

[Minox]

A fan-translated version of Pokémon Silver.

 

[ShadowXP]

The first ROM I downloaded was Pokemon Green.

 

[Sc4rFac3d]

Couple of SNES RPGs. I think Secret of Mana was the first I tried. I got them from a friend on CD. We both had crappy laptops and could barely run snes9x and Zsnes. One of the best moments in my life.

 

[dewback]

Back in 1995 was shown MAME and setup with Pac-Man and have been using EMU eversince

 

[playallday]

I was Googleing how to copy a Gameboy game, but I found some ROMs

.

 

[GhostSonic]

I heard about the Sonic 2 beta and wanted to know how to play it, so I did some google searching.

 

[ZombiePosessor]

It was Phantasy Star 2, 3 and 4 (yeah, at the same time), played in Genecyst (anyone remember this Genesis emulator that used to run on DOS?) playing on a 586, 133MHz (or a 486, 33MHz... can't remember now), back in 1998.
Too detailed? ^^

Yeah man, I totally had the DOS version of Genecyst, and played ToeJam & Earl with it. Remember the "About" section on the GUI version with that big fat-ass guy?

 

[uberusmaximus]

my first rom was my favorite snes game, super mario world.

 

[Radio]

I think it was Wonder Boy (MAME) either that or Bubble Bobble. I'd vaguely heard about this emulator that could play old arcade games. At first I didn't really understand what they meant or that you needed to find the roms separately from the program. Took me a while to find some decent rom sites that didn't just send you round in circles with advertising and vote buttons but once I did an addiction was formed.

 

[dinofan01]

Im still pretty new to the rom scene (compared to fellow tempers). So technically I guess I dont really have one first roms. I got about 40 roms at the same time. The day I bought my R4 I stupidly bought a cd full of ds roms on it for $10. Now I know I can just download them for free. lol

 

[<Luke>]

My first rom was Paper Mario on Project 64. I've known about emulators since I was a kid but I didn't start emulating until I was 12 when my n64 controller's joystick broke.

 

[Reaper]

Pokemon Ruby. Good times but I didn't know anything

 

[double_vision]

my bro put Pokemon red on the computer. i found out how he did it, and love it!

i also figured out how to get original game boy games on a palm pilot.

 

[RebelX]

Damn, I don't think I can remember...

I am *sure* it was the GB/GBC Pokemon games for VisualBoy Advance. My cousin put them on our computer. A smart little turd he is...

 

[NiGHtS]

Pokemon Sapphire for my GBA :/

 

[jargus]

My friend gave me some GB roms years ago and I didn't know what emulation was at the time. Those files were eventually A few years later, I got into Dragon Ball and found emulation for the SNES games. I've been finding roms ever since.

 

[XxRoxaSoraxX]

POKEMON RED(GB) got it when the 1st Emu came out