What Was Your First ROM?

[Javacat]

Twas about 10 years ago I think and it was probably Micro Machines for the NES, played using Nesticle. I think I got it after reading a letter in some magazine with somebody talking about ROMs and Emulators. I think the reply to the letter was saying that it's illegal and naughty, so I when straight to the computer, dialed up and went to webcrawler to do some searching

Ha... I just had a thought. Just gone to my emulators folder and found an Acorn Electron emulator that I downloaded in 99 called Electrem! I think that was probably my second emulator. I remember emailing the dev about that a few times, sending them error messages n stuff to try and help them fix a couple of bugs.

 

[Midna]

My first was... all the NES ones. My dad just discovered them on the internet, downloaded them, and that introduced me to emulation, pirating, and eventually modchips, flashcarts and the like.

 

[GameSoul]

I think Mario vs. Donkey Kong was my first.

 

[CurleyAU]

Hmmmm, Im not sure.. Ridge Racer I think.. Yeah, I used Gamespot for game searching at first..

 

[upbumpo190]

Pokémon Yellow!

Then minish cap.

 

[Parsaw]

Uh, I think Pokemon Green, which wasn't translated btw.
I completed the game in Japanese

How do I still have the rom then?

 

[AXYPB]

Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! with Nesticle X.XX. Who would have thought that the graphics would actually have been fixed?

 

[keeganator]

Chrono Trigger + Super Mario RPG, 6 years ago when I was 9.
Just stumbled across it one day, taught myself everyone I know about piracy since then.

 

[Sir-Fritz]

First rom ever? I think it was like pokemon gold or soemthing. First from for ds? Yoshi Touch and go because it was like 3 meg compressed. Too bads its really just a 2 minute demo than a game.

 

[Veristical Blaze]

Uhmm thats a hard one; guess it was F-Zero (J) for the gba

 

[ackers]

DS - Diddy Kong Racing
PSX - FFVII
N64 - Snowboard Kids

 

[agentgamma]

Pokemon Gold on NO$GBC

 

[mew and lugia]

my first rom was pokemon platinum and it rules

 

[Raestloz]

Mine would be... Pokemon Crystal, played it with VBA 1.5, heh it feels good now that I remember it

 

[tbgtbg]

How did you hear about ROMs? What was your reaction when you found out you could play games console games on the PC?

I found out about ROMs when I bumped into a friend of mine I hadn't seen in many years as it turned out we were going to the same college. He had a Genesis/SNES game copier and wanted to sell it, and I wound up buying it.

And you actually couldn't play the games on the PC back then. It would be quite a few years after that when decent emulation finally started making them playable on anything other than an actual console.

 

[geedub]

i'll always have a soft spot for " Donkey Kong " i was living in Hong Kong when this got realesed about 80 / 81 i think , you know the one that the ds resembles now and it was an orange / brown colour ? and not long after that we moved to England , and god was i popular lol

 

[Meatbrain]

Pokemon Silver. I remember trying to bear with the Japanese text, and it looks like I'll have to do that again for Platinum.

I found out about roms when I was like 11 from one of my friends at school who played the Pokemon games that were only out in Japan at the time

 

[DokiDoki98]

Pokemon red.

 

[Daois]

The first ROM I've ever downloaded was probably Final Fantasy 5 for SNES. My friend told me about it and showed me at his house, and I never played FF5 before, so when I got home I gleefully turned on my dial-up modem finding the ROM and I've been hooked on emulation ever since. This was... in 1997 or so, since I got my first computer the same day as Final Fantasy 7 at 11 years old.


BUT, the first I played was probably when I went to visit some family when I was around.. nine or so. My cousin had a Nintendo pack on his computer and I played FF2j and FF3j before they were even completely translated. I didn't have my own computer, and I thought that it was so cool that I could play Final Fantasy on a computer. I was still playing Dragon Warrior 1 and Final Fantasy 1 on my NES.

 

[PettingZoo]

My first ROM was Pokemon Ruby 6 years ago. I was just going nuts on the internets one night and found it and then got sucked into the world of flashcarts and what not. I played it on an emulator called "Boycott Advance" then moved on to visual boy advance. Now last year while walking around the house I found an old disk which my Dad made which was packed full of around 500 SNES games and a SNES emulator called "WinSNES9xw".