What Was Your First ROM?

[mysticwaterfall]

Pokemon Blue for NO$GB. I wanted to try it but I didn't want to shell out the 30$.

 

[Mailyfesux]

I, too had the pokemon blue rom as my first ever. I think my dad got it for me.

 

[Law]

It was a SNES one, which one exactly I can't remember. It might have been one of the Final Fantasy games.

I remember coming home from school one day and my dad had set up up a SNES emulator on the computer and had got a load of roms.

 

[WildWon]

Thats a tough one. I've been in the emulation scene for about 10 years now (more or less)... so i'm sure it was a Nes game (prolly SMB), but i DO remember that it was Nesticle that i was playing it on. Hell, that was a great emulator for MANY years after that. If someone would do a current incarnation of Nesticle, i'd be back on that one again lol.

 

[Ferrariman]

My mom is a nurse at a local county jail, and is friends with lots of deputies etc. One of the deputies gave her a MAME disc with tons of games on it a few years ago. My mom still loves to play Ladybug.

IRONY.

 

[Renegade_R]

Asteroids for MAME.

 

[Prime]

Animal Crossing: Wild World.

 

[Fakie!]

Pokemon Blue. I've loved that game ever since.

 

[ItsMetaKnight]

pokemon blue german, dumped it myself

 

[Arm73]

Asteroids for MAME.

LOL

That's the first coin-up game I remember playing as a kid !
And then I remember Mario Bros, Frogger and Amidar.
The one with the little car eating the dots Pac-man style trying to avoid frontal collisions with other cars I also used to play a lot, but I forgot the name.

Sorry to go OT , but this tread brought a lot of memories back to me

!

 

[Cyan]

When I first heard about roms, it was before I had a computer (around 1994).
it was with a neighboor's Snes Copier, needing floppy disk to play it on the hardware.

then, I got a computer, and I tried the floppy and found that games were files sfc, smc, fig etc.
but, it was not emulated at all.
then, with school friend, we started exchanging first emulators, found on magazine CD.

there were no sound, no transparency, and very slow

but it was the very first step, and since then I followed all the emu scene

now, which was the first rom, I don't remember, and can't because there were a lot already on floppy disk when I heard about it.

 

[Foxle]

Harvest Moon (SNES)

 

[cepheus]

pokemon blue =D

 

[Hadrian]

ROM was Super Mario World SNES way way back in the 90's, I think it was current gen back then.

 

[Thanatos]

Mine was a translation Patch of Rockman and Forte.

 

[Trolly]

Japanese Pokemon Leaf Green on VBA. My friend had Kazaa, and downloaded it for me one day. Was sooo excited that I got to play Pokemon early aha.

 

[Defiance]

Hmm, my cousin burnt my brother and I a Starcraft CD years ago, but I didn't start getting into it until I downloaded Mario Kart DS for use of my DS-X back in June of '07.

 

[MasterPenguin]

Well.. I don't really remember much, as I was a pretty young. But, I do remember, that my brothers friend got me a SNES emulator, and downloaded a torrent that had what seemed to be thousands of roms. I don't really remember which one I played first, but I do remember two games that I played: Kirby's Dream Course, and Mario Is Missing.

Later on, when the torrent was done, I played pretty much everything else. But I strangely remember those two games directly.

 

[Nthenorm]

First time was when my friend got a UFO disk drive for SNES from his cousin. Nearly any cartridge you put in it could be copied onto floppy disks. By the time I came over to his house to see it, he had already got large boxes full of floppys used up. It blew my mind.

Second time was when a friend of mine showed me an SNES emulator with Dragon Ball Z: Chou Saiya Densetsu. This was when SNES emulation was still pretty new. It ran pretty choppy, especially on my old 100mhz computer, but it was still playable. This was also my first time playing a game in Japanese. That was an interesting learning experience.

 

[Seven]

A bunch of old SNES and NES roms stuck onto a convenient disc, probably Chinese. My cousin and I took turns playing it, it was the highlight of our childhood, really.