When did you first learn about emulators
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Grand Eeezus Maxwell
"Time is when, God....lounge!!"
When I was 18. First one I ever heard of was Bleem!, first one I ever used was either ZSNES or VirtualBoyAdvance.
Detroit Wave
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math teacher in 7th grade had a cd with damn near every NES game and jnes 
VisualBoy Advanced was my start back in the day parents was complaining about buying me so many games
i went on google types in how to get gba game for free and after awhile stumbled on to a gameboy advanced emulator and rom sites and found the motherload
then i found about about rom hacks and the former GOAT arcade emualator MAME
i went on google types in how to get gba game for free and after awhile stumbled on to a gameboy advanced emulator and rom sites and found the motherload
then i found about about rom hacks and the former GOAT arcade emualator MAME
When I was about 18 a friend of mine gave me like 30 cd-rs (
) with all the Mame roms in existence.
Played those games for years, sometimes more than my console games.
) with all the Mame roms in existence.Played those games for years, sometimes more than my console games.
Emulators was the rope into my PC gaming. I owe all the knowledge to catching wind about emulation. 2003-2004 ish.
Kingshango
Veteran
Freshman year in highschool, saw someone play the legit Super Mario Bros 1 and not that struggle fake Super Mario PC game (Y'all know the one).
Freshman year high school. I remember senior year I brought the emulator to my C++ class on a flash drive. Needless to say the entire class stopped doing work for the remainder of the semester. Everybody was either playing Mario Bros or Contra or something. Dudes would just be in class gaming.
05-06 probably. Still remember playing Ninja Turtles on NES and bring amazed that my 7 year old self was able to get past any level, what a piece of shyt game.
Daystew
Legion of Boom
Probably around 99. Was 11 
Would take 10 minutes to download an NES game. Anyway, I started with DOS and NES emulation on Windows 98. Everything from your normal Super Mario Bros to Police Quest and Leisure Suit Larry.
I even recall downloading from non-secure sites, messing my moms PC up and having to do a full system reboot.
The anticipation of waiting 4 hours for 4.5MB worth of a WWF Wrestlefest rom to be downloaded just to boot up your Raine emulator that couldn’t run it 
Emulation as a young Breh is partially why I’m stuck in the 1980s in many ways today. Should’ve seen my wife when I was spending weeks building an arcade cabinet to run games.
“You don’t understand, pong is my childhood.”
Would take 10 minutes to download an NES game. Anyway, I started with DOS and NES emulation on Windows 98. Everything from your normal Super Mario Bros to Police Quest and Leisure Suit Larry.
I even recall downloading from non-secure sites, messing my moms PC up and having to do a full system reboot.
The anticipation of waiting 4 hours for 4.5MB worth of a WWF Wrestlefest rom to be downloaded just to boot up your Raine emulator that couldn’t run it Emulation as a young Breh is partially why I’m stuck in the 1980s in many ways today. Should’ve seen my wife when I was spending weeks building an arcade cabinet to run games.
“You don’t understand, pong is my childhood.”
Grand Eeezus Maxwell
"Time is when, God....lounge!!"
VisualBoy Advanced was my start back in the day parents was complaining about buying me so many games
i went on google types in how to get gba game for free and after awhile stumbled on to a gameboy advanced emulator and rom sites and found the motherload
then i found about about rom hacks and the former GOAT arcade emualator MAME
What's the top one now?
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