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Early Days of Emulation

JCK75

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I found my old CD cases in my Ex wifes house in grabbing more of my stuff
Was looking through it and found this..
back when you paid money to emulated games.. almost tempted to install it and see if it still works.

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When I was a broke high school student I would play translated versions of Super Famicom JRPGs that never came over on my PC with ZSNES.

- Star Ocean
- Tales of Phantasia
- Bahamut Lagoon
- Seiken Densetsu 3 (Trials of Mana)
- Final Fantasy V
- Romancing SaGa 3
- Treasure of the Rudras

It was a great time to be alive.
 
Anyone remember Bleemcast?

Imagine that kinda shit today, lol.

Insert an emulation disc in your PS5 then take it out and insert an Xbox 360 disc to emulate.
 
Early?

I remember emulation in the mid 90's struggling to get good performance out of a Colecovision Emulator. You then had nes, snes and Genesis and Mame only ran older titles. It was pretty exciting and they would run on your office PC and ROMs were easy to find.
 
Man, in 2001 High School, I made it a mission to install Marvel vs Capcom on every Computer at the school I touched. One morning on the intercom, they brought up not playing games on the computers LOL. The shit you could get away with back them. I would see other students playing the shit. Computer class became an Arcade!!!
 
Man, in 2001 High School, I made it a mission to install Marvel vs Capcom on every Computer at the school I touched. One morning on the intercom, they brought up not playing games on the computers LOL. The shit you could get away with back them. I would see other students playing the shit. Computer class became an Arcade!!!

As a computer tech in a high school I admire the effort.. the admins were always trying to get me to block Halo in the labs but I'd just find out where they kept the source and I'd just join them.
 
It absolutely blew my mind when I first saw Super Mario Bros. running on my friend's PC. I couldn't believe it.

We used the save states feature to finally beat Mike Tyson's Punch-Out and The Legend of Zelda lol
 
I'm a Breath of Fire fan because it was at the top of the ROM list in ZSNES I had when I was 7.

I taught my middle school about emulators. I haven't been that cool since.
 
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