>yfw you first discovered emulation
>>318269562
lemon glasses nigga is so cool
I don't remember being that surprised about it for some reason.
>>318269657
>That image
>tfw could only emulate GBA games at 5fps back then
>when I saw my friend playing Mario Sunshine on Dolphin
>>318269562
>"I can play so many games now."
>play a game for 10 minutes then never come back to it
3DS EMULATOR FUCKING WHEN?
FIRE EMBLEM AWAKENING ROM WHEN?
I went to a friends house and he asked if I wanted to play mario kart
>sure I guess, but where's the tv?
>where we're going, we don't need tv
>boots up mario kart on the emulator
>MY MOTHERFUCKING FACE WHEN
>>318270896
I know that feel sis/bro! except my potato can't run 1/5 of the games. I launch it and then it crashes:/. Good thing that steam has refunds now :D
It still amazes me to this day that I can play all these games from all these consoles on my PC so easily.
>>318272423
Stop newfag, you are hurting yourself.
SO MANY GAMES TO PLAY
BUT I DON'T HAVE THE DRIVE TO FINISH THEM
>>318269649
lemon key face
It was magnificent to realize that from now on I'm able to travel back and forth across gaming eras. Considered games already were my major hobby it was equal to discovering a working time machine.
Also I had no literal face when.
2007.
Played GB/GBA pokemon games.
Blew my fucking mind, first thing I tried to emulate was dragon quest VIII unfortunately ps2 emulation was terrible, still I had great fun with dome of the Pokémon ROM hacks.
>Good PC
>Can play games like Skyrim on ultra and Battlefield 3 on High with all a silky smooth 60 fps minimum
>Emulate Kirby Air ride
>That shit doesn't even go beyond 15 fps >Whole game (including time and audio) also stutter like if my PC was about to die
What the fuck
>>318272423
Was there something wrong with my post?
>>318269562
It was fucking amazing. I learned about that and Mugen at the same time.
>>318269562
>mfw I accidently downloaded a virus at the same time
fucking coolroms
I'm surprised people don't talk about it more. The amount of shit you can do with emulation is incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XalLnHxQt8
>yfwan alternate world where emulators never come into existence
>>318272778
>tfw still waiting for the day when 6th gen console emulation will be as easy as SNES emulation
>1997fag
>First console was a GBA with Metroid Fusion
Emulating Super was magical
>>318270357
in the late 90s I had nes roms and they would lag my pc so bad I would have to disable the sound for it to be playable
>>318269562
Early emulating days were off the hook
It's a bit more tedious now, though
>>318275016
>emulation doesn't work as well as running a game natively
>>318275629
It's not like they're overly complicated. If you're not technologically challenged, it should take like two minutes to determine the right config for a game (if it exists).
>>318269562
>yfw you play that childhood game you haven't seen in years
>Higan
Color Emulation. On or off?
Also, the Aspect "correction" makes rounded things stretched.
>>318269562
YOU MUST DELETE THIS FILE WITHIN 24 HOURS
>>318269562
>hey anon gimmie your USB, ill put pokemon on there
>it actually works
>>318269652
>lmao what are these guys so excited about
>fucking nerds what is this dumb game anyway
>calm down gawd
>>318269652
why do they pretend to care. i loved shenmue but the story isn't that great and the open world thing is commonplace now
>me when i first learned i can play crash bandicoot 2 on my laptop while i take a shit
![5Nn4txz[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/FGfVGug.png "5Nn4txz[1].png")
>>318276664
>higan
Why?
Also, I'm assuming aspect correction just changes the aspect ratio to 4:3, which is true to the console output.
>>318277264
>pretend
just wrong
I didn't realize what it was until I was 18, but the earliest I remember experiencing emulation was with nesticle. I used to play TLoZ on my cousin's computer since he was the only one in the family who had one back then.
When I got my first laptop in 2007, I learned about emulation when I got the desire to play OoT and wondered if there was a way to play it on my laptop. After some research, I was addicted.
Now I'm in the middle of getting an H97 mobo for my i7 so I can emulate GCN and Wii games again.
>>318269562
>Early days of SNES emulation
>Spend an hour downloaded Chrono Trigger ROM
>Finally start playing
>Get to 2300
>Transparencies not yet supported
>>318277925
this
i was at my cousins and i used to play smash 64 when i went to his house and learned how to get them my self years later.
My first emulated game was Pokemon Red. I brought it home on a floppy disk from an internet cafe. I don't even remember what the emulator was called.
>>318277617
Thanks.
I normally don't give a crap about accuracy, but I'm a moonreader and the "99% compatible with all comercial releases" feature seems it would suit my ntsc-j rom emulation necessities.
>>318269562
Tfw I have yet to discover it
Always preferred the original. Emulation either had problems or encouraged me to cheese the game.
How about I spend 3 hours grinding...or mash the fast forward button and get that shit done! About to die? Savestate!
I'm not against emulation, it's the best alternative simply put for high schoolers or those who can't or don't want to buy a console. There are only a few rare cases where emulation (even then, took time=dolphin) had any benefit to just playing the original.
Life is too short
to finish all these games
Why cant I hold all these ROMS?????
>>318278430
"Free games from all platforms in one place" seriously isn't enough of a benefit for you?
>>318278430
i only ever remembering using a save state was in kh2 and you are about to fight 1000 heartless other than that that's it
>>318278430
>if you aren't a buyfag you must be poor
Or, get this, you could not be retarded and not use features you don't want to use. And if you seriously think upscaled graphics and free games for almost every platform PS2 and older isn't a benefit, you're even more fucking retarded.
I've been on emulation or bootleg from the very beginning as a SEAfag.
>knockoff NES that resembled a Sega Genesis
>those 100-in-1 cartridges were what we put up with throughout our generation of GBC, GBA and NES knockoffs
>first played Pokemon Blue on PC emulator
>never had a proper console until PS2 so my PS1/N64 era was spent on Project64
It brought flashback of my early childhood and I finally got a chance to replay my first NES game (I got NES with no cart set and 1 controller)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ5LIup8Ayg
>>318269562
I worked with a kid who had a really rough home life and worked a low paying job. He was telling me about how his main passtime was to get off work and go home and play one of the few games he had but he was going to have to sell his console soon. So I explained game emulation to him and told him about coolrom and emuparadise. A few days later he thanked me for telling him about it and that he had been playing tons of different games on his toaster. Felt pretty good.
>>318278045
Definition of blue balls
>>318278045
>Get to 2300 AD
>To unlock the door, just press those 4 keys
>Keybord only produces a defiant beep
>HOLY SHIT I CAN PLAY MARIO ON MY COMPUTER
Something like that
As someone who is new to emulation, how come ROMs don't exist for current games being released now? Pardon my ignorance
>>318279498
They exist, they're just useless so no point in distributing them.
>>318279498
We don't have emulators for current gen systems and we can't play pirated games on real systems either
>>318279498
ROM files are just memory dumps of the cartridge's ROM. Today's equivalent would be disk image files (.iso)
>>318279498
No one's gotten past the console's security, I think there was a PS4 web browser exploit but not sure if anything became of that.
>found a gameboy emulator that supported 2 players at the same time
>download pokemon crystal
>call my friend to come over
>we played for 7 hours straight
>>318279756
>found a gameboy emulator that supported 2 players at the same time
>trade haunter with myself
>>318275467
>not using emuparadise
>>318279954
Emuparadise has garbage disc dumps
>>318279634
>>318279657
>>318279670
>>318279696
Thanks. So I'm guessing we have to wait to emulate current gen for several years
>>318280136
it's not hard to find PS3 or 360 ROMs floating around but we still don't have proper emulation there.
>>318269652
this comes off as really cringey.
>mfw discovering I can customize textures in dolphin and somewhat make an HD remake of a game I loved for over a decade.
>>318269562
>Anon, we can play Super Smash Bros
>No, right here! In the lab!
Found out about emulators in 06 after searching for a GBA flashcart.
>Go crazy with roms and emulators
Stoner friends come by, it blows their minds and they tell me I should go to MIT.
I installed a emulator for a friend recently, after that he was glued to his phone. His gf must not of been happy cause a few days later his phone screen was smashed.
>>318279657
PS3 emulation probably won't happen for decades. The set up of that console is a mess.
Even PS2 emulation is only recently starting to hit its stride, and that's not as complex.
360 emulation would be pretty sweet though. I fully expect that to be a reality long before PS3 emulation
>>318269562
>tfw never tried emulation
my backlog is full enough. I don't need this shit. Fuck off.
>>318269990
>>318270108
I wish I didn't have anybody I know in real life on steam so I could join all these autistic little groups
>>318275629
snes emulation is still terrible though.
>>318281548
>Cycle accurate
>Terrible
Ok
>>318281548
Yeah if you're still playing on znes. There's a cycle accurate emulator with perfect compatibility
>>318281548
>lying on the internet
Higan's most demanding variant plays literally everything without glitches.
>>318280471
I really wish I knew how to edit textures and do art so I could overhaul the textures of games like Pikmin and F-Zero GX.
I like the in running joke of unoffically porting Doom to everything. All though its not really a joke since Doom is great.
>>318269562
thats was not exactly my face because thats a nigger and im white
>>318282071
I'm sure there's a guide on gbatemp
>>318282105
i enjoy that, too. i also enjoy seeing the result of people breaking automated systems by inserting code into regular text fields.
>>318269562
>Finally hear about it from a friend
>Decide to bring my old ass MP3 to the library so I can download what I need
>Have to access three sites and click "yes" to gain my game download
>One of them is fucking hentai
>Power through it with no one noticing and then enjoy the fuck out of Summon Night 2 and Riviera: The Promised Land the next couple of weeks
>tfw half a decade until I can play Bayonetta 2 at an acceptable framerate
>>318280863
Nigga, you wat? I've played PS2 games without problems for 4 to 5 years now. Also, they are already cracking PS3.
>>318282889
There are a number of games that still don't work no matter what your set up.
Different games often require different configuration and settings.
Its better than it was, but its still messy.
>mfw playing a million different mario world romhacks as a kid.
Some of those were some high quality shit, I have to say
>>318270041
>You think I'm strapped in for MY safety?
>realize how much money I would have spent trying to buy all those games and consoles
>>318284128
Brutal Mario is great
>mfw seeing K. Rool and the Mammon machine in a Mario game
>be 33 yo now
>find out emulation during my high school years
>can play all coin ops of my childhood without squandering my parents' money with motherfucking MAME
>mfw
>mfw I found out it was all for free
I had an old ipod touch in high school that I slapped an NES emulator on that had bluetooth support, so I'd take it along with acouple wiimotes and play contra with bros on band trips.
>Download rom
>extract file in winrar
>archive is empty
>Re download
>same thing
does anybody know how to fix this? The file is 1.34gb and is a wizip archive, in winrar says file is corrupt. File name end in .iso. website says dolphin should open it
>>318285431
try 7zip, winrar a shit
>>318285431
must be a fake rom
download from a different source.
>>318285819
Every web page with that rom links to the same file i downloaded or is deleted
>>318286017
>>318285431
Are you sure it's not that filename too long error? If so extract to C:\ or something
Also which g
>>318286017
fake rom, idiot
>>318275016
Check the FAQ
https://dolphin-emu.org/docs/faq/
>>318269562
>Mfw my brother shown it to me the first time
>Mfw playing my Gb, nes games, and half-life mods back then
He used to be alright, too bad he went to shit not too long after this. I really miss having a big bro who actually cared about me.
>>318270357
Oh man, I remember that. Luckily it's didn't take too long for it to get better.
>>318275532
wow you can make pikmin 2 look like ass
>tfw 87 hours in DQ VIII, just farming metal slims kings for the trials while sipping on your hot chocolate
>mfw
>post yfw you found out you can use a converter for all of your old controllers
>>318279756
Shit son I remember that emulator. Wasn't it a special version of no$GB or something?
On another note I had a Mac and Mac had a special version of SNES9x in which you can alter the audio and make it all reverby and shit. Shit was cash as fuck.
>mfw they never released a Windows equivalent
>you have to delete it within 24 hours or else its illegal
>get really paranoid the cops are gonna bust down my door if I forget to delete it
>Games out only in Japan and region locked areas are now accessible to your westernpoor enjoyment.
I really love Japanese version of Biometal
Thank you to all the people that mad roms and emulators possible
>tfw playing Conker multiplayer with one keyboard
>>318269562
I have no drive to play games I've emulated. I play it for about 20 minutes then stop forever and do something else.
>>318286952
Yeah, it had $dual in it's name, all I can remember.
>>318286205
Metroid prime dark echoes jp
>>318287087
Amen anon. Do you prefer Furigana or without in your text heavy vidya?
I don't remember my first reaction, it was almost fucking 20 years ago. I clearly remember it was the NO$GMB though, it was the shit playing those badly translated pokemon games in my computer as in the time I was poor as fuck and didn't have the money to afford a Gameboy (rich people gave me the 486 btw)
