Video game emulators

[TB4000]

Anyone else do this just for the nostalgia? I use the NES, MAME, and Sega Genesis ones all the time. The ROMS are illegal in the states, but you can find them if you search websites. I actually sat down and played Super Pac-Man for a good hour last night. :tongue:

[Martinkou]

I use them primarily because some asshole sold all my old consoles to help pay to get the three brand new ones (which wasn't me by the way). Some of the emulators I have were for consoles I never owned in the first place, but I had an interest in many of the games, and those are quite hard to find nowadays.

The ones I use and have ROMs for:

NES (Owned)
SNES (Owned)
TurboGrafx-16 (Never owned; just too hard to find)
Sega Genesis and 32X (Owned)
Sega Game Gear (Owned)
Neo*Geo (Too expensive and too hard for me to find)
Neo*Geo Pocket Color (Owned)
Gameboy and Gameboy Advance (Owned)
Atari Lynx (Owned)
Atari Jaguar (Owned before it broke)
Nintendo 64 (Owned)
PlayStation (the CD-images are quite hard to find, unless you know where exactly to look, and most sites which used to offer them for free now require an extra fee)

I also had some torrent sites to Gamecube and Dreamcast, as well as PS2 images, but they appear to be gone.

Speaking of emulation, I also had some ROMs in my stash of every single TI graphing calculator (and a couple for HP calculators) as well as some Macintosh ROM images (before I reformatted).

*looks at ROM stash*

Well, I could care less if the feds come to my door and try to take me away............................. *runs*

[bluemonq]

I use them primarily because some asshole sold all my old consoles to help pay to get the three brand new ones
bummer. i have an atari 2600 sitting right next to my comp right now <3 atari <3 i wonder how much money a company could make by buying rights to those old games and selling them as a package with a emulator?

[mr. x]

bummer. i have an atari 2600 sitting right next to my comp right now <3 atari <3 i wonder how much money a company could make by buying rights to those old games and selling them as a package with a emulator?

hell for the right price and a good bundle (say every game except shit like ET) im sure it'd be popular

[thaite]

ET! LOL, that game sucked hard.

[bluemonq]

now, see, a good game would be moon patrol. and river raid. i whiled away many an hour with those two games. the star wars game...that was disappointing. even with nostalgia thrown in...*looking at jedi games* well, atari had to do something wrong i guess.

[ism]

Emulators are awesome. My friend just gave his 2600 to another friend of mine, and that thing takes up a lot of space. I'm considering getting an X-Box simply to toss all the emulators onto it.

[mr. x]

Emulators are awesome. My friend just gave his 2600 to another friend of mine, and that thing takes up a lot of space. I'm considering getting an X-Box simply to toss all the emulators onto it.

wait, u mean like xbox emulators or running old system emulators on it?

me, if u gave one to me for free sure but im not giving Micro$oft more money than i have to

[ism]

wait, u mean like xbox emulators or running old system emulators on it?

me, if u gave one to me for free sure but im not giving Micro$oft more money than i have to

Put the emulators on the X-Box. Since the X-Boxes are sold as a loss-leader, and I'd be using it as an emulation console only, they'd actually be losing money on the deal.

[Hanuman]

I like the emulators on the Palms. The newer Palms running OS5 can run some of the Sega games and you can find Gameboy emulators as well as some Atari ones online. I love playing games on the palm, makes you look productive while you're blasting away at aliens.

[mr. x]

Put the emulators on the X-Box. Since the X-Boxes are sold as a loss-leader, and I'd be using it as an emulation console only, they'd actually be losing money on the deal.

ah, hack the xbox...

[Martino]

ET! LOL, that game sucked hard.

ET was the game that broke the original Atari company. Rumour had it that they were left with vast stocks of the game which they buried in the Nevada desert ... not surprising, the game was as dull as dishwater! :o)

C64 emulators?

[Fireblade]

Put the emulators on the X-Box. Since the X-Boxes are sold as a loss-leader, and I'd be using it as an emulation console only, they'd actually be losing money on the deal.

ah... please enlist your resources to us, since my brother got an x-box recently as a birthday/christmas gift. :biggrin:

[TB4000]

See, I had no idea you could put emulators on newer systems like that. I could really use those dual analog sticks to play me some Smash TV.

[bluemonq]

Put the emulators on the X-Box. Since the X-Boxes are sold as a loss-leader, and I'd be using it as an emulation console only, they'd actually be losing money on the deal.
installing linux and then a linux mame-relative? heh. i haven't known of any one to do that besides the guys who wrote the hacking book. :shrug: good luck! and tell us how you did it!

[TB4000]

Anyone had any luck with that PS2 emulator that's supposed to be available?

[BaiginLong]

I do ZSNES
only because I never had a video game system growing up
so heh