What's happened to this forum?

Post by **Agozer** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:21 pm

Sometime around 1998 for me I guess.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:38 am

Gil_Hamilton wrote:
snkcube wrote:Oh wow, I'm pretty late to the party. I believe I first used ZSNES when 1.36 just came out.
LOL NOOB!111

I want to say I came in on .6 or .7
It was the 90s, and there was time for Klax.... wait, wrong thread.
Anyways, late 90s. DOS only. There were separate ASM and C versions.

Ahhh, glorious days of my youth.

Let's just say no one told me about emulation or the fact that I thought emulating consoles on a computer was even possible. At least I didn't join the scene too late (in my view).

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:47 am

Heh, I guess I win this thread -- I remember the news post for the very first public release of ZSNES on Emu News Service ;)
I used to use ESNES before that. Oh, and ZSNES used to use Matt's WWWboard way back in the day. Ah, good times.

And yes, Nightcrawler's right. Emulation is getting even more popular, SNES interest is just fading. Back in ZSNES' prime, I maybe ran into one or two other people who had heard of emulation. But now, it seems like six out of ten gamers know about emulation. Hell, my 30-something coworkers know about emulation these days.

avoidz · Post by **avoidz** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:14 am

Must have been around 1998-1999 when I first found SNES emulation, and ZSNES. I'd be playing the real SNES since 1992. I couldn't get enough of emulation at the time

Almost 10 years later, I'm still interesting in emulation; though it seems the general interest has quietened down over the years (people moving on; new consoles just about impossible to emulate - and why bother?). Plus, the new consoles have their own pay-per-emulation.

I'm just happy ZSNES is still here

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:20 am

byuu wrote:Heh, I guess I win this thread -- I remember the news post for the very first public release of ZSNES on Emu News Service
I used to use ESNES before that. Oh, and ZSNES used to use Matt's WWWboard way back in the day. Ah, good times.

I remember the WWWBoard.

Post by **grinvader** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:16 pm

I remember Jack.

paulguy · Post by **paulguy** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:20 pm

I found zsnes when it was version 0.952 and I remember the wwwboard. I was a daaaaamn retard back then and on the ikonboard. Im sure some of you recognise me.

blackmyst · Post by **blackmyst** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:09 pm

It's been about 7 years for me. Holy shit, time goes fast. :(

Post by **odditude** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 2:13 am

I never checked any of the boards, but my first experience with SNES emulation was SNES9X .14. I remember when ZSNES was first released, and the whole shitstorm about stolen code and whatnot.

My first experience with emulation in general was NESticle .31, and it amazed me to play Megaman 2 and Contra on my P133 with my dual Gravis GamePadPros!

I actually worked as a maintainer for EmuCamp for a short time in 1998 or '99 - I was thrilled when Zoop (Bock) would let us get the registered version of MEKA.

Ahh, memories...

PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 6:18 am

I am the birth father of both Zsknight and _Demo_, so I've been around the longest. thank you.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 6:32 am

phOnYmIkE wrote:I am the birth father of both Zsknight and _Demo_, so I've been around the longest. thank you.

But I'm your grandmother, so I beat you.

Post by **odditude** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 6:51 am

phOnYmIkE wrote:I am the birth father of both Zsknight and _Demo_, so I've been around the longest. thank you.

Which hole did they climb out of?

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 12:19 pm

darkbenny wrote:I've been using since 1999-2000.

nice, we're users, what is this AA?

Gil_Hamilton wrote:
snkcube wrote:Oh wow, I'm pretty late to the party. I believe I first used ZSNES when 1.36 just came out.
LOL NOOB!111

no kidding that's like the last release... er. almost.

seriously though my brother downloaded it to check out starfox 2 back before Gid made the patch, what's weird is there was multiplayer and I've never found that version since.

anywho I then got into playing games I had missed first time around and got hooked. lots of RPGs, translated stuff etc.

good times. back with Nesticle and Genecyst before other stuff, and N64 emulation was really popular, back when it was going on while the system was still selling. I think Zsnes is what really got me into emulation hardcore though and downloading every WIP.

Cyrus · Post by **Cyrus** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:48 am

The earliest version of ZSNES I used was either from 1998 or 1999, the laptop I put it on was trashed so I have no way of finding out what version it was.

doktor_kris · Post by **doktor_kris** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:45 pm

First began using Zsnes at ver. 0.2 something before. When the 0.4
version that supported Yoshi's Island came about I had to use the
assembly version with no sound in order to get a somewhat playable
speed on Yoshi's Island. Plain good old SMW and Addam's Family
performed okay with sound, however, so I was quite happy and
whatnot.

Good times!

Gonzo · Post by **Gonzo** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:24 am

I've been coming to this board off and on since late 2001. The latest version of zsnes back then was 1.337 but my stupid out of date computer couldn't handle it, so I used 1.29 DOS. And I still could only get it to run at a decent speed with vesa 2 support disabled and sound running at 22000hz

avoidz · Post by **avoidz** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:26 am

I played through the whole of Chrono Trigger on a jerky P133 with 16 MB. It was cool just to see anything from the SNES emulated on a PC

corronchilejano · Post by **corronchilejano** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:03 pm

avoidz wrote:I played through the whole of Chrono Trigger on a jerky P133 with 16 MB. It was cool just to see anything from the SNES emulated on a PC

Same here. It played REALLY SLOW with Vesa 2.0 for transparencies.

megamanzer0 · Post by **megamanzer0** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:57 am

sometime around 2000-03 I remember getting banned from here for acting like an ass

avoidz · Post by **avoidz** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:17 am

corronchilejano wrote:
avoidz wrote:I played through the whole of Chrono Trigger on a jerky P133 with 16 MB. It was cool just to see anything from the SNES emulated on a PC
Same here. It played REALLY SLOW with Vesa 2.0 for transparencies.

Yep, the old VESA 2.0 mode

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:36 am

avoidz wrote:
corronchilejano wrote:
avoidz wrote:I played through the whole of Chrono Trigger on a jerky P133 with 16 MB. It was cool just to see anything from the SNES emulated on a PC
Same here. It played REALLY SLOW with Vesa 2.0 for transparencies.
Yep, the old VESA 2.0 mode

I remember being awesome because triple buffering didn't make ZSNES run super-slow on my RivaTNT.

Johan_H · Post by **Johan_H** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 3:12 am

phOnYmIkE wrote:I am the birth father of both Zsknight and _Demo_, so I've been around the longest. thank you.

I realized just now that Zsknight's father is actually dead, so you are a liar.

VietBitter · Post by **VietBitter** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:23 pm

Haha I experienced Zsnes about the time ESNES was around too. At that time I had a 486. So yeah it's been awhile.

densy · Post by **densy** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:25 pm

guys, guys

this e-penis comparison thread

is whats killing zboard

xaimus · Post by **xaimus** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:29 pm

grinvader wrote:I remember Jack.