The state of emulation when you first visited ZD...

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ZSNES was at 0.400, Genecyst and NESticle were less than a few days from their final x.xx releaes.

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VSMC was the bomb, everyone in the scene now was still in diapers, and ZD was on ziplink in Philly.

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> ZSNES was at 0.400, Genecyst and NESticle were less than a
> few days from their final x.xx releaes.

Well, all I can remember is that Zsnes didn't have a win port or any port for that matter other than the DOS one. Other than that, I can't remember. o_O

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ZSNES was still for DOS (first version I used was 0.9891c), DGen was a great Genesis emulator and MAME was still releasing 'beta' versions.

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> ZSNES was at 0.400, Genecyst and NESticle were less than a
> few days from their final x.xx releaes.
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ZSNES hadn't come out yet, and the translation of Final Fantasy five wsa still taking a long time. The scene was like, a fuckton smaller and abstractly named websites dminated (Like Zophar's Domain! Coolest name ever! Classicgaming had just gotten started as the first commercially oriented ROM site (#@!) run by Fragmaster, or Kevin Bowen, who people didn't seem to like very much for some reason.

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> and MAME was still releasing 'beta' versions.
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...and Archaic Ruins was bitching about having to post updates so often since there was a new "beta" release every other day...

Ah, the good old days...

To be honest, I don't really remember at what point I actually came across ZD. But my first emulator experience was someone introducing me to VSMC and SNES Professional '96 (or something like that).
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> To be honest, I don't really remember at what point I
> actually came across ZD. But my first emulator experience
> was someone introducing me to VSMC and SNES Professional '96
> (or something like that).

I downloaded VSMC last month to try it out, and I was very upset when it did NOT work at all. <img src=smilies/magbiggrin.gif>

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> ZSNES was at 0.400, Genecyst and NESticle were less than a
> few days from their final x.xx releaes.

I was looking for Genesis roms, IIRC, and browsing around various emu sites. ZSNES wasn't out, Snes9x was just breaking onto the scene, and I was doing most of my emulation in Genecyst and Nesticle.

I remember the first few releases of ZSNES clearly, because it was the first emu that I could find that actually let me legibly enter a name in Secret of Mana.

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Can't remember the exact moment, but there was some controversy or something about Ultra 64, or whichever emu it was, not using D3D and sticking with Glide.

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ZSNES and Snes9x had a lot of competition with another. NESticle was at v0.42 and Genecyst was king. N64 emulation had barely been touched (way before UltraHLE). And MAME was cooler.


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> ZSNES was at 0.400, Genecyst and NESticle were less than a
> few days from their final x.xx releaes.

Lessee... iNES was the emulator of choice, Marat was still generally referred to as a dickhead, GameBoy emulation was pretty solid and #emu on EFnet was the place to hang out.

Also, ZD was pretty much a brand new site. :)


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Nlksnes was the only snes emu with decent speed and had just started with transparency, snes97 was out I think but it could have been snes96.


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all i remember was that there was snes9X and i think it was v1.34 (all i remember is that transparency didn't work right and i ended up loosing my way in ff5's sunken ship area 'cause I couldn't see.) Nesticle had reached x.xx. thats about all i remember, because i didn't emulate anything more than snes and nes at the time. (after i found ZD i switched to zsnes, which didn't have a windows port, i believe this was 0.9891a that i used but i am sure of the fact that i used 0.9891c )

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> ZSNES was at 0.400, Genecyst and NESticle were less than a
> few days from their final x.xx releaes.

Erm, I came around several months before Swampgas replaced Zophar. I was into NESticle and Loopynes and a DOS version of ZSNES.

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I think about the time I came to ZD this board had a Next-Gen Emulation section and Bloodlust Software. And acmlm had the most posts, and I think he was admin of the board as well. I think the board had a red or green color scheme in some places.

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> Erm, I came around several months before Swampgas replaced
> Zophar. I was into NESticle and Loopynes and a DOS version
> of ZSNES.

Ah, that's right...I came in around that time as well I think, but probably closer to the time Zophar left than you did. That's a good way to mark the time, I hadn't really thought about that.


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> VSMC was the bomb, everyone in the scene now was still in
> diapers, and ZD was on ziplink in Philly.
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I have you beat:

VSMC had no sound, Pasofami was the only NES emulator to play commercial games, and ZD was on geocities. :) :)

Brad "Zophar" Levicoff

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All hail Lord Zophar. Master of emulation....and shit! Don't forget shit.


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