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

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

Yeah, and you could only play the demo in like shades of yellow-green or some shit.

Thank goodness for the iNES format for ROMs, because the Pasofami split format majorly sucked the proverbial dog's nuts IMHO.

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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.
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i prolly first discovered ZD at about the same time... i since had forgotten about it when we had a fire (a yr or two after) and i couldn't use a comp anymore... then i rediscovered ZD prolly about a year or two later (after having forgot)

it was when i became certain of the demise of Iron CLAD that i decided to join the message board... i can't remember the year, but i'm sure it is in my profile somewhere

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zophar.malicia.net (i think - i may not remember correctly)

I discovered ZSNES years ago. Long before Swampy owned the site. I discovered the site through another site. This site mirrored ZD almost exaclty. It even used ZD links to ZD stored downloads.. That is how i found out about ZD. I went to the source of a link. The ass was un ethically claiming all the news and ZD work as his own.

Hmm. The website URL wasnt even zophar.net back then. IT was zophar.malicia (or somthing like that). At the time to, it was news when the ZD counter reached certian visitor numbers.

I initially registered with the boards but never stayed. I found them uninteresting. I visited the site for emulation news for a few years after that until sometime last year or the year before (i forgot) i registered with the message boards again



> ZSNES was at 0.400, Genecyst and NESticle were less than a
> few days from their final x.xx releaes.
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> All hail Lord Zophar. Master of emulation....and shit! Don't
> forget shit.
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Dont ask...I've already forgotten, but i'd d/l'd bundles from this w/s.... mega.. KUTGW<img src=smilies/sleep.gif>

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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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Swampgas! what's up? I remember those days, my brother is XiP, so I've been around for awhile. I remember when the translations for ff2 and 3 came out. That was awesome.

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> Brad "Zophar" Levicoff

Wow, glad to know when I decide to come back you're still around! :) I take it you never left though... Either way, it's great to see you're still active.

- Carlo (Azrael)

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God do I feel old thinking about this...

zSNES did not exist yet, Snes9x was out of development during the time due to Nintendo, RPGe was just finishing up their FF5 patch v0.96, NESticle was the best NES emulator, ZD had just switched to the current layout it has now (albiet there's been changes since then), Demi had his own ROM hacking board (which I used to read after school for pure entertainment - the flame wars were hilarious!), oh hell, you can read more about it http://blog.carlocostino.com/archives/2004/09/from_whence_i_c.phphere</a> if you're still interested at this point. :)

It's been a long time indeed... I didn't post to the boards until about 2 years after I got involved, under the name Azrael. Now I'm gettting back in due to one of the classes I am taking in grad school: history of electronic games and media. It's definitely interesting to see how it's changed since and in the time I've more or less been dormant. Good post to come back to. :)

- Carlo (Azrael)

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> Swampgas! what's up? I remember those days, my brother is
> XiP, so I've been around for awhile. I remember when the
> translations for ff2 and 3 came out. That was awesome.

For about 6 years I called him "ecks eye pee" until I realized it wasn't an abbreviation...then I called him "zip".

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> For about 6 years I called him "ecks eye pee" until I
> realized it wasn't an abbreviation...then I called him
> "zip".
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i always thought it was as it was spelled... xip... eckzip

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

Heh...VSMC really brings back memories. Just think, if he had open sourced it back then, we'd still be playing it today! And he'd probably have gotten a ton in donations compared to what he got selling VSMC. ZD has come a long way as well...it's really the only emulation site (sorry) that's kept its usefulness after all these years. I still remember Brad getting mad when I would always host the emulators locally because it used ZD's bandwidth, but hey, it was more convenient for users <img src=smilies/thumb.gif> Looks like they still do it mostly, which is great! Most of the emulator sites go down, but you can always rely on ZD. Swampgas has done a great job keeping it going...even though he apparently let usernames on this board expire <img src=smilies/flipa.gif> Just kidding ya Swampgas...good job. I am surprised and flattered you never changed the board name from "talk of the town" as well!

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Alan Lanoie, former ZD cast member
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> Swampgas...good job. I am surprised and flattered you never
> changed the board name from "talk of the town" as well!

We still call it zmd2, too.
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Heh, N64 emulation was quite new, and my first visit here I remember coming across a page declaring Zophar having 'manboobs'.

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I can't quite remember, but I know it was before this:
http://web.archive.org/web/19990428224820/http://www.zophar.net/

Because I remember the talk on the ZMD boards about how, uh... (correct me if I'm wrong) Demi from NeoForce 'designed' the ZD logo, or something.

I remember that NESticle by Bloodlust was _the shit_ that would play damn near any NES ROM I could think to throw at it. The DOS version was better than the Windows version, but I always had trouble getting sound working in it for some reason.

I remember No$GB was the best FREE gameboy emulator out there. It could stretch the screen out and you could choose between black and white or the pea-green emulation. I seem to remember they were working on Super Gameboy emulation, which originally was little more than grabbing the border and displaying it around the black and white emu screen.

SNES emulation was pretty new. You had to have multiple emus at the time, though. SNES '95 emulated games differently from SNES '96, and talk of two new emulators, zSNES and SNES9X were really tearing through the scene. zSNES was going to be coded in assembly language for speed, while SNES9X was going to take part of SNES '95, and part of SNES '96, and jumble them together HOPEFULLY with good after-effects.

I also remember that the SNES emulators of the time really didn't have any UI, so you'd have to use command-line flags to choose whether to enable the experimental sound cores, mode 7 emulation, or whether you were using a "HIROM" or "LOROM" dump. That led to the popular "Emu Frontend" market. ;)

More advanced stuff, like the Playstation and N64 were whispers, but really all we wanted was a good SNES emulator to play Chrono Trigger on.

I can't remember, wasn't there a shareware SNES emulator that displayed everything in shades of BROWN until you registered it?

Genecyst was the shit for the Sega freaks, and Callus was used more than MAME for speed. Retrocade was being talked about, the first multi-arcade emulator with a 'rich' UI. I remember there was a lot of anger surrounding that project, with more than a few accusations of stolen code.

Hm... That's really all I remember, and even then that was probably over the course of several months, if not a year or two.
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Right around the time of UltraHLE. There were a few variants at the time so I can't really place it... I remember seeing "GoodXXX" on the front page and thinking it was a porn advertisement.
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Let's see... I didn't have a computer of my own yet, and the only FF4 translation was a terrible patch that stuck FF2us' dialogue in the game, but it only translated the intro or something like that.

Later, I still didn't have a computer, but I got word that the first full version of J2e's FF4 translation was out, so I downloaded it and Snes9x to play at school.

Yeah, I found this place because I wanted to play FF4 "hardtype" before I owned a computer.
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Heh, blow up the FF2us font, color it blue, shadow it with navy, draw a light blue line down the center of each letter (Why didn't I put the fade across all the letters...?), use the blur tool in Gimp.

Yeah, I also have one of the worst staff icons...
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> pipes = coolest

At 1st I thought it sucked when I gave it to Narvick.
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