The DCEmu Interview - Question 4 - What Got you Interested in Homebrew/Emulation ?

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A feature i did a few years ago and one im going to repeat now is the DCEmu Interview, a unique idea in which questions are asked by me to the Whole DCEmu Community its a way to learn more about each others and find out what our interests are and much more

Todays Question is What Got you Interested in Homebrew/Emulation ?

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To answer my own question i would have to go back to approx1995 and a site called Daves Video Game Classics it was there i first discovered emulators and since then i became hooked.

The first homebrew i was interested in was on the Dreamcast a system where you didnt have to modchip it to play emulators and homebrew games.

The good memorys from them still hold strong today.

It started with my Dreamcast. I was interested with these Genesis and SNES emulators. I think it was in 2003.

When I first got my PSP I was interested in what it could do and I saw on google a picture of someone playing the NES mario on the PSP. I was realy interested in playing my original NES games on the go on my PSP. I typed in PSP emulation on google and this was the first site that appeared and ironically it was two weeks later when I actual got a NES emulator on my PSP, I was too interested in the homebrew games and applications

It all started with Zophar's domain. I read an issue of Gamepro way back when and they mentioned being able to play old SNES and Arcade games on the PC. Since I'd sold my SNES long ago of course I was excited. The games played beautifully but I really didn't take to playing on the PC. I always said it would be super cool if someone built this into a console.
I bought a Dreamcast solely to play emulation. It was great, but if anyone like me had a disk FILLED with games, the Dreamcast loaded each one separately, and it took forever. I still played but it kind of sucked.
Then I bought a Tapwave Zodiac. That system was promising but the lack of popularity hurt the amount of people working on the system.
Today, the original Xbox and the PSP reign in the emulation department. If you could tell me I'd have a system with pretty much ALL my classic favorites, with fast forward functions and save states...I would have given my right nut to have it!
The only way they could improve the PSP at this point is with full speed N64 emulation (my current dream!) and some onboard memory (oh...I think 100 gb would do it! :) )
It took me like a year to warm up to the PSP but now I'm quite the fan...its just amazing!

I first remember playing NES games on my computer using an online emulator called ONE. About 5 months after I bought my PSP, I remember finding sites dealing with PSP homebrew. I loved the NES emulator, so I learned more about it and used more homebrew on my PSP.

I went with the homebrew scene in 2006 when I went to my local WHSmiths and had a quick look in the computer magazines. I picked up one and it mentioned the PSP was capable of running a Sega Genesis emulator. Surprised with my discovery, I went home and got online, searched Sega Genesis emulators and the first site to appear on top of the Google search come across was DCEmu UK. I saw all manner of great homebrew just waiting for the taking. Unfortunately, I was not able to put it on until the 2.71 downgrader was released but the 4 month wait was worth it.

My first contact with emulators, was the snes9x on the first computer I got, in 2000

I really liked the idea of being able to replay my old games, and some more I didn't played much back when I had a snes, cause I didn't owned the cartridges :p

Snes9x was sometimes dissapointing cause some games would not work properly, and all that got fixed with zsnes wich worked perfectly. Then I got a GB emu, GBA emu, Nes emu and N64 emu. All this for my PC

I bought a PSP, cause I wanted to be able to play snes on the go, Imagine my anger when I got it and it had FW 1.51, when I needed 1.50 (it was so darn close), Back then I used 2.00 downgrader to get things working

edit: ohh, I just remembered something else, I had a CPS1, CPS2 and Neogeo emus and I became more skilled on the keyboard than on the actual arcade machine LOL

When I first found out about genesis emulators for my PSP really. I found out about it here.
I first used homebrew and emulation on the DC, but I never knew it.

i had homebrew on my DC, as i heard aboutt he divx player for it, but as it was bought from ebay, as usual with ebay electronics. it died. so a buit later i got my psp, which has been running homebrew ever since i got it.