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

[armyStrong]

I got into emulation years ago...I was having a terrible time finding a cart of Secret of Mana...I ended up with a mountain of roms and emulators.

I got into homebrew on the Xbox while I was away at school two years ago through a few ECE friends.

I picked up a PSP specifically because I heard about the possibility of emulation on it...I figured it would be much easier to lug around while I'm in the military rather than carry multiple systems like I used to do in college.

[VexnadFett]

psp did it to me!

[Zin0099]

emus on pc started it, but finding out that the dream cast could play roms from a guy at gamecrazy i thought why not the ps2 and now i know everything about softmod/emu/videoplayer to hd loader and more plus homebrew was the main reason i got the psp although it was
hard to get custom firmware until datel make their pandora battery called"TOOL" now i'm ready to look into other systems
to hack and play roms and emus although a pc would be nice if i was mine and not family's

[kcajblue]

i got into homebrew/emulation when i saw my cousins playing a dragonball z fighting game on their computer.

they told me they were using an emulator, and i figured out how to use one. i liked it, so i kept on doing it.

[Jayenkai]

I've been coding piddly little games since I had an Amstrad CPC, way back when I was around 7. It was fun to play about with "Keywords" and see what they did. Slowly but surely it all came to me.

Console wise, I played about with other people's Dreamcast Homebrew, thanks indeed to this very site, but I never bothered to try it myself.. Mostly because I'm a cheap git, and couldn't be bothered burning 100s of CD's to get a game "Just Right".
Once the DS was opened up, JNKPlat DS was my first homebrew, closely followed by Stringy Things.

Some piddly little games.

[kojiro7]

My first contact with emulators was with an Amiga 500,in 1996.
I remember there was a programm which would emulate Atari St on Amiga!!It wasnt good though,maybe it was fake.After that I tried Spectrum Zx emulator on Amiga 500 again which was really working,very slow though.In 1998 on an Amiga 1200 with 68030 extra processor,8MB extra fast ram,2GB HDD and CD-ROM drive,I was able to play NES,GB,Master System,GameGear,Spectrum,Commodore 64,MSX and some other emulators.In 1999-2000,I saw on PC working and almost fullspeed SNES and Megadrive emulators which forced me to buy my first PC
I hated PC until that time

[telnaur]

for me it was definitely the snes and the gb emulators that started it all for me

[ian h]

i got into emulation around 4 to 5 years ago. i brought a cd off a friend wich had snes emulator and gba emulator on with tons of games for the pc. i never new emulatos could be played on consoles til i got my psp. PSP is the best console ive ever had because of the emulators.I will keep my psp for years to come and wouldnt even consider buying a new console without knowing it could play emulators first.

[Fr0sTy]

computer class in 8th grade. my teacher let us play jnes on the pc's once the work was done. mike tysons punch out was the best back then, still enjoy it on my psp. from there i found a lot of emulators for the pc, few good ones for the ps2, and all the greatest for psp.

[Gunnex]

It was mainly an accident. My friend was over (when I was younger) and we were running around on the internet unsupervised. I tripped across Gens and thought "I've always wanted a Genesis!" and downloaded it with a few pd games. Later, after buying a GBAMP v1 from a local import shop, I found out emulation was possible on GBA. I went back to the internet and found out it was all over. It soon became NDS Homebrew, DC Homebrew, PSP Homebrew, and the more recent addition of PS2 Homebrew. I'm thinking of joining the DC scene as a programmer to get started on home development.