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

[____anders____]

for me, it started when i got 621 nes games on a cd for my playstation 1..

it's fun to play games on a console that weren't meant to play those games on it.. hehe

[the_eternal_dark]

I got interested in emulation back when snes9x got big on the PC. A neighbor in my old neighborhood ripped my Super Mario World for me and the rest is history.

First time I got into homebrew was probably the game NetHack for PC. The Dreamcast was the first console that I played homebrew on. Now both of my Xbox's and both of my PSP's play homebrew as well.

[sm1988]

I am no 30 years old and I remember how exited I was to play phantasy star on a game gear with a master gear converter. since then I have always had an interest in handhelds and got into emulation for the reasons of playing my favorite stuff on the go. naturaly I got a psp and l never realized how capable that it was it is so bad ass.

[NoQuarter]

Seeing snes on a psp via swaploit

[sroon]

playin Secret of Mana on the go was a dream $#@! true
(O )( O)

[mcdougall57]

funny enough it was on a pop up of "the top 50 emulation sites" i started uout with the gba

[Iceman^2]

I first read about an emulator in a magazine- I can't remember which. I tried getting MAME to work on my old pc with no luck. A few years ago when I got my new PC I started researching emulators so I could play old NES games on my PC. When I started playing those old games, the obsession grew stronger. I learned about the PSP and what it could do later on. My friend eventually sold me his PSP and that was when I started using this site because it had the tutorials to get homebrew running and I learned just about everything from this site. I now check up on emulation on a semi-daily basis to see if there is something new and improved from what I have.

[Brainy142]

When i saw ds tower defence i had to get it :P

[Veskgar]

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.

Same here. I never bothered to pay attention to any of the emulation scenes. But I was so into the PSP that when I started seeing pictures of NES and SNES being played on the PSP it seemed too good to be true. Digging a little deeper however, I soon saw it was indeed true. And so started my PSP homebrew addiction. I had upgraded to 2.00 for the web browser and used the MPH tiff exploit downgrader to get the coveted 1.50 back.

The rest as they say, is history...

I would like to thank all of the hard working coders and homebrew developers who have made the PSP homebrew scene the most exciting thing to be a part of.

Forever grateful,

- Veskgar

[Video_freak]

I was very interested in the PSP ever since it's unveiling sometime in 2004 (man time flies). Shortly after the Japanese release (December 2004 I believe), coders figured out how to run homebrew on their Japanese, firmware 1.0 PSPs. I was fascinated mostly by the emulators, and bought a PSP as soon as I could. I was looking for a web site for steady news, so I Googled "PSP news", and I joined this site to download emulators and finally be able to view pictures in posts.