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

[hdofu]

Probably pocket nes for the gba and a website featuring info on the flashcards, also I had a portable famicom player in my room somewhere I got to play games but it was never reliab le and I had prior thought to myself, "There has got to be a better way"

[JaseDaMase]

I was always a computer gamer (speccy,c64) and always kept everything I owned, I had so much stuff I couldnt take it with me when I left home so I kept it all at my grans where I lived since I was 12. A few years back I went to my Grans and decided I was going to take some of my precious retro gear only to find some dumb schmuck (an aunties boyfriend) was helping my Gran clear out some 'junk' and told her all my stuff was just that!

As i was craving some retro gaming I started looking into getting emulators on PC and then of course on consoles so it all began then.

[Savadahoo]

i think it was 1997 or 1998 and i saw my neighbour playing california games on a genesis emulator....that was it....as for homebrew it was the original Quake on Dreamcast....

[Mr. Shizzy]

Yeah, I think I saw a magazine article that was talking about emulation on PSP. I think the article was called "The PSP SONY Doesn't Want You To Have". It showed super Mario World on a PSP screen.

I was like - Whoa ! I totally blew my mind.
I starting doing some research, determined to be able to play Mario on my PSP.

Sadly, even though I had boughten PSP on launch day with 1.50 firmware, I had updated it , not knowing it would eventually screw me out of homebrew...

There was however, a 2.0 downgrader available. So I traded in my old PSP, (couldn't find a used 1.5) and got a Firmware 2.0.

I took it home, somewhat scared of bricking it.
But i did it. I downgraded to 1.5 firmware - and it's been one hell of a ride ever since.

I've since done some tinkering on

-Dreamcast
-PC
-PS2
-PS3


But to this day, PSP remains my favorite.

[Eviltaco64]

When I first saw a NES Emulator in 2001, followed by Project64 v1.0

Then in 2005, I saw a picture of Mario World on PSP, and that made me interested in Console Homebrew.

[jeegee]

PSP got me into HB scene. Had other things long ago like backup systems for my carts and had modded ps and xbox, but PSP was the console that made me get into homebrew and all it aspects.

[badwog69]

so i can play different types of games on my psp. and Iso's

[Eviltaco64]

Yeah, I think I saw a magazine article that was talking about emulation on PSP. I think the article was called "The PSP SONY Doesn't Want You To Have". It showed super Mario World on a PSP screen.

I was like - Whoa ! I totally blew my mind.
I starting doing some research, determined to be able to play Mario on my PSP.

Sadly, even though I had boughten PSP on launch day with 1.50 firmware, I had updated it , not knowing it would eventually screw me out of homebrew...

There was however, a 2.0 downgrader available. So I traded in my old PSP, (couldn't find a used 1.5) and got a Firmware 2.0.

I took it home, somewhat scared of bricking it.
But i did it. I downgraded to 1.5 firmware - and it's been one hell of a ride ever since.

I've since done some tinkering on

-Dreamcast
-PC
-PS2
-PS3


But to this day, PSP remains my favorite.

Holy crap, we both got interested in PSP Homebrew the same way (by seeing a picture of Mario World on a PSP)!

[VampDude]

I got interested in Homebrew back in 1999 when I got a demo disc with Yaroze games on it on the cover of Playstation Magazine, emulation on the other hand I got into I believe around 1997 with some early (and not that great) 8-bit emulators.

[ubersk8kid]

Once I saw DSDOOM, I wanted more...