Emulators are fun

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I play old arcade games( the ones from the mall) in a program called FinalBurn Alpha. What you do is download the zip files ( leave them zipped) and the program emulates the hardware the games run on. The graphics are as good as in the arcades and the speed is like what you would remember from the old days. I have alot of the old Street Fighter 2 and 3 games, Marvel vs Capcom/Street Fighter, X Men, XMen vs Street Fighter and even some old fighting games that were only released in Japan and Europe. Not all games run on the emulator, but it is fun finding the original art work from the cabinets so you can see what you are playing. It also helps if you have an arcade style joystick.

D**N Straight they are. Were would we be without them. Ok pirating is aginst the law but Screw the law we need games and eventualy these games wont be out we have to Rebirth to all this.

Besides, if the arrested everyone who "pirates" these games, there would be no room left for all the real criminals.

I've played lots of them, specially cool when you can play two player games over the internet with people on some emulators. I've played, Snes, Sega Genesis, Playstation, N64, Sega Saturn, and Sega Dreamcast with emulators.

Right On i love that

I personally like FinalBurn Alpha. I have most of the old Capcom fighting games such as Street Fighter 2, Warzard, SF 3( all editions) Street Fighter Alpha Series , X Men Children of the Atom, X-Men vs Street Fighter, Marvel Superheroes, Marvel vs Street Fighter, and Marvel vs Capcom.

I like MAME, but I'd really like to build a cab someday (with an actual arcade monitor and everything, I'm anal like that I guess)...I think a cocktail one would be nice, that way if I wanted to play a vertical game, I could just sit at the other end of the table.

I don't know how comfortable that would be on the neck though, I've never gotten to play an actual cocktail machine =/

I Like NullDC Dreamcast emulator

I just found another great emulator, its simply called System 2 emulator. It is for playing arcade games from sega such as Virtua Fighter 2, Gunblade, House of the Dead, Daytona USA( these games were all gimmicky, with racing seats and light guns and steering wheels). Its alot of fun playing Gunblade and House of the dead with a mouse...

I have an emulator for ZX Spectrum on my computer (its ZX83 for those of you playing along at home). Why? because
1. I love old school computer games
2. My dad bought a Speccy in the 80's while stationed in Scotland in the Navy and passed on his love for it to me
3. I'm an avid member of the community, but since my Speccy died in the mid-90's and because it's hard to find another one (you know what the games were published on? essentially cassette tapes)
4. The website I use, World of Spectrum has tracked down the creators of the games and gained their written permission to feature the games if they can't get permission, they don't have the game up for download. Even Sir Clive Sinclair, the inventor of the laptop computer (and the Speccy) has endorsed the site.

Also, Emulators are perfectly legal. It's the ROMS that are in the grey. I never download games from systems older than the Genesis.

I used to be big into ROMS, I had emulators and thousands of roms for NES, Atari 2600 and the Arcade (via MAME) but when my computer crashed I only redownloaded the most vital games and I barely play them anymore anyhow.

Emulators are the only way I can play old school games that I will never be able to afford due to how expensive it is, lack of an English release and/or will probably never be re-released such as EarthBound. Thank goodness for fan translations such as Fire Emblem: The Sealed Sword and Mother 3.

I played emulators when I was a lad many years ago, but then I grew a conscience

They'll become important though, as my Saturn won't last forever (and it just so happens there's an emulator for it that works *perfectly*; and no better )

Them new emulators is complicated. Nesticle was simple as pi, but it took me a while just to learn how to use the Saturn one.

How well does that work?

I've got a real Dreamcast



Any game recommendations?

I've got a Spectrum emu on my DS, and I'm always looking for new games to check out. I went through World of Spectrum's top rated games, but I'm sure they left a lot of good ones out.

My favorites are "Thanatos", "Skool Daze" and "Jet Set Willy" (Most believe its like the British answer to Super Mario. It's merely OK, but it's absolutely essential)

I just played the GI Joe arcade game from 1992 or 93 a few hours ago on MAME

I have an emulator for the SNES and N64 (although I don't have any roms for the N64 one...)