🎮 Early History of NES Emulation 🎮

[@TooLateNate]

Anyone use any of these in the 90's? What was your experience?

[@Metalwario64]

My first emulator was Nester in early 2001 which was relatively accurate as far as I remember, but shortly after I used NESticle for its palette and tile editing capabilities. I have a fondness for its inaccurate sound and GUI to this day.

[@andrewpaulakis7202]

I used nesticle back when it was considered THE nes emulator. I remember being happy with how smooth it ran but being grossed out by the UI. I wouldn't use it if my parents were home for that very reason! Ah the good ol' days.

[@DragonSlayerKaloon]

no they all sucked hardcore compared to FWNES why u no say FWNES THE GREATEST MAN WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@thevortexATM]

NESticle was first emulator I have experienced and was hands down my choice for many years

[@bjzq8]

I used pasofami and pasowing back in 98 or so, on a Pentium 2 333MHz. In my case it didn't format my hard drive, it just deleted win.com from my Windows 98 installation. I copied it from another PC with a Zip disc and fixed it. Pasowing was the "Win-G" version that ran a bit faster, thanks to that predecessor of DirectX.

[@rygar8bit2]

Nesticle and ZSNES fill me with so much damn nostalgia.

[@jwoody8815]

Great channel, Good* video, though may consider, using some normalization and a volume increase on your voiceover and sound-track. Otherwise A++

[@intel386DX]

I used to play NES games on my 486DX2 66MHz via Nesticle back in a day :) great emulator

[@Zinkolo]

This video would get more views if your mic wasn't so quiet. I swear that's the only thing holding it back. The editing is stellar and it's a crime this didn't grow popular.

[@TooLateNate]

Unfortunately, as others have said, it works great with headphones, but the audio editor in KZbin is gone now so unless I reupload it, the video will stay the same. While I agree the mic thing is annoying, it doesn't affect views, only retaining views. The only way my video could possibly of gotten more attention is if I plugged it everywhere I post. Which is a tacky and not cool thing to do. I figure if other people like it, they'll share it.

[@marctari]

I used Nesticle back in the day (1998) on a 486 DX2 and it was very fast. It brings back a lot of memories

[@thepolacek]

I had no idea NES emulation was possible (never even crossed my mind), until 2001, when I saw a guy playing zelda in a college computer lab. He was using JNES. I have been using it ever since. I know other emulators are better, but JNES does what I need it to do.

[@TooLateNate]

And that's all that matters, right? Thanks for the comment! 😀

[@edward3808]

Can't hear this very clearly even on max volume :(

[@TooLateNate]

Edward yeah, was told this earlier, would be an easy fix, but since KZbin screwed the pooch on their integrated video tools it's a no go. It sounds super low on my laptop.

[@TooLateNate]

@@zxbryc Appreciate it, but my voice is a tad low, so I'll just have to fix it in the next video, which should hopefully be up tomorrow.

[@Peter_1986]

@@TooLateNate KZbin screw up everything nowadays.

[@DoomKid]

Super high quality vid that deserves 10 times more views, great stuff!

[@frazzattineto]

Nesticle was the first emulator that I used in my PC. But, the first ever was pNESx, an old NES emulator for PSX. Oh, God! How I miss these days!

[@Trenchbroom]

Those were great days. MAME when Nicola was making exciting new releases every Sunday, Dave's Arcade Classics and Atmospherical Heights: two legendary websites with ROMS at the ready. NESticle was amazing, Genecyst was stunning, and Callus was shocking, playing CPS1 games full speed on my little AMD 300mhz box. When the hack occurred and Sardu called it quits, it was a crushing day indeed.

[@Jacket430]

Super quiet video for some reason, but very informative! Super cool.

[@firstnamelastname6118]

Please do more of these videos! They are very interesting

[@Dwedit]

Just wanted to mention that Paul Robson also made some really cool games on the TI83+ as well.

[@TooLateNate]

Yeah, that guy's a legend in my opinion. Wrote an RCA Studio 2 emulator I believe right?

[@paulscottrobson]

@@TooLateNate Indeed. The first, largely because of the problems involved getting the BIOS off the board :)

[@zsciaeount]

This is a great video

[@Valientlink]

Anyone remember the old G4 show icons? They often used emulation for their gameplay footage, specfically of NES games and you can hear the classic sound inaccuracies lol (nesticle)

[@bastian_anibal]

I swear I still remember it like it was yesterday first time i got my Nesticle that wonderfull year, Mars 1999 together with a game of jazz jackarabbit. i was only 15 years old and it feelt like i had the whole world in my hand XD

[@TooLateNate]

Thanks for sharing man 😀

[@NickEnchev]

Nesticle blew my mind in the 90s. Emulation was fucking magic.

[@taylorandrews5015]

Nesticle.

[@Thrashman138]

Good god, that heartbeat sound is waaaaaay too loud. Great video otherwise.

[@TooLateNate]

Yeaaah, I really wish I had more time before work to work out the kinks, but I suppose that's what the next video's for.

[@Thrashman138]

@@TooLateNate lol There's always next time. Keep up the good work!

[@aphqnix8685]

What would you say the best NES emulator is now?

[@johnmadison3472]

The best NES emulator in 2024 is probably Mesen, although there are many good ones with different features. Mesen claims to have 100% commercial game compatibility. Nestopia is another good one.

[@madoka006]

Can you please do a video on GCN or PS2 emulators?

[@TooLateNate]

I have these in mind, however, remember there's only Dolphin and PCSX2 that are able to run commercial games to a successful extent.

[@ryanamberger]

Anyone know the game around 4:32? Looks fun.

[@KojiKondo1993]

The Guardian Legend, in case anyone is still wondering.

[@ふぁるた]

mesen.ca new nes emurator!

[@danz8520]

4:43 Hah, nesticle

[@cloud_s_97]

LandyNES used to be lost media

[@SkinnyVinnie514]

Would have been much more interesting to see those old emulator running in my opinion insted of just random NES gameplay video...

[@7EEVEE]

Really cool idea, but as others have said the audio is all over the place. Great editing otherwise!

[@7EEVEE]

Just finished the video, great job overall! It was fun hearing about Nesticle again. Damaged Cybernetics is one hell of a flashback too.

[@DragonSlayerKaloon]

Fwnes 3.02, DosBox 0.72, and download CWSDPMI (put in fwnes folder) all set bestest ever nes emu you welcome

[@Zinkolo]

My TV is at max volume and it's still not enough..

[@DragonSlayerKaloon]

YOU DID NOT MENTION FWNES COME ON !!!

[@TooLateNate]

0.302 came out in November of 1998, that was 3 months at least after the last release of Nesticle for MS-DOS. Hence, why it wasn't covered.

[@poonamchand3725]

Can't hear anything.

[@DanPellegrino486]

Can't watch too quiet.