games you discovered through emulation

What games did you discover through emulation?

One of my favorites is Judegment Silversword on the wonderswan. I'd never even seen a wonderswan before so I never would have been able to play this awesome 2d shooter without an emulator.

Another one is Gotcha Force on the Gamecube a 3d robot shooter similar to Virtual On, another favorite of mine. I loved it so much I decided to try and buy it until is saw the outrageous price tags of 300 to 400 dollars.

 

Two games I discovered via emulation are Mario no Super Picross (Mario's Super Picross) for the Super Famicom (SNES) and Pokemon Snap for N64. I liked both of these games so much that I bought them on cartridge.

Spoiler: My Mario's Super Picross cart

Spoiler: My Pokemon Snap cart

There are more but I can't remember right now.

 

Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy IV. fantasyanime introduced me to the prospect of emulation. emuasylum RIP made me greedy. Too many Saturn games I still have not played.

 

Toaplan games.

 

Ikaruga, Rainbow Cotton, a few other Japanese DC games.
Though I would typically burn them to a disc and play on my DC.

 

Earthbound.

And betas...I had no idea I was so interested in beta versions of games until I found a Sonic 2 beta. I can't even remember if it was real or not (apparently fakes were going around at some point) but either way I found it fascinating

 

Warcraft 2 the dark saga for psx and another cool game i played but havent beat is Kouldelka emulators are awesome.

 

Gunstar Superheroes, one of the greatest GBA games ever, I discovered through emulation.
Judge Dredd on snes. Yep its a B game but it's a great little shooter platformer. The Snes version is much better then the Genesis for this one.
G Police Weapons of Destruction. They made a sequel to G Police! It came out very late in the PS 1 era while we are all playing Dreamcast.

 

i was actually lucky enough to find this game at a grocery store in case for like 5.00$ me and my brother saved up for it bought it and it turned out to be one badass game glad i still have it loved playing 2 player on it

 

Doki Doki Densetsu by accident. I was looking through CGB roms and I thought this sounded like the original NES game (Doki Doki Panic) that Nintendo ported to USA as SMB2 but it played like an RPG game. Couldn't figure out the dialougs but it did have nice scenes when I mucked through randomly. I still need to find English version to actually play it.

 

The first time I played a Snes game was on an emulator. I don't remember if it was Super Mario World or Castlevania 4. I must have been 8 or 9, but I got a SNES shortly after.

 

Too Many to list........... I need to build that Emubox asap...

 

Final Fantasy VI/III sucked me right in. And Rygar on the NES was surprisingly fun.

 

Gunstar Superheroes doesn't have a 2 player mode.

It's probably been a decade or more since I've played anything properly on a PC emulator, but I remember discovering the Metal Slug games on Neorage way back in the day. Used to run smoothly on a Pentium, as I recall...

 

lol wow i missed the super heroes part... i meant gunstar heroes for genesis didn't know their was a game gunstar super heroes thanks for catching that.

 

I would have to say anything that was released for the BS-X

 

I remember fondly that in early '99 I was reading an article about Tekken 3 on the internet, and it said something like "you'll only play this game on PC with emulation" or something like that. So I browsed the web for "emulation" not knowing what it was and stumbled upon a website with the Ultra HLE emulator and Mario 64 packed over 5 ZIP archives if I recall correctly. Totally baffled and not fully trusting it, I downloaded these files anyway, and within no-time I was experiencing/playing Mario 64 for the very first time trough Emulation! After that I played around with Mario Kart 64 and Zelda Ocarina of Time. Ironically I never bothered to search for an PlayStation emulator for Tekken 3 after that Man those where the days!

 

All ntsc rpg that i cannot buy for PAL snes

 

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For me, it's a lot of SNES RPGs since we didn't get a lot of them in Australia. Seriously, it's almost like Nintendo looked at the top titles on the SNES (Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI, Mario RPG) and said "don't give any of those to Australia".