how did you find assembler?

If I recall correctly I joined when the Sonic Xtreme stuff was happening (could be wrong, but something was going on here so I joined), and then I started posting about a year ago.

 

JESUS MARY AND JOSEPH (and his amazing technicolor dreamcoat) !!!

That is just ... wow... I can't find the words...

 

I remember I was reading stuff at 64dd.net (I think) when I stumbled upon a forum topic about the M3 blue disks which linked here. I didn't register till much later (like feder did)

 

Edited accordingly!

I was on ebay looking for a Sega Saturn and I stumbled across a PSY-Q dev kit which apparently came with a copy of Resident Evil 1.5, looking for a site that could help me I googled said game and it came up with ASSEmbler. I remember the main page of the site having a really nice picture of NYC on it and that's about it, I stumbled across the forums about 10 seconds later.

 

Found it in the old roarvgmcom days, the old site opened a whole new world for me!

Inittialy joined the forum around 2003 or 2004, then my old account got deleted due to inactivity (kept on visiting but never logged on lol)

 

I can't remember how I found this place. Possibly linked to from NTSC-UK.

The daily post numbers are quite low here, which is nice. There's a lot of information and not so much bullshit.

 

As Codeman, mentioned. Then I also found ASSEMbler back when it was roarvgmcom, but also I found ASSEMbler, because I needed a new "hobby" (which was also an old hobby of mine anyway), and well I found benheck back then and other stuff. But by pure chance, then I chose this forum. And I have not regretted it, even though I have had my fair share of fights over the years.
So 6 years.. damn time flies

 

I saw a weird blue playstation 1 on a local auction site.
Searched for info about this weird ps1 and ended up here.

Its the best forum i found till this day.

 

I think I was trying to buy and sell some rare hardware when someone at another forum linked me here, saying this was the better place for that kind of stuff.

I lurked for a bit, then finally registered.

First registration attempt was declined because my username did not meet the forum standards or something like that (moderated registration back then).

But then I tried again and was accepted.

Although I technically joined because of the market place, I did not start trading here until hundreds of posts and a few months later. This place is full with knowledgeable members and interesting discussions. Like subbie pointed out, this place has become somewhat an online home of mine.

 

Oddly enough, I think GaijinPunch sent me here way back when I was big into the Saturn collecting.

 

Link from ultimateconsoledatabase.com

 

The first time I learned about Assemblergames.com was from the article "Gaming Illuminati" on Retro Gamer. Then two friends of mine recommended me this forum when I decided to register.

 

This is the second time someone has asked this: "how did you find this place?".

Anyway, I stumbled upon this site looking for that "green" PSX I saw in the "Making of Lunar Silver Star Story" for the PSX. But actually, it was through zophar.net as I was looking into console program, specifically the SNES. My memory is a bit fuzzy, but I do know that's how I found it... when I was looking at that stuff at zophar.net.

This was way back in 2001/2002. Became a member to his ezboards back in 2002. I really helped the owner out back in the beginning of 2004.

 

Don't remember exactly, but I think I was watching for obscure PCE stuff as usual at that time, when I stumbled over the old (hardware-)page from assy.

 

Saw a picture of a Sega Sprobe with an assembler watermark on it on 64dd.net and wormed my way here.

 

Back in the old days when the site was roarvgm.com. Which was so long ago now. I then remember coming back to the site which had changed a lot to find some info on a Gamecube dev related hardware which I saw on ebay. ASSEMbler had some coverage on one of his back when the site had a front page. I actually still have part of the image I print screened to show my mate. This should be a blast from the past for old members!

 

A bit of a thread derail, but have you noticed that all of Eva01's threads generally start with something among the lines of "I'm pretty drunk".

What's up with that?

 

we need the really old forums back, so many cool and obscure discussions in there...it was around year 2000 when i joined in...

bring the old board back!

 

He's an alcoholic...

 

Haha - yes this is how I remember the site when first came here, I knew of the museum as well. Think I found a link to the site while looking for 64DD, and got hooked at looking at all the different JAP based sytems I had never heard of along with insane collections that everyone had/has.

ASSEMbler adding a new weird dev related item every few weeks was also cool - was never interested in DEV before hand (or tbh had any idea that concloes had a dev/test version) so seeing a red and green gamecube was really different. Esepecially the red one above with a massive cartridge!

This place certainly turned me into a collector taking me away from just a simple gamer, I spent a lot of cash buying lots of stuff that is now sitting in boxs either back at my parents or in storage, retail, dev, exclusive items. I have lots and lots of random stuff most I have played for a maximum of 5-10 mins. Which is a shame... and now I am away from "home" for 80% of the year I have come back to being a gamer, buying games I want to play not cause of their value and rareity.

Anyway I am going off topic, found the site searching for 64 dd joined about a year later remember searching was revoked for non-members so signed up.

I come back to this site at least 2/3 times a day to cacthup on what people are talking about, hoping that the next time I log in someone has found a new proto/dev item that I have never heard about.

Have had some great times here following some of the threads....