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Back in middle school and high school I was a fullblown emulator gremlin, hunched over my computer on forums using mega upload and MediaFire, mainlining ROMs and building huge collections.
Jailbreaking those psp 1000s and the original Xbox? Pure art to me and me and my friends made a whole system of it
It was the start of me learning how to solder and the power the end user has over his hardware.
I was in there soldering my soul to the chaos, popping custom firmware like it was cheap pussy on a Tuesday, turning hundred dollar paperweights into glorious pirate ships loaded with every game under the sun.
Sony and Microsoft eating shit while I laughed like a hyena, good fucking times, brother. Well except for some who got caught in japan, I think someone actually spent jail time for PSP rom hacking.
Anybody else still in the emulation game, or am I the last retard huffing free old games cope?
Yeah, I got a PSP emulator and a whole rogue's gallery of others crammed on my phone right now. Why the fuck not? Walking around with a pocket full of stolen childhoods like a civilized savage who still wins at life.
The PSP scene back then feels different then most now adays, I guess the internet was just smaller then. Absolute mad scientist weirdos like Dark_Alex and team C+D figuring out the The "Pandora's Battery" exploit was a massive collaboration that unbricked psps by using writable data on the PSP battery.
SNES and Neo geo emulators had adhoc play meaning you could connect multiplayer games in the same room, sometimes bleeding out onto servers like digital gangbang. Sony accidentally built the greatest handheld ever and gift wrapped it for jailbreakers like it was Christmas.
Emulation never dies, It just mutates. About 4 years back I had the urge to play N64 mario party with a old school buddy in Chicago and we did it via emulator, dolphin if I remember correctly. In the process of doing that you find out there are old servers all over the world of old games still being played on emulators and back ally PC cafes.
Don't get me started on PC cafes....
The one I went to most was cyberzone in vegas, open 24/7, by UNLV a 711 and a 24 hour doughnut shop, it was pretty dope.
Jailbreaking those psp 1000s and the original Xbox? Pure art to me and me and my friends made a whole system of it
It was the start of me learning how to solder and the power the end user has over his hardware.
I was in there soldering my soul to the chaos, popping custom firmware like it was cheap pussy on a Tuesday, turning hundred dollar paperweights into glorious pirate ships loaded with every game under the sun.
Sony and Microsoft eating shit while I laughed like a hyena, good fucking times, brother. Well except for some who got caught in japan, I think someone actually spent jail time for PSP rom hacking.
Anybody else still in the emulation game, or am I the last retard huffing free old games cope?
Yeah, I got a PSP emulator and a whole rogue's gallery of others crammed on my phone right now. Why the fuck not? Walking around with a pocket full of stolen childhoods like a civilized savage who still wins at life.
The PSP scene back then feels different then most now adays, I guess the internet was just smaller then. Absolute mad scientist weirdos like Dark_Alex and team C+D figuring out the The "Pandora's Battery" exploit was a massive collaboration that unbricked psps by using writable data on the PSP battery.
SNES and Neo geo emulators had adhoc play meaning you could connect multiplayer games in the same room, sometimes bleeding out onto servers like digital gangbang. Sony accidentally built the greatest handheld ever and gift wrapped it for jailbreakers like it was Christmas.
Emulation never dies, It just mutates. About 4 years back I had the urge to play N64 mario party with a old school buddy in Chicago and we did it via emulator, dolphin if I remember correctly. In the process of doing that you find out there are old servers all over the world of old games still being played on emulators and back ally PC cafes.
Don't get me started on PC cafes....
The one I went to most was cyberzone in vegas, open 24/7, by UNLV a 711 and a 24 hour doughnut shop, it was pretty dope.
