Emulators/ROMs

Emulators/ROMs, are like the cheapest way to play the Nintendo DS, Gameboy Advance SP, PS1, PS2, and many others. There are Xbox360 and PS3 Emulators out there in beta mode, and being made!

What is an Emulator? Emulate (Emulator): Imitate (Imitating) the function of another system, as by modifications to hardware or software that allow the imitating system to accept the same data, execute the same programs, and achieve the same results as the imitated system. An emulator copies the functions of an NDS, GBA, or PS2.

What is a ROM? ROM: Memory hardware that allows fast access to permanently stored data but prevents addition to or modification of the data. A ROM is copied data of a video game that can be played on an Emulator.

With these, you do not have to buy an NDS, GBA, PS1, etc. You do not have to buy the games either. They can be played straight from your computer, but if you are traveling, get a laptop.

Questions? Comments? Concerns?

Don't worry! Its not illegal!

Awesome man,I used to use them.
And it's not illegal but your xbox or PS3 would be probably banned :lol:

Pedro uses them all the time on his Xbox :lol:
Or that's what he made me think with his "Downloading game CD's parts" :D
But just yesterday, I downloaded an emulator and a ROM for.......GBA!
Oh, the legendary GameBoy Advanced :)
I have two GBAs here, but not the awesome games :lol:

Do you stay in touch with Pedro?

Not much, I just saw him online at MSN one day.

I had someting on my DSi called an R4i. It's just like any other game card but it has a memory card in it and it contains a certain firmware. My firmware was called MoonShell. It lets you have up to about 90 games on one card with a 4GB memory card plus you can store other stuff like mp3's videos etc. i downloaded something called biosdumper.nds and it wiped my R4i clean. Im going to get a new one from the chinese boys at the electronics store in London. Anyone ever had an R4 (for DS) or R4i (for DSi)?

I have never had one, but I have heard of them. Don't you just put the chip in your computer or something? That is what I heard. Why buy them when you can just download them? Most of the games I have are pokemon games (yeah I know... :glare:). Its just most of the other games are not well made like they are. They have good graphics, a storyline, and one thing most gba/ds games lack, 3D movement. There are some others that have that, like golden sun, but they just have bad graphics.

I use emulators to play certain games (I'm looking at you MW for DS) but if it comes out for X-box 360... I might be able to mod fallout 3!

You have to buy the R4i card. My dad bought it off the chinese boys for about £40. it had about 83 games on it, about half of them with cheats. I made do with it until i discovered i could download games off the net for free. I downloaded the .nds file of Scribblenauts and put it on the mem. card in my R4i. It automatically created the .sav file (the one that contains all the game data) when i ran it on my DSi and it worked fine. I later downloaded some more stuff off the net using the intitle:"index.of" (.nds) google trick and got some cool stuff. Thats when i came across biosdumper.nds. Im a curious experimenter so i tried running it and it showed up some text then i restarted the R4i and it wouldnt run. It just kept saying Loading... so i put it into the usb on the pc to see what had happened and it just had a file, about 1.1GB in size, and its name was just a bunch of odd characters. I tried renaming it, changing the extension, even deleting it. It just said it was a system file and what i had done to it was invalid. It didnt do anything. So im just going to start it all again andbuy a new R4i. I emailed a lifetroop all my new .nds files so maybe i can get him to send them all back to me. Im never opening biosdumper.nds ever. So thats my story. Thank you, thank you :clapping:

I use them all the time lol.

Pokemon Heart Gold Rom FTW!

You dont get the pokewalker though!:O

just buy a seperate one! FTW

I dont think you can...
Plus how are you gonna use it with the comp?

eh, someone started talking about R4 and that so i was posting about that in answer to your statement.

isnt R4 illegal? o yea romulator has been shut down i think i think thats what people say?

Well i have an R6 Gold, and they didnt make me any problems when i bought it.

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I use them all the time lol.

Pokemon Heart Gold Rom FTW!

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Lucky! I have been looking all over for one for ever!!! All the site downloads have been removed because Nintendo got po'd. Could you send me the file please? lol karma+ if you do? :D

Lol Sure. Some of it's in japanes though.

Ah never mind then... I don't understand it if it is in another language. Oh boy but I want the game! I am sure the ROMs will come back out in about a year.

The only thing I use emulators for is to play N64 and SNES. I don't like the newer ones, with the BIOS and crap. Too complicated.

Erhemehehhemm...!!!! Complicated?

Now no offense, but this is like 2nd grade math. Simple! All you really need is WinRAR and basic knowledge of computers...

I don't like taking the time to configure my computer with the audio and video, and finding the actual elf file (I'm speaking at the moment about the PS1 and PS2 Emulators). And I've never taken the time to really try.

Oh for the PS1s and PS2s and all those other systems? Yup. They are a witch. I never really had any of them installed, I tried, but gave up when it said a joypad thing was required. The easier ones are the handhelds, like Gameboy and NDS. I would recommend those.

Yeah, I know they're simple. The simplest ones are the ZSNES and the Project64, all you have to do is download the file, and load it using the application. And you can play classics, like Super Mario World, the Donkey Kong Country's and other great ones.

And sometimes they have cheats!

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Well i have an R6 Gold, and they didnt make me any problems when i bought it.

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holy crap a r6 gold? wth is a r6 gold is it btter then r4 sounds good lol

Yeah it can save images,videos and music, if you have memory.
It has no lagging, allthough it does freeze sometimes.
The game saving is in a prototype stage, as most of my data get wiped when i dont pause for 10 seconds and then turn off.

lol same as R4 just R4 better :)

No,R6 is better.

how so? i mean r4 is kinda the same -_-

Well, it freezes less than the R4, it lags less.
It has a motion sensor, so you can drive on Mario kart by tilting the DS.
It has a Rumble Pack, although that eats up the battery quick.
It has more cheats on more games.

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Well, it freezes less than the R4, it lags less. Comment: my R4 dosent freeze much
It has a motion sensor, so you can drive on Mario kart by tilting the DS. Comment:Tempting
It has a Rumble Pack, although that eats up the battery quick. Comment:Whats that?
It has more cheats on more games.Comment:nah i have 100+ cheats in 3 games other ones about 25+

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Well, it freezes less than the R4, it lags less. Comment: my R4 dosent freeze much Responce:Well,how many games have you got?
It has a motion sensor, so you can drive on Mario kart by tilting the DS. Comment:Tempting Responce:Yeah,i know
It has a Rumble Pack, although that eats up the battery quick. Comment:Whats that? Responce:It makes the DS shake, like when you get hit by an item in mario kart
It has more cheats on more games.Comment:nah i have 100+ cheats in 3 games other ones about 25+ Responce:Well there are all the cheats that ever were made on a R6 on a game

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nice espicially the motion thing :)

Well, in the ZSNES you have to enter your own cheats, but nine times out of ten, the Project64 will have some great cheats.

Thats just so unfortunate they havent made an R6i for DSi. R4i Ver. 1.4 is the best you can get for DSi. My DSi is Version 1.4E but ive only got the normal version of R4i. And i don't know what version that is. Oh well, just have to wait until 2011 when they might make an upgraded version of R4i (xVENUSx told me that).

I know they have a Action Replay DSi, but no idea of an r6i

So, without spamming, could we all talk about our favorite ROMs and Emulators?

My favorite Emulator is the NO$GBA. It plays GBA and NDS games, and it can save. It also has a cheat function, where you can enter AR codes and Codebreaker codes, which is very handy. If you have a NDS emulator I recommend the ROM Scribblenauts. Pretty fun game.

http://nitroroms.com/show/file-info/182 ... PA.7z.html

Pokemon heartgold rom If you run out of quota you can just use a proxy. My favorite emulator is desmume I tried using NO$GBA but none of the ds games worked...

I am a real wiz with the NO$GBA. I might be able to figure something out. Right now I am downloading the file. I hope it is in English :\

EDIT: File could not be extracted by WinRAR... I was so close... Then it was ripped away just inches from within my grasp!