Well,well it seems a few of us owe our emulation addiction to nesticle.......ah,good ole nesticle.I was so excited when I realized I could play old nes games on my pc! Not to mention laughing uncontrollably when my friend and I realized just what the nesticle desktop icon was So after discovering nesticle,in late 98-99 (I know I was a little late,but I didnt get my first pc until early 98)I dove head first into emulation,absorbing every bit of knowledge I could find using my 56k modem Then my friend found MAME by stumbling upon "mame.dk"(deep nostalgia sigh)and let me just say the first time I saw the arcade version of "rush n attack" running on my pc my jaw hit the floor.especially when he added "coins" loved it then,love it now fast foward to 2009 I was told of "mameWAH" by some co workers.after using it for about 6 mnths I stumbled upon GameEx.and you would think this would be the end of the story,but it isnt. A few months ago I was sucked in to hyperspin by its "flash and glitz"so I stopped using GameEx and started using HS.Then I soon found out that while HS does have the flashiness,GameEx's features just blow HS out of the water.3 weeks after installing and setting up HS,I was uninstalling it and reinstalling GameEX And now I have been happily back with GameEx for about 2 months now,with no intentions of leaving it again:) I must agree with Brian,never have I felt more welcome on a board then this one.great community to accompany a great FE,the #1 FE.