From: bel@whipassgaming.com   
      
   > Huh - precisely when? Like - I turn on the system, the old guy appears   
   > and then... what _should_ happen if there are no saves?   
      
   As far as I recall, he should immediately ask you your name. From there   
   you type it in and he keeps going with the story.   
      
   > P.S. Anyone else tempted to go 100% with emulation nowadays? Maybe I   
   > take gaming way too seriously, but with more and more hardware dying on   
   > me as the years pass I REALLY don't like the idea of losing high scores   
   > and important saves. The trouble is of course that emulation still   
   > leaves much to be desired compared to the real thing *sigh*   
      
   It depends on the system, for me. For stuff I don't care anything about,   
   like the NES, N64, Lynx, Turbografx, etc., or the stuff where the   
   hardware is way too expensive and/or shitty, like the Neo Geo, Neo Geo   
   CD, any given arcade game, etc. I don't mind emulation.   
      
   For stuff that I own the actual hardware, I won't emulate it for   
   anything other than testing purposes(to see if the game is even worth   
   buying, etc) or getting screenshots. That's just me though...a lot of   
   people don't mind emulating everything...   
      
   Bel   
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