Super Bomberman 1-5 (SNES)

grouping these 5 altogether because they're all relatively short games and are also from the same series..
the first games i ever tried emulating! i started with sbm2 (because dastardly bombers...) and then worked my way through normally (1 to 5). honestly, i had fun!
theres not much to say about the first 4, other than like. yeah i had a good time. i like the designs of all the evil groups in all of these games, and the most memorable thing i remember from them is that i kept sucking really hard at the final/semi final bosses T-T. i cant comment on the music at all because i played all of them with the sound off (worked through them while in class at school lol).
however. SBM5. my darlingggg!!! sbm5 is easily my favorite of the series. the addition of an over world map and interconnected levels definitely boosted my enjoyment here. plus i really like terrorin.... i dont know why.... hes just my favorite.
i ended up loving sbm5 so much that i 200% IT. that entails going through and clearing every single level, twice. i did in fact use a map guide to figure out the level connections (i dont hate myself that much! thank you gamefaqs) but it was still fun to go through!!!
for other things i liked about the game, the music from what i recall is pretty good (still played a majority of the game mute, but there were a few times where i listened to the music) and i play the battle mode all the time. very very fun game.
misc thoughts:

• bomber woof can go die (i did not have fun playing his bossfight. whyyyy is he the first boss)
• pirate bomber and subordinate bomber are laughably easy (fighting two guys at once is a good idea but in practice they would always damage each other more than i could lol)
• pink rooie is the best rooie gameplay wise and purple rooie is the best rooie fun wise. taking no further comments.

Bomberman Hero (in progress)

bomberman hero! of 'redial' fame...
this was actually a 'backup' game, and wasnt my first choice. i actually wanted to try out bomberman 64 first, but for some reason lemuroid had an awful time running it. like a whole bunch of things didnt load properly. including cutscenes and menus. so i gave up on that... i'll have to try 64 at a later date...
anyways. im still currently playing hero at a very slow pace, due to the fact that i apparently just kind of suck at it lol. my depth perception in this thing is HORRIBLE. i keep completely missing jumps. ive taken a few long breaks, but im back on it as of writing!!! its a cute game, i like the models and of course the music is good (despite the fact that i have to have it on mute most of the time... because im playing in public...)
i am currently on the 3rd planet! like, 2 levels in.

misc thoughts:

• i love white in this game. the skrunkly. the blorbo.
• i also love nitros. hes like a little bratty child (positive) to me.
• i dont like how the controls get reversed in transformation levels... makes it infinitely harder for no reason... :(
• funnily enough lemuroid is also having a hard time running hero. it lags at certain points, and, damning enough, i literally cant pause mid-level. if i quit and reopen, the whole game freezes. so, ive been saving on loading screens, which has worked for me so far. thankfully, this isnt enough to fully ruin the experience lol. i think lemuroid just cant run 3d games well. it completely shit itself trying to run klonoa (which i have on my bucket list... i'll get to it eventually) and pokemon white 2 (it crashed after i got my starter and refused to reopen.. you will be missed snivy)

Pokemon Emerald (in progress)

pokemon emerald is a. pokemon game. my first pokemon game. I dont know what to tell you its a pokemon game alright.
honestly cant remember much about most of my playthrough. i played through most of it during/inbetween classes as a filler thing so thats probably why. ive tried shiny hunting for full odds multiple times and i, like an insane person, kept track of my encounters through tallying them down on a physical piece of paper. havent gotten a shiny yet.
ended up dropping it just b4 victory road because i was getting burnt out and the fact that a few of my party members were a little too underleveled so repels didnt work...
i picked it up again while i was out at a grandparents house w/o wifi and. went through all of victory road in complete darkness with that stupid 1-tile radius because i was too stubborn to ruin my electrikes moveset with flash. Without A Guide. thats my most memorable moment in the entire run lol im still proud of myself for doing it.
still not finished with the game- currently grinding to get my party members high enough leveled to be onpar with the elite 4. no idea what their type specialties are so thatll be a neat surprise when i get there.
my current team:

Outcore

wip!!!                                                               

Super Mario RPG (in progress)

i heard that smrpg was getting a remake and decided that hey. ive seen that geno guy around. i like that geno guy. i should emulate and play smrpg b4 the remake comes out. and i am now 👍. (i did not actually finish it before the remake came out and have been avoiding videos on it like the plague)
as said a sentence ago, i didnt actually finish the game yet- for some reason, ive only been motivated to play it when my internet goes out lol. which has been... two times so far. so ive only gotten as far as the mines currently. its an enjoyable experience though! because it prevents me from just googling stuff when im stuck. we go through this game how it was intended- with no help!!!!!
my most memorable moments because of this so far is when i had to bruteforce the music tadpole puzzle because i couldnt remember in what order the notes (do re me fa so etc etc) were. i had ms paint and a screenshot open like right beside the window too. was really getting into it, ha
for the game itself, i like it. i am enjoying geno a lot more than i thought i would be (me going woaaahhh holy shit geno!!!!! its him!!!! every time he appeared on screen before he joined the party hehe), i like the living embodiment of that yellow mspaint crying emoji (mallow), and i find all the dialogue charming so far. combat goes between being pretty breezy and kicking my ass for no reason. also this might be an emulator problem, but i feel like the action commands are slightly too early compared to the animations, and tbh are pretty easy to hit perfects on. oh well, not complaining about it lol
you may be asking, isnt smrpg like a really old game + well liked. dont you know how it goes? funny story! i dont. like legit im going into this game nearly fully blind. the only thing i knew concretely about smrpg before going in was that geno was a character in it. avoiding spoilers for extremely popular media is honestly a special skill of mine.