Two hours in, while trying to run Mario Kart 64 via the Mupen64Plus core, the phone overheated. The VR stream stuttered. The CRT TV in the game shattered into polygon shards, and Leo was ejected back to his phone’s home screen with a pop-up:

He was standing in his room. Not the generic PC version— his room. The update had used his phone’s camera during installation to scan his surroundings. The virtual bedroom had his actual wall color. On the digital shelves were not just stock games, but thumbnails of his actual ROM library pulled from his Downloads folder.

Start with flat mode to get comfortable. The VR mode on a Quest 3 or high-end phone is transformative—you genuinely feel like you’re 12 years old again, staying up late to beat Super Mario World.