Pre-warm Unity's Old Particle Emitter

I was wondering how to pre-warm Unity's old particle emitters, so that when it spawns the particles are already there, for smoke and such, so when I transition to a scene they don't have to have a startup that the player notices. This is NOT using the Shuriken system, but the old system.

 

ParticleEmitter.Simulate

--Eric

 

I have a script that emits particles when TImescale is 0, but in that case it seems the pre-warming doesn't work. Is there something I should do regarding that?

 

Really late to the party here but for anyone who finds this via Google this is a good solution http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/15519/particleemittersimulate-doesnt-seem-to-work.html