/vr/ - Retro Games

Nice try, Mr. Nintendo lawyer.

>>4989415
IT'S STARTED
theisozone.com has also stopped providing links

Shit this is bad

Does anyone have a torrent or site with saturn stuff?
all I get are bad rips since Emuparadise was nuked

>>4989435
https://the-eye.eu/public/rom/Sega%20Saturn/
I looked under Darkwater and they all seem to be there

>>4989435
http://f.ppxclub.com/614749-1-1
密码 is (presumably) password, you have to enter it after you go by links.

>>4989415
Maybe you'll have to start actually buying the games.

>>4989443
>>4989446
Appreciated anons

>>4989415
I've got a few mega links that I personally am working on.

They're not complete yet though. If the thread sticks around long enough for me to finish a few of them, I'll post them. Nothing specifically Saturn though.

>>4989443
good shit

Is there any place that supplies bulk downloads?
Torrent or website?
archive.org for example has massive 42GB MESS rom downloads.
https://archive.org/download/MAME_0.149_ROMs
Something similar for DOS games would be great.

>>4989427
>theisozone.com
Read our statement regarding our recent decision.
http://theisozone.com/statement.php
Oy Vey!

>>4989460
Please do.

coolROM is having issues too

>>4989478
This looks interesting. I'll let you know when the DL is done.

>>4989450
Never ever, you ccorporate cocksucker fucktard.

>>4989541
https://archive.org/details/DOS201808
Also this:
https://archive.org/details/Total_DOS_Collection_Release_13

>>4989560
You should not have replied to him, just isn't worth it.

>>4989450
Companies don't get any money from used game sales. Emulation increases the sales of modern games because it means people have more money to spend on new games. Otherwise they'd be spending all their gaming dollars on old games instead.

>>4989478
>Something similar for DOS games would be great.
https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5340624

>>4989586
forgot to say
There are links in OP post for games of different genres, this torrent is just a fix for 6 compilations.

>>4989586
>>4989589
Thanks!

>>4989415
We have this thread everyday jfc

>>4989578
disturbing you actually posted this as if it was "the way it is"

>>4989621
Think of a sarcastic reply, I'm too busy.

>>4989586
>>4989589
I wonder why your links amount to almost 1TB but this one claims to have everything for DOS but is only 49GB https://archive.org/details/Total_DOS_Collection_Release_13
Maybe it's all the docs and packaging?

whatsup nintendo

>>4989482

Im the asmin of tiz, sorry i pussied out but theres a fine line between bravery and stupidity

Im actually working on an idea to make roms and emulation fully legal, its a coin toss wether they agree to it but its worth a shot.

You guys will probably despise the idea as it wont allow actual downloads but i think a kind of drm is the only way theyd agree to it

>>4989415
it seems like reality has caught up with you criminals

>>4989658

I bet youre a typical SJW who also whines about big corporations. Faggot

>>4989450
They don't sell the ones i want to buy.

>>4989663
>today on “most awkwardly showhorned reference to SJW”

>>4989668

> Being such a triggered cock loving faggot you cant type properly

>>4989663
That guy is an idiot. Don't bother.

>>4989654
Relax.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6jjzNsDAOgQ

>>4989415
I just panic downloaded ROM libraries for these systems which i'm gonna back up onto external drives. what other systems would you consider 'essential' for pre 2000 era games?

>>4989663
you know your illegal roms are on borrowed time. Getting nervous?

>>4989636
It's claimed to have everything to run in one click on modern systems, maybe it makes such difference.

>>4989678

Lol

>>4989679
What about Neo geo?

>>4989679
>what other systems would you consider 'essential' for pre 2000 era games?
off the top of my head Atari 2600 for sure
maaaaybe Playstation, but a fullset for psx is going to be fucking massive. I only downloaded the PSX games I actually have nostalgia for, and they take up about 60GB

>>4989692
Agreed. I was kinda going to suggest this one as well but thos ones are too big. Also what about Gameboy roms? Are those included in the Gameboy color folder? Check if you have the original Pokemon Red or Metroid 2.

>>4989691
>What about Neo geo?
good call
>>4989692
I've found a simillar sized folder for PSX 'classics'. 2600 is also a good recommendation
>>4989697
I can't find classic Game Boy >:( Metroid 2 was my first Game Boy game

>>4989709
the no-intro set on Archive.org includes GB, definitely get on that shit.

Once you have that and the Atari 2600 set I'd say you're good for "essentials," but definitely consider Jaguar, Lynx, and Neo Geo. They're maybe not remembered as "classics" the way the SNES is, but if it's pre-2000 cartridge based then it's only going to take another couple hundred MB of space at worst so you might as well.

>>4989709
Huh, better get that one then. Neo Geo cartridges are actually damned expensive. Also neo geo pocket and Gameboy as well. Those games seem small enough.

All ROMs and ISOs are out there in abundance. Why do we need 3x of these threads per day? Maybe we should make a tutorial showing how ctrl+f and Google work and sticky that fucker.

>>4989450
>buy used retro games
>original copyright holder gets nothing
get a real job reseller scum

https://www.megaupload.us/9gb/Resident_Evil.GB

I'll start posting links to random stuff I find on my hard drive

>>4989729
there are many legal ways of buying old games, like nintendos virtual console

>>4989742
https://www.megaupload.us/9gc/Mega_Drive.7z

56 Mega Drive/Genesis games, all games that have (J) or (Japan) have been translated except for Panorama Cotton

>>4989758
https://www.megaupload.us/9gd/SNES.7z

About 83 Snes games, plenty of good ones with some real fucking oddities thrown in. Again even if the rom has (J) beside it, it's been translated

>>4989749
but what about games that arent on the virtual console, or on any legal platform for that matter (jp exclusives, region specific games, etc.)?

how we gonna play those?

I bought a hacked snes classic with extra games tacked on, and he threw in a flash drive with every single snes game on it. same with nes

now I just need to hoard n64 and genesis

>>4989450
If they sold them digitally I'd buy them.

just use retrozone lmao, it has most of the shit the isozone had before it got shutdown

Nice try jewtendo, FBI and JDIF agent.

>>4989682
I'm not, it's hysterical that Chinks have been making & selling their Fammycom bootlegs for years with no intrusion from Nintenduh due to not having any real say in the country, but Amerimutts & Britbongs are such pansies towards it. Since some Islamic country wanted to be awesome and ban Pokemon Go like it deserves, hopefully some Cultural Sharia helps to showcase that corporate parasites like Nintendo may not be on their way out, but they don't deserve any right to set up any bullshit localization teams in 99% of the Middle East.

>>4989415
Ever wonder if we'll lose all the retro games like most works of antiquity?

>>4989679
CPS-1 and 2 and 3

>>4990384
phone games are lost and nobody cares about games that require japanese skills to play.

>>4990416
>phone games require language skills
There's like 5 of them in total that require language skills.

This might also be shocking, but there exists games that aren't in English or Japanese.

>>4989709
Anyone got a full Neo Geo romset torrent on hand?

>>4989415
go away OP.

Has anyone else just bought an sd card on ebay with ever fathomable romset on it?

they go for like $20 and they save you the trouble of finding a valid romset yourself. I wonder if you can get legally butt fucked though, or if thats just for the seller

>>4991027
Don't give them money for that. How are you sure the romset is valid? This thread has all the info you need to find an actually valid romset. You're paying $15 for a few minutes worth of work.

>>4990448
I just used archive.org like >>4989714
this anon recommended. had a full neo-geo library.

>>4989879
Then don't.
You're not entitled to play games, moron.

FUCK
GUESS
I
HAVE
TO
USE
ONE
OF
THE
OTHER
5000
SITES
AND
TORRENTS

>>4989415

Hundreds of thousands of people have these files already. They will continue to be passed around as they should be.

>>4989682
No, because anyone who has been using the Internet for years knows how this shit works.

First there is a huge scare when the corporations tear down a few pirate giants. We lose our hub, we feel a sense that the community has been shaken up.

Then after the fall out people realize oh wait a darn minute, millions of these files are already floating around on personal drives anyway and there is nothing that lawyers can do about that. People who are too small to notice go on sharing. Eventually new p2p networks pop up.

And the next step is we congregate somewhere else to trade. Word of mouth passes through the community. Within three to four years there are new hubs to get what we want. And the cycle repeats.

They will never stop us.

>>4990454
>retrosites provide nothing of value
>on /vr/
wew laddie time for you to go into the trashcan

>>4989654
>Im the asmin of tiz
I know you mean admin, but my first reaction was to correct it to assman.

>>4989450
IF THOSE COMPANIES KEEP SELLING COPIES OF THESE GAMES, I WOULD BUY THEM FOR SURE, FUCKING ASSHOLE

>>4989679
>>4989692
All Atari: 2600 5200 7800 Jaguar

>pleasuredome starting to feel pressure
>may or may not revert back to MAME only site to cover ass
And to think some of you thought it was foolish when I downloaded complete sets, including all 540GB of the American PS1 Redump set.

Who's looking foolish now?

>>4991427
You because it's on archive and requires no reseeding fat fuck

>>4991469
>waiting for archives slow servers to finish downloading
KEK

>>4991427
>>4991504
You did well, don't let them (those overwhelmed by the task of large downloads) discourage you.

>>4991427
>540GB
are you sure? I remember it being like 300 odd gbs.

if you're even remotely interested in vidya, it's moronic not to have the entirety of no-intro (minus the larger stuff like DS, 3DS and Switch) considering it fits in a 64gb mSD.
hell, you could fit it in a 32 gigs one if you deleted some useless stuff.

https://archive.org/details/No-Intro-Collection_2016-01-03_Fixed

https://archive.org/details/RXDOS

https://the-eye.eu/
https://the-eye.eu/public/rom/
https://retrozone.co/
https://retrozone.co/downloads/pc/dos-games/

https://archive.org/details/eXoDOS_Collection_v2.0

>>4991543
No clue, but there's been a surge of a certain someone making it his absolute duty to ensure the dumping of dumb demo discs instead of focusing on getting the rest of the Japanese exclusives like that one Sailor Moon fighting game that I thought they had done, already. There's practically only 3 active USA PC dumpers while he's wasting space with demo discs.

>>4991062
How stupid can Nintendo manbabies be?

>>4989478
this mame torrent is severely outdated

https://archive.org/details/MAME_0.193_ROMs_split

>>4989578
Sellers of old games spend that money on new games, and people are more likely to buy new games if they can be expected to hold their value. Publishers may be looking at used prices to gauge demand for re-issues, remakes, sequels, prequels, spinoffs. And you're less likely to buy a new game if old ones are keeping you perpetually entertained.

It's cool to steal games, just don't be a redditor about it.

>>4991615
> misses the "for example" part, yet has to go ahead and make his pointless retort

>>4991558
2016? isn't there a newer one? or at least one new enough to have that proto of Monster Party.
I got the individual proto around somewhere but I'd like to have that as a cutoff for "up-to-date enough".

>>4991674
I don't want someone accidentally downloading that and wondering why half of the games don't work

unless you really, really need the 0.149 roms for some obscure reason

>>4991689
q26o2uy5oj6lc6wmvc63puj6yxd5ajfc

This is a torrent, paste it into your client as a magnet link. The general idea with no-intro is that you'll get a romset then use a rom manager to verify it against future versions and update them. A really good resource for this is the site http://romshepherd.com/ they regularly upload updates

>>4989450
Too bad you're not actually selling them, assholes.

>>4991062
And so are the people who pay for games. What's your point?

>>4991706
thanks!

>>4991706
http://158.69.24.221/for_vr/

I put the whole thing up here on a publicly accessible web server. Good if you need a few to complete your set or something like that.

For anyone that isn't following this is No-Intro Roms 1 (2018-05-13)

>>4989450
>Maybe you'll have to start actually buying the games
>Ninty starts Wii virtual console
>hype for N64 and Neo Geo stuff
>buy games
>in all these years, There were only 21 N64 titles ,which stoped in 2011
>skipped Mario Party 1 to 2
>no stadium, no Goemon and the only Bomberman we got was Hero
>Neo Geo selection froze in 2013, just when we were going to get to the Playmore Era
>Games were also delisted like SF, R-Type, Star Parodier and the whole C64 section got nuked without gaining anything new in 4 and a half years
>PSN has japan PS1 section for US
>Buy Rockman Complete Works 3, hoping to get the collection
>5 and 6 never came
>there hasn't been an "import" since 2014
>then they delist Phantasy Star Portable 2
Nah, go fuck yourself. They don't even sell half the shit they remove from these sites.

I just tried a few N64 games in Retroarch, and I gotta say I'm impressed how far nintendo 64 emulation's come. It's still miles behind even PS1 emulation but I can actually load up and play Goemon 64 without fiddling with a bunch of plugins now

I hate how Nintendo does this. They strike sites like this for ROMs, though if Nintendo made their own emulators for the PC and sold roms I might actually pay for them. all they're doing is making people dislike the company for how they go about this.

>>4989446
> 密码
yep, password.
>>4989450
oh yes, I'll rush right over to ebay to hand over my cash to obese, fedora wearing collectors that are charging several times more than it's actually worth. price gouging ftw! thanks for the suggestion, genius.

>>4989450

>>4992072
>though if Nintendo made their own emulators for the PC and sold roms I might actually pay for them
nintendo has no intention of releasing anything beyond what they already have licenses for. so, taking down an entire archive of console software, where not all titles belong to nintendo, is ridiculous. they should have just killed off all the nintendo produced titles and kept everything else online, however, I think the legal threats/action must have scared the shit out of them.

>>4992247
kek. true.

>>4991543
America's Redump set has been 100% complete for 2 years now and it's 540GB according to the Pleasuredome torrent.

>>4991607
>complaining about usa demo discs because you couldn't get a japanese game
wat

>>4992247
I think the guy was trolling, successfully I might add.

>>4992372
I don't want the game, there's numerous other undumped shit.
http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title=Sony_Playstation_USA_Missing_Games
>it's complete

Fucking idiots.

>>4992247
i don't get this meme

>>4993230
I'm sure he didn't "meme" any harm by it.

>>4991753
>buying nintendo products

You have no one but yourself to blame.

Nintendo is an arrogant company that has been riding on nostalgia for the last 30 years, they believe they don't have to compete in their chosen industry and they demonstrate this by selling underpowered, overpriced and gimmicky game consoles with first party games that would have been considered mediocre shit if they were a new original IP in 2018 and not the tail end of a 35 year old franchise.
They literally sell a cardboard controller kit for Nintendo switch that lets you "build your own fun" for the low low price of $80 - and their fans ate that shit up on release.

Yeah PSN skimped you a bit, but Nintendo straight up dropped support for the platform altogether - and I bet you they will have the audacity to re-release it again because they know their fanboys will snatch that shit up.

Seriously, stop giving Nintendo money.

>>4993642
>You have no one but yourself to blame
I know, in my defense I was just hopeful for an actual legit digital retro library. Alas, it's my loss and it's seared into my brain. Haven't given those fucks money in years.

>because they know their fanboys will snatch that shit up
This is the most depressing thing. 95% of people will quite happily eat that shit up regardless of anything Nintendo or any other company for that matter, does to them. I already see the whole Switch Virtual Console going the same way as the Wii with bringing only 20 NES games but hey, at least you can play Super Mario Bros. online!

>>4993667
Sorry you had to go through that, but at least you avoided satanic trips.

And at least you're smart enough to learn after getting burnt once, they still have legions of fanboys who'll keep buying literally the same games every generation.

>>4993686
>>4993667

Underwear, that's life.

>>4989415
There's some retro posted here often enough.
volafile(.)org\r\HF33Go
Could always use more.

>>4990384
I'm already missing a few shockwave flash games from lego's official site (lego worldbuilder 1 & 2, spybotics: the nightfall incident, junkbot, etc.)

If you can't find roms then you don't deserve them
Why when I was a kid you had to troll through dozens of geocities sites uphill both ways in the snow to get our roms, it was years before cherryroms came along and actually had all the roms in one place

>>4995876
The dead links used to infuriate me so much. Even worse when you got a bad file. That joy you get when your slow ass 1999 file transfer finished suddenly crushed by an error message from your emulator. People just don't get it. There's a fucking wiki that tells you all the rom sites with the pros and cons of each now. It's still easy as all fuck to get roms and nothing like the old days. You need to be beyond incompetent to fail this test.

When did gamers become so entitled that immediate access to games for free isn't enough, but now they demand to be told they're good boys for copying floppies?

>>4995960
Because it's been a norm for decades, it's the only way to actually play the vast majority of games (especially foreign titles) and there is no way the entire library can be released for retail due to the tangled web of licenses, copyrights, etc involved. There are plenty of examples of games which would not be playable or be completely forgotten if it wasn't for piracy, not to mention fan translations, etc.

So basically you either pirate or you don't play.

Why doesn't /vr/ do what /m/ did and set up their own archives, etc?

>>4990384
Well, if this keeps up then we definitely will.

>>4996104
See >>4991749

It's more difficult for disc based systems though.

>>4996104
nobody has the cash to pay for the hosting. we're talking terabytes of data and dealing with a board that is more jew than I am when it comes to paying for hosting.

>>4996104
There's no need to. It's still effortless to find anything if you're not a vegetable.

>>4996138
>find a link to the game you want
>some shitty downloading service where you need and account
>check another site
>download is restricted to 50kbps untill you pay for better speed
>next site
>donwloading is fine untill you get hit with a data cap out of nowhere and are forced to pay to download more or wait a few hours
>next site
>doesnt have the thing you want
>next site
>only has the rip version of the game or demos
>finaly find the site you need
>download the game
>its incompatible with your system or has errors
>no forums with work arounds
>click the link on google to a site
>PM'd you the fix
>nvm fixed it myself lmao :)
>THREAD LOCKED
>last post 2002

>>4996175
>>its incompatible with your system or has errors

Hmmm... Who's fault is that?

>>4996175
I've been able to get everything I want by torrent, for the past 15 years.

>>4996182
>its my fault the game doesnt work well or has graphical errors out the ass
fuck off faggot unpatched4llyfe

Does someone know a good site for JP PS2 games?

>>4992250

Nintendo only technically took legal action against that one LoveRetro guy, but it's such an ridiculous sum of money they're suing him for that his life will be ruined, no question. Emuparadise, IsoZone and so on are just getting the fuck out of the game before it happens to them.

>>4996190
Torrents are great when you're looking for a few 400KB games, because you don't have to download a massive 50GB+ zip file.

>>4993642
Nintendo's entire market strategy is to avoid competition by searching for "blue oceans" where they can be the only ones offering a certain gimmick. Why do you think they abandoned motion controls for the most part after Sony and Microsoft hopped on, despite the Wii doing so well?

>>4996484
Most casual thieves aren't aware they can select individual files.

>>4992247
BASED bionicleposter

>>4996495
>thieves

c'mon now

>>4990416
>phone games

anon I've been trying for about five days now to even get my phone to install those old jewels but so far I can't seem to get them into the phone's system itself to even test the games themselves

retrozone.co
DOWN

>>4996746
>retrozone.co
>DOWN
Negative outcome. Not good.

>>4996746
>retrozone.co
>DOWN
Negative outcome. Not good.

>>4989679
Are the OG Gameboy games included in the GBC folder? They only take up 60MB or so, be daft not to get them.

>>4991062
Just like you're not entitled to get laid, sucks to be you kiddo.

>>4996104
this was made by a /vr/ poster

http://theromdepot.com/

>>4996930
Real talk, you don't have to play every single game that's ever been released on a retro system. Let it go.

>>4996963
But we could if we wanted. Easily. Just a few months ago. And there's not going to be legal options.

>>4990416
>implying

http://www.mobilerated.com/

no one is entitled to read every novel ever penned, or listen to every string quartet ever composed. and yet there are aficionados of these things, who endeavor to do just that. the enthusiasm of aficionados tends towards the encyclopedic. retro gamers *want* to play all the games. knowledge of obscure games is praised in this forum; superficial taste is mocked. one wants to dig deep - it is a healthy instinct. an increasingly illegal one too, as draconian copyright laws not only take over the globe but also stretch more and more into the past, pulling old works out of the public domain.

piracy is not about entitlement, it's about preserving the dignity of your taste.

>>4996983
It's really weird how people in fucking /vr/ can be against emulation of old systems.

>>4997036
point me to 4chan and I'll show you a contrarian

>>4996970
Do you seriously think that's right? To profit and get your entertainment off the hard work of others? If you still think you're in the right here I don't know what to say.

>>4997062
Do you seriously think that's right? To profit and get your entertainment off the hard work of others?

are you really this dim.

>>4997071
I'm just saying the more I read your posts the more I side with Nintendo. Fuck entitled gen Z kids who never had to work for anything.

>>4997076
t. basedboy

>>4997076
>Gen Z

I'm 35 years old.

No company is going to take hundreds, if not thousands of obscure Japanese only game and release it in the West. They don't profit on them now because of piracy? Not at all; they don't profit on them because they ignore them. Nintendo isn't going to release the entire Famicom, Super Famicom, etc back catalog; it's just not doable or worth their time or money.

>>4997094
They have profited from them. They have gained all the cash they wanted from them. Those games were made, they were printed, they were sold. Now, decades later, no one expected them to even be working let alone still playable.

>>4997076
do you know how much games cost in the third world? do you know how much money the average third worlder makes?

don't get me wrong, if i were american i would still pirate indiscriminately. moralism on this matter tends to stem from a coarse and corny understanding of it.

no matter how incontrovertible the arguments one may present against the moralty of copyright laws as they currently exist, some people are unable to present any counterargument more sophisticated than "you're just an entitled boy". it is like trying to convince a pious old evangelical woman that smoking cigarettes is not a sin. her reply will invariably be "it's wrong and you know it".

>>4997103
doesn't smoking damage the body (the temple?)

>>4996701
>jad
Nigger where are the jars

>>4996175
>PM'd you the fix
>nvm fixed it myself lmao :)
>THREAD LOCKED
>last post 2002
I'm getting rage flashbacks just reading this

>>4997110
sure. as do donuts. i'm pretty sure st. paul wasn't enjoining that particular congregation to be fitness freaks. that's a retardedly anachronistic reading of the passage, to put it mildly. such readings are common in evangelicalism: ex post facto justifications for their cherished pet peeves and suburban lifestyles.

>>4997103
Sounds like the problem is your living in a shithole. Just move.

>>4997205
>Just move.

jesus fuck are americans a bunch of mean-spirited retards. i'm done with you.

>>4989450
Get the fuck outa here Reggie.

>>4989450
ok, pls tell me then on what platform I can buy Panzer Dragoon Saga where my purchase will support the devs and also be DRM free.

>>4997568
Sega Saturn you fucking idiot.

>>4997572
how will buy an used copy of the game support the creators

>Posting a random question in this thread.

Is there complete list of all PS1 games by release date? ( online excel,google drive, or whatever)

Google isn't helping, and I don't like wikipedia. I want to re-play PS1 games in chronological order, as they were being released.

Ladies, take a look at this list of PS1 games (A-L), and note that there are so many titles listed as "unreleased" that Firefox is unable to count them all, simply stating "More than 1000 matches".
Travel to hell and highwater to find one such 20+ year old game, and pay through the nose, hope your aging console still works.... or simply download it and use an emulator.
So some obscure copyright holder (totally detached from the game's creators) grits his teeth and pines for the 90's when they could charge super-exorbitant prices for poor underprivileged kids to pay.
Remember the games were $50 - $70 dollars? That's $90 - $125 current value, per 8-bit game. Now they want more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_games_(A%E2%80%93L)

>>4989427
>https://retrozone.co/downloads/pc/dos-games/
retrozone.co is down.

Original Xbox HDD ready
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5ccfba096f819c198077545a5f15ad29c3b6c4e0&dn=XBOX%20HDD%20ready%20%28%23-I%29%20%5B20140930%5D&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt.t-ru.org%2Fann%3Fmagnet


magnet:?xt=urn:btih:697f20423627237748c5cceb5ca5fb9f9de17d85&dn=%5BOriginal%20Xbox%5D%20HDD%20ready%20%28R-Z%29%20%5BENG%20%2F%20REGION%20FREE%5D&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt3.t-ru.org%2Fann%3Fmagnet


magnet:?xt=urn:btih:89c832c572d7876da6cf6b6d3bee467ba5e095d9&dn=%5BOriginal%20Xbox%5D%20HDD%20ready%20%28J-Q%29%20%5BENG%20%2F%20REGION%20FREE%5D&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt.t-ru.org%2Fann%3Fmagnet

>>4997650
Good work, lad.

>>4997627
Bad, very bad.

>>4989450
Yes, let us all buy 20-30 yr old games so you can milk our cocks clean while you twist your nipples at us and have them bitten off and spit into our faces knowing that we can't have nice things anymore such as emu paradise and other free rom sites. However, You do realize that we always find other ways to download roms for free and we always will. You cannot stop what you have created. Nice try you vile pathetic wretch. Now go violate your mother like the mental midget that you are.

Can someone please compile all SNES roms into a giant zip file and post either a torrent link or a mediafire link?

>>4997917
Already been done

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10T9UUUFmq5j8XBP9Kyv8V6EYwVrXUZAa/view

>>4997920
Thank you so much!

>>4997920
>3.27

Mine's 2.04, is it worth updating to a newer one?

>>4989415
>>4989415
>>4989415
Why don't you idiots just head over to https://edgeemu.net/

They have saturn, TCD, Sega CD, and loads of roms.

>>4997989
If you're really set on having EVERY SNES rom yes. If you're only interested in verified dumps of actually released games (including unlicensed ones) it's better to keep an up to date no-intro set around.

>>4997997
Hmm, it's twice the size, but still not excessively large so I'll update.

>>4989415
Fuck off Nintendork chink bitch

REMINDER TO NOT SPOONFEED RETARDS THAT CAN'T DO BASIC RESEARCH

hey guys, where can I get my obscure japanese ps1 games now?
a site that hosts english patched games would also be nice.
have some tits in advance.

>>4996701
>>4990416

for android phones, check J2ME Loader on playstore

>>4997990
>>4997920
>>4997650
>>4996935
>>4995453
>>4991749
>>4991706
>>4991565
>>4991560
>>4991558
>>4989797
>>4989758
>>4989586
>>4989561

See
>>4998097
>>4991068

It's like you guys are lawyers who want to get every rom site out there shut down or something. Let them use their god damn brain and teach them to look for them themselves instead of spoonfeeding them. By the way, spoonfeeding outside of /r/ and /wsr/ is against the rules FYI.

>>4992968
>literally all dupes and demos
boi

>>4989415
Thank god for ggn collections

>>4998186
I literally set up my own rom site for people from here to use. I don't give a fuck if they try to shut it down. Pay attention, the URL says for_vr. I'll plug it again:

http://158.69.24.221/for_vr/

just use cool rom and remember to use the alternative download link

>>4997627
>>4996746
time for sudoku, literally and figuratively.

I'll just leave this here.

>>4998542
Is this the 'legal emulation" thing the Isozone guy mentioned he was going to do before he nuked the whole site?

>>4998580

Yes but nuking tiz wasnt originally part of the plan, the forums will be archived eventually

>>4998580
Pathetic, does he really think he can beat Nintendo? Idiot.

>>4998580
>legal emulation
Please explain.

>>4998604

Its an idea that has a massive chance of failure but a small chance it will work. Better to try and find out than not try atall.

Good riddance to those parasites. They were actually profiting monetarily from games they had no part in making.

Y'all should learn how to share without
middlemen, if you can't be bothered to get on private trackers.

>>4998604

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/can-a-digital-lending-library-solve-classic-gamings-piracy-problem/

>>4998283
you're missing the Mattel stuff
I got it if you want

also, unrelated question: how do you set up that 'default' white page with the folders?
is it html or apache?
I know it's a stupid question but I can't into it

>>4997581
gamefaqs
playstation
from oldest to newest.

every ps1 game released in japan in chronological order
https://www.jp.playstation.com/search-results/software/search.x?platform=PlayStation&past=nowonsale&future=14&sort=2

>>4998615
Good luck with that.

>>4998628
Install apache, drop stuff into folder it points to.

>>4998615
The answer is no because holy fuck you would have to get a license for LITERALLY EVERY FUCKING GAME.

These licenses don't expire; they don't vanish, every game sold is sold by certain people; they are also licensed by other companies in other territories; you'd have to track down three, four, five different rights holders for each game.

OH WAIT, IT'S NOT JUST THE GAMES.

If they have music in them, that's licensed and needs to be negotiated for EVERY GAME. If it's a film or a book or an anime license then GUESS WHAT, YOU GOT TO DEAL WITH THE LICENSE HOLDERS.

Some will be easier than others as all the licenses, etc will be held by one company. Others will be split over a dozen or so globally and remember, you only need ONE company to say no to shut down the game from global distribution via the internet.

It can't be done. Or you could just pirate them, cover your tracks and put it somewhere outside of Nintendo's easy reach.

>>4998687
I mean, can you imagine trying to do something like license your average SRW game for this service? It's impossible.

>>4998687
Did you even read the article?

Pretty sure you can't run companies from prison.

>>4998701
Yes. It's flimsy as fuck and unworkable. Only one game available to one person at a time? Plus any corporate force actually wanting to take them down can easily do so.

>>4989450
>gee, only $300 for a copy of Earthbound, what a steal!

>>4998705
They only need to have most of the games mostt users would want to play, not the hundreds in your ROM folder you will absolutely never touch.

>>4998710
Then only steal the 2-3 expensive games for each platform and buy the rest that still cost less than MSRP which is somehow too much for old games that are supposedly much better than 100% of new games.

as >>4998687 rightly if apoplectically points out, copyright law tends to lead to byzantine legal tangles.

pro-copyright stances, even in the case of seemingly benign compromises such as the lending library idea, are ultimately bad.

the radical libertarian position would be that once an artifact such as a book, a song or a game is released, it should effectively belong to the public domain. it might sound frighteningly anarchistic to more delicate sensibilities, sure, but i find that libertarian ideas tend to dovetail nicely with "natural law" perspectives and even with classic catholic thought.

this is, after all, what happens in practice. most people pirate. particularly people who live outside the puritanical-legalistic cultural bubble of a certain country renowned for its fatmobile-riding denizens.

>>4998186
What's wrong with spoonfeeding? Didn't your parents did that to you when you were a kid?

>>4998615
I'm not sure i understand all that but in short, you still have to pay for game right?

>>4998714
um no, sorry sweetie I play all the roms of all the systems so no

>>4998739
The subscriber, while playing the game, is in legal possession of the physical copy. It just happens to be in a remote warehouse. The server allows only one instance per physical copy in the service's inventory.

>>4998745
Me too, but I don't demand to be told I'm a good boy like some pathetic redditor.

>>4998745
the freedom to play any game from any system, no matter how irretrievably lost to some inscrutable copyright limbo, is a good thing. it's worth defending. but you know, by all means, play your fucking mario or metroid if that's all you want.

>>4998749
well, that's fucking badass, my dude.

as for me, i do tend to scrutinize the morality of my own actions. which is why i read up on this shit and have actual arguments for my position on it.

>>4998761
Are you vegan?

>>4998612
I still wouldn't be surprised if the ones running ROM sites & reselling NES Minis on launch day were all Nintendo employees.

>>4998714
There's kind of a double edged sword to this logic, though. When idiots like AVGN and numerous other YouTube tards make their, "worst games of all time, hurr" videos, this creates an influx of others attempting to try the same game like, "is it as good/bad as the e-celeb says?!", in which the download counts on other sites like edgeemu confirm that Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde incur more interest than many obscurities that don't suck. How else will we get our retarded, "Top 10 Worst NES Games" lists?

You know, that "it's so bad, it's good" meme from a certain e-celeb is the only reason anyone gives a shit about that stupid movie called "The Room" which has probably been watched more times than movies that aren't retarded.

>>4998809
Why did my generation latch onto something so boring to be their cult film? :(

Was there anything in Emuparadise and isozone that wasn't on any other site in the first 2 pages of google?

>>4998809
The Room is entertaining as fuck, most other movies that don't suck are just mediocre and therefore boring to watch. It's no rocket science, anon.

>>4998186
who gives a fuck?

>>4998894
Exactly, it's hilarious retarded & dank, which is why we must provide access to other games with similar metacritic scores and other ratings that are equally dank, such as Defenders of Dynatron City, Shaq Fu, Bebe's Kids, Baby Boomer, Athena & Boong-Ga Boong-Ga.

>>4991706
I'm sorry if I'm retarded, please don't yell at me. I've downloaded this torrent, does it have all the roms for the systems listed in it and I can just play them with the proper emulator for them? The rom manager is solely to keep them updated right? What rom manager do you guys suggest for that? Since I'm here, what emulator (for PC)? I've been using retroarch but I dunno how good it actually is. Sorry if I'm being all retarded.

>>4989415
There's a java script bypass to the disabled downloads on emuparadise

Don't pretend you'd buy old games if you had the chance.

>Nintendo releases another VC for Switch
>"Pay for old roms, are you crazy? Fucking Nintendo I'm not paying for something I could easily download."

>>4999147
I already bought most of the psikyo games and a few arcade archives games on switch.
Nintendo are retarded for not doing a proper virtual console on the switch.

https://vimm.net/

Fucking godsend.

>>4999141
>emuparadise
Please elaborate. Something we add to tamper/grease monkey?

>>4998991
It's not all the roms, good sets seek to compile all the roms. It's more like all the official roms. It seeks to compile every officially released game for each system. Also prototypes and homebrew/unlicensed games that were actually released on cartridges rather than just freely downloadable on some website. Yes a rom manager will help you keep it updated, I never used one myself so I can't really point you in the right direction for that.

>>4999662
>>4999141
Is it this thing?
https://gist.github.com/Eptun/3fdcc84552e75e452731cd4621c535e9/raw/d1dcc00185085ce10df8bebcc2a640fd01ef9058/emuparadise.eptun.user.js

>>4999670
Not working for me

Myabandonware is still up, playing DOS games there rn

>>4999680
>>4999670
I think they cut the links. I wonder if the data is accessible in any way using the right URL.....

>>4999141
>>4999662
>>4999680
>>4999670
>>4999695
It works.
1) Right-click "Download using the workaround script" link and open in new tab.
2) If download message doesn't pop up, refresh te page.

You can even see the IP address of source.

>>4999710
Yeah it works

>>4999695
>>4999710
>>4999712
It's probably some referer based bullshit to prevent hotlinks from other websites.

>>4999680
Just remove the s from https and refresh.

>>4999670
That's it I'm reporting them to the FBI

By forming the correct URLs we don't need the script. The pattern is easy, but I don't know how to find the IP address or rom collection names in the URL (i.e. /Sega_Saturn_ISOs/ is just /Saturn/). Anyone know how to do this? Anyway, below are three examples:
1) Game title
2) Game main/home URL
3) Their given game download URL
4) Workaround referal link
5) Actual link (If it doesn't work try replacing spaces " " with ASCII character "%20", i.e. Darklight Conflict becomes Darklight%20Conflict)

Darklight Conflict (U) ISO
https://www.emuparadise.me/Sega_Saturn_ISOs/Darklight_Conflict_(U)/291
https://www.emuparadise.me/Sega_Saturn_ISOs/Darklight_Conflict_(U)/291-download
https://www.emuparadise.me/roms/get-download.php?gid=291&test=true
http://50.7.188.26/happyxhJ1ACmlTrxJQpol71nBc/Saturn/Sega Saturn/Darklight Conflict (U)(Saturn).zip

Akalabeth World Of Doom (1980)(Origin Systems Inc) Game
https://www.emuparadise.me/Abandonware_Games/Akalabeth_World_Of_Doom_(1980)(Origin_Systems_Inc)/92314
https://www.emuparadise.me/Abandonware_Games/Akalabeth_World_Of_Doom_(1980)(Origin_Systems_Inc)/92314-download
https://www.emuparadise.me/roms/get-download.php?gid=92314&test=true
http://50.7.92.186/happyxhJ1ACmlTrxJQpol71nBc/may/1/DOSCollection/Akalabeth World Of Doom (1980)(Origin Systems Inc).zip

Ace Air Combat Emulator (1986)(Spinnaker) Game
https://www.emuparadise.me/Abandonware_Games/Ace_Air_Combat_Emulator_(1986)(Spinnaker)/92235
https://www.emuparadise.me/Abandonware_Games/Ace_Air_Combat_Emulator_(1986)(Spinnaker)/92235-download
https://www.emuparadise.me/roms/get-download.php?gid=92235&test=true
http://50.7.188.26/happyxhJ1ACmlTrxJQpol71nBc/may/1/DOSCollection/Ace Air Combat Emulator (1986)(Spinnaker).zip

The IP address appear to be interchangeable, so plug in either
50.7.188.26
50.7.92.186

possible others:
http://207.244.64.120/happyxhJ1ACmlTrxJQpol71nBc/
http://198.255.70.90/happyxhJ1ACmlTrxJQpol71nBc/

For ezample, all these work:
http://50.7.188.26/happyxhJ1ACmlTrxJQpol71nBc/Saturn/Sega Saturn/Darklight Conflict (U)(Saturn).zip
http://50.7.92.186/happyxhJ1ACmlTrxJQpol71nBc/Saturn/Sega Saturn/Darklight Conflict (U)(Saturn).zip
http://207.244.64.120/happyxhJ1ACmlTrxJQpol71nBc/Saturn/Sega Saturn/Darklight Conflict (U)(Saturn).zip
http://198.255.70.90/happyxhJ1ACmlTrxJQpol71nBc/Saturn/Sega Saturn/Darklight Conflict (U)(Saturn).zip

Now it's just a matter of finding the /sections/ that follow /happyxhJ1ACmlTrxJQpol71nBc/

>>4999775
>>4999791
Or I could just use the script and fucking google "site:emuparadise.me <game name here>"

https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/95rw0k/downloading_roms_from_emuparadise/

>need to convert ape audio format to wav
>need to decrypt ecm format to save like 10 mb of storage space
Nevermind, just remembered why I've always hated emuparadise. Also half their Saturn rips don't fucking work, they're not even bad rips they're downright unreadable.

>>4999938
Protip since you're a bit slow on the uptake, if you install a directshow ape codec you can burn it in imgburn without converting. If you're using an emulator bitch at the emu dev not the site.

>>4999938
>ape audio format
fuck, now that's a format I haven't heard of in about ten years

>>4999952
Yeah flac stole all it's thunder. But back in the bad old days forward thinking pirates dealing with limited disk space often used it in their game rips. mp3 was even more common and hopefully you won't encounter too many of those rips.

>>4999938
>>4999949
Also if you're going to actually burn something with ape audio this is probably your best bet as far as ds filters go: http://dsp-worx.de/index.php?n=7

You may need to edit the cue sheet first, usually I open it in notepad and use the replace all function to do that, .wav replaced with .ape and the WAVE at the top replaced with APE. Sounds like a pain in the ass, I know, but it saves a shit load of time over dealing with conversions. Same goes for FLAC.

>>4999961
yeah

>>4999961
Why not just use FLAC then? Anyway it only took me 3 minutes to convert so it wasn't that bad, I wodner what's the Emuparadise justification for completely fucking up their .cue
sheet files though, I had to reformat all of them

>>4999972
Fucked up cue sheets are just a fact of life unfortunately. Music uploaders on redacted.ch never fix theirs either. It's almost like they just include them because it's the only way to get a 100% upload but they've never actually used one in their life and probably don't even know what it's for. Anyway those rips are probably 15+ years old and have been around since before flac was a thing or at least caught on. If you're really concerned about it you would probably have better luck getting redump stuff off rutracker or whatever.

>>4999938
This is what makes me so mad. They could just do the simplest and best thing for everyone and dump it all in a .zip file. But no, they have to show off their pseudo tech skills and convert everything to ape, ecm, or WRI. They are too stupid, selfish and ignorant to do the sensible thing.

Bunch of drunk, devil worshipping homosexuals if you ask me.

>>4999995
Let me put things in perspective for you. In 2004 I was really excited when my mom took me to Best Buy to get a 120gb hard drive to supplement the 80gb one I already had. When I downloaded a game with redbook audio it usually came with mp3s or ape files instead of wavs. There were also tutorials kicking around about how to deal with that shit. You couldn't just go find files like these on sites like emuparadise. You had to wait in queues on fserves and download the shit file by file. Or maybe even trade with other people in the IRC channel.

Even though those days are long gone the rips that were made back then were used as the basis for sites like emuparadise. Cleaning up that old trash would be a lot of work. Of course it would be easy to replace it with modern stuff like redump but it doesn't matter at this point because the site is dead. If you really care about getting better files then the torrents with complete redump sets and the like are the way to go. Just select the games you want out of them individually and only download those. Or archive the whole set if you want.

I used this website for update packs for MAME, though I applied them wrong apparently. Now I'm looking at maybe getting the arcade ROMs for 0.200, which set would you actually recommend (non-split, merged, split)?

>>4999430
thanks

are you guys 12 or something i have had full rom sets since the early 2000's

>>5001519
My old machines get a viking funeral so I have to re-acquire everything. Maybe this time I'll finally get an external HD just for roms.

>>4999949
>you can burn it in imgburn without converting

1. most don't burn, they load in an emulator or mount, APE files don't work in neither of those cases
2. imgburn is notorious for producing bad burns. Half the time I have people telling me they have problem burning Saturn games, I tell them to stop using Imgburn and lo and behold now all their burned discs work.

>>5001537
Can you explain how to fix a faulty .bin .cue rip? I download madou monogatari from emuparadise but I can't get it to work and yes, I tried editing/fixing the cue file on notepad.

>>5000000

>>5001540
(continued)
And yes I tried using the .cue sheet file provided by redump.org

>>5001540
>>5001558
If you use dogshit images found on the net, then whatever is in the cue sheet will not help you the least. The image is broken. You'll have to spend some of that hard earned allowance to buy the game, kiddo.

>>4997076
>boomerposting
You gave yourself away. 4/10 is the best I can do.

>>4997071
>To profit and get your entertainment off the hard work of others?
No one is making money off of these old games. These games are not available for purchase considering only Zelda and Mario games are being released.

>>4991062
Honestly though,and I'm not trying to be a twat, but why do you give a shit? Do you have shares in Nintendo? This is like going to a casino and siding with the dealer when spectating a poker game.

>>5001582
>These games are not available for purchase considering only Zelda and Mario games are being released.

Doesn't Nintendo still have their virtual console bullshit that has emulated snes games on it? Or the recently released NES and SNES minis? Sega also has been releasing emulated games for two DECADES now.

>>5001563
Guess what, faggot, I use a program called Sega Saturn Region Patcher found here http://madroms.satakore.com/ and fixed it.

Fuck you and thanks for nothing.

>>5001587
yeah man i love the virtual console, all of the 15 games nintendo ever released are there, and best of all i can keep buying them over and over each time i buy a new console. damn i love buying copyrighted content, and i hope nintendo keeps carefully protecting their copyrights from dirty thieves

>>5001604
>Guess what, faggot, I use a program called Sega Saturn Region Patcher

So you were too fucking stupid to set your emulator to "automatic region", and instead had to resort to patching 200MB cd images with esoteric closed source apps?

Well, enjoy your virus, I guess.

>>5001609
It's not even that, apparently the game was cracked to remove region protection so I had to restore region lock to make it work properly. It was wrongly picking the US bios before that. I tried the same procedure with Sakura Hanagumi Taisen and it worked, I'm guessing all JP Darkwater rips have the same problem.

>>5001614
>It was wrongly picking the US bios before that.
Saturn boot roms are all multiregion. You can run a Hi-Saturn BIOS on an European PAL unit and it affects nothing, the console would still only run European titles. The hardware region itself is controlled elsewhere in a hardware register, that the boot rom looks up.

On an emulator you just have to fix your fucking config to use a certain region, not switch boot roms.

>I'm guessing all JP Darkwater rips have the same problem.
Darkwater rips are the few confirmed good sources, and none of them are region modded. You just don't know how to use your emulator.

>>5001625
It's not my config dude, the patcher itself was identifying the game as U region which is clearly not right.

>>5001625
Btw Dracula X Nocturne in the Moonlight didn't need a patch so it's clearly not something on my end.

>>5001635
The point still stands, set the fucking config file to auto region, problem solved for any and all games you'll play.

>>5001641
I'm already using the default config. I appreciate the input but the problem has already been solved.

>>5001609
>muh open source is so perfect
underage detected

>>5001614
>I'm guessing all JP Darkwater rips have the same problem.

Check the image CRC if it matches the release before you start hating on a group:
https://www.darkwater.info/index.php?page=detail&relid=645

If the CRC doesn't match, then some moron patched the game and reuploaded it.

>>5001696
Nobody said anything about open source being perfect. I said that closed source can have viruses. Yes, open source may have viruses embedded too - but with open source, you can check if it has, with closed source, you have no way of checking if the app is deleting your system32 folder or not on first launch.

>>4998731
>this is, after all, what happens in practice. most people pirate. particularly people who live outside the puritanical-legalistic cultural bubble of a certain country renowned for its fatmobile-riding denizens.

So fuck the rights of creators, huh?

>>5001801
If your work is valuable, you deserve to be remembered for it.
If you work to destroy archives of others' work including your own, your work deserves to be destroyed, and you deserve to be erased from any history book as you are irrelevant.
So far, it's like a battle of worthless devs attacking archives of worthless devs. I hope archivists realize that there are freeware devs who deserve to be preserved and respected more than corporate degenerates.

>>5001801
>So fuck the rights of creators, huh?

try to be a little bit smarter than this.

>>5001842

you're being too emotional about this. it's silly to hold a grudge against nintendo because of this whole thing. intellectual property laws are probably not going away any time soon. at least we can be thankful that we can still get away with pirating.

>>5001801
Creators and IP owners are very rarely the same people. I could give a fuck about the rights of most IP holders. They can eat my ass.

>>4999430
>4 hours for a 2GB download

Yeah, no thanks

>>4999141
Based anon; thank you so much.

>>5002596
Also thank these ones:
>>4999670
>>4999710
>>4999719
>>4999775
>>4999791
>>4999816

>>4989502
coolROM have always been pussies though.

>>4998186
i hate this "muh spoonfeeding" stuff. if someone wants help, i help them.

>>5002839
that's the spirit

>>5002839
I'm just saying it would be better if people shared full set torrents instead of sites with individual files.

>>5002906
then find a torrent and share it! or create your own.

>>5002839
If you want to help people then do some actual helping by volunteering for a non-profit organization. You're not exactly helping by making this board worse by enabling lazyness and making those idiots even more entitled than they already are. It's also because of this attitude that /v/ became such a terrrible board which is kinda ironic considering how much people seem to hate the current state of that board and the typical visitors of it now.
However if that's what you want to turn /vr/ into then feel free to continue. Don't be mad when it's actually come so far.

>>5002934
Right here >>4991706
Rutracker has incomplete sets for psx and saturn

>>5003030
I'd say peeps should help a preservation effort instead of being leeches, but that'll never happen. There's an undatted section and numerous "Missing in Action" threads for dumps that were made, but they don't currently have on ROMShepherd. The idea of checking the PC or other system's "MIA" list and looking around for a download link to post in one of those threads and stop being a lazy tard is seriously too much to ask.
This also comes from how most in this thread don't really care about any actual preservation, so they'll be No-Intro puritans, and ignore that GoodSet also has GoodSPC for SNES sound files while no one in this thread gives a shit about even mentioning TOSEC, because it dares to archive computer systems that No-Intro doesn't touch, and instead of No-Intro tards working together with the superior TOSEC, they're only in this for consolefag nostalgia & muh Nintendo games.
There's not even the current Redump PSX Japan set on archive.org, only the Non-Redump, because that's too much effort for console baby leeches.

>>5002906
I like the sites because you often have screenshots and reviews. Sets are good too, to get it all ASAP and sort later.

>>5003030
unfortunately people have forgotten the concept of lurking more

>>5003034
...so why are you complaining?

>>5003030
i dont see how sharing retro games makes the retro games board worse. i'd much rather have people actually playing games so we can talk about them than all the fucking "reseller scum" conspiracy threads.

the board is about retro games, not using google.

>>5003160
4chan is mainstream now, the j*ws know it and the walls have ears.

>>5003163
fuck off back to /pol/

>>5003172
4chan is mainstream now and the walls have ears.

>>5003172
>getting that butthurt over a joke

>>5003172
>>5003218
What did I miss? It's been deleted.

>>4996175
>find a link to the game you want
>some shitty downloading service where you need and account
Lol is this really a thing?

Didn't read the thread, give me a link for the best site for PSX roms, where I can choose between pal, ntscu and ntscj, and where roms are 100% approved, uncorrupted and working on any emulator.
Thank you.

>>5004075
You are today's hero.
Also, >>428242856

>>5004084
hmmmm
>>>/v/428242856

>>5004086
hhhmm
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>////////vvvvvvvvv////////////428242856
sufficient?

Don't spoon feed the casuals, they need to search for themselves

>>5004086
Oh shit if you keep sharing that script they're gonna fix that exploit ain't they

>>5004098
Exactly, fucking spoon feeding like retards

>>5004102
>>5004098
That shit is going to go down pretty soon anyway. It's not like the owner is going to pay for the hosting on a dead website forever, especially given how much storage it uses.

>>5004091
Two of us have already put up our own sites to share roms. I don't care who does or doesn't use it. I just did it because I could. It would be cool if we did a sharethread like they always do on /mu/ where people can upload shit they like with a small review and people could also make requests. It would be a fuck of a lot better than "WHARE I GET ROM NOW DURRR" threads being made every single day. Disc based systems are harder to just plop out full sets of onto some cheap server. It takes a lot of storage space and it's a better fit for mega or google drive. I think it would be pretty cool if we exchanged that kind of shit here but our community gets more cancerous with each passing day so who knows if it would take off.

>>5004098
>>5004102
Maybe I'll donate an insult to you bad guys, then.

>>5004124
Yeah it will be cool but MEGA is a piece of shit and I don't care about fullsets of Disc Based Systems, I'm only searching for the best games, they got a lot of Shovelware
But one thing is certain the games will not be lost forever, stop the panic people and continue with your GAME-VAULTS, there is always way to share and enjoy the games.

>>5004129
That's the idea, share games you think are personally worthy and help others get the obscure shit they're looking for. That seems to be the biggest complaint that's not addressed by "just use another site lol." Obscure JP only games for disc based systems aren't always easy to find.

Also I have great luck with mega myself. I use their MEGAsync PC app. It does multithreaded downloading and maxes out my connection. Also I can pause/resume etc. Helped me quite a bit since I'm in the Philippines and mostly downloading from public wifi in malls and hotels.

>>5004128
What the fuck are you trying to say?

>>5004134
Yeah anon once my Game Vault is complete I will share it but it gonna take some time, I'm also adding game covers, backcovers, disc photos, users guides, etc, is going to be awesome, but a lot of work to complete the project, stay tuned.

>>5004141
When I finished my Game Vault I had to delete everything one by one because I realized all CD based games sucked (except Ikaruga)

>>5004141
Once I'm back in the first world and have real internet I want to start sharing games too. Will be a fun project.

>>5004149
>e because I realized all CD based games sucked (except Ikaruga)
IKARUGA is a piece of art and one of my favorite SHMUPS, but you don't play much if you think like that about any other game on disc systems anon.

>>5004153
>l internet I want to start sharing games too. Will be a fun project.
Please do it, this games need to be keep alive

>>4989742
>>4989758
>>4989797
>megaupload
>they didn't even change the logo
haha what

>not being on retrowith.in
wew

>>4989450
Asshole

>>5003087
This. If you really cares about preservation you need to preserve them all, including all sets and all roms and systems and its revisions, hacks and even bad dumps.

>>5004591
fail

>>5003087
>>5004591
not everyone can afford several Tbs of local/cloud storage. and that's just /vr/, otherwise we're in Pbs.
or unreleased betas for that matter. do you think the Gold/Silver demos were free? that all it took was a few seconds to upload them to zippyshare?

it pains me that I can't store the OPM demo disc #18 or Caesars Palace 2000, it really does. but I also know that I'll never play them, and the little storage that I can afford would be better spent elsewhere.

I mean, I don't need every romhack of Super Mario World ever released, although I'd love to have them.
If I ever want a particular one, which is unlikely, I'll just look for it. and if I can't find it because Nintendo pruned it, too bad, but at least I have a dozen other titles which I wouldn't otherwise, had I been collecting absolutely everything out there.

>>4989415
Original Xbox games magnet links

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5ccfba096f819c198077545a5f15ad29c3b6c4e0&dn=XBOX%20HDD%20ready%20%28%23-I%29%20%5B20140930%5D&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt.t-ru.org%2Fann%3Fmagnet

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:697f20423627237748c5cceb5ca5fb9f9de17d85&dn=%5BOriginal%20Xbox%5D%20HDD%20ready%20%28R-Z%29%20%5BENG%20%2F%20REGION%20FREE%5D&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt3.t-ru.org%2Fann%3Fmagnet

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:89c832c572d7876da6cf6b6d3bee467ba5e095d9&dn=%5BOriginal%20Xbox%5D%20HDD%20ready%20%28J-Q%29%20%5BENG%20%2F%20REGION%20FREE%5D&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt.t-ru.org%2Fann%3Fmagnet

>>4998186
How about you go eat a bag of dicks?

>>5004760
if we're talking just local storage, disk is really, really cheap these days
2TB is like $60 now.

>>4998687
read the article, it's basically an online rental, with the limitations of a physical one

you can rent without obtaining a license beyond owning the game (you can't rent PC games because you can't guarantee they've been uninstalled)
http://www.entmerch.org/industry/video-rental-faq.html
the last part of that list in the link is side-stepped by it not being considered a copy, the software here only stores the game in RAM and specifically ties access to individual cartridges (this bit is the loophole, they can only allow as many players of a game as they have cartridges of it on hand)
so under the law, you're renting access to the cartridge, which the software manages

as an aside, you could probably dump the game from RAM, but that's all on you, that'd basically be like if, back in the day, you took a cartridge copier to a game you rented

>>5004810
you know Netflix started out that way and look at the sorry state it is now with most of the good stuff being pulled in favor of shitty original movies nobody wants to watch

Just wanted to congratulate people for not mentioning the retro trackers that must not be named. Can't have this DDL riffraff ruining everything for the rest of us.

>>5004810
$60 bucks a pop can amount to a lot, especially if you live in a place where tech is expensive (my case)

the redump Xbox set is over 10Tbs. that's $300. granted, it's full of dummy data, but still. and I'd have a backup in case the main fails.
same with the PS2 and, to a lesser extend, GC. disc dumps are just too big to be affordable, assuming you're doing it right. in which case you'd want cloud storage, too.

>>5004832
>$60 bucks a pop can amount to a lot, especially if you live in a place where tech is expensive (my case)
I used to keep my backup on a 1tb external drive. It failed last year totally. I lost a lot of free software that has vanished from the net. It was nearly full of all sorts of things for windows 2000-windows 10. I decided I would never let that happen again.

I found a pair of no hdd mini business pcs for $80 shipped. I ordered a pair of 2tb hdd for $100. Eventually ordered 2 more 2tb. Running a 1+0 setup for NAS storage was the best decision I have ever made. Fears of catastrophic failures are much reduced by disc redundancy. I have a bit less then 4tb of storage, and I am ok with that for now. Most think this is low, but this is quite a bit for the way my family uses pcs. We don't do most media including movies or music. I am a player, not a preservationist. If a game is objectively garbage to me, I ignore it. I realize that others may feel different and I respect their opinions on the matter all the same. Bebe's kids for SNES is not worth my disc space. I do buy hardware for fun and profit however.

Also, the NAS works best when you are on a hardwired network...but I also have a shitty wireless card. It could be better with a good wifi card, but I don't know. My whole house is wired for high speed ethernet.

>>5004889
I feel so sorry to whoever is archiving the Wii releases, it's terabytes upon terabytes of actual trash with a couple mediocre games in between that are actually just rehashes of older Game Cube games. Go to metacritic and filter by Wii releases and see if I'm exaggerating.

>>5004810
sounds convoluted and gay. #AbolishCopyright

Nintendo likes to take away retro things from fans. I remember when all numbers of Nintendo Power magazine had to be deleted. Tbh, I was just waiting for this day to come, when this company requests to take down all their retro ROMs.
It would be okay if they made access to them possible, even paid.

>>5004889
I don't have the space for a server, unfortunately. I have to rely on external drives exclusively since I can't afford cloud storage.

right now I have 2 1Tb internal drives inside my PS2 and Xbox, I also have a 500Gb external one for my Wii. since they're in use though, I figured they're bound to die eventually. so I 7zipped and backed every game up in 2 other 1Tb external drives. they're never used, so they should last a bit longer.

lastly, 2 more 1Tb drives for PSX/DS/PSP/Saturn, one as a backup.
I have no-intro spread across all of them since it's just 35 gigs.

it's not perfect, but it's what I could afford.

>>5004903
>Go to metacritic and filter by Wii releases and see if I'm exaggerating.
I have a backup loader on my wii. I have kids that are teenagers at this point, so when they gave up the wii for the PC, I was able to mod it. We did purchase every single game that was good for 1-4 players. I think it filled up 75gb or less on my backup drive. Adding all the bullshit "Lets dance" games that the daughter and wife demanded was another 20gb. I have 35 games taking up 92gb of space on the Wii backup drive.....Meanwhile the actual ISO are 4.3 gb each...a few are larger, but ISO backups of the same games is over 160gb. The dance ones really take up space.....

I am using this 100gb ssd because it is just what I had laying around. Someone going crazy about collection certainly wants some bonkers huge 10tb external, but its going to be a power hog, and full of wasted space. The average person could easily live with 500gb or less.


Wii was full of shovelware, no different then the other systems of the era. I hated how Nintendo ruined every game with controller effects. I hated what they did with the gc games. They ruined donkey kong jungle beat.

>>5004921
>I don't have the space for a server
>35 gigs.
I gotcha. It is still worth having some sort of backup solution for essential items. A 2 drive raid in a simple mini pc is very capable of safe long term storage and access. You can even just ethernet jack it right into your PC if you use wireless for the pc.....Pic related is an old shot of my 4tb server under my monitor before it got moved to an out of the way corner. I don't get into preservation however, and I understand your desire for space.

>>5004760
I mean, I was referring to support different groups/scenes and their work to archive and preserve much games and files as possible. I know that at a individual level this task is not practical, sadly.

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>>4989749
>like nintendos virtual console
Hasn't existed in a while

>>5005117
too much hassle for the casuals, let alone Torrent they think is rocket sciencie lol.

>>4989415
Yell yeah what: I run a site called newtotse.com, and I am willing to host any decent packs as a primary tracker for, let's say, two weeks.

>>5005125
EVERY DAY UNTIL THEY GET IT

>>5005128
Nah they love the drama

>>5005128
Change isn't always possible.I was present for the early sakurafish posts and I still don't like it.

>>5005149

>>5004760
I'm the @GudSet account on archive.org. I have an upload speed of around 20 - 60kb/s on a good day with only a 500GB internal. A post on ROM Shepherd implied the GoodGBA & GoodN64 sets were taken down, but I could never upload them with this connection. I reuploaded various things from DoujinStyle.com, some hentai games & some Korean game I found on HG101's forums. Why he didn't run the game by Redump when he dumped it, I don't know. I don't expect anyone to invest in a yacht of HDD's, but if you can't bother to reupload just ONE thing, you're an idiotic leech. Just make a throwaway email with GMX or whatever email and upload something. Cloud Storage is cancer, and many from 4shared & MediaFire have it written explicitly in their ToS that they will erase your account if you don't log in for 6+ months. There is no upload limit to having an Archive account. You could just reupload one Xbox game or one PSX game that isn't already listed. This isn't rocket science.

>>5005236
The is torrent with all the No-Intro updated from last year, it has good seeds.

>>5005236
You sir are completely right, all the whining and drama, but almost nobody do something to improve the scene.

BASED

>>4997062
Do you even know what abandonware is, you autistic fuckhead.

Is there anything more degenerate than physical copies of retro video games?

>covered in dirt, piss, semen, saliva, mucus, food residues
>disc rot
>labels that are destroyed
>price tags on labels that cause tearing
>cartridges with melted, broken, scuffed surfaces
>disc cases that are beyond destroyed
>instruction manuals so destroyed they barely even serve as museum pieces

No, thanks.
>

>>4998981
Bitch don't be fucking with Athena that's a solid game.

>>4999972
>Why not just use FLAC then?

APE saves an additional 10 bytes of space.

What is actually funny is that WinRAR compresses standard WAV files extremely good, almost as good as dedicated lossless compressions, and it detects the pcm sound data in any file. You can have a 1-file bin/cue in a RAR and it would be maybe 5% bigger than a multitrack one in iso/ecm/ape but infinitely simpler to prepare for playing.

(RAR v5 actually removes that pcm detection and compresses bin/cue with audio tracks a lot worse than RAR v4)

>>4999994
>Fucked up cue sheets are just a fact of life unfortunately. Music uploaders on redacted.ch never fix theirs either.

They use EAC cue sheets which are not compliant with the format, only with EAC. However their one single use only is making sure you can burn pregaps fine, so that gets a pass - if you give enough shits about having that on an audio CD, then you should be having EAC installed anyway.

For games, you have broken cue sheets everywhere because
- people keep editing it in shit like sega cue maker, or simply in notepad
- people do bad rips in things like Alcohol 120% which fucks up the track positions and all audio tracks desync
- cue sheet itself isn't a formally defined standard, it was just added in CDRWin4 and other apps copied it, so you have a lot of applications not handling it properly.

>If you're really concerned about it you would probably have better luck getting redump stuff off rutracker or whatever.

The rips with APE audio is redump stuff, that's how they packaged their stuff at one point.

Can't win 'em all.

>>4989450
Sounds good! When are you going to start selling them?

>>5005564
>abandonware
No, and neither do you, as it doesn't actually exist outside of your imagination.

I WAS TROLLING YOU PIRATE-FAGS, I'M NOT GONNA SHARE ANYTHING.
I BUY MY OWN ORIGINAL GAMES, YOU ARE FUCKING SCUM NEETS HAHAHAHA YOU ARE DOOMED, I'M REPORTING ALL THE TORRENTS AND DDL SITES RIGHT NOW.

>>5007251
Nightwolve, no one cares. Go translate another Falcom game instead of bitching about some leaking your payware patch 11 years ago.

>>5007268
>Falcom

>>4991706
Dude the magnet link doesn't work, can you re-uploaded with the last and most complete No-Intro Sets? please

>>4989415
I'm not retarded so I'm good. I have a private torrent site + a few DDL backups. Have everything downloaded anyway.

>>5007317
It does work. It might take a long time for the data to roll in but just wait. If you really can't make it work you can check here instead, use some kind of download manager to grab everything. I use downthemall in waterfox myself but you're free to find something that works for your browser. http://158.69.24.221/for_vr/

mame update packs are gonna be a pain to find now.

"mame 0.200 to 0.201 update pack"

I can't even find old ones now.

Damn emuparadise was my go to. Got to experience some of my favorite games that way, most recentlt Silent Hill 2. What a great game.

>>5007653
Thank you made my day really thank you made an old anon happy thanks, have some galaxies for your enjoyement.

>>5007832
takes one to know one

>>4991615

I downloaded the 0.193 set and nothing works? I'm retarded when it comes to MAME, but I have the games in a roms folder and pointed MAME 0.193 to it with no luck. I ran an audit a few times with no luck. I switched to 0.200 so I could use the QNC2 front end, but Check ROM State keeps telling me games are missing? What am I doing wrong?

>>4997915
Take it easy Jim, your heart can't take it.

>>5004264
Holy shit!

>>5005574
>covered in piss, semen
what?

>>5008387
not him but i got a used copy of catherine that arrived with the manual pages all stuck together, found it pretty funny considering it was catherine and all

>>5008392
ew

>>5008327
>Maybe I'll donate an insult to you bad guys, then.
Are you on Windows/Linux/Mac? What erro messages do you get? You may need BIOS, but I don't remember.

>>5008798
Windows. I'm getting ROM/CHD not found, but my rom directory looks correct. I have neogeo.zip and can't play NeoGeo. I also tried multiple 80s games (puckman.zip galaga.zip etc) and they also do not work.

>>5009182
Apparently, in addition to the rom file you also need a .chd file, placed in possibly a subdirectory of the rom or a dedicated mame directory for chd files. Can you access your configuration file? Type Ctrl+F and look for chd.

Be aware/beware that the same sort of hassle may be needed for BIOS files.

>>5009213
For old games, would I just use the parent ROM as the CHD file? None of the games I'm trying are on this list of CHD games https://www.emuparadise.me/News/comments.php?id=730 but I wonder if I'm missing similar for non-CHD games. I would imagine a game like Galaga would boot right up, no config required.

>>5009220
>ROM/CHD not found
What is the exact word-for-word error message?
Do you have your BIOS files?

>>5009232
"The selected machine is missing one or more required ROM or CHD Images."

Turns out I am missing a ton of roms, actually. Including the three I mentioned before. That's what I get for working a few MAME projects at once! So, to get all the games, do I have to download every update pack from the beginning? I figured MAME 0.193 torrent >>4991615 linked would be good enough.

what's better from a preservation/usability standpoint: arcade roms in FBA or MAME format?
is there even a difference? I don't know much about arcades but want neogeo and cps

so since isozone seems to be pussying out now, where the fuck should i go if i want old, semi obscure pc games without having to dig up a torrent without any seeders?
every other rom/iso hosting site i've found focuses almost entirely on console shit, 90s pc games aren't always the most fun to find

>>5009259
MAME's built in UI seems to look for a lot more files than actually needed (eg, for other versions of the game than what you're booting).
Try running the game directly from the command line, which will also list exactly what files are missing if something actually important isn't there.

>>5009259
>I figured MAME 0.193 torrent would be good enough.
It is good enough. Make sure you have all the bios roms in place. Look for them here.
https://archive.org/details/messmame

>>4991659
Retard no modern publisher is redistributing their old games. Sure companies like nintendo have the NES mini, but no one makes carts anymore. If you want to get actual hardware, you'd have to buy it third party which is overpriced, unregulated, and will eventually break

lol, you guys don't realize how good you have it with the virtual console now, compared to then.
T. pic related

>>5010095
>l, you guys don't realize how good you have it with the virtual console now, compared to then.
I don't fucking care I already bought all the games back in the past and official Nintendo Emulators are shit, no shaders, input lag, bad resolutions, bad colors, few options, poor compatibility, bugs and glitches, etc.

>>5009259
edit your configuration file
>>5009670
fba
>>5010095
> virtual console
> some lame screep cap of inflation rate
thanks, nintendo. valuable contribution

>>4989450

I'd rather die (or stop playing)

>>4989415
i wonder what's going to happen with video game roms and emulation if articles 11 and 13 kick in

They took this shit down just in time for me to miss out on the English-patched Rondo of Blood for PC Engine. Tried patching manually but the patcher requires a specific archive I can't find anywhere either. Fuck me.

>>5010017
Lots of peeps also think that because an old Windows 95 game has been ported to Steam/GOG that it also means they're reselling the same game when it's actually just yet another revision. At least with VC/Official Clone Consoles, they use an old, already verified ROM. PC games have lots of revisions, and you're certainly not getting the same installation screens with the digital versions. If you want to play the original game, you still have to play it on original, Win95 hardware.
https://tcrf.net/Doom_(PC,_1993)/Revisional_Differences

>>5012391
>o miss out on the English-patched Rondo of Blood for PC Engine. Tried patching manually but the patcher requires a specific archive I can't find anywhere either. Fuck me.
Search the emuparadise script dude is on Reddit

is there no way to download from tiz still? like with emuparadise?

I'm having a hard time finding some [b] isos

>>5012443
No and Isozone is completely dead the Reprimed shit that are advertising is going to be a bullshit service similar to Netflix but for Retro Games, all the roms are going to be or are in other sites anon.

>>5012443
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/can-a-digital-lending-library-solve-classic-gamings-piracy-problem/?comments=1
Jambo, The Ex Admin of Iso Zone is a fucking sell out., fake pirate fag, don't trust on that bitch.

>>5012443
webarchive + inspect element of the download button

>>4989415
hahaha love watching you thieves get yours. Should not have stolen so much. I have all the games i could ever need.

>>5013004
>webarchive
I haven't found it there.

just fucking use archive.org you pleb

>just wanted an iso of Jedi Power Battles
>gone forever

Just search the name of a system + "no-intro", "redump", "tosec" or "fullset".

>>5013013
ROM sites are still largely, legally incompetent when it comes to DMCAs. ROMNation received a DMCA for NIntendo's shit years ago, complied, and have been up since, & they're still up, even after all of this.
They're all vastly retarded. LoveROMs received a DMCA and otherwise refused to comply with it. No suing action was taken when ROMNation complied with the DMCA over 10 fucking years ago.
Both anti-pirates and pirates need to get their insufferable heads out of their asses.

>>5010095
Get fucked Nintendo.
Put the fucking Lufia games on your VC

>>5013550
http://web.archive.org

>>4989415
if its dead

WHY THE FUCK DOES IS TILL STILL HASS AFULLY WORKING DOS LIBRARY?

CHECKMATE BITCH

>>5014857
It doesn't.
https://www.emuparadise.me/Abandonware_Games/Chess_Maniac_5_Billion_and_1_(1993)(Spectrum_Holobyte)/92862-download

>>5014649
very....unhelpful

>>4989578
But then how can they resell you a 20 year old game for the low low price of $9.99?

>>4989578
But then how can they resell you a 20 year old game for the low low price of $9.99 on a virtual console?

>>5014857
the files were never deleted. what happened was that all the links were stripped from their pages. you can search for the tampermonkey script to download everything again.

>>5015871
not going to spell it out for you sorry,
>>5014649 and >>5013004 ought to be enough for you to figure it out.

Hey OP, Hey fellow anons, i need to be taken seriously here. So yesterday i was browsing on YouTube, and someone managed to find a workaround. Here's the link https://www.reddit.com/r/Roms/comments/968wx1/a_script_for_easy_downloading_of_emuparadise_roms/

Happy Days await fellas

>>5001801
If they don't release the game digitally, they can fuck off for all we care. Not our fault they're throwing out potential buyers by not porting to modern systems.

But here's the thing, Unless the development team is still around AND still has the source code, porting is pretty much impossible, which is why you cannot expect the much coveted Panzer Dragoon saga never got a rerelease despite all the bitching people do over wanting it.

>>5017080
I still can't believe this actually still works. How long does the owner intend to keep this shit up?

Out of curiosity, does anyone here download one game at a time? It seems in the various threads I read, everyone talks about fullsets. Those are nice and all but I prefer focusing on one at a time. I tried that during the GBA days and it led to me not playing half of them. I don't need help, I still have my private sources. Just wondering if most just prefer having the library or prefer having a "shop" open at all times.

>>5017435
For the bigger sized shit I only go with the well regarded games and favorites and whatnot.