/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6521348
Almost forgot to mention Emulation collective and their sites.

>>6521348
a lot of the live ones dropped nintendo, too.

This is why I like using obscure rom sites

https://eagleforces.tistory.com/ is one of my favorites

>>6521348
All those sites were shitty ad scams full of malware. Good riddance.

>>6521542
>t.paranoid schizophrenic

Cult of Kefka was my first foray into ROMs. Solid gold for the time.

Doperoms is gone? Sad. That was my go-to for a long time.

>>6521348
>theromdepot.com
We are on the way back up already. Wait a few days. Come on, the eye was down longer than we were.

>>6521348
There are many dead shitty rom sites than live ones. Thank god.

Unfortunately there's not much to show from the site, but seeing that banner might be nostalgic enough for some of you.

>eemusa
>edgeroms
>one minute left (oml)
>theoldcomputer

anyone else have fond memories of these? Also the days of surfing geocities for roms

>>6521551
He’s right though. Fuck those sites.

Viper roms was my go-to in 1999/2000, somewhere around there. RIP

>>6521757
There are still angelfire roms sites from back in the day that are actually alive. Ones that managed to survive getting reported and deleted. It's incredible. You can still have the experience of the dialup days in 2020. Even though I have full nointro sets for the consoles I care about it's fun to go back to those shitty old days.

Lately I've been using romdepot and a couple others, though I am loath to name them in case Nintendo's lawyers are monitoring this thread...

>>6521840
I still get the odd angelfire site at least once a quarter in a search result for something I really shouldn't be. The amount of shit that's still "accidentally" online is staggering.

>>6521857
I just searched for a few of them because I was bored and came across http://www.angelfire.com/games5/superrom/.. After downloading Terranigma and using ucon64 to strip the header I get a CRC32 of 974523FF. This matches the dumps in dat-o-matic. If you're like me and you have autism this is still a perfectly acceptable way to get roms.

>>6521541
this is neat, but no gb?

>>6521921
https://eagleforces.tistory.com/4729

The sets they use are out of date but mostly fine. If you care it's good to check at least the CRC32 matches with what's on dat-o-matic.

>>6521921
>>6521929
Also where it says Nintendo - Gameboy Color (No Intro-2012.04.01) near the top you can click on the thing that says Nintendo with some Korean language shit next to it and it will take you to the page listing all the sets for Nintendo consoles.

Emudek

>>6521695
Got lots dreamcast games from that site

>>6521348
Don't even remind me about Coolrom. The site is bloated with malware and doesn't host Nintendo roms anymore last I checked.
It hurts, like an old friend betrayed me.

Viims Lair

>>6521695
>snesorama
why you had to remind me...

anybody know how to get into the successor of romshepherd?

>>6522379
I didn't know there was one but I'd love to know. I'm on retrowithin which is quite helpful.

>not getting the rom pack, putting it on external and plucking roms as you need them
Is it 1998 or something

>coolrom
The downloads are literally executables to fool retards

>>6521348
>he doesn't know about theeye and alvro backup
Sad

>>6522404
You have to click 'slow download'
Sounds like you're the retard

>He's not on Retrowithin

>>6522475
Talk about a fucking goldmine. Thanks anon. I only knew of Vimm and Emuparadise workaround before now.

>>6522502
Thanks for the tip.

IsoZone. Not sure where I'd even get some of the more obscure games now.

Dude just go to archive.org and be like no-intro/tosec/whatever

>>6521574
Sweet Mary mother of Joseph, thank god

>>6521695
Ohh yeah. Does anybody remember qualityroms?
http://web.archive.org/web/20050127091012/http://qualityroms.com/

>>6522542
You can think that Welsh POS Jamb0 for that all collapsing inward.

>>6523096
What's the story behind the Welsh POS?

>downloads limited to 35kbps
>bad dumps
>ads everywhere
>links protection
>limited file downloads

Thank god they are dead. God bless No Intro, Tosec and Redump.

But I have good memories of Romhustler and Mondelmul and his PS1 isos splited in 80 parts of 10 MB each.

>>6523120
He decided piracy was getting too hot to handle so he went into the file-locker business, used his existing userbase as a springboard for gaining new paying customers quickly, then tried to completely shut down the file-sharing parts of the site. When his Staff told him they thought that was pretty gay of him to do when many of them were also his loyal paying customers who had supported him and the site through thick-and-thin, he attempted to kick them all out, ban any discussion of kicking them out, then lie about what the fuck was going on to anyone that asked. Once everyone got the message he just wasn't interested in the liability anymore, he did his best to fuck up the successor community... Like planting backdoors on their fucking servers that he had oh-so-generously offered to "help" set up (as a sort of peace offering, you see!) and then triggering them repeatedly when they didn't agree to his exact terms for handing over the forum database.

I have nothing but pity for anyone entrusting their files to him.

>>6521551
Lol

I'd download all my roms from here until Nintendo got on their ass and no longer could serve Nintendo or Capcom games. After that I'd just use it to download obscure Japanese exclusives and hentai art roms.

>>6523126
>i don't want ads
>but I want fast download speeds for my free ROMs and ISOs!
Short of the internet archive(which most of this stuff gets wiped when it gets reported), pick one. Not many people are willing to pay $200+ a month out of pocket just to host a romsite for people. You can have ads and fast servers, or no ads and slow servers, or no ads and fast servers but you have to donate.

>>6521348
Emuparadise is still a thing. Only thing you need is an extension to actually download the ROMS.

Funnily enough I just got around to replacing some of my ancient dumps last week. Still had a couple bad ones, and a handful of snes dumps with useless headers. They have been kicking around my computers for >20 years now, I got them using my father's AOL during weekend visitations and brought them home on CDs.

Like tears in the rain.

>>6521348
Emu-Russia was the shit, I used it since 2005 and they removed ROM downloads in 2019.

Fuck roms, they hurt nintendo

>>6523349
such an obvious troll

>>6522502
I've never found anything with this but a domain parking page. Is it some faggy private tracker?

>>6523217
This is what torrents are for. Do the young'uns still use them? Torrents?

>>6521348
I used Doperoms all the time when I was in high school for my hacked psp. Damn

>>6521551
But he's right. 90% of the ROM sites of old were plagued with bad hentai on the borders. I had to go to the internet equivalent of the Red Light District to play a goddamn kirby game.

>>6523408
That's actually what kept me away from emulation for the longest time: the drive-by downloads, viruses, and popups that plagued those sorts of sites.

DO NOT TALK OR MENTION RETROWITHIN

>>6521348
Romulus and Remus.

>>6523439
I pretty much only downloaded ROMs when it wasn't a guarantee that my folks would bust in.

>>6523451
Relax, bro. If it's private I won't even *try* to get in: that shit is fucking cancer.

>>6523397
yeah, the supposed parking page is actually a log in screen

>>6521348
Coolroms (before the Mandela Effect rendered it "coolrom") was cool ten years ago or so. Then one day most games, if not all of them, became .exe's and would try to rape your system.
Doperoms was also my last resort and came through with some favorites, and now nothing works there.

>>6523751
Indeee.
The rom depot will come back, as I know already. There's still torrent and diving into the deepweb aka the undernet.

>>6523770
Meh on torrents, those are my last, last resort.
>diving into the deepweb aka the undernet.
I really hope you don't think that deepweb means the darknet.

And say, remember Oldiesgames I think it was called? That guy told Nintendo to fuck off for years. Did they finally sue him?

>>6523405
Torrents require a seed all the same. Unless you are on a private torrent site, most torrents tend to die off. Unless you use a decent VPN, using a torrent just invites DMCA notices from your ISP. I got one about two years ago for torrenting some fucking AMIGA games.

>>6523751
>Then one day most games, if not all of them, became .exe's and would try to rape your system.
You can still get the games, as long as you aren't retarded enough to use the downloader/installer they try to package with it. Pic related.

>>6523843
>You can still get the games, as long as you aren't retarded enough to use the downloader/installer they try to package with it. Pic related.
I'm all good on ROMS, anon. If I need some I know where to go and it won't be at uncoolrom(s) dot com.

>>6523718
But it *is* some faggy private tracker, right?

>>6523843
>Torrents require a seed all the same.
That didn't used to be a problem until niggers stopped seeding past a ratio of 1 (or AT ALL).

>>6523858
The only reason you say it's faggy is because your stinky ass isn't invited to the party.

>>6523916
No, I say that because most members of private trackers are legit homos and flamingly gay for one another. And don't even get me *started* on the competition they hold to see who can suck Administration's penis the hardest. Hoovers have more dignity.

>>6521348
I don't really see the sadness of romsites going away when you can just DL the 30~GiB archive of every cartridge based console pre 2001 and just keep it on a hard drive

>>6523776
>Deepweb and dark web are different things
Eh, how?

>>6521348
>you will never go back to the days of googling for rom sites and being taken through several "TOP 50" sites that didn't actually have roms on them
Thank christ

>>6523264
i downloaded the extension and it still doesnt work

>>6524061
Deep web is just stuff that you can't access without some kind of permission. Best example is a forum. The forum posts are "shallow" web while the user CP stuff is deep web because you have to be logged in to view that content. Netflix, spotify, etc are all like this. Dark web is basically just synonymous with using TOR and .onion stuff.

>>6524120
You need to click the link that says workaround *after* you are sent to the "this game is unavailable"and you need to right click it after it brings you back.
Also remember to enable the extension.

>>6524080
I found some games that way a few times, so it can work. Kind of mixed on those days being gone. On the one hand, some of the porn was interesting, the animated stuff, but eh I just want the games.

>>6521574
Is this all from that dumb shit hack that happened to the discord server?
That was gay.

>>6524249
I had my strategies for navigating through that bullshit. Everyone knows you could only host a few mb on places like geocities or angelfire. If you come across sites with huge lists of links to other accounts on the same host or other outside hosts they are probably all dead. If you want the goods you need to find those small shitty personal websites with just 1-3 roms on them. I'd do that then stash them in my own non-public geocities account or on floppies. My school had a T1 line so I would sneak into the library before classes start and fill up my floppies with roms to take home and copy to my hard drive.

>>6524270
That's a lot of steps, but based. Couldn't do it from home? And yeah I see the upside of downloading at school.

>>6522394
pretty much this.
there's no excuse for everyone here not having at least a no-intro set, they're around 30 gigs without ds and 3ds.
you people underestimate nintendo's bullying. archive was/is being sued (for unrelated reasons) and could disappear overnight. then we're left with file sharers which get popped every other day and rom sites which crumble after the first c&d.
in the near future the more obscure shit is gonna be impossible to find.

>>6524286
I could but that's 180k/s downloading vs 3-4k/s downloading. The whole process of finding things and navigating through those shitty websites just took a whole lot longer on a modem. Even though those sites were designed for dial up modems you still had to slog through a bunch of them which took time and invited complaints from my dad about "tying up the phone line." It's the difference between getting 10 roms in 15 minutes and getting 3 in an hour.

You can always just use https://the-eye.eu/public/rom/ Everything up to PSX/N64/Saturn

Or make an account on Archive.org and get the no-intros sets.

>>6524289
>in the near future the more obscure shit is gonna be impossible to find.
As always. However, we can put off those dreaded days if we all share the love. Like Joel and Mike always say, keep circulating the tapes.

>>6524297
OK, I thought you had access to T1 at home too at the time.

>>6524298
>Or make an account on Archive.org and get the no-intros sets.
Can you please tell me what "no intro" means in this sense? Pardon my ignorance.

>>6524304
I fucking wished. I would have been at the computer every minute I wasn't in school if I had one of those. As I was when I finally got a cable modem which had the same download speed.

>>6524304
No-Intros is a set of roms. Complete sets. Like TOSEC, or GOOD. No-Intros are the best. They're just what works. TOSEC full romsets are stupid exact, with 20 copies of each game and every regional variation. GOOD sets are a mixed combination of both.

How is it 2020 and people here of all places don't have complete rom sets?

>>6524309
Would TOSEC (don't know what that is) have the correct romsets for Wii;et al? Why are some of them called "no intro" though what intro? I've heard of GOODsets before of course.

/used to keep up on this until life took more of my time

>>6524314
I'm that anon he's talking to and I do have some complete romsets, but they're not the right romsets for certain devices sometimes and others I don't have anymore.

>>6524314
I have complete rom sets. I just think it's fun to download games from the most obscure sites I can possibly find and check them out. See if they have headers. If the dump matches what's in no-intro. It's nostalgia and autism coming together to create a fun experience only someone like me could enjoy.

>>6524309
I use Goodsets for the translations of popular JP games, but No-Intro is archival quality

>>6524325
I like applying the patches myself but I can see the appeal of that. It's always great when the retarded fucking autists at RHDN give you the checksums for a headerless rom when the patch is specifically telling you to use a headered version of it. Can you imagine normies trying to deal with that? Hunting down a headered rom is a pain in the ass but you could probably just tack on a header yourself and it will be fine.

>"No-Intro" lists only the best available ROM; it must be a full dump with no faults and no changes to the file, basically just the ROMS that are the closest as possible to the original licensed cartridges. Our goal is entirely different to yours! ... This is why it's called "No-Intro"


I see. OK, long ago I found a legend that explained all the symbols, so [!] means "no-intro."

And found as well:
>"This is what i found googling it:

>No-Intro takes this name from their initial mission of removing introductions added to GBA rom dumps by certain release groups. However, they later changed their goal to curate the best rom image for each game and thus have the closest possible archive for every single game they could get their hands on. If you're looking for a clean, almost 1:1 set for a console, No-Intro is definitely the way to go. These sets do not include bad dumps, overdumps, hacks, or any other types of images."

I see. Been doing well and didn't even know it. Yeah, I can count on one hand how many intro roms I have.

>>6524331
IPS was easy to figure out, and I'm the anon who just embarrassed himself by not knowing what "non-intro" technically meant.

>>6524334
I collect intro roms because they are cool. A piece of piracy history and awesome to run on real hardware. Not really compatible with the "muh game preservation" meme of today though.

>>6524337
Yeah it's very easy. The thing that's annoying is that so many of these patches were made many years ago with headers in mind. The rom collectors of today demand that roms have no headers, only the original contents of the cartridge totally unmodified. They seek to purge the world of that shit. I don't think they're totally wrong or even misguided but it makes this more confusing for people who don't understand these things.

Example to prove my point, see: http://www.romhacking.net/translations/337/

>GoodSNES: Dragon Quest I & II (J)
>NoIntro: Dragon Quest I & II (Japan)
>Size: 1,573,376 bytes (headered)
>CRC32: 98bb6853

They give you the filesize of the headered rom you are supposed to use and the CRC32 for the headerless rom as you would find in no-intro. What the fuck are you supposed to do with that information? Go on a wild goose chase to every shitty rom site until you find the headered one? Like I already said you could probably apply a header yourself but that info is specified nowhere. Luckily I have the original BBS scene dump of the game from 1993 and the file size is correct, it's not even split, so I can just patch it and I'm good.

>>6524345
>I collect intro roms because they are cool. A piece of piracy history and awesome to run on real hardware.
OK, I have a ROM that you want if you don't already have it, it looks just like a real Nintendo intro, but it's speaking to piracy. I'll look for it later and tell you about it later in this thread.
Yeah, that is cool stuff, but I want it all too, I guess. Now I get ya.
>>6524345
>The rom collectors of today demand that roms have no headers, only the original contents of the cartridge totally unmodified. They seek to purge the world of that shit. I don't think they're totally wrong or even misguided but it makes this more confusing for people who don't understand these things.
I think they're doing God's work, but I would agree that the intro roms are worth saving and a piece of history, yes.

>>6524315
I dunno what TOSEC is up to now. They might have a Wii set. They're around. This is fairly old scene stuff so I don't even know if there's been a no-intro set of anything since the 2000s

>>6524351
Another complaint, a further patch was released to fix a bug with this patch. http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2165/

This one wants me to patch to a headerless version of a rom that's been patched already. So that means to apply this myself to an unaltered rom I need to start with a headered version, patch it, strip the header from the rom, then apply this patch. The upside here is that he gives me a checksum for what the rom should be after it's been patched with the other patch and stripped of it's header. This is still completely ridiculous though.

>>6521348
these days with large disks and high speed internet, for any pre-5th-gen console, it would actually take less time to just download an entire set via bittorrent than to go through a website and download just the games you want

>>6524386
Total time to start playing would be the same because he'd be grounded for a month for using all his moms data

>>6524397
>2020
>caps

>>6524315
>>6524361
for cartridge-based systems, you want nointro. for disc systems, redump. their wii dat is fairly complete I believe.
tosec has been deprecated in favor of redump. same with others, like trurip. they do different things but the community more or less agrees that redump is good enough.

>>6524351
>>6524371
most patches and whatnot nowadays use either nointro or redump as base. and if you need headered/headerless, a lot of rom managers can do that automatically.

>>6524334
>I see. OK, long ago I found a legend that explained all the symbols, so [!] means "no-intro."
no.

>>6524325
>use Goodsets for the translations of popular JP games,
goodtools haven't been updated in four years or so, grossly out of date.

>>6524631
>>I see. OK, long ago I found a legend that explained all the symbols, so [!] means "no-intro."
>no.
[!] means good dump, anon. Like when your dad left mom.

>>6524469
>2020
>still on parents family plan

>>6524756
those tags come from goodtools, because it listed every possible version under the sun, be it a good dump, over/underdump, hack etc.
no-intro doesn't use those tags, obviously,
but I'm sure you knew that.

>>6524776
I remember the DS set had several [b] dumps. even marked as such.
have they finally fixed it?

>>6524772
family plan?

>>6524789
lisa needs braces

>>6524776
My previous message is ever more applicable.

>>6524781
As soon as somebody submits a good dump, sure.

>>6524791
you're talking nonsense

>>6524796
redump doesn't have bad dumps, though. at all.
then again I don't know which is worse.

>>6524793
good doesn't mean it's verified. groups like nointro have their own autistic methods.

>>6524838
[!]=verified good dump, muddofucko

>>6524842
verified by the goodset team at best. using their own tools and methods.
reminds me of an entire set that had to deprecated because someone fucked up. don't remember if it was nointro or redump though.

ISOZone.
>Almost every format
>Soundtracks
>Magazines

The Archive is doing what it did, only harder to find things.

>>6524995
the forums were the real loss there. lots of useful information.

>>6524789
That's where your parents get a plan and you share minutes/data. That's why you don't know anything about it.

>>6525019
oh, cellphones, when did the conversation turn to cellphones?
my parents don't have cellphones, and when i was a kid, i had to pay for my own phone
i've only recently started actually using mobile internet

>>6524493
I'm pretty sure a good chunk of the patches on rhdn have been updated to use headerless roms in the last few years anyway.

>>6525185
Would be nice if they could make that more clear. But we already know the kind of operation they got going on over there these days.

>>6525019
The Nextel one I was on had free nights and weekends. Could call up my friends or girls and talk all night. WAP internet was shit but I remember going on chat sites with it.

>>6521759
>>6523408
>>6521542
>t.people who have never heard of AdBlock

People download roms from anywhere that isn't the no-intro / redump / neokobe / etc. full romsets from archive.org?

why would anyone do that to themselves???

>>6523078
>Archive.org
They'll be dead soon too.

>>6525237
I do it to myself because I enjoy reading nfos before I play roms that were dumped in 1992.

any anons putting together romsets? I have an outdated nointro and decided it was time to move on to redump.
I had some partial sets but goddamn, the japanese psx set alone is around 1.1tbs.

>>6525289
Redump and no-intro are mutually exclusive. What the fuck are you talking about?

>>6525296
I meant it was time to shell out the cash for storage so that I could actually hoard entire redump sets. not that I was ditching nointro for redump.

>>6524315
>TOSEC
The Old School Emulation Corner
>>6524315
>Why are some of them called "no intro" though what intro?
Scene folks may know their craft well, but they also have egos the size of Saturn. You remember the famous "Banana In Your Pocket" thing that used to come up every time you booted up a really *old* ROM? The one with the watermelon and the two monkeys? That was actually added to the cart image (the "ROM" if you will) by the slick bastard that liberated it from its silicon prison. As a signature or NFO file of sorts. One that couldn't be so easily removed as tossing a TXT file in the Recycle Bin. Unfortunately, they also completely destroy the ability to hash the file and thus establish a known good checksum with which to compare all future dumps, eg. for revision tracking and quality control purposes. No-Intro takes a baseball bat to all that kinda shit: it's not allowed. Ever. What you dump straight from the cart? With a *very* few narrow exceptions, that's what goes in the fucking file. Nothing more. Nothing less.

>>6525306
'kay. My mistake.

>>6525289
My personal sets likely wouldn't be much smaller than the official ones, I only remove (Demo), (Unl), and similar. Why don't you simply yank it from The Archive direct?

>>6524319
You keep doing you, Anon. Shit like that is actually an invaluable public service.

>>6525357
I am, mostly. and getting fixes from file sharers. problem is that I didn't expect a single region to be over 1tb.
I bought a bunch of external 1tb drives and am storing each region in one drive for easy scanning and updating. but I don't think I can get it to fit in a single one even if I remove demos.

>>6525370
>I bought a bunch of external 1tb drives
what a waste of money.
should have bought some 10/12tb externals when on sale for under 20usd/TB.

>>6525381
not possible where I live. plus I got western digital 1tbs on sale.
I figured I could just import but I don't know how many platters those are. at least the WDs I got are reliable.

>>6524253
Yeah, but it actually came from outside the discord. Admin got hacked, and from there they got into his discord and wiped the database on the server hosting the depot. We're almost back to running.

Admin has sworn off downloading shady .pdf files.

just use archive.org retards

>>6525228
adblock wasn't even a thing in the late 90s/early 2000s you fucking zoomer.
People still used fucking netsscape and internet explorer, which I don't even think has support for addons or extensions.

>>6523947
agreed. Any site that requires registration to use its resources is full of fags. Every time. This is especially so for sites that are "exclusive" about it.

>>6523770
>aka the undernet.
This isn't fucking Megaman Battle Network, you faggot.

>>6525390
>western digital
RIP
at least you didn't get seagate.

>>6526509
It did existed, it was called common sense.

>>6523346
>He doesn't know the new site.

What does it mean that a game is a "bad dump"?

>>6526684
You can't "common sense" a pop up or page redirect.

>>6523843
>Amiga game
>DMCA notices
Can you give me a source I thought no company care about vidya games.

>>6526538
What is wrong with Seagate stuff?

>>6526759
I got striked by my ISP several years ago for torrenting Bioshock 1. Decided to delete said game file afterwards.

>>6523405
Speaking of torrent here is my pack
Quality mario worls hack
Quality kaizo mario hacks
All sonic hacks
All nds games,hacks,translation,homebrew.
All virtual boy games with homebrew
All quality pokemon games
All wiiware games

https://mega.nz/folder/a08zlZ5L#PlvwjFNNrfcE-wtDTsd5gQ

And more to come

>>6526768
I can understand modern games. But amiga is 34 years old if anybody care about it they have a type of mental illness. Also use a vpn and fuck the jannies

>>6526759
Sorry, I long since deleted the email from my ISP. I remember it being some french legal company that sent the notice, but I don't remember any names.

>>6523878
Leeches have always been a problem and will always be a problem with public torrents. It's why private trackers have accounts with ratios tied to them.

>>6526768
Got one last year for pirating a tv show from the 50's. Age of the material really doesn't matter to the copyright police.

>>6526825
Oh, and the game I torrented was made freeware back in 2014 or so. I got a copyright strike for torrenting a free game.

I still use coolrom for any non Nintendo game.
Romhustler is okay too.
CDromance has started to become decent.

>>6526509
In the early 00s we did use pop up blockers though. Damn was that ever an awful time for internet advertising. I bought into the muh common sense meme then I got fucking raped by exploits in IE. Zoomers don't know the pain of realizing you're going to be spending your evening reinstalling XP.

>>6526538
always heard good things about WD and only ever had one bad drive. I know they've dipped in quality in recent years, but who hasn't?
what brand do you recommend? I may opt for redundancy as well.

>>6526763
Seagate is notorious for failing. Toshiba too, if memory serves.

>>6526716
means it doesn't match the cartridge. something's wrong with it.
usually it's nothing important, or it's an intro.

>>6523327
I've got a backup of my NES emulation folder from back in 1997/98 with some pretty old files in it

>>6524493
>>6525185
I just applied this one: http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2958/ and the info they gave here is a thousand times more useful. I had the headered rom and I followed the instructions. The 16th byte on mine was different but I know how to count so it was easy enough to deal with that. After deleting the header manually with a hex editor the checksum matches the one he said to use, and of course post patch checksum is perfect too.

Remember all those ROM hosting sites where you'd have to vote them as the best ROM site so they'd be top of their little inter-site charts they had
Then you'd get 5 pop-ups and a 60 second wait for your efforts

>>6528009
i do now

>>6523094
>Does anybody remember qualityroms?
Bloody hell I do now. I can't remember a single site I used by name but one glance at this and it takes me back.

>>6528009
I remember the links never worked so I avoided the hell out of them.

>>6526691
what new site
pls

>>6522386
What the fuck do you need that isn't on RW

>>6526847
Mmmmmmm bonzi buddy

>>6526847
i'll still take an antivirus and some banner popups to all the insufferable video ads that are literally everywhere on the internet nowadays

>>6521348
Going back to late 90's/early 00's there was a site
called Emusa dot net.

They had every fucking thing. At least at the time. First time I heard about those "bs" Snes games. Thought I was the man filling up floppy disks with unheard of games for my friends. Seeing some of these sites like emu russia is a fucking blast from the past holy shit.

>>6521574
I went on there and the search bar was working for me anymore, is anyone having this issue?

>>6524345
Would be better off converting them to patches IMO.

>>6525196
nitecrawler is a retard so that isn't going to happen.

>>6525357
I trim out the fat and have <200 titles per system. It's gotta at least do something unusual with the hardware for me to want to keep i if it isn't "good"

>>6528009
Yea topsites were a strange cancer, I have no idea how they made money off that. Though advertisers were literally unscrupulous even then, was the era of "Gain" if anybody remembers that spyware

>>6528524
>topsites
Yeah, that was the name of them! Was trying to recall that. They really were complete shit.

save everything they are shutting it down

>>6526836
It depends usually on the isp and whether how jumpy they tend to be with any torrenting files they manage to find. Also, it depends on which country you happen to live in in terms of copyright laws and related stuff.

>>6528492
Search is currently broken, will be fixed eventually. We switched away from SQL, which was tied into the old search/database system. Old system also required an update that halted downloads for a while anytime we added directories or roms through FTP, new system will reflect changes instantly and doesn't require updating a database to show the new stuff. Things will get better, it will just take time. Besides admin, we only have one other person with this sort of dev experience/skills.

>>6528524
>>6528530
The old FTP topsites were designed to be a middle ground between the Usenet groups and the FTP groups that handled the last leg of the chain. 99% of the time, they didn't have every 15MB part of the full file, but by going through enough of the sites you could find every part and extract the file. If you actually got deep enough, you could get access to the FTP itself, and trade complete files for other complete files if they didn't already have them. It was a way to pirate shit in 98. It wasn't great, but it was doable. My uncle still has the boxes of PS1 and Win9x games he pirated through this stuff.

>>6528581
>The old FTP topsites were designed to be a middle ground between the Usenet groups and the FTP groups that handled the last leg of the chain
Did they legitimately have any real link to the shitty topsites on things like ROM sites though, cause I remember them too and they just seemed riddled with ads and pure crap

>>6528585
You had to navigate carefully, and many were just fake fronts designed to get votes without giving files, but more than a few would give you one of the 15MB parts after voting. It was designed to be as difficult as possible to use to deter law enforcement, since everyone was still paranoid after the crackdowns in the 90's. It was believed that the easier it was for the public to access, the more likely they would be targeted. They and this concept went away in a hurry with the rise of the NMDC and Kazaa networks and torrents.

>>6528605
That's genuinely interesting to know. Appreciated

>>6528256
RomShepard had people sharing scene stuff that didn't end up on RW

>>6528316
They are? I wouldn't know. uBlock origin makes that shit disappear.

>>6528605
Eventually I figured out that the real action was on IRC and all of this was just wasting my time. Downloading roms from the fserve of some guy with a cable modem was a million times better than trying to get them off of free web hosts and weird sites. Once I got up to GBA emulation there was a guy in #gbanow running a public FTP on a 100mbit line in the Netherlands. Never had to bother with any of that garbage again.

>>6525027
When you started downloading and emulating on your mommys old iphone

the rom depot is back

>>6529202
>fserve
annoying as fuck, and we liked it!
*sip*

>>6530031
It was only painful when I was using it to download DC games. Hours of waiting in queues to download a huge file at 30k/s. The pain. Using them to download roms wasn't so bad though.

>>6529502
>playing games
>on a phone

>>6530073
>playing games
>on your moms old iphone

I love roms

Speaking of dead rom sites, anyone miss this shithole?
>has everything for every emulated system at the time
>but wait all CD based isos require payment
>eventually forced a cap on how many roms you downloaded in a day
>later cowtowed along with coolroms to Nintendo by removing their first party roms

>>6521348
That's why you got to download what you can be it old school video games, music, movies, etc. We are getting to the point where these greedy corporate shitbags are going to do their best to make sure we keep buying the same shit over and over again. Fight the power brothers.

Where can a fella find unlicensed Sega Genesis roms?

>>6531751
https://archive.org/details/GoodGenV321

>>6531049
Yes, they seemed nice. I just was grateful for the ROMs that I got for free, plus I already had sources for CD content.
Also they had a comfy interface.

>>6521348
ROM-WORLD.COM they were fucking awesome. No limits, but they restricted access to ISOs, but otherwise they had it all for free.
It'd be nice if someone posted a screenshot because I have no idea where mine is.

Most downloaded roms from emuasylum
>Adult Manga 1
>Adult Manga 2
>Porno Manga
>Anime 1.0

>>6531763
Yeah, even after the download cap they were still my go to source for cartridge roms. I think they took longer than coolrom to remove their first party Nintendo games.
>>6531781
Oh shit I forgot about all the porn roms and hacks they hosted, all within their lists of regular games.

>>6531791
>I think they took longer than coolrom to remove their first party Nintendo games.
They did drag their feet more yes.

>>6531753
Thanks, I appreciate it!

>>6525296
>Redump and no-intro are mutually exclusive.
PlayStation Portable

>>6529191
>uBlock
My man!

>thread about dead ROM sites, many from the early 00s or even before
>"heh, why not use uBlock?"

>>6524289
Maybe we need to start learning how to host an onion :x

>>6527129
what are these pat files?

>>6533605
>several tbs of data
>through onion speeds
imagine downloading a ps1 set through tor.

>>6533605
There's a lot of things you need to learn. Some of them very fundamental.

>>6526509
>what's a HOST file

>>6533396
uBlock was brought up in relation to a complaint about the prevalence of video ads on the internet today. If you didn't lack the basic skill that is reading comprehension, something that should have been taught to you in middle school, you would get that.

>>6534391
Something you apparently don't understand. Not the anon you're embarrassing yourself over. Just a random dude laughing at stupid.

>>6533396
It's like the shit version of 'minor issue on Windows is it, well why not just install Linux'.
People are just itching, aching to tell you how they do things even if it's UTTERLY IRRELEVANT to the thread!

>>6531049
I definitely remember that Donate image.

>>6535256
If you read the post that was in reply to
>i'll still take an antivirus and some banner popups to all the insufferable video ads that are literally everywhere on the internet nowadays
It would make sense. But apparently you're too much of a goddamned retard to follow the conversation once it slightly deviates from the original topic and can't understand context. Says a lot about the education system of whatever shithole you're from.

>>6525348
This shit was all over the place on retro computers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k14yYg9I_Nw

>>6525008
Same with Assembler games

>>6535535
Applies to retro consoles too starting with 16 bit era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN_gor5--3Y

Our modern romsets just happen to have that stuff removed. There's packs of the old stuff on places like archive.org though.

>>6533291
uBlock ORIGIN, boy.

>snesorama
>2 results

Better than nothing

plasticman.org, anyone?
https://web.archive.org/web/20001002194846/http://plasticman.org/index.shtml

Also, anyone remember a site from around 2000 focused on SNES/SFC roms with a sports related name? I remember thinking my friend was fucking with me when he told me about this site since it seemed completely unrelated to roms. I do remember it being the first site I could get DBZ Hyper Dimension from.

>>6536562
fuck me man
I remember getting redirected there from a bunch of dead links circa 2005

>>6521348
Apparently there is an ORGanization that ARCHIVEs many games.

>>6521348
good thing I kept all my psx pirated cds library, which consists of roughly 300 or so titles.
Been waiting all my life for the moment of dumping them all
For nes, snes and genesis, which are mostly everything I play, you can go to any torrent site and download the full set in 2 minutes so yeah there's that

Who here had their first hentai experience with a rom site?There was one, I think emulationstation, that had a topless 90s anime girl as a part of the welcome page. There was also on that had you vote for it on some topsites aggregate website which had (I think) sailor mercury topless next to the voting link.

>>6536562
>my friend was fucking with me when he told me about this site
tell us more, anon

>>6536632
>http://happyhentai.com/
So long old friend.

>>6536562
Wow, I think I would remember something like that from the early 00's.
Me, I've used emuparadise all my life. Specially for PSX and PCE roms.
Good thing nes, snes and genesis' whole libraries will always be readily available by a 1gb torrent file lol

anyone remember pe2000?

>>6536607
That doesn't have the same kind of nostalgia attached to it though. We're talking about the days when it wasn't always that easy. The weird and annoying sites we used to find roms.

>>6536730
>We're talking about the days when it wasn't always that easy. The weird and annoying sites we used to find roms.

I'll admit that I got suckered a few times at least and clicked "here" to get the ROM now, only to be rerouted at least 10 tens and then no ROM. Some of the porn was a'ight.

>>6521542
You know, you just made me wonder about how much malware I must have had on my 'beginner' PC. I remember downloading custom Windows XP builds.

::shudder::

I remember accepting un-requested buddy invites from AOL IM in 1999. Looking back, I think my 'best friend' was a pedo. The tell talel sign was when they eventually changed their persona after a summer hiatus.

>>6521557
My nigga

>when you find an old rom site in archive.org with the roms actually preserved
It's rare but it does indeed happen

>>6521557
Lmao I remember that place. The FFVI title theme would always blare in the background. Always scared the crap out of me.

>>6521557
https://web.archive.org/web/20010207030654/http://members.madasafish.com/~kefka/

>>6536752
>::shudder::
Go back reddit

>>6537167
In a thread like this typing like an early 00s weeb is perfectly acceptable. Adds authenticity.

>>6521348
emuparadise?

>>6537183
Typing out reactions is something faggots do, always has been.

>>6537192
If you aren't as much of a zoomer as you're making yourself sound like I'm sure you had no friends on the old internet too.

>>6523751
You know heres a funny thing about those exes, they actually ask you if you want to download the adware.

>>6537437
You know heres a funny thing about this thread, the second reply to that post already said that.

reported and saged

reported and saged

reported and saged

Snesorama was my favorite.
was just a thread for each PS1 game and a link to download. No adware bullshit

>>6521557
>>6537059
This brought back memories. My first download was probably some patched FFVI ROM that had American names changed back to Japanese. I blindly trusted the site's owner's authority in that it's better to play with authentic, original names. Well, still do

>>6536656
Should just make an entire library at this point and all of us can seed it.

>>6537041
I would download those ROMs. Archive.today is being sued currently and who knows if they will be able to survive the lolsuit

when is the file hosting meme gonna die? just torrent and just 1 guy can keep it alive

>>6543347
When is trend of using the word meme for everything popular in discussion going to die out? Just use a thesaurus bro lmao.

>>6523126
Rom hustler is still around and is well funded without crazy ads. It’s a passion project that is DMCa compliant run by someone with money. So I doubt it’s going anywhere

>>6543381
I grab PSP scene ISOs from it. I don't have much of a use for it besides that.

>>6521348
Iso zone was the dogs bollocks mate

>>6543378
Never. The misuse of meme as a derogatory adjective is now a meme in itself.

>>6523349

I'm actually impressed with how serious they take reports. Usually 2-3 days and the items along with the sellers entire store is b&.

>>6543347
Someone else who is not me should do the hard work. Because relying on strangers always works.

Every time I look into preservation I get fucking depressed, just let it all die already. We don't even need this many irrelevant games.

Probably the MAME romset is the only thing of actual historical worth and no company cares enough to DMCA them.

>>6524203
I am a retard i know, but is there any proof it actually dls from emuparadise? Or does it dl from a less trstworthy source?

Anyone remember dohgames?

>>6544001
Yo do yall remember when ninty made emuparadise remove all the first party games. But ninty forgot one first party game. It was chibi robo. I know it isnt retro. But it is sad

>>6543347
>just torrent and just 1 guy can keep it alive
Being on a torrent means broadcasting your IP. Unless you are on a private tracker, it just encourages copyright holders to contact your ISP. No one's IPs are broadcasted short of the hoster when it's a direct download situation. And since the hosting server provides the download, no one else needs to seed. Of course, public torrents have a leech issue with no one seeding or reseeding shit.

Are you arguing in favor of private trackers anon?

>>6536632
Which ROM site had the bouncing angel anime girl all over the border? Ahhh, my first internet anime fapsite...

Uh, guys? what's wrong with using the internet archive you guys?

>>6544763
angelfire?

>>6544836
people are just reminiscing anon. I hated my dial up modem but I can still remember it fondly.

>>6544991
>angelfire

No, I'm talking about the gif of the jumping anime angel girl that used to be on every website. The romsite had that gif all along the boarders of the site.

>>6545020
yeah, and she had this angelic band covering her tits right? I used to see it all the time in angelfire websites. thought it was their mascot or something.

>>6544090
"Trustworthy" doesn't matter in these situations because you can check the hashes of the files you get and compare them with the dumps from no-intro. They are listed on their dat-o-matic website. Even if you don't want to use rom manager software you can verify your roms individually quite easily.

>>6545037
Right. No, this wasn't angelfire. It was some dedicated romsite with what seemed like a sister site for ecchi and adult jokes. I remember seeing that gif everywhere, though.