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Don't know if you guys heard but Coolrom just got hacked.

>> No.1058604

People still hack like this? What is it, 1997?

>> No.1058609

Well that wasn't very nice, was it? What'd they do to piss them off? Exist?

>> No.1058760

He who smelt it dealt it OP

>> No.1058765

>>1058604
retro.... hacking?
...heh

>> No.1058770

this is bullshit, I need to play chrono trigger with snes9x right now at 4:16 am

>> No.1058776

>still using coolrom
They have so many bullshit dumps, how can you trust that site

>> No.1058789

>hacking a site like coolrom

Wannabe hackers, why don't they hack the site of an evil corp?

>> No.1058792

>>1058776

I don't get ROMs from them, but they're my first stop for PSX ISOs.

>> No.1058795 [DELETED] 

>>1058776
Name some better ones.

>> No.1058802
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1058802

Back to Freeroms I go.

>> No.1058825

>Earlier experience
>Download Japanese Kontura rom
>It's been "pre-translated"
>Moonspeak out the ass
>Crashes before Stage 2

Emuparadise is starting to look a lot better now.

>> No.1058830

I can't belive anybody would still use coolrom. hell I barely used them years ago. best and trusted sites to go to are emuparadise and iso zone

>> No.1058835

Oh no. How am i gonna play the games i want to without coolro....oh yea thats right. Im not a poorfag and actually own games.

>> No.1058837

>>1058792
>not using get-your-rom for that
>not using theisozone for that

the have rarer PS1 stuff as well. shit coolrom never had.

>> No.1058838

>>1058835
>Im not a poorfag and actually own games.

yeah. good luck buying rare stuff for 300 dorrars.

>> No.1058840

>>1058837
theisozone has shitty download speeds. i only use it for PS2 ISOs and things that are especially rare

>> No.1058839

I just use Romnation for anything up to 16-bit
and emuparadise for GBA/PSX onwards.

>> No.1058842

>>1058840
>theisozone has shitty download speeds.

granted. it's convenient then but I never cared about download speed for those sites. don't remember how fast get-your-rom with free downloads is but they have a premium option for fast downloads as well and it's a one fee subscription.

>> No.1058846

>>1058842

The only reason I give a shit about DL speeds are because they're direct download links. If something fucks up, there's a good chance I'll be waiting a long time to download the file again.

>> No.1058848

>>1058838
>cant play earthbound or starfox weekend cart

Ruined ma day.

>> No.1058853

What happened? It still works fine for me.

Also is Emuparadise really better? never had any problems with coolrom

>> No.1058887

>>1058802
Freeroms still exists? I remember using that site back in like 2000 or 2001 when I used Juno on my Gateway.

>> No.1058891

>>1058853
Guess they fixed it. Some shitty hacker group no one heard of had some message about them being now in control and then the site redirects to their forums.

>> No.1058894
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>>1058837
>glance at get-your-rom
>scroll through p to look for Pandaemonium 2
>see Pixy Garden
>My eyes when
I want to have hot sweaty mansex with you.

>> No.1058909
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1058909

Screencap for those who missed it

>> No.1058924

>>1058802
>>1058837
Nobody uses Emuparadise?

>>1058891
That's hilarious, and they had the background and everything. Guess that just proves even more that they were just script kiddies.

>> No.1058927

It was those kiddies over at vimm's lair

>> No.1058929

>>1058927
Vimm's Lair is still around?

>> No.1058939
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>>1058909
>hacking a site just to advertise your shitty dead forum

Such a great use of your lives, kiddos.

>> No.1059018

>>1058927
>vimms lair

Oh man it's like I'm really in the early 2000's again, I haven't visited that site IN YEARS

>> No.1059084

>>1058909
edgy leet hacker/10

>> No.1059085

>not using ROM hustler

>> No.1059104

>>1059085
Nice, never knew about this, thanks anon

>> No.1059120

>>1058924
I've always just used emuparadise and romnation.

>> No.1059160

>Not using Emuparadise

>> No.1059195

>>1058894
It's a damn good site, anon. I only discovered it like several months ago.

>> No.1059198

>>1058924
>Nobody uses Emuparadise?

they have LESS than G-y-r. and isozone quite often if you search for rare stuff

>> No.1059213

>>1058924
I actually use Freeroms, Coolroms, and Emuparadise at random. I'm not picky, and sometimes a ROM from one of the three sites for some reason doesn't work (I should note I don't use the highest accuracy emulators, SNES9x lags on my laptop so I have to use ZSNES) but will work on another.

>> No.1059215

>Heisei 25
>Not getting your ROMs from Wayback Machine
http://archive.org/details/tosec

>> No.1059220
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1059220

>Not using Romhustler.com (who has the largest (!) dumps
>Not using Mondemul.net

stay pleb

>> No.1059241

>>1059220
I don't understand the tags. I get (U), (E), and (J) mean USA, European, and Japanese, but what does (!) and all the others mean?

>> No.1059251

>>1059241
http://www.vnotesonline.com/vnotes-emu-rom-codes-explained

>> No.1059257

>>1059241
! Is what you want

>> No.1059274

>>1059251
Thanks!

>> No.1059314

>>1059241
It's archaic Good set bullshit

Just stick to no-intro sets, which are simply labeled by region and revision.

No cryptic bullshit since they only care about the good dumps

>> No.1059316

random question but does coolrom have the rom for Super Mario Bros 2, Japanese? I know its on Famicom but would it work on nestopia?

>> No.1059325

>>1058825
Emuparadise also has pre-translated-only versions of roms.

>> No.1059329

>>1058909
*leejun fist*

>> No.1059335

>tfw absolutely no website out there hosts scene releases or perfect 1:1 dumps

>> No.1059679
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1059679

>>1058909
HACK THE PLANEEEEET!

>> No.1059716

Why do rom sites even keep bad dumps anyway? It just takes up space.

>> No.1059852

>not downloading full MAME, No-Intro, TOSEC, etc. sets from Archive.org

http://archive.org/details/No-Intro-Collection_2013-06-14
http://archive.org/details/messmame
http://archive.org/details/tosec

>> No.1059860

>>1058909
Not only are rom sites letting you play games from the 90's, now they let you relive the internet from the 90's.

>> No.1059885
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>>1058909
>>1059679
They weren't hacked, they got Spiked!

>> No.1059901

>>1058924
A lot of their roms are poorly dumped or modified in some way. I've found that some idiot was resizing Gamecube ROMs that originally had low filesizes.

>> No.1059905

>>1059860
A+ post. Would read again.

>> No.1059929

Does anyone still use Doperoms?

>> No.1060367

>>1058894
Then you recommended the game to me in a different thread that you made. T-Thanks.

>> No.1060387

>>1059241
[!] means that it's a good dump pretty much.
>>1059314
This retard has no idea what he's talking about.

>> No.1060428

I use DGEmu for roms. You need to make an account and 'earn' downloads, but it really only matters for newer roms because the filesizes of older games are so tiny in comparison. It's a nice site.

>> No.1060523

That website sounds sounds like a load of ass

>> No.1060662

>>1059716
because they didn't have anything better when they first uploaded them I assume.

>> No.1060985

>>1059901
>gamecube
>ROMs

gaemcub haz no roms, m8. it's called isos.

>> No.1060997

>>1058597
lol @ hacking a harmless rom site

>> No.1062060

>>1060387
>This retard has no idea what he's talking about.

Sound like you have no idea what I'm talking about since you're a Goodset-using pleb who has no idea what No-Intro is

No-Intro > Good set

Having to mark good dumps is the stupidest shit I've ever seen. All dumps in a set should be assumed good unless marked otherwise. I have no idea why Cowering chose to do that, as well as even identifying shitty bad dumps and hacks and other garbage no one cares about.
No-Intro does it right, all dumps in their sets are good dumps, no [!] bullshit needed

>> No.1062074

[VOTE1] [VOTE2] [VOTE3]

Goddamn why doesn't this shit work?

>> No.1062246

>Emuparadise for mostly no-intro stuff
>theisozone for newer shit
>edgeemu for reliable goodsets especially for old translation patches

Why the fuck does no-one host redump images? emuparadise and theisozone only have a few, there's a hell of a lot more that aren't on there. Mainly Japanese stuff that I have to really seek out.

Also coolrom never really got as up to date as I would have liked so I dropped it long ago.

>> No.1062661

>>1058894
I just looked at get-your-rom for the first time. My god, there's so many systems!

>> No.1062671
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>>1058909

>> No.1062683

>couldn't get Fatal Fury to work in MAME with any rom I tried
>go to isozone
>works perfectly

Thanks anon!

>> No.1062931

Good thing I use Rom nation and rom bay for the rare shit

>> No.1062967
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1062967

That's not very cool

>> No.1063821

>>1062661
>>1058894

but pandemonium is there. both games in fact. just written differently.


http://www.get-your-rom.com/search/pandemonium

>> No.1063839
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1063839

Coolrom RIP
only used it a couple of times and i know many better places but still he was part of the emulation family, like that cousin you never bother to talk to

>> No.1063840

>>1063839
>RIP

don't be a retard. they are up again.

>> No.1066470

>>1058597
Why what was the point ?

>> No.1066636

>>1058924
emuparadise never has the games i'm looking for or it's in a format that no emulator can use

>> No.1066748

>>1066636
please give us some examples

>> No.1067297

>>1066636
>or it's in a format that no emulator can use

they even offer links for programs to decrypt them properly and convert them into files that can be read by emulators.

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>>1067297
>running a program you got from a pirate site

>> No.1067326

>>1067310
then get it from the original site

>> No.1067332

>>1067326
A lot of times, they use crazy stupid file formats with no safe utilities to unpack. I had to write my own decoder for the awful shit they use on EmuParaside for PSX games.

>> No.1067362

Has anyone found a replacement for underground-gamer yet?

I miss the artbook collections anon, they were glorious.

>> No.1067456

>>1067362
If not, do you think we could start a similar site?

>> No.1067461

>>1067456
You can do anything you put your mind to anon.

However I live in a country that would bust me, so you know, I'll be cheering you on and all.

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1067587

>>1067461
I have access to a lovely German-based server, if Germany has no rules against this kind of thing...

>> No.1067610

>>1067587
It's in the EU, believe me, it does. You'd need Russia or China or somewhere else incapable of giving a fuck.

>> No.1068886

>>1067310
>running a program you got from a pirate site

can't you read, you retard? don't you know what a fucking hyperlink is?

>> No.1071134

>>1058909
>#1 tech forum
ahhahahshahshashahahahahsghahahahaha
Glad this got fixed quickly. was getting roms for my 'Arcade' machine.

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>>1062967

>> No.1072019

>>1067587

lol

There are hundreds of "lawyers" in Germany who make a living out of legally blackmailing software pirates under the threat of bringing them to court.

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1072053

>>1072019
Oh. Darn. Sometimes I hate not knowing culture outside of America.

>> No.1072059

>>1072053
it's common knowledge. why don't you educate yourself about such matters?