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4842867 No.4842867 [Reply] [Original]

where do you download your roms to emulating?, usually browse mine on emuparadise, and dont trust on any other site.

>> No.4842874

Copyright.gov has it all

>> No.4842875
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4842875

i have been using the same roms i downloaded back in the early 00's, and saved them over the years with pirated cds, and external hard drives nowadays.

Pic related, inb4 >spic
like i give a shit

>> No.4842893

Nice try Nintendo

emuparadise was compromised long ago, Sony and Nintendo noticed and had many of their games taken down from it, even before that its selection was never great with lots of bad dumps or incomplete libraries.

Just get a complete romset. Preferably No Intro or Redump, and complete it with the missing stuff (romhacks, floppy discs, interesting prototypes, etc etc)

>> No.4842902

>>4842875
hehe, remembers my dad, he downloaded to me and played with me when i was 6,8 year old

>> No.4842906

>>4842893
oh, what a shame, i started to think about hyperspin, what do you think?

>> No.4843057

>>4842875
Spic. Also nice strategy, I have most Sega Genesis library on some floppies and the like from early 2000s when an older cousin coped them to me, moved to an external hard drive years ago.

>> No.4843058

>>4842867
That website is still around? I haven't downloaded ROMs in years.

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>> No.4843074

>>4843058
Yeah. Like anon mentioned before, it's a shell of a shell now. Just google no intro's and try to patch work in the romhacks/fan translations you want.

>> No.4843082

>>4842893
This

Most ROM sites are also lazy as shit and rarely update when a new game gets dumped.

If you want Somari and other pirate carts that the internet likes to call "rare" because of how lazy said ROM sites are, just get a Goodset/NonGood.

Archive.org has most of it.

>> No.4843102

>>4842867
Arch Nacho and Tortilla Godzilla's quality roms had basically every game I owned and played on it.

>> No.4843108

>>4842867
I use torrents for disc based stuff (mainly PS1 stuff right now)
I got a No-Intro set for most /vr/ stuff and I'm currently saving up so I can build a home server so I can store fullsets of consoles up to and including 6th gen consoles. I really dislike having incomplete sets.

>> No.4843145

>>4842875
>speaks perfect english
>OS in spanish
WOW just wow no words....can't understand...

>> No.4843152

>>4842893
>>4843082
What if you're not an autistic collector who feels the need to have terabytes of shit you'll never play, and instead just want to download the few games you actually care about?

>> No.4843159

>>4843152
full romsets of every console excluding CD systems would take up like 2 gigs maybe.

>> No.4843160

>>4843152
Non-CD consoles and non-x86 computers are like 10GB together.
Far easier to have the full set and play what you want than to download another file whenever you want to play a new game.

>> No.4843283

>>4843152
This is /vr/ where every console pack outside of CDs is between 10 MB to 5GB each, and N64 ROMs are insufferable to obtain on ROM sites, especially when the verified dump has a .z64 extension (which would be the one the hacks & utilities ask for) and almost none of the retardo ROM sites have that one. It's not my fault emufagadise wants to host outdated Goodset packs from 2007.

Where else do peeps even expect to find most PC-98 games at this point? I had to download almost every single one in numerous packs off of eMule years ago since 'ROM' sites didn't want to fucking host them, and it's still pretty much the same deal now. It was quite infuriating having to go through numerous 4shared links for pre-smartphone mobile games since none of them host those, either. There's still no pack for those and peeps barely care.

>> No.4843286

>>4843283
Archive has PC98 games in packs sorted by publisher.

>> No.4843296

L O V E R O M S
(ready your adblocks)

>> No.4843312

theromdepot.com
Guy from /g/ runs it.
No ads,no timers,no waiting,substantial collection and reasonable download speeds.

>> No.4843314

>>4842867
>where do you download your roms to emulating?
listen to cee, edge emulation for most and retroroms which is free sign up always has the absolute latest versions of every rom with every mame release.

>> No.4843319

>>4843312
Last time I tried to download anything from there, it cut any download above 156 MB. I would have contacted the owner, but I don't think there's an email there...

>> No.4843321

>>4843319
There is an email there and I previously have contacted the owner about dumping my collection on his site.
>http://theromdepot.com/helpdesk.php
>Kinlough@endurehosting.com

They have also transferred to a bigger server and better hosting service because not having to captcha bots and crawlers were eating their bandwidth.
I have corresponded with the dude even in casual /g/ threads and he has always been available.
I have no complaints.

>> No.4843332

>>4842867
> where do you download your roms to emulating?
I download my roms from <redacted>. it has the best stuff.
..as if you're going to get anything useful info here, FBI/LEA. kek.
>>4843082
>Archive.org has most of it.
it sure does not.

>> No.4843338

>>4843321
Fuck. I didn't know.

I don't recall how many months back was this, but there was a definite issue. If you tried to download anything above those 156 MB, the server cut the download off and gave you an incomplete file. Not a "download failed" kind of thing. It just cut the file off.

>> No.4843343

>>4842867
fullset no intro roms on emuparadise

any one knows any place better?

>> No.4843412

>>4842875
>2000s
You are missing out on every translation released since then

>> No.4843424

>>4843412
He evidently isn't some monolingual Anglo.

>> No.4843531

Emuparadise is my go-to, but when I couldn't find something there I end up sort of just wandering to a far more sketchy site and just hoping for the best.

>>4842893
I checked it out a few weeks ago and everything was back as far as I could tell

>> No.4843547

There is only one way to get verified roms without exposing yourself to malware: Full sets from Pleasuredome.

archive.org was an alternative until recently, when they blocked all romsets from being downloaded.

>> No.4843548

>>4843145
but it's italian

>> No.4843731

https://the-eye.eu/public/

>> No.4844242

>>4842893
The games are back on emuparadise again

>> No.4844249

>>4843548
>italian
>using archivo instead of file

>> No.4844260

>>4843547
They made downloading high bandwidth collections harder but it seems they lifted that.

>> No.4844697

>>4842902
nice

>> No.4844980

>>4842867
I'm trying to make retorArch run KoF 2000 with mame2003_libretro core since it was said that the recent 1.7.3 update fixes the input lag issue with KoF but to no avail.
Can anyone link a download & setup guide for Neo Geo emulation?

>> No.4844987

>>4842867
that site is only good to look at the namefiles for MAME roms, but the dumps there dont work on ANY version of it!

>> No.4845016

>>4844987
Ive never found a good place that has working singler MAME roms. Only have I had them working is when I downloaded a 50gb pack, which is excessive as fuck but I could never figure out a way good way to extract working roms from it either.

>> No.4845042

>>4844980
Retroarch isn't good with arcade games in general for the most part. Mame is preferable.

>> No.4845279

emupardise or vimm's lair

>> No.4845297

>>4845279
vimm's lair is good for 1st nintendo games not on emuparadise

>> No.4845301

>>4845297
yeah, it's pretty handy
downloads speed's a bit slow but that's not an issue with older games anyway

>> No.4845362

>>4845016
pleasure dome

>> No.4845628

Archive.org has most everything.
Pleasuredome for the rares.

>> No.4845714

romhustler is nice too
isozone is awesome (mainly ISOs, but it has ROMs. Also they have a lot of PS1 games already converted to PBP if you want to play on PCSXR or PSP)

>> No.4845724
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4845724

emu-russia is the best imo
>direct download
>non-headered
>7z packs contain all known dumps of all known versions
>sometimes a bunch of hacks and trainers for the hell of it
>no bullshit, no waiting

The biggest dealbreaker for me is the version and labeling stuff really. My autism goes into overdrive if I download a rom and it's fucking "mario world.smc" or some shit. I absofuckinglutely need pic related

>> No.4845734

>>4842867
vimm's lair

>> No.4845776
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4845776

>>4842867
retrowith.in

>> No.4846474

>>4845776
How did you get in?

>> No.4846481

>>4844249
Ignore >>4843548, because if it was italian it would've been "Archivio"

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4846554

>>4845776
Can you send me an invite, anon, please?

>> No.4846663

It used to be Coolrom before it got infested with all that fucking trash

>> No.4847358

>>4846481
Really?
Always thought "file" was used everywhere in Italian

>> No.4847385

>>4843058
edge emulation is still up & running

>> No.4847472

>>4845279
>vimm's lair

I can't believe Vimm's is still going. I've been checking it out since 2000.

>> No.4847531

>>4842867
>emuparadise
>not a tropical island refuge for emus

>> No.4847552

>>4842893
Confession: I tipped off Sony and Nintendo to them in retaliation for them deleting a post where I helped someone get a patch working because I "linked to an external site". If you're going to break the law, acting like I'm doing something wrong on your shitty site is going to end with a slapping.

>> No.4847560
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>>4847531
Those cunts better hide.

>> No.4847623

>>4843102
I loved this site. Obviously it was nowhere near a complete listing of ROMs but their more exclusive selection and semi-comprehensive reviews with witty banter gave you a real idea of what to expect before you went ahead and downloaded what could possibly be several MBs of SNES or Genesis games, which in those days could take like an hour if you were unlucky

>> No.4847624

>>4845016
You don't extract MAME ROMs dipshit. You leave them in the zip file and load that.

>> No.4847626

I remember for a hot minute Zophar went against everything they claimed to stand for and had a massive ROM archive on their site, it just wasn't linked from any of the main pages at all. You had to manually put in like roms.zophar.net or zophar.net/roms or something like that and it was ALL there. Eventually they got busted and took it all down, fucking shame that.

I was just glad to see it happen though because one thing I always hated was the self-righteous (though to keep in the legal green I understood) "piracy is illegal and we won't engage in it" bullshit

>> No.4848036

>>4847624
I don't think he's talking about decompression/unarchiving the zip files. He's talking about how you download a gigantic collection and only small fraction of the games you downloaded will actually run with the installed version of MAME. How do you filter for those? That's the question I believe.

>> No.4848068

I'm in germany.
Is it safe to download roms and iso files ?
I know I can get in trouble for torrenting but what about direct downloads?

>> No.4848243

>>4843332
>>Archive.org has most of it.
>it sure does not.
Archive.org was the first to get hit with copyright strikes, and they take 'em down immediately AFAIK.

>> No.4848310

>>4848036

It's because the MAME authors update the rom requirements every few versions. Sites that just advertise "mame roms" are subsequently pretty useless as you don't know what the fuck version they're for. edgeemu.net is what I use and it states the roms are specifically for version .158, so I use that one.

>> No.4848313

>>4848068

Dude your ISP doesn't give a flying fuck about old games, guaranteed. Just don't download new AAA releases and you'll be fine.

>> No.4848319

>>4847552

The mental gymnastics the staff of these sort of sites go through is baffling, it's the same shit with the forums on homebrew and hacked consoles - if you even make even a slight reference to piracy they'll flip their shit even though it's why everyone's there and everybody knows it.

>> No.4848345

>>4848313
I was sweating for a whole month because of a psp iso...

I sincerely hope you are right.

>> No.4848352

I get the romsets. NES, Master System, Game Gear,Mega Drive, Gameboy, PC-Engine cards and theUS SNES set are ~2GB taken together. Hardly a huge commitment.
I get selective when I get to PS1.

>> No.4848353

Is this pleasuredome site any safe? Firefox gives the "this connection is not secure" message.

>> No.4848359
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4848359

>tfw before you knew anything about emulation you thought No-Intro meant that the game's intro cinematics were removed, so you stayed away

>> No.4848396

>>4848359
What does No-Intro mean?

>> No.4848412

>>4848396
A lot of games, especially in the GBA days, had modified intro sequences to include the dumpers name, logo, or other bullshit. No-Intro now is just checksums of "verified" or "clean" dumps, meaning that they include nothing but the original game with no modified graphics or code.

>> No.4848423

>>4848396
remove headers! some emus dont work without rom headers!

>> No.4848428

>>4848353
That's due to SSL errors. Pleasuredome is clean.

>> No.4848843

>>4842867
From carts, disks or where other people who dump the few things I don't have upload them

>>4843412
>i am missing out on every game that wasn't translated

>> No.4848847

>>4848412
Started a bit before that. DC was plagued with shit intros from a time when they were needed. Then when we found ways around it they were kept on disc.

>> No.4848882

>>4848423
This

No-Header & Goodset/NonGood likes to remove NES headers, because they think the MD5 checksums of the ROMs matter more when the headers are removed.
All patches for NES hacks require a header, otherwise it doesn't work.
This makes the retarded emudevs start thinking that making the retarded Muh Pure Dump ROM work by introducing a hash table is a splendid idea meant only for No-Header verified shit.

>> No.4848885

I use the-eye.eu/public/rom/ since emuparadise has taken a lot of stuff down and has ads

>> No.4851496

mega.co.nz

>> No.4851504

>>4848310
>edgeemu.net
>all MAME roms are .158 romsets
>no MAME.192 romset ever!

>> No.4851510

>>4851504

Well yeah, not on that site. If you're looking for .192 sets make sure they specify, that was my point.

>> No.4851616

>>4842875
Is “EvoRAR” some kind of shitty edition of WinRAR?

>> No.4853232

>>4843152
>terabytes
if you had every library from 4th gen and down it wouldn't even take up 30gb. 5th gen games are also quite small, my n64 romset is 11gb. obviously psx is going to be fucking huge cause of the whole cd thing, but you can just download the stuff you like at that point cause it has a lot of shit games anyways.

>> No.4853312

Is there a good Nintendo 64 emulator to use? Project64 is a piece of crap, and I'm curious to know if there's something better.

>> No.4854440

>>4848319
if you're talking about gbatemp is to avoid DMCA and take downs.
It's awful but it makes sense.

>> No.4854703

>>4843159
gba no-intro is ~14gb, n64 no-intro is ~12gb.
even if you only consider ntsc-u, you're way over your 2gb-limit.

>> No.4854704

>>4848319
>what is plausible deniability

>> No.4854727

>>4854703
SNES is 2.9 gig I think

>> No.4854728

>>4848319
"Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP! If I don't hear you, it's not illegal!"

>> No.4856768

>>4842867
isozone

>> No.4856787

>>4842867
I try to find torrents of Nointro sets.

>> No.4856805

>>4842867
>hur dur they removed a few nintendo roms you can find literally anywhere else, so now I refuse to download anything from them ever again

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>>4843312
Thanks

>> No.4856989

https://startgame.land/

Regularly updated full nointro, tosec, etc sets.

>> No.4856992

>>4845279
>vimm's lair
Fucking hell, there's a name I've not heard for a while. Great to see vimm's is still going.

>> No.4856998

>>4843547
>Hurr I only know about Pleasuredome so that's all there is.
Check out the guy too plebian to get an invite to one of the superior retro trackers like get fucked mate or you're not invited.

>> No.4857013

>>4848882
Nointro don't release ROMs, they only catalogue dumps. The headers are external information that aren't part of a clean dump of the cart. This is an issue of preservation, not MUH WAREZ ROMZ!!1 Their own site even offers an XML file you can use alongside their DATs to verify your plebian header-appended sets.

If YUH WAREZ ROMZ are unheadered and that makes you sad take it up with whoever put together the set.

>> No.4857532

>>4842875
I did the same as this guy.

>>4843412
Shrugs

>> No.4857546

>>4847552
Why couldn't you just private message them?

Sites have rules like that for a reason.

>> No.4857575

>>4847552
Yeah. That's totally what did it. That'll teach them to mess with you. What a mad lad.

>> No.4858063

>>4842867
i often find retro roms on soulseek of all places

>> No.4858086

>>4858063
people still use that!?