/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5308939]

I'm building myself a collection of retrogames.
Up until the NDS-PSP and Wii.
Not 360 nor PS3.

About 12 TBs of gaming.


If the internet gets fucked at least I will have my 12 terabytes.

Still I'm feeling a bit empty. I used to dream about many of these games, that I couldn't pay for. Now they are mine and I don't give a fuck.

I haven't played seriously since the Xbox, except some months of PS4 (Yakuza O, FFXV, etc).

Anything to say?

[Anonymous No.5308942]

Based

[Anonymous No.5308947]

>>5308939
That's depressing. I used to feel that way when I only played roms on the computer. Try playing a real hardware and see how you feel.

[Anonymous No.5308956]

>>5308947

Well, the idea came because of the mini PSX. It has been hacked, so... not a bad idea to have all the games in a couple of SD cards and real, official HW.

But then I found a Sega Saturn collection. And then a Dreamcast one. And Xbox. Even PS2.
(Not to mention SNES, etc. even some japanese computers).

DS, PSP, GBA...


My plan is to build a computer in a console looking-box and put it below the TV.

I wonder if it's legal in my country.
Here you can copy music, books and movies as long as you don't sell it, because they are classified as art/culture.

Miyamoto received some prize here given by the King. So I guess it's art/culture too.

[Anonymous No.5309163]

>>5308939

>Anything to say?

Fuck Niggers and especially fuck jews.

[Anonymous No.5309174]

>>5308939
Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom from choice
Is what you want

[Anonymous No.5309185]

>>5308939
im downloading full ntsc of ps1 to xbox iso except shitty sports games

[Anonymous No.5309203]

>>5308939
Here's a little game I like to play:
I've compiled a list of all my games based on release dates. When I think back to the 90s, I look up what game came out 20-29 years ago on this very day and just play it as if I just got it fresh out of the store.

[Anonymous No.5309227]

>>5308939
>Anything to say?
Wii #-L
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3BF9642C00E8569466B0B7E33FD602AAE7D3423C
Wii M-S
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2D11F2DC7009A2B90C9FDD3D90FE37499AB8D796
Wii T-Z
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:735F2C09160DB98F8A06273AD137DB58A692AC08

Gamecube #-Z
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:CB4F13E0F4640C6679DF9F06EE24F6829034B195

No-intro 2018 (Cartridge releases of retr0 stuff. Sadly nothing newer than n64 is included)
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:f36012c79151b2a3b759c6dd66a340e56ebefaf8&dn=NoIntro2018&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt1.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt2.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&ws=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdownload%2F&ws=http%3A%2F%2Fia601501.us.archive.org%2F18%2Fitems%2F&ws=http%3A%2F%2Fia801501.us.archive.org%2F18%2Fitems%2F

WiiWare NTSC-U
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3c9aaade428f69f09b722bbe4025063cd0f3cb58&dn=WiiWare+and+Virtual+Console+Complete+Collection+NTSC-U

NTSCU PS2 #-L
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:DAC912D9A80825B2B684CC7E3E6B97AE37F4BD67

NTSCU PS2 J-R
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:44D9C1B2D276E73AD3A607DAF623BDC8B44EB54A

NTSCU PS2 S-Z
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:B015B9A84113A789CC9B80D4D900A56E5D0C2047

PS1 NTSC
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6C5088295FAE49B5F2D92EF70B31F0377C05D824

PS1 PAL
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:DD381766675FBCE1204CFB4A260B2D97D43AD403

PS1 JAP
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3D41D4E6024AA4AB905BF0E6354D57F680C654F3

DSi 2014 fullset
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:8681F7465E7372E938BED103D3AE60C46254C706

[Anonymous No.5309232]

>>5308939
Where do I get a FULL PSP Rom Set and how big is it?

[Anonymous No.5309238]

>>5309227
A huge portion of the Wii and PS2 libraries are absolute shit. I don't know why you'd waste all your time downloading that trash.

[Anonymous No.5309252]

>>5309227

Do you have a torrent for legal computer games / real abandonware but for games that aren't ancient?

Free games, real games, from nowadays to 20 years ago.

I couldn't find.

[Anonymous No.5309253]

>>5309232

almost 2 TB's

psp:
ADVANsCEne Playstation Portable
http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/ROM_%26_ISO_Sites

1: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:B69374F9275183F1470B35156C78AFE34BE9893A

2: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:24E6917035F53FC486D4766A81A6D4CA6C56EAA3

[Anonymous No.5309254]

If you can afford it, have at least one redundant copy of your cache. It'll make you thank the stars in the event a drive fails someday.

[Anonymous No.5309256]

>>5308939
Possession without emotional attachment is meaningless

[Anonymous No.5309303]

>>5309238
>A huge portion of the Wii and PS2 libraries are absolute shit.
These sort of ratios are not limited to a few systems. Most games are absolute shit. Some people feel the need to have as many roms as possible. Knowing that these links helped me find a few games quickly and easily is why I repost it.

>>5309252
>Do you have a torrent for legal computer games
No, and all of what I posted, I found here. I felt it was appropriate to copy/pasta it back. I have used it for perhaps 5 psx games and a few wii titles, but for the most part I avoid "borrowing" bits and bytes from the internet.

>>5309254
>have at least one redundant copy of your cache
This is great advice, and extends to more than just video games. I keep a NAS server with disc redundancy mainly for important documents and family photos. Anything that is not critical can be lost without issue.

>>5309253
>psp:
Added to my list. Thanks. Though I don't ever see myself dealing with PSP, I never know. I will continue to share it when appropriate.

[Anonymous No.5309306]

>>5309256
>Possession without emotional attachment is meaningless

[Anonymous No.5309343]

>>5308956
>real, official HW
What's the point when it uses ePSXe and can't even run some games it comes with at full speed?
The PS Classic is so fucking disappointing, man. I fucking hate ePSXe and was so excited to have essentially a Vita TV that only played PS1 games. Fucking Sony, what the fuck.
Anyway, your computer idea's probably the way to go. Retroarch with every system ever and all that.

[Anonymous No.5309358]

>>5309306
He's got a point. Getting too many roms/games at once, especially digitally, leads to the paradox of choice where it becomes difficult to choose just one game to play and stick to. I'm not saying that emulators are worthless or whatever, I think that paying for 2ndhand copies of games when the original devs or companies don't see a dime is retarded, but there's merit in limiting your scope to games you know you like rather than dumping entire rom/iso sets into emulators. Even better is if you held on to games you liked during your childhood as the physical games will have that much more sentimental value.

[Anonymous No.5309401]

>>5309358
>Even better is if you held on to games you liked during your childhood as the physical games will have that much more sentimental value.

This.

[Anonymous No.5309419]

>>5309358
>Even better is if you held on to games you liked during your childhood as the physical games will have that much more sentimental value.

Too bad I sold them years ago.

[Anonymous No.5309424]

>>5309358
>Even better is if you held on to games you liked during your childhood as the physical games will have that much more sentimental value.
Every "retro" system I have, I have from when I was a teenager. I gave away my NES, SNES and Genesis because of the simplicity that the Wii offered. I don't keep many roms installed, and most are versions of titles I own that are in boxes in the attic. Some people can have every game in the world, and enjoy them individually without issue. Others with ADHD may have issues jumping around between 20,000 games, and never finishing any of them. To each their own I say. If someone gets enjoyment out of it, who am I to judge? If you have these issues, limit yourself to a very small drive, and only play what you have installed. However, a 2gb SD card in a wii can hold a lot of cartridge game titles. Do I think it is absurd to have every game ever backed up locally? Yes. But that doesn't change the fact that If I wander up into the attic, I have 6 or 7 paper ream boxes full of games in various conditions from NIB to cart only. I have more games than I will probably ever play. I keep the quality ones I really enjoy near.

[Anonymous No.5309448]

Anyone have a good guide to playing backups/VC/GC games on a wii? how to hack and such? I found some youtube videos on adding the homebrew channel and grabbed some of the torrents posted in here and /t/ but the process is still a bit ambiguous

[Anonymous No.5309474]

>>5309448
>Anyone have a good guide to playing backups/VC/GC games on a wii?
gbatemp.com

Also it is being discussed here:
>>5309362

I would suggest that you get all your info from GBATemp. They have a very active forum for wii modding and homebrew.

[Anonymous No.5309496]

12TB will not be able to fit all of the consoles up to psp/wii's complete-sets of roms.

[Anonymous No.5309504]

>>5309358
>Derive more fun hacking and dumping the same damn NES, SNES, GBC, and GBA roms on every game system since the Wii than actually playing any of said roms
Feels bad
Looking forward to hacking my Switch once they're done updating the FW

[Anonymous No.5309514]

>>5309474
Thanks, bud,

[Anonymous No.5309523]

>>5309496
This is why I went only for No-Intro's fullsets and went with /v/'s Recommended Games Wiki for anything disc-based. Including shit like DOS and MAME, the total came to about 4TB. The other 8TB could be dedicated to Windows games.

[Anonymous No.5309578]

>>5309523
Those recommended games lists are an ok starting point I guess, but missing tons to be honest.

[Anonymous No.5309591]

>>5309174
based devo poster

[Anonymous No.5309760]

>>5309523
/v/ recommended games isn't going to cover enough good games, plus those lists skew heavily towards JRPG's in my experience. The PSP one in particular is missing some greats like Spider-Man 2.

[Anonymous No.5309812]

>>5308956
>Real official hardware

Hahahaha

[Anonymous No.5310421]

So how big is a full PSP Rom set?

[Anonymous No.5310741]

>>5309504
If you have an old model of the Switch then the FW doesn't matter.
The exploit is in a read-only part of the Switch.

[Anonymous No.5310783]

>>5308939
I have full sets of everything up to and including Wii except for the first Xbox and it's less than 5tb. It might be closer to 4. I don't know why you think you need 12.

[Anonymous No.5310785]

>>5308939
>I'm building myself a collection of retrogames.
Oh god. Motherfucker, you're downloading roms, let's not make it sound like something exquisite.

>>5308956
>>5309252
>all this fucking Reddit spacing
Holy fuck

>>5309358
Isn't that just a myth to discourage people from mass-downloading ROMs?

[Anonymous No.5310789]

>>5310783
Nevermind I didn't take into account that my iso collection was only for North America. But, why would anyone want every iso for every region when they're either the same or in a language you'll never understand. If you want to play some Japan only game just download it.

[Anonymous No.5310817]

>>5310785
>Isn't that just a myth to discourage people from mass-downloading ROMs?
lol no, the paradox of choice is an actual psychological concept

[Anonymous No.5310824]

>>5310785
>Isn't that just a myth to discourage people from mass-downloading ROMs?
no people genuinely have problems controlling themselves when it comes to this sort of thing. It's much easier observed in kids where it develops genuine problems with them, usually leading to behavior similar to ADD/ADHD.

[Anonymous No.5310832]

>>5310741
I haven't looked into Switch hacking in a while, so forgive me if I'm mistaken, but I heard that a firmware update somehow managed to patch out the hardware exploit on newer firmwares somehow. I didn't really read into it because I still don't want to hack it until the FW stops being updated- my meaning was that I don't want to hack it until it's dead because I like being able to go online in Smash or Splatoon.
>>5310785
>Isn't that just a myth to discourage people from mass-downloading ROMs?
Look up The Paradox of Choice. Or just talk to people who mod their systems and add a hundred games to an external hard drive. It doesn't take long for them to say "yeah man I can't choose a game LOL"
It may apply less to people downloading ROMs since they tend to know which ones they already want, rather than newer systems where people download anything that looks remotely interesting because they can.

[Anonymous No.5310847]

>>5309424
>Gave away the three best systems to emulate them instead

[Anonymous No.5310851]

>>5310832
> but I heard that a firmware update somehow managed to patch out the hardware exploit on newer firmwares somehow
No, it's just that the CFW had to be updated because the new update changed some stuff.
It's impossible to patch the exploit.

[Anonymous No.5310862]

>>5308939
>Still feels empty
Get yourself a Sega Genesis and a CRT you'll feel better

[Anonymous No.5310980]

>>5308939
What the fuck is your point, sparky? You're not even asking a question here.

[Anonymous No.5311020]

>>5308939
I'm looking into doing this too. Right now I have a PSX fullset downloaded, as well as the standard No-intro fare of stuff.
I honestly say just disconnect from the actual medium itself and start trying to connect to the experience that resides within. I have this problem where I focus too much on what and how the data is stored rather than what the data holds, in the end, that's all that _really_ matters.
Getting more into the data side what are you using for a backup, anon? I'm considering dropping some cash on a custom NAS instead of my hackjob, "old XP era PC running debian with an external drive as primary data storage" shitbox that I've got going right now.

[Anonymous No.5311064]

>>5308956
What country?

[Anonymous No.5312929]

>>5308939
As long as you stick to consoles you should be fine. If you start adding computers you might not have enough space. There's a better chance of your hard drive crashing than the internet getting fucked. I'm guessing a poorfag redditor like you isn't using RAID?

>>5310789
I don't always hoard ROMs but when I do I prefer to hoard them all. Seriously, these "full sets" that are US sets with other exclusives tacked on are bullshit. Not all of us are EOPs who have to fit all our shit on moms hand me down macbook.

[Anonymous No.5313514]

>>5308939
First of all, every second fucking anon had this same revelation like you did after building the ""perfect"" emu-box.
The problem is that it is oversaturated and every additional game gives you less joy.

What you need to do is take those romsets you have, put them on an external drive... and let them there. You build your box and make that everything works, then you go into the external drive and pick 5-10 games to put on the box. Play these games, at least 30 minutes - 2 hours, to get a feeling for them and not the rush to switch through like a madman. If you are done with each game, think which ones were good and which ones sucked ass. Delete the one from the box that sucked ass, rinse and repeat. If you do it this way you appreciate much mor the single games you have in the library and build up a connection with the plattform, instead of being spammed with infinite shit.

Nobody ever needs all the games, whoever claims that has collection autism. Those are the same people who would by a game for 10k dollars just to get the collection complete and never look at it again, just to shoot themselves when they are 42.

[Anonymous No.5313728]

>>5308939
I used to download entire sets of roms and then play each one, then compose folder of favourites, fun multiplayer games, games I cannot/dont want to play, so I go through entire set.

When I had lots of time as a teenager, at least

[Anonymous No.5313919]

>>5311064
The king of Spain gave Miyamoto a prize when he was a prince. But it's not fucking legal in Spain if you don't own the games you have on a digital back-up.

So he's dumb or not Spanish.

[Anonymous No.5313934]

>>5308939
You have become so spoilt and swamped with choice and availability that it has given rise to apathy. I'm sure there's some psychological term for it.

[Anonymous No.5314000]

>>5313934
>I'm sure there's some psychological term for it.
Analysis paralysis.

[Anonymous No.5314046]

It's honestly the result I had, it was more fun going through and learning about the games that was fun. After collecting them it was done there was no more fun in collecting. I just tried some games out, found a bunch I liked and focused on enjoying those. I have a few games I play once a year, and at this point I am pretty content with my collection. I trimmed a lot of fat from my collection and that gave me much more happiness.