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Where did you all get your roms at in the late '90s/early '00s? I remember swapping floppy discs and data CDrs with nerds at school but I don't remember where I initially got my roms from besides p2p.
I remember Emuparadise and coolrom around 2002 or so.

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>>8042040
for me it was Kazaa

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>> No.8042107

I don't remember, I drank so much I don't remember anything but painful shit.

>> No.8042116

>>8042094
Fuck yeah man I forgot about that one

>> No.8042136

>>8042040
Some shit website. I never really kept the ROMs either. Was more of a “I am bored” thing.

>> No.8042140

>>8042040
Get a Giganews account, troglodyte.

>> No.8042147

>>8042140
Get my dick in your mouth, sweetie.

>> No.8042152

doperoms was my go to for a long time.
They had a little blurb about tile editors and they said something like "you can use it to give princess peach big boobs!" but then they removed that part a year or two later.

>> No.8042174

>>8042147
Ok, Mommy.

>> No.8042184

Extremely sketchy 1000ZNDS OF ROMS PSX N64 SNES NES ROMS FREE DOWNLOAD sites featured on equally sketchy top 100 sites

It wasn't until ~2010 where you could search for ROMs online and be reasonably certain that the website you found actually hosts ROMs

>> No.8042191

>>8042040
I just altavistad "roms free download" and hoped for the best.

>> No.8042213

>>8042184
>>8042191
Yeah those sites were malicious back then. This is why would share our roms between friends. None of us wanted to get our family PCs infected with viruses.

>> No.8042226

>>8042184
Vimm's Lair looks pretty sketchy but I think that's the look he's going for.

>> No.8042250

>56 kbps Internet
>ps1 isos split on 60 parts of 10 MB each
>3 days to download MMX4 ripped by _D4rkess_S4tan_Knigh7_666

Ah mondemul... .

>> No.8042386

the big brain move was to d/l your games at the school computer lab/public library so you didn't fuck your shit up from shady sites

>> No.8042393

I used to get my roms from an old site among the lines of FreeRoms.com or something like that, it had a black background.

>> No.8042419

>>8042386
Or just don't run an EXE thinking it's a ROM.

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Didn't get my ROMS from here, but got literally everything else, because they were the definitive and most complete and up to date emulation + hacking tools + all other adjacent stuff-site on the internets.

The people that actually hang out on the forums there (and a lot are still there to this day it seems) are fucking skeezy, though, and knowingly harbor sex offenders in their ranks. I remember one thread where one of the mods was telling everyone he got busted for CP, and everybody else was like "oh man that sucks, well se still love you!" and "yeah they got me too a year ago" etc. Pretty sure some of their oldest members are probably even fucking dead of old age by now...

They still have this, though, and it's probably the only thing the site is still good for:
https://www.zophar.net/music

>> No.8042564

>>8042443
Jesus Christ, how disgusting. I never knew that about ZD

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>>8042443
>offended by the presence of pedophiles on a forum
>uses 4chan

>> No.8042736

>>8042040
Can't remember any specific ones I just used whatever sites popped up in search results when using search engines like Yahoo and Alta Vista in the pre Google days. Then in the early 2000's once I got broadband I used stuff like Kazaa and Limewire to download Dreamcast games thanks to the consoles ability to play them unmodded from CD-R's.

>> No.8042793

>>8042040
PxC it's the best site for that

>> No.8043242

>>8042226
Vimms is cozy. I used brians emulation page back in fall of '97.

>> No.8043256

pe2000 . net

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Can't remember his handle now but there was a guy who made pretty popular custom maps for C&C: Tiberian Sun and some mods for Nox.
Kept them all on a tidy personal website, and if some some reason you clicked the header image it linked you to a secret trove of roms on his server.

>> No.8043274

>>8042703
None of these people were anon. The forum was (probably still is) one of those where you needed your own personal email address set up on Outlook or something in order to create a profile there. hotmail/gmail/aol/etc. were not acceptable.

>> No.8043282

>>8042040
I remember downloading a bunch of stuff over IRC before the days of bittorent.

There was also kazaa and limewire but that shit was like playing russian roulette every time.

>> No.8043307

I wonder where yall get your roms nowadays, as a zoomer i find it hard to get a romsite to be loyal to, specially for not so retro, not so new stuff like wii or ps3

>> No.8043314

>>8043307
Fuck, even some ps2 stuff is hard to find.

>> No.8043315

Emuchina

>> No.8043359

>>8043307
Archive.org you dummy

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>> No.8044176

Tombstones hooked me up with all the mame CDs

>> No.8044185

Probably coolrom or emuparadise or some shit in the mid 2000s. CD Romance is my favourite recent romsite by far. They have so many cool pre-patched ISOs and roms of translated JPN games. Vimms Lair has everything I need but it's so fucking slow, much like Archive.org.

>> No.8044546

Nobody heard about Emurater.com?

>> No.8044805

>>8042094
Came here to say this

>> No.8044864

>>8042184
>It wasn't until ~2010 where you could search for ROMs online and be reasonably certain that the website you found actually hosts ROMs
Emuparadise was legit wayyy before that, I'm sorry you missed out. The only thing that sucked is they had a bandwidth limiter for IPs, so downloading multiple ISOs at a time was a no-no.

>> No.8044897

there was some website called emulationzone or something like that. Had a based as fuck website layout.

>> No.8044923

>>8042094
Is this the oldest running website for roms? Everyone I knew used it too. Like OP, I also would put them in floppy disks and later on in a 512MB flash drive.

>> No.8044941

>>8042040
Late 90's there were tons of small sites that only hosted a handful of roms. You would go to different pages and find unique roms. The only site that I ever remembered the name of was Romulus and Remus.

In the mid-late 80's I imagined an evolution of teletext where every game could be loaded onto your TV. That would become reality ~10 years later.

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>>8044176
lol oh man I completely forgot about that, getting the little express mail box stuffed full of CDs

As for console ROMs, back in the Nesticle days I somehow got a link to some Chinese site that itself hosted a ton of plaintext links (so they were URLs but not wrapped in href so you had to manually copy and paste) that periodically updated and would take you to FTP and/or HTTP directory listings (like in the pic) that had a bunch of stuff (porn, warez, roms) on it.
I archived like all of that stuff on CDRs and like ~10 years ago while moving thought 'eh I don't need these anymore' and tossed them out. Fucking idiot, I still beat myself up over it. The ROMs aren't important (I'm sure the collection I have now is much more complete), but I'd have loved to have all the ancillary stuff (saved web pages, images, etc.) that I'm sure were on there.

>> No.8045052

>>8042040
Emu-russia in 2005, RIP

>> No.8045071

The OG kings. Only site to get sued by Nintendo and win. Still exists today.
Also never in over 20 years have I ever heard or seen anyone else talk about console classix.

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>>8045071
Forgot pic

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>>8045071
>Paying for roms

>> No.8045180

>>8044864
That was my first experience with downloading ROMS. It was legitimately painful.
I threw hundreds of its bookmarks in the trash after some rando on /v/ got me into undergroundgamer.
>>8043307
>>8043314
bruh, check the sticky for some starters.

>> No.8045362

Random geocities sites in the 90s, until cherryroms came around and actually had most of the roms all in one place

>> No.8045379

>>8042040
Google, or whatever search engines were still relevant before Google rose above the best. Altavista, Hotbot, Dogpile, Yahoo, etc. Once you hit a site you'd just sorta hop on others through their "web rings" and see what the others had. IRC was handy, too.

>> No.8045586

>>8045135
NES was free

>> No.8046139

>>8042094
The legend will never die

>> No.8046813

>>8042443
Based Zophar's Domain. All these years and it's still going. God Bless them.

>> No.8048435

Based thread.

Captcha: PS4 VW

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>> No.8048503

>>8048493
Holy based

I mean it's cringe, but based at the same time

>> No.8048591

>>8044897
theisozone?

>> No.8048973

>>8042213
Nothing like downloading "MEGA_PSX_ROMS_PACK.zip.exe" 146kb and hoping for the best it wasn't a virus.

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What kind of loser autistic nigger faggot can remember what sites they got ROMs from in the 90's.

I got mine from coolrom.

>> No.8051891

>>8042040
I bought like some CDs with roms and emulators on them. Like Nesticle, ZSnes and Neorage. And Gencyst. I made copies of that and desu used it until I discovered RomHustler and better emulators. Those old school emulators are super comfy though. The CDs were like $10 each or something. For me at the time it was well worth it. I wouldn’t have had access to that stuff otherwise as I didn’t have internet

>> No.8053673

Semi related but where can I get old roms including their cracks and intros? I want to give my Playstation AIDS. GBA Mode7 releases are pretty easy to come by still.