Emulation: Where do you like getting your ROMs from?

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Ogre Magi

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I'm not very familar with the emulation scene, so I figured I'd ask you fellow Kiwis about which sites are best. Not sure what systems I am looking to play let, so any and all recommendations. Thanks!
 
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when i was growing up, emulation was my only way of playing games
there used to be websites for every specific ROM, they would all look the same, like some autists made them because they probably did
they would be like a black website, with blue writing for the ROMs, and Dragonball Z or Pokemon banners everywhere, but the content was there atleast
i looked a few years ago, and like a pleb i just used torrent packs
if you google search for ROMS saved for the purpose of game preservation you should find perfect ROMs if thats what youre after
that btw is what Byuu was meant to be doing with his Nintendo cartridges that the emulation community donated to him
he was meant to save/port them over to PC and have them saved for posterity, and of course now theyre missing (hundreds of thouands of dollars worth of Original In Box games)
 
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The Cunting Death said:
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Look for the TOSEC packs. The only thing to bear in mind is that these include almost every variation of every ROM ever released for a particular system, so there can be up to 7 or 8 versions of the same game. Some work, some don't, some are in a different language, some have baked-in cheat modes etc.

Some are just re-releases of older games where the only difference is the release date (back when it was common for older games to be bundled up in value packs a couple years after release), so it's not unheard of for the TOSEC packs to have 2 or 3 identical ROMs in them. I think it's because the TOSEC project is run by completionists.

It can take a while to sort through them, but at least you have an excellent chance of finding a ROM that will work. Especially for a platform that had shitloads of games released for it and a bunch of weird-ass copy protection systems (I'm looking at you, Commodore 64).
 
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CDromance.com Is pretty good, it has a ton of up to date ROMhacks and fan translations on top of the retail game collection, a bunch of console BIOS as well.
Also recently found out about Myrient.erista.me it has a giant collection but most of it looks like rehosted Archive.org files, haven't tested their FTP server but had no problems with the roms themselves so far.
 
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