edge emulation (missing some consoles; CD-based games come in compressed formats such as CHD; very fast DL speed)
myrient (pretty much everything, no strings attached; fast DL speed)
cdromance (mostly has games for CD-based consoles; games come in uncompressed iso or bin/cue; has a lot of pre-patched rom hacks; medium-fast DL speed)
planetemu (largely in french; has a lot of obscure titles other sites lack; very fast DL speed)
alvro collection spreadsheet (pretty much everything, including many newer consoles; slightly inconvenient to navigate; download site has timer and limits to 1 download every 30 mins, can be worked around with vpn; inconsistent medium-to-very-fast DL speed)
ROMs Megathread/Archive (everything, really; slow DL speed; usually a last resort if you can’t find something anywhere else)
i don’t currently recommend Vimm’s Lair due to very slow speeds, download limits, and offering nothing that isn’t on other sites (unless you need prepatched xiso format Xbox roms)
console-focused sites:
HShop (all 3DS. very complete, easy to navigate. has qr codes for direct download from 3ds; yes, the qr codes are safe; fast dl speed)
MarioCube (focused on GameCube/Wii and has everything you’ll ever need for those platforms; requires joining a google group for standard roms but it takes like 2 clicks; very fast dl speed)
NoPayStation (practically every PS3/PSP/Vita game and update, downloaded directly from sony’s servers; fast dl speed)
sites offering switch and other modern games get shut down very frequently so i won’t be linking them in order to keep this post from getting outdated, but you can find them if you snoop around reddit (the switchpirates sub in particular) a little
romsets:
Cylum’s Romsets (my personal favorite - not fully complete sets but heavily curated, so no going through a million revisions of the same game)
for 1fichier directories, you can use a tool like 1fichier-dl to download in bulk. i’d recommend doing this on the alvro collections if you want more complete sets.
softmodding and loading roms on some popular consoles:
fightcade covers nes, genesis, pc engine, dreamcast, and snes along with a variety of arcade boards from capcom, snk, sega, and konami. playstation is incoming. all platforms on it have rollback netcode.
Oh and that fucking crab day post sends shivers down my spine btw. I say this as someone who owns multiple pieces of tumblr merch — support them if you want, or don’t, I don’t care, but we are NOT turning a tech corporation into our poor little wet meow meow who deserves all our money uwu. We are NOT pressuring normal ass people into donating to resolve a company’s millions in debt as if it’s some important charitable cause.
Nothing worse than antiwar people saying “everyone should put down the weapons” fully knowing that it won’t happen and those who hold those weapons in defense would be dead without them
like yeah, dude, war is bad, we should all frolic around in a meadow and shit, but you see, there is this one guy throwing bombs at my head and threatening to kill my entire family, and I’m afraid the power of your bellybutton friendship gem won’t help, Steven
dude I’m fucking frustrated. some people think on a level so theoretical that it leans into fantasy fiction, while I’m here sitting with insomnia becoming religious in hopes that next missile or drone won’t hit my apartment because I saw what it did to a whole fucking house. it was a hole in the ground. just a crater, you know. imagine a farm house in a country side, and now imagine a crater 5 meters deep 20 meters wide. nothing left except one bent spoon and photos of a family that used to live there that people put on the side of the road as some resemblance of a grave, because there weren’t even any fucking bodies left. People get torn apart when they get hit by a blast wave from a few meters away, you know. Can you “theoretically” imagine what happens with a direct hit?
I wish everyone could put down the weapons and be like “friendship, peace and whatever else”, but sometimes you want to live, and for that you need to kill whoever wants to kill you, and for that you need a Weapon.
saw a radfem literally say “you can’t make jokes these days” because trans people are so easily offended so I’m just assuming they’re collectively trying to memory hole the entire first half of the 2010s where you couldn’t even sneeze on here without being accused of being a misogynist
VERY curious to know what constitutes sneezing in this person’s opinion
