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Seeing as how the last thread was cluttered with dead links I thought about starting a new one. Well first thing’s first lets gets some links to get people started.

 

Snes:

 

Main site:

Emuasylum.com- Hands down best snes roms site, only problem is that you wont find any mario or kirby there.

 

Backup sites:

Romnation.net- Again it does not have any mario or Zelda and unlike asylum you have to vote, but its a good place to go to if you really want a sure rom (Note: There are hentai pop ups, but it’s the price you pay for emulation I guess)

 

For those who want nintendo roms here are two sites:

 

www.coolrom.com/snesroms2.php (you need to vote)

 

http://www.ciudadfutura.com/gamesworld/snes.html (I think you have a dialy limit of how many roms you can download)

 

That should be all you need.

 

Recommended emulator: Snes9x (too many places where you can download it from, I personally use the 1.39mk version)

 

Games that I recommned: Mario world, Yoshi island, Secret of mana 2, Chrono trigger, Super punch out, Super castlevania IV, Zelda link to past, Captain Tsubasa 3 and 4, Megaman X series, Megaman 9, Megaman and Bass, NBA Jam TE, Kirby superstar, Clock tower, Mario Kart, ISS Deluxe and Boy soccer team (hack) or its real name captain tsubasa 5.

 

Game patches: http://www.rpgclassics.com/trans/snestrans.shtml or Dejap.com

 

Which can be patched using snes tool, just read this page

 

http://www.rpgclassics.com/trans/howtopatch.shtml

 

Megadrive/Master system/32X:

 

Roms: Again Emuasylum.com is all you need from the sonics to Choatix it should be all there.

 

Games I recommend (megadrive): The Sonics, Toejam and earl 1 and 2, Gunstar heroes, Alien soldier, Dynamite heddy, Ecco the dolphin, Streets of rage 2, Comix zone, Micro machines turbo tourney, Nba jam, Contra hard corps

 

Mega CD:

 

Very few sites actually have Mega CD roms. Here is the only one I’ve used

 

http://www.galeon.com/download-a-saco-2k2/megacd.html

 

Update: dead link.

 

Recommended Megadrive/32X/Mega CD emulator: Gens by a long way. It’s pretty easy to find.

 

Neo-geo

 

Roms:

Emuasylum, but they rotate their rom days so you wont be able to download the roms everyday.

 

http://retroroms.official-website.net/modules/news/ - you need to sign up.

 

Neogamez.net- Not always roms, but it’s a good update site for newly dumped roms and the like. It’s a Spanish site.

 

Emulators: Kawaks, mame and Neorage. I myself usually use Kawaks.

 

Mame:

 

http://retroroms.official-website.net/modules/news/ - Need to sign up for it but besides really new roms it has everything.

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Here are two newsgroups that I get most of my roms from:

 

alt.binaries.emulators.gameboy.advance

alt.binaries.emulators.nintendo

 

The nintendo one has GoodNES and GoodSNES floods nearly everyday and recently it dumped some roms with translation patches.

 

..............: STANDARD CODES ::...............

:                                              :\

:  [a] Alternate        [p] Pirate            :\

Bad Dump        [t] Trained            :\

:  [f] Fixed            [T] Translation        :\

:  [h] Hack            (-) Unknown Year      :\

:  [o] Overdump        [!] Verified Good Dump :\

:  (M#) Multilanguage (# of Languages)          :\

: (###) Checksum      (??k) ROM Size          :\

:  ZZZ_ Unclassified  (Unl) Unlicensed  :\

:  (-) Unknown Year                            :\

:...............................................:\

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

 

                .................

................: SPECIAL CODES ::...............

:                                              :\

: .-----Gameboy-----.  .----Super Nintendo----. :\

: [  [C] Color      ]  [ (BS) BS ROMs        ] :\

: [  Super      ]  [ (ST) Sufami Turbo    ] :\

: [ [bF] Bung Fix  ]  [ (NP) Nintendo Power  ] :\

: `-----------------'  `----------------------' :\

:                      .--------Atari---------. :\

: .-----Genesis-----.  [ (PAL) Euro  Version  ] :\

: [ (1) Japan      ]  `----------------------' :\

: [ (4) USA        ]  .-----Thomson MO5------. :\

: [ (5) NTSC Only  ]  [ (Y) Year unknown    ] :\

: [ (8) PAL Only    ]  `----------------------' :\

: [ (B) non USA    ]  .--------Coleco--------. :\

: [ [c] Checksum    ]  [ (Adam) ADAM Version  ] :\

: [ [x] Bad Checksum]  `----------------------' :\

: [ [R-] Countries  ]                          :\

: `-----------------'                          :\

:                      .-------Nintendo-------. :\

: .--NeoGeo Pocket--.  [ (PC10) PlayChoice 10 ] :\

: [ [M] Mono Only  ]  [  (VS) Versus        ] :\

: `-----------------'  `----------------------' :\

:...............................................:\

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

 

                .................

................: COUNTRY CODES ::...............

:                                              :\

:  (1) Japan & Korea      (4) USA & BrazilNTSC :\

:  (A) Australia          (J) Japan            :\

:  (B) non USA (Genesis)  (K) Korea            :\

:  © China            (NL) Netherlands      :\

:  (E) Europe            (PD) Public Domain    :\

:  (F) France            (S) Spain            :\

:  (F) World (Genesis)                        :\

:  (FC) French Canadian  (SW) Sweden          :\

:  (FN) Finland            (U) USA              :\

:  (G) Germany          (UK) England          :\

:  (GR) Greece          (Unk) Unknown Country  :\

:  (HK) Hong Kong          (I) Italy  :\

:  (H)  Holland          (Unl) Unlicensed      :\

:...............................................:\

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

 

            .......................

.............: STANDARD CODE NOTES ::............

:                                              :\

: [a] This is simply an alternate version of a  :\

:    ROM. Many games have been re-released to  :\

:    fix bugs or even to eliminate Game Genie  :\

:    codes (Yes, Nintendo hates that device).  :\

:            -------------------              :\

: A bad dump often occurs with an older    :\

:    game or a faulty dumper (bad connection). :\

:    Another common source of ROMs is a    :\

:    corrupted upload to a release FTP.        :\

:            -------------------              :\

: [f] A fixed game has been altered in some way :\

:    so that it will run better on a copier    :\

:    or emulator.                              :\

:            -------------------              :\

: [h] Something in this ROM is not quite as it  :\

:    should be. Often a hacked ROM simply has  :\

:    a changed header or has been enabled to  :\

:    run in different regions. Other times it  :\

:    could be a release group intro, or just  :\

:    some kind of cheating or funny hack.      :\

:            -------------------              :\

: [o] An overdumped ROM image has more data    :\

:    than is actually in the cart. The extra  :\

:    information means nothing and is removed  :\

:    from the true image.                      :\

:            -------------------              :\

: [t] A trainer is special code which executes  :\

:    before the game is begun. It allows you  :\

:    to access cheats from a menu.            :\

:            -------------------              :\

: [!] Verified good dump. Thank God for these!  :\

:...............................................:\

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

 

            ......................

.............: SPECIAL CODE NOTES ::.............

:                                              :\

: **** SNES ****                                :\

: (BS) These Japanese ROMs were distributed    :\

:      through a satellite system in Japan      :\

:      known as the Broadcast Satellaview.      :\

:      They were transmitted along with a TV    :\

:      show which was connected to the game in  :\

:      some way. These games were only playable :\

:      during the show, and thus stop after an  :\

:      hour, and many were timed so that only  :\

:      certain time periods were playable.      :\

:            -------------------              :\

: (ST) The Sufami Turbo device allowed two      :\

:      GameBoy sized carts to be plugged into  :\

:      the SNES. Certain carts combined into    :\

:      new games much like the Sonic & Knuckles :\

:      lock-on technology by Sega.              :\

:            -------------------              :\

: (NP) Nintendo Power has been known to release :\

:      games only available to its subscribers. :\

:      Most of these ROMs are Japanese, as this :\

:      practice occured mainly in Japan.        :\

:            -------------------              :\

:                                              :\

: **** Genesis ****                            :\

:  (1) Carts with this code will run on both    :\

:      Japanese and Korean machines.            :\

:            -------------------              :\

:  (4) While this code is technically the same  :\

:      as a (U) code, it is a newer header      :\

:      format and represents that the cart will :\

:      run on USA and Brazil NTSC machines.    :\

:            -------------------              :\

:  (B) This country code indicates that the    :\

:      cart will run on any non US machine.    :\

:            -------------------              :\

:  [c] This code represents a cart with known  :\

:      faulty checksum routines.                :\

:            -------------------              :\

:                                              :\

: **** GameBoy ****                            :\

: [bF] Bung released a programmable cartridge  :\

:      compatable with the GameBoy which could  :\

:      hold any data you wished to play.        :\

:      However, many games do not function on  :\

:      Bung v1.0 carts and have to be 'fixed.'  :\

:            -------------------              :\

:                                              :\

: **** Nintendo ****                            :\

: PC10 The PlayChoice 10 was an arcade unit    :\

:      which played exact copies of NES games  :\

:      in an arcade cabinet. The machines had a :\

:      choice of 10 games to choose from and    :\

:      ran for about 3 minutes on 25 cents.    :\

:            -------------------              :\

:                                              :\

:  VS The Versus system ran on similar hard-  :\

:      ware to the PC10 machines, but simply    :\

:      allowed you to play against each other.  :\

:...............................................:\

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                  ...........

...................: Credits ::..................

:                                              :\

: Document written by Psych0phobiA / q^-o|o-^p  :\

:                                              :\

: All codes developed by Cowering for the      :\

: Goodxxxx series ROM file renaming utilities.  :\

:                                              :\

: Visit #rareroms on NewNet in IRC!            :\

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Guest Coffey

For anyone who uses mIRC:

 

irc.zerofuzion.net

#Roms

#rareroms

 

You can find almost anything on those two channels.

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Anyone have a clue where I can find either of the King of Colosseum ISOs?

 

I'd trade if anyone has it.. (I've mainly got non-wrestling stuff. Fire Pro D (full, not rip), and Giant Gram 2k for DC), as well as a whole bunch of Super Robot Wars ISOs, though I don't know if anyone here would be familiar with those games.)

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Just curious but is there a problem with the Shining Force 2: Return of the King (or whatever the hell the subtitle is)?

 

Reason I ask, is I've got like a couple of characters at LvL 40 and they won't promote. Never been asked or told that they are promoting yet.

 

I want to promote my like 6-8 characters that I have at that level.

 

Anyone know what's up?

 

happykit.gif

 

Edit: God, I haven't played this game in SO long... I forgot you had to talk to the Priest to do Promotions... My bad...

Edited by Lightning Flik

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DC++ guide ver 2

 

Okay, over time I have seen many many many people asking for cd (playstation, dreamcast etc) games and where they can download them so I thought I could help with this.

 

First off, no downloading cd games is not as easy as downloading a snes rom, you cant just click on a site and download and even if a site claims to do so 99.9999% of the time you will just be sent in circles and probably be bombarded with an influx of ads. Some people use kazza which can be decent at times but only a few select games will fully download since cd games isn’t really what kazza is used for. Also by using kazza you run the risk of downloading a virus when downloading games.

 

In order to download cd games you need a program called DC (Direct connect) ++. DC++ is a godsend for finding roms, isos, warez…in fact anything.

 

First off go and download the program from its homepage, there are other types of direct connect such as neo-modulus direct connect but some hubs are anal to what type of DC you have so just stick with DC++.

 

Further help with DC++ here- this guide will cover everything you need to get started fully illustrated with screenshots.

 

Okay first things first make sure the folder in which your files are being downloaded isn’t your share folder. Sharing incomplete files will get you kicked from any hub.

Second, do not share porn period. Almost all hubs have a no porn policy and if you have it in your share, you’ll be kicked or maybe banned. I wouldn’t recommend sharing installed programs either.

 

Now you have established your share click on the public hubs button (the first icon with the computer picture) and wait for the total hub list to load. Then filter the hub list with any keyword or enter the address if you have one to find the hub you are looking for. Make sure you require the minimum share of the hub you are in (it will be in the hub rules) and share things that are relevant to the hub you are in (so if you are in a movie hub make sure you actually have some movies in your share). Now that you are in a hub use the search feature to find what you are looking for. Remember that if you want to download something the user has to have a free slot, otherwise you will be in a queue.

 

And that’s basically it.

 

 

Advantages of DC++

 

-It cuts out all the crap, no renamed movies and the like that you would find on kazza.

-Romheaven! Particularly GBA roms.

-If you’re lucky enough to be download something from someone with a good connection, its damn fast.

-You can find almost anything else

 

 

Disadvantages

 

-You need to share quite a lot depending on the hub

-Don’t even jest about downloading if you have a dialup, you need a decent connection.

-Can be a bit confusing at first, neo-modulus direct connect is much easier to use but in the long run DC++ is better.

-Those god damned queues can last forever.

 

So basically if you have a bad pc don’t use DC++.

 

 

Some hub addresses I use quite a lot:

 

killua.student.utwente.nl– It's an anime hub but it has so many users I use it for roms and warez too.

 

megaman.gotdns.com- Comic hub, good for those hard to find back issues.

 

Classicsega.homeunix.com – A sega hub, I use it for roms mostly.

 

Hope that helps some people.

 

 

NOTE: I have read that DC++ can be unsafe at some points so I really would advise you have a good firewall like zone alarm.

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Where's the best/easiest place to get N64 roms?

 

I had found a really good site, but since then i've got a new PC and lost my favourite place things and haven't been able to find anywhere.

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Guest HHH123007

Anything that isn't TMNT, The Simpsons, Street Fighter, or Mortal Kombat related....

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Guest Coffey

I'd recommend the sports games. NBA Hangtime & 2 on 2 Open Ice for sure. Assuming your computer can handle them of course. My computer lagged on Open Ice, but I have a GeForce 2 and 128 RAM, so it's expected.

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Problem is most of the good mame roms are beatups or fighting games of some kind anyway here are some you might like.

 

Racing:

Chase Hq

Outrun

 

Puzzle:

Puzzle bobble - I have spent so much money on this game and no matter who you are you will learn to love the music.

Super puzzle fighter II turbo- Puzzle game with SD Capcom characters

Magical drop 3

 

Shooters:

Blazing star

Pulstar

The 1940 games, there are quite alot of them

Varsara2

Gigawing

Guwange- I LOVE THIS GAME!

 

Sports:

Nba Jam and Nba jam TE is all you need (note you must have the nba jam rom if you want TE to work)

 

Other:

Sunset riders - platform cowboy shooter.

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Guest HHH123007

Thanks for the suggestions....it wasn't that I didn't want fighter/beat 'em up games, it's just that I already made sure to get the games I listed.

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Arcade Shooters for MAME

 

Don Don Pachi

R-Type

Darius

Dragon Blaze

Guwange

Armed police Batrider

battle garegga..

Giga wing..

Dimahoo!!!

Dangun feveron "feel the musik!"

Batsugan

Strikers 1945

Radiant silvergun

Macross plus

Mars Matrix

1944 The Loop Master

19XX The War Against Destiny

R TYpe Leo

Sol Divide

Tengai

Darius Gaiden

ESP.Ra.De

Bells & Whistles (Detana!! Twin Bee in Japan)

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Oh... In that case let me add the following

 

Beatemups:

 

Golden Axe II

Alien vs predator

The punisher

Double dragon 3

Sengoku 3

X-men

Narc

Final fight

Battletoads

Cadilliacs and Dinosaurs

Battle circuit

Both Dungeons and Dragons games

 

Fighters:

 

Well you already said street fighters so...

 

Garou mark of the wolves

King of fighters 97,98, 2k, 2k1 and 2k3

Samurai showdown 2,4

Art of fighting 3 (not really a good game, but a pretty good sounding one)

Real bout Fatal fury, RB FF 2, RB FF special

Last blade 1, 2

Saturday night slamasters

Cyberbots

Power intsinct martimelee (I need to get this one myself)

WakuWaku 7

Vampire Hunter

Xmen Children of the atom

Marvel vs Capcom

 

Also some more shooter that I cant believe I forgot:

 

Metal slug, MS X, MS 3, MS 4 and MS 5 (some of the best arcade games ever)

 

Shock troopers 2

 

Right that should get you more than sorted.

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Radiant silvergun

What the...you can play radiant silver gun on mame!?!

 

Oh and all the macross titles blow big donkey balls, this is coming from a massive Macross fan.

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Guest Rob Van Dam

I'm looking for a good N64 emulator I've downloaded 2 or 3 of them and I can't get any of them to work

Thanks

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