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Time to get off my ass and grab as many roms and isos as I can before they actually manage to scrub them for good.
Any guidance for where to do such a thing? Seems like a lot of the retro stuff would be small enough to store locally without an issue, might as well grab it while it's possible
There's quite a few good places to download ROMs from:
Vimm's Lair have a lot of games, but downloads are slow.
The GitHub hosted page from r/roms megathread is great and have a lot of stuff with direct downloads, it is the most complete and has basically anything you might want.
Archive.org page of ROMs verified to work with RetroAchievements. (If you're lost and don't know how to access or download the ROMs, just click the show all button on the right. You'll probably need an account to download anything tho).
NoPayStation for PSP, PSVITA and PS3 games, updates and DLC. It downloads content directly from Sony's CDN.
WiiUDownloader for Wii U games, updates and DLC. It downloads content directly from Nintendo's CDN.
NXBrew for Switch games. I'm not a big fan of this one, but it's the best one I found. I just suggest you use uBlock Origin and ViolentMonkey with this script if you want to use this one.
I think that's basically it. I have been downloading a bunch of ROMs lately, so that's basically all I have gathered so far.
Now for storage, it only really becomes a problem with PS3, Xbox 360 and Switch games since there are a lot of really big games there. And the worst part if that you can't really compress these games right now, so, big storage is the only solution.
For other systems, you can usually compress .cue and .iso files into .chd files and most emulators will work with it. If you do a little research you'll find more about this.
Gamecube and Wii games can be compressed into .rvz files inside the Dolphin emulator.
And there's also DS and 3DS games where you can't compress, but you can trim the ROMs since it usually contain a lot of garbage data that is useless to running the game, just don't use it on ROM Hacks, because it might make them stop working.
Amazing! Thanks for tapping me in
There's also cdromance which in addition to just roms also has pre-patched roms with mods, hacks, fan translations, undubs, etc
torrents are a great way to grab entire catalogues of vintage games
I recently grabbed every NES/SNES/N64 game ever published in about two hours
Where's a safe place for that. I've only used fit girl as of the last couple years but otherwise haven't torrented since like 2010
try a dht crawler (e.g. bitsearch . to) and then search for something like "playstation" or "1g1r" or "no-intro" and other similar terms. Sorting by file size tends to yield collections.
Caveat emptor, since you're going to be using a torrent and you need to have all the precautions that go with that.
What are the precautions these days? Is VPN enough?
That, and knowing how to use it, is mostly what I had in mind. But it's also worth just being aware of bad torrents. If you are downloading a full PS1 collection and it's 14MB and has a .exe in it... that kind of thing.