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Before the smartphones we know today were staples of mainstream culture, mobile phones, and their technology were pretty rudimentary and often relied on apps made in Java seeing as the language was designed to be portable (though Windows Mobile and Symbian were also somewhat popular as proto-smartphone platforms of choice). This didn't keep games from being developed for these platforms. Casual simplistic games and rip-offs of retro franchises thrived, but it attracted some genuinely fun games that forever remained obscure, such as those from Gameloft.
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If you are looking for BIOS/Firmware files, you can find them on the [[Emulator Files]] page.
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==Downloads==
 +
===Internet Archive===
  
The situation is quite different in Japan where mobile hardware was much more developed, only loosely Java-based, and major video game developers were much more invested in creating unique and high-quality content that's most obscure and unpreserved, let alone emulated, today. Those are the very different [[wikipedia:Galapagos syndrome|Galapagos mobile phones]] (like DoCoMo i-mode, DeNa, RoID...). Some of these games got ported to the inferior Western hardware but these are in the tiny minority.
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Add a slash (<code>/</code>) after the URLs to view the contents of compressed archives from the browser. This helps you avoid downloading upwards of 400 gigabytes just to get only a fraction of the contents. The archive also creates torrents of each entry (that are not the same as any original torrents the user may have uploaded) that you can use to speed up your downloads, but be warned however that these torrents can be problematic if the uploader has added/removed/renamed files in the collection as they tend to not update correctly, if at all, so you may end up with only part of the collection, or an older version of the collection. A better recommendation is to use [[#Download Managers|a download manager listed below]] to grab all the files rather than use the torrents.
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:<small>'''''NOTE:''' If downloads are restricted (greyed out), copy the file name and append it to the end of the URL (ie: <nowiki>https://archive.org/downloads/NameOfPack -> https://archive.org/downloads/NameOfPack/ROMPack.zip</nowiki>)''</small>
  
<code>JAR</code> files of Java-based non-Japanese cell phones can be still found online with some effort, namely on WAP sites offering (pirated) mobile content e.g. [http://dedomil.net dedomil.net], [http://phoneky.com phoneky.com], [http://mobiles24.co mobiles24.co]
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{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible sortable"
 
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|-
==Dark Age of Monochrome Mobile Phones==
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!Set
Earlier black-and-white cell phone games (both in Japan and worldwide) didn't get as much love either when it comes to emulation and preservation of game binaries. There were, however, recreations of Snake and Space Impact for Nokia phones on their website at one time, along with remakes of the aforementioned games for Android and iOS. There are several Nokia phone models with MAME support, though they are preliminary at best with most models displaying a "CONTACT SERVICE" error if not a white screen.
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!Date
 
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!Registration<br>Required
==Classic BlackBerry OS==
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!Notes
 
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|-
===Emulators===
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|[https://archive.org/details/latest-everdrive-pack-2020-04-16 SmokeMonster's ROM Packs]
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
+
|2020-06-29
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|[https://i.imgur.com/vEtcYaP.png All links have been purged], 2018 torrent can be found on piratebay or 2020 pack with this [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:26a20a07a81c1df113b008973a2df2649690d9a0&dn=Latest%20Everdrive%20pack%20%202020-04-16&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2f9.rarbg.to%3a2710%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2f9.rarbg.me%3a2710%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.internetwarriors.net%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.cyberia.is%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexodus.desync.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker3.itzmx.com%3a6961%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftracker1.itzmx.com%3a8080%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.tiny-vps.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopen.stealth.si%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3a451%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.ds.is%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2fopen.acgnxtracker.com%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fretracker.lanta-net.ru%3a2710%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker4.itzmx.com%3a2710%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.moeking.me%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fp4p.arenabg.ch%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fipv4.tracker.harry.lu%3a80%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2fp4p.arenabg.com%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftracker.bt4g.com%3a2095%2fannounce torrent magnet]
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|-
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|[https://archive.org/details/messmame?sort=-publicdate MAME and MESS]
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|
 +
|{{✗}}
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|
 
|-
 
|-
! scope="col"|Name
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|[https://archive.org/details/sega-mega-cd-sega-cd-chds Redump Sega - Mega-CD - Sega CD CHDs]
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
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|2020-09-13
! scope="col"|Version
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|{{✗}}
! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]
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|Redump (526/530) Torrent contains "Sega - Mega-CD - Sega CD - CHDs.torrent"
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
!colspan="5"|PC / x86
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|[https://archive.org/details/@redump_org_sets?sort=titleSorter Redump.org Sets]
 +
|
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|A massive collection of most of the Redump sets.  A good place to start for those new to collecting.
 
|-
 
|-
|BlackBerry Simulator Series
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|[https://archive.org/details/xboxcds?sort=-publicdate Redump Original Xbox]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
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|
|[https://www.softpedia.com/dyn-search.php?search_term=blackberry+simulator Varies]
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|{{}}
|Cycle
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|Must extract with [https://digiex.net/threads/xbox-360-image-browser-2-9-0-350-xiso-browser-and-extractor.3136/ Xbox Image Browser] to play on CXBX-R.
|{{}}
 
|}
 
 
 
==Palm OS==
 
 
 
===Emulators===
 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
 
 
|-
 
|-
! scope="col"|Name
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|[https://archive.org/details/Panasonic-3DO-Redump.org-2019-05-14 Redump 3DO]
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
+
|2019-06-21
! scope="col"|Version
+
|{{✗}}
! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]
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|
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
 
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
!colspan="6"|PC / x86
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|[https://archive.org/details/RedumpSegaSaturn2019October17MIA1 Redump Sega - Saturn]
 +
|2019-10-17
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|
 
|-
 
|-
|Mu
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|[https://archive.org/details/snk-neo-geo-cd-chds Redump SNK - Neo Geo CD - CHDs]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
|2020-09-17
|[https://palmdb.net/app/mu 1.0.0]
 
|?
 
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
|{{✓}}
+
|Redump (101/101) Torrent contains: "SNK - Neo Geo CD - CHDs.torrent"
 
|-
 
|-
|POSE
+
|[https://archive.org/details/RedumpSnkNeoGeoCd16Oct2019 Redump SNK - Neo Geo CD]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
|2019-10-16
|[https://palmdb.net/app/palm-emulator Varies]
 
|?
 
|?
 
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
 +
|
 
|-
 
|-
|Palm Simulator
+
|[https://archive.org/details/tosec?sort=-publicdate TOSEC] (The Old School Emulation Center)
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
|
|[https://palmdb.net/app/palm-simulator Varies]
 
|?
 
|?
 
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
 +
|
 
|-
 
|-
!colspan="6"|Mobile / ARM
+
|[https://archive.org/details/@manydumpedgames TOSEC - Sega Dreamcast]
 +
|
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|
 
|-
 
|-
|PHEM
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|[https://archive.org/details/vintagesoftware Vintage Software]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
+
|
|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.perpendox.phem 1.43a]
+
|{{}}
|?
+
|Many DOS collections and older games.
|?
 
|{{}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
|StyleTap
+
|[https://archive.org/details/NeoKobe-NecPc-98012017-11-17 Neo-Kobe NEC PC-9801]
|align=left|{{Icon|WinMobile|Android}}
+
|2017-11-17
|[https://newsblog.styletap.com/index.php 0.8.033]
+
|{{}}
|?
+
|
|?
 
|{{~}}
 
|}
 
 
 
==J2ME <small>(Java 2 Micro Edition)</small>==
 
A free cross-platform language capable of working in devices with highly reduced capabilities. It was basically Java stripped down to the bare essentials.
 
 
 
While originally not intended for games (until its more advanced game-oriented API came), it became the ''de facto'' market standard for cell phone gaming - due in no small part to the SDK being free and without licensing costs.
 
 
 
===Emulators===
 
Currently, KEmulator and FreeJ2ME should suffice for most games, but there's a minority of games making use of obscure vendor-specific APIs supported only on their respective SDK tools. Given the scarcity of such tools, this list aims to comprehensively list the available ones for convenience.
 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
 
 
|-
 
|-
! scope="col"|Name
+
|[https://archive.org/details/Neo_Kobe_NEC_PC-8801_2016-02-25 Neo-Kobe NEC PC-8801]
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
+
|2016-02-25
! scope="col"|Version
+
|{{✗}}
! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]
+
|
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
 
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
!colspan="6"|PC / x86
+
|Redump Wii America ([https://archive.org/details/RedumpNintendoWiiAmericaPart1 1], [https://archive.org/details/RedumpNintendoWiiAmericaPart2 2], [https://archive.org/details/RedumpNintendoWiiAmericaPart3 3], [https://archive.org/details/RedumpNintendoWiiAmericaPart3_201802 4], [https://archive.org/details/RedumpNintendoWiiAmericaPart5 5], [https://archive.org/details/Httpsarchive.orgdetailsRedumpNintendoWiiAmericaPart6 6])
 +
|2017-09-07
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|
 
|-
 
|-
|[https://github.com/hex007/freej2me FreeJ2ME]
+
|[https://archive.org/details/Cyles_Gameboy_roms Complete Gameboy Roms]
|align=left|{{Icon|Java}}
+
|2019-02-19
|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/freej2me/files/ 2018-09-07]
+
|{{}}
|Mid
+
|US/EU/JP/World/Proto/Demo/Etc. Includes Translated and Hack Titles.
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20090122021555/http://lyo.blogsome.com/kemulator KEmulator]
+
|[https://archive.org/details/CylesSNESRomPack Complete Super Nintendo RomPack]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
|2019-02-11
|[https://github.com/SerGreen/Stalker-J2ME/releases/tag/v1.0.1 v0.9.8] [https://archive.org/details/KEmulator103 v1.0.3]
 
|Mid
 
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
|{{✓}}
+
|US/EU/JP/World/Proto/Demo/Etc. Includes Translated and Hack Titles.
 
|-
 
|-
|[https://github.com/RobDangerous/Jademula Jademula]
+
|[https://archive.org/details/No-Intro-Collection_2016-01-03_Fixed No-Intro Collection]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
|2016-01-03
|0.23
+
|{{}}
|Mid
+
|Outdated.
|{{✓}}
 
|{{~}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
|[https://kobjects.org/ ME4SE]
+
|[https://archive.org/details/noIntroNintendoDsDecrypted2019Jun30 No-Intro Nintendo DS]
|align=left|{{Icon|Java}}
+
|2019-06-30
|[https://sourceforge.net/projects/kobjects/files/me4se/2.2.0/ 2.2.0]
+
|{{}}
|Mid
+
|File names are in alphabetical order.
|{{}}
 
|{{~}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20060720210353/http://www.volny.cz/molej/pstros/download.htm Pstros]
+
|[https://archive.org/details/No-Intro_Nintendo_DSi_2018-06-30 No-Intro Nintendo DSi]
|align=left|{{Icon|Java}}
+
|2018-06-30
|1.6.0
+
|{{}}
|Mid
+
|
|?
 
|{{~}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
|Nokia SDKs
+
|[https://archive.org/details/NintendoDSiDLC2019 Nintendo DSiWare]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
|2019-01-29
|[https://archive.org/details/nokia_sdks_n_dev_tools Part 1] [https://archive.org/details/nokia_sdks_n_dev_tools2 Part 2] [https://archive.org/details/nokia_sdks_n_dev_tools3 Part 3]
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|{{}}
|Mid (Nokia-only)
+
|Formatted to .nds, can be used on homebrewed DSi's running [[Emulators_on_3DS#Nintendo_DS|TWiLight Menu]] or converted into a .cia for 3DS. Will <b>NOT</b> work on any emulators (in theory could work with [[No$|No$GBA]]).
|?
 
|{{~}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
|Sony Ericsson SDKs
+
|Redump PS2 NTSC-U ([https://archive.org/details/redumpSonyPlaystation2UsaGames2018Aug01 Part 1], [https://archive.org/details/redumpSonyPlaystation2UsaGames2018Aug01Part2 Part 2], [https://archive.org/details/redumpSonyPlaystation2UsaGames2018Aug01Part3 Part 3], [https://archive.org/details/redumpSonyPlaystation2UsaGames2018Aug01Part4 Part 4])
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
|2018-08-01
|[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xHSPbVOGSG84y1hlvGDI0RC4iGiCQ7HP/view?usp=sharing 2.5.0.6]
+
|{{}}
|Mid
+
|Game IDs are used for file titles. CD-based games are .bin files, DVD-based games are .iso files.
|?
 
|{{~}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
|Siemens SDKs
+
|[https://archive.org/details/redumpSonyPlaystationAmericaGames02October2017 Redump PS1 America]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
|2017-10-02
|[https://archive.org/details/siemens-club.ru-siemens-emulators Site 1 archive]  [http://www.siemensmania.cz/emulatory.php Site 2]
+
|{{}}
|Mid (Siemens-only)
+
|
|?
 
|{{~}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
|Motorola SDKs
+
|[https://archive.org/details/@john_mr_smith?sort=titleSorter John (Mr) Smith]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
|
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20070213084711if_/http://trix2.cellmania.com:80/downloads/downloads/files/sdk41ga.zip v4.1] [https://web.archive.org/web/20051106121510if_/http://trix2.cellmania.com:80/downloads/downloads/files/SDK521.zip v5.2.1]
+
|{{}}
|Mid (Motorola-only)
+
|Uploads Redump PS1 NTSC-U and PAL sets.
|?
 
|{{~}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
|Motorola iDEN SDK
+
|[https://archive.org/details/No-Intro-Collection_2016-09-06 No-Intro Collection]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
|2017-06-27
|[https://motorola-iden-sdk-for-j2me.software.informer.com/ Mirror]
+
|{{}}
|Mid (iDEN-only)
+
|Outdated.
|?
 
|{{~}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
|[https://code.google.com/archive/p/microemu/ Micro Emulator]
+
|[https://archive.org/details/gamecubenaiso Complete North American GameCube Collection]
|align=left|{{Icon|Java}}
+
|2015-09-13
|2.0.4
 
|Mid
 
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 +
|Redump verified SCRUBBED ISO image files. To bypass registration look in comments for magnet link (torrent).
 +
|-
 +
|[https://archive.org/details/SgaStrnCmplt Redump Saturn]
 +
|2015-09-13
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
 +
|Includes manuals and magazines.
 
|-
 
|-
|SjBoy
+
|[https://archive.org/details/2020_01_06_fbn FinalBurn Neo]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
|2020-07-20
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061120062624/http://www.sjboy.cn:80/setup.zip beta4]
 
|Low
 
|?
 
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
 +
|Maintained and updated regularly.
 +
|-
 +
|[https://archive.org/details/no-intro_romsets No-Intro Collection]
 +
|2020-07-15
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|Maintained and updated regularly.
 
|-
 
|-
|MiniSoyo
+
|[https://archive.org/details/SCD32X_Arquivista Sega CD], [https://archive.org/details/SS_Arquivista Sega Saturn], [https://archive.org/details/PCECD_Arquivista PC Engine CD], [https://archive.org/details/PS1_Arquivista Playstation][https://archive.org/details/ps1_arquivista_parte2 Part 2], [https://archive.org/details/3DO_Arquivista 3DO], [https://archive.org/details/NGCD_ARQ Neo Geo CD], [https://archive.org/details/PCFX_Arquivista PC-FX]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
|2020-08-03
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061026100050/http://www.sjboy.cn:80/images/minisoyo_en.zip Unknown]
 
|Low
 
|?
 
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
 +
|A collection of [http://database.trurip.org/ trurip/EmulationArchive] sets.
 
|-
 
|-
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20070831144240/http://kwyshell.myweb.hinet.net/ MidpX]
+
|[https://archive.org/details/EF_PC-FX_Collection Redump NEC PC-FX]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
|2020-02-13
|1.0.1
 
|Low
 
|?
 
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
 +
|Complete collection (at least as of 2020-09-05). Some titles are outdated, so files themselves and contents of .CUE files will have to be renamed.
 
|-
 
|-
|MPowerPlayer
+
|[https://archive.org/details/redump.pcecd Redump NEC PC Engine CD & TurboGrafx CD]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
|2020-09-25
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20070126100250/http://mpowerplayer.com:80/mppwin.zip Unknown]
 
|Low
 
|?
 
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
 +
|
 
|-
 
|-
|MidpEmul
+
|[https://archive.org/details/N-Gage2.0GamesArchive N-Gage 2.0 Games Archive]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
|2020-06-22
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20070729182344/http://www.perimind.com/midpEmul.zip Unknown]
 
|Low
 
|?
 
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
 +
|Contains cracked scene releases and trial versions of N-Gage 2.0 games.
 
|-
 
|-
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20041207014831/http://amazingmobile.com/gamemagic/index.html GameMagic S60]
+
|[https://archive.org/details/ngagecrackedgamescollection N-Gage Cracked Games full romset 2020]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
|2020-01-22
|Unknown
 
|Low
 
|?
 
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✗}}
 +
|All releases are cracked, allowing them to be played on an N-Gage without having to deal with the "Memory card is corrupted" error.
 +
|-
 +
|[https://archive.org/details/1-g-1-r-terra-onion-snk-neo-geo Terraonion - SNK - Neo Geo (.neo format)]
 +
|2021-04-02
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|Terraonion (141) Torrent contains "SNK - Neo Geo - NEOs + TOSEC manuals.torrent"
 +
|}
 +
 +
==ROM & ISO Websites (mostly rubbish)==
 +
 +
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible sortable"
 +
! scope="col"|Name
 +
! scope="col"|Content
 +
! scope="col"|Registration Required?
 +
! scope="col"|Rate Limited?
 +
! scope="col"|Notes
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Romsmania.jpeg|120px]]
 +
<B>[https://romsmania.cc/ RomsMania]</B>
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| '''WARNING: When downloading, press 'More Options' and choose 'Browser Download', otherwise it gives malware.''' A lot of stuff for 5th gen and below, also includes GCN, Wii, NDS, and PSP. PS1 ISOs are not redump.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Ziperto.png|120px]]
 +
[https://www.ziperto.com/ Ziperto]
 +
| Most of Nintendo Games
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Good for decrypted 3DS games for Citra. Use an adblocker.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Madloader.jpeg|60px]]
 +
[https://madloader.com/ Madloader]
 +
| 3DS
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Decrypted 3DS and Switch games for Citra and Yuzu. Use an adblocker.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Romsie.png|120px]]
 +
[https://romsie.com/ ROMsie]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| ROMs up to 6th gen.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Downarea51.png|120px]]
 +
[https://www.downarea51.com/ Downarea51]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Collection of Various ROMs.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Freeroms.png|120px]]
 +
[https://www.freeroms.com/ FreeRoms]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Wide selection of retro titles (Nintendo first-party titles nuked, but third-party titles remain).
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Vim'slair.png|120px]]
 +
[https://vimm.net/ Vimm's Lair]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| A lot of games as well as scans of the manuals. All dumps are verified by Redump or No-Intro, however GameCube and Wii dumps are scrubbed. *Note that scrubbed discs can be restored to 1:1 copies using Nkit.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Topxgames.png|120px]]
 +
[https://topxgame.com/ Topxgame]
 +
| PC
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Collection of Best PC Games.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Portableroms.png|120px]]
 +
[https://portableroms.com/ PortableRoms]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Collection of Various ROMs.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Gamulator.jpeg|120px]]
 +
[https://www.gamulator.com/ Gamulator]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Small website where you can download all sort of retro console ROM's and ISO's.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Romsplanet.png|120px]]
 +
[https://romsplanet.com/ RomsPlanet]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| One of the biggest ROM`s collection for PS, Gameboy, Nintendo...etc.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Coolrom.gif|120px]]
 +
[http://www.coolrom.com/ CoolROM]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Wide selection of retro titles (Nintendo first-party titles nuked, but third-party titles remain).
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Romsdownload.jpeg|120px]]
 +
[https://romsdownload.net/ RomsDownload]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Standard selection of ROMs up to 5th gen, plus some 6th and 7th gen.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Killerrom.jpeg|120px]]
 +
[https://roms-download.com/ Roms-Download.com (Killerroms)]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| A website which contains roms from Odyssey to Wii. Roms on this site originate from a website called s2roms.cc A.K.A Killer Roms.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File: Emuparadise.jpeg|100px]]
 +
[http://emuparadise.me/ Emuparadise]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Good for [http://www.epforums.org/showthread.php?56293 No-Intro sets (which require registration).] Since Emuparadise removing ROMs download links from view, [https://gist.github.com/Eptun/3fdcc84552e75e452731cd4621c535e9/raw/d1dcc00185085ce10df8bebcc2a640fd01ef9058/emuparadise.eptun.user.js a TamperMonkey/GreaseMonkey script] is currently required for downloading ROMs from it (outside of the forums).
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Romsuniverse.jpeg|120px]]
 +
[http://www.romsuniverse.com/ RomUniverse]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Wide selection of retro titles (Nintendo first-party titles nuked, but third-party titles remain).
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Planetemu.png|120px]]
 +
[http://www.planetemu.net Planet Emulation]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Very old, weekly updated and classy French ROM site, full MAME CHDs. Just click on "Telecharger" for download. (All ROMs from Nintendo-based systems have been taken down as of July 2018.)
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:CDromance.png|120px]]
 +
[https://cdromance.com CDRomance]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Contains PSP ISOs and PSX2PSP eboots collection but also PS2, PS1, Gamecube, NDS, GBA, GB, SNES, losts of romhacks and English patched games. Also contains a collection of PSP DLCs.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Gametronik.jpeg|120px]]
 +
[http://www.gametronik.com GameTronik]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| French ROM Site.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Atarimania.jpeg|80px]]
 +
[http://www.atarimania.com/rom_collection_archive_atari_2600_roms.html Atarimania]
 +
| Atari 2600
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Contains a complete Atari 2600 ROM set.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Pokemonlog.png|120px]]
 +
[https://www.pokemonlog.com/ Pokemonlog]
 +
| Pokemon Mod & Hacks
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Small website where you can get the latest Pokemon ROM's and Pokemon rom hacks.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File: Macintoshgames.gif|120px]]
 +
[http://macintoshgarden.org/ Macintosh Garden]
 +
| Macintosh
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Abandonware archive for old Macintosh games. Popular vintage PC abandonware site, "Home of the Underdogs", originally hosted this site. It has small guides to running a few Macintosh emulators.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:JPCC.png|120px]]
 +
[http://japanesepccompendium.blogspot.com/ JapaneseCompendium]
 +
| Old PC Games Jpn
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| A blog dedicated to old PC games from Japan.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:macgamefiles.jpeg|120px]]
 +
[http://www.macgamefiles.com/list/shareware/ MacGameFiles.com]
 +
| Macintosh
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Site dedicated to basic shareware and demo versions of Macintosh games; as well as patches, mods and tools.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:downloadgameps3.png|120px]]
 +
[https://downloadgameps3.com/ DownloadGamePS3]
 +
[[File:downloadgamexbox.png|120px]]
 +
[https://downloadgamexbox.com/ DownloadGameXbox]
 +
[[File: downloadgamepsp.png|120px]]
 +
[https://downloadgamepsp.com/ DownloadGamePSP]
 +
[[File:downloadgamewii.png|120px]]
 +
[https://nswgame.com/ GameWii]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
|
 +
1.PS2/PS3/PS4 games.
 +
<br>
 +
2.Xbox Classic/360 games.
 +
<br>
 +
3.PSP/PS Vita games.
 +
<br>
 +
4.Wii/Wii U/3DS/Switch games.
 +
When using this site, make sure to have a good adblocker  to protect you from malicious ads and whatnot. It's a legit site, just wear a digital condom.
 
|-
 
|-
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20041207023159/http://amazingmobile.com/ngagecool/index.html N-GAGE COOL!]
+
|[[File:Romsget.jpeg|120px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
[https://www.romsget.io/ ROMsGet]
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20060214111930/http://www.amazingmobile.com:80/DownFiles/NgageCool(Trial).zip 1.2.1 (Trial)]
+
[[File:Romsgames.png|120px]]
|Low
+
[https://www.downloadroms.io/ Download ROMs]
|?
+
| Various
|{{✗}}
+
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Standard selection of ROMs up to 6th gen, plus Wii.
 
|-
 
|-
|[[SquirrelJME]]
+
|[[File:emuroms.jpeg|120px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|Mac|Java|}}
+
[http://www.emuroms.ch/en EmuRoms.ch]
|{{SquirrelJMEVer}}
+
| Various
|{{SquirrelJMEAccuracy}}
+
| No
|{{✓}}
+
| No
|?
+
| Torrent site for ROMs and ISOs. Has ROMs up to the 3DS. Also, it has the same layout as the now dead Portal Roms.
 
|-
 
|-
!colspan="6"|Mobile / ARM
+
|[[File:worldofspectrum.jpeg|120px]]
 +
[http://worldofspectrum.org/ World of Spectrum]
 +
| ZX Spectrum
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| For ZX Spectrum games and applications as well magazines, cover art, booklets, and much more. ROMs and tape images on the site were released with permission from their original authors.
 
|-
 
|-
|[[J2ME Loader]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
 
|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.playsoftware.j2meloader 1.7.0-play]
 
[https://github.com/nikita36078/J2ME-Loader/releases {{JLVer}}]
 
  
[https://install.appcenter.ms/users/nikita36078/apps/j2me-loader/distribution_groups/testers 1.7.0-dev-1467]
+
|[[File:Retrostic.png|120px]]
|High
+
[https://www.retrostic.com/ RetroStic]
|{{✓}}
+
| Various
|{{✓}}
+
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Standard selection of ROMs up to 5th gen, plus NDS.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:abandonwarefrance.jpeg|120px]]
 +
[http://www.abandonware-france.org/ Abandonware France]
 +
| DOS
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Also, a French ROM site.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Romsforever.jpeg|120px]]
 +
[https://romsforever.co/ ROMsForever]
 +
[[File:Romspure.jpeg|120px]]
 +
[https://romspure.com/ Romspure]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Complete sets for up to 5th gen systems, plus a fair amount of 6th+ gen.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Gamecuberoms.PNG|120px]]
 +
[https://gamecuberoms.cc/ Gamecube Roms]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Complete sets for up to 5th gen systems, plus a fair amount of 6th+ gen, Gamecube.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Consoleroms.png|120px]]
 +
[https://www.consoleroms.com/ ConsoleRoms]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Standard selection of ROMs up to 6th gen, plus Wii.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Markdown.jpeg|120px]]
 +
[https://r-roms.github.io/ Rom Center Markdown Edition 2021 (/r/Roms Mega Thread)]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Center made with MkDocs in Github, Edition 2021.Documentation of places to get roms, curated by [https://www.reddit.com/r/Roms /r/Roms on Reddit]
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:mame.jpeg|120px]]
 +
[http://mamedev.org/roms/ MAME]
 +
| MAME
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Directly from the MAME site. Games that were released with permission for free and non-commercial use.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Eagleforest.jpeg|120px]]
 +
[http://eagleforces.tistory.com/ eagleforces]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| hosted in Korea, has no-intro sets for various 8 and 16-bit consoles available as individually downloadable roms. Links are direct with no redirects, confirmation pages, or captchas.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Theindex.png|120px]]
 +
[https://theindex.cc/ The Index]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Links to ROMs and ISO.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Pokemoner.jpeg|120px]]
 +
[https://www.pokemoner.com/2020/01/pokemon-girls-hunter.html Pokemoner]
 +
| Pokemon Mod & Hacks
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| All Pokemon Roms Various Consoles.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Reddit.png|120px]]
 +
[https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=XCI XCI files]
 +
<br>
 +
[https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=NSP NSP files]
 +
| Nintendo Switch
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Decrypted  Switch games for Yuzu.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:switchrls.jpeg|100px]]
 +
[https://switchrls.co/ Switchrls]
 +
| Nintendo Switch
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Decrypted Switch games for Yuzu. Use an adblocker.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Xcinsp.jpeg|120px]]
 +
[https://www.xcinsp.com/ XCINSP]
 +
| Nintendo Switch
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Decrypted Switch games for Yuzu.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:8i99.jpeg|120px]]
 +
[https://www.8i99.com/forum-2-1.html jiyouWang]
 +
| Nintendo Switch
 +
| Yes
 +
| No
 +
| Chinese Site, Decrypted Switch games for Yuzu.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Gbahacks.jpeg|120px]]
 +
[https://www.gbahacks.com/p/pokemon-rom-hack-list.html?m=1 Gbahacks]
 +
| GBA Games Hack
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Lot of GBA Roms Hacks.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Dedomil.png|80px]]
 +
[http://dedomil.net/games/ Dedomil]
 +
| Java Games
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Big Collection of java Games.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Phoneky.png|100px]]
 +
[https://phoneky.com/ Phoneky]
 +
| Java Games
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Huge java Games Collection.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Seclub.png|120px]]
 +
[https://seclub.org/downloads/games/ Seclub]
 +
| Java,Symbian Games
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Russian Site, Lot of j2ME,Symbian Games Collection.
 +
|-
 +
|[[File:Spaces.jpeg|120px]]
 +
[https://spaces.im/sz/igry/ Spaces.im]
 +
| Cellphone Games
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Russian Site, Lot of Games.
 
|-
 
|-
|[[JL-Mod]]
+
|[[File:Romulation.png|120px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
+
[http://www.romulation.net Romulation]
|[https://github.com/woesss/JL-Mod/releases {{JL-ModVer}}]
+
| Various
|High
+
| Yes
|{{✓}}
+
| No
|{{✓}}
+
| Useful for Wii, GameCube, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2 etc, maybe no-intro rips. (account required - use bugmenot or make one with a temp email account) (Many games (including most Nintendo titles) have been DMCA'd as of January 2017).
 
|-
 
|-
|[http://web.archive.org/web/20160414170524im_/http://www.netmite.com/android/ Java J2ME Runner]
+
|[[File:Pleasuredom.gif|120px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
+
[http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk Pleasuredome]
|[https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B0WSQzohaqtBa0ZpSHUwUUxqYXM 2.0.3.7]
+
| Various
|Low
+
| Yes
|?
+
| No
|?
+
| Great private tracker for getting full sets of many systems (No-Intro, Goodsets, Trurip, Redump, TOSEC). Does not allow newer systems. Strict ratio site that requires you to maintain a positive upload to download ratio. No longer hosts Nintendo game torrents.
 
|-
 
|-
|phoneME
+
|[[File:Theoldcomputer.png|120px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
+
[https://www.theoldcomputer.com/ TheOldComputer]
|?
+
| DOS
|?
+
| Yes
|?
+
| No
|?
+
|  
 
|-
 
|-
!colspan="6"|Consoles
+
|[[File:Arcadepunks.png|80px]]
 +
[https://www.arcadepunks.com/arcade-punks-arcade-building-modding-and-gaming-forum/forum/your-download-shares/ Arcade Punks]
 +
| Various
 +
| Yes<br> <small> (User Uploaded Direct-Download (Forum post))</small>
 +
| No
 +
|
 
|-
 
|-
|[[PSPKVM]]
+
|[[File:Emudesc.png|120px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}
+
[https://www.emudesc.com Emudesc]
|[http://sourceforge.net/projects/pspkvm/files/latest/download 0.5.5 Final Edition]
+
| Various
|Mid
+
| Yes<br> <small> (User Uploaded Direct-Download (Forum post)) </small>
|{{✓}}
+
| No
|{{✓}}
+
| Spanish forums where you can find Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii, Nintendo DS, 3DS, PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable roms (possibly more stuff too).
 
|-
 
|-
|PhoneME
+
|[[File:k73.png|120px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Gp2x|Wiz|Caanoo}}
+
[http://www.k73.com/ k73]
|[https://github.com/j2me-preservation/phoneME-GP2X-SDL r01]
+
| Various
|?
+
| ?
|?
+
| Yes
|{{~}}
+
| A Chinese site that relies on baidu as a hosting service. Whenever prompted to install an external application (really persistent malware), always refuse since most if not all links are not premium. Has lots of Chinese fan-translations as well as Japanese games on newer consoles not usually uploaded, and more importantly latest gen dumps.
 
|-
 
|-
|Pstros NDS
+
|[[File:oldmanemu.jpeg|120px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|NDS}}
+
[https://www.oldmanemu.net/ oldmanemu]
|[https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Pstros_NDS 0.7.2 r6]
+
| Various
|Low
+
| Yes
|?
+
| No
|{{✗}}
+
| Chinese site for getting full rom sets of various systems.Files host on baidu/ctfile/115.
|}
 
 
 
;FreeJ2ME
 
:Has fewer features than KEmulator, but better compatibility. It is recommended for games that don't work with KEmulator. It has an optional [[libretro]] core and development is active. Games that freeze on KEmulator, such as Wolfenstein RPG and Doom 2 RPG, run on FreeJ2ME with no issues, although compatibility and accuracy are not as good as J2ME Loader on Android. Some games run too fast and require tinkering with the frame rate options. Free and Open source.
 
;KEmulator
 
:Has more features and compatibility than other ones, as well as 3D emulation. Has support for custom resolutions and full screen (View/Options). You can even set a proxy server for mobile Java apps that connect to the internet under options. Requires Java Runtime Environment installed. It is a recommended emulator if you're on a Windows PC, although some games (such as Wolfenstein RPG and Doom 2 RPG) freeze indefinitely on the loading screen. Last update was in 2012, closed-source.
 
;Nokia SDKs
 
:A set of different device emulators released by Nokia along with their J2ME SDKs. Keyboard bindings are not friendly for playing games. Some of them are buggy. The Nokia 3410 SDK emulator is capable of running some ancient b&w J2ME games no other emulator can.
 
;Sony Ericsson SDKs
 
:Device emulators released by Sony Ericsson along their J2ME SDKs. Some of them have support for MascotCapsule V3 3D APIs. Can run some games at better framerates than the original devices
 
;Siemens SDKs
 
:Device emulators released by Siemens along their J2ME SDKs. Can run some older games that depend on old Siemens APIs
 
;Motorola SDKs
 
:J2ME development kits released by Motorola. Can run some older games that depend on Motorola-specific APIs
 
;Motorola iDEN SDK
 
:J2ME development kit released by Motorola. Can run some older games that depend on iDEN-specific APIs
 
;Pstros
 
:Haves support for some obscure vendor-specific APIs that other emulators don't support.
 
;SjBoy
 
:More compatible than MidpX. Can take snapshots. More resolutions (but still buggy). Appears to run correctly some older games FreeJ2ME and KEmulator don't.
 
;Minisoyo
 
:Experimental emulator from the SjBoy authors. Appears to properly emulate transparency on older games making use of Nokia APIs. To open a game, drag and drop the JAR file onto the MiniSoyo window.
 
;MidpX
 
:One of the older emulators. Fixed low resolution (176x220) and compatibility, no handler app support. The installer may contain adware.
 
;MPowerPlayer
 
:Emulator from a company that used to develop solutions to allow users to try J2ME game demos on their computer before purchasing them. Haves not any known advantageous feature.
 
;[[SquirrelJME]]
 
:Project developing a full JVM implementation + Java ME 8 APIs. Full compatibility with old J2ME software and high portability are among its main goals. Under heavy development.
 
;[[J2ME Loader]]
 
:This is currently the highest-compatibility J2ME emulator available. Converts .jar files offline using its own resources. Easily launches both 2D & 3D apps. Samsung & Nokia API implemented. Supports different keyboard layouts and customization. It is highly accurate, with the right frame rate for each game, as well as vibration. Has slightly improved performance through hardware acceleration, but games won't run too fast. Runs almost every Nokia game, even ones that don't work with KEmulator or FreeJ2ME, but fails with Sony Ericsson 3D engine (Mascot Capsule), due to the fact that the mascot capsule is almost impossible to port. This is common with most of other emulators as well.
 
;[[JL-Mod]]
 
:This is the experimental mod of the J2ME Loader app with Mascot Capsule 3D support. Has some new and experimental features. Converts .jar files offline using its own resources. Easily launches both 2D & 3D apps. Samsung & Nokia API implemented. Supports different keyboard layouts and customization. It is highly accurate, with the right frame rate for each game, as well as vibration. Has slightly improved performance through hardware acceleration, but games won't run too fast. Runs almost every Nokia game, even ones that don't work with KEmulator or FreeJ2ME, as well as Sony Ericsson 3D engine (Mascot Capsule).
 
;Java J2ME Runner
 
:Old tool, launches Java Applications on Android using native library. Apps have to be converted first, using [http://www.netmite.com/android/srv/2.0/getapk.php Netmite Website]. Overall 2D stability is acceptable, but 3D support almost does not work. Different types of keyboard & screen stics are included. Unfortunately, often experiences troubles with *jar conversion.
 
;[[PSPKVM]]
 
:Available for cell-phones. Might be the first one that's open-source. Last update was in 2009.
 
 
 
==ExEn <small>(Execution Engine)</small>==
 
A freeware solution developed by French mobile game developer In-Fusio around 2000. It was a Java-based solution presenting itself as an alternative to the limitations of J2ME's game development (offering missing feautures like sprite zooming, parallax scrolling, rotations...).
 
 
 
It achieved relative success and widespread hardware support in Europe, and was also used in China.
 
 
 
===Emulation===
 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
 
 
|-
 
|-
! scope="col"|Name
+
|[[File:1cc.jpeg|120px]]
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
+
[https://chuchy.neocities.org/1cc/8ch.net/1cc/10.html /1cc/]
! scope="col"|Version
+
| Various
! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]
+
| ?
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
+
| Yes
 +
| imageboard, good for the latest arcade releases (from recent machines no less) but links don't stay up for too long.
 
|-
 
|-
!colspan="5"|PC / x86
+
|[[File:Romhustler.jpeg|120px]]
 +
[http://romhustler.net/ ROM Hustler]
 +
| Various
 +
| ?
 +
| Yes
 +
| Has Renascene PlayStation Portable dumps. Has a good selection of games from all consoles Gen-6 and earlier. Limited to one download at a time; additional attempts "503" while a download is active. Currently you can't download Nintendo related ROMs from here.
 
|-
 
|-
|EXEN-V2 Generic Simulator
+
|[[File:Romtohome.png|100px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
[https://romtohome.com/ RomToHome]
|?
+
| Various
|Low
+
| No
|{{✗}}
+
| Yes
|}
+
| ~50kB/s downloads, but has proper scene releases for a variety of consoles including (but not limited to) Wii U, Wii, PlayStation 2, Nintendo 3DS, DS and PlayStation Portable.
 
 
;EXEN-V2 Generic Simulator:A very old dead emulator for ExEn software. While many games will go in-game, they'll crash at various points.
 
 
 
==Mediatek Runtime Environment (MRE)/MAUI==
 
Being the turnkey solutions firm that they are known for, as their chips are used on millions and millions of el-cheapo "Shanzhai" devices all over the world (especially counterfeit Nokias and Goophones among other things), Mediatek has also come up with their own mobile platform and API known as the [http://news.softpedia.com/news/Opera-Mini-Arrives-on-MediaTek-s-Runtime-Environment-MRE-238105.shtml Mediatek Runtime Environment], aka MAUI. It is targeted for so-called "smart" feature phones, i.e. those that offer similar functionality to standard mobile operating systems like Android, but are watered down for entry-level users. An SDK is available on their [http://mre.mediatek.com/en/sdk/2.0 developer site] for members, and <code>VXP</code> files for games and other applications appear to be available on the usual WAP sites.
 
 
 
===Emulation===
 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
 
 
|-
 
|-
! scope="col"|Name
+
|[[File:ps1gameonline.jpeg|120px]]
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
+
[http://www.ps1games.online/ PS1Games]
! scope="col"|Version
+
| PS1/2/PSP
! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]
+
| No
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
+
| No
 +
| Contains a complete PSP, PS2 and PSX ISOs.
 
|-
 
|-
!colspan="5"|PC / x86
+
|[[File:Popuo.jpeg|120px]]
 +
[https://popuw.com/ popuw]
 +
| Various Prince of Persia Game
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Unofficial POP site Modify Game, Patch etc.
 
|-
 
|-
|Mediatek MRE SDK
+
|[https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7vPmuZfN3snMU0zYlBXSWVhOUE WiiWare and Virtual Console WADs]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
| WiiWare
|[http://mre.mediatek.com/en/sdk/2.0 3.0]
+
| No
|?
+
| No
|{{✓}}
+
| also hosted on Google Drive, can be used on Dolphin or a modded Wii.
|}
 
 
 
==Mophun==
 
'''Mophun''' was an even more hardware-efficient free European-centric mobile gaming solution developed by Swedish company Synergetix. It was supported on various devices, such as the Sony Ericsson T2xx, T3xx and T6xx series, Symbian S60v1, S60v2, S60v3 and UIQ3 phones, and Windows Mobile Smartphones running at a resolution of 176x220 or 240x320. There are 303 known games,<ref>[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AXmupwvgxuI_NRINDsN8azlKtONcQYf6CD6HfKYc8gM Mophun Game List]</ref> of which 255 have been released, 41 are unknown to have been released, 3 are demos and 5 are unreleased. It was later overtaken by advances in J2ME that came with the MIDP 2.0 framework.<ref>[https://twitter.com/sczther/status/1345476460107194368 Mophun preservation thread on Twitter]</ref>
 
 
 
===Emulators===
 
 
 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
 
 
|-
 
|-
! scope="col"|Name
+
|[https://1fichier.com/dir/uExVcS2h Partial PlayStation 2 Redump (2016/03/19)]
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
+
| PlayStation 2
! scope="col"|Version
+
| No
! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]
+
| Yes
! scope="col"|Active
+
| PS2 (5046/6863 games).
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
|Mophun Games Launcher
+
|[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19tAZ1KNEUZ58e-4kPJGh947alDb1oyrNpzcnCLk7DEE/pubhtml AlvRo's Collection]
|align=left|{{Icon|Symbian}}
+
| Various
|[https://andredream13.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/mophun-games-launcher-v1-01-s60v3-12-games-in-one/ 1.01]
+
| No
|?
+
| Yes
|{{✗}}
+
| A collection of many consoles, which contains Xbox/Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, and many other retro consoles. Runs on 1fichier, any passwords that are needed are always '''ByAlvRo'''.
|{{✓}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
|4Mophun
+
|[[File:Gamemountain.jpeg|120px]]
|align=left|Windows Mobile
+
[https://gamesmountain.com/ Gamesmountain]
|1.1
+
| Various
|?
+
| No
|{{✗}}
+
| No
|{{✓}}
+
| Best Site of 7th Gen.
 
|-
 
|-
|[[mophun]]
+
|[[File:5kroms.png|120px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
[https://5kroms.com/ 5kroms]
|2.5.4
+
| PlayStation Portable Games
|?
+
| No
|{{✗}}
+
| No
|{{✓}}
+
| PlayStation Portable ISOs.
 
|-
 
|-
|MoRePhun
+
|[[File:wowroms.png|120px]]
|align=left|N/A
+
[https://wowroms.com/en/ wowroms]
|Commit b4430d3
+
| Various
|{{✗}}
+
| No
|{{✓}}
+
| No
|{{✗}}
+
| Collection of Various ROMs.
|}
 
 
 
===Comparisons===
 
*Mophun Games Launcher is only compatible with 13 games, all of which use the 3D engine and were released for Symbian. The emulator is available for S60v3.
 
*4Mophun does not work with games that are locked (e.g. have a predefined IMEI recognition algorithm) or do not use the 3D engine.
 
*[[mophun]] is an official emulator, designed for development and demos. As such, encrypted or compressed games do not boot. However, this has been worked around, both by decrypting the files and decompressing them (except for compressed resources), and modifying the emulator to perform decryption on the fly, albeit only when opening them via the Open menu. Exile is not known to work in any found version of the emulator.
 
*[https://github.com/Luca1991/MoRePhun MoRePhun] is a new, open source emulator by Luca91. It is only a proof of concept, as only a few opcodes and a couple of SDK APIs are emulated, and there is no heap. There is sprite and input support, as well as support for the collision API. It is compatible with a few small homebrews. Luca91 mentions the SDK API handler needs to be better organized.
 
 
 
==Symbian and N-Gage <small>(Nokia)</small>==
 
Originally a joint Nintendo-Nokia cellphone handheld hybrid project slated for 2005, Nintendo backed away from the project (and its plans for NES/Game Boy ports for mobile were repurposed for their Virtual Engine project). Nokia continued the project on their own anyways and released N-Gage on October 7, 2003, for <abbr title="$377.10 in 2018 money">$299</abbr> as the most powerful handheld of its time, that is up until the DS and PSP came along and ended Nokia's hopes at dominating the handheld gaming market. It had an ARM920T CPU at 104 MHz.
 
 
 
However, while gaining support through GBA/PS1 ports (including the only English version of the JP-only Xanadu series until 2016) and a few original exclusives, the thing suffered from huge design flaws, from the button layout to the display and cell phone functionality.
 
 
 
Has a revision called the QD which was unveiled on April 14, 2004, with an ARM9E CPU. ROM dumps of Symbian and N-Gage games are available.
 
 
 
===Emulation===
 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
 
 
|-
 
|-
! scope="col"|Name
+
|[[File:romshub.png|120px]]
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
+
[https://romshub.com/ RomsHub]
! scope="col"|Version
+
| Various
! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]
+
| No
! scope="col"|Active
+
| No
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
+
| Collection of Various ROMs.
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
!colspan="7"|PC / x86
+
|[[File:romskingdom.png|120px]]
 +
[https://romskingdom.com/en/download-roms/nintendo-wii Romskingdom]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Collection of Various ROMs.
 
|-
 
|-
|[[EKA2L1]]
+
|[[File:romshero.png|120px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|}}
+
[https://romshero.com/ Romshero]
|[https://github.com/EKA2L1/EKA2L1/releases {{EKA2L1Ver}}]
+
| Various
|Mid
+
| No
|{{✓}}
+
| No
|{{✓}}
+
| Collection of Various ROMs.
|{{✓}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
|Engemu
+
|[[File:Hexrom.jpeg|100px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
[https://hexrom.com/ Hexrom]
|[https://github.com/mrRosset/Engemu Git]
+
| Various
|None
+
| No
|{{✗}}
+
| No
|{{✓}}
+
| Collection of Various ROMs.
|{{✗}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
|NGEmu
+
|[[File:Nulledbb.jpeg|100px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
[https://nulledbb.com/thread-Nintendo-ROMS-Dump-MegaThread-NES-SNES-GB-GBC-GBA-NDS-3DS-GAMECUBE-WII Nulledbb]
|[https://github.com/NGEmu/NGEmu Git]
+
| Various
|None
+
| Yes
|{{✗}} <small>(see below)</small>
+
| No
|{{✓}}
+
| Collection of Fullest Rom Sets.
|{{✗}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
|N-GageCool
+
|[[File:Romsworld.png|120px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
[https://romsworld.online/ Romsworld.online]
|[https://ngage-cool.soft32.com/ 1.2.1] ($)
+
| Various
|Terrible
+
| No
|{{✗}}
+
| No
|?
+
| Collection of Fullest Rom Sets.
|{{✗}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
!colspan="7"|Mobile / ARM
+
|[[File: Classicgame.png|120px]]
 +
[https://www.classicgames.me/ Classic Games]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Collection of Fullest Rom Sets.
 
|-
 
|-
|[[EKA2L1]]
+
|[[File:Moreroms.png|120px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android|}}
+
[http://moreroms.com/ Moreroms]
|[https://github.com/EKA2L1/EKA2L1/releases {{EKA2L1Ver}}]
+
| Various
[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.eka2l1 0.0.4.2]
+
| No
|Mid
+
| No
|{{✓}}
+
| Collection of Fullest Rom Sets.
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|}
 
 
 
;[[EKA2L1]]:A Symbian OS emulator with [https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/8aotzq/eka2l1_a_symbian_os_emulator/ high-level emulation], 25 Symbian games (6 N-Gage Games) have been labeled In-Game, 9 have been tagged Playable, and many more have yet to be tested.(Note: The Elder Scrolls Travels: Shadowkey and Ashen are among 6 N-Gage Games that go In-Game.)
 
 
 
;Engemu:A Nokia N-Gage focused emulator with [https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/8aotzq/eka2l1_a_symbian_os_emulator/ low-level emulation].
 
 
 
;NGEmu:The [https://github.com/NGEmu/NGEmu/commit/7500b41959c686e65eaed871490c97b2de5da0d6 first] known Nokia N-Gage emulator (with high-level emulation), although it is currently on hiatus due to a lack of information required to further development. Linux support is planned for the future.
 
 
 
;N-GageCool:A dead payware emulator for Windows. It only partially emulated the J2ME-based Nokia N-Gage exclusives and nothing else from the rest of the bunch.
 
 
 
==Japanese cell phones==
 
Several Japanese-centric mobile game technologies spawned during the 00's as part of convoluted all-in-one technological solutions, mostly based on Java.
 
 
 
* DoCoMo released DoJa (later renamed to Star), based on Java ME CLDC, but not MIDP. Applications come in the form of .JAR files accompained by a .JAM descriptor.
 
* KDDI released ezplus (later renamed to "EZ-appli (Java)"), based on Java ME extended with propietary APIs. Applications come in the form of .KJX files. It was later replaced with a BREW-based solution called "EZ-appli (BREW)"
 
* J-PHONE released J-SKY, based on standard J2ME MIDP extended with several propietary 3D/sound/gfx APIs. It was later renamed to "Vodafone Live!" and "Yahoo! Keitai" as the company got purchased by Vodafone and SoftBank, respectively. Applications come in the form of .JAR and .JAD files.
 
 
 
It is possible to develop applications that work both under ezplus, J-SKY and standard J2ME devices by using only MIDP1.0 APIs
 
===i-mode (DoJa)===
 
Japanese mobile manufacturer NTT DoCoMo released [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoJa DoJa] (DoCoMo's Java) as part of their i-mode set of standards for mobile telephony. It is based on Java ME CLDC, but not MIDP. The profile received several updates, being later renamed to "Star". It was used on DoCoMo's mova and FOMA series of mobile phones, being first featured on the mova 503i from 2001.
 
 
 
While i-mode phones were made available in a limited fashion in Europe, the game apps weren't exported, the i-mode specific features were mainly used for enhancing web pages for mobile browsers and even the Java API is the different more limited "Overseas Edition". The main reason behind this was the fierce push back by Nokia and other western mobile hardware manufacturers refusing to support the DoJa software standard until very late.
 
 
 
DeNa (Mobage), Namco (Tales of Mobile) and Level-5 (RoiD) set up Steam-like game distribution portals specific to some cell-phone models yet i-mode based. The different names are to confuse dirty gaijin, probably.
 
 
 
Applications were denominated "i-αppli" (Japanese: iアプリ) and come in the form of .JAR files accompained by a .JAM descriptor text file.
 
 
 
====Emulators====
 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
 
 
|-
 
|-
! scope="col"|Name
+
|[[File:Sonyiso.png|120px]]
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
+
[http://www.sonyisos.com/isos.php/psp-isos/ SonyISOs]
! scope="col"|Version
+
| Various
! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]
+
| No
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
+
| No
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
+
| Collection of Fullest Rom Sets.
 
|-
 
|-
!colspan="6"|PC / x86
+
|[[File:Royalroms.png|120px]]
 +
[https://www.royalroms.com/ RoyalRoms]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Collection of Fullest Rom Sets.
 
|-
 
|-
|DoJa SDK
+
|[[File:Romnation.png|120px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
[https://www.romnation.net/ Romnation]
|Various
+
| Various
|Mid
+
| No
|?
+
| No
|{{~}}
+
| Collection
 
|-
 
|-
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20070614131147/http://www.doja-developer.net/downloads/index.php?node=41 DoJa Overseas Edition SDK]
+
|[[File:Emulanium.png|120px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
[https://emulanium.com/ Emulanium]
|v1.03
+
| Various
|Low (DoJa 2.5oe)
+
| No
|?
+
| No
|{{✗}}
+
| Collection of Roms.
 
|-
 
|-
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20030407232654/http://www.zentek.com/jpn/products/mobile/jade/index.html i-JADE]
+
|[[File:Nesfiles.png|120px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
[https://www.nesfiles.com/ NESfiles]
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20040618195810if_/http://www.mobilejava.co.kr:80/bbs/temp/midpboard/i-JADEsetup0.exe v1.2.3]
+
| NES Roms
|Low (DoJa 1.X)
+
| No
|?
+
| No
|{{✗}}
+
| All NES Games.
 
|-
 
|-
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20151127190756/http://mujweb.cz/molej/jade/index.htm Jade]
+
|[[File:Classicgamesroms.jpeg|120px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Java}}
+
[https://sites.google.com/site/classicgameroms/ Classic Games Roms]
|0.1.7
+
| Various
|Low (DoJa 1.5)
+
| No
|?
+
| No
|{{✗}}
+
| Collection of Roms.
 
|-
 
|-
|[[SquirrelJME]]
+
|[[File:Theromdepot.jpeg|120px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|Mac|Java|}}
+
[https://theromdepot.com/ Theromdepot]
|{{SquirrelJMEVer}}
+
| Various
|{{SquirrelJMEAccuracy}}
+
| Yes
|{{✓}}
+
| Yes
|?
+
| Collection of Roms.
|}
 
;DoJa SDK
 
:Official development kit from NTT DoCoMo, featuring a device emulator. Several releases were archived by Wayback Machine:
 
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20051125214529if_/http://communaute.imode.fr:80/pages/13/idk_doja1.5_vers_1.0.6.zip DoJa 1.5] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060519052212if_/http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp:80/binary/archive/service/imode/make/content/download/contract/emu504_1.03_021217.zip DoJa 2.?] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060519052212if_/http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/binary/archive/service/imode/make/content/download/contract/emudoja2.1f_1.00_021217.zip DoJa 2.1] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060519052212if_/http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/binary/archive/service/imode/make/content/download/contract/emufordoja3_0_322_p.zip DoJa 3.0] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060519052212if_/http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/binary/archive/service/imode/make/content/download/contract/emufordoja3_5_222_p.zip DoJa 3.5] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060519052212if_/http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/binary/archive/service/imode/make/content/download/contract/emufordoja4_0_205_p.zip DoJa 4.0] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060519052212if_/http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp:80/binary/archive/service/imode/make/content/download/contract/emufordoja4_1_111_p.zip DoJa 4.1 (111)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060519052212if_/http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/binary/archive/service/imode/make/content/download/contract/emufordoja4_1_201.zip DoJa 4.1 (201)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060519052212if_/http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/binary/archive/service/imode/make/content/download/contract/emufordoja5_0_3_00.zip DoJa 5.0] [https://web.archive.org/web/20000426191235if_/http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/binary/archive/service/developer/make/content/iappli/tool/star/star20/download/emuforstar2_0_1_01.zip Star 2.0]
 
;DoJa Overseas Edition SDK
 
:SDK for the stripped down Overseas Edition DoJa profile
 
;i-JADE
 
:iappli development kit from Zentek
 
;Jade
 
:Open-source project implementing several DoJa 1.5 APIs. Low compatibility
 
;[[SquirrelJME]]
 
:Open source emulator that can run J2ME software, will be adding i-Mode support in 2022.
 
 
 
===KDDI ezplus===
 
Japanese carrier KDDI/Au released ezplus as part of their EZweb set of standards for mobile telephony. It is based on Java ME extended with propietary APIs. The first device supporting it was released on 2001 (Hitachi C451H).
 
ezplus was later renamed to "EZ-appli (Java)" (Japanese: "EZアプリ (Java)") and gradually replaced with a BREW-based solution called "EZ-appli (BREW)" until 2004 when the last ezplus device was released.
 
 
 
In 2006 an Open Application Player (Japanese: オープンアプリプレイヤー) feature was added allowing to run MIDP 2.0 Java apps on the BREW devices, which were often denominated as オープンアプリ. It lacks support for the original propietary extensions of ezplus. On 2011, Open Application Player was updated and renamed to "EZ-appli (J)" along EZ-appli (BREW) which became "EZ-appli (B)"
 
 
 
Applications were denominated "ezplusアプリ" (during the ezplus name era) and come in the form of .KJX files.
 
 
 
====Emulators====
 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
 
 
|-
 
|-
! scope="col"|Name
+
|[[File:Nostalgialand.jpeg|120px]]
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
+
[https://nostalgialand.net/ NostalgiaLand]
! scope="col"|Version
+
| Various
! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]
+
| No
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
+
| No
 +
| Collection of Roms.
 
|-
 
|-
!colspan="5"|PC / x86
+
|[[File:Romspedia-logo.png|120px]]
 +
[https://www.romspedia.com/ RomsPedia]
 +
| Various
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Everything related to retro games emulation. One-stop website for ROMs, emulators, BIOS files and ROM sets.
 
|-
 
|-
|ezplus emulator
+
|[[File: Matrixarcade.jpeg|120px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
[https://matrixarcade.com/ Matrixarcade]
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20070202203659if_/http://www.au.kddi.com/ezfactory/tec/spec/exe/ezplus_emulator.exe v1.0]
+
| Various Collection
|Mid
+
| No
|{{~}}
+
| No
|}
+
| Collection of Rom Sets.
;ezplus emulator
 
:Official development tool from KDDI, developed by Zentek
 
 
 
===J-SKY===
 
Japanese service provider J-PHONE released the J-SKY platform as part of their set of standards for mobile telephony. It was based on J2ME and MIDP extended with several propietary 3D/sound/gfx APIs called JSCL.
 
J-PHONE had been purchased by Vodafone on 2001, which two years later took over the original branding renaming the carrier to Vodafone KK.  The J-SKY technology became then known as "Vodafone Live!" and it was extended with the VSCL set of APIs.
 
On 2006, Vodafone KK was purchased by SoftBank Group, getting this technology rebranded again as "Yahoo! Keitai".
 
 
 
Applications were called "Java™ App" (Japanese: Java™アプリ) during the J-SKY era, "V-Appli" (Japanese: Vアプリ) during the Vodafone era and "S! Appli" (Japanese: S!アプリ) during the SoftBank era. They come in the form of .JAR accompained by a .JAD descriptor text file.
 
 
 
====Emulators====
 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
 
 
|-
 
|-
! scope="col"|Name
+
|[[File: ps3r.jpeg|120px]]
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
+
<B>[https://ps3r.com/ PS3 Roms]</B>
! scope="col"|Version
+
| Various
! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]
+
| No
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
+
| No
 +
| There are huge collection of PS3 Roms and Nintendo Roms or NES Roms. On our website you will get to download PS3 Roms , NES Roms , Emulator and BIOS, which help you play any other Roms related games
 
|-
 
|-
!colspan="5"|PC / x86
+
|[[File: Nxbrew.jpeg|120px]]
 +
[https://nxbrew.com/ NXBrew]
 +
| Nintendo Switch
 +
| No
 +
| No
 +
| Downloads to latest Nintendo Switch Games, NSPs, XCIs, Homebrews, & CFWs etc. Use an adblocker.
 
|-
 
|-
|J-SKY Application Emulator
+
|[[File: Hshop.png|120px]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
+
[https://hshop.erista.me/ hShop]
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20040201023001/http://www.mobilejava.co.kr:80/bbs/temp/midpboard/J-SKY_Application_Emulator-1_3_B.exe v1.3]
+
| Nintendo DSi and Nintendo 3DS
|Mid
+
| No
|{{~}}
+
| No
 +
| This website has 3DS games (including retail, eShop, and Virtual Console), updates, DLC, Virtual Console (official and injects), Themes, and DsiWare in .cia format. You can download them directly of through FBI Remote Install through a QR Code.
 
|}
 
|}
;J-SKY Application Emulator
 
:Official development tool from J-PHONE, developed by Zentek. It does not supports any of the later APIs.
 
  
==Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless <small>(BREW)</small>==
+
==BitTorrent==
A mobile development platform by Qualcomm, originally intended for CDMA handsets such as those sold by Verizon. Unlike Java ME, applications and games for BREW use native code as opposed to running in a virtual machine in the case of Java ME. Also, BREW development has a higher barrier to entry due to stringent certification requirements, which led it to be significantly less popular than Java ME even in markets where CDMA has a significant market share, such as in North America. To top it all off, downloaded BREW apps are tied to an individual handset via a digital signature, making piracy or sideloading difficult if not impossible; it is however possible to unlock certain BREW-enabled CDMA phones to run backups and pirated apps, though downloads for BREW apps and games are rare and hard to find compared to Java ME.
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:<small>''Note: [https://github.com/ngosang/trackerslist Here's a list of public trackers you can use] to increase the amount of peers you can reach, and [http://magnet2torrent.com a service that attempts to convert magnet links into torrent files] in case your BitTorrent client doesn't support magnets.''</small>
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====Trackers====
 +
*[http://rutracker.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=548 RuTracker] Account required for some stuff, site entirely in Russian, use [https://translate.google.com/ translate] if you really need to.
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**PlayStation Redump: [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6C5088295FAE49B5F2D92EF70B31F0377C05D824 USA (2015-05-24)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:DD381766675FBCE1204CFB4A260B2D97D43AD403 Japan (2015-11-03)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3D41D4E6024AA4AB905BF0E6354D57F680C654F3 Europe (2015-11-03)]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4F8D3549E1B536D5B2B183592DC574404A9C5135 TOSEC Dreamcast set]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0e5ef752f78ccd368580467ed26edf2435ca1911 TOSEC Sega CD and 32X set] Format is .cue, .wav and .iso and therefore may not work with some emulators (bin/cue preferred)
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6CCAAF9A361C6D2A0B79A1009322C0F8853BFB1D TOSEC 3DO set]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:EE6BB932A4C451FD8DEB1B2C85CCDD3347C7C63A TOSEC Philips CD-i set]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0E7DE4C2E472ECB20265C95D4056BF6ACDEED442 TurboGrafx-CD set Tru-Rip + Maybe-Intro (v2014)]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:29F45A7759986DB92A64A3330EDF4FF3F92B0652 TurboGrafx-CD set Tru-Rip + Maybe-Intro (v2017)]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:8681F7465E7372E938BED103D3AE60C46254C706 DS/DSi 2014 Fullset]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:10DC9442DCF9DE5AAEA392B60C4AD22571C4860A Sega Saturn Redump (2018-12-15)]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4709A0865B6252583E016699C41666AEEFEDA3C5 SNK Neo Geo CD TruRip (v2017-04-07)]
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**eXoDOS v3.11 [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6D2FA6349C36C81911C67071014AC9083258B99D Vol. I: Adventure], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3428222C030A98463B44BBE8E1C401846517C8FF Vol. II: RPG], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:18CC5F44256E20C111990ACB87CE9EE6B6E1CEAB Vol III: Strategy], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:25377847E91B1B9397A6BF0CA384E861FB15A175 Vol IV: Sim/Sports/Racing/Edu], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5AB329B89F73048560882542AEC3B427827E65B4 Vol 5: Action]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6B901594EF61DA8E2D498F88B05D5ACEDD16E881 eXoDOS v4.0]
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*[https://nnmclub.to/forum/viewforum.php?f=382 NNM-Club] Another entirely Russian tracker, which requires account for some stuff.
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**Sony PlayStation 2 Redump as of 2013/01/25 (NTSC-U): [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0C7FDC9EFAEFEEADB09767D0603769BAAAE04D72 (#-L)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1DDFA4E6D7BFCA0415828AD02C8109D15483BF77 (M-Z)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C67A5ED64ABFB15FFF5963C224A420CD24AD9782 (Additional disk images)]
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**Sony PlayStation 2 Redump as of 2017/06/13 (NTSC-U): [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:DAC912D9A80825B2B684CC7E3E6B97AE37F4BD67 (#-I)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:44D9C1B2D276E73AD3A607DAF623BDC8B44EB54A (J-R)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:B015B9A84113A789CC9B80D4D900A56E5D0C2047 (S-Z)]
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**ADVANsCEne Playstation Portable: [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:B69374F9275183F1470B35156C78AFE34BE9893A 0001-2000], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:24E6917035F53FC486D4766A81A6D4CA6C56EAA3 2001-3200], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4D8F75E6ECBCF3B569C4EC111BC307A3E4E096F3 3200-3336]
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**Nintendo Wii America: [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3BF9642C00E8569466B0B7E33FD602AAE7D3423C (#-L)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2D11F2DC7009A2B90C9FDD3D90FE37499AB8D796 (M-S)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:735F2C09160DB98F8A06273AD137DB58A692AC08 (T-Z)]
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**Nintendo GameCube Redump as of 2015-04-29: [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:99beaaaccd5401c6b34ff5d573af57c21cbf64fa (PAL)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:CB4F13E0F4640C6679DF9F06EE24F6829034B195 (NTSC-U)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:193528501DFB0495D23ECFED77CB5BC329DF6A38 (NTSC-J)]
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**Nintendo GameCube Redump as of 2018-08-25: [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:84050DEB436A9A6F84CB2C66773CD8EB4462F77F (PAL)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C1A1F862240B916A0D6C31337D97B2C8268E815E (NTSC-U)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:90A8BF78651B1213ADBCDBAB20C06756513EA572 (NTSC-J)]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:B6AA4211BB8382AD750354E91406817411BED18F Sega Dreamcast TOSEC as of 01.11.2017 + SelfBoot 0.08 as of 17.03.2011]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:E9CB345A0378F3F76344D315C65FA5E423B6190C Nintendo 3DS 2011-2014 dump](In dire need of region sorting)
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*[https://1337x.to/user/1G1R/ 1337x] for complete [https://www.romcenter.com/wiki/doku.php?id=1g1r 1G1R] collections. No account required but adblocker is advised
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:A46C4DB9BFD21F9603F292C0BF31DCE96E81CF1F Redump Dreamcast 1G1R set]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C1B091BA342CA25BA69D1BE48298E5F23641698C Redump Neo Geo CD 1G1R set]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0ADA900ABA4C50704F89F397A2D7DD52810D9688 No-Intro N64 (Nintendo 64) 1G1R set]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:400C89637C90B1E740E1942AF0092C1BB4FD31E0 Redump/No-Intro Sega CD/32X 1G1R set]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:CD12E577669007597F56B3B45B5F69BA0C63CEC6 Redump PS1 1G1R set]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:98670EB66853F84E1B0C5F3D116232E4C5C4FE84 Redump PS1 1G1R set (Part 2)]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:41BF287877E774B717974657F122433DABF9B383 No-Intro TurboGrafx-16 1G1R set]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C5771EBA6479E41781820CF083CD5C1FB7453592 No-Intro Atari Jaguar 1G1R set]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:cd240a9644e5808ca04bc3f503071679633b1bb9 Redump GameCube 1G1R set]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:E6079EB70F40E17FBF3AB01E720F71EEFDCC1DDD Redump TurboGrafx CD 1G1R set]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:646048C99CBD033331CD4E44CFC7AE1182E245CB Redump PlayStation Portable PSP + PSN 1G1R set]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:9F40CAB1E282BE8485F803DFBD3C6F761CAC04B7 Redump Atari Jaguar CD 1G1R set]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:D6DA390292CEED3EA99B1C930805DF81E04FC3E1 MAMEdevs Neo Geo MVS-AES 1G1R set]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1B6C0392A0415DD18D245E3A287B76248214BE33 Redump Sega Saturn 1G1R set]
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*[https://www.thepiratebay.org/ ThePirateBay]
 +
*[https://katcr.co/new/full/ KATKickAssTorrents]
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*[https://isohunts.to/ IsoHunt]
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====Outside the trackers====
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*Independent romset releases.
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**No-Intro Collection, a set comparable to the Internet Archive ones above but with individual archives per title instead of per system. [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e0945d7c483c5e8e3fa69ffa830c9a1a35d2a778&dn=No-Intro%20Collection%20(2019.09.16)&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.internetwarriors.net%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.open-internet.nl%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2fexplodie.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftorrent.nwps.ws%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopen.demonii.si%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftracker.torrentyorg.pl%3a80%2fannounce 2019-9-16], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:86bced531d727cb17acca8bdb7d13ec5c7d024a2&dn=No-Intro%20Roms%201%20(2018-05-13)&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexodus.desync.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexplodie.org%3a6969%2fannounce 2018-5-13]
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**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d2c94aaddb5fb1099b3c75077d5212389d26df32&dn=No-Intro%20Nintendo%20DSiWare%20(2019-01-01)&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexplodie.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexodus.desync.com%3a6969%2fannounce No-Intro Nintendo DSi (DLC) 2019-1-1], a DSiWare set comparable to the Internet Archive one but with individual files.
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*Wii digital software megapack, a reorganized mirror of MarioCube wads: [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2f97e146f67dcbbf390191ae38000160a2d5f928&dn=WII%20DIGITAL%202019-7-26&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexodus.desync.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexplodie.org%3a6969%2fannounce as of 2019-07-26], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0486296da4a726d4ff1fb07e6a40c4ae2babcd1e&dn=WII+DIGITAL+2019-2-5 as of 2019-02-05]
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*[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3c9aaade428f69f09b722bbe4025063cd0f3cb58&dn=WiiWare+and+Virtual+Console+Complete+Collection+NTSC-U ALL NTSC WiiWare titles]
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 +
===Tools & emulator forks for auto-download===
 +
*[https://github.com/TiBeN/ia-rcade ia-rcade] Auto downloads the game you choose for [[MAME]].
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*[http://www.daphne-emu.com/download/daphne-1.0v-win32.zip Daphne Loader] Auto downloads [[LaserDisc]] games for [[DAPHNE]] (except Digital Leisure games).
  
The Zeebo, a video game console and online distribution platform developed and released with developing markets in mind, also runs on BREW. Dumps of the Zeebo and its games exist, and gameplay footage of them have been uploaded on YouTube.
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==Official Dumps==
 +
===Nintendo Wii U===
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Nintendo used to deliver games the same way Sony does with the PlayStation Network; with a big encrypted disk image where all the data is useless without an authentication key. Unfortunately, they've changed this for 3DS and Switch, but not for Wii U (yet).
  
===Emulators===
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You need a titlekey database, covering base games, updates, and DLCs. A notable one is [https://titlekeys.ovh/ titlekeys.ovh]. '''Note''' you're still restricted to games that are on the eShop and that people bothered to upload their tickets to that titlekey site, so rare or retail-only games are excluded. You can likely still find these types of games from ROM sites above.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
 
|-
 
! scope="col"|Name
 
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
 
! scope="col"|Version
 
! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]
 
! scope="col"|Active
 
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
 
|-
 
|[[Infuse]]
 
|align=left|Windows Mobile
 
|? (POC)
 
|Low
 
|{{✓}}
 
|{{✗}}
 
|}
 
  
==Danger OS==
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On real Wii U hardware, you could also download a package of all tickets ever of all regions and trick the official eShop into thinking you own the game and can redownload it, but on real hardware, it has been reported some out-of-region tickets cause problems. freeShop will just install the tickets you need for the game you chose.  
Developed by Danger Incorporated, Danger OS was a Java-based OS used on phones that Danger designed themselves. These devices were sold under many names such as Hiptop, Mobiflip, Sharp Jump, and (most notably) T-Mobile Sidekick. While it could run some J2ME apps (from version 2.3 onward), it also used its own proprietary J2SE-based APIs and SDK; for this reason, anything built using these APIs won't run on a standard J2ME emulator.
 
  
===Emulators===
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If you're using [[Cemu]] with physical dumps, you'll also need [http://pastebin.com/GWApZVLa the Common Wii U Key, and individual game keys] for games you're emulating.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
 
|-
 
! scope="col"|Name
 
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
 
! scope="col"|Version
 
! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]
 
! scope="col"|Active
 
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
 
|-
 
|[https://archive.org/details/hiptop_sdk Danger Hiptop/Sidekick SDK]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|Mac|}}
 
|?
 
|Mid
 
|{{✗}}
 
|{{✓}}
 
|}
 
;Danger Hiptop/Sidekick SDK
 
:Official SDK from Danger Incorporated
 
  
==Firefox OS==
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Once you have the titlekey database including your game, you can download the game off the official servers using your tool of choice.
  
===Emulators===
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====NUS Downloaders (PC)====
{{No current emulators|OS}}
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You can get Wii U dumps this way. First of all get the NUS Downloader, for example [https://github.com/FailedShack/USBHelperInstaller/releases/latest Wii U USB Helper]. Make sure to use the appropriate URL for the titlekey database.
  
==Fire OS==
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Then, it's as simple as selecting the game you want to download, clicking "Get It" and then "Download Games". This will download the files for the game you chose (the same as the .tik's title). Choose your own region where possible, so the servers are closer to you.
  
===Emulators===
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Once the download is complete:
{{No current emulators|OS}}
 
  
==Tizen==
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* '''Wii U dumps:''' You can either install the game to your Wii U by moving it to an SD Card and using [http://wiiubru.com/appstore/#/app/wup_installer_gx2 WUP Installer GX2], or if you're using the deprecated Loadiine (or [[Cemu]]), you can "Convert" it "to Loadiine/CIA". Simply right-click your newly downloaded game, and then click "Prepare for Emulation". The .rpx file will be available in the game's folder, at /code/[yourgame].rpx.
  
===Emulators===
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Updates and DLCs can be downloaded the same way. Right click on a game's name to choose which to download. For Wii U games for emulation on Cemu:
{{No current emulators|OS}}
 
  
==webOS==
+
To install updates and DLC on Cemu:
 +
* Run the game at least once.
 +
* Check Cemu's log.txt file and look for a line that says "Mounting local storage (AOC): .\mlc01\usr\title\NUMBERS\NUMBERS\aoc\"
 +
* Add (create) folders with the same name as the above (substituting the "NUMBERS" bit with the actual numbers) in your "CEMUFOLDER/mlc01/usr/title" folder.
 +
* Add any updates (which must be added first) you want to the "CEMUFOLDER/mlc01/usr/title/NUMBERS/NUMBERS/" folder.
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* Create a folder named "aoc" and put the DLC files into there. The "code", "content", and "meta" folders of the actual game itself also go in the "aoc" folder.
  
===Emulators===
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===Nintendo Amiibo===
{{No current emulators|OS}}
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[[Amiibo]] are special figurines that interact with a number of 3DS, Wii U and Switch games. Depending on how hard they are to find, they can either be bought at a local retailer or on eBay for a fortune. NFC tags are dumped to binary files (.bin). [[Android emulators|Android]] users can use [https://github.com/HiddenRamblings/TagMo/releases TagMo] to read and write these files, provided they have the [https://pastebin.com/aV23ha3X appropriate encryption keys.]
  
==Bada==
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* [https://mega.nz/#F!Ek8BCCqD!ggJQ4SVOtfTR74ohXvn-Ng Here's the most complete Amiibo set]
  
===Emulators===
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===Sony PSP / Vita / PlayStation 3===
{{No current emulators|OS}}
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Similar situation as Nintendo. As of now, you need RAP license files and the game dump proper to install your game on your CFW'd console, or on real hardware. Some people offer their own license files on some applications and websites so that everyone can get their dumps. Of course, these are limited to popular games people bothered to upload their license files for and only digital games.
  
==Windows Phone==
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The [http://psndl.net/packages PSNdl] website is a good way to get PlayStation 3 games for example, including PlayStation Classic versions of PlayStation and PlayStation 2 dumps that can be extracted and run on regular emulators. Make sure to get the RAP license as well. The pkg file can be decrypted with tools like [https://sites.google.com/site/theleecherman/psnpkgdecryptor-extractor psnpkgdecryptor-extractor] (useful for ripping PlayStation Classics), though emulators like RPCS3 now offer built-in installers for those, and PlayStation 3 CFW supports those as well.
  
===Emulators===
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PSNStuffX is another PC downloader tool that comes with a database and covers some games that PSNdl doesn't.
{{No current emulators|OS}}
 
  
==Windows 10 Mobile==
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An even newer project is [https://nopaystation.com/ NoPayStation], offering both a database of pkg links and licenses, as well as a Windows downloader and auto-converter: [https://nopaystation.com/vita/npsReleases/ NPS Browser]
  
===Emulators===
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For PlayStation 3 game updates, go to <code>https://a0.ww.np.dl.playstation.net/tpl/np/{game_id}/{game_id}-ver.xml</code> (replacing both <code>{game_id}</code> with the game's ID) to see links to available update .pkgs for that game.
{{No current emulators|OS}}
 
  
==Windows Mobile==
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==Verifying Good Dumps==
Released in 2000 by Microsoft as their first mobile OS, originally called "Pocket PC" and made to run on PDA's, the name changed to Windows Mobile when the PDA market began to shrink. WM was initially based on Windows CE before evolving into something unique. It was mainly designed for business users, so it didn't have a lot of games for it.
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{{Main|File_Hashes#Determining_Good_Game_Dumps}}
  
===Emulators===
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==Game Recommendations==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
+
Game recommendations are highly subjective, but big lists like these usually cover the worthwhile games for each system.
|-
+
*[http://vsrecommendedgames.wikia.com/wiki//v/%27s_Recommended_Games_Wiki /v/'s Recommended Games Wiki]  
! scope="col"|Name
+
*[http://retro-sanctuary.com/Top%20Games%20Main.html Retro-Sanctuary's Top 100 Lists]
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
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*[http://www.racketboy.com/guide/games-that-defined-retro-gaming-machines Racketboy's Defining Games]
! scope="col"|Version
+
*[http://www.racketboy.com/guide/hidden-gems Racketboy's Hidden Gems]
! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]
+
[[Category:Recommendations]]
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
 
|-
 
!colspan="5"|PC / x86
 
|-
 
|Microsoft Device Emulator
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
 
|[https://www.mediafire.com/file/u6g8z7sq2lb82re/MSDeviceEmu.zip/file 3.0]
 
|?
 
|{{✓}}
 
|}
 
  
Images are required. They can be downloaded [https://archive.org/details/WM614Emulator here]
+
==Searching for ISOs==
 +
A lot of the above sites have ISOs for disc-based games, but some of the more obscure titles can be hard to find. If you want to find these games, searching for their ID number is generally more effective than searching for their title. Both Mobygames and GameFAQs will list these under the game's release information. This number is region specific and is very useful if you want to find an ISO from a specific region.
  
==Read More==
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==Download Managers==
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=tCxvX60J8OAC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA145#v=onepage&q&f=false Micro Java Game Development], mentions Japanese i-mode emulators that are currently dead, like i-tool.
+
Many resources we've listed will link to files called .DLCs that contain a list of urls to download. We've voluntarily listed some programs you can use in the event that you come across one and don't want to deal with the links manually.
* [https://www.gamedev.net/articles/programming/general-and-gameplay-programming/the-clash-of-mobile-platforms-j2me-exen-moph-r1944 A 2003 article from GameDev.net] about the major Western mobile phone systems
 
* [http://www2.sys-con.com/itsg/virtualcd/Java/archives/0609/blut/index.html Article] about DoCoMo Java programming
 
  
==References==
+
*[http://jdownloader.org/jdownloader2 JDownloader 2] (Adware-free installer) - Written in Java, and quite possibly the most recognized tool for the job.
{{Reflist}}
+
*[https://pyload.net/ pyLoad] - Written in Python under AGPL3, PyLoad is a good alternative.
 +
*[https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive Internet Archive Python Library] - Archive.org specific command-line download tool.
  
[[Category:Mobiles]]
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==See Also==
<!-- [[Category:Not yet emulated]]
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*[[Ripping Games]] - If you don't feel comfortable downloading ROMs you can try dumping the game yourself.
[[Category:Very early emulation]] -->
 

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Downloads

Internet Archive

Add a slash (/) after the URLs to view the contents of compressed archives from the browser. This helps you avoid downloading upwards of 400 gigabytes just to get only a fraction of the contents. The archive also creates torrents of each entry (that are not the same as any original torrents the user may have uploaded) that you can use to speed up your downloads, but be warned however that these torrents can be problematic if the uploader has added/removed/renamed files in the collection as they tend to not update correctly, if at all, so you may end up with only part of the collection, or an older version of the collection. A better recommendation is to use a download manager listed below to grab all the files rather than use the torrents.

NOTE: If downloads are restricted (greyed out), copy the file name and append it to the end of the URL (ie: https://archive.org/downloads/NameOfPack -> https://archive.org/downloads/NameOfPack/ROMPack.zip)
Set Date Registration
Required
Notes
SmokeMonster's ROM Packs 2020-06-29 All links have been purged, 2018 torrent can be found on piratebay or 2020 pack with this torrent magnet
MAME and MESS
Redump Sega - Mega-CD - Sega CD CHDs 2020-09-13 Redump (526/530) Torrent contains "Sega - Mega-CD - Sega CD - CHDs.torrent"
Redump.org Sets A massive collection of most of the Redump sets. A good place to start for those new to collecting.
Redump Original Xbox Must extract with Xbox Image Browser to play on CXBX-R.
Redump 3DO 2019-06-21
Redump Sega - Saturn 2019-10-17
Redump SNK - Neo Geo CD - CHDs 2020-09-17 Redump (101/101) Torrent contains: "SNK - Neo Geo CD - CHDs.torrent"
Redump SNK - Neo Geo CD 2019-10-16
TOSEC (The Old School Emulation Center)
TOSEC - Sega Dreamcast
Vintage Software Many DOS collections and older games.
Neo-Kobe NEC PC-9801 2017-11-17
Neo-Kobe NEC PC-8801 2016-02-25
Redump Wii America (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) 2017-09-07
Complete Gameboy Roms 2019-02-19 US/EU/JP/World/Proto/Demo/Etc. Includes Translated and Hack Titles.
Complete Super Nintendo RomPack 2019-02-11 US/EU/JP/World/Proto/Demo/Etc. Includes Translated and Hack Titles.
No-Intro Collection 2016-01-03 Outdated.
No-Intro Nintendo DS 2019-06-30 File names are in alphabetical order.
No-Intro Nintendo DSi 2018-06-30
Nintendo DSiWare 2019-01-29 Formatted to .nds, can be used on homebrewed DSi's running TWiLight Menu or converted into a .cia for 3DS. Will NOT work on any emulators (in theory could work with No$GBA).
Redump PS2 NTSC-U (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) 2018-08-01 Game IDs are used for file titles. CD-based games are .bin files, DVD-based games are .iso files.
Redump PS1 America 2017-10-02
John (Mr) Smith Uploads Redump PS1 NTSC-U and PAL sets.
No-Intro Collection 2017-06-27 Outdated.
Complete North American GameCube Collection 2015-09-13 Redump verified SCRUBBED ISO image files. To bypass registration look in comments for magnet link (torrent).
Redump Saturn 2015-09-13 Includes manuals and magazines.
FinalBurn Neo 2020-07-20 Maintained and updated regularly.
No-Intro Collection 2020-07-15 Maintained and updated regularly.
Sega CD, Sega Saturn, PC Engine CD, PlaystationPart 2, 3DO, Neo Geo CD, PC-FX 2020-08-03 A collection of trurip/EmulationArchive sets.
Redump NEC PC-FX 2020-02-13 Complete collection (at least as of 2020-09-05). Some titles are outdated, so files themselves and contents of .CUE files will have to be renamed.
Redump NEC PC Engine CD & TurboGrafx CD 2020-09-25
N-Gage 2.0 Games Archive 2020-06-22 Contains cracked scene releases and trial versions of N-Gage 2.0 games.
N-Gage Cracked Games full romset 2020 2020-01-22 All releases are cracked, allowing them to be played on an N-Gage without having to deal with the "Memory card is corrupted" error.
Terraonion - SNK - Neo Geo (.neo format) 2021-04-02 Terraonion (141) Torrent contains "SNK - Neo Geo - NEOs + TOSEC manuals.torrent"

ROM & ISO Websites (mostly rubbish)

Name Content Registration Required? Rate Limited? Notes
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RomsMania

Various No No WARNING: When downloading, press 'More Options' and choose 'Browser Download', otherwise it gives malware. A lot of stuff for 5th gen and below, also includes GCN, Wii, NDS, and PSP. PS1 ISOs are not redump.
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Ziperto

Most of Nintendo Games No No Good for decrypted 3DS games for Citra. Use an adblocker.
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Madloader

3DS No No Decrypted 3DS and Switch games for Citra and Yuzu. Use an adblocker.
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ROMsie

Various No No ROMs up to 6th gen.
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Downarea51

Various No No Collection of Various ROMs.
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FreeRoms

Various No No Wide selection of retro titles (Nintendo first-party titles nuked, but third-party titles remain).
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Vimm's Lair

Various No No A lot of games as well as scans of the manuals. All dumps are verified by Redump or No-Intro, however GameCube and Wii dumps are scrubbed. *Note that scrubbed discs can be restored to 1:1 copies using Nkit.
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Topxgame

PC No No Collection of Best PC Games.
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PortableRoms

Various No No Collection of Various ROMs.
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Gamulator

Various No No Small website where you can download all sort of retro console ROM's and ISO's.
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RomsPlanet

Various No No One of the biggest ROM`s collection for PS, Gameboy, Nintendo...etc.
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CoolROM

Various No No Wide selection of retro titles (Nintendo first-party titles nuked, but third-party titles remain).
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RomsDownload

Various No No Standard selection of ROMs up to 5th gen, plus some 6th and 7th gen.
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Roms-Download.com (Killerroms)

Various No No A website which contains roms from Odyssey to Wii. Roms on this site originate from a website called s2roms.cc A.K.A Killer Roms.
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Emuparadise

Various No No Good for No-Intro sets (which require registration). Since Emuparadise removing ROMs download links from view, a TamperMonkey/GreaseMonkey script is currently required for downloading ROMs from it (outside of the forums).
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RomUniverse

Various No No Wide selection of retro titles (Nintendo first-party titles nuked, but third-party titles remain).
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Planet Emulation

Various No No Very old, weekly updated and classy French ROM site, full MAME CHDs. Just click on "Telecharger" for download. (All ROMs from Nintendo-based systems have been taken down as of July 2018.)
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CDRomance

Various No No Contains PSP ISOs and PSX2PSP eboots collection but also PS2, PS1, Gamecube, NDS, GBA, GB, SNES, losts of romhacks and English patched games. Also contains a collection of PSP DLCs.
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GameTronik

Various No No French ROM Site.
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Atarimania

Atari 2600 No No Contains a complete Atari 2600 ROM set.
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Pokemonlog

Pokemon Mod & Hacks No No Small website where you can get the latest Pokemon ROM's and Pokemon rom hacks.
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Macintosh Garden

Macintosh No No Abandonware archive for old Macintosh games. Popular vintage PC abandonware site, "Home of the Underdogs", originally hosted this site. It has small guides to running a few Macintosh emulators.
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JapaneseCompendium

Old PC Games Jpn No No A blog dedicated to old PC games from Japan.
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MacGameFiles.com

Macintosh No No Site dedicated to basic shareware and demo versions of Macintosh games; as well as patches, mods and tools.
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Various No No

1.PS2/PS3/PS4 games.
2.Xbox Classic/360 games.
3.PSP/PS Vita games.
4.Wii/Wii U/3DS/Switch games. When using this site, make sure to have a good adblocker to protect you from malicious ads and whatnot. It's a legit site, just wear a digital condom.

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ROMsGet Romsgames.png Download ROMs

Various No No Standard selection of ROMs up to 6th gen, plus Wii.
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EmuRoms.ch

Various No No Torrent site for ROMs and ISOs. Has ROMs up to the 3DS. Also, it has the same layout as the now dead Portal Roms.
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World of Spectrum

ZX Spectrum No No For ZX Spectrum games and applications as well magazines, cover art, booklets, and much more. ROMs and tape images on the site were released with permission from their original authors.
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RetroStic

Various No No Standard selection of ROMs up to 5th gen, plus NDS.
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Abandonware France

DOS No No Also, a French ROM site.
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ROMsForever Romspure.jpeg Romspure

Various No No Complete sets for up to 5th gen systems, plus a fair amount of 6th+ gen.
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Gamecube Roms

Various No No Complete sets for up to 5th gen systems, plus a fair amount of 6th+ gen, Gamecube.
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ConsoleRoms

Various No No Standard selection of ROMs up to 6th gen, plus Wii.
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Rom Center Markdown Edition 2021 (/r/Roms Mega Thread)

Various No No Center made with MkDocs in Github, Edition 2021.Documentation of places to get roms, curated by /r/Roms on Reddit
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MAME

MAME No No Directly from the MAME site. Games that were released with permission for free and non-commercial use.
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eagleforces

Various No No hosted in Korea, has no-intro sets for various 8 and 16-bit consoles available as individually downloadable roms. Links are direct with no redirects, confirmation pages, or captchas.
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The Index

Various No No Links to ROMs and ISO.
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Pokemoner

Pokemon Mod & Hacks No No All Pokemon Roms Various Consoles.
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XCI files
NSP files

Nintendo Switch No No Decrypted Switch games for Yuzu.
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Switchrls

Nintendo Switch No No Decrypted Switch games for Yuzu. Use an adblocker.
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XCINSP

Nintendo Switch No No Decrypted Switch games for Yuzu.
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jiyouWang

Nintendo Switch Yes No Chinese Site, Decrypted Switch games for Yuzu.
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Gbahacks

GBA Games Hack No No Lot of GBA Roms Hacks.
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Dedomil

Java Games No No Big Collection of java Games.
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Phoneky

Java Games No No Huge java Games Collection.
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Seclub

Java,Symbian Games No No Russian Site, Lot of j2ME,Symbian Games Collection.
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Spaces.im

Cellphone Games No No Russian Site, Lot of Games.
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Romulation

Various Yes No Useful for Wii, GameCube, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2 etc, maybe no-intro rips. (account required - use bugmenot or make one with a temp email account) (Many games (including most Nintendo titles) have been DMCA'd as of January 2017).
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Pleasuredome

Various Yes No Great private tracker for getting full sets of many systems (No-Intro, Goodsets, Trurip, Redump, TOSEC). Does not allow newer systems. Strict ratio site that requires you to maintain a positive upload to download ratio. No longer hosts Nintendo game torrents.
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TheOldComputer

DOS Yes No
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Arcade Punks

Various Yes
(User Uploaded Direct-Download (Forum post))
No
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Emudesc

Various Yes
(User Uploaded Direct-Download (Forum post))
No Spanish forums where you can find Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii, Nintendo DS, 3DS, PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable roms (possibly more stuff too).
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k73

Various ? Yes A Chinese site that relies on baidu as a hosting service. Whenever prompted to install an external application (really persistent malware), always refuse since most if not all links are not premium. Has lots of Chinese fan-translations as well as Japanese games on newer consoles not usually uploaded, and more importantly latest gen dumps.
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oldmanemu

Various Yes No Chinese site for getting full rom sets of various systems.Files host on baidu/ctfile/115.
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/1cc/

Various ? Yes imageboard, good for the latest arcade releases (from recent machines no less) but links don't stay up for too long.
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ROM Hustler

Various ? Yes Has Renascene PlayStation Portable dumps. Has a good selection of games from all consoles Gen-6 and earlier. Limited to one download at a time; additional attempts "503" while a download is active. Currently you can't download Nintendo related ROMs from here.
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RomToHome

Various No Yes ~50kB/s downloads, but has proper scene releases for a variety of consoles including (but not limited to) Wii U, Wii, PlayStation 2, Nintendo 3DS, DS and PlayStation Portable.
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PS1Games

PS1/2/PSP No No Contains a complete PSP, PS2 and PSX ISOs.
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popuw

Various Prince of Persia Game No No Unofficial POP site Modify Game, Patch etc.
WiiWare and Virtual Console WADs WiiWare No No also hosted on Google Drive, can be used on Dolphin or a modded Wii.
Partial PlayStation 2 Redump (2016/03/19) PlayStation 2 No Yes PS2 (5046/6863 games).
AlvRo's Collection Various No Yes A collection of many consoles, which contains Xbox/Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, and many other retro consoles. Runs on 1fichier, any passwords that are needed are always ByAlvRo.
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Gamesmountain

Various No No Best Site of 7th Gen.
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5kroms

PlayStation Portable Games No No PlayStation Portable ISOs.
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wowroms

Various No No Collection of Various ROMs.
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RomsHub

Various No No Collection of Various ROMs.
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Romskingdom

Various No No Collection of Various ROMs.
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Romshero

Various No No Collection of Various ROMs.
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Hexrom

Various No No Collection of Various ROMs.
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Nulledbb

Various Yes No Collection of Fullest Rom Sets.
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Romsworld.online

Various No No Collection of Fullest Rom Sets.
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Classic Games

Various No No Collection of Fullest Rom Sets.
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Moreroms

Various No No Collection of Fullest Rom Sets.
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SonyISOs

Various No No Collection of Fullest Rom Sets.
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RoyalRoms

Various No No Collection of Fullest Rom Sets.
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Romnation

Various No No Collection
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Emulanium

Various No No Collection of Roms.
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NESfiles

NES Roms No No All NES Games.
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Classic Games Roms

Various No No Collection of Roms.
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Theromdepot

Various Yes Yes Collection of Roms.
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NostalgiaLand

Various No No Collection of Roms.
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RomsPedia

Various No No Everything related to retro games emulation. One-stop website for ROMs, emulators, BIOS files and ROM sets.
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Matrixarcade

Various Collection No No Collection of Rom Sets.
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PS3 Roms

Various No No There are huge collection of PS3 Roms and Nintendo Roms or NES Roms. On our website you will get to download PS3 Roms , NES Roms , Emulator and BIOS, which help you play any other Roms related games
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NXBrew

Nintendo Switch No No Downloads to latest Nintendo Switch Games, NSPs, XCIs, Homebrews, & CFWs etc. Use an adblocker.
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hShop

Nintendo DSi and Nintendo 3DS No No This website has 3DS games (including retail, eShop, and Virtual Console), updates, DLC, Virtual Console (official and injects), Themes, and DsiWare in .cia format. You can download them directly of through FBI Remote Install through a QR Code.

BitTorrent

Note: Here's a list of public trackers you can use to increase the amount of peers you can reach, and a service that attempts to convert magnet links into torrent files in case your BitTorrent client doesn't support magnets.

Trackers

Outside the trackers

Tools & emulator forks for auto-download

Official Dumps

Nintendo Wii U

Nintendo used to deliver games the same way Sony does with the PlayStation Network; with a big encrypted disk image where all the data is useless without an authentication key. Unfortunately, they've changed this for 3DS and Switch, but not for Wii U (yet).

You need a titlekey database, covering base games, updates, and DLCs. A notable one is titlekeys.ovh. Note you're still restricted to games that are on the eShop and that people bothered to upload their tickets to that titlekey site, so rare or retail-only games are excluded. You can likely still find these types of games from ROM sites above.

On real Wii U hardware, you could also download a package of all tickets ever of all regions and trick the official eShop into thinking you own the game and can redownload it, but on real hardware, it has been reported some out-of-region tickets cause problems. freeShop will just install the tickets you need for the game you chose.

If you're using Cemu with physical dumps, you'll also need the Common Wii U Key, and individual game keys for games you're emulating.

Once you have the titlekey database including your game, you can download the game off the official servers using your tool of choice.

NUS Downloaders (PC)

You can get Wii U dumps this way. First of all get the NUS Downloader, for example Wii U USB Helper. Make sure to use the appropriate URL for the titlekey database.

Then, it's as simple as selecting the game you want to download, clicking "Get It" and then "Download Games". This will download the files for the game you chose (the same as the .tik's title). Choose your own region where possible, so the servers are closer to you.

Once the download is complete:

  • Wii U dumps: You can either install the game to your Wii U by moving it to an SD Card and using WUP Installer GX2, or if you're using the deprecated Loadiine (or Cemu), you can "Convert" it "to Loadiine/CIA". Simply right-click your newly downloaded game, and then click "Prepare for Emulation". The .rpx file will be available in the game's folder, at /code/[yourgame].rpx.

Updates and DLCs can be downloaded the same way. Right click on a game's name to choose which to download. For Wii U games for emulation on Cemu:

To install updates and DLC on Cemu:

  • Run the game at least once.
  • Check Cemu's log.txt file and look for a line that says "Mounting local storage (AOC): .\mlc01\usr\title\NUMBERS\NUMBERS\aoc\"
  • Add (create) folders with the same name as the above (substituting the "NUMBERS" bit with the actual numbers) in your "CEMUFOLDER/mlc01/usr/title" folder.
  • Add any updates (which must be added first) you want to the "CEMUFOLDER/mlc01/usr/title/NUMBERS/NUMBERS/" folder.
  • Create a folder named "aoc" and put the DLC files into there. The "code", "content", and "meta" folders of the actual game itself also go in the "aoc" folder.

Nintendo Amiibo

Amiibo are special figurines that interact with a number of 3DS, Wii U and Switch games. Depending on how hard they are to find, they can either be bought at a local retailer or on eBay for a fortune. NFC tags are dumped to binary files (.bin). Android users can use TagMo to read and write these files, provided they have the appropriate encryption keys.

Sony PSP / Vita / PlayStation 3

Similar situation as Nintendo. As of now, you need RAP license files and the game dump proper to install your game on your CFW'd console, or on real hardware. Some people offer their own license files on some applications and websites so that everyone can get their dumps. Of course, these are limited to popular games people bothered to upload their license files for and only digital games.

The PSNdl website is a good way to get PlayStation 3 games for example, including PlayStation Classic versions of PlayStation and PlayStation 2 dumps that can be extracted and run on regular emulators. Make sure to get the RAP license as well. The pkg file can be decrypted with tools like psnpkgdecryptor-extractor (useful for ripping PlayStation Classics), though emulators like RPCS3 now offer built-in installers for those, and PlayStation 3 CFW supports those as well.

PSNStuffX is another PC downloader tool that comes with a database and covers some games that PSNdl doesn't.

An even newer project is NoPayStation, offering both a database of pkg links and licenses, as well as a Windows downloader and auto-converter: NPS Browser

For PlayStation 3 game updates, go to https://a0.ww.np.dl.playstation.net/tpl/np/{game_id}/{game_id}-ver.xml (replacing both {game_id} with the game's ID) to see links to available update .pkgs for that game.

Verifying Good Dumps

Main article: File_Hashes#Determining_Good_Game_Dumps

Game Recommendations

Game recommendations are highly subjective, but big lists like these usually cover the worthwhile games for each system.

Searching for ISOs

A lot of the above sites have ISOs for disc-based games, but some of the more obscure titles can be hard to find. If you want to find these games, searching for their ID number is generally more effective than searching for their title. Both Mobygames and GameFAQs will list these under the game's release information. This number is region specific and is very useful if you want to find an ISO from a specific region.

Download Managers

Many resources we've listed will link to files called .DLCs that contain a list of urls to download. We've voluntarily listed some programs you can use in the event that you come across one and don't want to deal with the links manually.

  • JDownloader 2 (Adware-free installer) - Written in Java, and quite possibly the most recognized tool for the job.
  • pyLoad - Written in Python under AGPL3, PyLoad is a good alternative.
  • Internet Archive Python Library - Archive.org specific command-line download tool.

See Also

  • Ripping Games - If you don't feel comfortable downloading ROMs you can try dumping the game yourself.