ROM & ISO sites

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If you are looking for BIOS/Firmware files, you can find them on the Emulator Files page. If you're looking specifically at preservation-focused projects (which may host dumped games' checksums only or, occasionally, offer game downloads directly from their websites) instead of just places to get games, visit the Preservation projects page.

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)
ROM Archive Sets
Platform Set Date Registration
Required 		Notes
Apple Vintage Apple Macintosh Shareware Games Feb 2017 No Collection of Apple Macintosh shareware games, sourced from a large collection of (UK edition) Apple Mac magazine cover CDs, spanning mid-1990s through to early-2000s. Compiled, sorted and uploaded by vintageapplemac.com.
Arcade Arcade Version Roms No Caveui v1.3.3, Demul v0.7, FinalBurn Alpha, MAME, SEGA Model 2, Zinc, etc.
FinalBurn Neo 2024-02-10 Yes Maintained and updated regularly.
Atari No-Intro Atari Collection 2024-04-23 Yes Includes 2600, 5200, 7800, Jaguar, and Lynx.
Atari 2600 ROM Hunter v19 2024 No The most complete curated set for the 2600.
Commodore 64 C64 Preservation Project 10th Anniversary Collection 2015-11-07 No Clean copies of Commodore 64 games in nbz and G64 format.
iOS The IPA Software Archive No Best source for classic iOS (1-to-6) ROMs.
Multi-system Full RetroAchievements Collection 2024-07-03 Yes A full collection of ROMs compatible with RetroAchievements.
English Translation ROMs Collection 2024 No Handy for playing Japanese exclusives in English.
HTGDB Gamepacks Yes Designed for use with flash carts or MiSTer.
MESS and MAME No
NI ROM Sets 2024-03-06 Yes Huge collection of updated No-Intro ROM Sets.
No-Intro ROM Sets 2024-04-23 Yes **Replacement for NES, GB/C, GBA, NDS, DSi, and SMS.** All systems are listed as individual zips.
The Unofficial Redump Hoard No A massive collection of most of the Redump sets.
The Old School Emulation Center No The Old School Emulation Center.
Multi (Optical) Sega CD, Sega Saturn, PC Engine CD, 3DO, Neo Geo CD, PC-FX 2020-08-03 No A collection of trurip/EmulationArchive sets.
NEC PC-8801/9801 PC-8801 / PC-9801 2017 No Neo-Kobe collections.
Nintendo 64 No-Intro ROM sets (Merged) 2021-09-24 Yes Good set for Everdrives or Mupen64.
Nintendo Wii Wii ISO ROMs 2022-12-23 Yes Clean verified ISOs.
PC (DOS/Win) Digitoxin Media Preservation / Vintage Software No Categorized by publisher; many DOS collections.
Sega Genesis No-Intro Sega Mega Drive 2025-04-05 No Recently updated.
Sega Dreamcast TOSEC - Sega Dreamcast No
Sega Saturn Redump / Redump w/ Manuals 2019 No
SNK Neo Geo Terraonion / Neo Geo CD 2021 No
Sony PS1 Redump America 2017-10-02 Yes
Sony PS2 Redump PS2 USA (CHD) 2022-07-12 Yes Lossless CHD compression (Part A–Z).
Sony PS3 PS3 Redump 2022-09-05 Yes Extensive set for RPCS3 or modded consoles.
Sony PS Vita PS Vita NoNpDrm USA 2022-10-29 Yes Complete USA set in NoNpDrm format.
Sony PSP pspminis No 294 PSP mini games.
TurboGrafx-16 No-Intro TG16 2025 (Updated) No Part of the "Fixed" No-Intro collection.
Xbox / Xbox 360 Redump Xbox / Xbox 360 (Redump) 2025 No 360 sets are often updated via Software Capsules.

ROM & ISO websites

Name Content Registration Required? Rate Limited? Rating Notes

MiNERVA Archive

Various No No TBA A Torrent-based (at least for now until more sustainable solution found) successor to Myrient.

CDRomance

Various No No ⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️ Contains PSP ISOs and PSX2PSP eboots collection but also PS2, PS1, Gamecube, NDS, GBA, GB, SNES, many ROM hacks and English patched games. Also contains a collection of PSP DLCs.

Vimm's Lair

Various No No ⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️ A lot of games up to 7th generation, as well as scans of the manuals. All dumps are matching Redump or No-Intro, however GameCube and Wii dumps are scrubbed.

Note that scrubbed discs can be restored to 1:1 copies using Nkit.

Planet Emulation

Various No No ⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️ Very old, weekly updated and classy French ROM site, full MAME CHDs. Just click on "Telecharger" for download. It's very useful to get identical ROMs for Netplay, especially FinalBurn ROMs.

Axekin

Various No No ⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️ Modern, ad-free repository with an extensive library covering retro systems to current-gen (PS5/Switch). Features a clean modern multilingual UI, curated game collections, and hosts BIOS/Firmware. Uses high-speed dedicated hosting (Vikingfile) alongside external mirrors. Provides Switch games in .nsp and .xci formats.

RetroGameChampion

Various No No ⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️ A non-profit preservation project featuring curated ROM sets and a massive library of scanned manuals, magazines, and strategy guides. Acts as a high-quality portal for sets hosted on the Internet Archive. No ads.

Romheaven

Various No No ⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️ Decentralized permanent archive on Arweave blockchain. Individual verified ROMs (NTSC prioritized), ROM hacks, and Clean Steam Files. No registration, no limits, bulk downloads. Storage replicated across hundreds of nodes with no single point of failure. It lacks ISOs platforms like Playstations, Gamecube and Xbox-es. Switch links not working for some reason and a lot of times it redirects to a 404 error.

RomsLab Switch Roms

Switch & PS5 Games Collection Recommmended No TBA Romslab is the oldest and largest switch games liberary.

Legends World

PC Games No No N/A Hosts many obscure games not found elsewhere. The files labeled "full demo" are actually full games.

Ziperto, Ziperto Ziperto

Most of Nintendo Games No Yes ⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️ Good for decrypted 3DS games for Citra and others. Use an adblocker.

Madloader

3DS No No ⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️ Decrypted 3DS and Switch games for Citra and yuzu. Use an adblocker.

AliceISO

AliceISO No No TBA Large selection of Roms, excellent user interface, maximum speed

Roms2000

Various No No N/A ROMs up to 6th gen.

RetroGameTalk Repository

Various Yes Yes TBA Nice collection but with download limitations.

RomStation

Various Yes Yes ⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️ ~30KB/s for free accounts. Run by shady people. Needs extra proprietary spyware software to download games. Has netplay. Downloads are limited and you often have to wait in a queue. Premium subscription unlocks Full Speed download and without queue. The PS1/DC/PSP part is full of bad dumps.

EmuGen

Various No No ⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️ Collection of Various ROMs and Recent Nintendo Games.

RomsHQ

Various No No N/A PS5 and Switch Games.

FreeRoms

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

DLPSGame

DLXBGame

DownloadGamePSP

DownloadGameWii

 Various No Partially ⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️ 1.PS2/PS3/PS4/PS5 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 ad-blocker to protect you from malicious ads and whatnot.

BlueRoms

Various No No ⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️ Collection of various ROMs and ISOs, from Arcade and SNES to 3DS and PS3. All dumps are matching Redump or No-Intro, download via direct download or torrent. It has descriptions, covers, and screenshots of the games, simple and functional interface to browse/search and there are no ads.

RetroSpot

Various No No TBA Collection of various ROMs.

Gamulator

Various No No TBA Small website where you can download all sorts of retro console ROMs and ISOs.

RomsDownload

Various No No TBA Standard selection of ROMs up to 5th gen, plus some 6th and 7th gen.

Roms-Download.com (Killerroms)

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

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).

GameTronik

Various No No TBA French ROM site.

Atarimania

Atari 2600 No No TBA Contains a complete Atari 2600 and Starpath SuperCharger ROM set.

Pokemonlog

Pokémon Mod & Hacks No No TBA Small website where you can get the latest Pokémon ROMs and Pokémon ROM hacks.

Macintosh Garden

Macintosh No No TBA 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.

Macintosh Repository

Various No No TBA A website with a lot of software from old Apple computers, including games.

MacGameFiles.com

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

ASCII Express

Apple II No No TBA Little collection of Apple II games + some miscellaneous files.

Japanese PC Compendium

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

Roms Get

Download ROMs

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

World of Spectrum

ZX Spectrum No No TBA 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.

Retrostic

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

Abandonware France

DOS No No TBA Also, a French ROM site.

Rom Center Markdown Edition 2022 (/r/Roms Mega Thread)

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

MAME

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

eagleforces

Various No No TBA Hosted in South 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.

Romulation

Various Yes Yes TBA 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).

Pleasuredome

MAME & Non-MAME No No TBA Was once a great private tracker for getting full sets of many systems (MAME, No-Intro, GoodSets, Trurip, Redump, TOSEC) as well as miscellaneous content like video game magazines and Daphne laserdisc rips that were almost impossible to find elsewhere. Did not allow newer systems, and was a strict ratio site that required you to maintain a positive upload to download ratio. In 2021 the tracker and forum were permanently closed, and only the MAME & other arcade ROMs and wiki remain. There are several other gaming-focused private trackers, but none have open registration.

MDK

MAME & Non-MAME No No TBA No description yet.

TheOldComputer

Various Yes Yes TBA Contains various ROMs, emulators, box arts and more. While some ROMs are available to download for registered users, you can get Unlimited membership for lifetime by donating the site to get access to all ROMs (PS1 games for instance.)

Arcade Punks

Various Yes No TBA

Emudesc

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

OldmanEmu

Various Yes No TBA Chinese site for getting full rom sets of various systems. Files are hosted on Baidu/CTFile/115. (Although the website was once sued by an unknown company on March 20, 2026, the website restored current Nintendo ROMs.)

ROM Hustler

Various No Yes TBA 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.

PS1Games

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

popuw

Various Prince of Persia Games No No TBA Contains Prince of Persia 1/2/3D games.

NXBrew

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

EpicRoms

Various No No TBA Explore a vast collection of ROMs and ISOs for Nintendo, PlayStation, and more. We offer full Redump and No-Intro validated ROMs, and free Roms for PC and Console.

hShop

Nintendo DSi and Nintendo 3DS No No TBA 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 or through FBI Remote Install through a QR Code.

64DD.org

Nintendo 64DD No No TBA Collection of dumps for 64DD games.

RomsDL

Various No No TBA Roms up to 6th generation.

My Abandonware

Various No No TBA Old abandoned PC and console games.

romsever

Playstation, Nintendo Switch No No TBA This website carries many games and updates in .iso, .xci, .nsp, .ncz and many other PKG formats.

Bytebay

Nintendo, SEGA, and PlayStation No No TBA This website carries databases of ROM sets for dedicated systems related to Nintendo, SEGA, or PlayStation. From what I have seen, it seems to just contain ShrinkMe (a URL shortener) links which, in the end, redirect to Myrient.

EdgeEmu

Various No No TBA Contains ROMs for all Atari consoles, as well as Nintendo (up to 6th gen), Sega, and some lesser known consoles (3D0, CDI, etc.) It also contains some arcade ROMs. mdk.cab is a side project.

Half-Life Project Beta

PC Games & Mods No No TBA Contains unreleased/cut Valve & Id Software beta contents.

Old-Games.RU

Amiga, Amiga CD32, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, DVDi, Macintosh, Windows, Windows 3.x games No No TBA A Russian website dedicated to old computer games. May load in Russian, then just switch the language to English (right upper corner). Registration is optional and not required to download ROMs but gives the opportunity to participate in forum discussions, add screenshots, edit game properties, bookmark games, rate them, etc. The ROMs uploaded are conveniently filtered by in-game's languages. Maintains its own wiki.

Tech Docs Exodus

Pioneer LaserActive PAC games No No TBA Not a dedicated ROM site, actually. Just a page on LaserDisc games in the tech section on Exodus' website. However, it contains torrent files for the Pioneer LaserActive PAC games in LaserDisc format dumped by Exodus' main developer Nemesis to be used with Ares.

Turran FTP (The Ultimate Retro Repository for Amiga Nuts)

Various No Yes TBA Contrarily to what its name indicates, this FTP server has some other stuff besides Amiga games, for example, Total DOS Collection v22 game set. Has a convenient search engine. You can use your favourite FTP client to access (WinSCP or FileZilla are recommended, though). If you download directly from the web, it has a 100GiB/500-file 7-day download limit (some folders excluded from the limit).

Using an FTP client is much more unrestricted as the web downloads are meant for single files here and there.

Roms Games

Various No No TBA Games for discontinued platforms.

RomsPedia

Various No No TBA In addition to individual ROMs, has per-system Romsets.

Romsfun.com & Romspure.cc

Various No Yes TBA Tons of console games, these sites share the database.

iPhoneOS Obscura

Legacy iOS IPAs No No N/A Has several apps and games for legacy iOS versions.

Old Games Download

Various No No TBA A community-driven archive focusing on abandonware. It offers a clean, ad-free experience with an extensive library covering PC (DOS/Windows), various retro consoles (Sega, PlayStation), and rare arcade titles.

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-downloading

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 releases with 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. NUSspli can simply just install the game files and 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 get the NUS Downloader, for example Wii U USB Helper or WiiUDownloader. 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.

Sony PSP / PS3 / PS Vita

Similar situation to Nintendo. With PS3 content, you need RAP license files and a proper PKG dump to install your content on RPCS3, or on real hardware with HEN/CFW. 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.

NoPayStation is the most up-to-date repository of PKG download links available for PSP games/DLC/themes (including PSone Classics that can be extracted and run on regular emulators), PS Vita games/DLC/themes, and PS3 games/DLC/themes/avatars (including PS2 Classics) The PKG file can be extracted & decrypted with tools like psnpkgdecryptor-extractor or pkg2zip, though emulators like RPCS3 now offer built-in installers for those, and PlayStation 3 HEN/CFW supports PKG installation as well.

NPS Browser can be paired with NoPayStation databases in order to download PKGs from Windows, with a macOS equivalant available as well. Linux users can utilize NoPayStation databases with [shell scripts](https://github.com/sigmaboy/nopaystation_scripts). PSNStuffX is another PC downloader tool that can be found with a database, but it won't be as up-to-date versus NoPayStation.

For PS3 & PS4 game updates, you can use the rusty-psn application and just search your game's title ID within it in order to see every update available. PSP & PS3 game updates can also be found by going to https://princess-of-sleeping.github.io/Ps3-HTML-Tools/PS3-and-PSP-Title-Update-Checker/index.html and type in your game's title ID to see links to available update .pkgs for that game.

PKGj for the PlayStation Vita can be downloaded from within VitaDeploy and comes with NoPayStation databases with PKG files for PS Vita, PSP, and PS1 games respectively, all of which can be extracted and decrypted to be played on the usual emulators.

PKGi can also be used on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable in order to download PS1/PS2/PS3/PSP/PS Vita PKGs on their respective platforms.

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.

The .bin files can also be generated on this site as all they contain is an ID number.

Verifying good dumps

Main article: File Hashes#Determining Good Game Dumps

Game recommendations

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

Main article: List of notable ports

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. 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.
  • NoIntro Roms Downloader v2 - Download "datted" ROMs from the popular NoIntro libraries on archive.org (listing live updated) with user-friendly interface (only Windows release for now)

Bypassing copy protection

Main article: Copy protection

NoCD and NoDVD cracked executables.

Trainers

See also

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


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