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*[https://retrogames.goodolddownloads.com/ Retro Games (Good Old Downloads)] New ROM site opened up from [https://goodolddownloads.com/ Good Old Downloads]. Has many retro consoles.*[http://www.doperoms.com Doperoms] Has some Redump PSXPS1/GCN among other things. (Nintendo-published titles have been DMCA'd as of July 2017.)
*[http://www.romshepherd.com Rom Shepherd] Great site to request or fill requests for ROMs. Also has an invite only tracker, but do not ask for an invite on the forums, only privately.
→No limit
***[https://archive.org/details/3DO_2017_Reference_Set_Redump_Validated_ROMs Redump 3DO] set (2017-04-04).
***[https://archive.org/details/almstcmpltdrmcst Redump Dreamcast] set (2015-09-20). Missing lots of games. Includes manuals.
***[https://archive.org/details/NEC_PC_Engine_CD-ROM2_System_and_TurboGrafx-CD_2016_Reference_Set_Redump_Validated_ROMs Redump PC-Engine CD/Turbografx TurboGrafx CD] set (2016-11-06)
***[https://archive.org/details/tosec?sort=-publicdate TOSEC] (The Old School Emulation Center) sets.
***[https://archive.org/details/vintagesoftware Vintage Software] Many DOS collections and older games.
***[https://archive.org/details/NeoKobe-NecPc-98012017-11-17 Neo-Kobe PC-9801] and [https://archive.org/details/Neo_Kobe_NEC_PC-8801_2016-02-25 PC-8801] sets.
**Registration Required <small>(If you do not have an account at the Internet Archive, you can use <abbr title="Email: [email protected] | Password: emugen">these credentials</abbr>.)</small>
***[https://archive.org/details/Cyles_Gameboy_roms Complete Gameboy Rom Set]. US/EU/JP/World/Proto/Demo/Etc. Includes Translated and Hack Titles. (2019-02-19)
***[https://archive.org/details/CylesSNESRomPack Complete Super Nintendo Rom Set]. US/EU/JP/World/Proto/Demo/Etc. Includes Translated and Hack Titles. (2019-02-19)
***[https://archive.org/details/No-Intro-Collection_2016-01-03_Fixed No-Intro Collection] for most cartridge-based systems (2016-01-03).
***[https://archive.org/details/No-Intro-Collection_2016-09-06 No-Intro Collection] (June 27, 2017)
***Redump GameCube ([https://archive.org/details/RedumpNintendoGameCubeAmerica Part 1], [https://archive.org/details/RedumpNintendoGameCubeAmericaPart2 Part 2], [https://archive.org/details/RedumpNintendoGameCubeAmericaPart3 Part 3]) USA sets (2016-05-27).
***[https://archive.org/details/gamecubenaiso Complete North American GameCube Collection].
***[https://archive.org/details/NoIntroNintendoDsNumberedDecrypted noIntroNintendoDsDecrypted2019Jan03 No-Intro Nintendo DS] set (20172019-0201-1303). File names are organized by scene release in alphabetical order.
***Redump PS2 ([https://archive.org/details/RedumpSonyPS2NTSCU Part 1], [https://archive.org/details/RedumpSonyPS2NTSCUPart2 Part 2]) USA sets (September 2016). Game IDs are used for file titles. CD-based games are .bin files, DVD-based games are .iso files.
***[https://archive.org/details/RedumpSonyPlayStationAmerica20160617 redumpSonyPlaystationAmericaGames02October2017 Redump PS1] USA set (20162017-0610-1702).
***[https://archive.org/details/@john_mr_smith?sort=titleSorter Redump PS1] NTSC-U and PAL sets.
***[https://archive.org/details/SgaStrnCmplt Redump Saturn] set (2015-09-13). Includes manuals and magazines.
*[https://romsmode.com/ RomsMode] RomsMode is a website which offers its users free ROM downloads that are available to play on a PC or a mobile phone.
*[https://www.pokemonlog.com/ Pokemonlog] Small website where you can get the latest Pokemon ROM's and Pokemon rom hacks.
*[https://1drv.ms/f/s!AjhjvPRX_n2MaWkDV24VstiSRKg/ Battousai_Hades Collection] Collection of Battousai_Hades. Massive collection of games and multimedia from Zelda.
*[http://romhustler.net/ ROM Hustler] Has Renascene PlayStation Portable dumps. Has a good selection of games from all consoles Gen-6 and earlier
*[https://romsmania.cc/ RomsMania] RomsMania.cc is a source with a big collection of popular ROM games and Emulators such Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Super Nintendo, Sony PlayStation, Sega Genesis and more.
*[http://mamedev.org/roms/ MAME] Directly from the MAME site. Games that were released with permission for free and non-commercial use.
*[http://nicoblog.org/ Nicoblog] A site where people can share their games. if you come here for PlayStation 3 games and wanna play them on [[RPCS3]], be mindful that the game might not play on RPCS3 due to the RPCS3's team strict stance on piracy. so... there's that.
*[https://vimm.net/ Vimm's Lair] A lot of No-Intro games as well as manuals for games / Fantastic place for ROMs with altered headers with VIMMSLAIR watermarks, If you want a perfect ROMs, then Vimm's Lair is the place to go. /s
*[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7H6hIZDxNXeQW9uODA5UkM0ZG8 Nintendo Wii - Scrubbed Retail Collection (NTSC)] hosted on Google Drive
*[https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7vPmuZfN3snMU0zYlBXSWVhOUE WiiWare and Virtual Console WADs] also hosted on Google Drive, can be used on Dolphin or a modded Wii.
*[https://www.ziperto.com/ Ziperto] good for decrypted 3DS games for Citra
*[https://downloadgameps3.com/ DownloadgamePS3] great for ps3 games obviously. when using this site, make sure to have a good adblocker and shit to protect you from malicious shit. it's a legit site, just wear a digital condom.
*[http://eagleforces.tistory.com/ eagleforces] 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.
*[https://www.romstorage.com/ Romstorage] Good for newer consoles (Nintendo Switch, 3DS, PS4PlayStation 4, Wii U, etc.)
* [http://emuparadise.me/ Emuparadise] 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).
*[https://www.freeroms.com/ FreeROMS] Wide selection of retro titles (Nintendo first-party titles nuked, but third-party titles remain).
===Download limit===
*[https://1fichier.com/dir/uExVcS2h Partial PS2 PlayStation 2 Redump (2016/03/19)] (5046/6863 games)*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19tAZ1KNEUZ58e-4kPJGh947alDb1oyrNpzcnCLk7DEE/pubhtml AlvRo's Collection] A collection of many consoles, which contains Xbox/Xbox 360, PS3PlayStation 3, and many other retro consoles. Runs on 1fichier, any passwords that are needed are always '''ByAlvRo'''.*[https://romtohome.com/ RomToHome] ~50kB/s downloads, but has proper scene releases for a variety of consoles including (but not limited to) Wii U, Wii, PS2PlayStation 2, Nintendo 3DS, DS and PSPPlayStation Portable.
*[https://retrozone.co/ Retro Zone] Many systems and PC. Successor to the now defunct ISO Zone (even recovering the links from it). The filehost it uses for most TiZ-recovered links (firedrop.com), not only maxes out at ~500kb/s download speed and has a 4gb per day limit but it can also rate limit you to 200kb/s "due to heavy daily usage". However, with the addition of no filehosting limits and allowing to add mirrors, mirrors for some Firedrop-uploaded files as well as most new uploaded files can use another option.
*[http://www.k73.com/ k73] 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.
Use some common sense while downloading!
*[https://darkumbra.net/forums/forum/57-content-sharing/ darkumbra.net] Great site with a massive selection of Wii, Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 (with many others as well), and full ROM sets.
*[http://psvitaiso.com/ psvitaiso.com] PlayStation Vita, PSP PlayStation Portable and PS1 PlayStation games.
*[http://wiiuiso.com/ wiiuiso.com] Mostly Wii games, but also other Nintendo games.
*[http://www.ps3iso.com/forum.php ps3iso.com] Many 'premium-only' links.
*[http://www.3dsiso.com/forum.php 3dsiso.com] 3DS games.
**[http://www.3dsiso.com/showthread.php?275949-1FICHIER-shared-folder-decrypted-3ds-roms-for-citra-and-others-28-06-2017 Decrypted 3DS games] for Citra.
*[https://www.arcadepunks.com/arcade-punks-arcade-building-modding-and-gaming-forum/forum/your-download-shares/ Arcade Punks] Various sets
*[https://www.emudesc.com Emudesc] Spanish forums where you can find Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii, Nintendo DS, 3DS, PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable roms (possibly more stuff too).
**Redump PS1 sets: [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6C5088295FAE49B5F2D92EF70B31F0377C05D824 USA], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:DD381766675FBCE1204CFB4A260B2D97D43AD403 JAP], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3D41D4E6024AA4AB905BF0E6354D57F680C654F3 PAL]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4F8D3549E1B536D5B2B183592DC574404A9C5135 TOSEC Dreamcast set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0e5ef752f78ccd368580467ed26edf2435ca1911 TOSEC SegaCD Sega CD and 32X set] Format is .cue, .wav and .iso and therefore may not work with some emulators (bin/cue preferred)
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6CCAAF9A361C6D2A0B79A1009322C0F8853BFB1D TOSEC 3DO set]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:EE6BB932A4C451FD8DEB1B2C85CCDD3347C7C63A TOSEC Philips CD-i set]
**ADVANsCEne Playstation Portable: [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:B69374F9275183F1470B35156C78AFE34BE9893A 0001-2000], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:24E6917035F53FC486D4766A81A6D4CA6C56EAA3 2001-3200]
**Nintendo Wii America: [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3BF9642C00E8569466B0B7E33FD602AAE7D3423C (#-L)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2D11F2DC7009A2B90C9FDD3D90FE37499AB8D796 (M-S)], [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:735F2C09160DB98F8A06273AD137DB58A692AC08 (T-Z)]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:CB4F13E0F4640C6679DF9F06EE24F6829034B195 Nintendo Gamecube GameCube Redump as of 2015-04-29 (NTSC-U) (#-Z)]
**[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:B6AA4211BB8382AD750354E91406817411BED18F Sega Dreamcast TOSEC as of 01.11.2017 + SelfBoot 0.08 as of 17.03.2011]
*[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3c9aaade428f69f09b722bbe4025063cd0f3cb58&dn=WiiWare+and+Virtual+Console+Complete+Collection+NTSC-U ALL NTSC WiiWare titles]
===Tools & emulator forks for auto-download===
*[https://github.com/TiBeN/ia-rcade ia-rcade] Auto downloads the game you choose for [[MAME]].
*[http://www.daphne-emu.com/download/daphne-1.0v-win32.zip Daphne Loader] Auto downloads [[LaserDisc]] games for [[DaphneDAPHNE]] (except Digital Leisure games).
==Official Dumps==
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. Some notable ones include [http://wiiu104.titlekeys129.gq56.137/ this for Wii U keys]. '''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.
