ROM & ISO sites
If you are looking for BIOS/Firmware files, you can find them on the Emulator Files page.
Contents
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 |
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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 | ✗ | |
Terraonion - SNK - Neo Geo (.neo format) | 2021-04-02 | ✗ | Terraonion (141) Torrent contains "SNK - Neo Geo - NEOs + TOSEC manuals.torrent" |
Cellphone Collection
- Includes Games, Softwares, Emulators, SDKs, Firmware, etc..
Set | Date | Registration Required |
Notes |
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qinghui.wang Chinese Mobile Games | 2021-08-09 | ✗ | A complete scrape of the qinghui.wang website, holding about 3500 Java games. |
7723.cn J2ME/Symbian games dump | 2020-09-17 | ✗ | Scrape of the Chinese site 7723.cn, hosting around 100000 J2ME / Symbian games. |
mypalm.ru downloads section | 2021-03-04 | ✗ | Scrape of the downloads section of mypalm.ru, with software for PalmOS devices. |
dubigame.tistory.com Korean mobile games dubigame.tistory.com mirror |
2021-02-04 | ✗ | Scrape of the dubigame.tistory.com site, which hosted a collection of Korean SKT/LGE/KTF/Android mobile games during a short timespan. A mirror of uploaded mobile games to dubigame.tistory.com. |
Shouji.com.cn J2ME files scrape | 2020-12-12 | ✗ | Scrape of all the J2ME files at site shouji.com.cn. |
MobileHeart software downloads scrape | 2020-10-23 | ✗ | Scrape of the software downloads sections of www.mobileheart.com. |
mobilestore.pk / mobile-phones.com.pk downloads scrape | 2020-10-22 | ✗ | Scrape of the still working downloads from the mobilestore.pk and mobile-phones.com.pk sites. |
Phoneky/DownloadWAP J2ME/Symbian software downloads scrape | 2020-10-04 | ✗ | Full scrape of the J2ME and Symbian downloads section from site phoneky.com / downloadwap.com. |
Smartphone.ua downloads section scrape | 2020-10-02 | ✗ | |
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. |
hpc.ru PDA software | 2020-08-06 | ✗ | Scrape of all software, screenshots and descriptions from hpc.ru. |
litoli.com / afpda.com | 2020-08-04 | ✗ | PDA software from the litoli.com / afpda.com forum downloads. |
waper.ru deathgrab (incomplete dump) | 2020-08-04 | ✗ | Partial grab of the rotting website waper.ru, hosting countless pieces of mobile software / games. |
Unified archive of J2ME software (2019-09) | 2019-09-14 | ✗ | This is a unified collection of J2ME (Java Micro Edition) games from many
sources. Each archive is a complete collection of all J2ME software available from its source at the time of archiving. |
Qualcomm BREW Games | 2021-08-02 | ✗ | Qualcomm BREW mobile games archive from 2 different Mega folders. |
Zeebo Game & App Compilation | 2021-07-30 | ✗ | Zeebo game console games and apps. |
Huge Java Mobile Game Dump (67,000 files) | 2018-06-08 | ✗ | Over 67,000 files from the FTPs of a couple of Java Mobile game sites. One - mastiwap.com - is now completely offline. |
TOC Mobile | 2019-10-12 | ✗ | Mobile (Symbian/Java) games from TheOldComputer.com. |
Some J2ME games | 2021-05-19 | ✗ | Some j2me. |
Nokia New Series 2008 | 2021-05-04 | ✗ | A compilation of programs for Nokia mobile phones (both Symbian Series 60 and Series 30/40) in SIS and JAR (Java) formats. |
Some Vxp And Java Games For Nokia 216 | 2020-07-06 | ✗ | Games for the Nokia 216 phone. |
Mythroad (China Mobile/Cherry Mobile) games archive (MRP) | 2021-04-23 | ✗ | 2576 (with duplicates) Mythroad games I collected from random sites. |
Mythroad Archive | 2020-02-05 | ✗ | Mythroad is a platform used by China Mobile and Cherry Mobile mobile phones. This is an archive of software that runs on Mythroad, all of which are in the .mrp file format. |
DoCoMo i-Mode & EZplus App Archive | 2020-04-09 | ✗ | This contains ~600+ iMode & ~600+ EZweb games, tools, emulators/simulators & various items. |
DSEffects Java Games Archive | 2021-03-30 | ✗ | DsEffects was an italian mobile gaming company founded in 2000 by Dario Scaccia. |
Miscellaneous Flash Lite SWF files | 2020-10-23 | ✗ | Pack of miscellaneous SWF files (Likely compatible with Adobe Flash Lite) from Uzsmart.ru. |
destinypenguin DoJa archive | 2021-01-02 | ✗ | Archive of *.jad *.jam and *.jar files for Japanese feature phones listed on http://destinypenguin.web.fc2.com. |
J2ME Software archives - May 2020 | 2020-05-24 | ✗ | Preservation archive of software for the J2ME platform.
May-2020 backup. |
J2ME Personal Sanitized Archive | 2020-12-27 | ✗ | This archive is more than a collection of .jar files gathered from the internet. Instead, is a sanitization project of a particular and reduced selection of games that i'm interested in. |
(The J2ME Archives) Over 5000 Mobile Games | 2018-11-02 | ✗ | Collection of 5000+ year 2002-2005 J2ME games for early Java mobile phones. Contains some pretty old B&W games for first generation Java phones like the Nokia 3410 or Siemens ones. |
Nokia Hry | 2020-08-10 | ✗ | Pack of Nokia games. |
Java, Symbian apps & games | 2020-08-09 | ✗ | pack of stuff from the net. |
Cellphone game packs from sCZther | 2020-07-16 | ✗ | Cellphone game packs from sCZther. |
Mobile Games - Symbian (20191008). 7z | 2019-08-17 | ✗ | Symbian Mobile Games. |
Collection of J2ME game packs | 2020-07-06 | ✗ | Downloaded from various sites. |
Nokia Games J2ME | 2020-07-06 | ✗ | Around 560 Nokia J2ME games. |
Siemens X6/X7 J2ME games | 2020-07-06 | ✗ | J2Me games for the Siemens X6 and X7 cellphones. |
Random J2ME games | 2020-07-06 | ✗ | A pack of J2ME cellphone games that was laying on my drive, from various sources. |
240x320 S40 J2ME games | 2020-07-06 | ✗ | Nokia S40 standard cellphone games with the resolution 240x320. |
Sony Ericsson K7/K8 J2ME games | 2020-07-06 | ✗ | Games for the Sony Ericsson K7 and K8 cellphones. |
Nokia 6230 J2ME games | 2020-07-06 | ✗ | Games for the Nokia 6230 cellphone. |
Mobiles24.com J2ME Complete Game Archive | 2020-04-20 | ✗ | A complete copy of all 21,529 games available at Mobiles24 organized (many dupes of games for different resolution devices). |
rugame.ml | 2019-10-17 | ✗ | Assorted Java software from rugame.ml. |
Mobile Games - J2ME (20191008) | 2019-08-10 | ✗ | Collection of 279,000 J2ME Mobile Games. |
Psychex | 2019-09-15 | ✗ | Psychex's mobile Java game collection. |
(The J2ME Archives) Pack of 800 J2ME games | 2018-05-09 | ✗ | This item is part of an effort to archive as many J2ME software as possible before it disappears completely. Focus is on early era games (2002-2005). |
(The J2ME Archives) 1000 J2ME Games Pack | 2017-12-18 | ✗ | This item is part of an effort to archive as many J2ME software as possible before it disappears completely. Focus is on early era games (2002-2005). |
(The J2ME Archives) Nokia Java Games | 2019-08-01 | ✗ | This item is part of an effort to archive as many J2ME software as possible before it disappears completely. Focus is on early era games (2002-2005). |
Huge Java Mobile Game Dump | 2018-06-08 | ✗ | Over 103,000 files from the FTPs of a couple of Java Mobile game sites. One - mastiwap.com - is completely gone. |
Nokia 3310 3G ( 2017) Game Pack | 2019-07-18 | ✗ | This is a small collection of J2ME games that I (ONLYUSEmeFEET) have spent hours verifying that run on the new Nokia 3310 3G (2017). |
J2ME Touch games | 2020-07-06 | ✗ | Games for touch screen java cellphones. |
Java 128x128 ulož.to dump | 2019-05-06 | ✗ | Dump of various collections of 128x128 java phone games from the czech filesharing site Ulož.to. |
phoneky.com | 2019-07-29 | ✗ | Mobile Java games from files from phoneky.com |
files.dertz.in | 2019-07-29 | ✗ | Mobile Java games from files.dertz.in |
Java Games Collection (Beta Ver. 31.12.2019). 7z | 2020-10-31 | ✗ | java cellphones games |
Pack of 300+ games for old java phones | 2019-07-29 | ✗ | These are games in .jar format for old mobile phones before the smartphone era
Phones with Android or iOS won't run these, and even if you have a phone that can run them they aren't all compatible with all devices. |
Mophun Archive 1.0 | 2021-01-02 | ✗ | The first release of the Mophun games archive. |
Mobyware JARs | 2019-02-07 | ✗ | Mobyware JARs |
Mobyware SIS And SISX | 2019-02-07 | ✗ | Mobyware SIS and SISX files. |
sasisa.ru | 2019-02-14 | ✗ | Sasisa.ru's mobile games. |
appdown.7723.cn | 2019-02-14 | ✗ | appdown.7723.cn's mobile games. |
Virtualdos.free.fr. 7z | 2019-02-19 | ✗ | Java games. |
terbaik.my.to.7z | 2019-02-19 | ✗ | Java games, not a complete backup of the site. |
Salinguneg.xtgem.com. 7z | 2019-02-19 | ✗ | Java games. |
dedomil.net.7z | 2019-02-15 | ✗ | Mobile games from dedomil.net. |
mobile_soft | 2019-05-04 | ✗ | A collection of various mobile games and applications from an open FTP at ftp://0893881793.static.corbina.ru. |
ROM & ISO Websites
Name | Content | Registration Required? | Rate Limited? | Notes |
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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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Most of Nintendo Games | No | No | Good for decrypted 3DS games for Citra. Use an adblocker. |
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3DS | No | No | Decrypted 3DS and Switch games for Citra and Yuzu. Use an adblocker. |
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Various | No | No | ROMs up to 6th gen. |
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Various | No | No | Collection of Various ROMs. |
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Various | No | No | Wide selection of retro titles (Nintendo first-party titles nuked, but third-party titles remain). |
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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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Various | No | No | Collection of Various ROMs. |
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Various | No | No | Small website where you can download all sort of retro console ROM's and ISO's. |
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Various | No | No | One of the biggest ROM`s collection for PS, Gameboy, Nintendo...etc. |
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Various | No | No | Wide selection of retro titles (Nintendo first-party titles nuked, but third-party titles remain). |
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Various | No | No | Standard selection of ROMs up to 5th gen, plus some 6th and 7th gen. |
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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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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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Various | No | No | Wide selection of retro titles (Nintendo first-party titles nuked, but third-party titles remain). |
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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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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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Various | No | No | French ROM Site. |
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Atari 2600 | No | No | Contains a complete Atari 2600 ROM set. |
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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 | 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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Old PC Games Jpn | No | No | A blog dedicated to old PC games from Japan. |
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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.
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Various | No | No | Standard selection of ROMs up to 6th gen, plus Wii. |
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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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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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Various | No | No | Standard selection of ROMs up to 5th gen, plus NDS. |
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DOS | No | No | Also, a French ROM site. |
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Various | No | No | Complete sets for up to 5th gen systems, plus a fair amount of 6th+ gen. |
Various | No | No | Complete sets for up to 5th gen systems, plus a fair amount of 6th+ gen, Gamecube. | |
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Various | No | No | Standard selection of ROMs up to 6th gen, plus Wii. |
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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 | No | No | Directly from the MAME site. Games that were released with permission for free and non-commercial use. |
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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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Various | No | No | Links to ROMs and ISO. |
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Pokemon Mod & Hacks | No | No | All Pokemon Roms Various Consoles. |
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Nintendo Switch | No | No | Decrypted Switch games for Yuzu. |
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Nintendo Switch | No | No | Decrypted Switch games for Yuzu. Use an adblocker. |
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Nintendo Switch | No | No | Decrypted Switch games for Yuzu. |
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Nintendo Switch | Yes | No | Chinese Site, Decrypted Switch games for Yuzu. |
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GBA Games Hack | No | No | Lot of GBA Roms Hacks. |
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Java Games | No | No | Big Collection of java Games. |
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Java Games | No | No | Huge java Games Collection. |
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Java,Symbian Games | No | No | Russian site, Lot of j2ME,Symbian Games Collection. |
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Korean Games | No | No | Korean site Site, Various Korean Cellphone games Games Collection. |
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Cellphone Games | No | No | Russian Site, Lot of Games. |
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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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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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DOS | Yes | No | |
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Various | Yes (User Uploaded Direct-Download (Forum post)) |
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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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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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Various | Yes | No | Chinese site for getting full rom sets of various systems.Files host on baidu/ctfile/115. |
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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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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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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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PS1/2/PSP | No | No | Contains a complete PSP, PS2 and PSX ISOs. |
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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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Various | No | No | Best Site of 7th Gen. |
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PlayStation Portable Games | No | No | PlayStation Portable ISOs. |
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Various | No | No | Collection of Various ROMs. |
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Various | No | No | Collection of Various ROMs. |
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Various | No | No | Collection of Various ROMs. |
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Various | No | No | Collection of Various ROMs. |
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Various | No | No | Collection of Various ROMs. |
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Various | Yes | No | Collection of Fullest Rom Sets. |
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Various | No | No | Collection of Fullest Rom Sets. |
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Various | No | No | Collection of Fullest Rom Sets. |
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Various | No | No | Collection of Fullest Rom Sets. |
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Various | No | No | Collection of Fullest Rom Sets. |
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Various | No | No | Collection of Fullest Rom Sets. |
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Various | No | No | Collection |
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Various | No | No | Collection of Roms. |
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NES Roms | No | No | All NES Games. |
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Various | No | No | Collection of Roms. |
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Various | Yes | Yes | Collection of Roms. |
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Various | No | No | Collection of Roms. |
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Various | No | No | Everything related to retro games emulation. One-stop website for ROMs, emulators, BIOS files and ROM sets. |
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Various Collection | No | No | Collection of Rom Sets. |
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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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Nintendo Switch | No | No | Downloads to latest Nintendo Switch Games, NSPs, XCIs, Homebrews, & CFWs etc. Use an adblocker. |
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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
- RuTracker Account required for some stuff, site entirely in Russian, use translate if you really need to.
- PlayStation Redump: USA (2015-05-24), Japan (2015-11-03), Europe (2015-11-03)
- TOSEC Dreamcast set
- TOSEC Sega CD and 32X set Format is .cue, .wav and .iso and therefore may not work with some emulators (bin/cue preferred)
- TOSEC 3DO set
- TOSEC Philips CD-i set
- TurboGrafx-CD set Tru-Rip + Maybe-Intro (v2014)
- TurboGrafx-CD set Tru-Rip + Maybe-Intro (v2017)
- DS/DSi 2014 Fullset
- Sega Saturn Redump (2018-12-15)
- SNK Neo Geo CD TruRip (v2017-04-07)
- eXoDOS v3.11 Vol. I: Adventure, Vol. II: RPG, Vol III: Strategy, Vol IV: Sim/Sports/Racing/Edu, Vol 5: Action
- eXoDOS v4.0
- NNM-Club Another entirely Russian tracker, which requires account for some stuff.
- Sony PlayStation 2 Redump as of 2013/01/25 (NTSC-U): (#-L), (M-Z), (Additional disk images)
- Sony PlayStation 2 Redump as of 2017/06/13 (NTSC-U): (#-I), (J-R), (S-Z)
- ADVANsCEne Playstation Portable: 0001-2000, 2001-3200, 3200-3336
- Nintendo Wii America: (#-L), (M-S), (T-Z)
- Nintendo GameCube Redump as of 2015-04-29: (PAL), (NTSC-U), (NTSC-J)
- Nintendo GameCube Redump as of 2018-08-25: (PAL), (NTSC-U), (NTSC-J)
- Sega Dreamcast TOSEC as of 01.11.2017 + SelfBoot 0.08 as of 17.03.2011
- Nintendo 3DS 2011-2014 dump(In dire need of region sorting)
- 1337x for complete 1G1R collections. No account required but adblocker is advised
- Redump Dreamcast 1G1R set
- Redump Neo Geo CD 1G1R set
- No-Intro N64 (Nintendo 64) 1G1R set
- Redump/No-Intro Sega CD/32X 1G1R set
- Redump PS1 1G1R set
- Redump PS1 1G1R set (Part 2)
- No-Intro TurboGrafx-16 1G1R set
- No-Intro Atari Jaguar 1G1R set
- Redump GameCube 1G1R set
- Redump TurboGrafx CD 1G1R set
- Redump PlayStation Portable PSP + PSN 1G1R set
- Redump Atari Jaguar CD 1G1R set
- MAMEdevs Neo Geo MVS-AES 1G1R set
- Redump Sega Saturn 1G1R set
- ThePirateBay
- KATKickAssTorrents
- IsoHunt
Outside the trackers
- Independent romset releases.
- No-Intro Collection, a set comparable to the Internet Archive ones above but with individual archives per title instead of per system. 2019-9-16, 2018-5-13
- No-Intro Nintendo DSi (DLC) 2019-1-1, a DSiWare set comparable to the Internet Archive one but with individual files.
- Wii digital software megapack, a reorganized mirror of MarioCube wads: as of 2019-07-26, as of 2019-02-05
- ALL NTSC WiiWare titles
Tools & emulator forks for auto-download
- ia-rcade Auto downloads the game you choose for MAME.
- Daphne Loader Auto downloads LaserDisc games for DAPHNE (except Digital Leisure games).
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.
- /v/'s Recommended Games Wiki
- Retro-Sanctuary's Top 100 Lists
- Racketboy's Defining Games
- Racketboy's Hidden Gems
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.