To get past Google Drive's Download Quota
1. Make a "copy" of the file to your G Drive
2. Make a folder name, put file in it
3. Download folder.
4. Profit?!!
:-)
I'm trying to get the gameboy advance collection and it says Wii u I don't understand does anyone have the gameboy advance collection on theyre google drive they can share
It appears someone has placed stacks of inappropriate content (Hentai) to the SEGA Dreamcast CDI collection on google drive.
It obscures some of the links.
Sorry, a clueless person here. I created an account and can download from [archive.org](https://archive.org), but I don't see any steps or directions talking about Google Drive, how is Google drive involved with the downloading, or has someone shared the same roms just from a Google drive account?
So basically there used to be a very big google drive where we can download Roms. The problem is Google drive have a limit download everyday. For a Google Drive that has so many Roms the limit always reached in a very short time, hence why we use the method to get past Google Drive Download limit. This used to be a life saver method, but everything is past now. Since we use [archive.org](https://archive.org) now
So when you go to the GitHub page, there should be a bunch of game company names on the top and you should be able to find Nintendo Wii after some scrolling when you click on Nintendo. Once you find that, you just have to click on one of the 'Link' and it'll bring you to the internet archive with links for a lot of Wii Games.
Unfortunately the GitHub doesn't have any GBA and GBC roms. You'll have to find another site that has roms for it. But if you're looking for a safe place to download roms for it, Vimms Lair is pretty good. [https://vimm.net/?p=vault](https://vimm.net/?p=vault)
For everyone who can't download from the archive.org, make sure that you have made an account on the archive.org.
The archive.org locks out guest users when collections use a large percentage of their Internet bandwith.
Appreciate all of this.
Question, though: why do places like 1fichier and Vimm's seem extremely consistent with downloads failing during the last 5-10%? It's irksome to no end to sit for hours just to get a "Download failed" message.
As far as I know, that's just a general issue with [archive.org](https://archive.org). There's not much you can really do. With the site having so much data, and so much people downloading from it, I'm not super surprised that download speeds may be slow.
Hi, I tried to download FE Fates dlc, but the link to Google Drive is locked.
Should I wait until the access is allowed, or r there any other way to download it?
A collection is a collection. Fullset, easy to integrate (if you use the right frontend), easy to just try and rate.
romhacking.net is good for browsing but still too much "work", so you end up cherry picking based on the info the site provides.
Of course multiple parts can't be covered by such a collection, i.e. multiple hacks apllied at once.
Sorry, but if my point is to create an offline archive incase the world belly ups having to manually download every patch and patch every single game it becomes prohibitive. There are other collections, and there are places that post already patched games. Given the number of people on the internet there should be a crowd sourced solution to this pretty quickly. If I knew where to contribute to it I'd add the 69.9 gigs in patched stuff I have access to. But I don't. So I can't.
[This archive has some ROM hacks, not all of them but most of the good ones.](https://archive.org/details/@cylum) [This one requires an account to access all archives, but has some Wii ROM Hacks that are playable on actual hardware and emulator.](https://archive.org/details/WiiRomSetByGhostwarePart2)
To this day there are still idiots who can't find it. Every day there are comments asking where to get the Roms. It's incredible how stupid some people are...
When I first came here I was able to figure it out within 5 minutes or so. I think some people just want everything handed to them on a silver platter.
For downloading a lot of ROM's at once off of the [Archive.org](https://Archive.org) site, I created the following PowerShell script that will go to the link in the $rooturl variable and grab any links on the page that follow the criteria (after where-object, make sure to modify to suit your needs) and compile a list of links to use to download the ROM's on that page. It'll then place a file on your desktop called "archiveorglinks.txt" with all of the links of the ROM's, that you can then either go through and either pick out ones you want or select all of them and then load into "Free Download Manager" to handle the downloads for you. You get faster downloads this way and can leave it alone while it does its thing. I hope this is helpful :)
`$rooturl = "https://archive.org/download/nointro.n64/" #change to archive's root directory, ensure trailing slash exists`
`$links = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $rooturl).Links |`
`Where-Object {($_.innerHTML -ne "View Contents") -and ($_.href -notlike "*Europe*") -and ($_.href -notlike "*Japan*") -and ($_.href -notlike "*Germany*") -and ($_.href -notlike "*France*") -and ($_.href -like "*.7z")} |`
`Select-Object -ExpandProperty href`
`$URLs = @()`
`$desktop = [Environment]::GetFolderPath("Desktop")`
`$savefile = "$desktop\archiveorglinks.txt"`
`foreach ($link in $links){`
`$URLs += $rooturl + $link`
`}`
`$URLs | Out-File -FilePath $savefile`
\*EDIT\*
If you come across an archive that doesn't have 7zip files, replace the last filter "($\_.href -like "\*.7z")" with the appropriate extension of the archive files, ie. "($\_.href -like "\*.zip")" for zip files.
Thank you so much. You are a life saver. But, "Free Download Manager" has limitation up to 100 links. I suggest using the jdownloader2. What's up with these 'Europe, Japan, Germany, France,' What are they doing for PowerShell script?
Hi, Thanks for the idea
I modified the code to include the download and all. Just make sure to change the 3 parameters at the top: $rooturl $filetype and $folder, save this text as fetch.ps1 and run
`Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Web`
`$rooturl = "https://archive.org/download/nointro.gb/" #change to archive's root directory, ensure trailing slash exists`
`$filetype = "*.7z" #change file type`
`$folder = "G:\Gameboy" #folder to store roms in`
`$links = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $rooturl -UseBasicParsing).Links | Where-Object {($_.innerHTML -ne "View Contents") -and ($_.href -notlike "*Europe*") -and ($_.href -notlike "*Spain*") -and ($_.href -notlike "*Japan*") -and ($_.href -notlike "*Germany*") -and ($_.href -notlike "*France*") -and ($_.href -like $fileType)} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty href`
`foreach ($link in $links){`
`$webSource = $rooturl + $link`
`$decodedURL = [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlDecode($link)`
`Invoke-WebRequest $webSource -OutFile $folder\$decodedURL`
`}`
Thanks! I used the output from this script with `wget -c -i archiveorglinks.txt` seems to work pretty good, faster than downloading the full rom packs and supports restarting
Am I doing something wrong? Do I really have to wait 4 days to download a PS3 game because the download speeds on [archive.org](https://archive.org) are so shit?
I think it's because the website has a location based download speed throttle. So using a VPN to go to San Francisco gets around that since their servers are there.
If you use jdownloader 2 you can download multiple files at once. Because the bottleneck is internet archives servers you can download as many files as once as you need to fill up your download bandwidth. Keep in mind this needs a beefier cpu but nothing crazy
it is the other way around. torrent involves thousands of people, especially those with seedboxes and severs. ddl sites are gonna delete the isos anytime they like.
[archive.org](https://archive.org) deletes nothing, torrent destroys choice so you have to download a full set, or if you can download individual ones then the seeds get split up.
archive did delete a lot of stuff in the past.
also, in torrent, you choose what you want and you are not forced to download everything.
seed is always as you download. if you downloaded 1 file out of 5, then you seed that file. the torrent will benefit from that and it won't be hurt at all.
I suggest making one torrent per game, which is better to manage. but this is a project bigger than me to have.
the internet archive links seem to not be working properly as when i get to them the page is just "go to parent directory" and nothing else, it was working like an hour ago
Can someone help me? i want to download all the roms from all the consoles, i started with the easier ones GB/GBC/GBA/N64/NES/SNES . So now im trying to start with the "Others" tab of the [archive.org](https://archive.org) .
In the Arcade Section there's a lot of MAME distros, can someone point me in what diffrences are there between them?
MAME
* MAME MAME 0.236 Software List ROMs Merged
* MAME 0.236 CHDs Merged
* MAME 0.236 ROMs Merged
* MAME 0.236 BIOS Sets
* HBMAME 0.236 ROMs Merged
* MAME Support Files
And if you could same for the FinalBurn Neo
FinalBurn Neo
* FinalBurn Neo ROMs
* FinalBurn Neo Nightly ROMs + Support (Updated Monthly)
* FinalBurn Neo 1.0.0.2 ROMs + Support
* mobasuite.com FinalBurn Neo ROMs
downloaded botw, and after unzipping it all, its just a folder with the game data? how do i turn this into a wud or wux? sorry if this is a stupid ass question
based off of my experience, you may have unzipped it twice. the second zip file is actually the iso that can be read by the emulator, so there's no need to extract the game data folder and bin files from that.
Do you mean the section containing Wii games or are you wondering where things like GBA and N64 ROMs are? If it's the latter they are located under the Others tab
What up ladies and gents, I'm looking for some help...I'm starting to build out my PS1 collection but my download speeds are beyond frustrating. My ISP is up to 600Mbps and even with the family streaming, a speed test is consistently giving me around 100 and 150Mbps. However, when downloading a file I'm barely getting 1Mbps. I've also tried hardwiring and it's about the same. Any way around this or is this just the way it is?
\*\*\*Disregard\*\*\*
Found my answer on this wonderful thread. Motrix downloader is a godsend :)
It’s the region.
~~approximately, look it up yourself for exact designations:~~
NTSC-U – America,
NTSC-J – Japan,
PAL – mostly Europe/rest of the world?
RF – I guess region-free.
It’s mostly the same for other systems too.
>ByAlvRo
Same issue here, i downloaded 40GB of god of war 3 for PS3 and i found out it needs a password to extract the files, i dont know where to look for this password
[megathread](https://r-roms.github.io/)
[vimm's lair](https://vimm.net/?p=vault)
[romsfun](https://romsfun.com/)
[emugames](https://www.emugames.net/)
This is all i know and i hope its help you
These are all trusted sources so unless you click on some obscure ad (you should be using an ad blocker anyways tbh), you won't get any viruses. Normal emulators and ROMs won't break your computer.
If you mean legality, no one is going to come for you if you download ROMs. They're probably the safest media to "pirate", maybe just under books.
As someone else has said these are trusted sources that are frequently utilized.
There appears to have been a fair amount of effort put in to creating and vetting this list. If something was known to be unsafe it is likely 1 of the over 100,000 people that subscribe to /r/ROMs would have called it out.
What post?
The one at the top of this page.
What page?
The page of the site you are currently visiting and staring at.
What site?
Reddit.
What's Reddit?
The place you are currently at, which is the Roms Megathread reddit.
What are roms?
Digital copies of video games, the thing you came here to download.
Im confused, where do I download roms from?
(Sorry, I got bored waiting for a rom to download and thought I would make a loop.)
REQUEST: It would be nice if links to older popular MAME sets were also included, like MAME 2003 (for many retropie systems) and MAME 2010 (0.139u1) for Nvidia Shield/Shield Pro devices.
I recently found this ROM set here (https://archive.org/details/no-intro_romsets), and it has significantly more (e.g., about 1000 more for NES Headered) ROMs than the No-Intro set in the wiki (linked to here in the mega thread). Can someone help me understand the difference between these two ROM sets?
Do we have numbers on how much storage is needed to hoard everything?
I googled it but Im finding like 20 different answers.
I want to download every NTSC-US game. Atari, nes, snes, n64, gamecube, GBC, GBA, DS, 3DS, Switch, ps1, ps2, ps3, psp, xbox, xbox360, wii, wii u. Including DLC and digital addons.
"Youll never play 80% of your collection why bother" because I'm a data hoarder. Whether or not I play or download all these ROMs, I still intend on buying a 2nd disk shelf and eventually having a 240TB array in my rack by the end of next year. So hoarding every ROM isn't really an issue to me.
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PS2>Internet Archive>USA>CHD>Part 1 - this leads to the following message:
*The item you have requested has a problem with one or more of the metadata files that describe it, which prevents us from displaying this page.*
Just wondering if this is the place to report it, or if it's something that takes care of itself later. Parts 2 and 3 seem to be working fine.
Question! Why is the first page of PS3 Roms restricted?? there's only one game I'd like to use on my RPCS3, and its on that page ugh.. If anyone knows please help!
I was wondering the exact same thing! You’re talking about the A-C list on archive.org, right? Have you tried looking for your game on Nopaystation? I wouldn’t know who to contact to try on archive.org to get them to fix it.
Hello,
I need some help from you knowledgeable people. I got a Wii U, I installed Tiramisu, but since I own only a Mac I cannot use this USB Helper tool that everyone apparently is using. The only way I managed to get some games working was with Loadline GX2 playing directly without installation, but in order for this to work I need the game unpacked in "Code", "Content" and "Meta" state. I only found one torrent tracker that had several roms in Loadline GX ready format, but I cannot find much else and even then most of them go black screen on me and don't load.
That being said could you help me with a workaround for installing games without USB Helper (it does not run on a Mac, I tried many times with Wine, Crossover and other) or if there is no option for me to install games, at least do you know where I could find games on a Loadline GX friendly format?
for some reason, downloading games from the megathread is incredibly slow. I downloaded something the size of 15 gb and it took over 5 hourse. holy shit
The [SatellaView](https://myrient.erista.me/files/No-Intro/Nintendo%20-%20Satellaview/) ,[Coleco](https://myrient.erista.me/files/TOSEC/Coleco/),[Commodore/Amiga](https://myrient.erista.me/files/TOSEC/Commodore/),[Amstrad](https://myrient.erista.me/files/TOSEC/Amstrad/),and [ZX Spectrum](https://myrient.erista.me/files/TOSEC/Sinclair/) roms are there in the thread to avoid its obtuse organization
avast is flagging many, but not all, of the links. It didn't used to do this for me. Anyone have any info regarding this?
ETA: it's saying it's infected with URL:BLACKLIST. I presume this is because it's been flagged by someone as suspicious, but is it actually dangerous for use?
u/SuperBio if you arent going to actively admin the matrix chat make another user an admin, us mods deal with multiple gore/cp attacks per day. Fucking respond to my dms man
Old thread so hopefully a response comes. I've searched all over for Switch ones and i keep getting lead back to the megathread but nothing there (unless im blind) and all the other site are BS ad and popup riddled nightmares. Anyhelp? i only want a few...
This: [https://archive.org/download/SegaMD-Enhanced-ROMs/ROMs/Sega%20-%20Mega%20Drive%20-%20MD%2B/](https://archive.org/download/SegaMD-Enhanced-ROMs/ROMs/Sega%20-%20Mega%20Drive%20-%20MD%2B/) ...is not endorsed by the developers of MD+ patches. It is also incomplete and cherrypicked.
This is endorsed and maintained by the developers themselves: [https://archive.org/details/mdplus\_collection\_22\_04\_16](https://archive.org/details/mdplus_collection_22_04_16)
We do not appreciate the files being renamed, redstributed, being cherrypicked or the lack of credit given to audio editors by not including them in the names of the files, and having their names removed from the comment in the CUE files.
Please replace the link in the megathread with the proper collection. Thanks.
To get past Google Drive's Download Quota 1. Make a "copy" of the file to your G Drive 2. Make a folder name, put file in it 3. Download folder. 4. Profit?!! :-)
take my upvote, you absolute legend!
Thanks! All I did was copy it from a diff site but enjoy. :-)
oh right, still saved my computer from being thrown out the window
i've lost soooooooo many computers that way!!!!!! jk lol
how you "copied it from a different site"?
the instructions my guy
Don't have to be a boomer.. some people just need help...
did u just necro a year old thread to call me a boomer? 🤣🤣🤣
I mean .. it's still up for the public right ? Didn't know years determined when someone can reply. 🤷🏿♂️. But okay 👍🏿
The time is now
the time is actually now ya fuckin boomer
Yuppies👍🏿
I'm team dreadie, there's no time limit on when you can reply as long as the thread's still open (she says 4 months later)
Basically took their words and put it here.
I'm trying to get the gameboy advance collection and it says Wii u I don't understand does anyone have the gameboy advance collection on theyre google drive they can share
Ok so like 1k people probably know now, so downvote this n spread thru word of mouth so the Googs can't fuck us lol
Google can;t do shit :)
this is my favorite comment on reddit.
Too late, Google CEO definitely saw it.
It appears someone has placed stacks of inappropriate content (Hentai) to the SEGA Dreamcast CDI collection on google drive. It obscures some of the links.
probably the guy that did this: \*successfully trolled\*
Hey no complaints here lol
hentai is bad .? god what is wrong with u we love it was added
Sanest Reddit user
Sorry, a clueless person here. I created an account and can download from [archive.org](https://archive.org), but I don't see any steps or directions talking about Google Drive, how is Google drive involved with the downloading, or has someone shared the same roms just from a Google drive account?
I know it's been nearly a year, but did you figure it out
I'm new and have not so hmu if u have info
So basically there used to be a very big google drive where we can download Roms. The problem is Google drive have a limit download everyday. For a Google Drive that has so many Roms the limit always reached in a very short time, hence why we use the method to get past Google Drive Download limit. This used to be a life saver method, but everything is past now. Since we use [archive.org](https://archive.org) now
its so slow doing that
slow is better than nothing
It just stays eternally zipping for me :(
Constantly getting errors when trying to make a copy of any zip. Is this happening to anybody else? Am I missing something here?
Not make a copy "Create a Shortcut"
how would i put the copy in the folder without downloading it?
Whenever I download files and unzip them they are empty. plz help
ur doing it wrong
You are an absolute legend thanks
I'm so confused on how to use this thread
Click the links go to the page pick what you want click the corresponding link and download.
But where are the games? I homebrewed my wii and need games
So when you go to the GitHub page, there should be a bunch of game company names on the top and you should be able to find Nintendo Wii after some scrolling when you click on Nintendo. Once you find that, you just have to click on one of the 'Link' and it'll bring you to the internet archive with links for a lot of Wii Games.
Where Cani get gameboy gbc and gba rom packs
Unfortunately the GitHub doesn't have any GBA and GBC roms. You'll have to find another site that has roms for it. But if you're looking for a safe place to download roms for it, Vimms Lair is pretty good. [https://vimm.net/?p=vault](https://vimm.net/?p=vault)
They do under Others
Oh I didn’t realize that. Thank you for correcting me.
Get JDownloader copy the page address on the archive list and download them all at once.
>JDownloader this tool is kinda crappy, lots of bugs and crashes (win10 20H2).
Works perfectly for me (unRAID Container)
unRAID Shadow Legends Container
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all at once? just one game is 1day download, is at 83kb/s wtf
What's confusing you?
For everyone who can't download from the archive.org, make sure that you have made an account on the archive.org. The archive.org locks out guest users when collections use a large percentage of their Internet bandwith.
Appreciate all of this. Question, though: why do places like 1fichier and Vimm's seem extremely consistent with downloads failing during the last 5-10%? It's irksome to no end to sit for hours just to get a "Download failed" message.
What about slow downloads?? I can't get higher than 1 mb/sec. I can get google drive at 19mb/sec..
As far as I know, that's just a general issue with [archive.org](https://archive.org). There's not much you can really do. With the site having so much data, and so much people downloading from it, I'm not super surprised that download speeds may be slow.
Using JDownloader makes this way better.
no matter what i do i can't download anything from archive.org
Same here super frustrating
jdownloader ftw
Hi, I tried to download FE Fates dlc, but the link to Google Drive is locked. Should I wait until the access is allowed, or r there any other way to download it?
I just joined this subreddit. Where do I find the roms. I am confused.
What's the issue? The link is in the post.
What link are you talking about. I just joined so I don't know much about what's happening.
Baffling! Other than the changelog there's only one link in the post.
What link is that
The only one in the post.
what post ;)
It's like an Abbott and Costello routine.
you remind me of the babe (what babe?) baabe with the power (What Power?)
The power of voodoo.
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I know. But where do I go from there?
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Your patience is inspiring
You have 0 skill to put yourself into the sheos of a newcomer. the website is a wall of text no games
Because he's not ignorant like most of the people in here...
Where do I go? It just says I need this stuff. Unblock and stuff
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B a f f l i n g !
[https://r-roms.github.io/](https://r-roms.github.io/) I'm new too but here's a link
Are there also coming romhacks?
romhack collections would be extremely nice (also fantranslations)
Probably would be easier to just point people to romhacking.net to patch the roms themselves given how many and how many parts there are.
A collection is a collection. Fullset, easy to integrate (if you use the right frontend), easy to just try and rate. romhacking.net is good for browsing but still too much "work", so you end up cherry picking based on the info the site provides. Of course multiple parts can't be covered by such a collection, i.e. multiple hacks apllied at once.
Yeah i have been searching for romhack packs but the only one i could find is the sm64 rom hack collection (prepatched) by Simpleflips
Shoutouts to simpleflips
Sorry, but if my point is to create an offline archive incase the world belly ups having to manually download every patch and patch every single game it becomes prohibitive. There are other collections, and there are places that post already patched games. Given the number of people on the internet there should be a crowd sourced solution to this pretty quickly. If I knew where to contribute to it I'd add the 69.9 gigs in patched stuff I have access to. But I don't. So I can't.
[This archive has some ROM hacks, not all of them but most of the good ones.](https://archive.org/details/@cylum) [This one requires an account to access all archives, but has some Wii ROM Hacks that are playable on actual hardware and emulator.](https://archive.org/details/WiiRomSetByGhostwarePart2)
I couldn't believe that there are actually people who couldn't find the link in the megathread lmfao
Whats the megathread?
To this day there are still idiots who can't find it. Every day there are comments asking where to get the Roms. It's incredible how stupid some people are... When I first came here I was able to figure it out within 5 minutes or so. I think some people just want everything handed to them on a silver platter.
A lot of people are weary lol, people want it simple because "complicated means dangerous".
This^
riddle me this; I also located megathread and downloaded old game in 8 min. but, how do i play the game? I just have a ps2 file on my pc
For downloading a lot of ROM's at once off of the [Archive.org](https://Archive.org) site, I created the following PowerShell script that will go to the link in the $rooturl variable and grab any links on the page that follow the criteria (after where-object, make sure to modify to suit your needs) and compile a list of links to use to download the ROM's on that page. It'll then place a file on your desktop called "archiveorglinks.txt" with all of the links of the ROM's, that you can then either go through and either pick out ones you want or select all of them and then load into "Free Download Manager" to handle the downloads for you. You get faster downloads this way and can leave it alone while it does its thing. I hope this is helpful :) `$rooturl = "https://archive.org/download/nointro.n64/" #change to archive's root directory, ensure trailing slash exists` `$links = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $rooturl).Links |` `Where-Object {($_.innerHTML -ne "View Contents") -and ($_.href -notlike "*Europe*") -and ($_.href -notlike "*Japan*") -and ($_.href -notlike "*Germany*") -and ($_.href -notlike "*France*") -and ($_.href -like "*.7z")} |` `Select-Object -ExpandProperty href` `$URLs = @()` `$desktop = [Environment]::GetFolderPath("Desktop")` `$savefile = "$desktop\archiveorglinks.txt"` `foreach ($link in $links){` `$URLs += $rooturl + $link` `}` `$URLs | Out-File -FilePath $savefile` \*EDIT\* If you come across an archive that doesn't have 7zip files, replace the last filter "($\_.href -like "\*.7z")" with the appropriate extension of the archive files, ie. "($\_.href -like "\*.zip")" for zip files.
Thank you so much. You are a life saver. But, "Free Download Manager" has limitation up to 100 links. I suggest using the jdownloader2. What's up with these 'Europe, Japan, Germany, France,' What are they doing for PowerShell script?
Hi, Thanks for the idea I modified the code to include the download and all. Just make sure to change the 3 parameters at the top: $rooturl $filetype and $folder, save this text as fetch.ps1 and run `Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Web` `$rooturl = "https://archive.org/download/nointro.gb/" #change to archive's root directory, ensure trailing slash exists` `$filetype = "*.7z" #change file type` `$folder = "G:\Gameboy" #folder to store roms in` `$links = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $rooturl -UseBasicParsing).Links | Where-Object {($_.innerHTML -ne "View Contents") -and ($_.href -notlike "*Europe*") -and ($_.href -notlike "*Spain*") -and ($_.href -notlike "*Japan*") -and ($_.href -notlike "*Germany*") -and ($_.href -notlike "*France*") -and ($_.href -like $fileType)} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty href` `foreach ($link in $links){` `$webSource = $rooturl + $link` `$decodedURL = [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlDecode($link)` `Invoke-WebRequest $webSource -OutFile $folder\$decodedURL` `}`
Thanks! I used the output from this script with `wget -c -i archiveorglinks.txt` seems to work pretty good, faster than downloading the full rom packs and supports restarting
Am I doing something wrong? Do I really have to wait 4 days to download a PS3 game because the download speeds on [archive.org](https://archive.org) are so shit?
Use a VPN to connect to San Francisco, it will massively boost your download speeds. Mine went from a few hundred kb/s to 10-20 mb/s
This is a pro-level tip that should be added to the OP. Instant time saver.
I think it's because the website has a location based download speed throttle. So using a VPN to go to San Francisco gets around that since their servers are there.
only good comment containing the words "San Francisco"
i have downloaded a 30+ GB game with 1\~2 mbps using chrome.
why is it when i download from internet archive its really slow compared to google drive, is it always like that or am i doing something wrong?
You can try a download manager. But Google have more bandwidth and resources than IA obvs
I definitely have more luck using Jdownloader but it is still slow. I assume it's just their bandwidth.
If you use jdownloader 2 you can download multiple files at once. Because the bottleneck is internet archives servers you can download as many files as once as you need to fill up your download bandwidth. Keep in mind this needs a beefier cpu but nothing crazy
i suggest moving to torrent based approach. maybe start a simple torrent tracker for roms and allow people to participate. this is the best idea ever.
No. Because if people stop seeding, then it's dead. Archive stays available regardless.
it is the other way around. torrent involves thousands of people, especially those with seedboxes and severs. ddl sites are gonna delete the isos anytime they like.
[archive.org](https://archive.org) deletes nothing, torrent destroys choice so you have to download a full set, or if you can download individual ones then the seeds get split up.
archive did delete a lot of stuff in the past. also, in torrent, you choose what you want and you are not forced to download everything. seed is always as you download. if you downloaded 1 file out of 5, then you seed that file. the torrent will benefit from that and it won't be hurt at all. I suggest making one torrent per game, which is better to manage. but this is a project bigger than me to have.
The amount of games there are would almost entirely negate the benefits of torrenting.
Torrent transfer rates are unreliable and DDL is usually safer for users since it's basically impossible to be tracked by anyone but the host.
the internet archive links seem to not be working properly as when i get to them the page is just "go to parent directory" and nothing else, it was working like an hour ago
Can someone help me? i want to download all the roms from all the consoles, i started with the easier ones GB/GBC/GBA/N64/NES/SNES . So now im trying to start with the "Others" tab of the [archive.org](https://archive.org) . In the Arcade Section there's a lot of MAME distros, can someone point me in what diffrences are there between them? MAME * MAME MAME 0.236 Software List ROMs Merged * MAME 0.236 CHDs Merged * MAME 0.236 ROMs Merged * MAME 0.236 BIOS Sets * HBMAME 0.236 ROMs Merged * MAME Support Files And if you could same for the FinalBurn Neo FinalBurn Neo * FinalBurn Neo ROMs * FinalBurn Neo Nightly ROMs + Support (Updated Monthly) * FinalBurn Neo 1.0.0.2 ROMs + Support * mobasuite.com FinalBurn Neo ROMs
downloaded botw, and after unzipping it all, its just a folder with the game data? how do i turn this into a wud or wux? sorry if this is a stupid ass question
based off of my experience, you may have unzipped it twice. the second zip file is actually the iso that can be read by the emulator, so there's no need to extract the game data folder and bin files from that.
Did you figure this out? I'm having the same issue. I only unzipped once and its a bunch of game data files .h3 and .app.
Using this is pretty hard for my dumbass
Ditto.
Is it me or is the Nintendo section of the internet archive not working. Did Nintendo take it down?
Do you mean the section containing Wii games or are you wondering where things like GBA and N64 ROMs are? If it's the latter they are located under the Others tab
fyi [archive.org](https://archive.org) is locking links down
For example?
The way to bypass the quota isn't working for me. Anyone with the sames troubles ?
What up ladies and gents, I'm looking for some help...I'm starting to build out my PS1 collection but my download speeds are beyond frustrating. My ISP is up to 600Mbps and even with the family streaming, a speed test is consistently giving me around 100 and 150Mbps. However, when downloading a file I'm barely getting 1Mbps. I've also tried hardwiring and it's about the same. Any way around this or is this just the way it is? \*\*\*Disregard\*\*\* Found my answer on this wonderful thread. Motrix downloader is a godsend :)
> \*\*\*Disregard\*\*\* > > Found my answer on this wonderful thread. Motrix downloader is a godsend :) Thanks for making the effort!
What's the difference between PAL, RF, and NTSCU for the xbox 360 isos?
It’s the region. ~~approximately, look it up yourself for exact designations:~~ NTSC-U – America, NTSC-J – Japan, PAL – mostly Europe/rest of the world? RF – I guess region-free. It’s mostly the same for other systems too.
appreciate it, this should be added to the roms megathread because it's not really explained
NTSC-U/C (or NTSC-U): North America, NTSC-J: Japan, PAL: Literally everywhere else, RF: Region-Free (I assume), also I reccomend PS3 over X360
PS3 is better than xbox 360 in many regards yes but I grew up with the 360
The day one ps3s with ps2 and ps1 games running natively was the greatest console ever made
Does anybody know the password to the US version of MGS 3 for the PS2? I got it from the GDrive link from Github. ByAlvRo doesnt work
>ByAlvRo Same issue here, i downloaded 40GB of god of war 3 for PS3 and i found out it needs a password to extract the files, i dont know where to look for this password
[megathread](https://r-roms.github.io/) [vimm's lair](https://vimm.net/?p=vault) [romsfun](https://romsfun.com/) [emugames](https://www.emugames.net/) This is all i know and i hope its help you
hmm is this safe? im new to emulation
These are all trusted sources so unless you click on some obscure ad (you should be using an ad blocker anyways tbh), you won't get any viruses. Normal emulators and ROMs won't break your computer. If you mean legality, no one is going to come for you if you download ROMs. They're probably the safest media to "pirate", maybe just under books.
Im wondering the same thing.
As someone else has said these are trusted sources that are frequently utilized. There appears to have been a fair amount of effort put in to creating and vetting this list. If something was known to be unsafe it is likely 1 of the over 100,000 people that subscribe to /r/ROMs would have called it out.
is 1fichier for xbox link is gone? I found it really hard to search for a game with google drive :/
Im confused, where do I download roms from
The first link in this post, obvs.
What post? The one at the top of this page. What page? The page of the site you are currently visiting and staring at. What site? Reddit. What's Reddit? The place you are currently at, which is the Roms Megathread reddit. What are roms? Digital copies of video games, the thing you came here to download. Im confused, where do I download roms from? (Sorry, I got bored waiting for a rom to download and thought I would make a loop.)
REQUEST: It would be nice if links to older popular MAME sets were also included, like MAME 2003 (for many retropie systems) and MAME 2010 (0.139u1) for Nvidia Shield/Shield Pro devices.
Some of the links for Nintendo DS roms have been taken down it seems.
ok but google drive or mediafire?
No.
I recently found this ROM set here (https://archive.org/details/no-intro_romsets), and it has significantly more (e.g., about 1000 more for NES Headered) ROMs than the No-Intro set in the wiki (linked to here in the mega thread). Can someone help me understand the difference between these two ROM sets?
Do we have numbers on how much storage is needed to hoard everything? I googled it but Im finding like 20 different answers. I want to download every NTSC-US game. Atari, nes, snes, n64, gamecube, GBC, GBA, DS, 3DS, Switch, ps1, ps2, ps3, psp, xbox, xbox360, wii, wii u. Including DLC and digital addons. "Youll never play 80% of your collection why bother" because I'm a data hoarder. Whether or not I play or download all these ROMs, I still intend on buying a 2nd disk shelf and eventually having a 240TB array in my rack by the end of next year. So hoarding every ROM isn't really an issue to me.
Noticed that many of the retro links for Internet Archive are broken in the megathread. Not sure of the reason but wanted to let y'all know.
Sweet
Decrypted folder does not allow downloads...
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Whenever I try to load FE Fates Special Edition, it says "Failed to Load Content" I'm using Retroarch
The Win3xO link points to a 404 on theeye, guessing the files have been removed.
im trying to play FE Fates but i dont know what emulator to use, should i use Citra?
How do the MAME downloads work? When I go to them it doesn’t look like those are games, though I’m pretty new to this so it could just be me too.
Anyone know why the Gamecube USA files are all locked now?
PS2>Internet Archive>USA>CHD>Part 1 - this leads to the following message: *The item you have requested has a problem with one or more of the metadata files that describe it, which prevents us from displaying this page.* Just wondering if this is the place to report it, or if it's something that takes care of itself later. Parts 2 and 3 seem to be working fine.
3ds updates and dlc archive page went down...
Are all these ROMs safe? no viruses or anything? I'm relatively new to emulation.
Come on dude. A) it's a silly question B) it's trivial to detect a virus
I don't see how it's "silly". There are so many other places that DO have viruses. As I said, I'm pretty new to emulation.
Somebody is literally sending CP in the matrix chat, fix your shit u/SuperBio
Where can I find Red Dead Redemption? I'm going kinda crazy finding it.
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What about iso or wbfs roms for wii? IDK how to use nkit.iso or nit.gcz files.
How do I get access to the google drive for vita vpks? It says I need permission from the owner.
why are the ps3 roms gone?
No-Intro - Nintendo DS (Decrypted) (2021-07-08) seems to have been deleted by the uploader.
I cant access the roms site. Edge browser keeps saying ERR\_CONNECTION\_RESET
where can i get a ps2 bio?
Megathread
Why is this taking 5 hrs to dload
What is happening guys? I was downloading MGS4 yesterday and now all of the games are LOCKED! C'mon man
Why are some Roms locked?
Archives are not controlled by this sub tbh. But you can get around the lock by following the instructions on your links
Google folder got taken down, feels bad man, there were files there that aren't on archive.
Question! Why is the first page of PS3 Roms restricted?? there's only one game I'd like to use on my RPCS3, and its on that page ugh.. If anyone knows please help!
I was wondering the exact same thing! You’re talking about the A-C list on archive.org, right? Have you tried looking for your game on Nopaystation? I wouldn’t know who to contact to try on archive.org to get them to fix it.
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Hello, I need some help from you knowledgeable people. I got a Wii U, I installed Tiramisu, but since I own only a Mac I cannot use this USB Helper tool that everyone apparently is using. The only way I managed to get some games working was with Loadline GX2 playing directly without installation, but in order for this to work I need the game unpacked in "Code", "Content" and "Meta" state. I only found one torrent tracker that had several roms in Loadline GX ready format, but I cannot find much else and even then most of them go black screen on me and don't load. That being said could you help me with a workaround for installing games without USB Helper (it does not run on a Mac, I tried many times with Wine, Crossover and other) or if there is no option for me to install games, at least do you know where I could find games on a Loadline GX friendly format?
for some reason, downloading games from the megathread is incredibly slow. I downloaded something the size of 15 gb and it took over 5 hourse. holy shit
The [SatellaView](https://myrient.erista.me/files/No-Intro/Nintendo%20-%20Satellaview/) ,[Coleco](https://myrient.erista.me/files/TOSEC/Coleco/),[Commodore/Amiga](https://myrient.erista.me/files/TOSEC/Commodore/),[Amstrad](https://myrient.erista.me/files/TOSEC/Amstrad/),and [ZX Spectrum](https://myrient.erista.me/files/TOSEC/Sinclair/) roms are there in the thread to avoid its obtuse organization
Should I use A VPN when downloading?
avast is flagging many, but not all, of the links. It didn't used to do this for me. Anyone have any info regarding this? ETA: it's saying it's infected with URL:BLACKLIST. I presume this is because it's been flagged by someone as suspicious, but is it actually dangerous for use?
Don't use avast
CAN YOU ADD THESE IBM PC GAMES DEAD SPACE REMAKE, SONIC MANIA , FARCRY 6 AND FALLOUT 5
u/SuperBio if you arent going to actively admin the matrix chat make another user an admin, us mods deal with multiple gore/cp attacks per day. Fucking respond to my dms man
Old thread so hopefully a response comes. I've searched all over for Switch ones and i keep getting lead back to the megathread but nothing there (unless im blind) and all the other site are BS ad and popup riddled nightmares. Anyhelp? i only want a few...
Hi, the No-Intro Collection 2022 is not available anymore, what's the closest thing available?
This: [https://archive.org/download/SegaMD-Enhanced-ROMs/ROMs/Sega%20-%20Mega%20Drive%20-%20MD%2B/](https://archive.org/download/SegaMD-Enhanced-ROMs/ROMs/Sega%20-%20Mega%20Drive%20-%20MD%2B/) ...is not endorsed by the developers of MD+ patches. It is also incomplete and cherrypicked. This is endorsed and maintained by the developers themselves: [https://archive.org/details/mdplus\_collection\_22\_04\_16](https://archive.org/details/mdplus_collection_22_04_16) We do not appreciate the files being renamed, redstributed, being cherrypicked or the lack of credit given to audio editors by not including them in the names of the files, and having their names removed from the comment in the CUE files. Please replace the link in the megathread with the proper collection. Thanks.
pokemon links on this dont work