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mikenmike0001
12-15-2003, 10:47 PM
i noticed a month or two ago, i checked up on mame.dk cuz it was like the best place to get neo roms and arcade roms, and now it seems that they moved their site or got it shut down? anyone know anything about this?

mikenmike0001
12-16-2003, 05:07 AM
ok.i guess.not...... :huh:

joeyipod
12-16-2003, 08:39 AM
i heard mame.dk got killed and sued to the shit house..

A site i will never forget!

mikenmike0001
12-16-2003, 05:19 PM
damn...so do you know of any good replacement for that site? i don't know any good pplaces anymore to get cps and neo roms...

Nightwolf
12-16-2003, 06:27 PM
That site has been shut down for years. The only site I know of to get roms any more is...

http://mamefans.metropoliglobal.com/mw.htm

...but you have to sign up for a free account and click on a bunch of ads to get them. Your best bet nowadays is to use Kazaa, eMule, and/or Bittorrent (Suprnova) to get roms.

mikenmike0001
12-16-2003, 07:00 PM
shut down for years? what the heck, i tried it last summer and it was fine...well last time i checked was in august......they just had some bullshit message on the front saying that "they were forced to shut down" but i guess that was to fool those people.....but yeah..........it's a really sad loss...........they were my only resource for cps arcade games.......i can't find any sites with the upgraded version no more......damn.........and when i mean arcade roms....i meant, not those classic pac man and paper boy games....i meant like street fighter alphas...marvel vs. capcom....and all that shit, arcade quality playable on pc....

Nightwolf
12-16-2003, 11:09 PM
They stopped providing roms in February of 2002. I would call that a couple of years. They were still listing them, but you couldn't download roms from them any more (except for a few legal ones)...

http://www.tadhgohiggins.com/writing/politics/ip/mamedk.php

Now it looks like the site is completely gone, or just down for maintenance. The latest roms are still available all over the net, you just have to look for them. Another alternative (besides the four I already listed) is the newgroup alt.binaries.emulators.mame

mikenmike0001
12-17-2003, 12:31 AM
that "alt.binaries.emulators.mame " thing doesn't work when i tried entering it.....but yeah.....hm......i know i can get those old classic roms anywhere......i wasn't talking about those though........i was talking about the "new" stuff....like.......all the street fighters up to third strike........the marvel games.........the king of fighters series......you know......those...........is there an irc thing for that or something?

Johnny_B
12-17-2003, 12:59 AM
Places to get MAME and NeoGeo roms:

http://www.mameroms.com
http://www.emuchina.net
http://www.rom-world.com/
http://www.edgeemu.com
http://www.playagain.net/

There are more but my Favorites list is a complete mess. :D
These are the ones that I can think of right now.

mikenmike0001
12-17-2003, 01:40 AM
oh alright cool....thanks for the links....it's hard for me to search for them these days..i don't know what to really type in google without getting a bunch of fake or stupid "loop" sites.....neo geo is still constantly updating right? they're not dead now or anything i hope...i've been getting the king of fighters series and i have up to metal slug 3 i think......but not 4.....anyways.....thanks.........now if someone know's of arcade (non mame) roms...then that would be great....... oh yeah.i used to go to emuchina, but i can't figure out how to navigate through these sites.......that's what sucks these days....all the good stuff is in some foreign language that i can't translate....all the american or english sites (mame.dk for exmplle) are all shut down......... :(

Nightwolf
12-17-2003, 09:57 PM
Originally posted by mikenmike0001@16 December 2003 - 19:31
that "alt.binaries.emulators.mame " thing doesn't work when i tried entering it.....
It's not a website, it's a NEWSGROUP. You have to use a program like Outlook Express or Free Agent to browse through it.

joeyipod
12-17-2003, 10:34 PM
The Rom Hustler (http://home.wanadoo.nl/wvsanten/)

This has a few good roms i'm sure everyone will want from (EVEN N64 roms)

mikenmike0001
12-17-2003, 11:04 PM
oh cool....thanks.....newsgroup eh...how does that work?

Johnny_B
12-17-2003, 11:25 PM
Oh I forgot this excellent website to get roms:

EMU-Russia (http://emu-russia.net/index_en.php)

Have fun! :P

mikenmike0001
12-18-2003, 02:59 AM
hey, thanks for that link.cool......oh by the way, while i was scrolling through their rom section, some of the games (neo geo for example ) have this thing next to them saying "non mame"...... "not encrypted" ......"prototype"........"earlier prototype"......what do all of those mean? does tha tmean that i can only play it on certain emulators or something..........i always see these words and don't know what to download or what the hell they mean by labeling it like that......