Game ROMs

[Caballero]

So I just purchased a Retroid Pocket 2+. Who can point me to decent sources for all kinds of ROMs to load up?

[anon]

https://www.romulation.org/ was my go-to source back in the day, and still exists (although my account doesn't ).

http://redump.org/ is good for integrity checking and knowing which exact version of a game you've got.

[Caballero]

Doesn't look like you get to download anything from ROMulation unless you pay for a membership? No free teasers or daily download limit of 1? Not that $10 really matter in the grand scheme of things, but is the website "legit" (no pun intended)?

I guess a download marathon over a long weekend would fill the RP2+. No need to renew membership?

[anon]

Doesn't look like you get to download anything from ROMulation unless you pay for a membership?

News to me. Last time I was there, you could download for free as long as your account had enough points (which were generously awarded on a daily basis by doing nothing), and their help page says this is still so?

[Caballero]

Ah, points. Did not see anything abut that. Did notice that the forum activity seems to have stopped around 2020, though, so that made me somewhat uncertain whether the site was still active.

No matter. Found two other sites that will tide me over for the moment. Downloading is a little inconvenient, but I'll manage...

[boo]

here are some sites that I used to download for my raspberry pi retro games.
https://r-roms.github.io/
https://vimm.net/?p=vault
https://www.arcadepunks.com/2022-nzb...-arcade-punks/
or just use the Wayback machine https://archive.org/search.php?query=roms

[r3tr0mkv]

here are some sites that I used to download for my raspberry pi retro games.
https://r-roms.github.io/
https://vimm.net/?p=vault
https://www.arcadepunks.com/2022-nzb...-arcade-punks/
or just use the Wayback machine https://archive.org/search.php?query=roms

Thanks. Will come in handy repopulating my Shield after wiping all emulators

[Caballero]

Okay, follow-up question. Got my RP2+, set it up, everything seems to be working. And I already learned that there is a whole bunch of crap out there. So which are the must-have games that I should be looking out for? Let's assume for the moment a focus on the Nintendo ecosystem...

[anon]

So which are the must-have games that I should be looking out for? Let's assume for the moment a focus on the Nintendo ecosystem...

Super Mario Bros., Contra, Final Fantasy I, Metal Gear, Tetris, The Legend of Zelda, 1942, Pac-Man, Metroid, Gradius, Elevator Action. Then you can move on to the SNES and Front Mission, Flashback and the first Mega Man X entries... oh, and someone made an English patch for TokiMemo?

[Caballero]

For someone who moved from the original Pong to an Atari 2600 and then from a Commodore 64 straight to the PC all that means nothing...

Well, I guess I recognize Tetris and Pac-Man.

The RP2+ is really good at handling N64 ROMs, so I guess I finally get to play Golden Eye.