What happen to some of the emulation websites?

[dcescott]

I briefly searched the archives here for a simialr topic but some of my bookmarked sites are gone.

Emulation.net (mac related) is gone.
Cherryroms.com (snes roms, a lot of pics, japanese and euro roms)
Old computer dot roms, they had a crap load.

Are companies shutting them down over the jump in folks buying older games again?

[zerohero]

I've been wondering about this too, I'm guessing they all got shut down, or they are relocating to a different domain or site.

[Griking]

My guess is that the initial excitement of being able to emulate the 2600 or NES on your PC or Palm has passed and that many of the people running these sites grew a little older and moved on to other things.

[ghostangelofcky]

I use romnation.net give it a try

[dcescott]

right,
If there is anyone who knows where these sites went to, help a brutha out. Or a better site to browse...
I have a ton of roms but my operating system is 10.4.2 for the mac. I'm just checking around for updates and my boodmarks are no good!! Some games I will never find in the wild or would I pay top $$$$ for a rare but fun game.

[Kid Ice]

Well, lessee, circa 1998 the best you could do for arcade classics was PSX Namco Museum, and there were no classic console comps, no plug n plays, and no retro online services. And the free ROMs flowed like water.

Now you have yer Gametap, Flashbacks, X-Box Arcade, whatever Nintendo is up to, console comps, handheld comps, etc. All that is flowing like water now is "cease and desist" letters from attorneys.

But like digital music, the genie is already out of the bottle.

[dcescott]

yeah very true
DANGIT
I was just surprised because emulation.net always mentioned about not having roms and these are programs built by freelancers who do this reverse techology and emulate the roms and so on, legal I thought right.

[s1lence]

Alot of the groups that ran the webpages moved to posting on newsgroups instead.

[JJNova]

I can tell you what happened to most of these Emulation and ROM sites...

You never clicked the Hentai or Big Penis links.

You should of helped fund their bandwidth, and employ their lawyers.

[Retsudo]

I briefly searched the archives here for a simialr topic but some of my bookmarked sites are gone.

Emulation.net (mac related) is gone.
Cherryroms.com (snes roms, a lot of pics, japanese and euro roms)
Old computer dot roms, they had a crap load.

Are companies shutting them down over the jump in folks buying older games again?

From what I heard, Cherryroms site was hacked so he only has the forums up.

[petewhitley]

You can get more ROMs than you can stomach from newsgroups. Search around a bit for a trial newsreader and check it out.

[KingCobra]

Bleem, remember that poor dude? The "LAW" dosen't like barter, trading or sharing :eek 2: the free world is shrinking fast.

It's all about taxes in the big picture ;)

[roushimsx]

If you want Mac-based emulators, Bannister's site is pretty much the one-stop place to go. EmuTalk is also nice since that's where the beta builds of Mupen64 for Mac go.

For news, if it isn't posted on emulatronia or emufanatic, it's probably not news.

on a tangent, The Whirlpool is still a good translation resource, despite the infrequent updates as of late.

And I agree on the usenet front: If you want to complete your OfflineList-compliant rom sets, the usenet is the only way to go. Lots of people vouch for torrents and such, but imo that's all just a waste of bandwidth.

[Xizer]

http://www.edgeemu.com - Anything pre-N64/PS1/Saturn
http://www.emuparadise.org - Anything N64/PS1/Saturn and above

Oh yeah. And get your emulators here:

http://www.zophar.net - Windows/PC
http://www.dcemulation.com - Emulators for DC
IRC: Efnet #xbins - FTP w/ Emulators for Xbox (it's easier than it sounds)

[Saabmeister]

shit, i hadn't checked emulation.net for a while now. im pissed that it's gone. maybe it'ds just TEMPORARY

[hydr0x]

well, cherryroms is up, just without roms, and i don't think it'll ever have roms again...

of course your list is missing the best rom sites that are gone, i can't even remember that one site's name, it died in 1999 or sth, it had a light blue design and covered nearly every system, if someone remembers it's name, let me know ;)

the other one would be playagain (formerly known as aceroms i think), i used that one back when noone knew about it and it always remained a great site until it closed it's doors. It did so because the owner just lost interest in roms.

[InsaneDavid]

Back in my day we had Spirit in the Contraption (which became Lugnut & CinC's NES Repository before it died last), Brian's Emulation Page, Dave's Arcade Classics, and the zillion and one Xoom.com pages with roms on them, the "golden age" has been gone for a LONG time.


I can tell you what happened to most of these Emulation and ROM sites...

You never clicked the Hentai or Big Penis links.

You should of helped fund their bandwidth, and employ their lawyers.

That's right, don't everyone go running to ROMnation now and download like crazy without clicking the sponsor links. They've never required any "click here click there" crap to get at their files and their roms are always CLEAN. Either click the banners every now and then or sign up for a freedom pass.

Also let us not forget EMU-Russia, was the only place to get Sega MODEL2 games for a long time.

[Nesmaster]

I like Emuasylum. Full of useful information too ;)

[Milk]

EMU-Russia!

Ah! My heart pangs! I loved that site...one of the few with good selection and no pop-ups, signing up, or other nonsense.

EMU_Russia, I weep for you.

[poopnes]

of course your list is missing the best rom sites that are gone, i can't even remember that one site's name, it died in 1999 or sth, it had a light blue design and covered nearly every system, if someone remembers it's name, let me know ;)

I think you would be referring to Plasticman's Emulation Zone.

www.plasticman.org/emu/

At least I think you are, I was just reading this thread and was thinking "what no love for PEZ?!"

[§ Gideon §]

well, cherryroms is up, just without roms, and i don't think it'll ever have roms again...
Why not?


the other one would be playagain (formerly known as aceroms i think), i used that one back when noone knew about it and it always remained a great site until it closed it's doors. It did so because the owner just lost interest in roms.
Aw... This is news to me. It's almost like an aquaintance passed away.

[InsaneDavid]

EMU-Russia!

Ah! My heart pangs! I loved that site...one of the few with good selection and no pop-ups, signing up, or other nonsense.

EMU_Russia, I weep for you.

Uh... EMU-Russia is still up, I was mentioning it as an alternate. As for PlayAgain the only good thing that ever came from them (as in stuff I couldn't get elsewhere) was a nice stash of Famicom Disk System games as well as the only working download for Super Mario Bros 3 (J). ...when it was still around, that is.

[hydr0x]

of course your list is missing the best rom sites that are gone, i can't even remember that one site's name, it died in 1999 or sth, it had a light blue design and covered nearly every system, if someone remembers it's name, let me know ;)

I think you would be referring to Plasticman's Emulation Zone.

www.plasticman.org/emu/

At least I think you are, I was just reading this thread and was thinking "what no love for PEZ?!"

nope, that's not the one, it had a regular www.blahblah.com adress, i think either "emu" or "emulation" was in the name, not "rom" though

[allsport11]

The Old Computer.Com site is still up and the roms are still there. :)

http://www.theoldcomputer.com/MainMenu.htm

[poloplayr]

They've moved on and now trade fine rums via rumsites.