Roms and Downloads

[silverghost]

Hi, Please bare with me on this one, as I am totally new to this sort of thing.

I was looking to buy one of those cartridges for my GBA (the ones that store lots of games) on Thursday evening, and found the GP32. It looks excellant, so I have decided to buy one of these instead. (looking through the forum, it seems that I have made the right choice)

Hopefully it should be delivered in a couple of days, but in the meantime, I thought I would try and get the emulators, games and avi's from the internet so I am all ready for it.

I already have lots of Divx movies, and the tutorial for turning them to Avi's is excellant, so no problems there.
I am however, very confused where to get the Emulators and games from, there are lots of links to the emulators on this site, but very few mention what games are available and working for them.

I am wondering whether there is any information out there on the internet, or just from yourselves which explains the current state of the emulators, and what games are currently working.

Please can you help me, and if I find out enough info, I will put all of details and maybe downloads on my website for everyone to see.

Thanks

 

[nufu]

the roms are illegal to own unless you have the original game, hence no linky

 

[terrorballuk]

There are lots of ways to find roms.
1. the internet just type in snes roms or whatever you are after into a search engine and start from there. Problem is you almost always get bannered x10 with porn sites and the amount of time it take to find a good site can be ages but for snes try cherryroms.com i think they are good.

2. Usenet newsgroups. These are often as fast as your connection and its possible to get a gig of roms in an evening. alt.binaries.emulator.snes or whatever is often the way to go but use a newsreader like Newsshark for the pc and Hogwasher for the mac and just find the groups to subscribe to from there the other day someone put their entire snes rom colletion on their which ran to a gig of roms.

3. Peer to Peer this is my favourite. Use peer to peer like Direct Connect for the pc or Carracho for the mac. type in roms or snes or whatever you want and hopefully you get what you want i have managed to amass a massive collection of roms from this route and if you get friendly with a server you can rely on them to have a good consistent supply.

All three options take a bit of work if your new to them but I recommend 2 and 3 as they offer best results anyway whichever you try when you find somewhere good stick with them :lol:

 

[silverghost]

Thanks for the replies, I won't be doing the website now, as I don't want to get in trouble with the likes of Nintendo etc, and there are lots of Rom sites out there.

I will definitely start surfing the internet for Roms, and I guess the only way to see if they are compatable is try and see.

cheers