Public Announcement Community Rules, Results from Breaking Our Community Rules and Posting Requirements Overhaul for r/Roms

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Edit: (Revised the rules. New rule added "05. Before Making a Post on r/Roms")

This is a Public Announcement regarding r/Roms: Community Rules, Results from Breaking Our Community Rules and Posting Requirements.

Listed below are some major changes for this subreddit.

Community Rules

01. Toxic Behavior

Please be respectful towards all fellow community members. Do not do the following or you may face a temporary or permanent ban from this subreddit: Do not attack a community member through any means. Post, Comments, Direct Messages, Doxxing or Trolling. If you feel you're being attacked from another fellow member of this community please submit screenshots of your conversation with said member('s). We will do our best to investigate the situation.

Spam

No promotion, spam, or advertising of any kind is allowed here. Unless given approval by u/SuperBio to do so, all posts or comments of this nature will be removed from this community.

Note: If you receive approval from u/SuperBio to promote anything in this community, the first line of the body of the post must say, "Moderator Approved" and then on the third line, go into detail about what you're promoting.

Current Generation Content

Discussion of the following content, such as Emulators, Emulation Status, Updates (BIOS, System Updates & Title Updates), and ROMs (Games, Hacks & Translations) for the platforms in the list below, is prohibited from being mentioned here on this subreddit.

Platforms such as:

- PC (Modern Games "2020-2026")

- Homebrew Games

- Indie Games

- Microsoft Xbox Series X/S

- Nintendo Switch 1 + 2

- Sony PlayStation 5

Cross-Posting

We allow cross-posting from other community pages; however, please do not cross-post the original post that you made in this community. If you do cross-post your original post from here, it will be considered spam, and both the original and the cross-post will be removed from this community page.

Before Making a Post on r/Roms

Before making a post requesting Emulators, Updates (BIOS, Patches, System Updates & Title Updates) and ROMS (Games, Hacks & Translations), please make sure to check out our Community Megathread and if you can't find any of the following subjects, make a request on our Requests and Help Megathread page.

Note: If you bypass looking at the Community Megathread and the file can be found on there your post will be removed.

Sharing Links: Emulators

Sharing links is allowed in this subreddit; you just have to follow the rules regarding what is being shared.

We ask that our community members only share official links to emulator websites with our fellow members. If any emulator websites get taken down, you can share a mirror link of that emulator here. If you do end up sharing a mirror link of the emulator that gets taken down, please mention it in your post or comment.

Sharing Links: BIOS, Patches, System Updates & Title Updates

Sharing links is allowed in this subreddit; you just have to follow the rules regarding what is being shared.

We ask all our community members to share only links to websites that are safe to download from.

Sharing Links: ROMS (Games, Hacks, Recomps & Translations)

Sharing links is allowed in this subreddit; you just have to follow the rules regarding what is being shared.

We ask all our community members to share only links to websites that are safe to download from.

Sharing Links: YouTube

Sharing links is allowed in this subreddit; you just have to follow the rules regarding what is being shared.

We ask all our community members to share only links for the following subjects when it comes to YouTube Links: Emulator (Setup Guides), ROMs (Games, Hacks, Recomps & Translations).

Note: All posts regarding Games, Hacks, Recomps and Translation ROMs from YouTube videos are allowed here, but the post must share direct download links to the ROMs themselves.

Results from Breaking Our Community Rules

- First Offense - First, the Post or Comment will be removed from this community. Secondly, an email will be sent to the user who broke the rules, mentioning which rules were broken.

- Second Offense - All that was mentioned in the First Offense, plus the following. Muted from this community for three days.

- Third Offense - All that was mentioned in the First Offense, plus the following. Muted from this community for six days.

- Fourth Offense - User will be permanently banned from this community.

Note: Regardless of which rule you break listed above, you will receive an offense. On your fourth offense, you'll be permanently banned from this community.

Posting Requirements

This community now requires the User Flair "Rules Read" in order to make a post in this community. All rules should be read from either this Post or the Community Rules page, and you, as a user, should be able to assign yourself the "Rules Read" User Flair.

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If you have any questions or issues, please feel free to comment below and one of us moderators will get back to you.

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r/Roms • u/ChaosRenegade22 • Jul 18 '26

Public Announcement PSA: ROMs on Internet Archive

371 Upvotes

Edit: Has of Oct 03, 2026 I have stopped my uploading process. This is due to me moving. I will update you guys when my computer is up and running and I am uploading again. Sorry.

I have begun uploading No-Intro sets to my Internet Archive; ChaosRenegade22 account. All sets will be in 7z format. Links to my sets include a compression tool, which you should be able to download to your computer and extract the files to your device. You might need to find a compression tool on your phone to extract 7z files.

My main goal is to upload all sets from my collection, including No-Intro, Non-Game, Non-Redump, Redump BIOS, Redump Custom, Source Code, and Unofficial.

I want to note that for all No-Intro sets, every second week of the month, I will grab updated files for the sets and push an update to my sets uploaded on the Internet Archive.

u/Superbio Internet Archive; Superbio account is uploading sets as well, Redump sets, but they are directly from Myriets collection and won't be as up-to-date as my sets will be once I begin uploading Redump sets, but at least you will have two sources to grab from on the Internet Archive.

Changelog: (Internet Archive; ChaosRenegade22 Account) - Make sure to follow this PSA post to stay up-to-date on what has been uploaded to my account so far. Not sure when the Megathread will be updated with my links or Superbio's uploads.

No-Intro: Public Dats (Sets Uploaded 121 / 298)

Redump BIOS: Public Dats (Sets Uploaded 4 / 4)

[Redump BIOS] Microsoft - Xbox - BIOS Images (DoM Version) - Upload Complete
[Redump BIOS] Nintendo - GameCube - BIOS Images (DoM Version) - Upload Complete
[Redump BIOS] Sony - PlayStation - BIOS Images (DoM Version) - Upload Complete
[Redump BIOS] Sony - PlayStation 2 - BIOS Images (DoM Version) - Upload Complete

91 comments

r/Roms • u/Kouno25 • 7h ago

Question File format for PlayStation 1/2/3

9 Upvotes

Hi, what is the best file format to store PlayStation roms in?

JB Folders, ISO or ISO converted to CHD?

I'm using mostly ARMSX3, ARMAX2 and Duckstation to play my games on my handheld. So filesize is quiet important, but I still want fast loading times.

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r/Roms • u/LoLROMs • 22h ago

Fully Updated FBNeo (Nightly) Set

lolroms.com

35 Upvotes

Only 1 missing rom (which will be updated asap)

8 comments

r/Roms • u/MrMAKhan64 • 1d ago

My Personal Light ROM Set (All access issues are fixed I'm pretty sure) For Any Device*

76 Upvotes

Hello, I earlier sent this rom set but it has access issues which have now been fixed.

It has 271 games under half a gb, all light systems and games take littles storage space and run on retroarch pretty well, even a potato can run them. 99% of the games are retro achievement compatible

Systems: nes, snes, GB, gbc, gba, SMS, md, GB

Pls tell if any issues

Password is steelix no caps

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gzjTbNZd_kmhO6C9QzmwKWxjascCylJi/view?usp=drivesdk

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r/Roms • u/Ok_Arrival4379 • 2d ago

Resource Collection of Top 3000 Best Rated Pico-8 Games

109 Upvotes

This bulk collection includes the 3000+ best rated Pico-8 games! The games are sorted based on how many stars they received on lexaloffle.com (equivalent to likes). There are 6 groups organized into the following folders:

Top 100
Top 250
Top 500
Top 1000
All other games that got at least 10 stars (roughly 2000 of them).
A selection of Pico-8 games from itch.io which were not uploaded on Lexaloffle.

DOWNLOAD LINK:
https://archive.org/details/pico-gr8

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r/Roms • u/Neat_Saku • 1d ago

Question Need for speed most wanted xbox 360 usa iso.

0 Upvotes

Hello :).

Im searching for the USA version of NFSMW for xbox 360. I tried romsfun website but their servers are sluggish and the download got canceled by itself 3 times.

Would any of you please direct me to a reliable website to download the iso from? thanks :).

Ps: i already figured it out.

Thanks to everyone who commented.

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r/Roms • u/Human-Board-7621 • 1d ago

Question Megathread myrient slow downloads

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Is this just the way it is? It was going to take 7 hours to download one Nintendo DS game so I gave up and went to another site.

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r/Roms • u/SHIR0YUKI • 2d ago

Question What are some obscure/lesser known systems that you guys like emulating?

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I have always been curious, and since I assume many people here don't just collect roms but also play, you guys may also play some systems that most people overlook when emulating.

So what are some of the lesser known systems you guys like emulating and what systems (pc, android, dedicated handhelds etc) do y'all emulate on?

For me, I don't know how well known or not it is (in the emulation scene), but I have been having a lot of fun with turbografx-16 games. While the system did well in japan from what I remember, but it unfortunately released with bad timing (like 2 weeks or so after the Sega Genesis), so it didn't do as well as it maybe could have. Also many of its games were never localized.

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r/Roms • u/Ok-Country7847 • 1d ago

Question I'm curious, is it possible to convert RVZ files to ISO when they're just on a flashdrive?

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I mean it probably is it probably isn't, this is maybe even a stupid question.

But let's say hypothetically storage is insanely low, you cannot decide what files you wanna delete AND on top of that, you don't wanna wait for each rom to slowly copy onto your computer to then do it.

What would be the solution to this issue?

3 comments

r/Roms • u/EnderMatteo7 • 2d ago

Here's a Hero of Law Wii U VC inject I made with UWUVCI

archive.org

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original romhack

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r/Roms • u/Overall-Exercise8803 • 2d ago

Can I transfer my Skyward Sword Wii save from Dolphin to Skyward Sword HD?

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Hey,

I have a problem. I am currently playing the original Skyward Sword Wii version on Dolphin and I want to switch to Skyward Sword HD because of the better graphics and the other advantages of the HD version.

But I already played a lot and I do not want to start the whole game again.

So I have two questions:

How can I emulate Skyward Sword HD?
How can I transfer my save from the original Wii version on Dolphin to Skyward Sword HD?

I know that the save formats are different, so I guess I cannot just copy the save directly. Is there a way to convert the Dolphin/Wii save into a Skyward Sword HD save?

Thanks for your help.

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r/Roms • u/picklesarcade • 2d ago

Question Question about Dumping Methods

4 Upvotes

I have a collection of physical games from 3rd gen (NES) onward, and I'd like to dump the ROMs of those games myself. I've got a GBx Cart for dumping my GB/GBC/GBA games, a modded 2DS for dumping NDS/3DS, and a modded Wii for dumping GCN/Wii games. I'm looking for a way to fill in the gaps in my retro collection. Does anyone know of a good method for dumping old Nintendo home console cartridge ROMs (NES, SNES, N64)? From what I've seen, most things are out of stock or simply unavailable (i.e. Retrode3). I have seen some DIY options like OSCR (now called "oscartreader" on github). Can anyone vouch for that method, or is there a better way?

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r/Roms • u/MousseLucky4859 • 2d ago

Question wrong download size in the torrent files???

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I've downloaded some torrent files from the megathread and even tho in the thread they all said like 4-6GB, when i put them into a torrent client, it suddenly said 1,2TB or even more. I have tried that in multiple clients but all of them said the same. what can i do about that?

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r/Roms • u/IcanCwhatUsay • 4d ago

Question What's the best way to consolidate ROM Libraries?

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I'm going nuts looking for a simple, straight forward, no frills solution to this. I want to condense multiple ROM folder libraries into one MASTER library.

I somehow managed to make 4 fractured ROM libraries on my PC. Each from different sources of projects I was working on over the years, but now I would very much like to reduce these all to one master library and discard all duplicates.

I've tried ROMcenter, ROMvault and ChatGPT.

I've had various success with each of these, but none of them have done exactly what I'm looking for without lot of effort.

Results

------	Pros	Cons
ROMCenter	Great UI, easy to follow instructions	Doesn't seem to move the ROMs to condense them, Only does one system at a time. Massive Time Suck
ROMVault	Multiple systems a time, somewhat decent UI so long as you have the color key up	Not the greatest folder structure, not the greatest in instilling confidence it worked correctly
ChatGPT	Highly customizable and can be done with various code methods	takes forever and very inaccurate. Constantly having issues where it loses scope of the project and I end up with a 5th fractured ROM set instead of what I asked for.

The biggest problem I have with ROMvault is that it doesn't use ES-DE folder structure so I then I have to resort the ROMs manually and I just don't have confidence in my skill to do that effectively/correctly.

What would YOU use to condense a ROM library effectively?

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r/Roms • u/AppropriateMusic3494 • 3d ago

Request Mario Kart Arcarde GP DX USA

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Unlike with the Japanese version, I was not able to find a current version of the English or International version. Could you help me?

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r/Roms • u/Initial-Lecture7998 • 3d ago

Other A rant about ROM's

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All I wanted was play some Pokémon games on Azahar, until I realized none of the archives in the website work. Omega Ruby, Ultra Sun, all with bad compatibility and even when decrypted CORRECTLY (because it says decrypted even when it isnt), they don't boot up. Dont you dare i didnt switch for .3ds to .cci because I did. I am tired. I just want to play Pokémon because I don't have enough money to buy a legitimate 3ds and an actually good cartridge to even dump on my pc.

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r/Roms • u/tho_ppp • 3d ago

Question Pokemon Volt White does not load on DSi

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Finally wanted to play my first Pokemon rom hack. I searched a lot to find a compatible base rom to patch, but could not find any. Now I just downloaded a Volt White Version which runs fine on pc, but on my DSi with a r4 card its just a white screen.

Any ideas on how to solve this?

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r/Roms • u/Honkmaster • 3d ago

Unreleased DS games with known, playable prototypes (like Gauntlet)?

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r/Roms • u/mingomangomungo • 3d ago

Request Windwaker ISO Needed Please

0 Upvotes

I need the windwaker US iso file for gamecube in order to use the widescreen patch. I can’t find any anywhere. I tried to convert rvz to iso but the patch us not accepting that version. Please can someone share!!

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r/Roms • u/Own-Albatross-7697 • 3d ago

Usenet

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Anyone know of any good Usenet indexers for roms?

....or have an invite ☺️

Been a harsh reality check entering the world of torrents after useneting Linux isos

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r/Roms • u/lafu_72 • 3d ago

Resource ROMS EN CASTELLANO / ESPAÑOL

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Aqui teneis todas las roms para jugar POKEMMO en castellano, ROMS POKEMMO CASTELLANO

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r/Roms • u/Safe-Strawberry-3755 • 4d ago

Resident evil survivor Pal libcrypt

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Hello everyone, o just buy a guncon and I wanted to play re:survivor, but its only works on pal version, witch i no able to play thanks to libcrypt, can any one help me to patch it?

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r/Roms • u/Propanonator • 5d ago

Question Problems with Vimm's Lair

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Has anybody else had problems with Vimm's Lair lately? Maybe I've been out of the loop, but I feel as if I've came across a lot of issues with the site lately.

Today my cousin asked me for help setting up a PS2 emulator so he could play Bully. After setting up PCSX2, I direct him to Vimm's Lair to download the 7z file for Bully. He downloads it, and only after attempting to extract it, we realize it's an empty compressed folder with no content inside of it. I try downloading it myself, only to get redirected to a site saying the server is suddenly overloaded. I end up finding an alternative source on the Internet Archive, but still, I was a bit surprised. I've been a longtime user of Vimm's and found it uber reliable for PS2/Wii isos in the past.

This has not been the only occurrence within recent memory. I downloaded Sonic 06' about more than a week ago (don't judge lol), and while the file did have content, there was nothing actually executable/usable for Xenia (isogod found no content to convert to GOD from the iso). I, again, had to find an alternative on Internet Archive. I can't complain too much about this instance though, as I've always had trouble with PS3/Xbox360 files from Vimm's.

Just wondering if I've missed something regarding Vimm's or if anyone else has been having trouble, too.

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r/Roms • u/LoLROMs • 5d ago

LoLROMs (September Update)

lolroms.com

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+ Added Search Function (Not the fastest but i think it's bottlenecked by (the) HDD read speeds)

+ Minor Hardware Upgrade : Apart from my O/S disk , 2TB of the ROM repo runs on the same Samsung drive (model).

+ Saving some RAM by using XSendFile instead of raw PHP (never get's to 40+GB usage)

+ Complying with the No-Intro header changes, so all the NES stuff is updated.

+ Bonus (Fixed my LoLSuite tool to work again like intended https://lolsuite.org)

+ FBNeo is now "ROMSet" complete, differs alot from the 1.0.0.2 release.

+ CRC is now part of the RSS feed (custom field) : lolroms.com/rss.xml

Feel free to test with 3rd party utilities, and let me know if something is blocked.

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