Try to find a website hosting ROMs for Nintendo consoles… but do it fast.
Becasue Nintendo is looking for those too and is making them shut down one after the other.
Having worked for console publisher (Acclaim Entertainment) decades ago…
Emulators and ROM’s exist for a whole lot of systems, and they are pretty much completely illegitimate. Under current US trademark and IP law, there is really not a legal way to produce emulators and ROM’s in the sense most people use and enjoy them. At a minimum the person would need to own both the physical hardware of the console system and a licensed legal copy of the title in question.
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Nintendo ones?
Might because I am still waking up but the meaning of the ROM acronym is eluding me.
Wheels
Read Only Memory
In the context of game platform emulators it’s a copy of the cartridge the game came on. A cartridge is essentially a ROM chip. If you grab a copy of it, you get a file. So a file that is a copy of, say, the super mario cartridge is called a ROM, even though it’s just a data file.
Distributing these files is plain old software piracy, at least in most countries.
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The ROM is the console equivalent of an .iso file of a physical media for a PC title if you are familiar with that.
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cool!
I actualy dont like the idea of gaming on smartphone. so here the size matters.
really like the Ally from what I have seen so far.
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Missed this topic before.
I have a SteamDeck and love it. I don’t tend to install a lot of games on it locally but stream or use the Xbox Gamepass Cloud thing, which works really well.
I had some old CSGO stuff that became valuable so mainly got it to have something tangible out of Steam Wallet credit.
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On the off-chance anyone does get a Steam Deck (on sale currently btw), just a heads up that the CoinOps Legends 4 pack is pretty much perfect with over 1200 MAME arcade titles with an incredibly smooth front-end, virtual cabinets, art and music. Everything is included so this is a warning to please not download this and avoid this URL if you can:
CoinOPS for Steam Deck - Legends 4 - Arcade Punks
Video of it working, with a timestamp to avoid some guy shouting at you at the video start - https://youtu.be/i-q3Z4Kb9WE?si=VXxVZm200AMYWuB4&t=276
It works great with a Steam Deck Dock unit as well, for TV/projector multiplayer retro fun.
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My old PSP Go has been struggling lately. Had my saves get corrupted a few times.
Wondering if I should buy a used Steam Deck as I was planning to, or get a smaller emulator handheld instead.
Wrote it all here but decided a new thread is better: Emulator handhelds vs Steam Deck (for a PlayStation fan)
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