Seeing as games companies are using AI to mass report sites for DMCA I figured it'd be a good time to circle the wagons around safe sites you can use for your roms needs. Here's my list I have bookmarked so far:

https://vimm.net/ (recently got hit with a dmca and had to remove stuff)

https://r-roms.github.io/ (megathread of roms stuff)

https://gog-games.to/ (my go-to for GOG games)

https://edgeemu.net/ (lots of classics)

https://fitgirl-repacks.site/ (excellent modern PC games)

Of course we also have archive.org which I hope most people know about by now.

For fun here's some video game private servers:

https://github.com/XiPrivateServers/Servers/blob/main/SERVERS.md (final fantasy xi private server listings)

https://www.eqemulator.org/index.php?pageid=serverlist (everquest private servers)

https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX (source port of diablo 1, hosts multiplayer games)

https://slashdiablo.net/ (diablo II private server)

https://cp.payonstories.com/ (best classic ragnarok online server I found)

  • tamagotchicowboy [he/him]
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    21 days ago

    https://www.retro-exo.com/index2.html exodos, exowin etc, basically a very big collection of DOS/windows3.1 games for the serious data hoarder with lots of hd space to spare

    https://steamrip.com/bunch of steam games, must use adblocker for it to be safe

    https://dodi-repacks.site/ dodi's repack site, sometimes a fitgirl repack won't work for my rig, but dodi's will, and vice-versa.

    https://rentry.co/megathread-games useful mega

    Not so safe: https://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewforum.php?f=10 good forum with mix of access and troubleshooting, high post counts tend to be safer to attempt anything with

    EQemu community is chuddy as your average freeze-gamer tends to be, generally not as ridiculous as WoW private servers but still not good. You'll probably be ok on most of the smaller servers, just be wary there are some rifts to the abyss out there and some of the larger ones like P99 are toxic, foul vats.

    I really miss that search via torrents.csv from lemmy, the uploader 360p knew the bad internet/old rig struggle for movies.

    https://www.annas-archive.org for when gaming is just too much