yes I am accepting constructive criticism

My reasonings

Good

  • ROMhacking dot net is a good cataloguing site but won't host any actual modded roms, just the patch files
  • don't really have anything bad to say about moddb except that there's so many abandoned WIP mods hanging around
  • Gamebanana has a lot of really cool shit for games that can't be found anywhere else but god is its UI horrendous

Neutral

  • GitHub is GitHub
  • Nexus Mods has done a lot of shady shit, is arguably moving to become a monopoly but at the same time they will remove chud hate mods and aren't a completely hostile user experience
  • Steam Workshop is a lawless wasteland

Evil

  • Curseforge has done a LOT of anti-consumer motions in the past and is also gunning for mod monopoly status
  • LoversLab
  • idk if adfly is even still relevant in this day and age but it's been the bane of my fucking existence long enough so I'm including it
  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
    ·
    2 years ago

    Only slightly related, but does anyone remember that really popular ROM site from the 2000s?

    I used it to play a bunch of GBA games, maybe also N64 can't remember

        • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
          ·
          2 years ago

          Actually, Nintendo threatened them with a lawsuit many years ago so they took down all their ROMs. For a while you could still access the files with the right scripts. Not sure what's going on with the site now, they were supposed to pivot to just being a retro game community after the cease and desist.

          Anyway, apparently the current easiest place to get the most up to date and vetted ROMs is a megathread on the emulation subreddit.

          Edit: Here's the github it links to

          https://r-roms.github.io/