r/ROMs Megathread Site

Use the menu bar to navigate the site for all information.

Issues

Any issues found on this site should be posted to the GitHub Issues page.

Contributing

The Megathread consists of aggregated links hosted on many sites. Keeping these files available require the support of users. Please consider making donations to your favorite sites if they allow it.

If you are downloading via torrent you can also contribute by seeding files back to the torrent swarm. This ensures both availability and speed for files.

Additional Information

"No-Intro" and "Redump"

No-Intro and Redump are groups that catalog hashes of dumped games for many systems. If "No-Intro" or "Redump" is present in the name of a group of links, it is a collection of the currently best-available ROMs for the system.

Locked Internet Archive Items

Internet Archive restricts items that contain high-risk content or generate a high amount of traffic from being able to be downloaded without an account to decrease the likelihood of takedowns and to prevent abuse. This is shown with a lock icon beside the file name in the item's file listing. To download locked items or files, register an Internet Archive account or download it from Minerva instead.

Internet Archive Metadata

Internet Archive items have metadata files that end in extensions such as .xml and .sqlite. These files are not important to download but are meant for the website to know what files to display and the reviews of the item.

Internet Archive Torrents

Some Internet Archive items contain torrent files as another download method. However, the torrent's file listing is usually incomplete compared to what is listed on the website. For this reason, it is recommended to use direct downloads with a download manager instead of torrents.

Archive File Types (ZIP, 7z, RAR)

ZIP, 7z, and RAR are archive file types which means they must be extracted. 7-Zip is recommended for extracting these files. Download and install it here and run it. Then, open the archive file in 7-Zip or right click on it and go to
7-Zip -> Extract Files.

Designer Shoutout

This is a shoutout to my designer and friend AshLee whose design skills helped make the megathread more usable, easier to update and visually nicer. Her blog can be found at https://www.ashleehee.com/.