Do it loser, we have weird shit like Mystery of the Druids.
Oh, but you better do it quick 'cause you know piracy is just going to get harder and harder. Mmm mmm I love being arrested for copies of zeros and ones from 30 years ago.
Fucking hell, capitalism ruins everything. I was excited for the Switch 2 'till I saw it was just as overpriced as the others.
It’s just sad to see what even was once such a weird and experimental industry become yet another over invested industry.
Fuck shareholders. Fuck Capitalism. Fuck endless growth and the monitisation of fun and creativity.
Emulation is absolutely the way to go. For the older cart-based systems especially, even full romsets barely take up any space, so you can just grab the whole thing and decide what you want to play later:
NES - 280 MB
SNES - 3 GB
N64 - 12 GB
Game Boy - 200 MB
GBC - 675 MB
GBA - 13 GB
Master System - 100 MB
Genesis - 1 GB
When you get into the disc-based era things get more into the terabyte range, but even then it’s very much in the “cheap HDD” range:
Saturn (US) - 80 GB
Dreamcast (US) - 115 GB
PS1 (NTSC) - 500 GB
PS2 (NTSC) - 2.5 TB
PSP (NTSC) - 500 GB
Gamecube (NTSC) - 500 GB
Wii - 5-6 TB (?)
Nintendo DS - 200 GB
Obviously, about 80% of that (conservatively) is games you wouldn’t actually ever want to play, so you can easily store every ROM you’d ever want from every system from the PS2/GCN/Xbox and before (+Wii) on a single cheap drive and run them all on a potato PC (with enhanced graphics for the more modern ones, too!).
For people reading this to get started 1G1R (one game one region) is a great way to get a set that removes duplicates and prefers the best version of a game. I also remove most sports games from my sets as well
That’s an interesting idea. Is there a repository to look at that set?
I found this but i can’t vouch for it as i have not used it
This is where I began building my personal collection off of adding various english translations as I went
I actually went through my 8 and 16-bit ROMs to delete all the crap like sports games I was never going to play plus all the different regional version. Dunno if it was worth it, but it made the lists a lot nicer to scroll.
You forgot the 16-bit era shmup GOAT, PC Engine.
Dude, you cannot leave out DOS games like that
Fr the Quest for Glory series was great
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