There are also a few good archives people have posted here but that aren't on conventional rom sites. RomHustler is also pretty decent, but only use it if you have a good ad-blocker (I recommend uBlock Origin if you're on Chrome or Firefox) they sometimes get those ads that try to pretend to be a download button, so it's best to put the kibosh on them before you end up downloading something you shouldn't. DopeRoms is also quite good, but their layout is a bit messy and I've come across a few games there that don't match their official checksums (indicating bad dumps and/or hacked roms). There are a few others as well, the ones above are just my favorites. See my other comment here if the sites above don't work out for you. Portal Roms, like nicoblog and cdromance, has quite a few games that I can't find in other places (though there's also a lot they don't have).Įdge Emulation seems pretty good, but I haven't used it much, and they're completely missing PlayStation games.ĮmuParadise's file servers aren't actually offline yet the games can still be downloaded by using the greasemonkey script offered here. The ROM Depot offers both individual games and full sets for many different systems, as well as quite a few scans of different game manuals. It has games from many obscure systems as well as the more well-known ones, and also seems to have decently fast download speeds.

The Eye is a newer site and growing very quickly. Apparently NicoBlog even offers full ROM sets rather than having to download things individually, if you want. NicoBlog and its sister-site CDRomance have incomplete collections, but seem to have a lot of stuff I can't find elsewhere. In fact, I don't think they even have ads, let alone viruses, and they have a collection of manual scans as well! Unfortunately, they only have US releases (and some fan-translated games, but no European or unpatched Japanese releases).

Vimm or The Eye are probably the best places for Melee, specifically, but the rest of the list is useful to have for future reference. I'm mostly quoting myself here, but these are the best places I've found for getting roms in general and most of them have GameCube games.

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