Subjective ratings lack scientific basis
Simply convenient for personal resource classification
Choose carefully
One star for personal reflection
Two stars and above recommended
https://www.gamulator.com/
Rating: One star
Site Unreachable
Quite comprehensive, but downloads are not available. Unable to download from downloads.gamulator.com | 522: Connection timed out in Hong Kong, Singapore, or mainland China.
https://vimm.net/
Rating: Two stars
Very old-fashioned style page
Fairly complete, but I don't like the interface
Site Unreachable
Searching for King of Fighters only shows the 94 version
Vimm's Lair: ROM Hacking
Download speed not tested, only 77.9K
Can download normally
https://www.romulation.org/
Rating: One star
More home console games, no arcade games
Clicked on a random download
Prompt says this game is restricted and requires a premium account to download?
Play Console Classics on your Computer - PS3 ISOs, PS2 ISOs, Wii ISOs and More!
https://romsmania.games
Rating: One star
Home consoles like PS4
Switch ROMs are available
Quite advanced
But the download navigation is messy, I couldn't find the actual download link
No need to bookmark this site
https://www.retrostic.com/
Rating: Three stars
Normal downloads, normal games
No proxy used
https://romhustler.org/
Rating: One star
The website seems good
At least easy to click
Download is poor
PSX ROMs GBA ROMs NDS ROMs SNES ROMs - Rom Hustler
Prompt says this game is restricted and requires a premium account to download?
http://www.doperoms.eu/
Rating: One star
Paid, but there might be free options
Too lazy to test
This also has adult games for 18+
But it's also a tiered membership model
Compressed files can be hundreds of GB
No download speed tested
https://coolrom.com.au/
Rating: Two stars
Site Unreachable
Has Chinese subtitles but requires a proxy
Has VPN ads
Speed might be okay
Can download directly
https://www.emuparadise.me/
Rating: One star
Looks good
Has instructions on how to play
Has images and videos
Has Discord
Can donate Bitcoin
But can't find the download link
Page indicates ads were blocked
Opened ads still didn't reveal the download link
https://wowroms.com/
Rating: Two stars
The King of Fighters '97 (NGM-2320) - MAME 0.139u1 (MAME4droid) rom download | WoWroms.com
Has images, can download, can link to available emulators
Download speed is slow
Has waiting time limits
https://www.romspedia.com/
Rating: Two stars
Requires proxy for download speed
Countdown reads, speed is decent
No related emulator linked
https://nicoblog.cc/
Rating: Two stars
Can download, no arcade games
Download redirects to third-party sites
Secure File Download
Similar to this mega magnet link
Download speed is good with proxy
But it's garbled
https://romsplanet.com/
No comment
Cannot access via proxies in Hong Kong, mainland China, or Singapore
https://romsdownload.net/
Rating: One star
Everything went well
Finally, the download flickered
Then tried again and it flickered again
https://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/
Rating: One star
Similar to the previous site with adult games for 18+
But this arcade reaches 1018GB
More
Tiered membership
General experience is a bit poor
No testing done.
Too lazy to register, no testing done.
https://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/roms.html
Rating: One star
Mainly just emulators
Very few games
The reason is stated by the website
|The games below are so called "public domain" games which are legal to download and use. They're ideal for testing emulators without having to search for games first.
The following games are called "public domain" games, which are legal to download and use. They are very suitable for testing emulators without having to search for games first.|
https://cdromance.com/
Rating: One star
Fewer arcade games, more home consoles
Please wait…
Feels like CF involvement makes downloads less reliable
Download prompts website migration
Moving on#
Updated: December 23, 2024
https://sites.google.com/site/classicgameroms/
Is this a search summary?
Cannot access
https://www.romsuniverse.com/
Cannot access
No comment
https://roms-download.com/
Rating: One star
Started off smoothly
Downloaded Pokemon first
Link error
Downloading Pokemon - Emerald Version
https://www.classicgames.me/
Rating: Two stars
Play directly online
Nothing much to say
Probably many small ROM games like GBA
Dare to do this
Check the link
King Of Fight 97 - Classic Games
https://www.romsgames.net/roms/
Rating: One star
Everything went smoothly
Has emulator links
But cannot download
Stuck
https://www.consoleroms.com/
Rating: Two stars
Download speed is very fast
Faster with proxy
No emulator links
https://www.nesfiles.com/
Rating: Two stars
NES series
A site built by die-hard fans
Speed is decent
But it's all NES
https://www.sonyisos.com/
Rating: One star
Possible regional issues
Everything else is fine
Cannot download, tested with major proxies in Hong Kong, Canada, and Singapore
https://romzie.com/rom
Rating: One star
First download was okay
Second download prompted Too many requests
https://www.freeroms.com/
Rating: Two stars
Download is okay, requires proxy
Uses Amazon AWS cloud
ROMs are okay, no links, just ROMs