(Redirected from ROM & ISO Sites)

If you are looking for BIOS/Firmware files, you can find them on the Emulator Files page. If you're looking specifically at preservation-focused projects (which may host dumped games' checksums only or, occasionally, offer game downloads directly from their websites) instead of just places to get games, visit the Preservation projects page.

Add a slash (/) after the URLs to view the contents of compressed archives from the browser. This helps you avoid downloading upwards of 400 gigabytes just to get only a fraction of the contents. The archive also creates torrents of each entry (that are not the same as any original torrents the user may have uploaded) that you can use to speed up your downloads, but be warned however that these torrents can be problematic if the uploader has added/removed/renamed files in the collection as they tend to not update correctly, if at all, so you may end up with only part of the collection, or an older version of the collection. A better recommendation is to use a download manager listed below to grab all the files rather than use the torrents.

NOTE: If downloads are restricted (greyed out), copy the file name and append it to the end of the URL (ie: https://archive.org/downloads/NameOfPack → https://archive.org/downloads/NameOfPack/ROMPack.zip)

Name	Content	Registration Required?	Rate Limited?	Rating	Notes
Myrient	Various	No	No	⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️	A collection of almost all No-Intro, Redump and TOSEC sets accessible with no prior registration, no ads and unlimited download speed. Note that Myrient is shutting down at the end of March 2026, so get any ROMs you want from Myrient while you can.
Romheaven	Various	No	No	⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️	Decentralized permanent archive on Arweave blockchain. Individual verified ROMs (NTSC prioritized), ROM hacks, and Clean Steam Files. No registration, no limits, bulk downloads. Storage replicated across hundreds of nodes with no single point of failure. It lacks ISOs platforms like Playstations, Gamecube and Xbox-es. Switch links not working for some reason.
CDRomance	Various	No	No	⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️	Contains PSP ISOs and PSX2PSP eboots collection but also PS2, PS1, Gamecube, NDS, GBA, GB, SNES, many ROM hacks and English patched games. Also contains a collection of PSP DLCs.
Vimm's Lair	Various	No	No	⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️	A lot of games up to 7th generation, as well as scans of the manuals. All dumps are matching Redump or No-Intro, however GameCube and Wii dumps are scrubbed. Note that scrubbed discs can be restored to 1:1 copies using Nkit.
Planet Emulation	Various	No	No	⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️	Very old, weekly updated and classy French ROM site, full MAME CHDs. Just click on "Telecharger" for download. It's very useful to get identical ROMs for Netplay, especially FinalBurn ROMs.
Legends World	PC Games	No	No	N/A	Hosts many obscure games not found elsewhere. The files labeled "full demo" are actually full games.
Ziperto	Most of Nintendo Games	No	Yes	⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️	Good for decrypted 3DS games for Citra and others. Use an adblocker.
Madloader	3DS	No	No	⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️	Decrypted 3DS and Switch games for Citra and yuzu. Use an adblocker.
Axekin	Axekin	No	No	TBA	Collection of Various ROMs and Recent Nintendo Games. Another yet french website
AliceISO	AliceISO	No	No	TBA	Large selection of Roms, excellent user interface, maximum speed
Roms2000	Various	No	No	N/A	ROMs up to 6th gen.
RomStation	Various	Yes	Yes	⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️	~30KB/s for free accounts. Run by shady people. Needs extra proprietary spyware software to download games. Has netplay. Downloads are limited and you often have to wait in a queue. Premium subscription unlocks Full Speed download and without queue. The PS1/DC/PSP part is full of bad dumps.
EmuGen	Various	No	No	⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️	Collection of Various ROMs and Recent Nintendo Games.
FreeRoms	Various	No	No	TBA	Wide selection of retro titles (Nintendo first-party titles nuked, but third-party titles remain).
DLPSGame DLXBGame DownloadGamePSP DownloadGameWii	Various	No	Partially	⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️	1.PS2/PS3/PS4/PS5 games. 2.Xbox Classic/360 games. 3.PSP/PS Vita games. 4.Wii/Wii U/3DS/Switch games. When using this site, make sure to have a good ad-blocker to protect you from malicious ads and whatnot.
BlueRoms	Various	No	No	⚫️⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️	Collection of various ROMs and ISOs, from Arcade and SNES to 3DS and PS3. All dumps are matching Redump or No-Intro, download via direct download or torrent. It has descriptions, covers, and screenshots of the games, simple and functional interface to browse/search and there are no ads.
RetroSpot	Various	No	No	TBA	Collection of various ROMs.
Gamulator	Various	No	No	TBA	Small website where you can download all sorts of retro console ROMs and ISOs.
RomsDownload	Various	No	No	TBA	Standard selection of ROMs up to 5th gen, plus some 6th and 7th gen.
Roms-Download.com (Killerroms)	Various	No	No	TBA	A website which contains ROMs from Magnavox Odyssey to Wii. Roms on this site originate from a website called s2roms.cc A.K.A Killer Roms.
Emuparadise	Various	No	No	⚫️⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️	Good for No-Intro sets (which require registration). Since Emuparadise removing ROMs download links from view, a TamperMonkey/GreaseMonkey script is currently required for downloading ROMs from it (outside of the forums).
GameTronik	Various	No	No	TBA	French ROM site.
Atarimania	Atari 2600	No	No	TBA	Contains a complete Atari 2600 and Starpath SuperCharger ROM set.
Pokemonlog	Pokémon Mod & Hacks	No	No	TBA	Small website where you can get the latest Pokémon ROMs and Pokémon ROM hacks.
Macintosh Garden	Macintosh	No	No	TBA	Abandonware archive for old Macintosh games. Popular vintage PC abandonware site, "Home of the Underdogs", originally hosted this site. It has small guides to running a few Macintosh emulators.
Macintosh Repository	Various	No	No	TBA	A website with a lot of software from old Apple computers, including games.
MacGameFiles.com	Macintosh	No	No	TBA	Site dedicated to basic shareware and demo versions of Macintosh games; as well as patches, mods and tools.
ASCII Express	Apple II	No	No	TBA	Little collection of Apple II games + some miscellaneous files.
Japanese PC Compendium	Old PC Games Jpn	No	No	TBA	A blog dedicated to old PC games from Japan.
Roms Get Download ROMs	Various	No	No	TBA	Standard selection of ROMs up to 6th gen, plus Wii.
World of Spectrum	ZX Spectrum	No	No	TBA	For ZX Spectrum games and applications as well magazines, cover art, booklets, and much more. ROMs and tape images on the site were released with permission from their original authors.
Retrostic	Various	No	No	TBA	Standard selection of ROMs up to 5th gen, plus NDS.
Abandonware France	DOS	No	No	TBA	Also, a French ROM site.
Rom Center Markdown Edition 2022 (/r/Roms Mega Thread)	Various	No	No	TBA	Center made with MkDocs in Github, Edition 2021.Documentation of places to get roms, curated by /r/Roms on Reddit
MAME	MAME	No	No	TBA	Directly from the MAME site. Games that were released with permission for free and non-commercial use.
eagleforces	Various	No	No	TBA	Hosted in South Korea, has no-intro sets for various 8 and 16-bit consoles available as individually downloadable ROMs. Links are direct with no redirects, confirmation pages, or captchas.
Romulation	Various	Yes	Yes	TBA	Useful for Wii, GameCube, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2 etc, maybe no-intro rips. (account required - use bugmenot or make one with a temp email account) (Many games (including most Nintendo titles) have been DMCA'd as of January 2017).
Pleasuredome	MAME & Non-MAME	No	No	TBA	Was once a great private tracker for getting full sets of many systems (MAME, No-Intro, GoodSets, Trurip, Redump, TOSEC) as well as miscellaneous content like video game magazines and Daphne laserdisc rips that were almost impossible to find elsewhere. Did not allow newer systems, and was a strict ratio site that required you to maintain a positive upload to download ratio. In 2021 the tracker and forum were permanently closed, and only the MAME & other arcade ROMs and wiki remain. There are several other gaming-focused private trackers, but none have open registration.
TheOldComputer	Various	Yes	Yes	TBA	Contains various ROMs, emulators, box arts and more. While some ROMs are available to download for registered users, you can get Unlimited membership for lifetime by donating the site to get access to all ROMs (PS1 games for instance.)
Arcade Punks	Various	Yes	No	TBA
Emudesc	Various	Yes (User Uploaded Direct-Download (Forum post))	No	TBA	Spanish forum site where you can find Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii, Nintendo DS, 3DS, PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable roms (possibly more stuff too).
OldmanEmu	Various	Yes	No	TBA	Chinese site for getting full rom sets of various systems. Files are hosted on Baidu/CTFile/115.
ROM Hustler	Various	No	Yes	TBA	Has Renascene PlayStation Portable dumps. Has a good selection of games from all consoles Gen-6 and earlier. Limited to one download at a time; additional attempts "503" while a download is active. Currently you can't download Nintendo related ROMs from here.
PS1Games	PS1/2/PSP	No	No	TBA	Contains a complete PSP, PS2 and PSX ISOs.
popuw	Various Prince of Persia Games	No	No	TBA	Contains Prince of Persia 1/2/3D games.
NXBrew	Nintendo Switch	No	No	TBA	Downloads to the latest Nintendo Switch Games, NSPs, XCIs, Homebrews, & CFWs etc. Use an adblocker.
hShop	Nintendo DSi and Nintendo 3DS	No	No	TBA	This website has 3DS games (including retail, eShop, and Virtual Console), updates, DLC, Virtual Console (official and injects), Themes, and DsiWare in .cia format. You can download them directly or through FBI Remote Install through a QR Code.
64DD.org	Nintendo 64DD	No	No	TBA	Collection of dumps for 64DD games.
RomsDL	Various	No	No	TBA	Roms up to 6th generation.
My Abandonware	Various	No	No	TBA	Old abandoned PC and console games.
romsever	Playstation, Nintendo Switch	No	No	TBA	This website carries many games and updates in .iso, .xci, .nsp, .ncz and many other PKG formats.
EpicRoms	Various	No	No	TBA	Explore a vast collection of ROMs and ISOs for Nintendo, PlayStation, and more. We offer full Redump and No-Intro validated ROMs, and free Roms for PC and Console.
Bytebay	Nintendo, SEGA, and PlayStation	No	No	TBA	This website carries databases of ROM sets for dedicated systems related to Nintendo, SEGA, or PlayStation. From what I have seen, it seems to just contain ShrinkMe (a URL shortener) links which, in the end, redirect to Myrient.
EdgeEmu	Various	No	No	TBA	Contains ROMs for all Atari consoles, as well as Nintendo (up to 6th gen), Sega, and some lesser known consoles (3D0, CDI, etc.) It also contains some arcade ROMs. mdk.cab is a side project.
Half-Life Project Beta	PC Games & Mods	No	No	TBA	Contains unreleased/cut Valve & Id Software beta contents.
Old-Games.RU	Amiga, Amiga CD32, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, DVDi, Macintosh, Windows, Windows 3.x games	No	No	TBA	A Russian website dedicated to old computer games. May load in Russian, then just switch the language to English (right upper corner). Registration is optional and not required to download ROMs but gives the opportunity to participate in forum discussions, add screenshots, edit game properties, bookmark games, rate them, etc. The ROMs uploaded are conveniently filtered by in-game's languages. Maintains its own wiki.
Tech Docs Exodus	Pioneer LaserActive PAC games	No	No	TBA	Not a dedicated ROM site, actually. Just a page on LaserDisc games in the tech section on Exodus' website. However, it contains torrent files for the Pioneer LaserActive PAC games in LaserDisc format dumped by Exodus' main developer Nemesis to be used with Ares.
Turran FTP (The Ultimate Retro Repository for Amiga Nuts)	Various	No	Yes	TBA	Contrarily to what its name indicates, this FTP server has some other stuff besides Amiga games, for example, Total DOS Collection v22 game set. Has a convenient search engine. You can use your favourite FTP client to access (WinSCP or FileZilla are recommended, though). Has a 100GiB/500-file 7-day download limit.
Roms Games	Various	No	No	TBA	Games for discontinued platforms.
RomsPedia	Various	No	No	TBA	In addition to individual ROMs, has per-system Romsets.
RomsHQ	Various	No	No	N/A	Free Switch Roms.
Romsfun.com & Romspure.cc	Various	No	Yes	TBA	Tons of console games, both sites share the database.
iPhoneOS Obscura	Legacy iOS IPAs	No	No	N/A	Has several apps and games for legacy iOS versions.

Note: Here's a list of public trackers you can use to increase the amount of peers you can reach, and a service that attempts to convert magnet links into torrent files in case your BitTorrent client doesn't support magnets.

• RuTracker Account required for some stuff, site entirely in Russian, use google translate if you really need to.
  • PlayStation Redump: USA (2015-05-24), Japan (2015-11-03), Europe (2015-11-03)
  • TOSEC Dreamcast set
  • TOSEC Sega CD and 32X set Format is .cue, .wav and .iso and therefore may not work with some emulators (bin/cue preferred)
  • TOSEC 3DO set
  • TOSEC Philips CD-i set
  • TurboGrafx-CD set Tru-Rip + Maybe-Intro (v2014)
  • TurboGrafx-CD set Tru-Rip + Maybe-Intro (v2017)
  • DS/DSi 2014 Fullset
  • Sega Saturn Redump (2018-12-15)
  • SNK Neo Geo CD TruRip (v2017-04-07)
  • eXoDOS v3.11 Vol. I: Adventure, Vol. II: RPG, Vol III: Strategy, Vol IV: Sim/Sports/Racing/Edu, Vol 5: Action
  • eXoDOS v4.0
  • Total DOS Collection 22
• NNM-Club Another entirely Russian tracker, which requires account for some stuff.
  • Sony PlayStation 2 Redump as of 2013/01/25 (NTSC-U): (#-L), (M-Z), (Additional disk images)
  • Sony PlayStation 2 Redump as of 2017/06/13 (NTSC-U): (#-I), (J-R), (S-Z)
  • ADVANsCEne Playstation Portable: 0001-2000, 2001-3200, 3200-3336
  • Nintendo Wii America: (#-L), (M-S), (T-Z)
  • Nintendo GameCube Redump as of 2015-04-29: (PAL), (NTSC-U), (NTSC-J)
  • Nintendo GameCube Redump as of 2018-08-25: (PAL), (NTSC-U), (NTSC-J)
  • Sega Dreamcast TOSEC as of 01.11.2017 + SelfBoot 0.08 as of 17.03.2011
  • Nintendo 3DS 2011-2014 dump(In dire need of region sorting)
• 1337x for complete 1G1R collections. No account required but adblocker is advised
  • Redump Dreamcast 1G1R set
  • Redump Neo Geo CD 1G1R set
  • No-Intro N64 (Nintendo 64) 1G1R set
  • Redump/No-Intro Sega CD/32X 1G1R set
  • Redump PS1 1G1R set
  • Redump PS1 1G1R set (Part 2)
  • No-Intro TurboGrafx-16 1G1R set
  • No-Intro Atari Jaguar 1G1R set
  • Redump GameCube 1G1R set
  • Redump TurboGrafx CD 1G1R set
  • Redump PlayStation Portable PSP + PSN 1G1R set
  • Redump Atari Jaguar CD 1G1R set
  • MAMEdevs Neo Geo MVS-AES 1G1R set
  • Redump Sega Saturn 1G1R set
  • Redump Nintendo Wii 1G1R set (Part 2)
  • Redump Nintendo Wii 1G1R set (Part 3)
• ThePirateBay (not recommended)

• Independent romset releases.
  • No-Intro Collection, a set comparable to the Internet Archive ones above but with individual archives per title instead of per system. 2019-9-16, 2018-5-13
  • No-Intro Nintendo DSi (DLC) 2019-1-1, a DSiWare set comparable to the Internet Archive one but with individual files.
• Wii digital software megapack, a reorganized mirror of MarioCube wads: as of 2019-07-26, as of 2019-02-05
• ALL NTSC WiiWare titles

• ia-rcade Auto-downloads the game you choose for MAME.
• FC2 JSON Pack Auto-downloads the game you choose for Fightcade.
• Daphne Loader Auto-downloads LaserDisc games for DAPHNE (except Digital Leisure games).

Nintendo used to deliver games the same way Sony does with the PlayStation Network; with a big encrypted disk image where all the data is useless without an authentication key. Unfortunately, they've changed this for 3DS and Switch, but not for Wii U (yet).

You need a titlekey database, covering base games, updates, and DLCs. A notable one is titlekeys.ovh. Note you're still restricted to games that are on the eShop and that people bothered to upload their tickets to that titlekey site, so rare or retail-only games are excluded. You can likely still find these types of games from ROM sites above.

On real Wii U hardware, you could also download a package of all tickets ever releases with all regions and trick the official eShop into thinking you own the game and can redownload it, but on real hardware, it has been reported some out-of-region tickets cause problems. NUSspli can simply just install the game files and tickets you need for the game you chose.

If you're using Cemu with physical dumps, you'll also need the Common Wii U Key, and individual game keys for games you're emulating.

Once you have the titlekey database including your game, you can download the game off the official servers using your tool of choice.

You can get Wii U dumps this way. First get the NUS Downloader, for example Wii U USB Helper or WiiUDownloader. Make sure to use the appropriate URL for the titlekey database.

Then, it's as simple as selecting the game you want to download, clicking "Get It" and then "Download Games". This will download the files for the game you chose (the same as the .tik's title). Choose your own region where possible, so the servers are closer to you.

Once the download is complete:

• Wii U dumps: You can either install the game to your Wii U by moving it to an SD Card and using WUP Installer GX2, or if you're using the deprecated Loadiine (or Cemu), you can "Convert" it "to Loadiine/CIA". Simply right-click your newly downloaded game, and then click "Prepare for Emulation". The .rpx file will be available in the game's folder, at /code/[yourgame].rpx.

Updates and DLCs can be downloaded the same way. Right-click on a game's name to choose which to download. For Wii U games for emulation on Cemu:

To install updates and DLC on Cemu:

• Run the game at least once.
• Check Cemu's log.txt file and look for a line that says "Mounting local storage (AOC): .\mlc01\usr\title\NUMBERS\NUMBERS\aoc\"
• Add (create) folders with the same name as the above (substituting the "NUMBERS" bit with the actual numbers) in your "CEMUFOLDER/mlc01/usr/title" folder.
• Add any updates (which must be added first) you want to the "CEMUFOLDER/mlc01/usr/title/NUMBERS/NUMBERS/" folder.
• Create a folder named "aoc" and put the DLC files into there. The "code", "content", and "meta" folders of the actual game itself also go in the "aoc" folder.

Similar situation to Nintendo. With PS3 content, you need RAP license files and a proper PKG dump to install your content on RPCS3, or on real hardware with HEN/CFW. Some people offer their own license files on some applications and websites so that everyone can get their dumps. Of course, these are limited to popular games people bothered to upload their license files for and only digital games.

NoPayStation is the most up-to-date repository of PKG download links available for PSP games/DLC/themes (including PSone Classics that can be extracted and run on regular emulators), PS Vita games/DLC/themes, and PS3 games/DLC/themes/avatars (including PS2 Classics) The PKG file can be extracted & decrypted with tools like psnpkgdecryptor-extractor or pkg2zip, though emulators like RPCS3 now offer built-in installers for those, and PlayStation 3 HEN/CFW supports PKG installation as well.

NPS Browser can be paired with NoPayStation databases in order to download PKGs from Windows, with a macOS equivalant available as well. Linux users can utilize NoPayStation databases with [shell scripts](https://github.com/sigmaboy/nopaystation_scripts). PSNStuffX is another PC downloader tool that can be found with a database, but it won't be as up-to-date versus NoPayStation.

For PS3 & PS4 game updates, you can use the rusty-psn application and just search your game's title ID within it in order to see every update available. PSP & PS3 game updates can also be found by going to https://princess-of-sleeping.github.io/Ps3-HTML-Tools/PS3-and-PSP-Title-Update-Checker/index.html and type in your game's title ID to see links to available update .pkgs for that game.

PKGj for the PlayStation Vita can be downloaded from within VitaDeploy and comes with NoPayStation databases with PKG files for PS Vita, PSP, and PS1 games respectively, all of which can be extracted and decrypted to be played on the usual emulators.

PKGi can also be used on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable in order to download PS1/PS2/PS3/PSP/PS Vita PKGs on their respective platforms.

Amiibo are special figurines that interact with a number of 3DS, Wii U and Switch games. Depending on how hard they are to find, they can either be bought at a local retailer or on eBay for a fortune. NFC tags are dumped to binary files (.bin). Android users can use TagMo to read and write these files, provided they have the appropriate encryption keys.

• Here's the most complete Amiibo set

The .bin files can also be generated on this site as all they contain is an ID number.

Main article: File Hashes#Determining Good Game Dumps

Game recommendations are highly subjective, but big lists usually cover the worthwhile games for each system.

Main article: List of notable ports

A lot of the above sites have ISOs for disc-based games, but some of the more obscure titles can be hard to find. If you want to find these games, searching for their ID number is generally more effective than searching for their title. This number is region specific and is very useful if you want to find an ISO from a specific region.

Many resources we've listed will link to files called .DLCs that contain a list of urls to download. We've voluntarily listed some programs you can use in the event that you come across one and don't want to deal with the links manually.

• JDownloader 2 (Adware-free installer) - Written in Java, and quite possibly the most recognized tool for the job.
• pyLoad - Written in Python under AGPL3, PyLoad is a good alternative.
• Internet Archive Python Library - Archive.org specific command-line download tool.
• NoIntro Roms Downloader v2 - Download "datted" ROMs from the popular NoIntro libraries on archive.org (listing live updated) with user-friendly interface (only Windows release for now)

Main article: Copy protection

NoCD and NoDVD cracked executables.

• gameburnworld.com
• gamecopyworld.com

• mrantifun: list of all trainers

• Ripping games - If you don't feel comfortable downloading ROMs you can try dumping the game yourself.

This article is a never-ending list. It will always need updates and will likely have new content added to it on a consistent basis. Because of this, it can never truly be a finished article.