Community to talk about emulation & roms.
RULES:
1.) No bigotry
LINKS:
Emulation Wiki - Your source for everything emulation :)
[WIP] Emulation Links Wiki - My personal wiki for emulation links, please help contribute!
r/Roms Megathread - Megathread of Roms
RetroArch - RetroArch is the popular front-end to libretro which is a simple API that allows for the creation of games and emulators.
If you don't have the rights to share that ROM then you likely don't want to share It.
ROM sites are required to not hold a ROM for more than 24hrs or 48hrs, and I believe they rotate their ~~URLs~~ files in order to ~~circumvent~~ abide by that rule.
Frankly, why bother at all? Why not link to a ROM website directly? Unless ONLY YOU have that ROM, then it's more of a risk than a feature.
Unless this is a dump of something that hasn't been catalogued by one of the dump checking groups like nointro, there's no advantage to even risking it.
You can search their database on their website, and you can find full romsets (collections of roms that match their known good file hashes) on archive.org.
And if it's a romhack, wouldn't you better serve your readers by pointing them to the safe downloads on archive.org, to the patch, and to tools to do it themselves?
It's just not worth the risk.
Thanks, friend.