What ROM do you have was a pain to find?

[foXtrot]

before i discovered the beauty of BT, the Super Mario Roms were hard to find cause something called the ISDA prevented people from distributing these roms. I hope the ISDA burns in hell!

[Xtreme_Phil]

Monster Rancher 2

[The_Bionic_Jawa]

the hardest F**king rom to find for me was Advanced Wars 2 (for my comp GBA emu) I found almost 8 different roms, and NONE of them could get past the intro scene. :Argh: I got so angry at it, i deleted all the broken AW2 roms, went out to Gamestop and bought a real copy of the game.


on the PSP Snes front, the hardest one to find for me was called Terigamma(or something like that) Its the 3rd game in the soulblazer/illusions of Gaia trilogy and unrealeased in America. Even though i have several HUGE rom sites i search in, it took me at least 4 hours to find the game.

[TheMysteriousThug]

wow threads i start usually don't last for about 2 days and this one has lasted about four days. first of all i'd like to thank my mom......and .....kidding i don't want a long stupid boring speech keep it up people and may the force be with you.......

[Freehate]

The hardest rom to find right now is a translated version of old japanese medarot(medabot) games for gameboy color. if someone comes across a patch for these please let me know. ;) Been searching for four weeks now.

[twelve]

I have never really had trouble finding roms. I remember reading someone said that you shouldn't use google for finding them but I have only ever used Google for ROM searches until I found a decent site. Saying that it took me a while (few hours) to find a working version of Final Fantasy IV (Japanese Hard Type) with the J2E translation patch.

As for these Vote 1, Vote 2, Vote 3, Click to enter sites. These really do my head in as 9 times out of 10 they don't work or ask you to disable firewall (cos thats really reassuring) or I end with my CPU and Memory resources getting eaten into by the 1000's of popups generated and then whilst frantically trying to close them you inadvertantly click install on a hidden one and boom lovely lovely spyware.

As for ISO's I have never ever searched for these on search engines cos I like to keep my computer spyware and virus free. The only way I use for getting ISO's is BT. But I'm not giving links or even suggesting programs or explaining what BT means to the uneducated.

It took me forever to find Star Ocean 2 PAL version for the PSX. as this was extremely limited edition (around 500 copies I believe). I saw a original copy on amazon going for £180 and an unopened original for £475. So when I finally found a PAL iso I ran outside and screamed then came back inside and tried running it to find it corrupt. AARGH!!! So in the end I settled for the US NTSC version and patched it for PAL tv's.

Wow that was a long post. im going to lie down

[TheMysteriousThug]

we're no talking about isos here just ROMS that were hard to find for your emulators

[thacky22]

hmm i would have to say the longest rom that it took me to find was harry potter n the prisoner of azkaban for gba...only took me about an hour...

btw, sovietslayer, do you have aim?

[EM1L]

hmm i would have to say the longest rom that it took me to find was harry potter n the prisoner of azkaban for gba...only took me about an hour...

btw, sovietslayer, do you have aim?

EmilsCool AIM

[laird]

MAN there are no roms out there that are hard to get....they are all so easy to find! Just download whole sets and burn them....fron nes,mame,gba ..ect you name it! The only good ones these days are the GBA ones....thank god I have a 256MB flash card!

[Synyster gates]

turtle wars for nes is also a really hard to find rom

[Desiboi1992]

GTA 1 and 2... :naughty: Yup it exists :dance: IT took 4EVER to find it. musta looked through 50+ sites to get it. PM me if u want it (unless its against forum rules, too lazy to check rite now) BTW eMail is [email protected]

[paulmurphy]

you can download gta 1 and 2 off the rockstargames.com official website 4 free

anyway the roms that took me at least 2 weeks to find were the original duke nukem series and pokemon emerald translated english version (before US release)

[Jay C]

Is there a way to run GTA 1 or 2 on psp? The pc ones, not the crappy gameboy ones. I've never tried the pc emulator but I assumed it had some restrictions from some of the games I've heard used, sam and max and whatnot, figured it wouldnt play stuff like jedi academy, but if it'll play gta i'll probably check it out.

[TheMysteriousThug]

Is there a way to run GTA 1 or 2 on psp? The pc ones, not the crappy gameboy ones. I've never tried the pc emulator but I assumed it had some restrictions from some of the games I've heard used, sam and max and whatnot, figured it wouldnt play stuff like jedi academy, but if it'll play gta i'll probably check it out.

it's not that kind of pc....no,no,no...PC Engine is a TurboGrafx-16 emulator

[Jay C]

it's not that kind of pc....no,no,no...PC Engine is a TurboGrafx-16 emulator

Oh ok. Well I just figured out that sam and max is on scumm anyway... thinking about getting dat...

[TheMysteriousThug]

i highly recommend that.

[modojojo]

I would say now If you use news groups or bit torrents It's not hard find any roms or any iso's . If you use regular web sites finding iso's will be difficult and certain roms will be hard to find like recent neo geo roms. I remember before news groups and torrents I went through hell to find kof 2000,2001 and metal slug 3 & 4.

[coldconfession13]

im trying to find a english version of super mario world lol

[taiswang]

DDR for gameboy.

Oh boy took me a while lol.

[iam_nice]

Super Mario RPG was really hard to find for me but after 2 days i founded it on a spanish site.

[mtgking5287]

Super Mario RPG was really hard to find for me but after 2 days i founded it on a spanish site.

that was the first one i got and it was on the first site but zero wing became a B!T<H

[Jay C]

im trying to find a english version of super mario world lol

Good choice my friend, but I suggest you go ahead and get the Super Mario World + Super Mario All Stars rom. All of the best mario games from the nes, remixed with better graphics, plus of course super mario world.
Also you shouldn't have such a hard time finding it for very long. I've found it on a small rom site and two large rom sites, in english.

[Kold Kalamity]

A working KOF2003 for the NeoRageX emu. I have it working in mame32, but I would love to see it on the NeoRage. Also, I'm still trying to get my hands on some Sega Saturn roms like Daytona USA, Virtua Fighter 2, and Virtua Cop. Not having a credit card really does have many overwhelming disadvantages.

[Enclave]

I would say finding a working copy of the Slayers SNES game was the most difficult for me. I spend a good 10 min before I could find it (this includes the testing time for trying out the non-working copies I found)

[bulls84]

Final Fantasy 6

[Enclave]

I can never understand how anybody could have trouble finding the most mainstream of all ROMs.

Anything with the Final Fantasy name will take me all of 20 seconds to locate.

[TheMysteriousThug]

searching on google can be a b%%%h

p.s. wow this thread has gotten more views than a sticky.....wicked.

[dalton4life]

Nintendo made roms are generally harder to find on sites but I usually look to the newsgroups for those.

[DarkgamerDx]

Good choice my friend, but I suggest you go ahead and get the Super Mario World + Super Mario All Stars rom. All of the best mario games from the nes, remixed with better graphics, plus of course super mario world.
Also you shouldn't have such a hard time finding it for very long. I've found it on a small rom site and two large rom sites, in english.

and dont forget remixed sound too :boohoo: :boohoo:
J: J: J: