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[sleepy]

MAME ROMS are now LEGIT to dowload at The Internet Archive.org. They even have a street legal online JSMESS Player on the site so you can play many of the oldest games without anything but a browser, though it does require a modern computer to run well.

The MAME ROM version is 0.151. You can download the entire set as a 42.8 GB. Zip, or click the (contents) link to the right of the 42.8 GB. download link in order to download single game roms by their MAME name.

https://archive.org/...MAME_0.151_ROMs

 

I love this site as there is No SPAM. No clicking multiple pages. No risk of virus or malware (barring a hack of the site).

It is almost exactly like the old school MAME ROM sites with a simple list of games and near immediate download of the ROM on click.

 

EXCELLENT!

Edited by sleepy, 08 November 2014 - 07:34 PM.

[STAT]

Here is another good site too, chds and all others here:

http://www.planetemu.net/machine/mame

 

btw. i have a Problem with MAME .154 and Games: Pole Position and Dig Dug,

i cant run this ... anyone can ?

Edited by STAT, 09 November 2014 - 09:39 AM.

[Joe]

why not 7z or rar?

[toxie]

this is pretty interesting, although i really wonder how they can get away with that.

they even have complete Saturn, PSX, MCD, etc sets at archive.org?!

[STAT]

polepos.zip and digdug.zip

with older Versions, ok, but at .154 ... not

 

toxie, thanks for the info.

Edited by STAT, 10 November 2014 - 01:25 PM.

[Joe]

this is pretty interesting, although i really wonder how they can get away with that.

they even have complete Saturn, PSX, MCD, etc sets at archive.org?!

will they get sued or get a DMCA takedown?

[sleepy]

I read somewhere that the archive received notice from the USPO (US Patent Office) that software that is no longer manufactured or maintained ("abandonware")

is not protected by digital rights. That is consistent to the long standing principle, that Patents and Copyrights exist to protect the rights of the creator to serve The People, but not to neglect the product or deny the product to The People. And particularly when digital media is easy to produce en masse, there is no reason to suppress the access to it by hoarding it.

 

And then, Bally Midway offered a few of these games online through the Macromedia Shockwave (Flash) website about 14 years ago, so as far as those games are concerned, like VPM, maybe Macromedia bought the rights to those games and sold the rights? I don't know.

[Shooby Doo]

I read somewhere that the archive received notice from the USPO (US Patent Office) that software that is no longer manufactured or maintained ("abandonware")

is not protected by digital rights. That is consistent to the long standing principle, that Patents and Copyrights exist to protect the rights of the creator to serve The People, but not to neglect the product or deny the product to The People. And particularly when digital media is easy to produce en masse, there is no reason to suppress the access to it by hoarding it.

 

And then, Bally Midway offered a few of these games online through the Macromedia Shockwave (Flash) website about 14 years ago, so as far as those games are concerned, like VPM, maybe Macromedia bought the rights to those games and sold the rights? I don't know.

 

I don't think it's completely legit or illegal... it's some sort of legal limbo because of the stupid copyright system in place. The owners of these could probably file suit and maybe get them taken down, but the majority of the games are real-deal "abandonware". Games like Pac-Man are still sold under licenses. I know that Nintendo has gone after a lot of website offering NES roms because they want to sell them in their "classics" marketplace.

 

Modern copyright law stifles culture and needs a serious revamp.

[Joe]

 

I read somewhere that the archive received notice from the USPO (US Patent Office) that software that is no longer manufactured or maintained ("abandonware")

is not protected by digital rights. That is consistent to the long standing principle, that Patents and Copyrights exist to protect the rights of the creator to serve The People, but not to neglect the product or deny the product to The People. And particularly when digital media is easy to produce en masse, there is no reason to suppress the access to it by hoarding it.

 

And then, Bally Midway offered a few of these games online through the Macromedia Shockwave (Flash) website about 14 years ago, so as far as those games are concerned, like VPM, maybe Macromedia bought the rights to those games and sold the rights? I don't know.

 

I don't think it's completely legit or illegal... it's some sort of legal limbo because of the stupid copyright system in place. The owners of these could probably file suit and maybe get them taken down, but the majority of the games are real-deal "abandonware". Games like Pac-Man are still sold under licenses. I know that Nintendo has gone after a lot of website offering NES roms because they want to sell them in their "classics" marketplace.

 

Modern copyright law stifles culture and needs a serious revamp.

 

also some stuff in is a limbo of who owns what rights to what game and some times some games have more then 1 rights owner / the rights are split up now as well.

[maceman]

I'd like to know how to get more roms to work on my Wii.
Currently, the latest mamewii only emulates a handful and i like Mame.

An abandoned project perhaps because the wii is getting older and others went to xbox and PSX's because of the higher memory, but i like my Wii and i have every emulator know to man working on it practically including all the atari's, commodores, vectex,appleII, odessey2,genesis, Snes,Nes, gameboy, neogeo, etc etc.....

Anyone like Mame on Wii?

Cheers,

Maceman

[miror]

can someone propose a good site for Mame and Nes Roms?

Edit: Just found Gamulator on Google, it looks promising.

Edited by miror, 06 August 2018 - 08:49 PM.

[kiwi]

Emuparadise

[gtxjoe]

http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk

[STAT]

Example for NES Roms and as Kiwi said: https://www.emuparad..._System_ROMs/13
Since Years, i Always try a search on Google with: "SYSTEMNAME roms", and you will find all the Pages:
NES Roms, SNES Roms, GBA Roms, Model 2 Roms, Playstation ISO, and so on ...
 
But to stay on Emuparadise, here is the Index Page with Roms/Files for much Emulators:
https://www.emuparad...-isos-games.php

Edited by STAT, 21 July 2018 - 12:05 PM.

[allknowing2012]

Didnt I just read that nintendo is pulling back their roms - ie having them removed from rom sites.. (not that this pinball site is really a big haven to mame folks)

[miror]

Thanks everyone, really appreciate it!

[johnromsfan]

Emuparadise

Emuparadise was removed all roms from their site. Any alternatives?

[STAT]

MAME or what do you want ?

coolrom.com, romhustler.net or planetemu.net ... Pages what i visited in the Past.

Edited by STAT, 29 October 2018 - 10:38 AM.

[pibig]

I never thought that in 2021 will still playing MAME games, and after shutting down the Emuparadise I download my games from https://www.romspedia.com/roms/mame but I have a question about a good MAME Emulator any suggestion for that except the RetroArch emulator for PC.

[toxie]

Just the very official one?   https://www.mamedev.org/