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Post by MRSKELETON on Jul 19, 2008 10:13:08 GMT -5
What exactly is a 'romset' (and if it is what I think it is, how is it downloaded, my friend wants to know)
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Post by r0ck3rz on Jul 19, 2008 14:07:39 GMT -5
pretty sure it's every single known rom for a console/handheld, and it'd be downloaded through torrent most likely. can't imagine http having it as one file, or someone on a sharing program.
i would say, you'd be better off downloading the individual roms really. you wouldn't play/want everything on any console. unless, for whatever reason, you develop that collector mentality.
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Post by roushimsx on Jul 19, 2008 15:17:10 GMT -5
i would say, you'd be better off downloading the individual roms really. you wouldn't play/want everything on any console. unless, for whatever reason, you develop that collector mentality. A million times this. There's been a few times in the past where I'd go ahead and build up a complete set for a system (almost always because a usenet flood had recently happened, making it insanely convenient and fast), but when there's updates to the set and you're running around trying to find the precise dump of a ROM that whatever dat you're using is looking for, it really makes you question how much you really want to maintain it. It IS handy for being able to quickly reference any game on a system, but when a system's library is mostly filled with trash, do you really want to dedicate 12+gigs of your hard drive to a GBA set in the off chance that you may one day need to check out the regional differences between the various Bratz-The Movie releases? Do you really want to dedicate ~10gigs of your hard drive to every N64 game yet dumped knowing that you're only ever really going to be playing Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time? Don't even attempt to get a MAME set+CHDs unless you really hate having free hard drive space. SNES and Genesis are fairly practical, but even then you're going to be wasting hundreds of megs (if not gigs) on regional variants that you'll (most likely) never actually check out. tl;dr - Usenet is the best place but I think there's probably better ways to use your hard drive space. Like for porn...and that's on the usenet, too. edit - unless you mean a romset for MAME, which is just the roms required for that game (either parent or clone) less system bios roms (which are normally stored in a separate set unless you have everything merged) |
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Post by ReyVGM on Jul 19, 2008 15:27:36 GMT -5
It's best to just download the whole romset (or goodset) and then delete all the alternates, bad dumps, pirates, hacks, translations, etc.
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Post by Shellshock on Jul 19, 2008 20:26:15 GMT -5
It's best to just download the whole romset (or goodset) and then delete all the alternates, bad dumps, pirates, hacks, translations, etc. Yes sir. I collect them, but they also come in handy when I write articles. I have complete sets of: -GBA -NES -GB -GBC -SNES -MAME -PC-Engine -Genesis Of course, I also have an external network drive. The main thing about it is browsing the lists until you discover awesome games you never heard of before. It's like Xmas! Specially arcades... |
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Post by butanebob on Jul 20, 2008 19:54:13 GMT -5
Or you could just get the No-Intro sets that don't include all that useless crap in the first place  |
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Post by ReyVGM on Jul 20, 2008 20:19:06 GMT -5
You're thinking about GBA?
Only rom collections I've seen are the "Good" Collections, TOSEC Collections and No Intro, but the latter is just for GBA and DS AFAIK.
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Post by butanebob on Jul 21, 2008 18:35:09 GMT -5
Nah no-intro do all the other systems too.
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Post by LouieBee on Aug 13, 2008 17:12:38 GMT -5
Romsets can be good for the rarer systems like the Atari Jaguar. In case someone hasn't answered the question, a rom set is a collection of roms made into one download. You can find romsets pretty easily on torrent sites, although there is also Rom Bomb. I think it would be more safe to use torrent sites though.
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