Seeing as games companies are using AI to mass report sites for DMCA I figured it’d be a good time to circle the wagons around safe sites you can use for your roms needs. Here’s my list I have bookmarked so far:

https://vimm.net/ (recently got hit with a dmca and had to remove stuff)

https://r-roms.github.io/ (megathread of roms stuff)

https://gog-games.to/ (my go-to for GOG games)

https://edgeemu.net/ (lots of classics)

https://fitgirl-repacks.site/ (excellent modern PC games)

Of course we also have archive.org which I hope most people know about by now.

For fun here’s some video game private servers:

https://github.com/XiPrivateServers/Servers/blob/main/SERVERS.md (final fantasy xi private server listings)

https://www.eqemulator.org/index.php?pageid=serverlist (everquest private servers)

https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX (source port of diablo 1, hosts multiplayer games)

https://slashdiablo.net/ (diablo II private server)

https://cp.payonstories.com/ (best classic ragnarok online server I found)

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        5 months ago

        They never did, they did however briefly switch over to a system where they removed downloads from the main site and replaced them with codes that you’d enter at another site to get the download. In their case they weren’t DMCA’d by publishers, but rather told by Google they would need to clean up their act or they’d be delisted from searches.

        The changes have been reverted and I don’t know how they resolved that problem