Old Nintendo Games- Specifically Zelda

I RA'd to have it moved here.

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This is where I get my N64 roms.

here is what I put in your OT thread

Nintendo does not sell their games on anything they didn't make.

You can only legally play roms if you own the games and even then you technically have to rip the rom yourself though odds are very low you will ever get popped for NES roms.


If you want to go the legal route you can still buy these games for $5 a pop on the Wii, WiiU, and 3DS through their online stores.

If you want to do it as cheaply as possible you should just buy a used Wii and buy the games through their Wii Shop Channel before Nintendo shuts it down to shift focus to the WiiU.

Otherwise getting a WiiU or a 3DS and buying them through the shop channels is the only legal way to get those games save for finding an old NES on EBay.

basically, a rom is the code from the game.

an emulator "emulates" the hardware the game originally played on.

you use the emulator to play the games.

nearly every gaming system has been emulated though the newer more power gaming systems are much harder to do and require more powerful computers to do it. Most of the ones from the N64 on up are pretty buggy.

Also, the less popular the system was during its lifespan, the less likely people have put in the time to properly debug the emulators. So you can find them for something like the Intellivision but its possible it won't work very well.

But the best emulators for NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis are generally pretty good. Even then, not every game can be properly emulated. Most can though.

I use NEStopia for NES games and SNES9X for Super Nintendo games. For Sega Genesis I use Genesis Plus. there may or may not be better emulators out there but these work fine for me. Be warned, emulators are not always the most intuitive things to use. Some are simple and have a clean, easy to navigate interface while some were made by people who have no idea what ease of use means.


here are some links that may help you

https://coolrom.com/
https://www.rom-world.com/
https://www.romnation.net/

added links in another edit

also, follow this link to read about some of the better emulators.

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I actually didn't get it directly from their page. I got it from this guy so DL the version he has up. I'm really not that computer savvy so I need stuff spoonfed to me.

https://fantasyanime.com/emulators.php#nes

also, he gives a rundown on how to set it up.

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