MAME roms? WTF

by **Megaman X** on Thu May 31, 2001 6:10 am

This is dangerous. Its stuff like this that gets emulators discontinued. [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img]

BTW, $10.00 for a shipping tracking #? Umm..err righhhhht...

by **jurucyber** on Thu May 31, 2001 6:14 am

Its crap like that ,and GBA emulation too that makes me want to give up on emulation all together.

The lamers have taken over the asylum,but no-one seems to care. [img]images/smiles/icon_mad.gif[/img]

[ 31 May 2001: Message edited by: jurucyber ]

by **Damian** on Thu May 31, 2001 7:11 am

Oh yeah? Check this out, it is even more disgusting http://www.tobbeo.com Damn he has just taken it down but he still has the ROM CD news secion up.

Anyway this 1 CD has 8200 NES ROMS and he was selling them for $20 a piece. But now he has figured out a new way to pay for hosting lol! just click on members to find out [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img].

by **adidas** on Thu May 31, 2001 5:16 pm

I found this link off a warez site, is it just me or does everybody else think this is wrong??
http://leech.at/mame2000

by **RabidYak** on Thu May 31, 2001 5:18 pm

Yes, this is VERY wrong and VERY illegal.

These guys are basically selling stuff that doesent belong to them.

by **Jewboy** on Thu May 31, 2001 7:25 pm

There was another site that if you post him 5 cd's (plus postage i think)he'd burn them and send them back . Can't remember where i saw it though.

by **adidas** on Thu May 31, 2001 8:16 pm

I emailed one of the people at that site a couple of weeks ago, and they never got back to me. I should try emailing one of the other burners.
http://www.tombstones.org.uk/

by **RabidYak** on Thu May 31, 2001 11:43 pm

I couldent do that, it would take the challenge and sense of satisfaction out of getting a complete set.

by **adidas** on Fri Jun 01, 2001 12:16 am

I had enough challenge when I downloaded Led Zeppelin's complete studio works off of Limewire.

There's not much challenge involved really, just tedium. There are four websites that I know of that contain complete sets. You just have to sit there for hours on end clicking and pointing. No thanks.

I have a couple hundred (MAME) roms, and that's enough. The only way I'm interested in the whole set is if I can get them the easy way.

by **jurucyber** on Fri Jun 01, 2001 12:37 am

The only set cd of roms i bought were 3 cds full of Spectrum,Amstrad and C64 disk images.

The authors of the individual games had given permision,so i had no problems with that.

by **adidas** on Fri Jun 01, 2001 5:18 am

I'd never go for that deal, has anyone ever signed up for one of those get-paid-for-using-the-net things? Seems like a scam to me.

by **Silverhaze** on Fri Jun 01, 2001 1:06 pm

You got that lot off Limewire Adidas? How many times did you have to restart LOL Man, Limewire sucks arse.

I have 402 working roms now and about 27 not working that I need to update sometime. Hopefully I'll get the full set burned in Oz.

by **adidas** on Fri Jun 01, 2001 3:56 pm

It wasn't all one download! My God that would be a big download!

I had a list of songs and albums from a web site, and I downloaded each song individually.

by **Silverhaze** on Fri Jun 01, 2001 4:57 pm

God no!! I downloaded just one album and it took bloody ages.

I just said that because it seems like no matter what you want off limewire it takes you a good few tries before you get something and even then you often get cut off half way through and thats with a dual ISDN connection too.

by **adidas** on Sat Jun 02, 2001 3:37 am

Out of the hundred or so files I've downloaded off of Limewire, I've been cut off about three times. Many of those files were 10MB+ (and me with 56k [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] )

by **Damian** on Sat Jun 02, 2001 5:24 pm

SH if WM had a dual ISDN you would be getting 112-128 down. As you say you get download speeds of 35kb/s with all network traffic I would say you would need 5-10 times that. Most large companies get a single line fibre optic DSL from 10-100 MB a second depending on their user base.A 64MB a second line costs Â£25,000 (or so) a year, so they probably have something similar to that.

by **Silverhaze** on Mon Jun 04, 2001 1:36 pm

Yeah I only guessed that because I've used a home ISDN connection once and it was crap. Download speeds of about 5-15kbps on average which I was really unimpressed by. I just assumed this place had 2 lines.

I'm not the only person that downloads stuff here and having multiple PCs downloading at 30-60kbps I assumed it would be a fat connection of some kind.