| Where Can I get roms?
gba roms : snes roms : n64 roms : sega genesis roms : ect.
Since the beginning of the video game emulation the biggest problem
people have had is getting the roms ;) 95% of websites that tell
you that they have roms actually have broken links and the rom downloads
are not working. This is not because they webmasters want to trick
you (well some of them do but I will talk about that later). The
reason that the downloads don't work is that providing commercial
game roms on the internet is illegal, so there is practically no
way to get a decent server for hosting roms. What most small websites
do is store the roms on free hosting space at GeoCities, Tripod
etc. The problem with that is that as soon as the owners of the
server notice the rom files on their server they delete them and
until the files are reuploaded and html links on the websites fixed
all you see are broken links.
This just goes to show that you can't expect Websites
to be a reliable source or roms. Is there an alternative? So where
are the roms?
The answer is - you have to dig a little deeper. The
solution is new Peer-To-Peer (P2P) networks like Napster only the
new networks in addition to MP3 files let you share ALL kind of
files so there we get to sharing roms!
What
is Peer-To-Peer File Sharing?
File
sharing is the act of making certain files stored on your computer
available for other people to download thus sharing them. Other
users also share their files to make a huge online collection. You
use a file-sharing client, such as KaZaA
Lite to search this collection for something you're interested
in, and can then download it directly from the other user(s) hard
drive(s).
This
idea was originally made popular by Napster, which has subsequently
closed to develop a new version of their file sharing program. Unlike
Napster, where file types were restricted to music files, KaZaA
Lite allows these shared files to be all sorts of different media:
audio files, video clips, photos and even software applications.
If you have a band, getting your tracks on the KaZaA (FastTrack)
network is a great way to get your music known and recognized. Budding
filmmakers can have the same sort of exposure.
It's
called peer-to-peer because of the way in which files are downloaded
directly from other users' hard drives. Traditionally, when downloading
files, you get them from a large server. Everyone connects to this
server to download the files so it needs a lot of bandwidth. This
structure is called a hierarchy, because all the users computers
'look up' to the big servers. The FastTrack network has no servers
every computer is on pretty much the same level. They communicate
and transfer files between each other, which means no single machine
requires lots of bandwidth. With KaZaA Lite, you can even download
bit of the same file from different users to make the most efficient
use of bandwidth.
So
install KaZaA Lite and start downloading!
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