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Click the tabs on the top of the webpage and look for your console to find your ROMs.
Inspired by that thread from the other day. I hope this thread inspires anyone who wanted to get into retro games to consider emulation instead of 5000$ scalped disks and consoles. This site maybe doesn't have the fastest downloads but it makes emulation sooo easy for anyone hesitating!
Edit: thanks eveyone for the links!
More ROMs!
https://www.myabandonware.com/
https://vimm.net/
For PC games!
https://gog-games.com/
For Flash games!
https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/downloads/
A Steam Deck would be total overkill for my purposes
I'd want something sleek that can play games from before the PS2 generation
PS2 and above I'd rather just play on my PC on a big screen anyway
Your best bet there is one of those Chinese handhelds made in Shenzhen, like the ones made by ANBERNIC or GPD. There's actually a kind of renaissance right now of handheld emulation machines running Android or some derivative and it's awesome. A coworker of mine has a RG351MP and it's cool as heck, runs everything up to PS1 games, but kind of lags on big files. Does 2D stuff SNES, GBA, etc perfectly.
China is contributing to the future of retro gaming :china:
How far back? A used PS Vita will run you about $100 and only starts to choke on emulation well into the N64/Dreamcast era.