Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie

[lionel_Z80]

@clyde It may be possible to extract some games from the "SNK 40th anniversary" with one of the two scripts that I mentioned in this post: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/254003

Lionel

[Folly]

The makers of the "Aardvark ROMs", for atari2600, have released it over here :
https://atariage.com/forums/topic/319647-aardvark-rom-release/

[themazingness]

Dere Evil.exe is on sale on Steam for $0.54 USD, normally $0.99 USD. It isn't a ROM game itself, however, it has free DLC called PROTO DERE.nes which is. The DLC comes with two different versions of the ROM in case one isn't compatible with your emulator of choice (looks like they're different mappers).

https://store.steampowered.com/app/871950/DERE_EVIL_EXE/

[themazingness]

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[themazingness]

I played through Proto Dere.nes tonight. It was a blast. It is super short but was definitely worth it.

Incidentally, DERE EXE: Rebirth of Horror is free (not a rom). I'm suspect it is free for a limited time, but I'm not sure.

[Ashpool]

Does anyone have any Details about the release of Super Huey 1 and 2 ?
GoG: https://www.gog.com/game/super_huey_1_2_airdrop
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1484980/Super_Huey_1__2_Airdrop/
The description sounds like they are using some kind of emulator, but not even saying from what 8-bit system (original release was AFAIK CBM64, and the only other 8bit version would have been for the atari XL/XE (?), the rest where 16bit adaptions (Amiga/ST/DOS)). So I am a bit curious whether there may be any usable roms/image-files included with that release or not and with the current price I think of it to be too much of a gamble to even consider a purchase without further information.

[Auster]

@themazingness said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:

Dere Evil.exe is on sale on Steam for $0.54 USD, normally $0.99 USD. It isn't a ROM game itself, however, it has free DLC called PROTO DERE.nes which is. The DLC comes with two different versions of the ROM in case one isn't compatible with your emulator of choice (looks like they're different mappers).

https://store.steampowered.com/app/871950/DERE_EVIL_EXE/

Also available as a stand-alone game (and not as a DLC) on Itchio: https://appsir.itch.io/proto-dere-nes
To those interested, it's free by default, but you can pay for it if you want.

[Clyde]

@ashpool said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:

The description sounds like they are using some kind of emulator, but not even saying from what 8-bit system

The screenshots match the C64 version according to a quick web and YouTube search. The other versions look distinctively different.

[Auster]

@ashpool said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:

Does anyone have any Details about the release of Super Huey 1 and 2 ?
GoG: https://www.gog.com/game/super_huey_1_2_airdrop
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1484980/Super_Huey_1__2_Airdrop/
The description sounds like they are using some kind of emulator, but not even saying from what 8-bit system (original release was AFAIK CBM64, and the only other 8bit version would have been for the atari XL/XE (?), the rest where 16bit adaptions (Amiga/ST/DOS)). So I am a bit curious whether there may be any usable roms/image-files included with that release or not and with the current price I think of it to be too much of a gamble to even consider a purchase without further information.

They're Commodore 64 titles and at least the GOG version comes with ROMs.

The ROMs are the files Super_Huey_1985_Cosmi.d64 and Super_Huey_II_1986_Cosmi.d64 in the folder [GOG install folder]/Super Huey™ 1 & 2 Airdrop/Emulators.
The games also come with a few goodies in the same folder, such as manuals.

[Ashpool]

@auster said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:

The ROMs are the files Super_Huey_1985_Cosmi.d64 and Super_Huey_II_1986_Cosmi.d64 in the folder [GOG install folder]/Super Huey™ 1 & 2 Airdrop/Emulators.
The games also come with a few goodies in the same folder, such as manuals.

Thank you! Good to know and good news :D

[LandyVlad]

Having just seen this thread... is there somewhere that collates the various legal content sources or is it a matter of looking through the full thread?

I'm wondering if Apple 2 and/or Atari 2600 games are legally available?

[Clyde]

@landyvlad In principle, @BenMcLean updates his opening post accordingly, but he doesn't seem to be as active as before anymore.

[Crush]

@landyvlad said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:

I'm wondering if Apple 2 and/or Atari 2600 games are legally available?

I can confirm that these atari roms work on retropie.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/400020/Atari_Vault/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1104680/Atari_Vault__50_Game_AddOn_Pack/

https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/atari-vault
https://www.fanatical.com/en/dlc/atari-vault-50-game-add-on-pack

[themazingness]

@landyvlad Yeah, this thread is getting a bit unwieldy. And the sad thing is, this forum's search features are nearly useless at finding specific content within a thread. (I tried looking for something I posted and cannot find it at all with ctrl + f or the basic forum search.)

I can't confirm these work on Raspberry Pi, but I know of a group working on some homebrew stuff for Apple II:

https://www.facebook.com/LawlessLegends (work in progress)

https://www.facebook.com/ancientlegendsrpg/ (finished game)

https://www.facebook.com/outlaweditor (create/edit your own games)

[Folly]

@themazingness said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:

@landyvlad Yeah, this thread is getting a bit unwieldy. And the sad thing is, this forum's search features are nearly useless at finding specific content within a thread. (I tried looking for something I posted and cannot find it at all with ctrl + f or the basic forum search.)

Indeed, It's getting harder to find the information in the thread.

I have an idea about it.
While being busy with a gui module script, I realized it possible to make a download gui for the legal and directly downloadable content.
Perhaps that's one of the solutions for the future.
I restructured a gui module-script so everything can be build upon csv data automatically making main and submenu's and execute things.

I just made a basic script, just to see if it can work.

For those who want to see the basics, just look at this script :
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share/150e14ea6b8b5211bdcf1163c8e6e50f704eeebf/00-scriptmodules-00/supplementary/download_legal_stuff.sh
Basically the main menu holds the systems and executes a submenu containing the downloadable content with a wget function, all in csv format, which can be created in exel or libreoffice and exported into csv format.

I don't have an idea for the content that you have to login for.
I think that's a different story.

Edit : Seems indeed quite some work, so I leave it at this. I kept the script in, to review for others.

[Clyde]

@folly A laudable effort! 👍 However, the real challenge with projects like that is to maintain them over the many years to come. Otherwise we'll soon have an abandoned script based on an abandoned forum thread.

[Folly]

@clyde said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:

@folly A laudable effort! 👍 However, the real challenge with projects like that is to maintain them over the many years to come. Otherwise we'll soon have an abandoned script based on an abandoned forum thread.

Indeed, you could be right.

[themazingness]

@clyde said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:

@folly A laudable effort! 👍 However, the real challenge with projects like that is to maintain them over the many years to come. Otherwise we'll soon have an abandoned script based on an abandoned forum thread.

It could always be turned into a Git repository. That way multiple people could work on it to keep it alive (yes, it still could be abandoned but that lessens the likelihood.)

Edit: By it, I mean creating a project, not the script Folly made. Along the lines of this project: https://github.com/farmerbb/RED-Project/wiki

[Auster]

@landyvlad said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:

Having just seen this thread... is there somewhere that collates the various legal content sources or is it a matter of looking through the full thread?

I'm wondering if Apple 2 and/or Atari 2600 games are legally available?

From what I read in both the game's pages and in the forum I saw this game, Nox Archaist comes with an Apple II ROM:
https://6502workshop.itch.io/nox-archaist
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1509080/Nox_Archaist/
https://www.gog.com/game/nox_archaist

Also, apparently, the games from the MacVenture series have Apple II ROMs, but you need to extract them to run in other emulators.
This tool should do the trick for all the games but Uninvited, but I haven't tested them so I can't be sure:
https://github.com/blorente/MacVenture-Extract-Guide

The MacVenture games:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/343820/Dj_Vu_MacVenture_Series/
[DRM free] https://www.humblebundle.com/widget/v2/standalone/retro_dejavu/WDSHD2hiX/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/343830/Dj_Vu_II_MacVenture_Series/
[likely DRM free] https://www.humblebundle.com/widget/v2/standalone/retro_dejavu_two/XlkJSDo23Y/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/343800/Shadowgate_MacVenture_Series/
[DRM free] https://www.humblebundle.com/widget/v2/standalone/retro_shadowgate/8SLDFkj3hs/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/343810/The_Uninvited_MacVenture_Series/
[DRM free] https://www.humblebundle.com/widget/v2/standalone/retro_uninvited/FSDkl23sS1/

And a bundle of all 4 games on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/sub/59404/

[LandyVlad]

@auster
Thank you :)