Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie

Auster

https://www.gog.com/promo/snk_sale

SNK sale. A bunch of the individual games come with Neo Geo ROMs and BIOS, and the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection should come with NES and arcade (MAME compatible) ROMs.

themazingness

SNK and Data East games are on sale at Humble Bundle. All the Data East games have their roms in the game folders, and as noted above so do many of the SNK games. SNK games often have the BIOS file as well. Note that on Humble you can get the SNK games as a collection, and that collection also comes in 3 volumes if you want to bundle but don't want the whole set.

There are also other classic games on sale such as a Tex Murphy collection which I assume would be ScummVM or DOSBOX, but I don't know.

themazingness

@auster the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection doesn't have loose roms. They need to be extracted. This should do it: https://github.com/WydD/sf30ac-extractor

I can't remember if that's the one I used or not. If not, I suspect I mentioned it somewhere in this discussion, but since this forum's search functions don't seem to work IDK where it is.

CoolieCoolster

@themazingness What platform are the Data East games for?

themazingness

@cooliecoolster The Data East games are arcade.

Auster

@cooliecoolster The games are also on GOG, and they seem to include ROMs there as well, according to this post:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/rom_based_gog_games_compatible_with_third_party_emulators_thread/page1

Unknown

I found a nice rom hack for Mario kart DS. https://dswiki.garhoogin.com/ctgp-n/
All you need is something that can run Nintendo ds games, a Windows PC and a Mario kart DS game . The patch comes with software to patch the original game. I’ve tested it and it works pretty well!

mitu

@unknown Try adding this info to the other homebrews & hacks topic, not here.

Unknown

@mitu my apologies

Crush

Regarding the Disney games, i'd like to point out that the EULA is 1. not a binding legal document, 2. Is not digitally signed and agreed to before purchase and 3. does not replace or supersede your regional laws.
If you purchased it, you're free to run the games on whatever computer you like, you're restricted from sharing it with any third party obviously.

themazingness

There is a Capcom sale on Fanatical right now. Several collections with extractable games are included in the sale:

Mega Man Legacy Collection
Mega Man X Legacy Collection
Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection
The Disney Afternoon Collection

CoolieCoolster

There's now patches for the Castlevania Advance games: https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=33506.0.

Auster

GOG made a list of games that use ScummVM (not sure if everything is included), and many of those are on sale:
https://www.gog.com/partner/scummvm
edit: there's also a sale page for ScummVM's 20th anniversary

Also, it seems a few emulated games are on sale for the next 2~3 days too:
[MS-DOS] Bop'N Wrestle - https://www.gog.com/game/bopn_wrestle
[MS-DOS] Mortal Kombat 1+2+3 - https://www.gog.com/game/mortal_kombat_123
[Arcade] Retro Classix: Bad Dudes - https://www.gog.com/game/retro_classix_bad_dudes
[Arcade] Retro Classix: Night Slashers - https://www.gog.com/game/retro_classix_night_slashers
[Arcade] Retro Classix: Two Crude - https://www.gog.com/game/retro_classix_two_crude

Crush

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

Hey @Auster cause gog has an identical disclaimer on scummvm and dosbox games it's possible to google search filtering games using only one of those 2 engines.
This gets you up to date results and you can filter by date.
SCUMMVM: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agog.com%2Fgame%2F+"This+game+is+powered+by+ScummVM"

Dosbox: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agog.com%2Fgame%2F+"This+game+is+powered+by+DOSBox."

themazingness

Many ScummVM and Dropbox games are on sale as part of GoG's Activision and Blizzard sale (including many old Sierra games).

Unknown

I’m not sure if this is true or not but I heard that after the Atari Jaguar was discontinued, it was declared open source. So maybe it’s legal to get Atari Jaguar games?

Auster

@unknown I just sent an email to their support (support@atari.com) asking about the situation. They'll probably answer on Monday or afterwards.

RustyMG

After Hasbro Interactive acquired all Atari properties, the patents of the Jaguar were released into the public domain, with the console declared an open platform.
This is only in relation to the console hardware, NOT the software.
It was to allow the writing and legal release of homebrew.

When Commodore went bankrupt, all the thousands of games written by the hundreds of developers suddenly didn't become free overnight!

Auster

Wampus (NES homebrew) free to claim again:
https://itch.io/s/57416/free-the-wampus-giveaway

BenMcLean

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

After Hasbro Interactive acquired all Atari properties, the patents of the Jaguar were released into the public domain, with the console declared an open platform.
This is only in relation to the console hardware, NOT the software.
It was to allow the writing and legal release of homebrew.

When Commodore went bankrupt, all the thousands of games written by the hundreds of developers suddenly didn't become free overnight!

Wow! I didn't know that about the Jaguar. That's great!

It is really absurd that other technology from 30 years ago isn't free to use now. It isn't like the original creators are still using it. They're all either out of business or onto making current stuff now.