How to get older games for free

[freetibet]

I know another way to get lots of free games. i'm sure 90% of you already know this but i'm sure it will help some people.

Download an "emulator" which is basically a virtual console. you can get one from emulator-zone.com or some other similiar website. You'll likely want to go through any "readme" files since some of them can be a pain to work.

Next You'll need to dowload some ROMs for games. I like using Coolrom.com but there's countless sites that give out ROMs. Some ROMs are illegal and will be harder to find though. Then you just open your dowloaded ROM in your emulator and start playing.

This is mostly for older console games though. So you won't be able to dowload xbox 360 games or anything like that. Some games are almost impossible to get otherwise, like earthbound for example, so it's nice to have.

[Game Master]

Just do a search on google for free flash games.

[louied777]

DS emu are impossible to get to work. I seriously spent an entire day trying to get that shit to work
Paper Mario 64 is god on emu

[freetibet]

Just do a search on google for free flash games.

well obviously you could get flash games for free lol. I'm talking about full version games here.

[SuperSkunk]

Download the zsnesw emulator I think thats what its called when you get that you just have to get the file for the game and you can play almost any super nintendo game for free. I'm playing Chrono Trigger currently on mine.

[Warpurlgis]

dude you get a nintendo and then come and rob my house for the games

[freetibet]

but that could take hours to do! with this you get any game you want for free

[louied777]

Or you could play paper mario 64 on MuPen 64 for free???? and have your save game at the halfway point never load again??? Yays???

[freetibet]

i don't have the nitendo 64 emulator, but i know my Znes emulator makes it so you can save anywhere you want. did you make sure the ROM's save thingy was set up right?

i lost saves all the time before i got it right on mine

[louied777]

Yeah dude, I unzipped every file. And I saved every 30 minutes

[Draykid]

DS emu are impossible to get to work. I seriously spent an entire day trying to get that shit to work
Paper Mario 64 is god on emu

I got Desmume working 100% perfectly in about half a minute. Fuck yeah Phoenix Wright.

The latest emulated console is one of the last generation consoles (they all have emulators floating around), although those aren't very stable. I know a guy who got a PS2 emulator to work. N64 and all cart***** system emulators are easy to get working, almost no work required if you do some looking for the better emulators.

There are DC emulators around that work pretty well, I use Chankast which has a problem with the sound where it skips constantly, but there's fixes for that, and there are a lot of good playstation emulators.

Also, @louie's other post, I use Project 64 personally and it works...well, perfectly.

(Yeesh, all that working on a vista, I must be holy or something.)

P.S. Google is your friend.

[Palm3R]

I got my emulator working, it wasn't hard to figure it out at all.
I've been playing The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap a lot. :D

[freetibet]

emulators are great. they seem to freeze a lot for me though

[Palm3R]

well then you got a bad emulator...
mine only freeze when you hold down a certain hotkey, or when I'm dragging the Window.
But they are really handy.

[louied777]

I've never had any problems with any games or freezing or anything, but Paper Mario just stopped playing...hacked dump??? Even though I don't know what that is???

[Palm3R]

DUDE! I never thought of that. I'm gonna get ROM for papermario 64!

[Draykid]

I've never had any problems with any games or freezing or anything, but Paper Mario just stopped playing...hacked dump??? Even though I don't know what that is???

Try deleting the original ROM, then find another one and rename it to what the original was. The emulator should associate them, and the files should be compatible. If that doesn't work, try a few times more and then look into other emulators I guess.

[freetibet]

Try deleting the original ROM, then find another one and rename it to what the original was. The emulator should associate them, and the files should be compatible. If that doesn't work, try a few times more and then look into other emulators I guess.

I'm playing super mario rpg (best SNES game ever) and it always freezes at one particular spot. This sounds like it would help though

[louied777]

Draykid: I already did that....30 times...no lie, 30 times, and it won't work....looks like I'm gon hafta buy it somewhere...goodluck finding it though

[Draykid]

Draykid: I already did that....30 times...no lie, 30 times, and it won't work....looks like I'm gon hafta buy it somewhere...goodluck finding it though

It's probably something with the emulator then. Have you tried a different emulator?

Also, if you have a Wii you can just buy it off that shop thing.