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My main interest is the preservation of media history. To that end, I am looking for a good source of PS2 files so that I can catalog and archive them into a dedicated USB HDD. Then I'll store the drive in the random nuclear fallout shelter the house I bought came with until the day the world needs a copy of 'Little Britain: The Video Game'.

Seriously, any suggestions for collections sources would be appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I use CDRomance because they used to have ISOs / ROMs that's already patched with fan translation / hacks / undubs

If you want more vanilla ISOs, maybe try Vimm's Lair

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For preservation, go with a redump pack. They aim to make a collection of "perfect checksums" of every game. Badically, multiple people will rip the same game and they post a "hash" of their file and the perfect rip is the one that matches each other. They do not share the actual files, but you can get the a pack from archive.org of iso files that match the hash database of redump. This should give you the best collection.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To clarify, it's generally ok to post a link to a landing page of another site that contains download links. We just don't want any direct download links on here, for obvious reasons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Perhaps you are right. I will keep that in mind next time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I like Squid-Proxy. They have a large PS1/2/3 collection.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://vimm.net and https://myrient.erista.me are my go to sites for ROMs! Especially myrient since you can use FTP to download files. https://archive.org works too, though downloads are quite slow for me

For BIOS files, you can find them on the emulation wiki: https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Internet archive has all of them (EU,US&JP) in alphabetical libraries. Also has bios files

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No one mentioned cdromance, so I'll do that. Pretty much the only source I use besides Vimm's Lair. Also, when you can, prefer US versions over EU, as the former run at 60FPS while usually EU PAL are locked at 50FPS, if I'm not mistaken.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

CDR is an amazing source

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)