Today is the last day for the deal, but I thought I'd let you know anyhow.

If you bring in any two used PS2 games (aside from pre-2003 sports titles and wrestling games), you get a brand-new copy of The Getaway for free on wednesday. This deal only applies for pre-orders, but I heard some Babbages clerks saying that you could get $40 credit for DMC 2 so it might work for that as well.

Yesterday I went with my friend to Blockbuster to buy some of their $10 used games so that we could trade them in and get a profit of $20 store credit. If I like the game I'll keep it, but if I don't I could always return it and get $40 in store credit. My friend doesn't want the game so he's just going to return it and get the store credit so that he can buy Unreal 2.

The only problem with rom sites is that they keep dissappearing... either the owners shut them down because of bandwidth, or game companies force them to shut down... so often good rom sites die. I've seen it happen to several rom sites I once used to get a lot of roms from... :(

Anyway, here are most of my bookmarked emulation-related sites.

Emulation Sites (no roms)

http://www.zophar.net - huge, great emulation site. Other than its up to date emulation news, it has HUGE numbers of translation patches and IPS patching utilities, game music soundtracks and soundtrack players/plugins, lots of emulators, public domain roms, etc... no commerical roms, but still very useful site.

http://www.arcadeathome.com - no roms, but it has emulators and a forum that has plenty of rom links there, if you look around them. I've found links from that forum pretty useful.

http://www.smiff.clara.net - N64 Emulation Help site... very useful for getting N64 emulation going on your system.

http://haggar.emuunlim.com - Has others stuff too, but main thing is Capcom CPS2 (arcade system) XORs. They let you play CPS2 roms, which otherwise don't work.

http://www.phuck-ign.net - no roms, but a good list of rom site links. (on the Links page)

Emulators - Official Webpages

http://www.zsnes.com - SNES. I sure hope you know about this one...

http://www.pj64.net - official site for Project 64 Emulator, the best N64 emulator.

http://gens.consolemul.com - Gens Genesis/32X (with 32X Bios, not found there), and Sega CD emulator.

http://fceultra.sourceforge.net - FCE Ultra (NES Emulator) website

http://vboy.emuhq.com - The best GB/GBC/GBA Emulator. Only one real flaw - no link cable (multiplayer) support. Still, it does everything else the best.

http://pt.emuunlim.com - Project Tempest -- the first real working Jaguar emulator. Not finished yet (its now at ver. 0.4), so many games don't work, but its all there is for Jaguar emulation.

http://nebula.emulatronia.com - Nebula official site (Neo-Geo/CPS1/CPS2 emulator. Runs MAME/Kawaks/Nebula-format Neo Geo roms.)

Sites with Roms

http://www.filemirrors.com - useful. It finds mirrors for many files, provided you know the name of what you are searching for. Many of them are often dead links, but still stuff can be found there if you can't find it elsewhere. Downloads are often pretty slow.

http://www.planetemu.net - Yes, it is in French, and has more European-version roms than most emu sites, but still, its a very good currently functional roms site. The downside? One download at a time, and it forces you to wait a while between downloads, too.

http://www.emugateway.com - Good Neo-Geo emu/rom site. Relatively small collection of Neo-Geo roms, but they all work and its a good place to get some, if you're waiting for the slow downloads at Filemirrors or Planetemu's forced wait times. Oh, and it has NeoRAGEx .07hack to download, and thats my favorite Neo Geo emulator.... its better than the final official release (.6) or the .8 hack.

http://www.classicgaming.com - Has a good selection of roms for old systems (no new systems here). Good, though not up to date (for example it has no newer Neo Geo roms) collection. However, it downloads from FilePlanet so you've usually got those terrible wait times FilePlanet has... :(

Rom Sites -- with few currently working roms

http://www.emuparadise.org - It was once MUCH better, but now its mostly broken links. The Jaguar games currently work... most of the time. I've had some fail midway. Most other systems don't right now.

http://www.emureactor.net - Another site whose roms are currently offline. This one has all of them gone right now... but at least for this one they say so...

http://neodump.cjb.net - very few of the roms are actually available. A couple do, though.

http://www.edgeemu.com - I've never been able to get this site to actually download anything... maybe others here might have better luck or something...

P.N.03 is looking really good.

Software
1. Pokemon Sapphire (Game Boy Advance/Nintendo) 61,046
2. Pokemon Ruby (Game Boy Advance/Nintendo) 60,798
3. Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix (PlayStation 2/Square) 41,303
4. World Soccer Winning Eleven 6: Final Evolution (PlayStation 2/Konami) 36,445
5. Momotaro Railway 11: Black Bombee Arrives (PlayStation 2/Hudson) 33,923
6. Mega Man Exe 3 (Game Boy Advance/Capcom) 28,861
7. Unlimited Saga (PlayStation 2/Square) 25,061
8. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (GameCube/Nintendo) 24,514
9. Mario Party 4 (GameCube/Nintendo) 21,495
10. Tales of Destiny 2 (PlayStation 2/Namco) 18,311


Hardware
1. Game Boy Advance: 95,400 (Annual: 95,400)
2. PlayStation 2: 79,095 (Annual: 79,095)
3. GameCube: 19,902 (Annual: 19,902)
4. Xbox: 3,900 (Annual: 3,900)
5. PSOne: 3,165 (Annual: 3,165)
6. Wonder Swan Crystal: 2,718 (Annual: 2,718)
7. Wonder Swan Color: 1,691 (Annual: 1,691)
8. Game Boy Color: 1,125 (Annual: 1,125)


All the consoles went way down in sales after last week. Also most of the games have taken hits as well.

Good to know that Zelda is still hanging in there with 700k copies sold.

I was reading about this in the paper of an allegedly cloned baby awhile back, from the "raelians".

http://www.rael.org

I'm heavily considering buying a PS2. I've decided that if I can come up with a total of 8 games that I can't live without, I shall pick up the ugly black GameCube stand.

Accepted
Silent Hills 2 & 3 (decided to list them together)
Dance Dance Revolution (can someone confirm how much this costs with the dance pad?)
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
GTA3 / Vice City
Maximo
ICO


Rejected
Ahh, screw this... too much effort.

2 more to go.

Thanks guys! I really appreciate your input. :)

Great new look, Weltall! It looks great.

Who else here thinks they should have set up a special multiplayer feature for the GBA version of the emulator? I don't think it would have been TOO hard if they worked at it.

Utterly amazing. And the weirdest thing is, these screens dont do justice to the movies that are available.