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|  What are No-Intro sets?
No-Intro is a group dedicated to collecting ROMs of older video game systems for the sake of preservation.
Their main goal is to collect complete and accurate collections of old video games.
This means no hacks, bad dumps, etc, only clean ROM files accurate to what was commercially released.
The name "No-Intro" came from the early days when they used to rip out annoying "scene" intros that
were sometimes injected into dumped games. If you want more information you can visit the No-Intro website.
Difference between No-Intro and Goodsets
The most common complete ROM sets you will encounter on the internet are known as "GoodSets".
While these aren't bad, they have a slightly different goal and are usually several years outdated.
Goodsets basically collect together as many known dumps as possible into one set.
The good, the bad, hacks, multiple dumps, all there. No-Intro sets only include one
good ROM for each region or revision of a game (usually one US, one Europe, and one Japan).
In addition, No-Intro sets are updated frequently as new or more accurate ROMs are found.
Basically what you get in a No-Intro set is equivalent to what was on the original cartridges.
How are these sets organized?
Most of these sets consist of an archived folder which contains a bunch of individually zipped ROM files.
This saves space, but allows most emulators to still be able to open them directly.
Torrent7z and TorrentZip or used for compression and consistency.
The only sets not zipped are the following:
7zipped:
GamePark - GP32
Nokia - N-Gage
Tiger - Gizmondo
7zipped and merged:
Nintendo - Nintendo 64
Nintendo - Game Boy Advance
Because the N64 and GBA sets are so huge, they are merged to drastically reduce size and
download times. This means ROMs of the same game but different regions (US,Europe,Japan, Etc)
are archived together allowing the data they share to be compressed even more.
You may want to extract the games you want to play since most emulators can't read the 7zip format directly.
How do I extract these files?
7-Zip can extract the main files you download below. That can be found here.
Some big sets are split into parts, in which case you will need to extract all of them.
Besides that, you shouldn't need to extract anything else unless you get one of the 7zipped sets mentioned above.
What are the numbers next to each set?
After the Name of the set there are parentheses and numbers.
This is the date when the set was last updated in Year-Month-Day format.
For example a set with (20101126) was last updated on November 26th, 2010.
Want to download several links?
If you have your eye on a bunch of stuff, it might take a while to download everything manually.
JDownloader may help you out. Just download it and copy all the links and it will take care of the rest!
Attention:
all stupid messages, unacceptable requests and another lack of respect, will be eliminated as soon as possible...Edited by MasterStiller - 13/8/2018, 21:07 |
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