TopRoms Collections

The TopRoms Collection is a curated collection of classic console games designed to contain high-quality and popular games. Contrary to other collections, TopRoms does not seek to be a complete set of every game released for every region. Rather, games have been selected based on their popularity and their gameplay quality. When possible, only US or European version of the games are picked unless the Japanese version is superior.

Extensive online research was used to determine what games to be selected within the list. Ranked lists from game review sites, game sale numbers, top lists, blogs and other resources were used to select games. The ROMs themselves originate from the No-Intro collection, a very well organized complete ROM set with clean dumps. This is constantly evolving project and more and more games will be added as they are discovered. Of course, if you feel that a good game is missing, feel free to email toproms@cdahmedeh.net

Purpose

Unlike other collections, TopRoms can fit on most cell phones and other portable devices. This is much more practical than carrying multi-GB ROM sets on ones cell phone to play emulated games. 

I’m attempting to have all the planned systems’ entire collection to be less than 256 GB. However, it has expanded to over 300 GB. Remember to download only the systems that you want. ISO sets are the main reason the collection is so big.

No console beyond the fifth generation will be considered. This is mainly to the massive file size requirements and poor emulation. Most portable devices don’t have enough power anyways to run the games.

In addition, some have created game consoles with front ends that only use gamepad or joystick controls. Selecting a game from a list of hundreds is very tricky without a text-based search and a keyboard. Having only to select from a few dozen games is doable with a gamepad. Such frontends include EmulationStation and LaunchBox.

Downloads

Torrent

The complete TopRoms Collection can be downloaded via Torrent.

TopRoms Collection - November 07, 2023 Torrent (337.11 GB)

TopRoms Collection - November 26, 2022 Torrent (332.21 GB)

Content

The following are the systems that are packaged in the TopRoms Collections.

You can use your torrent client to select or exclude what systems you would like to download.

Systems

  • 3DO - 3DO Interactive Multiplayer (Disc)

  • Arcade - MAME (MAME 0.260)

  • Arcade - MAME Legacy (MAME 0.37b5)

  • Atari - 2600 (Cartridge)

  • Atari - 2600 - Hacks

  • Atari - Jaguar (Cartridge)

  • Atari - Jaguar CD (Disc)

  • Atari - Lynx (Cartridge)

  • BIOS - RetroArch (RetroArch systems files)

  • Bandai - WonderSwan (Cartridge)

  • Bandai - WonderSwan Color (Cartridge)

  • Coleco - ColecoVision (Cartridge)

  • Commodore - Amiga (PC)

  • Commodore - Commodore 64 (PC)

  • GCE - Vectrex (Cartridge)

  • Game Park - GP32 (Cartridge)

  • Magnavox - Odyssey2 (Cartridge)

  • Mattel - Intellivision (Cartridge)

  • Microsoft - MS-DOS (PC)

  • Microsoft - MSX (PC)

  • Microsoft - MSX2 (PC)

  • NEC - PC Engine - SuperGrafx (Cartridge)

  • NEC - PC Engine - TurboGrafx 16 (Cartridge)

  • NEC - PC Engine - TurboGrafx CD (Disc)

  • Nintendo - Famicon Disk System (Cartridge)

  • Nintendo - Game Boy (Cartridge)

  • Nintendo - Game Boy Advance (Cartridge)

  • Nintendo - Game Boy Color (Cartridge)

  • Nintendo - Nintendo 64 (Cartridge)

  • Nintendo - Nintendo DS (Cartridge)

  • Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System (Cartridge)

  • Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System - Hacks

  • Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System - Homebrew

  • Nintendo - Super Famicom (Cartridge)

  • Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Cartridge)

  • Nintendo - Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Hacks

  • Nintnedo - Virtual Boy (Cartridge)

  • SNK - Neo Geo Pocket Color (Cartridge)

  • Sega - 32X (Cartridge)

  • Sega - Game Gear (Cartridge)

  • Sega - Master System - Mark III (Cartridge)

  • Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis (Cartridge)

  • Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis - Hacks

  • Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis - Sports

  • Sega - Mega-CD (Disc)

  • Sega - Saturn (Disc)

  • Sony - PlayStation (Disc)

  • Sony - PlayStation - Sports

  • Sony - PlayStation Portable (Disc)