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GOG.com[1][2][3] revives and preserves old video games.

[1] gog.com

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOG.com

[3] GOG: Preserving Gaming's Past & Future Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffngZOB1U2A

GOG shifted focus from that a long, long time ago. Now they're a normal storefront that mostly deals in indies and occassionally releases older games - and the quality of those older releases is rarely anything above slapping dosbox and/or dgvoodoo on it. Speaking from personal experience many older games are better preserved by a certain fitness named piracy site, let alone freaking steam. Gog distant third.

What's the fitness site out of curiosity?

I would imagine that FitGirl repacks is the site in question.

I'd really like a GOG for console games. Give me a website where I can buy ROMs DRM free for old consoles legitimately. Maybe bundle in an emulator and a scan of the manual but let me do what I want with the ROM, whether that's create my own repro, run it on a flashcart, play it on my phone etc.

If you buy a Sega Genesis game on Steam, you get the ROM of the game in an “uncompressed ROMs” folder in your Steam library.

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