Best way to gather every rom/emulator

[mame]

Hello!

I'm starting a project to build an arcade cabinet and I will need to gather nearly every Rom and a compatible emulator. However, most sites that upload roms make you manually download them one at a time. This is problematic for my purposes.

Does anyone know the fastest, most efficient way to download large packs of roms? Ideally comprehensive packs.

I will be using the program "Hyperspin" as front-end software to navigate all the emulators and roms.

Thanks for any info and tips on the best way to mass download roms.

~mame

[mame]

I suppose I'll end up hunting down torrents

[Mupen64 Man]

Some websites offer downloads for "Rom Packs", but they are in sections because of the size.

[agoo]

I think the best way is to have a section here for uploading these roms. This way in this forum such a collection could be implemented. Roms could be uploaded to rapidshare for example but links and passwords could be here. Everyone who has such roms could upload it according to rules here and I am sure soon we will have the largest rom collection here.

[VintageTorrie]

This site doesn't host ROMs/ISOs since they're illegal. Try googling 'arcade rom pack'.

[RetroTom]

ive got all roms for every console prety much its prety easy just gotta keep looking man