Kirby with headphones

MegaCollections

Where I host all the cool things I find on the internet

Disclaimer: I have not necessarily tried or do not use or play all things listed here. I just think they seem neat or interesting. I am not exactly an expert on the subjects below, but I have found a lot of things.

More temporal links and things are on the linklog.NEW Now moved to cohost.

Excellent Freeware List

Button Wall

Website Space

Utility Zone

Favorite Net Media

Itch.io Megabundle Games

Kits

Freely avaliable games amd their many mods

I organize these games in folders called Kits, which feature the games, mods, and some utilities

Doom
Wolfenstein 3D
Quake
Build Engine
Marathon
Sonic Robo Blast 2

Bonus Kits

ScummVM for old adventure games

DOS: DOSBox, DOSBox ECE, DOSBox-X, PCem, D-Fend Reloaded (graphical frontend), JJ2+ for Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Guide to getting JJ2+ with GOG

VirtualMIDISynth: Replaces the default Windows MIDI player and lets you play MIDIs with any soundfont. Roland SC-55 Music Packs: Native recordings of game music on the Roland SC-55, playable in any modern source port.

FPS

(and Thief)
Something Awful's Early FPS Megathread What inspired me to do the Kits idea.
OldUnreal Non-profit community that hosts downloads for maps and mods for Unreal Gold and Tournament, as well as the OldUnreal patches to make them work on modern systems.
The Force Engine Source port of the Jedi Engine (Star Wars: Dark Forces, Outlaws), based on and by the creator of DarkXL. (Extra levels) (More mods)
Dark Forces Community Patch Makes the game more accessible.
TFix (Mod DB) T2Fix (Mod DB) Modernizers for Thief 1/Gold and Thief 2.
DarkLoader AngelLoader (Alternate link) Mod and map loaders for the above. (Missions)
Tribes Universe Official downloads (free and legal) of all games in the series known for the Skiing movement tech.
PlayT1 TribesNEXT Tribes Revengeance Some fan patches for the above.
DXX-Rebirth Source ports for Descent 1 and 2.
InjectD3 Descent 3 patch.
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Interactive Fiction
Websites Interactive Fiction Database The Interactive Fiction Competition The People's Republic of Interactive Fiction Brass Lantern Zarf's Interactive Fiction
Stories The Zork Series The Fractured Fairy Tales Series 9:05 A Change in the Weather All Roads An Act of Murder Anchorhead Balances Being Andrew Plotkin Child's Play Christminster Counterfeit Monkey Curses For a Change Galatea Heroes Jigsaw Lost Pig Photopia Rameses Shade Slouching Towards Bedlam Spider and Web The Act of Misdirection The Dreamhold The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet The Weapon Varicella Vespers Aisle Lime Ergot
Gargoyle Interpreter that supports all IF formats.
Twine The modern IF tool.
Frotz Portable interpretor for Z-Machine games.
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SonicKit
Mobile Port Decompilations Sonic 1 and 2 Sonic CD Turns the Android APKs into PC ports with mod support. Mods avaliable on Gamebanana (Sonic 1, Sonic 2, Sonic CD).
Sonic 1 Forever Sonic 2 Absolute Mods that overhaul both games with new menus and modes. Requires Android APKs. Has mods on Gamebanana (S1 Forever, S2 Absolute).
Sonic 3 Angel Island Revisited Sonic 3 & Knuckles remaster. Requires the ROM of Sonic 3&K from the Steam release. Has mod support (Gamebanana). Has Android port.
Sonic CD Restored (Gamebanana) Sonic CD and Knuckles (Gamebanana) More or less the Sonic CD equivalent of the above. The former is intended to be faithful to the original release, adds Amy as an extra character, and this addon adds more music options. The latter has more options period. Requires the files from the Steam release.
Sonic Mania Decompilation Will let you install more mods than just modding the releases. Requires the original files.
A Beginner's Guide to Classic Sonic A helpful YouTube video to get you in the right mindset.
Sonic SMS Remake Remakes of the Master System games. Has ports for Android and more.

Also see Sonic 2 Community's Cut below
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Emulation

Original ROMs are required unless noted

ROMs section
Resources Emulation General Wiki Zophar's Domain FantasyAnime Guide Rom Codes Explanation r/emulation EmuVR PC-98 Emulation For Beginners
Emulators RetroArch (Primary) MAME (Arcade) Dolphin (Wii/GC) PSCX2 (PS2) melonDS (DSi) mGBA (GC/GBA Link with Dolphin) Fightcade (Various, online matchmaking with rollback netcode) 3dSen (NES) EKA2L1 (Symbian OS/Nokia N-Gage) Parallel Launcher (N64)
Frontends Launchbox EmulationStation Desktop Edition Daijishō (Android, Github)
Romhacks Romhacking.net ROMHACKING.com SMW Central Metroid Construction Sonic Retro (Hacks Page) FF6 Hacking TecmoBowl.org FantasyAnime Chrono Trigger Downloads Scyzer's Tank SA-1 Root
Romhack Websites Project M Brawl Minus Super Smash Bros. Melee 64 20XX Tournament Edition CTGP Revolution Newer Team The MOTHER 3 Fan Translation Mother International All-in-one Translation Patcher Sonic 3D Blast Director's Cut Sonic 3 Complete Sonic 3 & Knuckles - Battle Race Ocarina of Time Practice ROM Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo New Legacy (Arcade) Street Fighter 2 Mix (Arcade) Street Fighter Zero 3 Mix (Arcade) Super Metroid: Redesign Hyper Metroid Project Base Castlevania II: Simon's Quest: Redaction Mortal Kombat +
Randomizers The Game Randomizer Site The Link to the Past Randomizer Super Metroid and A Link to the Past Crossover Randomizer Super Metroid VARIA Archipelago.gg Final Fantasy 4: Free Enterprise Universal Pokemon Randomizer Paper Mario Randomizer
Homebrew Homebrew Legends Vintage Is The New Old PDRoms GBADEV Planet Virtual Boy AtariAge SMS Power RetroSouls Free MAME ROMs Llamasoft Archive World of Spectrum MSXdev MSX Resource Center GB Studio NESmaker
Homebrew Games The Return of Traxtor (Amstrad CPC) Night Knight (MSX) Uchūsen Gamma (MSX) Mutants From The Deep (MSX) Halo 2600 (Atari 2600) D-Pad Hero (NES) MazezaM (GB) Into the Blue (GB) Retroid (GB) Streemerz (NES) Anguna (DS, GBA) Blast Arena Advance (GBA) Vulkanon (GBA) BulletGBA (GBA) Lemmings Project (DS) Tanglewood (Genesis/Mega Drive) Xump 2 (Genesis/Mega Drive, Lynx) Super Boss Gaiden (SNES, Nintendo Playstation) Secret Collect
Cannonball (Github) Modernized game engine for the arcade version of Outrun.
Sonic 2 Community's Cut Combined romhack of Sonic 2 and mod of Genesis Plus GX.
Project+ Community made Project M continuation. Downloads have preconfigured Dolphin packs.
PrimeHack (Updater) Dolphin fork for Metroid Prime Trilogy with mouselook.
Slippi Smash Melee with rollback netcode, replays, and matchmaking.
Extreme Gear Labs Sonic Riders (and Zero Gravity) made into eSports. More info here.
Tango Mega Man Battle Network 6 and rollback netcode.
RetroAchievements Achievement and leaderboards system for old games.
CheevoHunter Game progress completion tracker for RetroAchievements.
Unofficial Net Yaroze Europe Archive Site about PS1's Net Yaroze.
SNES Party SNES with friends in the browser.
TeknoParrot (More info) Run PC-based arcade hardware natively.
webЯcade WebAssembly browser-based frontend and emulator.
Real-Time Corruptor Custom emulators that corrupt games.
Glitch Attack Complete challenges while the game is modded, in board game form.

Some homebrew sourced from this. (Gemini link) Also from rabidrodent's list.

Itch.io also hosts a lot of homebrew.
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Old Internet Aesthetic Games

Don't know where else to put them so they stay here
Hypnospace Outlaw (Steam) (Itch.io) (Modding Tools) Be a moderator in an alternate universe Geocities-like. 2019 Game of the Year for me.
Subserial Network (Itch.io) Multi-window story about a world of synthetics. Comes with desktop backgrounds to use for maximum immersion.
Secret Little Haven
(Steam) (Itch.io) 		Narrative game about being a fan of an anime show in the early internet. Haven't played yet. Trans protagonist.
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