🏴‍☠️ Piracy

Check out the 🌐 VPNs section if you'll be torrenting

Torrenting exposes your ip address to others using the torrent, since its a p2p protocol. Intellectual property holders often look for people in torrents which distribute their content and automatically send takedown requests to their ISPs to deter piracy. This is also technically a risk with other p2p services. a vpn will prevent this. This isn’t really a problem with direct-downloads, though.

General Piracy

🌟 freemediafuckyeah

(backups) A huge curated mega list of piracy resources. If you can’t find something elsewhere, check here. - Awesome Piracy is another huge list many used, however due to lack of maintenance many of the links are outdated as the repo has been archived, but the source is incredibly invaluable none-the-less. Awesome lists in general are very useful to be honest. - The author of Awesome Piracy has recommended a couple other mega-lists (including FMFY, a maintained fork of awesome piracy, and the r/piracy wiki) in the repo’s archival announcement

🌟 Archive.org

Site used to archive a bunch of stuff. Also home of the wayback-machine. Basically the library of the internet as far as media is concerned. So much is on here it’s ridiculous. If you’re in a collection, be sure to view all files on the right panel if you’re looking for a specific file. Some may require you to sign in. A favorite of mine for roms, books, in-browser emulation, and flash games. Has tons of entries on this list.

Pirate Bay Mirrors

Updated Aug 2023. List of mirror sites pulling from The Pirate Bay’s database. Visiting the pirate bay directly is sketchy in my opinion, but it’s database will always be invaluable. Do note however that in more recent times, their collection has become more and more unmoderated. Tread lightly. I do not recommend the subreddit’s suggested VPNs.

TorrentGalaxy

Movie torrenting site. I’m using it to hold me over since RARBG went defunct. Not sure what the best alternative is yet.

Piracy.moe

Previously known as the anime index. A resource to find ways to pirate/stream anime, manga, etc. Just a good resource for weeb piracy warez n’ such.

🌟 Nyaa.si

Anime torrenting database. Probably the best out there. My first line of fire for anime piracy. sukebei.nyaa.si is their NSFW counterpart.

🌟 Soulseek

Peer-to-Peer network for (mostly) music piracy. A lot like how Limewire worked (I think? idk I was too young for it). If you’re on Linux I recommend using Nicotine+ to access soulseek.

🌟 YayPonies

Piracy site for basically all official digital media for the My Little Pony franchise. shows, movies, comic books, bonus features, etc. They also host other shows, including Bluey, Star Vs The Forces of Evil and Wander Over Yonder (as well as Ducktales and Steven Universe, albeit deprecated).

Videogame Piracy

If you're interested in emulation, homebrew, retro fighting games with rollback, mods, fangames, and more, check out the Videogames page! :D

Console/Retro Games

🌟 No-Intro Romsets

This is a database of roms available for download that match no-intro’s official set. Add / after the URLs to view the contents of compressed archives from the browser. Torrents can be problematic, and you may have an easier time if you use a download manager like jdownloader if you’re downloading in bulk. No-Intro is a group that basically makes the standard database for making sure your roms are clean, but they dont provide the roms themselves, so this (and every) romset isn’t official. - Redump ISO sets. There isn’t an entry for every redumped system in one listing on internet archive that I’ve been able to locate, but this collection should get you started. Redump is a very similar organization to no-intro, just for discs instead of cartridges. For the Ctrl+F friends: PSX, PS1, Playstation, PS2, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, WiiU, PSP, Vita, Saturn, Dreamcast, 64DD. Also see the link below if you’re a ctrl+f friend - ISO and Rom Sites directory via the emulation wiki a bunch of sites to download retro games, listed on the emulation wiki.

Patched English Translation ROMs

English fan translations of various games, pre-patched and ready to go.

Gamecube Collection by Ghostware

Full North American ISO set of gamecube games. Be sure to log in and either show all files and pick which you want, or get the torrent and manage from there in your torrent manager.

Wii Collection by Ghostware

Part 2, Part 3, WiiWare/Virtual Console Multi-part collection of commercial Wii games. Be sure to log in and either show all files and pick which you want, or get the torrent and manage from there in your torrent manager.

NXBrew (Switch)

Switch piracy downloads and torrents - Ghostland (Switch) eShop replacement for Switch using Tinfoil. use https as protocol, nx.ghostland.at as host, and / as path.)

hShop (3DS)

eShop replacement for 3DS with free downloads. A must install since the eShop is deprecated. Has all games that were on the eShop including updates and DLC.

Software Clearance Bin

Huge collection of commercial abandonware. Not my first line of fire for seeking out a specific title, but SUPER fun to meander about and see some random shovelware game you played as a kid and go “omg I’m gonna pop this in rn like right now rn”.

Legal ROMs Wiki (Fandom)

Yeah its a fandom wiki but its still pretty neat. A list of ways you can legally acquire digital versions of plenty of retro games. You probably own a few games that are incredibly trivial to pull roms of and may not even know it. A nice option to have. - Legal ROMs on Steam A guide for how to pull ROMs from various games on steam.

PC Games

🌟 Fitgirl Repacks

Repacks for modern games. (Repacks are compressed versions of games, I’ve rarely had problems with them though). As for other repackers, fitgirl endources RG Mechanics, RG Revenants, RG Catalyst, Xatab, El Amigos, Kapital Sin, and KaosKrew (rips). However I’ve never had to use them.

🌟 r/FREEMEDIAFUCKYEAH’s games section

(old reddit link) A huge curated mega list of piracy resources. If you can’t find something elsewhere, check here.

Free GOG Games

Free release for almost every game on GOG.

CreamInstaller

DLC unlocker tool based on CreamAPI and more. Lets you unlock paid DLC for legitimately owned games for free, though if the DLC is a separate download you’ll need to track that down and merge it. I use it for the PinballFX games, since all those have all their dlc packed into the game lol. Works online too! Just know developers could easily track this and ban you if they went out of their way to. Steam probably could as well, though there’s no recorded cases of valve taking any action against people that use this. Use CreamAPI or other tools directly if you’re on Linux.

Pirated Games Mega Thread

Lists resources curated by those at r/CrackWatch, as well as some anti-recommendations so you know what to watch out for. Anything on my list superseeds anything there (at least for me) obviously.

Old Games Finder

Search engine to find copies of old PC games. Some sites it may lead you to are paid, but not all. Use Archive.org as another line of fire.

r/CrackWatch

Gaming piracy subreddit. Will tell you who cracked a game and removed it’s DRM if a game has been cracked, which should give you enough information on where to find said cracked game. Also carries with it other useful info. Be sure to read the beginners guide on the sidebar.

Internet Arcade

A bunch of retro games are playable in browser on Archive.org. If you dont want to go through the trouble of setting up an emulator and downloading roms and you just need an instant way to check out an old game for some reason, this should be your first stop. Surprisingly good support since it uses a javascript port of MAME. Here’s Libble-Rabble as an example because I love that game.

Flashpoint

A project meant to be an exhaustive preservation of flash games and animations. - Flash on Archive.org Similarly to the Internet Arcade, Archive.org also supports playing flash games in browser using Ruffle, which Newgrounds also does for flash games that have remained on the site.