Websites
🌟 IsThereAnyDeal
Find discounts on video games from official key sellers. Key sites like G2A are shady and fuck over developers, but second-party official key sellers (ex. Humble Bundle) that aren’t shady, and still get you a deal on your games. This site is basically a live database for those. Just check it when you’re wanting to buy a new game and you may save yourself a few bones. It can also notify you when a game goes on sale anywhere.
NoClip
Explore 3D environments of classic games in your browser, as if using Source’s noclip.
🌟 TheBackloggery
Sort of like MAL for video games. Made by the MyLifeInGaming folk. You can detail what games you own, how you own them, and if you’ve played, beaten, completed, or mastered them.
My Life In Gaming
A YouTube channel that extensively details how to get good picture out of retro consoles. Their RGB series covers this. There are broad episodes, episodes focused on specific consoles, and episodes focused on specific equipment.
Death Generator
Lets you create custom text boxes in the style of a ton of different games. Also known as Sierra Text Generator.
Earthbound Battle Backgrounds
Generator for moving Earthbound backgrounds in your browser.
Tools
RomTools (Web)
Lets you apply a bunch of operations and checks on your ROMs. Patch, compress, test, lookup, hash, and more. Also has tools to switch N64 ROMs to big endian, shrink PSP ISOs, and check compatibility with RetroAchievements
Steam
🌟 SteamGridDB
Database of cover assets for Steam, since a lot of games are missing covers and the like. Includes non-Steam games as well, in case you put those in your Steam library. * SGDBoop - Tool that automatically applies assets from SteamGridDB directly to your Steam library with a click of a button, removing the need to download and set them manually.
Millennium
A theme/plugin mod for the Steam client, which allows you to once again theme steam to your liking.
Adwaita for Steam
A skin to make Steam look more like a native GNOME app, for the GNOME heads.
Steam Rom Manager
Useful for bulk adding non-Steam games (such as retro games) to your steam library with image assets pulled from SteamGridDB.
Games
🌟 Super Lesbian Animal RPG
Funny, fun, and incredibly touching Furry RPG ft. Lesbians An RPGMaker game by Ponnet (aka Bobby), the author of Thanks Ken Penders. With music by Beatrix Quinn. SLARPG doesn’t really belong here but fuck you it’s my list. Fuck Elden Ring, it’s my GOTY 2022. Give it a shot if you like “quirky Earthbound inspired RPGs” or gay people. Be sure to read the (short) official prologue comic before you start.
Do not use joy2key or 1.5x/2x window size
For playing the game with a controller, use Steam Input with community uploaded profiles (or make your own). If you don’t own the game on Steam, add it as a non-steam game and use Steam Input anyways. Bobby recommends joy2key on her site. She’s wrong. Don’t play on 1.5x or 2x window size unless you really need to fill the screen, it stretches the pixels. (blame RPGMaker for both of these limitations).