CD ROMANCE WARNING

[Green Ranger]

Just posting this to warn people that CD Romance has corrupted Dreamcast Iso's

Yikes! Thanks for the warning. Let's hope they eventually correct the problem in the future.

[redjeff76]

I have had zero problem downloading files from cdromance. I have downloaded like 90% of the DC library from there and all my files work fine. This warning is extreme. It may of happened to a couple games. But In my experience all my downloads have been perfectly fine from the site. Every rom site has a few games that aren't good dumps. No biggie, get that file from one of the other dozens of site options. But to label the whole site as corrupt is just wrong. Just my 2 cents....

[SparkThaMetal]

I have had zero problem downloading files from cdromance. I have downloaded like 90% of the DC library from there and all my files work fine. This warning is extreme. It may of happened to a couple games. But In my experience all my downloads have been perfectly fine from the site. Every rom site has a few games that aren't good dumps. No biggie, get that file from one of the other dozens of site options. But to label the whole site as corrupt is just wrong. Just my 2 cents....

You downloaded 500+ games manually from there like that? Rather you than me lol i'll stick to torrents (TOSEc etc) or for CDI's theres mega folders on here with everything collected. Both ways you dont have to be clicking on hundreds of webpages like with rom sites (eg click alphabet letter, click game, click file you want, multiplied by every game= Thousands of clicks). Plus with torrents you can verify the file matches 100%, so no corruption issues. With Mega you just d/l the entire folder with megasync/downloader .

Regarding your view that the warning is too extreme, how so? There's no point in promoting the continued use of a site that doesn't care about spreading corrupted dreamcast isos around. No one wants to be troubleshooting ''what's up with the garbled graphics''. I've never seen that on any other iso I've got from any other rom site.

Others have also confirmed its been an issue for years.

So sorry, but I don't agree that it's too extreme. Thanks for your comment though.

[redjeff76]

so you think no other iso sites have corrupted games on their sites. That is just ignorant and willfully blind. I have downloaded from many sites for many systems for years. You will come across bad downloads time and again. It is part of the business. You think that every ROM site tests every game they host on original systems?! You are delusional to believe that. It sounds like you found a couple bad downloads and got your feelings hurt. You oughta just find another site or another download. That is what people do. But your tirade against one site you feel has done you wrong is bordering on slanderous. As you said they have been around for a long time. So their hosting must be acceptable to many. Sites host hundreds if not thousands of files, best believe they all do not test them all on original hardware. This isn't a cdromance only issue. It is an issue with most of the sites. Find a bad Rom - move on, that simple. Relax bruh...you act like cdromance stole your mum's knickers.

[mistamontiel]

l0l

[mgproductions]

So far i've had no problem with cd romance, except for atomiswave ports.

[Holsten]

I love that site, easy to find games by genre already translation patched and improvement patched games for most retro systems.

[Holsten]

I got all my translated saturn and ps1 games from that site since i can not figure out how to patch them myself, very handy.

[Shock8]

Never had a problem with them. Is this one of those internet drama things?

[cdromance]

Hi guys, as you know most cdi's are old made by the scene years ago. Mileage will vary, what worked on Utopia boot CD in 2000 may not work with your modern ODE.

GDI's are first TOSEC and, if not available, REDUMP's converted to GDI with feyris-tan's gdidrop.

I always try to get the best possible file, if someone complains and a replacement exist I'll swap release, even modern rips won't always work for everyone, we got DCP, RDC, DCRES, DCCM, there's no silver lining.

As of being unresponsive, the site is mostly curated by me. It's not easy to maintain, there's updates and new things coming out every day.
I receive a lot of messages, I try to do the best I can but some things slip trough. I'm really sorry if I didn't respond to your message or didn't took action. I may come off as I don't care but I do, I'm just overwhelmed.

If you have an specific case of a bad file I'll gladly look into it.
t's very easy to make a post like this and ruin a site's reputation, it takes 5 minutes.
It's much harder to work daily in a site for 10 years to offer a service you can use for free.