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Arcade Repo: 20.6 TB
Arcade Repo Comp: 3.74 TB
Arcade Repo Supp: 920.7 GB
Eggman’s Arcade Repository is a preservation project that archives arcade games to ensure their long-term retention. There are still thousands of games not yet emulated, but have been made available and are just floating around out there in the digital world. The goal is to provide a central archive where the files can survive long-term, even as forums, websites, and chatrooms disappear.
This repository is split up into 3 distinct datfile collections:
🕹️ Arcade Repo: core collection of actual arcade games, sorted by manufacturer - system - game. There is a variety of games provided in various archival formats, such as hard drive images, hard drive file copies, recovery discs/USB, and extracted/unpacked files. Where applicable, updates and other game components are preserved alongside.
🧰 Arcade Repo Supplementary: items that are directly related to the games such as artworks, multimedia, loaders, patches, utilities, source code and Omnimixes.
💻 Arcade Repo Complementary: Arcade-related materials that may be interesting to collect to complement arcade games or genres. Things such as spin-off PC games from an arcade franchise, newer arcade-style games made for alternate platforms, rhythm games for PC, community based rhythm games, and various arcade related components such as jukebox, karaoke, photo/sticker booths, vending machines and kiosks.
This repository is for archival and preservation purposes only.
No guarantees are made regarding playability, accuracy, or completeness.
Use at your own discretion.
Datfiles are only designed and tested for use with RomVault. These dats may not work in other rom managers.
- A wide variety of arcade game dumps, old and new.
- Games in mixed states:
- Some with pre-existing loaders.
- Some in a playable state.
- Many as raw dumps, system restore discs or hard drive file copies without emulator support.
- Proprietary hard drive formats (e.g.,
.mrimg) converted where possible into generic.imgfiles. (Some conversions may still be pending, such as .GHO) - Content inherited from older abandoned collections (e.g., Yori’s).
- Heavy representation of rhythm/Bemani games, though completeness is not guaranteed.
This collection tries very hard not to include duplicate arcade-related materials already included in sets from:
- Redump
- No-Intro
- Sega ALL.Net (DataMonster/datajohn)
- TeknoParrot
- MAME
These projects already have their own maintainers and these other sets should be collected separately.
This arcade repo is large and resource-intensive. It is not intended for low-memory systems.
If you are planning on loading the ENTIRE arcade repo collection into RomVault, please note the following:
This is an example showing only the repo dats fully loaded into an RV instance (no other dats included):
You should have at least 64GB of RAM to use these DAT files properly. RomVault loads the entire DAT cache into memory, and a scan or fix operation can drive the RAM usage up even higher. If your system does not have enough physical RAM available, Windows will move part of that data to the pagefile (virtual memory on disk). The pagefile is significantly slower than real RAM — even on fast NVMe drives. When this happens, you may notice:
- Slower cache updates
- Slower "Find Fixes" operations
- General performance degradation
If your RAM usage is regularly hitting 90% or higher during RomVault operations, you do not have sufficient headroom, and performance will suffer.
In short: this collection expects workstation-class memory, not casual desktop specs.
- Testing: None of the dumps here are guaranteed tested or working, other than the ones indicated as "working" via a loader or emulator.
- Duplicates: Efforts are made to bring dupes down to a bare minimum.
- Ongoing Work: This repository is always a work in progress. Files may change, be replaced, or reorganized over time.
- Preserve arcade data in a sorted and curated condition.
- Reduce the risk of rare dumps disappearing as communities shut down or contributors disappear.
- Provide a base for others to build on (e.g., loaders, fixes, and emulation work).
(w) = Working. A game can be setup with a loader, tested and working up to in-game play (if possible).
(nw) = Not Working. A loader exists and I attempted to setup and test the game, and the game is not working. Does not mean the game could be working at a later date. I do not recheck games very often.
(S2x) = Spice2x, a maintained and updated derivative of Spicetools.
(standalone) = the game has its own unique loader, or can be run by its own exe.
(SRD) = System Restore Disc
(vhd) = vhd containers, some are browsable with 7zip or mountable. some may be encrypted and non-browsable.
(exe) = game executables
(opt) = option files (Sega ALLS)
(app) = application files (Sega ALLS)
These two tags were the toughest to initially assign. The terms "unpacked" and "extracted" describe completely separate methods of how the game files were accessed on the original media they were contained in. The tags do NOT describe the state of the files themselves.
The tags, from my point of view, mean this:
unpacked = the file contents were unpacked from their original container/drive/image/dump and required intervention by 3rd party tools via: - decryption at the drive/partition layer - de-enveloping of executables - deobfuscation of game files - HASP or dongle information to perform any of the aforementioned tasks
extracted = the physical game files can be extracted out of its container without the need for 3rd party intervention. An example would be extracting the contents of an unprotected hard drive image. This does NOT mean the game files are usable. A typical scenario would be the game vendor uses a physical security dongle as its method of run-time protection and without it, the game will not function.
At this point in the early stages of the repo's life, I've made the general assumption that a "folder of game files" are tagged with "unpacked" until it can be determined what method was used to obtain the files. It will take considerable time to dig into each game and figure out exactly what tag category the archives belong in. If you're an expert on this sort of thing and want to submit corrections in this regard, I would be more than happy to receive your help!
To many of you, the use of either "unpacked" or "extracted" tags simply means the archive contains only game files, and not the original media they came from (most likely SRD or HDD images).
I am not affiliated or aligned with any p2p or online preservation groups, stylized as Myrient, Minerva or whatever they call themselves. The data is not hoarded in any way. It's all out there.
- this is MY repo, so I do things how I like them to be done.
- This repo will never be finished.
- If you don't like something that is included in it, ignore it.
- This repo will get updated when I feel it deserves an update.
- There is still a massive amount of arcade material out there that isn’t included. If you have access to it—don’t sit on it. Share it. Preserve it.
- I do not judge what gets added to the repo. If you don't like rhythm or redemption games, nobody's forcing you to worry about them.
- If you think something is broken, provide a solution on how to fix it.
- If you think something needs to be changed in the repo (game in wrong place, wrongly tagged files, etc), submit an issue on github and validate your claim with details and proof.
- DO NOT BOTHER ME ABOUT TEMP FILES. This is NOT about cleaning up games, especially log and temp files! These files could provide valuable running details about the system before the power plug was pulled on it.
- Game dumps are provided AS-IS, and almost always exactly AS-FOUND.
- Don't bother me about "You don't you have XX game" or "do you have YY game" or "how do I setup ZZ game".
- If it's not in the dats, it's not in the repo. If games are not made available to me, I can't add them.
- I'm not your tour guide - games are separated by manufacturer, system and game.
- Do your own setup homework, join communities, use search engines and AI. Explore and learn.
Thanks to the following for their indirect contributions (with or without permission):
- Archive.org
- Arcade Freaks (touchscreen content)
- Yori Yoshizuki
- nameless websites, forums and trackers
- anonymous benefactors
- numerous shadow individuals who have provided continued assistance.
Original source code, scripts, tooling, and hand-authored documentation and metadata in this repository are licensed under the MIT License.
Archived game data, binaries, firmware, media assets, and other third-party materials are not covered by the MIT License and remain the property of their respective copyright holders.
See the LICENSE and NOTICE files for full details and scope clarification.