Rules 1 and 2 of emulation have always been, for good reason, "You do not ask about roms". Seriously. Dump them yourself if you own them, or use google-fu to find them elsewhere. Nobody here is going to help you find warez.

As far as emulator information, I've always been a fan of zophar.net or emulation64.com

I have fond memories of emulation/translation forums circa 00. Waiting for a complete translation of Tales Of Phantasia has been an exhilerating experience.

BTW, I designed the icons for the firt Mac port of PCSX(1) back in the days.

Those were good times.

(1) http://pcsx.gpost.dk/

Likewise.. the amount of time spent looking for various emulators (and yes, roms) is something I remember somewhat fondly from those days.

For me, the game to beat was Star Ocean on the SNES, came out 1/1/2003.. the last translation that DeJap ever did.

I discovered Star Ocean and Tales of Phantasia at the same time, in 2001. TOP was finished but SO was not translated (or maybe only item names…) and I remember being so impatient that I printed a walkthrough and played about one third of it in Japanese in the summer of 2002. I wanted to play it so badly that it pushed me to register on many forums at that time.

And now I can't even remember my usernames or even the name of some of the the forums I joined.

Do you remember Silhouette? That's the first SNES emulator I've used, back in 1996 or 1997. A friend gave it to me along with 4 roms, including Chrono Trigger. I wasn't into Video Games before that…