Preserving the classics since 1997
Welcome to Vimm's Lair! This site is dedicated to console videogame nostalgia. Inside you'll find thousands of games, full-color manual scans, user ratings and reviews, and much more! Whether you're looking to relive an old classic or discover a forgotten gem, Vimm's Lair has everything you need to scratch your nostalgia itch.
| Emulation Lair | The newest and greatest console emulators. |
| The Vault | Every game in the world for twenty-nine classic systems. |
| The Manual Project | Thousands of full-color manuals. Add your own instantly! |
| Message Boards | Got a question or comment? Come on in. |
| FFA Links | Browse the free for all links or add your own. |
| Ird files have returned to the PlayStation 3 Vault. These files are needed to restore a JB folder back to the original iso. For years many tools couldn't decrypt certain disks correctly, so to restore them you needed a flawed ird. As a result there's lots of bad irds floating around the internet. Modern tools can decrypt every disk and generate the correct ird, guaranteeing every ird in the PlayStation 3 Vault is accurate. The Vimm's Lair.txt file included with all media has been updated to include preservation metadata. Newer Vaults have been doing this for years, but now every Vault is included. The txt file will also be updated if the title or cue file changes. Speaking of cue files, a longstanding issue has been fixed where CDs with multiple copies of a file were all given the same name. Each copy now correctly matches the name in the cue file. |
| Vimm's Lair has been asked to remove many games from The Vault on behalf of Nintendo, Sega, Lego, and the ESA. While most of these games (and the hardware to play them) haven't been sold in decades, ultimately it's their prerogative so these games are now gone for good. |
| New Vaults are now open for the TurboGrafx-16 (known outside North America as the PC Engine) and the TurboGrafx-CD. Demo discs can be tricky to label since many don't have the word "demo" (or some variant) in their name. Then some games like the Doko Demo series aren't a demo at all. Redump has added a category to each game, one of which is "Demos", and The Vault now uses that to better identify demo discs. Vimm was recently a guest on the Retro Rehab Podcast: #4 - Slaying ROMs In Vimm's Lair (Feat. Vimm) |