IA's infra is slightly better for big loads though, they tend to just have higher latency rather than aborted/timed out requests, for better or worse. It can be bit slow, but as long as you're ready to wait, you'll eventually get the response. Usually hosts just cut you off with a hardcoded timeout instead, which for people on high latency/low bandwidth connections can be super fun.

IA's resources are very limited as is. There is so many people (emulation/roms) YouTubers linking to Archive.org downloads for full ROM Sets.

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