Links: Gaming
In no particular order...
Fan Translations
stargood.org
LIPEMCO!, stargood and other translation projects, tools, odds and ends... and much more. Beautiful website design.
Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix (PS2)
Crazycatz00 English patch.
Monster Hunter 2 DOS (PS2)
BREAK ARTS English patch. Additionally, check out GReinoso96's MH2Plus Github, which allows you to patch in PSP controls to DOS.
Emulation
Vimm's Lair
Roms/emulators and more.
CD Romance
Prepatched roms, usually a good spot to see the newest translations and romhacks at a glance.
Coolrom.au
When all else fails...
Retroachivements
Collect achievements without the pricetag of modern console gaming. Sets are designed and curated with love, offering thoughtful challenges. There are also subsets: like a low level, no junctioning set for Final Fantasy 8 or Professor Oak challenges in Pokemon titles. There's a lot of fun to be had here re-exploring your favorite retro titles.
Duckstation
My PS1 emulator of choice.
PCSX2
My PS2 emulator of choice. You can have a pink theme. Thank you.
PS2 Cover Downloader
For PCSX2. Allows you to download covers to the emulator to make it clean and sparkling.
Retroarch
Useful for everything else. The default UI is really annoying and ugly. Go into the settings and change it to the XMB layout. Thank me later.
Fightcade
Play arcade games online with strangers or with friends. I strongly recommend CAVE games.
Romhacking.net
A valuable hub for hacks, translations and much more.
Modloader64
Breathe new life into your favorite N64 games.
Nintendo Specific
Sudomemo.net
Flipnote revival project.
Riiconnect24
Brings back WiiConnect24 services to your Nintendo Wii.
Wiimmfi
Wiimmfi Project replicates the (defunct) Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection (WFC) service, allowing you to play games online (NDS, Wii) with your friends again.
WiiLink
Resurects defunct channels to the Nintendo Wii (including ones not released in North America, like Wii Room).
RiiTag
A customizable gamertag for the Wii/WiiU that update whenever you play.
USBloader GX
My favorite homebrew application on the Nintendo Wii.
CTGP Revolution
A mod for Mariokart Wii that lets you do wild things. Very active online community as well, which is very fun.
Project Plus / Project M
A mod for Super Smash Bros. Brawl with extensive features and a very active community.
hShop
3DS Preservation Project.
MarioCube
Hosts a bunch of files, I mention it though for its WiiWare collection.
Visual Novels
VNDB
Extensive visual novel database.
The Asenheim Project
Play retro visual novels in your browser.
(Mostly) PC Based
Cockatrice
A program for playing tabletop card games over a network.
Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst ULTIMA Server
Free fan server run by a motivated team.
Doujinstyle
Doujin PC games (music, and more).
Oldgamesdownload.com
Museum of abandonware.
Myabandonware.com
Even more abandonware!
Gamebanana
Mods for many different kinds of videogames.
Nexusmods
Annoying to use, but hosts a good deal of mods. I've used it primarily for Stardew Valley mods.
Scumgames
TempleOS game developer.
Sapari
A revitalization project for the Japanese 3D MMO social chat, Sapari.
Misc.
rpgclassics.com
My favorite gaming related website to date. I just love this thing, if I can use it while I'm playing a game I will.
gamingsanctuary.com
Absolutely gorgeous and it makes me feel nostalgic but in a really precious way.
Mimitchi.com
A wonderful guide on all things Tamagotchi.
finalfantasykingdom.net
I just love to browse this site, it's beautiful.
Gamefaqs
Still hosts good old text based, ASCII art game guides for retro titles.
Retromags.com
Retro videogame magazine library.
Xenogears and Xenosaga Study Guide
A wealth of information on the topic of Xenogears and Xenosaga. I've gotten a lot of use out of it!
shinraarchaeology.com
Translated materials, scans, articles and interviews all on the topic of Final Fantasy VII.
The Lifestream
Final Fantasy VII news, information, scanlations, and much more.
RetroRGB
Retro gaming news and information on obtaining ideal picture quality from your hardware.
Brewology
Hub for PSP/PS3/PsVita homebrew (among other things).
Wololo
PsVita "jailbreaker". Has many other projects but that's what I recognize them for primarily.
Redump.org
Disc preservation project.
vgmuseum
Beautiful library on videogaming.
GBAtemp
There is always super interesting, niche, and/or useful information and resources here.
Backloggery
A website designed to help you keep track of your gaming backlog.
SRB2.org
3D, open-source Sonic fangame. I strongly recommend SRB2kart.
Pricecharting
A useful resource to keep track of price trends for videogames. I use this a lot to determine when best to buy a game I'm hunting or when to sell and how much to sell it for. Very handy to have whenever you go to a used game store or something.
Consolevariations.com
Database of console variations.
Gameads.gamepressure.com
Videogame commercials and advertisements library.
pscave.com
Hub for all things Phantasy Star.
Monster Hunter Old School Forums
Discussions and resources regarding older Monster Hunter games.
snesmusic.org
A database of music from the Super Nintendo.
Videogame Music
A library of videogame OSTs. In the last couple years, they have made it so you have to pay to be able to download entire albums or something along those lines. Maybe it's a cap, I can't rememember. This is annoying but ultimately this is the best resource I have found to gather tracks with correct metadata online.
OverClocked ReMix
An archive of videogame remix songs.
Shumplations
Game developer translations.