/vr/ - Retro Games

Piracy is illegal, anon.

>>2070946
Just use emuparadise instead.

>>2070950
I own a physical copy of all the games I got, was just surprised when I couldn't find any nintendo roms on coolrom anymore.

>>2070951
will look into that, thanks.

Must have gotten a strongly worded letter from nintendo,i havent checked in on that site for quite a while since i got tired of downloading individual games and just went and downloaded full romsets for everything.

>>2070951
Better yet, torrent the romsets. NES + SNES + GB + GBA + N64 probably isn't even 8gb.

all the older games are so small you could literally just download all of them and not have to deal with rom sites anymore.
not like a new nes game will be made any time soon.

From the coolrom faq:
>Why are some ROM titles protected?
>Some games are protected by the ESA (http://www.theesa.com/)) and are illegal to distribute. We fully support the gaming industry, so if you really like those games, buy them!

Yeah, just use emuparadise instead.

Figured I ask in this thread. What are some good rom sets that don't have 50/50 working roms and broke roms.

>>2070965
I understand that a copyright is a copyright, but do these companies really believe that they will somehow be able to turn a profit on these 20+ year-old games? What would be so bad about not pursuing hosters anymore?

>>2070974
Virtual console.

>>2070974
Nintendo is selling some of those titles on virtual console still and yes, people do buy them.

>>2070969
Hyperspin Project or No-Intro are usually good bets. Though some platforms like the N64 don't have 100% compatibility, so some issues you've had in the past may have been a result of that instead of poor rips.

>>2070969
Google "no-intro romset" you will need an account on emuparadise forums but the romsets they provide are apparently the most accurate and contain all regional variations and revisions

>>2070978
>>2070980
holy shit

>>2070984
>>2070983
I'll look into No-Intro and make an account.
I'm splurging on flashcarts so I need some rom sets. I also need some roms for PS1, Saturn, and Dreamcast for the cd emulators and Gamecube .

>>2070961
>implying I haven't already played them all, and aren't working through the PS and PS2 library now

>ROMs

It's time to grow up kid.

>>2070994
I did the same thing,bought a load of flash carts and downloaded the full romsets,now i got every game for every system on a handful of carts,screw collecting games those days are over,and now GD-EMU is out for the dreamcast i can almost do the same thing with dreamcast,saturn and ps1 as well soon hopefully,i download all my isos from isozone

>>2071030
personally I find that having all games is a little overwhelming, I like having a round a few but 100% them before moving on. That's just me though, and I agree with you on
>screw collecting games
emulation lets you play anything you want, and that's what matters. So we should just enjoy it whichever way works for everyone.

>>2071030
I'm waiting for the second batch of GDEMU. And waiting for the Playstion, Saturn, and SEGA CD cd emulator/SD card readers.
Waiting on the wasp fusion boards for gamecube also. So much waiting.

>>2071037
I agree with you there its definitely a downside and you can get into the habit of playing a game for 5 minutes and trying the next ,just requires a bit of self control, but its still better than spending a fortune on the real things and having them stacking up on your shelf.

I like the real thing so i got the flashcarts but emulation is good as well,it should be about playing and enjoying the games but most people fall into the trap of spending more time on the collecting side of things and end up swamped.

>>2071037
Flashcarts aren't emulation.
I still collect but just the games I want and the hardware.

Winners don't use emulators.

They RetroN V.

>>2071038
Sweet i didnt know about the gamecube one i will be keeping my eye on that,got a stack of gamecube games ready to hit ebay soon as i have a SD card solution,i just got my GD-EMU as far as i know its 100% compatability so i dont know if he will be making a second revision its pretty much already perfect except for not having a menu system but someone already made one.

>using coolrom
Enjoy your adware.

>>2070959
>entire n64 library isn't even 8gb
anon, this can't possibly be true. I can see everything else, but.

>>2071070
According to my romset its 16 gb but thats with every region and revision of every game

>>2071054
I mean I don't condone coolrom either but will you at least stop this adware crap? You can download the zip without any hoops or downloaders.

>>2070978
>>2070980
What if it's shit like licensed games that's never ever going to get a rerelease due to copyright issues?

http://coolrom.com/roms/gcn/

That's why.

>>2071096
Yeah, I saw someone on /vp/ post about that just a bit ago.

I wonder why it took this long for that to happen, though. You would've thought Nintendo would've done this years ago if they could've done it this whole time. Was there some shift in copyright laws recently that allows them to do it now when they couldn't before?

>>2071103
Nintendo only had the VC in the past like 5 years.

Probably realized it was bad for business to have your shit out there for free.

>>2070946
Because you're a dirty fucking pirate, that's why.

YEAH!

>>2071089
Supposed to be lost to time I guess. Unfortunate too because games like ducktales fall into that mess you're talking about even though that example happened to have an HD remake.

Vimm's Lair, brah. Still the best ROM site out there.

>>2071254
>Vimm's Lair
woah that's still online! I remember using it all the time back in '99. Awesome.

>>2070946
>coolrom

>>2071070

Properly compressed, and with every version of every game, it comes to 6.1GB (GoodN64 3.21).

>>2070946
www.pleasuredome.org.uk

thank me later.

>>2071426
>Vimm's Lair,
Even zophar.net is still up

Chaika on the front page!

>>2071087
I think the main factor here isn't that you can get around it, but that the site owner legitimately said "yes, it's okay to give the downloader the option of screwing over their own computer if they wish."

I just don't give the site my time or clicks for that.

>>2071672
I'm legitimately sorry for people who don't know better, but if you didn't have any other forms of revenue but donations would you let your site die? Or maybe you can get some free money by adding some extra optional links that will fuck your computer at your own discretion. Would you be ok with that?

I would never do it because I like my site being safe but maybe the chose the greater good against the lesser evil. Not that it really matters now, at least for Nintendo's stuff.

Coolrom has been on my trash list ever since they started making you watch videos to download ROMs.

>>2071720
There's no reason for a site like that to exist anymore. We have torrents of the entire ROMsets and you can download them all, even on a shitty US DSL connection, in like 2 hours.

>>2071754
Well, some people don't like to download an entire set just to get one ROM and some other people running toasters hello don't even have the space for it.

>>2070980
"Piracy" is a victimless crime though.

If I download a rom of Super Mario Bros., Nintendo loses nothing and gains nothing.

If I don't download a rom of Super Mario Bros., Nintendo loses nothing and gains nothing.

How exactly is it immortal to pirate?

Blind obedience to nonsensical rules is considered one of the biggest red flags for Asperger's Syndrome

>>2071782
>How exactly is it immortal to pirate?
Immoral, obviously is what I meant to type.

>>2071767
Yes, this is why your torrent client can individually download files out of a large torrent.

>>2071720
That's not an excuse. Emuparadise runs ads and verifications, but it never offers installs that fuck things up. Coolrom's revenue model is malicious.

>>2071785
>>2071782
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwWPadFsOA

>>2071791
Sometimes it is easier or faster to just do a direct download. Torrents are good too, but it's not an option for everyone.

>>2071791
Unless they put it all in one big archive like a moron.

>Full SNES collection 700+ games.torrent
>Files: 1

>>2071782
>If I download a rom of Super Mario Bros., Nintendo loses nothing and gains nothing.

If you really wanted it, you could've bought it from the Virtual Console, and if you didn't, you wouldn't have downloaded it anyway. Yes, I know there are other uses for ROMs beyond emulating, and these don't negatively affect Nintendo (especially if you had the actual game to begin with), and I'm also beyond not letting 30+ years old games go freeware for financial reasons, but the logic is there and you can't deny it.

>>2071791
Not when they're all packed in some huge archive you don't.

>>2071792
Emuparadise also loads 500MB of something in your RAM, for every tab you open.

>>2071810
>Emuparadise also loads 500MB of something in your RAM, for every tab you open.

elaborate pls

>>2071817
Every time I open Emuparadise (not the forums, the main site) I look my manager and I see out the charts memory fluctuations. Which are really bad for people with 1024 megs of physical memory. Sometimes the browser just locks up and it's really annoying, gotta download fast.

>>2071810
>If you really wanted it, you could've bought it from the Virtual Console
Yes, I "could have", but there's no reason I should have to.

You know what it's called when you force someone to give you money, just because you feel entitled to it? It's extortion.

>>2071830
Yeah, thing is Nintendo is actually entitled in forcing you to give money to them, that's the problem. Especially since the prices for games that old are outrageous.

By the way, how do you guys rate DGEmu? Before I got into Emuparadise for generally supporting more platforms, that was my #1 site for ROM fetching, even if I couldn't download everything in a day.

>>2071828
well i'm an avid user of the site but regardless i just went over all sorts of pages and saw nothing of the sort.

>>2071852
>well i'm an avid user of the site
just get a torrent then

>>2071828
what browser are you using? this isn't an isue at all for me.

>>2071810
>If you really wanted it, you could've bought it from the Virtual Console,
In my case I'd buy the cartridge, because I have a NES and not a Wii. So Nintendo wouldn't make any money that way.

It's a flimsy argument based on speculation and what ifs. Fact is they lose nothing, it's been two decades since the game was released. Forcing someone to buy a new system and pay for the game is a not a sound business model.

>>2071856
what the fuck are you talking about?

>>2071868
If you're an "avid user" of a ROM site, you'll save a lot of time and effort by just downloading a No-Intro set torrent. I think all of them together are around 30GB or something.

>>2071860
>In my case I'd buy the cartridge, because I have a NES and not a Wii. So Nintendo wouldn't make any money that way.

Yeah but you see, buying second hand copies is part of the free market, and companies don't even like that as far as I know, but they have no say in it. Nintendo does however have something to tell in regards to the official support of their games as of today, which is the Virtual Console. You got an NES or any other platform that supports the game you want? That's fine, buy your copy, nobody's stopping you. But if you don't, gaining copyrighted data from a site is an unofficial and unsupported means of getting said game, and unlike second hand market they can and will do anything they can to prevent it so they can redirect you to buying a console that supports their official output. It may sound like an extortion to you but they're just exercising their rights. So words like

>Forcing someone to buy a new system and pay for the game is a not a sound business model.

Are all in good faith and morals and I approve of them, but reality is different. For all you can say the entirety of Nintendo right now is not a sound business model.

>>2071880
Not everybody likes downloading a huge collection just in case they may somehow need it.

I don't want to waste 30GB when I can download whatever I want to play individually.

But that's just me and if you prefer downloading through torrents that's cool too. What's important is playing the games.

>>2071880
i see what you mean. are these torrents entire siterips or what? some games have revisions and better versions available.

>>2071889
The fact is I can download the game and the emu within seconds, without spending any money.

>gaining copyrighted data from a site is an unofficial and unsupported means of getting said game
and I don't care about that, I care about playing it. Nintendo can try to prevent it all they want, and likewise we can do all we want to keep sharing it.

You're bringing in business concerns, but what I care about is playing the game.

>>2071889
writing all this is fine but the fact is that i used to own these consoles and games and now i will get them for free because i want to play them again. i've given nintendo the money for the games when they were brand new so i give zero fucks.

>>2071893
>are these torrents entire siterips or what?
They're from projects like No-Intro, GoodROM, and TOSEC.

Pleasuredome has a variety of them. I prefer No-Intro because they have exactly one proper dump of each game release (the best ROM, and only the best ROM).

>>2071913
thank you, that sounds great. and sorry i didn't understand what you were saying, it wasn't clear what you meant at first.

>>2071898
I'm sorry, do I look like Nintendo's lawyer or something? I just explained why things aren't as you depicted and while pirating ancient games is not exactly immoral, it does hurt Nintendo to a degree. Playing a game is considered a service. If the only way bar downloading ROMs from a site is buying a Wii/WiiU then I'm sorry, their intended way to achieve the game is using their Virtual Console. You could also get the original consoles those games shipped with, spending money, or you could have that console+games gifted to you, and you don't spend money. Either way that's beyond Nintendo's jurisdiction. Preventing unauthorized sites to deal with their data is, that's all I'm saying. They're only defending their incomes, as shallow as they come.

You want to play the games, that's fine. I approve. If I had the complete rights to something more than 10 years old I would just upload it to my site for anyone to download, if only for preservation purposes. But I'm not Nintendo.

>>2070950
It's abandonware.

>>2071909
According to law you might be partially entitled to download backup copies of something you paid, but yeah. Of course you're supposed to give zero fucks, that is not a wall I'm breaking.

Who the heck even uses coolrom these days? That site has had a shit selection since at least 2010.

>coolrom
stay pleb

LGTSS
>CoolRom
nigga, that site only gave malware

>>2071569

My 3.21 weights 5.2 GB and includes hacks..

Coolrom fucked up because it had a twiiter account that showed people playing the games on emulators thanking coolrom and linking to the site
Emuparadise > Coolrom

>coolrom.

I've always been slightly amazed in the difference of quality in rom sites. Emuparadise and Romnation have been consistently brilliant for more than a decade now, while Coolrom and Romworld have been consistently awful.

>>2072065
Yale nigga not using romhuslter? Stay pleb. Seriously though romhustler.net boasts a very complete collection that includes hacks. It even has psx/saturn/gc/ps2 isos. You should check it out

>>2071913
What's the deal with pleasuredome's signup, are there rules/why do you have to sign up?

I'm gonna do it anyway most likely, just wanted to know and their site is too ugly to look over for a rules page.

>>2071079

Different versions of games actually have most of their data in common with other versions, so it doesn't take up a lot of space if properly compressed.
I have the goodset (which is every region and revision like you mentioned), but it's only 5.21 GB because each game is in 7zip archives with their other versions

I'd recommend Emuparadise.
Though there might be fewer games, the quality of the games on the site are pretty good. I haven't had any adware from it, either. However, with cool rom I had downloaded a few ISO files from that site (or at least I thought I did) and they turned out to be downloaders, I stupidly gave it the benefit of the doubt and downloading all these games. The games worked, however, I had a shit ton of adware.

>>2071569
>Goodsets
Ugh

>>2072543

>not using iso zone for anything involving CDs and beyond

>>2070951
>>2070953

Emuparadise is shit like all ROM sites. Use this:

https://archive.org/download/No-Intro-Collection_2013-06-14/No-Intro-Collection_2013-06-14.zip/

No-Intro perfect 1:1 ROMs for all cartridge based systems. Just use CTR+F and have fun. Just click and download, no bullshit timer and ads.

>>2072668
Fucking this

Iso zone is slow as fuck, but they have perfect Redump RIPs.

I downloaded Panzer Dragoon Saga from several sites for example and they all had bad sectors and wouldn't even boot. ISO Zone has the perfect Darkwater rips and they worked perfect.

>>2071046
My wife and I recently bought a Retron V. Now she dresses up like Velma from scooby-doo and fucks the dog while I play nintendo games in glorious 720p graphics! Thanks Retron!

>using rom sites
>2014
This makes zero sense.

>>2071782
>"Piracy" is a victimless crime though.
Like punching someone in the dark!

>>2070946
>using coolrom

>>2072697
the worst part is asshats are going to read the first sentence and flame the shit outta you. but for what it's worth, i laughed.

>>2072796

I don't want a gigantic torrent of games which I'll probably end up ever playing maybe like 20% of. If I need something, I grab it off a site and play it through

>>2070946
>coolrom

Use emuparadise or rom-world.com.

IIRC Coolrom directs you to download a downloader rather than downloading the ROM directly. Although I can't remember whether this can be bypassed, it is certainly a pain in the ass, since it's not clearly labeled so if you're in a hurry then you'll download the downloader before realizing it, then when you open the download, then instead of a zip file you have an .exe.

>>2072796
>download a massive fucking library of ROMs, no clue if it contains the games you actually wanted or the right versions/translations
>2011+3
ISHYGDDT

>>2072669
Nice, looks like an excellent resource.

>>2070959
GBA is more than 8 GB alone.
The SNES, GB(C), and NES sets are less than 8 GB.
I can't recall for the N64 but it's pretty god damn big.

>>2073137
But you do know it has the versions and translations of games you want without any duplicates if it's the no/maybe intro set.

>>2070946
Looks like reggie sent coolroms a strongly worded letter :^)

>>2073136
No bypassing, anything. Just using your fucking eyes for once. You deserve any malwares you get from any site, not just coolrom.

>>2073585
Never used coolrom, made my way straight up to emuparadise. If that's how it's, then it's plain stupidity.

>>2073040
>>2073137
A "gigantic torrent" of old game roms is fucking tiny. If it's a complete set, it should have everything you could ever want.

And having all the games at your fingertips should encourage you to play things you normally wouldn't. I discovered a lot of great PC-Engine games that way.

I remember when downloading Pokemon Stadium from Emuparadise would take 8 hours.
Good times, fun times.

>>2073608
I remember when one 3 minute MP3 would do that. Now I feel bad. And old.


I'm taking my ball and going home. Get off my lawn.

I like CoolROM

>>2070953

>I own a physical copy of all the games I got

This actually doesn't mean anything.

>>2071070
>>2071569
I have a No-Intro set compressed using torrent7z and it comes to 4.79GB

People actually use sites like coolrom and isozone for small-size ROMs? It's a pain in the ass and it's so much easier to just download a torrent of every game you ever need.

I only use them for larger size disc-based games, and especially for dreamcast stuff since there are no goddamn torrents anywhere for reviveDC releases.

>>2073608
I remember downloading DC and PS1 stuff back in early 2000s. It was like a couple fucking days, holy shit

>>2072669

Never knew about this, thanks friend.

https://ia801709.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/21/items/No-Intro-Collection_2013-06-14/No-Intro-Collection_2013-06-14.zip

>>2074150
Try RuTracker. They have torrents of complete ISO sets.

>>2074534
Pleasuredome also has ISO sets, but only for older consoles.

>>2073614
>>2073608
>get DSL as soon as it's available
>pages load instantly
>movies and music videos now watchable as they download
>can actually download ISOs in a reasonable time
meanwhile
>"web designers" start assuming everyone has broadband
>simple web pages are now multiple megabytes because some hipster shit has to have his fucking jquery
>feels like i'm on dial-up again

>>2074540
Not to mention having to wait for an embedded video on practically every page.

Whats wrong with the goodrom sets? Is it worth replacing them with no intro sets?

>>2074673
GoodSets include every damn type of ROM that exists apparently (including gameplay hacks and translations) while No-Intro just includes the original clean ROM from multiple regions where applicable no hacks, trainers, or scene intros which is where the name came from I believe.

>>2072669
Thanks, now I need to go change my pants.

>>2072497
>BEE
bee?

>>2072842
Like punching the air.

>>2073256
My body is Reggie.

>>2071830

>charging money for a product you created is extortion

Wow

>>2071830
I download ROMs and ISOs all the time. You are retarded for thinking Nintendo charging money for their own IPs counts as extortion.

The only person feeling entitled here is you.

>>2071981
>abandonware

Doesn't exist as a legal term. Pirating something because it isn't available anymore might be not wrong from a moral perspective, but that doesn't make it legal.

They needed the space for the good games :^)

https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/2042443#
Complaint against CoolROM

>>2071981
It ceases to be abandonware when the copyright holder suddenly cares. Nintendo has started to care within the last few years about their back catalog with their Nintendo Shop for the 3DS and Wii/Wii U where now they can make money off of their older games again.

>>2070946
>roms

reported for illegal activity

>>2075379
>Doesn't exist as a legal term

Why do you show up in every thread on the entire Internet at the drop of a fedora whenever someone, anywhere, at any time, mentions the word "abandonware"?

Fuck off.

>>2075918
But I only download roms of games I currently own, otherwise I delete them from my hard drive within 24 hours. Doesn't everybody?!

>>2075925
Yep, do this diligently!

>>2075921
Because he's 100% right. You want to be a pirate, then be a pirate, but don't use words like abandonware to try to justify your piracy.

Preemptive strike, because I know how retards here are: I have gigabytes and gigabytes of ROMs/ISOs/pirated computer games.

>>2075963
>tfw I have 800MB of pirated games
>a PS1 game and the Atari 2600 library
>I consider myself a pirate and then I see this guy

>>2075973
My stack of burnt games is fucking huge, bruv.

>>2075979
I bet you copy floppies too

>>2075982
I copy them floppies
No one can stop me
I wear my eyepatch proud
And upload my ROMs to the cloud

>>2075963

You missed a crucial detail in your reasoning: It's not being used to justify piracy, because it *isn't* piracy.

In the most literal sense, nobody owns the copyright to an orphaned work. By the very definition of theft, it's not even possible to steal that which is not owned.

This isn't "justification". It's objective reality.

>>2076000
>because it *isn't* piracy.

You just went full retard.

>nobody owns the copyright to an orphaned work.

Except Nintendo. Which is what this entire thread is about.

It's piracy. Deal with it. Put on your eyepatch, grab a parrot, and get scurvy with the rest of us instead of staying on land like a landlubber and pretending you aren't one of us.

>>2076000
>In the most literal sense, nobody owns the copyright to an orphaned work
I think I know what you're referring to, and it's that copyrighted works become public domain 75 (?) years after the writer's death. It's how older famous books are public domain and anyone can publish them without the need for permission. Games are too new to apply.

Or if you're thinking of something else then nevermind

>>2072647
>nd they turned out to be downloaders, I stupidly gave it the benefit of the doubt and downloading all these games. The games worked, however, I had a shit ton of adware.

I dunno if they actually do anything with the actual games but I know coolrom these days has one of those fake download now buttons to download shit that nearly every torrent site has along with an "official" download manager link and then the download link just for the game itself. It amazes me that site still has a community with all that along with a weaker selection of games compared to nearly every other rom hosting site out there.

>>2073606
>A "gigantic torrent" of old game roms is fucking tiny

He's talking about the list of games to sort through to find what he wants, not the actual size itself. Yeah a complete collection of every NES game is small in filesize but you still got 800 fucking games you're probably never gonna touch just sitting there.

>>2073585
That's still pretty shitty for coolrom to do because there used to be a time where that alternative link was the only link there. I can easily see someone who used to trust that site falling for the download now link thinking it's still the same quality it was seven years ago.

Nothing pisses me off more than a "man" too cowardly to admit he pirates.

That justifying your actions is blood dripping pussy shit that broads do.

Yo ho ho, niggas.

>pic related, that little chest is where I keep my Saturn games.

>>2076162
You could sort through that whole big collection too to find a game you want to play, plus then you'd have the benefit to easily load up other games instantly without having to download those.

What drives me nuts is trying to download Redump versions of disc-based systems without resorting to torrenting (which, last I tried, required PITA port-forwarding shenanigans). ISOZone looks like it's trying to get on the ball with that, but then their guy for the PS1 redumps got his computer toasted. That's all I've heard since.

One thing that does bother me though: the "Darkwater Database" is supposed to have extremely reliable (if not the most reliable) Sega-CD rips. But I've downloaded supposed images purporting to be Darkwater before that did not have CRC32 matches with Redump's version of the image.

>>2076291
>resorting to torrenting (which, last I tried, required PITA port-forwarding shenanigans)
Port-forwarding is easy to do and you're likely able to use the upnp feature of a torrent client so that you don't have to go about manually port-fowarding.

>>2076291
I don't even care about poor quality dumps, I just want emuparadise to replace their fucking PS1 uploads that require me to use some program to unECM them.

>>2076328

In their defence, ECM saves a lot of space.

>>2076331
I get that but they also have nearly every PS2 game up not ECMed so I doubt it's really an issue anymore.

>>2076328

ECM is available on all platforms. That being said, however...

The compression advantages over straight 7Z or (if you should be so lucky) RAR seem rather overblown by Mr. Corlette (SP?). I've used it on my own stuff, but that's only 'cause I'm a poorfag and every fucking megabyte counts for me. For someone with enough disposable income to throw spare external HDs or solid-state media around left, right, and center, the compression advantage virtually evaporates due to the the time investment required.

>>2076294

...Really? Interesting. I'll have to Google a good site then. Pirate Bay looked to be rather sickly these days.

>>2076342
I recommend Bitsnoop though I don't use many public torrent sites nowadays and of course ignore the "Direct download" buttons on the site.

>>2075992
m8... you're a pirate of the future
how do you feel
>>2073606
>mfw the entire NES library is like 30mb
>mfw I can take a picture with my digital camera that takes up more space than hundreds of developers' work over 10 years

>>2076291
I don't have to port-forward to torrent. Takes 30 seconds, anyway.

>>2076358
>mfw I can take a picture with my digital camera that takes up more space than hundreds of developers' work over 10 years

Damn thats a crazy truth. you can take a picture that takes up more space then hundreds of fun video games that people spent time and money on.

Does anyone remembers a french roms site with super mario bros theme to it? It was the best site I had ever encountered to download roms from, with each rom categorised neatly by genre, year and name.

>>2075914
No, it ceases to be abandonware when a copyright holder exists. For abandonware there is no copyright holder, hence it's abandoned.

>>2074554
I wouldn't use Adblock Plus, since it fucks over the website owners, if it wasn't for the fact that shit like auto-play and cycling video adverts happen.

Fucking internet is almost unusable in it's default format now.

It's Nintendo's way of making you buy a WiiU in order to buy their shit from the Virtual Console

>>2070946
Wait what?

PICNIC

>>2076764

WHo still uses ABP when there is the AdBlockEdge- Fork which removed exactly this again?

feel when there will never be a decent gamecube emulator

>>2071021
Anything played off a disc is technically a ROM

>>2071998
then give alternatives or shitpost back on /v/ again

>>2076358
>mfw the entire NES library is like 30mb

No it isn't.

>>2076331
No, it doesn't. Use a normal goddamn archiver. 7z beats this hackish garbage every time.

>>2076510
Its easier to use more space than less.

>>2074534
Oh wow, why is this all in one place and why hasn't it gotten taken down yet

>>2078398
Because it's for archival purposes of course.

>>2078079
true that

kek, just searched Google for the game I want, used the cache for the Coolrom site and it opened the popup to download it like normal

>>2076980
these drawings are so cute
>>2076759
I've never seen someone use abandonware quite in that nuance. Physical objects even can have owners but be abandoned and left behind.

That region lock tho'

You guys need miss Sarkeesian's help so you can be le moral interwebz guys?

>>2079040
>The term "abandonware" is broad, and encompasses many types of old software.

>Commercial software unsupported but still owned by a viable company
>Commercial software owned by a company no longer in business
>Shareware whose author still makes it available
>Unsupported or unmaintained shareware
>Open source and freeware programs that have been abandoned

I guess I was wrong. But once Nintendo started selling their own ROMs, I guess it technically stopped being unsupported software.

Use Rom Hustler
CoolROM has always been useless.

>>2077993
>feel when there will never be a decent gamecube emulator
But there will be: the Gamecube / Wii codebase has jumped lightyears forward in the last couple years.

>>2082047
Yeah, my PC's not that great, and it can run Dolphin really well. Better than DC emulators, in fact.

>>2071089
They're not in the business of cutting people breaks, they're there to sell products. They're not going to be reasonable or work on a game-by-game basis, they're simply going to say "no, cut that shit out now."

>>2070959
Anybody have a good link to this?

>>2082996
Depends on what system you want.

>>2083719
SNES and GBA.

>>2083720
Get no-intro romset.

>>2083723
Thanks bro.

>>2076000
>nobody owns the copyright
You seem like an expert on copyright law.

>>2072065
>he used the downloader exe

>>2076000
We aren't talking about orphaned works here.

Sure maybe a small percentage of the Nintendo roms on coolroom were genuinely orphaned. But most have copyright holders than can be traced without too much effort.

>>2073585
>being this upset that an anonymous 4chan user downloads roms in a hurry
You sound like a miserable cunt, tbh. Did you know that while you made that jpg, 3000 titties were touched, a puppy dog was bought from the pound, and other things you'll never experience in your lifetime occurred? Makes you think..

holy shit you people are a bunch of fag, OMG pirating is bad...lulz

>>2070953
>I own a physical copy of all the games I got

http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#download_rom

>There is a good deal of misinformation on the Internet regarding the backup/archival copy exception. It is not a "second copy" rule and is often mistakenly cited for the proposition that if you have one lawful copy of a copyrighted work, you are entitled to have a second copy of the copyrighted work even if that second copy is an infringing copy. The backup/archival copy exception is a very narrow limitation relating to a copy being made by the rightful owner of an authentic game to ensure he or she has one in the event of damage or destruction of the authentic. Therefore, whether you have an authentic game or not, or whether you have possession of a Nintendo ROM for a limited amount of time, i.e. 24 hours, it is illegal to download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet.

>>2085871
Yeah, they are only expressing a personal POV on their propriety, not anything legally bounding short of a lawsuit. Not gonna buy your game twice Nin.