Nintendo wants to shut down loveROMS!

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https://torrentfreak.com/nintendo-sues-console-rom-sites-for-mass-copyright-infringement-180720/

Crazy, huh? 100 million's a lot of money :wario: .


I don't get why didn't they sue emuparadise like this before when they told them to remove some of their ROMS, but they're doing it now with them.
 
Why don't don't they just focus on making their crappy services better? They hate their customers too, by continuously forcing them to rebuy games on the Virtual Console generation after generation, having a disappointing library of Virtual Console games, have bad pricing with few sales, and then finally ditching the thing all together. But no, go after ROM sites. I don't think that revenue from shutting down those ROM sites are gonna go to an expansive Virtual Console library with frequent sales.
 
I mean, for ROM sites, I get what they're trying to do and I wouldn't oppose this. They're blatantly illegal.

Still, I think they're fighting the wrong war. We all know what happens to piracy sites. You chop off a head of one of them, and more pop up as a result. Nintendo will never fully get rid of them and the fact that I never heard of this site until now speaks loads on how little this is impacting piracy. If they want to discourage people from pirating in the first place, offer better services than the pirates. Just how black markets will never go away, neither will sites that hosts ROMS.
 
I'm certainly not happy with the way they're treating legacy games. They're throwing away money by not having an expansive Virtual Console that goes from NES - Gamecube and even GB - GBA. Classic Edition consoles are not a good alternate solution because not everyone wants to pay for a ton of games because they probably already have some of them and don't feel like re-buying. In my case, I already have Super Mario Sunshine and the Gamecube Zelda games, but don't have Thousand Year Door or any of the Gamecube Mario Partys. I want to get those, but having to pay a hefty price to get them with a bunch of games I already own is an annoying way to do something that could be solved much more efficiently. Heck, they actually did pretty good with the Wii, and yet it's only been going downhill from there.
 
The biggest problem I have with the Classic Edition stuff is their stock issues entirely. When they DID release a cute little console that looks appealing and has a potential to be a best hot-seller and a hugely popular product much people want, guess what, you can't find the bloody thing in stores anyway unless you're the people who know about it ahead of time, and to top it off, cut off production for it when demand was at its peak.

To be honest, I personally believe the lesser of the evils is letting piracy and ROM sites flourish than catering to the scalper market with the underproduction of Classic Editions being one of the few, only legal and financially friendly ways you can get older games now.
 
Sgt Nate V said:
I've been to that site. It uses installers to drop a *bleep*load of malware over your ass.
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First: selfcensoring lol
Second: Really? In the times I may or may not have used LoveROMs, it's (hypothetically) never given me a virus. Most sites like these just have fake links that download shit to your computer if you don't notice the little "Advertisement" text below it.
 
Mikan Tsumiki said:
Sgt Nate V said:
I've been to that site. It uses installers to drop a *bleep*load of malware over your ass.
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First: selfcensoring lol
Second: Really? In the times I may or may not have used LoveROMs, it's (hypothetically) never given me a virus. Most sites like these just have fake links that download *bleep* to your computer if you don't notice the little "Advertisement" text below it.
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Well, I would try to use the Internet Archive to prove it, but of course it doesn't go to download, and I may be actually confusing it with some other site.

EDIT: Maybe I was confusing it with Romsmania. Or maybe both used installers. Said installers drop malware over your ass and THEN give you the ROM after your beating.
 
Mikan Tsumiki said:
Most sites like these just have fake links that download shit to your computer if you don't notice the little "Advertisement" text below it.
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If I recall correctly, are there installers that also have adware within the wizards as well?
 
Princess Mario said:
If I recall correctly, are there installers that also have adware within the wizards as well?
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Often, yes, but if you're just downloading a ROM it shouldn't come with a wizard. Downloading an emulator from places like loveROM or Emuparadise will definitely give you a little "extra surprise" when you install it. But ROMs should be OK.

PSA: Emulators usually have their own websites that are safe. If an emulator doesn't have its own website, don't download it.
 
I use emulators all the time for retro stuff including Japanese stuff like the PC-88, PC-98, Sharp X1, and Sharp X68000. I also use PCem for using Windows 95/Windows 98 with old games including those educational Mario crap which are also designed for Windows 3.1/Windows 95 and Windows 98 which also work under 2000 and XP as well. Emulators are technically legal including those for vintage computers. Same with floppy disk images for vintage software as they are called abandonware.