How have they managed to stay up for so long?

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>>3701337

>>3701337
I still remember the year when half the SNES roms got purged.

>>3701337
Videogame piracy isn't really an issue worth tackling. It'll always happen.

people care less than shitposting cucks on /v/ want them to believe

>>3701339
>>3701337
Don't Final Fantasies and the Golden Ax roms always get purged?

They also only upload shareware versions of Apogee games. What a jews.

>>3701337
Because it probably isn't worth the company's time and money to prosecute whoever's running it.

Admin's in an obscure European country as I recall, I'd be surprised if he hasn't been contacted at all after running for 10+ years but they probably don't give enough of a fuck or have the authority to do anything.

There are better sites for retro roms though, some of the dumps there are of the terrible scene variety - intros and ridiculous compression methods everywhere. For PS2/GC/Xbox they're still number one though.

>>3701365
The same can be said of any crime actually.

The fact of the matter is that the owner is in India and their police don't really give a shit to track him down. It doesn't hurt that their domain is in Hungary, and they don't like foreign governments coming in and trying to shut their servers down.

Even if they are in the EU.

planetemu.net
French site that has been around since 2001. It's where I got KOF 2002 from, I remember it took me 4 hours to download the thing in a Saturday.

I love that they use scene releases for newer consoles (GBA, PS2)

Great site

>>3702432
What do you mean by scene releases?

>>3702373
What's the best site for GBA roms? More specifically, FFVI and FFV Advance.

>>3702373
>or have the authority to do anything.

That sure as hell didn't stop America from shutting down Megaupload.

>>3702436
>What's the best site for GBA roms? More specifically, FFVI and FFV Advance.
Planetemu has almost all of the GBA roms I could think of.

>>3702436
Coolrom is the best site for everything.

>>3702456
lel enjoy ur virus

>>3702457
There's literally nothing wrong with the download manager that you can optionally decline from you paranoid nutjob.

>>3702456
>Coolrom
>GBA ROMS

>>3702450
I can't read baguettespeak

>>3701337
man, I remember when they sucked ass and you needed to vote for them to download shit, that was forever ago

>>3702373
>For PS2/GC/Xbox they're still number one though.
isozone would be better if they had an actual hosting solution, emuparadise is missing a bunch of ntsc-j stuff

>>3702432
on PS2, scene releases are fine
fuck GBA scene releases though (you didn't have to crack shit, why the fuck is there a stupid cracktro prepended to the game), I'm so glad the DS scene never did that shit

also, DC scene releases are garbage, mostly because the data layout of the image is absolute trash (nothing like playing say, Dynamite Cop and it having 4x more loading than it should with the DC drive motor making as much noise as it can because it has to seek back and forth constantly)

>>3702463
https://www.planetemu.net/roms/nintendo-game-boy-advance
Choose ROM, click Telecharger.

>>3702456
coolrom is shit

Old games always tended to be left alone. In the year 2000 they gave a shit if you put up N64 games and you could expect to soon be served with a notice, not particularly if you put up SNES and it was open season for NES, C64 or similarly old games. Time has moved on and now they don't really give a shit about PS2, gamecube etc. If they started putting up PS4 games you can be sure they wouldn't last long.

>>3701338
DAD stop posting!

>>3702456
No CoolRom was one of if not the worst rom site.

>>3702518
I believe this 100%
They don't have Wii games, on normal direct download, and I assume it's not due to bandwidth since those games are the same size as PS2 isos

>>3702478
>you didn't have to crack shit, why the fuck is there a stupid cracktro prepended to the game

Those releases were meant for flash carts, not emulators, and on those you sometimes needed to bypass protections.

Besides, dumping hardware wasn't as cheap in 2001 as it is now, and writing intros on a GBA isn't something everyone can do either. So if they wanted to put their intro their, all the power to them.

>>3702478
>DC scene releases are garbage, mostly because the data layout of the image is absolute trash

Some games do that on their original GD-ROMs too (Garou MOTW comes to mind). Also, often there is no choice due to GD-ROMs having better seek and load times due to their physical layouts (everything is on the outer rim by default, and the data density is double), and this cannot be replicated on a CD at all for larger titles.

For small games, yeah, you can pad them out to the end of the disc. But on larger games, or games that use lots of CD Audio, that's not an option.

>>3702462
>Using a download manager

>>3702587
>>3702478
Yeah, even though the DC scene releases are pretty much obsolete now (unless you play your games off CDs like an absolute pleb) they put an incredible amount of work into those to make it so people could play those games from CD-Rs.

Back when those GBA games were released sometimes they didn't even work on emulators without the scene cracks. Those releases with intros and such aren't really needed now and they're not necessarily better than modern dumps that have been verified but I like seeing the intros on my real hardware. Brings back nostalgia for days when I used to go into #gbanow and #gbatemp and download the newest games to play them on an emulator. That's the same reason I download old BBS scene stuff for 16 bit consoles. Love seeing their work on the real hardware.

>Ctrl+F
>no theisozone

Such plebery

>>3702649
I wished they got better file servers

>>3702448
Well, the story is told as "America shutting him down" but it was really the Australian government that did it...

Sure, it was the FBI using the Australian government as it's puppet but that's what you get for trying to hide in a good goy country.

>>3702518
Can confirm - even doujin-games88.net only stocks up to PS3.

Rom Nation and Planet Emu are also still around so I don't get your question OP

At the end of the day, normies won't touch an emu with a ten foot pole and will be happy to buy shit like that nes reissue, while the 'leet haxors who emu would never give a cent to IP holders in any case. IP holders have likely seen this, and only issue to occasions Cease and Desist to exercise ownership of their shit.

Nicoblog is great for getting obscure stuff like fan translated games.

>>3701337

Funny I used to think Emuparadise was a shitty site, decade ago.

Always liked Coolrom and Romnation, sites like that better, it's quick and easy.

But looking at it today EP is really good, the community is great.

>>3703572
Just make sure to use NoScript (or just disable Javascript), or you're getting a faceful of viruses.

>>3702463

coolrom used to havc GBA roms

>>3703572

nah, EP does it better (AeonGenesis etc)

that's why I said the community there is great

Nicoblog is just a blog with one man taking files from other sites and piling it on his blog.

Also, IINM Coolrom wasn't always Coolrom, (or was it RomNation?)

There was Ice-something-roms/emu and the site looked more like UndergroundGame with blue tint.

Few years later it turned into Coolrom? and had that similar easy A-Z, 0-9 design like Romnation.

Overseas servers (thus the ".me" domain)

You can use emu-russia.net. It's a pretty good site, supported by devoted community. Doesn't have ISOs though.

>>3702731

Whats wrong with the ones they got? I get 400KBps without being logged in

>>3703649
>using russian sites
>ever

Do you think roms and emulation actually makes losses for a company?

You cant take someone to court saying that they were involved in piracy, circulating things that you cant buy anymore, cant play on any systems being made anymore totalling losses upwards of $0

>>3703652
To a company? Yes.
To the original developers? No, they don't receive any penny from remakes/rerelases.

>>3703653

What if the rom site doesnt include the 'remakes'?

Bare in mind, the remake would technically be a completely different entity. Like saying pirating the original total recall is the same as pirating the new one (legally)

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>>3702618
>I like seeing the intros on my real hardware. Brings back nostalgia for days

Word.
Anyone ditching cracktros can fuck right off.

>>3703664
you made one hell of a missclick friend
this is /vr/ not /pol/

>>3703671

Its the truth

>>3703664
Chug Draino you fucking subhuman.

>>3703675

If you cant see any truth in my post youre retarded

>>3703651
What's wrong with it? It's a decent site, as far as romsites go. In any case, do as you wish. Not like there's a shortage of romsites so far.

>>3703746
>No-Materia/No-Item
That's not hard, just tedious.

>>3703753
>That's not hard, just tedious.
This, that guy is a retard

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>>3703712
SEGA was founded by an American guy named David Rosen who was in Japan around the time of the Korean War. He started the company as SErvice GAmes with various electromechanical machines.

In the pic from the 90's, Rosen in seen playing a cocktail Zaxxon arcade game at his palatial Beverly Hills manor house. He was the one who came up with the name "Zaxxon" interestingly enough.

I guess the /pol/ stormfags will have to toss their Genesis, Dreamcast, and SMS's on the pile of burning books in the backyard now.

>>3703765
Anything done for serious requires dedication.
Really, this board is a testament to serious/dedicated gaming.
Just posting here makes us spergs compared to the status quo.

>>3702618
>unless you play your games off CDs like an absolute pleb
I'm sorry, not everyone can afford or get lucky enough to buy a GDEMU like you.

Unless I'm missing something?

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>>3703658
Pretty much this, complaining about intros is retarded its not like you payed for it.
Anyway
> First GBC scene release for ages + has intro
> Gets nuked for no reason (then unnuked)

>>3703658
>>3704767
Not him but there are some aspects of nostalgia I don't miss and this is one of them. I just want to play the fucking game, i'll download a pack of PD roms if I want to stare at pretty tech demos.

>>3704987
It's easy enough to find goodsets etc of roms if you never want to see them. You would especially want those if you want to use ips patches on them. Unless the ips patches are scene released trainers...

>>3703807
>can afford
Ask your parents. Kiddo.
>get lucky
Subscribe to the blog and buy it when available. Sure is luck.

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>>3703308

meta cyber infosecisysisisis social perspective jah m8

>>3701337
Its run in yuropoor land. Their police are shit.

>>3705745
archive.org is run in USA and it has everything retro you could possibly want

>>3703651
LibGen is a Russian site and probably one of the most useful places on the Internet. Sci-hub was also created by a Russian (or from a former Soviet republic) girl.

>>3703746
Jesus Christ, take your undergrad philosophy to reddit or anywhere else that's not this board.

>>3702649
this

how can one site be so based

>>3701337
I don't know, but they've been terrible for basically all of it afaik.

www.romhustler.net ftw, they only have some games purged for copyright.

>>3702430
this is the only place i can get updated mame roms from

what the fuck man