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Retro game repository EmuParadise says it's finished distributing ROMs
Nintendo has had enough of pirates and the websites that enable them, like EmuParadise. After shutting down a handful of sites and a Game Boy Advance emulator on GitHub in July, the publisher has seemingly done the work to convince EmuParadise to shut down. This massive online library of downloadable old games started 18 years ago, and up until this moment it hosted nearly complete libraries of games for various consoles that you could download and play on emulators.
Playing ROMs, as these game files are often referred to as, on an emulator exists in a legal gray area, but distributing these copyrighted works for download on the internet is obviously and clearly illegal. But Nintendo and other publishers have mostly avoided investing resources in tracking down and enforcing its legal right in many of these cases over the last couple of decades. For Nintendo, however, something has changed, and it is cracking down. And EmuParadise has confirmed that it is going to do what it must to avoid facing legal action.
"We will continue to be passionate retro gamers and will keep doing cool stuff around retro games, but you won't be able to get your games from here for now," reads an EmuParadise blog post. "Where we go with this is up to us and up to you."
Also at Kotaku and TechCrunch.
Previously: Nintendo Sues ROM Sites
(Score: 2) by Sourcery42 on Thursday August 09 2018, @04:39PM
Searchable and organized? No problem at the size of these files. Every Atari 2600, 8 bit NES, and 16 bit SNES game ever made fits nicely on a 2gb SD card in my Wii with room to spare ;)
I think the reason roms chap Nintendo's ass is that they are still trying to sell some of these game. IIRC they call some classics "Virtual Console" games or something like that and still sell them through their store, to be played through their own approved emulator. That way you can pay again for content you already paid for in the 1980's, and pay again when the next console comes out... It's a perpetual revenue stream off of Zelda (1986) and SMB3 nostalgia.