youxia Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 (edited) The "f]]]" in the headline is a meaningless typo which wasn't supposed to be there at all. It's what happens when you try to eat and type at the same time :/ I don't know how to edit it out, it looks like lame attempt at a swearword, which it isn't. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/07/nintendo-to-rom-sites-forget-cease-and-desist-now-were-suing/ Nintendo is seeking serious money as relief for alleged damages, with the biggest number coming from "$150,000 for the infringement of each Nintendo copyrighted work and up to $2,000,000 for the infringement of each Nintendo trademark." While I'm one of those infringing scoundrels I've never had a problem with the big companies doing what they're doing as long as it was within some reasonable limit. Occasional C&Ds and such were within this limit. This is a whole differnt ball game though, a totally scorched earth tactic. It's easy to see that they're riding the high wave of the retro-craze, what with the Mini success and all that. The sad, hypocritical bit is that of course without all the emulators and rom sites that craze would most likely had never happened, since that's what mostly kept the retro gaming hobby alive and popular. It happened before with gog and abandonware sites, but at least they had enough sense (or perhaps not enough legal clout) to cut deals with most of these sites and settle down for links and advertising. Perhaps the Big N should follow suit, instead of going for a ridiculous, nuclear law-suit, a la music moguls back in the day. And as long as all these games are not available for sale or streaming, this thing will go on anyway. Edited July 25, 2018 by Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 OH NO THAT PLACE WAS THE ONLY COPY OF THOSE GAMES AND NOW WE ARE GONNA HAVE TO PAY TEN DOLLARS EACH FOR SUPER MARIO BROS, AGAIN!!! I've noticed a lot of places not carrying Nintendo ROMs. I guess this is why. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd30 Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 I've never even heard of loveroms.com. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 I've heard of it. Tried to explore it once or twice but I vaguely remember lots of ads and misleading clicks. My experience. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 I've heard of it. Tried to explore it once or twice but I vaguely remember lots of ads and misleading clicks. My experience. Same here, but I think there are Android apps that use(d) that site for easy one-click downloads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamemoose Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 One down...probably hundreds to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youxia Posted July 24, 2018 Author Share Posted July 24, 2018 So, I guess Nintendo just did it because they care about quality Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 I think if one is in the "ROMz are justified" camp you'd find a way to monetize that doesn't involve an easily taken down web site. It's really hard to get outraged or surprised by this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 I think if one is in the "ROMz are justified" camp you'd find a way to monetize that doesn't involve an easily taken down web site. It's really hard to get outraged or surprised by this. Unless you like writing click-bait headlines. Is Nintendo Killing Video Game Preservation? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrealer Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 I only ever found out about loveroms when I went looking for a couple specific ROMs to dump onto my NES and SNES Classics, mostly because other "mainstream" rom sites had the sense to not host 1st party Nintendo software on there. And yeah, misleading clicks and lots of forced ads and pop-ups there.I don't know that the people behind loverom have the kind of money Nintendo is asking for...what a freakshow. Nintendo just might be trying to make an example out of loveroms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UHATEIT Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 I never used that site since there are plenty of others to choose from. I can get just about anything I need from emuparadise and then I get the rest from doperoms or isozone for the ones I can't fine on emuparadise. Something I hate about isozone is it will only do one at a time and ALWAYS comes up with a crazy popup that often will freeze the entire internet and all tabs. Causing me to have to restart the internet/engine again and go tot he site and search again and restart the download. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 Nintendo is shutting down emulators. https://torrentfreak.com/nintendo-asks-github-to-remove-game-boy-emulator-180723/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 Hasn't Nintendo always been this way? I remember working on a web directory a year ago; they had a specific rule saying not to list sites with Nintendo ROMs; they'd received CDAs in the past. If that directory hadn't been owned by a telecom company I could see Nintendo trying more drastic tactics. Or perhaps LoveROMs had simply ignored earlier warnings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 Hasn't Nintendo always been this way?Oh yes, very much so. https://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F34R Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 How will Nintendo get the roms for their "classic" line of consoles? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 How will Nintendo get the roms for their "classic" line of consoles? You mean the ones they developed themselves, or licensed and manufactured for others? I think they'll find a way without resorting to downloading from the internet. ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F34R Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 (edited) You mean the ones they developed themselves, or licensed and manufactured for others? I think they'll find a way without resorting to downloading from the internet. It was a joke about how roms with the nes header were used by Nintendo. Fix your rolly eyes. https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-01-18-did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-and-sell-it-back-to-us Edited July 24, 2018 by F34R 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiddlepaddle Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 Seems like a futile effort, but whatever... it's theirs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 It was a joke about how roms with the nes header were used by Nintendo. Fix your rolly eyes. https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-01-18-did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-and-sell-it-back-to-us Believe whatever you want, but I'm leaving my emoji where it is. That's circumstantial evidence AT BEST. Check out the comments by "Der_tolle_Emil" under that article, they're more convincing to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari PAC-MAN Fan Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 I have never used LoveRoms. I always use Emupardise and Planet Emulation. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenixdownita Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 To be fair is not that Microsoft stuff was super easy to come by as well (I mean XBox) ... I presume something similar happened there too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameGirl420 Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 That's sad news. I've actually ended up buying alot of the games I've tried out on emulators. Nintendo's so greedy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F34R Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 Believe whatever you want, but I'm leaving my emoji where it is. That's circumstantial evidence AT BEST. Check out the comments by "Der_tolle_Emil" under that article, they're more convincing to me. Either they used a rom they didn't dump, or they used open source code they didn't create to start their emulator and just so happened to use the same header. Either way, it was a tongue-in-cheek joke. Calm down. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 Man.. if you haven't gotten multiple copies of every single NES rom, multiple times, over the past two decades, and are still searching for them on websites.. forget it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derFunkenstein Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 (edited) Good riddance. That site always showed up in search results (NOT NES games, mind you) but the downloads were full of fake app malware installs. It was a skeevy sure, even by ROM site standards. Edited July 25, 2018 by derFunkenstein 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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