All ROMs for Nintendo consoles have been removed from Coolrom due to copyright.

[lockongames]

So in a nutshell Nintendo has removed all Nintendo licensed roms from Coolrom.com due to copyright.

Found this out just today and after some research i found some information on the Nintendo website and on Reddit:

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

http://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/2o3bdv/all_roms_for_nintendo_consoles_have_been_removed/

 

This is of Nintendo's recent patent on emulation and them reclaiming their roms.

I personally think this wasn't necessary since some people have legitimately bought a game and stated on the Nintendo website it's not a second copy of the game so it is legal if you have bought the game in the first place.

 

On Coolroms Facebook a lot of people are confused and Coolrom hasn't said anything about it yet. (https://www.facebook.com/coolrom)

 

 

So do you guys think Nintendo will take down more rom sites? Please let me hear your opinion down below.

[Smooth Bunz]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I'm gonna go cry in a corner now...:'(

[SkilledRebuilds]

So basically.. Nintendo's 'collective' torrents just got a fuckload more peers.

 

Said Everyone EVER!!!!!

 

/Did they do this before or after DEV of the year awards?

[GoodBytes]

Getting ROMs are illegal. Sorry but that is the law.

Emulators are perfectly legal however. That is why console that plays other older console, sold legally, don't have the games inside. They ask you to insert the game cartridge which the ROM is loaded on the system and then played by the emulator (or read directly from the cartridge/disk).

[GoodBytes]

So basically.. Nintendo's 'collective' torrents just got a fuckload more peers.

 

Said Everyone EVER!!!!!

 

/Did they do this before or after DEV of the year awards?

Before. And they already did it ages ago. Every now and then Nintendo does a "clean up", a required step to keep its trademarks and protect its IPs from going public, and loose all control. It also is important for a company to take this, as else if Nintendo is showed in court that it "encourages" pirating of games by not doing anything, then they lose the case.

[Suika]

That's a shame, but it's not like Nintendo was losing money over somebody playing an NES or GBA game.

[Trik'Stari]

Goddamnit nintendo. WAKE UP AN REALIZE THAT WE PC GAMERS MISS YOU, PLEASE.

 

If they started making games for PC, that looked as good as possible, Xbone and PS4 would probably die overnight.

[Common_Courtesy]

This doesn't even matter. There are still loads of places to get the roms from. 

[holytoledo]

Searching I found a collection of some 2000 ROMS. It's out there, just look. Wait, you know what...I shouldn't encourage piracy.

[Mistgrim]

Was on coolrom just yesterday and saw that no nintendo roms were on.....didn't even need to read articles to figure out what happened, nintento has been a bit anal about their copyrights recently.

[ComradeHX]

Btw, not every rom site give any fuck about nintendo shenanigans.

[ComradeHX]

Btw, not every rom site give any fuck about nintendo shenanigans.

[lockongames]

That's a shame, but it's not like Nintendo was losing money over somebody playing an NES or GBA game.

They do with the virtual console but no one plays thats anyway.

I hope this article shows in the Wanshow next week.

[-TesseracT-]

I already knew this, it happened like two weeks ago.

[leelaa14]

Getting ROMs are illegal. Sorry but that is the law.

Emulators are perfectly legal however. That is why console that plays other older console, sold legally, don't have the games inside. They ask you to insert the game cartridge which the ROM is loaded on the system and then played by the emulator (or read directly from the cartridge/disk).

Roms are not illegal as long as you own the game.

[Samfisher]

I wonder why nobody ever thought that maybe CoolRom took the ROMs down as respect for Nintendo when the emulator news hit, like how manga translators remove their translations when official releases are made in that language.  It's respect for those who made the product.

[NUSNA_Moebius]

Getting ROMs are illegal. Sorry but that is the law.

Emulators are perfectly legal however. That is why console that plays other older console, sold legally, don't have the games inside. They ask you to insert the game cartridge which the ROM is loaded on the system and then played by the emulator (or read directly from the cartridge/disk).

What about the BIOS?  Is it not legal copyright of Nintendo like with Sony?

[shadowblitz3]

there are still tons of sites that have them