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Another long-running romsite, The Iso Zone, has joined Emuparadise and LoveROMS in the warez graveyard. Iso Zone has existed for years as a major warez site for larger game files, usually isos, hence the name. As of August 15, they are no longer offering download links to anything illegal. No explanation was given, other than a message saying "We are no longer offering download links. Thanks to everyone who helped make this site, and thus the world, a better place. We have some fresh ideas of where to go next. We also want to hear yours!"

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Shortly after this change, another site name cropped up, offering itself as a replacement for Iso Zone. As this new site, which seems to have been established fairly recently, offers warez, naming it is against the rules. A message on the board states that they plan to re-host everything from Iso Zone, with the help from users of other, now defunct romsites.

UPDATE: A statement was made.

I've decided to step down from TiZ. I first started the site when I was around 19 years old, back in the dcisozone days - I would never have thought it would still be going until I was in my 30s! It's been a privilege watching the community start off with just a handful of us and grow to where it is now...

Which is why I couldn't just let this aging old site stagnate and put such a good thing to an end - a completely new version has been created and handed to the guys who have been passionately moderating this community for years.

Well, one thing you guys always said was that if this site were to go, you would always want the community to stick around. Though it's a little different now as there will be a community over there - I will still stick to my word and create something

 

[GensokyoIceFairy]

They were DOS, but I ran them on Windows 95 way back when, Snes96 was super slow on my Pentium MMX 233 machine, but Genecyst ran full speed

Haha genecyst was made by the nesticle team (and had as equally as bad of a cursor) not surprised there

FWNES > NESTICLE though according to a friend who used FWnes back in the day

 

[the_randomizer]

Haha genecyst was made by the nesticle team (and had as equally as bad of a cursor) not surprised there

FWNES > NESTICLE though according to a friend who used FWnes back in the day

I never knew about that other emulator TBH, then I eventually found out about Zsnes, used that for a long time, and eventually, to Snes9x.

 

[Mike_77712]

Gotta love the wii u and it's super emulator capabilities, i think it will forever be an f u to nintendo lol. Time to stock up on some roms

 

[MaxiBash]

They can't hold the copyright for that long.
It's law that any kind of media has a 75 year life-span for the copyright holder, after that it goes public domain.
By 2067 it would have been 82 years since the original Super Mario Bros. got released (1985 I believe).
By that time, SMB should be public domain already, same for SNES games to some extend.

I never knew everything had a copyright-restriction until they hit the 75th year. But in some instances, 3rd party companies can end by going bankrupt for example, making it abondonware, so it can go online publicly. If this happens for 3rd party Nintendo games, rom sites may allow them back as abondonware.

 

[ShadowOne333]

I never knew everything had a copyright-restriction until they hit the 75th year. But in some instances, 3rd party companies can end by going bankrupt for example, making it abondonware, so it can go online publicly. If this happens for 3rd party Nintendo games, rom sites may allow them back as abondonware.

It's not always 75 years, but I think that's the standard more or less.
In the case of companies, such as Nintendo or Disney, it can take more, as they seem so eager to milk the shit out of 50+ years products (like Disney).
I think the copyright hold got extended in 1998, but I am unsure just how long that means for companies like them.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Just shut up...

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I don't care about your shitty life.

I'm beginning to get the idea that you might be a lil salty

 

[H1B1Esquire]

My dudes--this shit

Spoiler: evolved

into a weird territory, but you can still find stuff by the bay and other places, so....go duck(duckgo) yourself (a new warez site) before you come (in___) angrily.

 

[chrisrlink]

funny thing is it's only 2 sites so far unless nintendo is suing/gag ordering as well more sites wonder if the person behind loveroms/love retro used fake info to register the domain taking every precaution including overseas servers and then you wonder how the lawyers found him that will make you question if the lawyers tactics of locating said rom site hosters are even legal

 

[thekarter104]

Another site removed from the GBATemp banlist
Now we can safely say The Iso Zone.

 

[Itzumi]

Good thing I picked up some rom packs just a week ago.

EDIT: from TheIsoZone I mean.

 

[LuxerWap]

I am not complaining. I still think what Nintendo is doing is right. I can't defend piracy. It's illegal, we all know it's illegal. Yes I do pirate game, but you don't see me having a fit over this mess. I thought everyone notices this by now...

 

[SomeKindOfUsername]

I doubt Nintendo much cares what you think about them if you were already downloading their stuff or are one of those pirates who tries justifying their actions instead of just being a chill pirate. They also probably don't care if you downloaded some complete sets which is really, really simple to do just saying.

LoveROMs was taken down because they thought operating in the US was a good idea. Any site closing now is either paranoid or wanted to get out of the game anyway.

 

[Bladexdsl]

Gotta love the wii u and it's super emulator capabilities

Gotta love the nvidia shield TV and it's even better super emulator capabilities

 

[GensokyoIceFairy]

The PSP is calling to be noticed

 

[DarthDub]

TL;DR Site is moving and nothing is gone.

 

[deSSy2724]

I assume they just removed the links, not actual data(games) from servers...... am I right?

 

[2DSGamerdude]

the links still seem up atm, don't know if they work.
also, are all sites like these goons go down like this?
this has started to get annoying.

 

[AkitoUF]

A lot of people aren't informed at all. Nintendo had NOTHING to do with the closure of this site. And themselves are mentioning a new site with their uploads so nothing is lost.
"Yeah, we lost a battle against Nintendo but here, we're making public another site with our same downloads for them to notice."

 

[Xosei]

That.....sucks

 

[MaverickWellington]

I am not complaining. I still think what Nintendo is doing is right. I can't defend piracy. It's illegal, we all know it's illegal. Yes I do pirate game, but you don't see me having a fit over this mess. I thought everyone notices this by now...

This is an awful take. No one cares who you are, first and foremost. 95% of users here aren't people anyone thinks about outside of this site, and probably not even outside of this thread. Don't go thinking you're some special case. Secondly, is it right? Legally, only. Morally, fuck no. While TheIsoZone was not taken down by Nintendo, their host was intimidated by Nintendo's takedowns, and other DMCAs from numerous other companies at that, to the point that they're now moving the site somewhere else with new links, the point remains that Nintendo is going after sites that have more than just Nintendo games. There's shittons of alpha, beta, unreleased, and abandoned games on these sites, and for many, these are infinitely more interesting than any dumb Nintendo game you can usually buy on the e-shop.

Get off your high horse, acting like you're some saint in a sea of moral degeneracy. I can defend piracy, because the EU released a 300 page study that shows companies like Nintendo aren't affected by it in the slightest, and that it helps with preservation. If not for piracy, the west would likely not be exposed to characters and media like Nosferatu, and thus the Dracula mythos. This means we also wouldn't have game series like Castlevania, or vampires in popular roleplaying games such as D&D, The Elder Scrolls, and so on. Piracy can bring great things for performance in games, where the DRM is too intrusive, such as that one Ass Creed game, or it can allow you to *actually fucking install games* in the case of Civilization 3, which is next to impossible to install today, because the DRM will refuse to let the game load solely because it refuses to run on any systems with virtual disk software.

TL;DR There's great things to come with piracy, and the negatives are greatly overstated. Get off your high horse. You're not a saint, just pretentious.

 

[modbrain]

Don't worry my friends - the community will help each other out. I still know a good place for those old xbox ISO which really are becoming hard to find!