The Iso Zone joins the list of romsites removing their warez downloads links

GensokyoIceFairy · Aug 16, 2018

Carnelian said:
Glad i didn't buy the Switch. Fuck Nintendo, fuck the Nintendo Switch and fuck the people who defend them...

Same, I fucking hate Nintendo as a company and I hate their post-2003 products because they just plainly are SHIT, this is hard evidence they are a bunch of idiots who trash their reputation in the retro community and don't give not even one fuck, let alone 2 about their image/reputation to more seasoned gamers. There's a good reason majority of teens dislike the company and make fun of the fanboys, they don't seem to be willing to improve and are stuck in the past, and the fanboys are worse than some of the hardcore fanboys of other products.

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sergey3000 said:
im using russian rom websites. they don't give a fu** about Nintendo policy.

Same here mate, heard of that **-ROMS.**r*d.ru site yet? They have a lot of retro ROMsets (although it hasnt been updated since 2014)

Saiyan Lusitano · Aug 16, 2018

There's always Pirate Bay.

TotalInsanity4 · Aug 16, 2018

tbb043 said:
You could try Hell...There's certainly no reason for you to exist anymore, so to hell with you. That "fresh" enough, "dude"

Meet you on the way there bruh

MarkDarkness · Aug 16, 2018

T

duwen said:
No problem. In short, TiZ used firedrop as it's only filehost. Firedrop had caught flack over the years for some of the content uploaded by the TiZ community (TiZ always complied with DMCA's, and it hadn't hosted first party Nintendo content for quite a while). While they could've continued to use Firedrop and keep the downloads going they were mindful of the pressure that Firedrop had been subjected to and as a courtesy decided to part ways with them (continuing to host with them may have culminated with Firedrop going out of business). As this was coinciding with TiZ owner, Jambo, stepping down from running the site it was deemed a good idea to essentially 'start afresh'. Jambo's 'stepping down' statement (from 2 months ago) coincided with the unveiling of the 'new' site that had been in the works behind the scenes for a considerable length of time prior to being launched, and the TiZ community has been slowly migrating across over that period and reuploading everything with new file hosts (no longer only using one, but using any host chosen by the uploader... but expressly NOT Firedrop). The promise of the new site is that it will eventually host content that TiZ was unable to.
The timing of TiZ removal of links truly is coincidental to the events surrounding other rom sites. AFAIK it certainly isn't due to any recent direct pressure from Nintendo (although it is possible that Firedrop may have received warnings from Nintendo that haven't been well publicised within the TiZ community that could have led to these events occurring now).
I'd just like to reiterate that this process has been many months in the making. For those of us that are TiZ members, this all happened at the end of June with the removal of downloads being something we all knew was coming at some point in the future.

The OP, and the majority of responses to it, are scaremongering by just presuming this is another takedown by Nintendo, and that all other romsites are likely to follow suit. That's not the case.
This story should've been presented as a story of hope rather than "another one bites the dust".

Thank you for the perspective. Insightful.

AutumnWolf · Aug 16, 2018

kumikochan said:
Ofcourse not they even give out their old games for FREE on android anf ios

I said newer games

GensokyoIceFairy · Aug 16, 2018

sega have been dicks too

remember when brawl was nearly taken down last december

MaxiBash · Aug 16, 2018

StarGazerTom said:
What the piss is going on that all these websites are falling so rapidly? Why now, when they've all pretty much stood strong all until this time?

It seems like after Nintendo sued 2 rom sites for $100.000.000, everyone gets scared and takes down all their roms from their sites to avoid getting sued. Previously, Nintendo forced these sites to take down all 1st-party roms, but now they seem to go on a rampage killing every site they see.

Game Dave even explained how this is a bad idea because carts don't last forever and finally corrosion will come on them, same for discs. Before you know it, in 2067, Super Mario Bros costs $79.99 because all the other carts got corrosion.

kumikochan · Aug 16, 2018

GensokyoIceFairy said:
Same, I fucking hate Nintendo as a company and I hate their post-2003 products because they just plainly are SHIT, this is hard evidence they are a bunch of idiots who trash their reputation in the retro community and don't give not even one fuck, let alone 2 about their image/reputation to more seasoned gamers. There's a good reason majority of teens dislike the company and make fun of the fanboys, they don't seem to be willing to improve and are stuck in the past, and the fanboys are worse than some of the hardcore fanboys of other products.

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Same here mate, heard of that **-ROMS.**r*d.ru site yet? They have a lot of retro ROMsets (although it hasnt been updated since 2014)

Nintendo has always been that way tho. You should look up when sega and Nintendo had to explain themselves before the goverment about having mature content in games and Sega was being the good guy and just plain defending themselves while Nintendo was blaming Sega and bad mouthing Sega before the goverment while executives of Sega were standing right besides them. Nintendo were assholes back in the day and still are. God knows why everybody defends them so much.
Night trap was a jab towards sega as an example in the youtube vid below. If you look for the full hearing you'll see a lot more jabs towards Sega from Nintendo constantly.

QCLasky · Aug 16, 2018

I chose a bad time to delete all the roms I kept for years on my hard drive just to make space ...

Heran Bago · Aug 16, 2018

If someone can PM me the name of what UG is called now I would super heck of appreciative. Would paypal a small thanks for an invite.

MaverickWellington · Aug 16, 2018

tbb043 said:
You could try Hell...There's certainly no reason for you to exist anymore, so to hell with you. That "fresh" enough, "dude"

OW
THE
EDGE

Kioku · Aug 16, 2018

kbmarinha said:
I chose a bad time to delete all the roms I kept for years on my hard drive just to make space ...

Dunno what you're on about.. Just found full romsets in mere seconds. :x It was ONE of literally infinite sources.. And it really wasn't even that good.

chrisrlink · Aug 16, 2018

there taking the easy way out just remove the nintendo shit to keep them happy they have no juristiction over sega,sony,MS let them deal with those sites, and I can bet sooner or later nintendo will have a Sony fiasco sooner or later if hackers get that pissed off

retrofan_k · Aug 16, 2018

It only affects casual users who solely rely on rom sites. Long time or experienced users in the community know and have ways of obtaining full rom sets and isos, which is not hard to find.

Years ago, direct rom downloads were forbidden and you just moved on to the next, yet now a few sites go down and it's panic drama.

ShadowOne333 · Aug 16, 2018

Trash_Bandatcoot said:
It seems like after Nintendo sued 2 rom sites for $100.000.000, everyone gets scared and takes down all their roms from their sites to avoid getting sued. Previously, Nintendo forced these sites to take down all 1st-party roms, but now they seem to go on a rampage killing every site they see.

Game Dave even explained how this is a bad idea because carts don't last forever and finally corrosion will come on them, same for discs. Before you know it, in 2067, Super Mario Bros costs $79.99 because all the other carts got corrosion.

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.

the_randomizer · Aug 16, 2018

ShadowOne333 said:
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 mean, I see why a lot of big sites are abandoning, I don't blame them for not wanting to get sued, but what the hell is Nintendo up to? The were silent for years, and then out of the blue, wham! Lawsuits everywhere.

ShadowOne333 · Aug 16, 2018

the_randomizer said:
I mean, I see why a lot of big sites are abandoning, I don't blame them for not wanting to get sued, but what the hell is Nintendo up to? The were silent for years, and then out of the blue, wham! Lawsuits everywhere.

I think this new-found interest is because of their recent dicovery of potential in milking retro titles from their catalog.
They saw with the 3DS and the Wii U/Switch that they can milk the shit out of old titles to fill their greedy pockets, hence the recent action from them.

Fuck Nintendo.

the_randomizer · Aug 16, 2018

ShadowOne333 said:
I think this new-found interest is because of their recent interest in milking retro titles from their catalog.
They saw with the 3DS and the Wii U/Switch that they can milk the shit out of old titles to fill their greedy pockets, hence the recent action from them.

Fuck Nintendo.

I never once regretted download ROMs in all the years I've done it. To think that it all began one day in 1998 when my brother's friend gave us a CD with several hundred Snes and Genesis ROMs on it. First time I ever
used Snes96 and Genecyst.

Edit: Hey, Nintendo, sod yourselves.

GensokyoIceFairy · Aug 16, 2018

the_randomizer said:
I never once regretted download ROMs in all the years I've done it. To think that it all began one day in 1998 when my brother's friend gave us a CD with several hundred Snes and Genesis ROMs on it. First time I ever
used Snes97 and Genecyst.

I should make a thread about dos emulators now you've mentioned that

Would be a fun little thread

the_randomizer · Aug 16, 2018

GensokyoIceFairy said:
I should make a thread about dos emulators now you've mentioned that

Would be a fun little thread

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

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