rom site shut down

[notnarb]

Everyone downloads movies/roms/music for the same reason, the rediculously high price we are forced to pay for entertainment.

Everything but am/fm radio has seen stupidly high price increases in the last 10-15 years.

20 bucks for a movie? Which is just a half ass rip off off countless movies before it. If its original, or something I have been waiting years for (transformers for example) I am always willing to purchase it, but 90 percent of what comes out on DVD these days is utter crap.`In theatres its even worse 13 bucks a ticket to take my 3 year old to see a kids movie? 23 dollars to see it once! Plus a kids snacky deal. Small drink, small popcorn and a tiny bag of nibs SIX Dollars! 30 bucks to see a movie, we don't see alot of them, in part because of the price, and because we both prefer the park, but when I do wanna take my little guy to the movies, I have to fork over the equivalent of a weeks worth of groceries for the 2 of us.

Music? Man 20 bucks for a cd, maybe what 1 or 2 decent songs? Screw that. These aren't they days where you could buy a record and the whole thing was quality(Vinyl is still the greatest), now its make a catchy tune, just one is needed and fill the rest of the album with junk.

Video games...hah possibly the worst offender. Hundreds upon hundreds of mediocre games get the stupid high price tag. I am in Canada so its even worse. DS game 50 bones. PC game 60 bucks. 360 games 75 and up after taxes. Orange box was a really good deal, stil 75 after taxes but you get what 5 games? thats 20 bucks a game, a solid deal. I buy a handful of games, and it costs me more than the console.

I have owned every EA NHL game ever made, I think its like 15 years now. 15 years at 50-75 dollars a piece, that is close to a grand. I have probably spent in the last 15 years, close to 1700 in games. (Football, and Hockey mostly). That is outrageous.

I can't say piracy is right, but niether is the price people are forced to pay for entertainment.

If the movies sucks, just dont buy it

Itunes

just buy games from the US

you'll save ~40% if those are the real prices you are paying

 

[Nero]

Just use Google from now on.

~Nero

 

[Noobix]

Never used them... but still a sad day for freedom!

 

[squeaks]

Hardly use romulation, only for hard to find games. but mostly I get my regualr dose of roms else where.

 

[KarmaUK]

They may have won the battle, and all that! I guess Romulation made the mistake of hosting the files themselves!

We better 'dash' off elsewhere for our ROMs.

 

[Ensiferous]

I suppose I better reply to this thread.

Well first of all, I'm Seph, the admin of RomUlation (I know my nick here is different, if you don't believe me then tell me what would convince you). I'm merely here to clear up a few misunderstandings which seems to have appeared over this.

We weren't shut down per se, there were no raids, no legal actions etc. We got a DMCA notice to remove copyrighted content so we did, the purpose of our site was to allow users to preview the games so I felt there weren't much point to keeping it online after that. (Though we changed our minds but that's an entirely different story)

Also I really hate the misconception that I charged for downloads, I never did anything like that, that'd really be double standards. All the downloads were available to all registered users nothing was premium users only. I do admit that the amount one could download was limited for large files (above 75 mb) but that really had to be done, and premium users didn't get unlimited amount of downloads, they got an increased point rate.

The server bills were killing, we weren't far from the 4 digit bill so obviously we needed an income, and getting advertisers to an illegal site is next to impossible, so we had to use network ads and pop ups which are annoying as hell, so premium membership was more of a way to remove the ads.

Also premium membership didn't give faster download speeds or anything, the only different between a normal user and a premium user was the point rate and no ads.

As for the notion that I expect Nintendo to hire me to run a legal download site? Please, there's an emoticon there.

in case you hadn't noticed. I'm neither gullible nor naive, I know Nintendo wouldn't need me to start such a project, they're perfectly capable of doing it themselves. What I wanted with that statement was that if Nintendo had a portal for legal downloads which included demo's then there wouldn't be a need for a site like mine.

Also I'm fully aware that not everyone who used RomUlation did it to preview game, there are people who don't pay at restaurants too, not because they didn't like the food but because they're plain cheap asses. There will always be a bad side to everything and with RomUlation that was our bad side. I'd like to think that had those users not been able to download the games then they wouldn't have bought the game anyway, I have no evidence of that though, so it's purely speculation.

I still believe what I did was worth it for those people who did use it as a way to preview games before using hard earned money on them, and I know there are people like that, I talk to them on IRC on a daily basis. For this reason I'll also keep sharing with them, I'm not going to just waste away now that a DMCA notice forced us to remove the copyrighted content.

 

[jalaneme]

Everyone downloads movies/roms/music for the same reason, the rediculously high price we are forced to pay for entertainment.

Everything but am/fm radio has seen stupidly high price increases in the last 10-15 years.

20 bucks for a movie? Which is just a half ass rip off off countless movies before it. If its original, or something I have been waiting years for (transformers for example) I am always willing to purchase it, but 90 percent of what comes out on DVD these days is utter crap.`In theatres its even worse 13 bucks a ticket to take my 3 year old to see a kids movie? 23 dollars to see it once! Plus a kids snacky deal. Small drink, small popcorn and a tiny bag of nibs SIX Dollars! 30 bucks to see a movie, we don't see alot of them, in part because of the price, and because we both prefer the park, but when I do wanna take my little guy to the movies, I have to fork over the equivalent of a weeks worth of groceries for the 2 of us.

Music? Man 20 bucks for a cd, maybe what 1 or 2 decent songs? Screw that. These aren't they days where you could buy a record and the whole thing was quality(Vinyl is still the greatest), now its make a catchy tune, just one is needed and fill the rest of the album with junk.

Video games...hah possibly the worst offender. Hundreds upon hundreds of mediocre games get the stupid high price tag. I am in Canada so its even worse. DS game 50 bones. PC game 60 bucks. 360 games 75 and up after taxes. Orange box was a really good deal, stil 75 after taxes but you get what 5 games? thats 20 bucks a game, a solid deal. I buy a handful of games, and it costs me more than the console.

I have owned every EA NHL game ever made, I think its like 15 years now. 15 years at 50-75 dollars a piece, that is close to a grand. I have probably spent in the last 15 years, close to 1700 in games. (Football, and Hockey mostly). That is outrageous.

I can't say piracy is right, but niether is the price people are forced to pay for entertainment.

very well said, it's the same in the UK it costs more to go and see a movie in the cinema than it is to buy or rent the dvd, ridiculous, haven't been in a cinema for years.

i don't' want to go into detail why i pirate games apart from financial strain, i wouldn't expect some other people to understand that so whatever, but anyways good post though.

 

[Psyfira]

DS doesn't have "Greatest Hits" Titles, but it does have the cheapest games out there. Bin titles go for 10 EUR here, most of the older games don't cost more than 20 EUR and the newest ones go for less than 40 EUR.

Send some our way please

Over here you'll stuggle to find decent titles for under £20 (28EUR), regardless of their age. Puzzle and family titles retail around £16 (22EUR). It's better online, Play.com are rather good but that's it.

In my area there are no preowned traders either except Gamestation and GAME, who charge a whopping £25 (35EUR) for most preowned titles. It's crazy, you can get them brand new online for that price.

Greatest hits would be a fantastic idea, like the PSX's platinum range. There are so many fantastic older DS games that were popular at the time but are nigh on impossible to find now (whatever happened to Warioware Touched?), and it'd stop retailers charging stupidly inaccesible prices (£29 / 41EUR) whenever they have one left over. Cardboard box, black and white manual, yeah I'd hit that.

 

[GetAName77]

Ensiferous (Syph),

Romulation was a great site and provided a lot more information than just ROMs.
Please keep the forums alive if you can.


Thanks,

GetAName

 

[nephdj]

DS games are the worst i assume.  They have no "Greatest Hits" titles out there and yet you still see Mario Kart DS on the shelf for the original price when it launched and it's been out for the longest time. 

They lower the price of the console but what about the games???!!!

Oh shit, the DS got a price cut I'm going to get one...

It's like a lure mechanism.  Make the console cheaper but make the games more expensive hence cover the cost of the price cut.

That's bullshit.

but u can buy those same games on ebay for 10-15US, legit DS games are cheap as hell
I dont see why people need to justify something using store prices

 

[Torte]

Seph, I'm one who previews games, finishes them, but I do eventually buy them or else receive copies as gifts or for work purposes. I'm no cheapskate because I believe in supporting good causes, as my sister preaches all the time wrt music. Sorry to hear you had to close like that, but good to see you're still active. I was holding out for Klonoa (PSX), though, because it's a bugger to find at a decent price. I'll keep searching if needs be. I don't fancy IRC much, so yeah.

Thanks for your services, though. Much appreciated

 

[amptor]

why would one use a rom site to download an entire psx iso? that makes little sense, this game is easy as hell to get off torrents or maybe even newsgroups. I got it off of undergroundgamer.

 

[Ensiferous]

why would one use a rom site to download an entire psx iso? that makes little sense, this game is easy as hell to get off torrents or maybe even newsgroups. I got it off of undergroundgamer.

I don't see why one wouldn't when speeds are fast (record I've seen was 3.2MB/sec), download managers supported and there's no hassle with ports if you don't happen to have router access.

 

[apb407]

hmmm oh well sorry to here that for guys who used it but it never worked for me

 

[Skye07]

Torrents are great but you rarely find older files (such as PSX isos) for them, and even if they exist only a handful of people or less seed.

 

[Mars]

We better 'dash' off elsewhere for our ROMs.

Ah, I see what you did there

. Very clever.

 

[Dermy]

Wow, now 1rom is gone. Now what.....