What is your first ever pirate site you went to?

[ZEGA ZONIC]

The first one I went to was Cool Rom.com

 

[Scotty]

The first one I went to was Cool Rom.com

Same here. Used it for Genesis and Master System games.

For everything else, I used Emuparadise.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

SoftPicks.net (Now Non-Existent)

 

[tonyhoro]

Probably some old brazilian site like centralderoms (otherwise known as Venom SSJ).
There was an website called "nintendo-emu" that was hacked around 2002 and I clearly remember the hacker leaving a message saying "this site was hacked by Sancho Pança"

 

[Redwall Muzyczka Redwall Muzyczka Redwall Muzyczka's icon]

It still exists, so I won't name it.

But it doesn't even hold piracy anymore.

 

[Segadude113]

The first one I went to was Cool Rom.com

i was just there nabbing the Phoenix Editions of Marvel fighting games and all the other versions like CPS2.

 

[Jill_Sandwich969]

rutracker

 

[Redwall Muzyczka Redwall Muzyczka Redwall Muzyczka's icon]

The first one I went to was Cool Rom.com

I still remember the day they announced that the forums were "upgrading", then axed them entirely. That sucked so badly because you could tell that that was just the tip of the iceberg... And, sure enough, they got hit by DMCAs left and right shortly thereafter.

 

[MasterEn]

cool rom.

 

[thecrow2313]

Before sites there was mIRC (internet relay chats)

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Though I really miss RARBG & TorrentGalaxy
Anyone remember emuparadise, romhustler, planetemu?

 

[Tonberry]

It was some ancient site riddled with porn popups I've forgotten the name of. I vaguely remember looking for GBA roms over twenty years ago and some Sailor Moon hentai popup came on and I got so scared and offended that I force shut down the entire PC.

 

[Clippy]

My local flea market where enterprising pirates were selling warez. Yes, there was a time you had to pay for a pirated copy of a game. It was a fraction of the retail price of course but still.

In case you're wondering how they got away with it it's pretty simple. There were no copyright laws here up until the mid 90s and even when they were established cops were usually more than happy to take a few games or programs as a bribe instead of locking people up. Broadband Internet sealed small-time pirates' fate though.

 

[thecrow2313]

My local flea market where enterprising pirates were selling warez. Yes, there was a time you had to pay for a pirated copy of a game. It was a fraction of the retail price of course but still.

In case you're wondering how they got away with it it's pretty simple. There were no copyright laws here up until the mid 90s and even when they were established cops were usually more than happy to take a few games or programs as a bribe instead of locking people up. Broadband Internet sealed small-time pirates' fate though.

It was the times of drugs & piracy but I'll leave that out. In most instances led to sting operations and busts.

 

[Miles Miles]

The first one I went to was Cool Rom.com

I'm pretty sure that was also the first ROM site I used.

 

[sneakyguts]

mininova its gone now

 

[Dany28]

N-Rooms and FreeRooms they were taken away by Nintendo but they were my first sites when I started with this kind of thing.

 

[thecrow2313]

N-Rooms and FreeRooms they were taken away by Nintendo but they were my first sites when I started with this kind of thing.

It was a matter of time when the feds shut down those sites but there is more sites out there

 

[Scotty]

"...Anyone remember emuparadise, romhustler, planetemu?"

Emuparadise was my go-to for SNES, NES & Game Boy games. Then Nintendo DMCA'd them... Haven't been on there ever since.

I used Planetemu exclusively for Sega CD & PC Engine CD games.

 

[thecrow2313]

Emuparadise was my go-to for SNES, NES & Game Boy games. Then Nintendo DMCA'd them... Haven't been on there ever since.

I used Planetemu exclusively for Sega CD & PC Engine CD games.

You do know you can still access emuparadise just to let you know. Google is your friend. But either way why would you when we have RGT here.

 

[pr0xy]

Oof, that's a good question. I remember ROMNation, but that couldn't have been the first, since I was still in elementary when we started downloading ROMs. But yeah, ROMNation is the oldest one I remember, so I'll use it as my answer.

 

[Scotty]

You do know you can still access emuparadise just to let you know. Google is your friend. But either way why would you when we have RGT here.

Oh, I know that. I'm still bitter about what Nintendo did to them all these years later.

 

[X y b e r - S k u ll]

I think I started with CoolROM as well, moved onto EmuParadise somewhere down the line. I think the first site I used for torrents was Pirate Bay.

 

[thecrow2313]

Oh, I know that. I'm still bitter about what Nintendo did to them all these years later.

They can't stop them all, why are they even trying to begin with.

 

[Dany28]

It was a matter of time when the feds shut down those sites but there is more sites out there

Those two pages were really good I really liked them. It's a shame but yes, Nintendo is the final boss.

 

[ZEGA ZONIC]

I see that a lot of people used Cool Rom bac k in the day. Naisu!