What is your first ever pirate site you went to?

[Deleted member 132407]

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

Yet, Nintendo has been caught using emulation as well.

 

[MontyMole303]

Homieswarez back in 99 or 2000, I think?

 

[pr0xy]

Before sites there was mIRC (internet relay chats)

YES! The amount of anime and games my friends got through mIRC during high school was unreal, enough to watch and play for years. At that time, not even all of us got internet at home yet, so we were on a constant rotation of burnt CDs.

 

[prnzoDraGoonZweiOrta]

emu pirate? probably Zophar's Domain loooong before it became a virii shithole (though it's still around so I guess they mighta cleaned it up?)

torrents/warez pirate? Demonoid. a friend of mine Joe Gadhi helped put the site up (over whom's house we used to bring fighting sticks over to n drink n throwdown on fighters till he got hitched - then party was over lol)

...but before any of this I mostly got files str8 from (m)IRC

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

Either emuparadise or nosteam

 

[Dani.]

Yet, Nintendo has been caught using emulation as well.

Do you think RGT is already in Nintendo's sights?

 

[Deleted member 132407]

YES! The amount of anime and games my friends got through mIRC during high school was unreal, enough to watch and play for years. At that time, not even all of us got internet at home yet, so we were on a constant rotation of burnt CDs.

Hell yeah, during the VCD & SVCD scene, if you had those, friends were begging me asking where did you get them?!?! Even mp3s, divx & xvid, avi.

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Do you think RGT is already in Nintendo's sights?

Ask Spike, try asking him nicely

 

[prnzoDraGoonZweiOrta]

Do you think RGT is already in Nintendo's sights?

I mean, shit like romsfun.com is still up with everything Nintendo but Switch n the all-Switch site switchrom.net is still goin fine as well n both are quite readily visible from even the most generic default romsearch, so no... probably not yet

 

[Deleted member 132407]

I mean, shit like romsfun.com is still up with everything Nintendo but Switch n the all-Switch site switchrom.net is still goin fine as well n both are quite readily visible from even the most generic default romsearch, so no... probably not yet

If everyone follows the rules and keep urls off forums and DM each other details

 

[DiasAushakhman12]

Greetings, everyone ! Knowing that I was born and raised in a CIS country, it was a Torrent website, not sure which one, it was more than 10 years ago.

 

[qw90700]

Back then piracy could happen via torrent but roms were on websites too, so first pirate website I used was for GBA roms that later on started to upload NDS games but I don't remember its name. It had a quota system so couldn't download much games a day, possibly you could pay for the website to remove the quota? It been like around 15 years since I saw the website lol.

 

[pr0xy]

Hell yeah, during the VCD & SVCD scene, if you had those, friends were begging me asking where did you get them?!?! Even mp3s, divx & xvid, avi.

I so would have been one of those friends... My parents were cheap as hell and didn't want to pay for the internet. I was constantly asking and begging for stuff. My friends were cool, though, so I always got what I asked for.

 

[Dani.]

Hell yeah, during the VCD & SVCD scene, if you had those, friends were begging me asking where did you get them?!?! Even mp3s, divx & xvid, avi.

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Ask Spike, try asking him nicely

Yes, of course and that's what he tells me. I don't think he would say something like that to me.

 

[prnzoDraGoonZweiOrta]

If everyone follows the rules and keep urls off forums and DM each other details

ppl link from here all the time to these sorts of urls, don't they? is there a difference (wouldn't think so?)

 

[Deleted member 560402]

First pirate site though? Hmm... probably Emuparadise. Yeah back before they had to keep removing roms.

 

[Deleted member 132407]

ppl link from here all the time to these sorts of urls, don't they? is there a difference (wouldn't think so?)

Then the mods get pissed off and clean everyone's mess literally. I've seen it happen.

 

[Dani.]

I mean, shit like romsfun.com is still up with everything Nintendo but Switch n the all-Switch site switchrom.net is still goin fine as well n both are quite readily visible from even the most generic default romsearch, so no... probably not yet

Well, let's hope it stays that way and Nintendo remains blind and doesn't discover RGT.

 

[Deleted member 132407]

First pirate site though? Hmm... probably Emuparadise. Yeah back before they had to keep removing roms.

They removed every rom that flagged DMCA there but you can still access some of the roms there. Google is your friend.

 

[diet_orange]

The first one I went to was Cool Rom.com

Same. Mainly for NES and SNES rooms. Couldn't really download N64 roms because I still had dial-up at the time so I had my cousin do it for me and he'd bring them over when he'd visit

 

[prnzoDraGoonZweiOrta]

ah that's right, most 'open' venues of social media are tapp'd now. I've had utterly preposterous, ludicrous 'dark' jokes recently removed at a couple discord chats cuz even though most with even 1 active braincell would be able to ascertain that it's exaggerated silliness... always have to account for impossibly dour, thick, humorless idiots or worse... ppl who can see it's a joke but don't care since they want any loosely tangible excuse to fuck ppl's lives up to mirror how much their own is fucked

 

[Kamako]

ppl link from here all the time to these sorts of urls, don't they? is there a difference (wouldn't think so?)

Then the mods get pissed off and clean everyone's mess literally. I've seen it happen.

Links to external downloads should only be posted in the Repo section. Any links outside of the Repo section should be reported, so that we can move them, or delete them if they're potentially malicious.

 

[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

I have no idea what your talking about officer. I've never visited one of that there piracy sites in my life

 

[ZEGA ZONIC]

Same. Mainly for NES and SNES rooms. Couldn't really download N64 roms because I still had dial-up at the time so I had my cousin do it for me and he'd bring them over when he'd visit

I used to go to the library & use their internet to download roms.

 

[Sfjeov]

myabandonware or was it cdromance?
idk

 

[Deleted member 132407]

Links to external downloads should only be posted in the Repo section. Any links outside of the Repo section should be reported, so that we can move them, or delete them if they're potentially malicious.

That clarifies things up. Thank you very much for the info.