Nintendo cracking down on Emulation

You probably have already heard on sites like Emuparadise, and probably others as a few videos on youtube have been shown about Nintendo taking down licensed roms from their own line on such sites. While I have already seen that titles like Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros and any other pokemon game rom has already been removed prior to the news about it only now I am seeing that others have been taking noticed and how alarmed they feel about it, which we all should really. I for one have a concern on what if Nintendo actually begins to question any gaming video where there are playthroughs of said licensed titles? While this may be far fetched is pretty much something to consider since the company is going around pulling off games on rom sites and such.

Yes, titles for SNES and even N64 are also gone if you were wondering, and who is to say other gaming companies till active like Sega and Sony won't start doing this as well? If you still have your own roms then you better count your blessings or start getting anything around said type of sites while they are still available before they are gone. The legal scare sure is real.

Comments 4

Masters Staff Aug 20, 2018

I seem to recall always having more difficulty getting a hold of Nintendo's first party games on ROM sites in general: Super Mario Bros 3 was always harder to snag than Ninja Gaiden, say.

But you're right -- a cursory search at Emuparadise for "super mario" turns up... nothing at all.

joseph_valencia Aug 21, 2018

IIRC, Nintendo did something like this about ten years ago. It used to be hard to find Nintendo ROMs on anything but the fringe ROM sites. I imagine this latest action will make it difficult to find Nintendo ROMs in the near future, but eventually they'll be all over the place again. In the meanwhile, Nintendo can go eat a dick. They can take their shitty "classic" mini-consoles and stick them up their ass, and the same to their upcoming "retro games as a service" thing. If they're going to do this sort of thing, then they should at least bring back Virtual Console for the Switch and make their digital distribution platform not shit.

overdrive Staff Aug 21, 2018

I'd read about this last week and went to the site I'd used in the past and, sure enough, other systems were business like usual, but the ROMs were gone for at least the NES and SNES. Which might make it tougher to obtain the actual ROMs for the last three translation patches for RPGs I'll never actually play. At least I have anything I'd want in general, but yeah, this is pretty lame. I understand the whole "piracy is wrong" aspect, but when you consider minor details such as how only a certain percent of games get brought back, either as digital downloads or as part of mini-consoles and how some of the vast majority that haven't been brought back have been deemed "collector's items" and cost far, far more than they're worth in a sane world, I at least appreciate having a way to access them now that some of those older systems of my youth don't exactly work all that well, if at all.

CptRetroBlue Blogger Aug 23, 2018

Indeed, Nintendo could consider this not being such blatant ways for us to get games for free, but a preservation of such and always knowing that such first party titles would be preserved digitally when what they offer might not always be around like virtual transactions and mini consoles.