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Earlier this week, a major Switch ROM site known as 'nsw2u' was seized by the FBI as part of a 'law enforcement operation'.
EmuParadise, for 18 years a go-to site for emulators and ROMs to play hard-to-find, if not ancient video games, announced last week that it would no longer offer its vast library of ROMs. The ...
Meanwhile, the programs that run the ROMs, while useless on their own without the game programs, have been ruled legal because, on their own, they don’t do anything nefarious.
The Raspberry Pi platform has been around for a long time now, and while I've heard about it in passing, I haven't done a lot ...
"I think that this [digital ROM lending] approach could be used by libraries, etc., but it doesn't solve the problem of most games being unattainable," Video Game History Foundation Founder Frank ...
Now that emulators are an established app category on the iPhone, I've been using these four apps to experience a blast from the retro past.
Vimm’s Lair, one of the oldest places on the web to find and download classic video game ROMs and emulators, recently announced the removal of many titles due to requests from Sega, Nintendo ...
Reliving the nostalgia of classic video games through emulation is a popular pastime, but navigating the legal landscape of video game ROMs can be complex. Here’s a guide on where to obtain ...
Want to take a trip down memory lane with some old video games? Then you’ll probably need a console emulator, and we have an entire list of recommendations.
While some people may look at having roms as evil, the harsh reality is that most video game companies do little to offer their older games for a consumer to buy. Let me go over some examples.
Video games likely won’t suffer a similar fate as films, but that’s only thanks to the efforts of hobbyists, archivists, programmers, and historians operating outside the boundaries of what ...