Apparently Nintendo is done sending the cease and desist letters and emails to the websites that offer free emulators from older consoles and now are suing almost every website like EmuParadise. Some websites that provide emulators and ROMs for free are being threatened as much as $100,000 dollars as a result of the fines of offering a Nintendo game stacking. Right now, EmuParadise is getting rid of their entire database of games and LoveROMS has been closed for about a month, likely having no return.
Not only are they taking down the actual unaltered emulators and ROMs, but they are even taking down ROM hacks. So I guess say goodbye to almost every older game that isn't on VC as well as stuff like Dolphin and VirtualBoy as most of their users downloaded the ROMs on websites like EmuParadise.
I've heard about this as I tried playing the Wind Waker HD, only to have my internet shut off by Cox. I was told that Nintendo had alerted them about my IP possessing an illegal copy of one of their games. Never mind the fact that I had about 15 other pirated games where only 4 were registered as a violation, one being a AAA game being not even 6 months old yet; but a game on an outdated console that probably isn't even sold in GameStop's bargain section? CEASE AND DESIST!
I'm honestly afraid this practice is gonna spread to other companies.
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