A Question about ROM Sites

#1: This server is run by a group of individuals, down to the very hardware. Its very easy to shut down these types of servers if they are found to contain roms/or even rom links.

#2: The general populace which seeks roms is the 1337 hax0r (wannabe) crowd which we like to keep as far away from as humanly possible... We all suffered from this crowd in earlier emulation days, so now they are alienated.

#3: ArcadeAtHome is probably not a good site to compair anything too.... Somewhere around here we have a list of "bad" things whatshisname on that site has done to/for/with the emu community.

#4: Relating to #2, rom requests, even in good nature, clutter. Besides, it is sooo easy to find roms, if you take a simple look at the tools avalible to you, but soo hard to find a good emulation community. We like to provide the community.

#5: The authors post here. Lots of rom requests to authors of emu's really makes for bad emu progression, as we have seen over and over again.

Thx for not flaming on this issue.

1. IT IS ILLEGAL! Period.

Yup, thats the basics of it. #1 is the most prominent reason. The owners of the forum here are not interested in getting all the flak and threats from Nintendo, (and a few others). The fact that they are illegal makes them open to this type of stuff. If we leave illegal stuff off the forum, we dont have to worry about it.

Yeah, all of the reasons above, plus this one:

It attracts morons! :devil:

Seriously, it's not legal and we at Emu64 don't want to be put in connection with any illegal activity...:sly:

That would be #2 gorxon, but insulting them like that only makes them post here even when we can't offen them roms