On July 24, a ton of Nintendo games were leaked onto the internet in a major 'Gigaleak', via a breach of official Nintendo source code. These game leaks, which include ROMs for canceled games like ...

Can I Download a Nintendo ROM from the Internet if I Already Own the Authentic Game? There is a good deal of misinformation on the Internet regarding the backup/archival copy exception. It is not a ...

The litigious Nintendo won its lawsuit against the owner of a ROM site called “RomUniverse” this week with a court ruling the owner had infringed on Nintendo’s copyrights by distributing the ROMs. The ...

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 legal ...

Nintendo’s attitude toward ROM releases—either original games’ files or fan-made edits—has often erred on the side of litigiousness. But in most cases, the game producer has settled on ...

Back in 2019, we wrote about Nintendo’s efforts to shut down the website RomUniverse, which was hosting and even selling premium access to pirated copies of Nintendo games. That case is now over, the ...

EarthBound, the endearing Japanese role-playing game from the Super Nintendo era, delivers a very particular brand of surreal humor and sentimentality. It’s part of a series known as Mother in Japan, ...

Remember earlier this year when Nintendo was suing a couple of sites for distributing pirated ROMs of their games? Well, it looks like that legal action has paid off for them big time. A settlement ...

A judge’s ruling in a copyright infringement case didn’t work out so well for a popular Nintendo ROMs repository site. The owner of ROMUniverse must pay Nintendo $2.1 million. Nintendo originally ...

Among major video game publishers, there is perhaps no company more threatened by video game emulators and ROMs — digitized versions of games for use on those emulators — than Nintendo. The company ...

Nintendo has won a lawsuit against a ROM-hosting website called RomUniverse. As reported by TorrentFreak, the site's owner will have to pay $2.1 million in damages to Nintendo after the court ruled in ...

Riley Testut was about to hop on a rollercoaster in Copenhagen, Denmark when he got the news that Apple would finally be letting a retro emulator he’d been working on for 10 years onto its App Store.