Posted by Howard Casto on February 25, 2002 at 14:53:18:
In Reply to: My goodness you'd think it was the end of the world...GET OVER IT! posted by quamper on February 25, 2002 at 13:56:27:
: "Everyone can't just start scouring the newsgroups..."
: and why exactly not?? I just downloaded a couple dozen roms I had been missing last night from a newsgroup...
Because newsgroups have the same bandwidth issues that regular html sites do. They also have the same legal concerns. If they become too popular then the majority of them will be shut down as well.
Btw, in emulation terms mame.dk shutting down IS the end of the world. It's the only site that made you download roms responsibly, which I know most of you hate. Also all of their roms were guaranteed to be working and virus free, which can be a huge problem if your going to go the newsgroups route. Btw there are other sites out there, but they're nowhere near as big (that's why I'm not going to tell you hwere any of them are.)
Just keep searching and goodluck,
HAC