CoolROM.com

"Your virus software thinks everything on our website is a virus. Don't worry though because that's just a false alarm. We promise we aren't a Russian hacking group that wants to turn your computer into a DDOS zombie. We aren't trying to extort your grandmother for money. After install and entering your address and phone number, your girlfriend may appear to be more distant. This is a natural side effect of women's liberation. Don't think about it. Enjoy your egg sandwich.

As the others said, I got infected. I'm not sure how bad it is, but I think I stopped any malware/spyware infecting my computer. I'm currently running security programs and looking at my accounts to figure out what's going on. :/

As always, these kind of sites should be illegal. In fact, Nintendo should sue these kind of sites. As always, you have to go through a lot of ads and passwords. Not only that, but sometimes it could give your computer a virus if you stay on too long. And it's hard to get the newer ROMs. That's about it.

I've never had any issues with this site nor have I found any malicious software in the roms.

However, the site was recently hacked (I checked the site yesterday), and I'm not sure if any of the roms were tampered with. The site is up and running again today, so the owner's reaction time is pretty quick. The only issue I've had with it today is that the forums page is down.

This website give a you a rom for your emulator
This website never give me i virus.
I had download many rom at coolrom
I never get viruses.
But you need a downloader app for make your download speed faster then your browser.

Something terrible has happened to this site. It used to be fantastic.

I'm not sure why it uses it's own downloader these days, but every time I have used this downloader to download a rom it has come with a trojan that has allowed all kinds of horrible viruses and malware onto my hard drive.

This is not good enough for a rom site that gets such heavy traffic and is (or was) so favored by gamers.
Get your $#*! together coolrom.

I despise the site a year ago when i was downloading games i noticed they had 0 bytes wtf then another year back ads then screw this im done with this site also im glad nintendo forced them to delete all nintendo games

This site has decided to give it's users some suspicious downloaders every time you click no the download link. Granted, the alternative download links are okay, it's just infuriating that they decided to earn themselves money by scamming users into a downloader that installs malicious programs. Sites like Emuparadise.me are much more safer.

I used to use coolrom all the time. It was safe and easy to navigate. A week ago I tried to download Pokemon Leaf Green and I got so much adware and malware on my computer that it took me three days to tear it all back out of my computer. Never trusting coolrom again.

I used to trust this site. It used to be my go to. Not after finding that what I downloaded months ago was a Trojan waiting for instructions.
After reading some of the reviews here I'm glad I did a full malware scan when I did. I just wish it'd been sooner. The regular quick scan my av automatically runs in the background apparently, for whatever misguided reason, doesn't include the user/[username]/downloads folders, so for those of you using Windows Defender*, do yourselves a favor and manually scan those folders on a regular basis.

*the standard av included with windows. I know, I know: I probably shouldn't trust a Microcrap product with something so important but my dad seems to think it's the best freeware av. I'm gonna look for something better after this though...

I have been trying to get one fu(!^g game out of it's $h!++y Coolrom Downloader for a week now. And i still havnt gotten my fu(!^g game. It always says "not responding" EVERY SINGLE FU(!^G TIME! THIS WEBSITE IS $H!+ ON THE END OF MY FU(!^G D!(K! Whoever made this "the #1 rom downloader is an@$$hole. Just kill it with fire.

I loved this place, then the installer came around and ruined everything with Trojans. But it doesn't matter any more because it was discovered by Nintendo and most roms have been removed.

I used to go to this site all the time for any games I wanted to play, never got any viruses back then. That all changed when they introduced this "CoolROM downloader". The other day I decided to download a game for the first time in years, didn't really think much of the downloader at first, I made sure to uncheck any of the offers they gave me and what do you know? I still end up with the most annoying adware I've ever encountered in all my years. An absolute pain to deal with, and I find it inexcusable to have your downloader giving many people malware.

It's best to stay away from this site these days. I repeat: Stay away!

When I was on coolrom and I downloaded a ps1 rom I wanted to play but now they have their own installer instead of just using 7zip or Winrar. It's filled with bad malware including a virus that spreads on icons to make it slow, it will slow down browsers, games, documents and delete things on usb and sd cards. Its called Optimizer pro. Don't download from coolrom. I recommend Emuparadise.

I have now spend 3 days trying to clean up my computer after downloading files from coolrom.com. My Google account has been infected with virus after installing a program from the website, and it has now spread to all of my 3 devices that I had linked with my Google account! The same thing happened to me 3 years ago and I cannot believe that they still haven't done ANYTHING to prevent this!
IT IS NOT A SAFE WEBSITE!

I downloaded 3 games from this site Yesterday and all of them gave me... AHEM... 769 viruses. For 4 years I have trusted this site and now I might as well not download anything again my norton virus protection is GOING CRAZY! DO NOT DOWNLOAD FROM THIS SITE EVER!

WHY! THE COOLROM INSTALLER?! It gives your PC/Mac/Ubuntu/Android Computer Malware! And WHY?! NO! I WANTED HARVEST MOON DS! MY FAV IN THE HARVEST MOON SERIES! Now. All of the Nintendo games Are Removed Due To COPYRIGHT! > :O Go Sh&^@(^*t Yourself Coolrom!

UnCoolRom. No longer the great site they used to be. Now you get viruses and malware when you download through their website. Seek a better alternative for roms.

USERS BEWARE! This site was recommended by a colleague. Downloaded three games and all three were infected with Viruses/Trojans. Stay far away, you will be infected.

I want on it to play resident evil but s soon as you download an emulater you get a tun of viruses that tell you to optimize and speed up your pc... also it changed MY DUCKING HOMEPAGE FROM CHROME... things like this make me want to commit mass genocide

This website used to be very good, it gave you a direct and easy download for a lot of emulators and roms. Now, it requires you to run an installer for games and emulators, which pesters you with malware ridden "extra" downloads. When I ran malwarebytes on the installer for a snes emulator, it came up with dangerous and is now removed from m computer. $#*! you coolrom, you used to be the best site for emulators and roms, but now you are trying to push malware infected bull$#*! onto us with your big name in the emulation scene. STAY AS FAR AWAY FROM THIS SITE AS POSSIBLE.

Very suspicious, requires running their program to download. The file I downloaded didn't even work correctly. Don't use this unless your on an enemies computer!

I'm confused. On my iphone, through the in-app browser on the emulator GBA4ios, it downloaded several GBA games just fine. On my laptop, however, when I tried to download a PS1 game... it forced me to "download their downloader for safety from viruses." It then proceeded to give me the check-box option of installing some browser call Astromenda. I left it unchecked.

What's the first thing this f'ing downloader does? Installs Astromenda. My desktop then proceeds to fill up with apps and games I didn't install. I immediately backpedaled and destroyed any semblance of these programs on my laptop (PC Optimizer Pro being one of the culprits). This site is insane. I don't trust their "40,000,000" download numbers. There's no way that they had that many users willfully put themselves through this bs.

Go elsewhere. I've heard Emuparadise is a much safer site to use for your roms.