CoolROM.com

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.

I trusted this site for years. This was the place I came to for emulators and roms. They delivered without fail. I was incredibly enthusiastic when they started uploading entire ISO's for PSX games back in the early part of '09. Now this place has absolutely gone to $#*!. They're far beyond repair. I went to download a Genesis rom earlier this evening and their $#*!ty $#*!ing download manager infected my computer with malware. Never again will I return to this website for ANYTHING, and I highly recommend that nobody else go there, either. This was one of the most reputable emulations sites online for many years. Now their name is $#*! and I wouldn't recommend this site to my worst enemy. I don't know what happened but this entire site has gone to hell. What a crying $#*!ing shame. I'll never, ever download anything from there again. I'll stick to Emuparadise or other sites from now on. These sad people can go $#*! themselves. I hope Coolrom goes under and they all end up working at McDonald's for the rest of their lives. That's all they deserve.

This site is a complete scam and will steal information as well as disable your start up with blotware and fake virus scanners. Complete and utter garbage. Site owners should be shot.

While it does host a multitude of roms from across so many consoles the issue is the fact it has it's "ad supported downloader" THIS CARRIES VIRUSES/MALWARE INTO YOUR PC. To prevent this use the download link under the "This file will be downloaded through the CoolROM Downloader making the download process much faster and ensuring the file is virus-free." message.

Use the "Alternative download link (with ads and timer)" as this is perfectly fine.

Sorry, but this site is awesome. Can you tell me how I can play, in a different fashion, discontinued console games?

Go $#*! yourself whoever made this $#*!ing Legie as it $#*!ing gets I download one the game on ipod work fine but hackers hacking my ipod to all hacker everywhere go $#*! yourself in the $#*!ing $#*! and $#*! you to people who think this $#*!ing site is great $#*! it not If I had to rate this $#*!ing site I whoud give a 0/*******000 $#*!ing stars $#*! you creater of this site go $#*! yourself

Pirate Site that offers Nintendo DS Roms. This is not a good example of retro gaming at all and should not be supported.

The $#*! happened to you, Coolrom?

When I discovered emulation in the summer of 2007, I had a hard time trusting sites, as they often gave off a sketchy vibe, and more often than not, hurt my computer. When I found you, I had no issues - a ten second wait time was all that you asked for when downloading a game. In fact, across every emulation site I ever visited YOUR ROM files (particularly N64) were the highest quality I had the pleasure of running across.

That $#*! changed seven years later.

My girlfriend was highly interested in emulation and out of the kindness of my heart, I helped her install a SNES emulator (courtesy Emulator-Zone) and a copy of EarthBound. I noticed something rather bizarre though - your timer download was replaced with a shiny 'DOWNLOAD NOW' button. Bizarre, but I had figured you just got rid of the timer, since it in itself was pointless to begin with.

Nope.

Ten seconds later, I found myself face to face with your 'downloader', and this bizarre 'antivirus' program known as Optimizer Pro, screaming that I had thousands of 'issues'. Strange that it would be that sick, since I bought her laptop a week earlier.

I'll stick to EmuParadise from now on.

You want to know what the biggest irony is? Back in the day, I went to your website as my mainstay BECAUSE EmuParadise gave me a virus. In fact, I remember it was the GBC version of Portal Runner.

Strangely, they're perfectly clean now, and you became the adware infested $#*!hole.

Please go die, and clean your $#*!ing act up, you sleazy pricks.

I downloaded 2 roms and 1 gave me a trojan and the other gave me a dotbundler. The website gives you viruses.

As many others have stated, I used to use CoolROM regularly, they were great. I stopped using it for a couple years and when I went back to it a couple months ago wanting to get a N64 ROM. I found out they had all their Nintendo ROMs forcibly taken down by Nintendo of America. Nbd I thought. I downloaded N64 emulator and them immediately went to another ROM site for the ROM of the game I needed. Shortly there after my internet browsers were infected with the browser hijacker Vosteran. HOWEVER, I thought it was from the other ROM site I used. If only I had read these reviews about CoolROM after that.

Fast forward to the other day. I went on CoolROM, downloaded a emulator for the GB Advance, and went to another site to get a ROM(another Nintendo game) Low and behold my browser got hijacked again by Vosteran. In the process of removing it AGAIN I was attacked by something even nastier, this fake, Windows bad image error virus. Just google "bad image error" on Google and learn about what a utter nightmare it is to your PC. I eliminated the problem within 24 hours but it was such a stressful experience that NO ONE should have to go through. Now, this whole time I thought the culprit was not CoolROM, but out of curiosity I googled reviews for CoolROM and found this.

It's appalling this site is still up and running, I am sure many more will fall into this trap because they normally would use CoolROM in the past with ease or heard positive things about it from others. No more, this site isn't what it used to be. AVOID AT ALL COSTS

Got a virus attempting to download a PS2 bios. You definitely want to stay far away from this website.

It was a great site before, I went to download a game and it gave me many malware and viruses. It was much better before!

Downloads. Exe files to your computer that when run installs malware and adware on your computer, avoid at all costs!

If you want a legit site for downloading ROMs, go to Emuparadise or Romulation (if searching for Wii ROMS). This site will often install programs without knowledge: I have once downloaded Sonic 1 and it installed "CoolROM Downloader" without my knowledge then changed my main page into "CoolROM safefinder," which fills up my entire cache and had to restore Firefox to it's original state in order to get rid of it.

The FAQ clearly says "Our downloader is an executable program that makes your download process much faster (by directly downloading the file and accelerating download speed) and ensures the file is virus-free," but in reality it in fact installs viruses on the computer, and the only way to download it without the downloader is the alternate download with ads and file timing.

The alternate download is also the download before they replaced it with the scammy downloader, with extra ads and file timing. It is not recommended for classic console fans, however, forgetting the irritating download, the quality of the ROMs is very good.

Got the worst virus ever! Even got hacked my google account and facebook!

I have played a lot of games on this website and it is the best i have ever been on

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