An obscure bunch called loveROMS and Love retro were the original recipients of the ban hammer but it looks like many other sites have caved and removed TOSECS. Planetemu the french guys do not host Nintendo roms now (and were my go to guys for old roms) and Emuparadise have removed all their romsets now and have effectively shut up shop which is bad.
There is a great set of tweets on Twitter by Frank Cifaldi about the whole preservation side of things, (given that twitter is a left wing echo chamber that in itself is a miracle) and from someone else who travelled halfway across Japan to preserve some obscure bits of SNK history. If you want a job doing well its worth giving it to a pirate.
I've been downloading on and off ever since I had the net and before that with a few discs of stuff gotten from bootsales. I've seen places fall such as Cherry roms, ICEroms and even downloaded stuff from Dope rom and a few Angelfire places back in the day. Along with the last bastions of good journalism such as Insertcredit and Andriasang. True I've seen a few horrible places (full disclosure I had a porn dialler from one back in the day) but I'm sure those won't return thanks to these going under.
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| Surely rom corruption is classed as modern art right. |
Then there is the other stuff such as art project / homebrew fan translation side of things which attempt to make new games or just port stuff that wasn't deemed commercial back then. Or make innumerable hacks out of SMB or Marioworld, or even fix up the the emulator in the NES and SNES Mini to side load extra roms and such, and that's without going into the straight up preservation side of things, backing up 30 year old plus media and ensuring future people get to play these games.
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