fishy material if you're not lucky enough to have a pop-up/adblocker on hand also doesn't help matters. The 'CoolROM Downloader' is notorious in the ROM community for being a sack of bloatware that installs malware and PUPs even after you've told it not to. According to a friend, it's safe on mobile, but god help your poor soul if you don't click that alternative download link on PC. CoolROM does deliver, but if you aren't careful, you could reaaaaaaaaaally mess things up. It is not recommended for classic console fans, however, forgetting the irritating download, the quality of the ROMs is very good.Īfter the death of loveroms, emuparadise, and The Iso Zone, one might be tempted to turn to coolrom as it seems to be the ONLY Rom site that doesn't enforce BS practices and hasn't been annihilated by Cease & Desists/Fear of C&Ds yet.
The alternate download is also the download before they replaced it with the scammy downloader, with extra ads and file timing. 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.
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. If you want a legit site for downloading ROMs, go to Emuparadise or Romulation (if searching for Wii ROMS).