CoolROM.comReviews 51

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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!

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

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

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

"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.

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.

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...

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.

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

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!

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.