mame.dk, the largest repository of mame roms on the internet (ie, it had ALL of them) has been shut down.

The roms of [mame.dk] was removed 3 days ago. [mame.dk] has received a notice from a copyright holder forcing us to shut down our service.

This really does bite ass and its kinda pointless cos everything mame has is mirrored at thousands of sites around the place. Theyre still gonna provide the supporting features to the mame system (BIOS files etc) but there are no longer gonna be any roms there.

Its also lame, cos there were a lot of games there that arent earning money for ANYONE at all, and theyre probably gone forever now. Lame.

And a note to anyone with their finger over the nuke button, this is not a juarez post. Mame.dk was legal. Well, as legal as emulation gets.

so legal that they are being shutdown by a lawyer?

Yes.

As far as I know, copyright owners knew about the service for a while, but they let it continue.

maxe fix your linkage :o)

man thats f***ed

mame used to rock :(

/me crys

I think the forum is whats f***ing the linkage

let me test

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Well it was kinda inevitable when they had games on the site that came out in 2000.

:*(
a sad day;

mame ownz me;

(as does callus, nemu and my apple II emulater)

man thats f***ed

mame used to rock :(

mame still rocks! warez.dk shutting down is a bitch (come on..) but as maxe has said isn't going to really make much difference to us because the roms are still available underground. Maybe it's a good thing - this keeps emulation more under the wrappers & less likely to attract negative attention.

nooooooooooo!... not mame, what will we fill our days with now, posting on qgl... get real. my life is over

mame was da bomb.. damn it, i will have to resort to actually spending my hours doing worth while activities and thinking about getting a job, look what those bastards have done to us all

as dranges said we will always be able to get roms anyway. so no biggy

I wonder if this means the burnning team will be shutdown.

mame.dk was the best site ever

every rom you could ever want, no spam if you signed as a member and no crappy porn popups or s***.

i doubt i can be bothered to look for mame roms elsewhere, this is a true tradgedy for mem lovers

lucky i already have the majority of the site on my hdd :)

Yer alot of people have em :D

Only the newer ones will be hard to come buy.. /pats my Mame.

meh. mame is ok, but i never was an arcade person, so i am more acquainted with consoles, and even more so...

DOS GAMES, LIKE BOPPIN! (see below, yeet in all it's glory)