Due to the high cost of web hosting we are forced to come with a decision we thought never would happen. There will be a charge of one dollar (USD) per download, this will help pay for the servers and also gives up some beer money. So tell all your friends that today is the last day you can Download FREE ROMs from the site. We will be looking forward to doing business with you. We take VISA, MC, AMEX and PayPal. This is effective as of tomorrow. Thank you very much. We would like to hear from you, so give us your input.

Its posted on the main page, I'd thought I would share it with you.

*EDIT. The new layout did not have to do anything with this..

April Fools?

It would have to be on April fools to be considered it, overwise it basicly like saying "merry christmas" in july.
This doesn't bother me since I don't download roms anymore. But it shitty it had to come to this.

Sadly its not, ya its a shame it has to come down to this. Chris is paying out of his pocket to run the site, pulling extra shifts at blockbuster isnt what he had on mind to keep the site going.

If I had some cashflow atm, I would donate since I've been here for so long. This is like the only other place on the web i even bother to visit.

Isn't it illegal to make people pay for ROMs?

Oh well... whatever. I usually go other places to DL ROMs anyway.

It does suck that it did have to come to this though... unless this really is an April Fools Day thing... then it's just a sick joke.

Yes and No, depends how you go thru with it.

We will also have packages avaiable. 20 downloads for 15$, chris and I are still working on the details about this.

I really hope this will work out, I would be getting 60% of the profit since I have the servers on my comp.

Its just a coincidence this announcement is close to april 1.

Whelp... I was planning on DLing ROMs from here but... meh.

I think if at all possible, if you guys can generate enough money, you should put up WAY more ROMs (N64 and the like).

ya we keep on adding more n64 roms each week, and we just added GBA Roms today, and we're going to keep adding them for sure.

like chris can be bothered to setup paypal links to work with rom downloads

i guess ill be going somewhere else to get my roms then

I'm still convinced this is an april fools joke.

Raf you're such a bastard.

April Fools Joke i'm good

Yeah right... you're still gonna charge for ROMs aren't you...

Seems as though the joke was NOT paying for them.

We will never charge for ROMs, although chris and I would become rich its just not worth it, theres many other sites that offer roms for free so theres no point in having ppl pay for it... but i see i fooled some ppl

RAFakaSB wrote:
We will never charge for ROMs, although chris and I would become rich its just not worth it, theres many other sites that offer roms for free so theres no point in having ppl pay for it... but i see i fooled some ppl

ha ha I caught it! w00t! nothing gets by me!

Yeah we'll post it on the main page tomorrow that it was just a joke. We'll let the regular visitors that don't come to the forum sweat it out a bit longer.

lol too late, i posted it.. for some reason it didnt want to update the body.. only the title...

[quote=email]----Original Message Follows----
From: EDITED@hotmail.com
To: sb@theroms.com
Subject: SB (ccno)
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 22:06:58 -0500

Friday, April 1, 2005, 10:06 pm [EST]

Attention: SB (ccno)

Message: sorry 2 bother u again. i found it. i just want 2 know about how i can dl more roms... if i don't have a credit card. can i pay by mail or something else???
i live in surinam. we have a company called western union money transfer, can i do it there???
thanks, Roy.

ps. your site is the best!!!

From: Roy (EDITED@hotmail.com)

Additional Info : IP = 127.0.0.1

Browser Info: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Referral : http://www.theroms.com/download_roms_n64.php[/quote]
lol chris we could be rich! hahaha

hahaha i cant believe people bought into that, As for roy, someone needs to pull one of those Nigerian email scams on him, you could probably milk him Atleast for a couple hundred.

Weird you should be able to edit everything. Maybe it's got to do with those crazy apostraphes that you use

I edited poor Roy's IP address out of that message as well

we should devote something to Roy.

you were joking because I can't tell

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Ummmmmm...no.

I never realised how much everyone wants my dollar.
This sucks but I honestly see it getting worse befor it get better.