Question When did GBAtemp stop being a Warez website?

[Stealphie]

I want to know the exact date.

 

[E1ite007]

Around late 2003/early 2004 I think.
The exact date? I dunno, I was 4 years at the time.

 

[Scarlet]

24 October 2002 was when the forum opened, but there's no exact date on the Wiki about when it stopped the warez. Only that it was about half a year later:

https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/GBAtemp.net#History

 

[Chary]

“About half a year into the forums life, the staff had to come to the decision that ROMs would no longer be available to download from GBAtemp, and all warez and other illegal material would be ruled out on the forum. The reason this was done is because a lot of members and the staff themselves had really come to appreciate the forums and each other, and didn't want to risk losing the community they had built up. So to avoid legal issues and to make sure GBAtemp was never shut down, all ROMs, ROM links, warez and more were now strictly forbidden on the 'new GBAtemp'.”

From the Wiki

 

[Stealphie]

24 October 2002 was when the forum opened, but there's no exact date on the Wiki about when it stopped the warez. Only that it was about half a year later:

https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/GBAtemp.net#History

Around late 2003/early 2004 I think.
The exact date? I dunno, I was 4 years at the time.

“About half a year into the forums life, the staff had to come to the decision that ROMs would no longer be available to download from GBAtemp, and all warez and other illegal material would be ruled out on the forum. The reason this was done is because a lot of members and the staff themselves had really come to appreciate the forums and each other, and didn't want to risk losing the community they had built up. So to avoid legal issues and to make sure GBAtemp was never shut down, all ROMs, ROM links, warez and more were now strictly forbidden on the 'new GBAtemp'.”

From the Wiki

Thank you all

 

[Seliph]

GBAtemp is so old at this point that we need our own historians

 

[FAST6191]

Stop?

 

[JuanMena]

“The reason this was done is because a lot of members and the staff themselves had really come to appreciate the forums and each other, and didn't want to risk losing the community they had built up”

Aaaaawww how cute!
Not kidding, it really is cute!

 

[Nobody_Important4u]

When it stopped being good.

 

[CORE]

Good thing it did otherwise we could not be here to discuss it and including other important Exploits = HOMEBREW.

 

[zer01717]

My Compaq gaming PC got many gba roms from this very site.

 

[Seliph]

When it stopped being good.

Your account didn't even exist back then shush

 

[Nobody_Important4u]

Your account didn't even exist back then shush

Well this account didin't existed but...

 

[Seliph]

Well this account didin't existed but...

You were like 3 or 4 years old when the site switched away from warez lmao unless you're lying about your age

 

[zer01717]

The homebrew and gaming news kept me lurking all these years.

 

[seany1990]

There really isn't another place like gbatemp around so it's good that DMCA violations were banned

 

[Stealphie]

When it stopped being good.

your account wasn't even a thing and you were like 4
Did you get a GBA flashcard in 2003, then go to gbatemp to download some sweet sweet roms in 2003?

 

[Deleted User]

I don't get it, you can't download roms anymore but you can still download themes and save files?

 

[Bladexdsl]

now its a nintendo pirating site instead

 

[Nobody_Important4u]

your account wasn't even a thing and you were like 4
Did you get a GBA flashcard in 2003, then go to gbatemp to download some sweet sweet roms in 2003?

Yep!