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Overview

CoolROM.com has a rating of 2.97 stars from 51 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. CoolROM.com ranks 338th among Software Other sites.

  • Service
    6
  • Value
    7
  • Returns
    2
  • Quality
    7
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What reviewers want you to know

Positive highlights

  • IF YOU ARE AFRAID OF GETTING VIRUSES, CLICK THE "ALTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD LINK", NOT THE "DOWNLOAD NOW*!"

Critical highlights

  • I downloaded N64 emulator and them immediately went to another ROM site for the ROM of the game I needed.
  • I'll never, ever download anything from there again.
How would you rate CoolROM.com?
Top Positive Review

“Coolrom safe site”

Lim S.
12/17/20

This website give a you a rom for your emulator This website never give me i virus. I had download many rom at coolrom I never get viruses. But you need a downloader app for make your download speed faster then your browser.

Top Critical Review

“Virus”

Nate B.
9/13/21

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

Reviews (51)

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Thumbnail of user thep412
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
September 7th, 2022

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!

Tip for consumers:
Don't use it. May install malware!

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Thumbnail of user thomash2419
1 review
0 helpful votes
May 27th, 2022

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

Thumbnail of user nateb100
1 review
3 helpful votes
September 13th, 2021

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

Tip for consumers:
Stay away

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Thumbnail of user htini550
1 review
0 helpful votes
June 21st, 2023

Rangga
Pradipta
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Semah, mobil hape kamu nanya Titan TV

Thumbnail of user ralphc104
1 review
4 helpful votes
June 1st, 2019

"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.

Thumbnail of user loganb84
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
October 8th, 2021

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

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Thumbnail of user prashants25
1 review
3 helpful votes
April 6th, 2019

Most of the files has virus, don't download anything from this website.
Most of the files has virus, don't download anything from this website.
Most of the files has virus, don't download anything from this website.

Thumbnail of user elis386
1 review
18 helpful votes
March 2nd, 2014

Awesome site to get roms. BUT!
IF YOU ARE AFRAID OF GETTING VIRUSES, CLICK THE "ALTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD LINK", NOT THE "DOWNLOAD NOW*!"
Just a warning...

Thumbnail of user sama1370
1 review
5 helpful votes
June 5th, 2017

WHY! THE COOLROM INSTALLER?! It gives your PC/Mac/Ubuntu/Android Computer Malware! And WHY?! NO! I WANTED HARVEST MOON DS! MY FAV IN THE HARVEST MOON SERIES! Now. All of the Nintendo games Are Removed Due To COPYRIGHT! > :O Go Sh&^@(^*t Yourself Coolrom!

Thumbnail of user lims8
1 review
2 helpful votes
December 17th, 2020

This website give a you a rom for your emulator
This website never give me i virus.
I had download many rom at coolrom
I never get viruses.
But you need a downloader app for make your download speed faster then your browser.

Thumbnail of user jackw66
2 reviews
31 helpful votes
November 24th, 2014

I loved this place, then the installer came around and ruined everything with Trojans. But it doesn't matter any more because it was discovered by Nintendo and most roms have been removed.

Thumbnail of user yeahr2
1 review
23 helpful votes
October 6th, 2014

UnCoolRom. No longer the great site they used to be. Now you get viruses and malware when you download through their website. Seek a better alternative for roms.

Thumbnail of user erikl22
1 review
9 helpful votes
April 22nd, 2016

I despise the site a year ago when i was downloading games i noticed they had 0 bytes wtf then another year back ads then screw this im done with this site also im glad nintendo forced them to delete all nintendo games

Thumbnail of user daems
17 reviews
114 helpful votes
November 2nd, 2015

This site has decided to give it's users some suspicious downloaders every time you click no the download link. Granted, the alternative download links are okay, it's just infuriating that they decided to earn themselves money by scamming users into a downloader that installs malicious programs. Sites like Emuparadise.me are much more safer.

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Paul C.
80 reviews
142 helpful votes
June 11th, 2015

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.

Tip for consumers:
Help the video game companies. They might go out of business with these kind of sites.

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Thumbnail of user jimmyd32
1 review
23 helpful votes
June 28th, 2014

I trusted this site for years. This was the place I came to for emulators and roms. They delivered without fail. I was incredibly enthusiastic when they started uploading entire ISO's for PSX games back in the early part of '09. Now this place has absolutely gone to $#*!. They're far beyond repair. I went to download a Genesis rom earlier this evening and their $#*!ty $#*!ing download manager infected my computer with malware. Never again will I return to this website for ANYTHING, and I highly recommend that nobody else go there, either. This was one of the most reputable emulations sites online for many years. Now their name is $#*! and I wouldn't recommend this site to my worst enemy. I don't know what happened but this entire site has gone to hell. What a crying $#*!ing shame. I'll never, ever download anything from there again. I'll stick to Emuparadise or other sites from now on. These sad people can go $#*! themselves. I hope Coolrom goes under and they all end up working at McDonald's for the rest of their lives. That's all they deserve.

Thumbnail of user beng34
15 reviews
37 helpful votes
May 24th, 2014

When I was on coolrom and I downloaded a ps1 rom I wanted to play but now they have their own installer instead of just using 7zip or Winrar. It's filled with bad malware including a virus that spreads on icons to make it slow, it will slow down browsers, games, documents and delete things on usb and sd cards. Its called Optimizer pro. Don't download from coolrom. I recommend Emuparadise.

Thumbnail of user zacodys
1 review
7 helpful votes
October 19th, 2015

I tested it. Very good. $#*!s got virus because they click ACCEPT EVERY TIMES! Great site!

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Thumbnail of user bryny
1 review
5 helpful votes
January 13th, 2014

As the others said, I got infected. I'm not sure how bad it is, but I think I stopped any malware/spyware infecting my computer. I'm currently running security programs and looking at my accounts to figure out what's going on. :/

Thumbnail of user paulr78
1 review
9 helpful votes
January 19th, 2014

Something terrible has happened to this site. It used to be fantastic.

I'm not sure why it uses it's own downloader these days, but every time I have used this downloader to download a rom it has come with a trojan that has allowed all kinds of horrible viruses and malware onto my hard drive.

This is not good enough for a rom site that gets such heavy traffic and is (or was) so favored by gamers.
Get your $#*! together coolrom.

Thumbnail of user rhysk2
1 review
12 helpful votes
June 18th, 2014

I want on it to play resident evil but s soon as you download an emulater you get a tun of viruses that tell you to optimize and speed up your pc... also it changed MY DUCKING HOMEPAGE FROM CHROME... things like this make me want to commit mass genocide

Thumbnail of user coolromss
1 review
10 helpful votes
February 13th, 2015

This site is a complete scam and will steal information as well as disable your start up with blotware and fake virus scanners. Complete and utter garbage. Site owners should be shot.

Thumbnail of user phillipm34
1 review
6 helpful votes
August 26th, 2015

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...

Thumbnail of user alexv21
1 review
10 helpful votes
May 12th, 2015

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!

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Thumbnail of user rohanj6
1 review
11 helpful votes
April 10th, 2014

USERS BEWARE! This site was recommended by a colleague. Downloaded three games and all three were infected with Viruses/Trojans. Stay far away, you will be infected.

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