Phantom (Kyle Land)

In 2024, Nintendo declared war on emulators. March 4. Yuzu paid Nintendo $2.4 million, deleted its code, and handed over its domain. October 1. Ryujinx got a phone call. The GitHub organization vanished overnight. May 2024. Nintendo filed 8,535 DMCA takedowns to scrub Yuzu code from every fork. By 2026, Nintendo has collected $6 million in emulator settlements. Every major Switch emulator is dead. But Nintendo has a problem. His name is Zurdi. In March 2023, one year before the war started, he quietly built RomM. RomM is not an emulator. It's a ROM manager. It scans your legally-dumped game files, pulls metadata from IGDB, MobyGames, and Screenscraper, fetches box art from SteamGridDB, and pulls your achievements from RetroAchievements. Then it lets you play in your browser through EmulatorJS. Nintendo's own top IP lawyer admitted on the record in January 2025 that this is legal. Emulators only become illegal when they bypass encryption. RomM doesn't. It just organizes what you already own. 9,114 stars. AGPL-3.0. 400+ platforms supported. NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy, GameCube, PS1, PS2, Dreamcast, Genesis, Atari, DOS, arcade, Flash games through Ruffle. Official apps for Playnite on Windows. Argosy launcher on Android. Grout for muOS handhelds and the Anbernic devices. Sync plugins for RetroArch, Steam Deck, and Syncthing. Multi-disk games. DLCs. ROM hacks. Patches. Manuals. Tag filtering. Share your library with friends with permission levels. Made the front page of Hacker News. Sony deleted 2,000 PS3, Vita, and PSP games from its store. Nintendo took down every Switch emulator in two years. Your digital library was never yours. Two guys in a Discord server built the museum they can't take back. (Link in the comments)