{"id":341,"date":"2009-10-16T07:57:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T12:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.insidethewebb.com\/?p=341"},"modified":"2013-03-18T07:29:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T12:29:49","slug":"the-inside-scoop-on-coolroms-com-with-founder-edward-chang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carnaghan.com\/the-inside-scoop-on-coolroms-com-with-founder-edward-chang\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inside Scoop on CoolROM’s.com with Founder Edward Chang"},"content":{"rendered":"
Digging through the internet for your favorite ROM can be a frustrating process. Some sites can’t be trusted, others just throw you around in loops to find exactly what you’re looking for. I have recently gotten a short, sweet, and to the point interview with the founder of CoolRom.com Edward Chang. In it, he discusses revenue streams from the site, traffic stats, and how he built and created a Emulation and ROM empire.<\/p>\n
Emulators allow you to imitate other programs or devices on your computer – in the case of classic gaming, they allow you to run SNES games on your computer, for example. ROM stands for read-only memory and they are the games you download to run with emulators.<\/p>\n
CoolROM was originally started as a hobby; my love for the classic games gave me a desire to create an easy to navigate site with archives to all the old goodies to make it easy for others to enjoy ROM emulation.<\/p>\n
More and more individuals are going back to the classic games, and now I truly realize how many of us there are that share this passion.<\/p>\n
Our community is thriving and we now have over 85k registered members.<\/p>\n
The most popular ROMs would have to be from the SNES, which include the Final Fantasy series and Chrono Trigger. Personally, I love the Contra and Donkey Kong series.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n We run banner advertising on the site (no popups!) and make a good enough income to pay off the servers, and some more \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Google \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Myth has it that you must remove ROM files within 24 hours for the ones that you don’t physically own; however, I don’t think there is proof for this statement. We are just providing a way for you to enjoy your favorite classic games on your computer, so if you really enjoy them, buy them!<\/p>\n All I can see is up. We are going to work on revamping our emulators section and organize ROM files according to genre\/similar categories.<\/p>\n Play safe!<\/p>\n Digging through the internet for your favorite ROM can be a frustrating process. Some sites can’t be trusted, others just throw you around in loops to find exactly what you’re looking for. I have recently gotten a short, sweet, and to the point interview with the founder of CoolRom.com Edward Chang. In it, he discusses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7131],"tags":[80,123,171,285],"post_series":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat type of advertising do you use on the site? Does CoolROM make a decent amount of money through advertising?<\/h4>\n
Could you share with us the top referring sites that send traffic to CoolROM?<\/h4>\n
Can you explain a bit about how the rules of downloading ROM\u2019s you don\u2019t physically own work?<\/h4>\n
Where do you see CoolROM going within the next year? Do you have any plans in the works for new features on the site?<\/h4>\n
Do you have any last-minute advice for the readers?<\/h4>\n
Visit the Site!<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"