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*A total of 379 fan-made games have been removed from gaming website and hosting service Game Jolt after Nintendo of America issued a mass DMCA takedown.[https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/01/nintendo_issues_mass_dmca_takedown_379_fan-made_games_forcibly_removed]

*Lots of ROM sites taken down by Nintendo. Funny thing is they allegedly downloaded and sold a rom back to customers[https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-01-18-did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-and-sell-it-back-to-us]. In 2018, Nintendo vs LoveROMs - Verdict handed down, site owners ordered to pay $12m to Nintendo.[https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/9wofa3/nintendo_vs_loveroms_verdict_handed_down_site/] In the same year, EmuParadise has removed all ROMs from its website, effective immediately after the news of Nintendo filing a lawsuit against two similar sites, LoveROMs and LoveRETRO. The site is still available and you can visit it right now but without the benefit of being able to download many retro games, many of which came from Nintendo.[https://old.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/95o8sv/emuparadise_removes_all_roms_to_avoid_legal/] In 2019, Nintendo has won a lawsuit against a ROM-hosting website called RomUniverse.[https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/nq8smr/compiled_list_of_articles_about_romuniverse_and/] In May 15, 2024 Nintendo of America has requested for 717 games and their images to be removed from Vimm - The Vault[https://vimm.net/bbs/?p=viewPost&Post=33301].

*Lockpick_RCM repository taken down by Nintendo DMCA[https://wololo.net/2023/05/10/switch-lockpick_rcm-and-fork-repositories-taken-down-by-dmca-request/].

*Garry’s Mod is taking down (DMCA) decades of Nintendo-related add-ons[https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1ccte1x/garry_newman_confirms_that_the_garrys_mod_dmca/][https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/25/24140246/garrys-mod-nintendo-copyright-takedowns-dmca].