About ROMS: they will not let roms be free so easily because if they did, people would just turn to free quality games instead of playing the most recent ones, which are costful. So, legal or not, roms will mostly be a loss for companies anyway.
As a side note, hundreds of games for old Atari and a few ones for Gameboy have been made free some years ago. They’re not the type of game that people nowadays play though, and mostly only people who played the original ones ages ago will be seeing downloading those things.
Well what I wanna know is, what’s up with those insane groups who translate the Japanese versions of Pokémon ROMs before the American version comes out. What’s up with that? I mean, it’s not like Nintendo isn’t going to translate 'em at some point …