While legal action against individual downloaders is rare, the distribution sites hosting these packs are frequently targeted for takedown.
, ensuring that software is not lost as physical cartridges degrade or become rare. However, they exist in a legal grey area; while downloading ROMs for games you do not own is generally considered copyright infringement, many enthusiasts use these packs to back up their own physical collections for use on modern FPGA devices like the Analogue Pocket gbc rom pack