Vimms lair is starting to remove many roms that are being requested to be removed by Nintendo etc. soon many original roms, hacks, and translations will be lost forever. Can any of you help make archive torrents of roms from vimms lair and cdromance? They have hacks and translations that dont exist elsewhere and will probably be removed soon with ios emulation and retro handhelds bringing so much attention to roms and these sites
fuck nintendo
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You know humanity is fucked (pun unintended) when the post with the most likes is actually “fuck (insert whatever)”.
There are already torrents containing collections of all the games from old systems. What there needs to be is an “official” collection torrent for each system that archivists can store and seed individually
Look up GoodROM databases. There is metadata for each ROM so you know if your collection is complete.
Every time I see this news (Reddit or Lemmy) I see this kind of comment, but I wonder, what if I want to download just a ROM of a few mbs? I certainly don’t want to hoard the whole collection, as a torrent user I believe I can just pick up the file (if it isn’t zipped), but wouldn’t that be against the torrent’s moral code?
But most (all?) Torrent clients let you select which files you want to download so of there was an official unarchived torrent then archivists could seed forever and others could select the ROMs/manuals/etc. that they wanted
And this way we will get uncompleted seeds and in the further future nobody will be able to complete the damn torrent.
I don’t think that’s an issue. Downloading a partial is a problem on private trackers since there are so few users, but on a public tracker, someone downloading a partial is just making the swarm a bit more robust: they are sharing connections details to other users in the swarm and are able to partially seed part of the content.
Hit & run torrent users are the bigger problem; they add nothing to the ecosystem. But, for example, if there’s a “complete early roms for all systems nointro unzipped” torrent, and someone only downloads and seeds the SNES section, then the swarm gets the benefit of someone sharing that section of the content.
You could even get a situation where there are no “seeds” but 100% availability, with different people sharing different sections.
I’m not fully looped in to why Anna’s Archive did what they did, but their massive 1TB+ torrent zips are pretty useless for most purposes. I’d be happy to download a partial and seed books in, say, a particular genre, but I’m not going to seed a partial of a massive zip file that’s useless to me without the full archive.
You can partially seed?
Yes. Select to download a part and when you downloaded that part you are seeding it. The torrent swarm counts you as a leecher, since it doesn’t know you are done downloading. But you are actually seeding your part.
What if I only want to download a specific part of it and not more than that. For example a specific episode of curb your enthusiasm and not anything more. Is that possible to stop and seed that episode? I thought by default it will try to download the entire torrent.
That is incorrect. Partial seeding means they seed the part they downloaded, end of story. There are no downsides.
Correct. And Isaid if everyone just downloads the same 20% of the torrent because the other 80% is shovelware and unpopular means it’s lost because nobody downloaded the remaining 80% in the first place.
qbittorrent shows you how many seeders each part of the file has. Archivists can prioritise the parts with the least.
Assuming those come to the rescue and quick enough before the last one abandons the seed without looking if someone is leeching the last part to make a 100% completion possible.
Look mate. We all know every once in a while a torrent dies or will be incomplete for ever. There’s no denying that.
Nooo… that was my goto rom archive after emuparadise went down. F u Nintendo I‘m not paying a monthly subscription to play retro games.
They should still be on myrient, not?
For now. Myrient doesnt use torrents either so when Nintendo comes for them the files are gone
Is there a way to download their entire archive?
Prepare to store 600Tb xP
The site says 200tb, and I’m mostly interested in the nes, SNES and genesis archive. I’ve got archives of every game made for those already, but I don’t have every mod and such. Those archives are very small, the nes one is a few hundred megabytes. I’m guessing most of that big number is ps1, 2 and n64 games. I’d probably be interested in archiving those as well but I think the old pre 3d console games are probably worth saving more, since not many people have copies.
A friend of mine and I put this together a few years ago. I hope yall find it helpful:
#!/usr/bin/env bash download_roms(){ for ((i=$1; i<=$2; i++)); do cd "$HOME/retroarch" curl -G -L "https://download3.vimm.net/download/?mediaId=$i" -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/110.0' -H 'Referer: https://vimm.net/' -O -J done } choose_system(){ printf "\n============================================" printf "\n NOTE: This Script has not been fully tested" printf "\n It may not work as expected" printf "\n============================================\n" printf "Download roms for which systems? 1. NES 2. SNES 3. GameBoy 4. N64 5. GameCube 6. Sega Genesis 7. Playstation1-2 8. Playstation Portable 0. All\n : " read -r system case $system in "1") download_roms 3 981 "NES";; "2") download_roms 983 1770 "SNES";; "3") download_roms 2955 5932 "GameBoy";; "4") download_roms 2465 2761 "N64";; "5") download_roms 7461 7634 "GameCube";; "6") download_roms 1771 2464 "Sega Genesis";; "7") download_roms 6071 9894 "Playstation1-2";; "9") download_roms 23991 23973 "Playstation Portabale";; "0") download_roms 1 100000 "All";; esac } mkdir -p "$HOME/retroarch" choose_systemThank you for the awesomeness that is the script. If I might ask a question: why is the user agent Windows 10 if this is a bash script? I’m genuinely curious and I don’t know why.I imagine this might be WSL. You did mention it was an old script so maybe it had something to do with that?
The “user-agent” part of the script is the same as a browser’s user agent. So it’s trying to emulate a common user so the site doesn’t know it’s a script, and there’s not a more common user than a Windows one, so it’s lying about it.
It explicitly sets it to that to help disguise the fact that it’s a script rather than a browser
Wait is CDRomance also under threat? Ugh
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
Any updates on this? I can’t provide much, as Nintendo games are not something I’m interested in, but I guess I can allocate 800-1000GB or so for some time for this, if there’s an archive torrent already made
Found a comment below, but after thinking about it we’d need something a bit more “official” and “centralized”, like Vimm’s was, otherwise we’d be spreading it too thin and would end up with many different un-searchable, un-findable torrents with few seeds for the same things
Its also some Sega games and a lot of other stuff that cit destroyed, ESA or something got involved
It’s honestly kind of amazing that it lasted so long in the first place
I’m gonna miss vimms lair, never told a soul about it. And I’d help but my internet is terrible rural internet.
Vimms always appeared first in Google searches for ROMS. it was inevitable
Ugh…Next will be the Archive
Let’s start mirroring and torrenting full ROMsets!
I recommend switching to Myrient! Has been my source for quite some time now, because Vimms was just to slow for me.
Issue with myrient is lack of box art and stuff, thing ibliked with vimm is the bonus ability to browse games
This shit pisses me off so much. I need a gun
Use a NES Zapper converted to an actual gun, seems fitting.
Whoever runs it must have all of that stored locally, too, no?
The whole point of IP laws (according to the Constitution of the United States) is to develop a robust public domain. Every registered idea, multiplied by every limited rights extention is a violation of public interest and public rights.
By burying or failing to preserve content, they are in fact stealing from the public, since we won’t be able to access it when it is our right.
This is America, the only law that is enforced is ownership by means of a monetary transaction.
“Ownership” by public nature is laughed at.
C.R.E.A.M :(
Someone should present this to some progressive legislative body so that we can develop a safe haven for archiving games.
Here in the US, there are no progressive legislative bodies. The Democratic party treats its progressive members as the red-haired stepchildren who have to dine at their own table.
Dang I thought they would never get hit…
