- cross-posted to:
- datahoarder@lemmy.ml
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
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fuck nintendo
fuck nintendo
fuck nintendo
fuck nintendo
You know humanity is fucked (pun unintended) when the post with the most likes is actually “fuck (insert whatever)”.
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.
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
There arent ones that include hacks and fan translations. For example PSP games like monster hunter portable 2nd G with the FUComplete patch or Monster Hunter Portable 3rd G with the English Patch v5
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?
I don’t know the terminology, but so long as the torrent is active, you’re uploading. If you selectively download files, then you can only upload the chunks you have downloaded, obviously. Is that “seeding” if you aren’t a “seed” with 1.00 availability? idk.
I’d still count that as “seeding” since you’re running the torrent for upload only, but idk if there’s a precise definition somewhere.
Yes you definitely can
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.
Amd those H&R users are exactly why it wont work.
Maybe a popular archive will stay alive by the few voluntary seeders but I believe the seed woll be dead.
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.
Do you know where I can find them? I will seed them all
Look up GoodROM databases. There is metadata for each ROM so you know if your collection is complete.
Nintendo is just cheap Japanese Disney for gamers. They’re every bit the corporate monster the mouse is, they’re simply just not as powerful yet.
Worldwide, Mario is more recognizable than the mouse. Nintendo is going to start their own movie studio soon. They are copying the blueprint set out by Disney.
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
It’s not gone, they didn’t even take down all of the Nintendo games, they took down specific games (reddit link), albeit a lot of them, but there’s still lots of stuff left.
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 :(
Where are IP laws mentioned in the constitution?
Here.. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8.
[the United States Congress shall have power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Damn…Vimms Lair was my favorite, friggin Nintendo doing what it does best…
My kid has the first Nintendo Switch, he wanted the new one, but I told him “you’re getting a Steam Deck, and we’re smashing all Nintendo shit with a sledgehammer”. Then I explained to him why it’s wrong to support compaies that enshitify life, and now he is waiting for his Deck and has already pirated all the games he liked and has been testing a few emulators.
I’m proud of him.
At least vimms lair still has xbox roms. Pretty hard to come by compared to nintendo roms.
vimms lair was where i first played seiken densetu 3 back in 2000 when it wasn’t available anywhere
Is there a list of impacted roms?
Not sure, but the blast radius is tremendous, even games from the Atari 2600, a console released nearly fifty fucking years ago have been taken down.
The nointro metadata lists would be a good place to start.
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.
That’s a very good question. It was a few years ago, but it’s running right now on my computer on Linux.
Please also post on the filehoarder subreddit.
Datahoarder@lemmy.ml? Or is there one on another instance?
I guess he means the subreddit in reddit : https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder
This shit pisses me off so much. I need a gun
Use a NES Zapper converted to an actual gun, seems fitting.
Why not a super scope ?
It reads like many ROMs are already gone? So any archive created now would be incomplete, right?
Centralized archives will always be vulnerable to this.
We need explicit legislation against this type of behavior.
As soon as I heard about the emulator stuff I grabbed some archive torrents to seed overall more then 5 tb. All WII DS 3DS and SWITCH roms so they aren’t gone if you have the space to join seeding pm me and I’ll send you the magnet links because there are like only 5 seeder and a lot of leecher
I got a VPS I’m not fully utilizing, I can seed a bit
Hai, I might be able to help. I also have some more retro systems if you want