This is why piracy is preservation. Torrents are just really damn good for this sort of thing.
Great job to all volunteers who organized and participated in this initiative. And also, a big thank you to Myrient for having had so many games preserved all this time and for giving the community a chance to prepare for a time when it will no longer be around.
Torrents? Yes, but another SaveMyrient mod has confirmed “Torrents is only a temporary solution as of now.”
That’s reassuring. I’ll donate where possible, half my NAS is Myrient sourced well before the shutdown announcement.
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Yeah why play Spyro for the PS1 when AI can make it :) surely that will work with no issues or nostalgia ruined /s
While I do plan on someday using AI to recreate games, I would still want the original games for it to reference. I am thinking of having stuff like ‘Stars!’ rebuilt from Windows 3.1 coding into GodotScript or C#. Once that is done, extensions can be considered, such as referring to ad copy for the never released Stars! Supernova.
Plus, some people just want to be purebred retros. While I personally don’t get it, there is no reason why retro players shouldn’t get to play the original versions.
Why save the actual game, when we can just generate it from an ai not trained on it?
Why train from it, when you could just save the one 650mb game
I didn’t open the article. I remember playing this game. Anyone knows the name?
Darude - Sandstorm
But if you mean the thumbnail/article graphic, just open the article and read the caption. It’s labeled.
It’s not a game, it’s an archive of games
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I’m just sad its Torrents now. I personally avoid Torrents whenever “piracy” is involved, because everyone who connects to the same Torrent can see my IP.
Use a vpn, or better yet a seedbox, or hell even i2p. There’s plenty of options. Torrenting is one of the highest forms of piracy, it keeps the media alive long after whatever the current best site is goes down.
I am glad it was saved. I didn’t hear about it before and I discovered things I never thought I would see and began downloading furiously the stuff I wanted (mostly MS-DOS material). I hate it when things like this get lost.
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