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
Would it be feasible to have/create something similar on I2P?
Yes. How good is the speed of I2P now during the DDoS?
What DDoS?
I2P is being DDoSed
Are these roms/hacks that aren’t in the roms megathread? I’d have to assume most of these already have duplicates somewhere else just by nature of them being put online
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.
Damn…Vimms Lair was my favorite, friggin Nintendo doing what it does best…
At least vimms lair still has xbox roms. Pretty hard to come by compared to nintendo roms.
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.
Thats some proper parenting right there. It sounds like you are raising an upstanding citizen.
vimms lair was where i first played seiken densetu 3 back in 2000 when it wasn’t available anywhere
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.
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
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
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.
Damn it how will I play my annual 20 minutes of Pitfall now. This is terrible.
I know you mean this is as joke, but oddly enough, Pitfall, by Activision is still available!
F
The nointro metadata lists would be a good place to start.
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
Somebody should tell Nintendo that a bunch of their games are available from the Switch NES app. Maybe they’ll she themselves out of existence and we can finally enjoy their games in peace
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.
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.
I have some sets for early systems. Find romsets on other sites. Store them and make your own torrents, working on one but its currently broken
Wait is CDRomance also under threat? Ugh
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
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.
We need explicit legislation against this type of behavior.
