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>mfw short on storage space and passed on a used lot of HDDs.
Not sure what I expected, with storage getting more expensive and everything getting shutdown.

>>108248879
>mfw short on storage space and passed on a used lot of HDDs.
It’s like Russian roulette with used HDDs desu (in the case of professional, large scale storage) but the risk was probably worth it

this shit is so sad
I really don't think enough is being said about the storage crisis right now
The prices are outrageous and if they are that crazy for a home buyer they can only be more insane for people running these websites and servers
I really don't think many DDL sites will survive this year

>>108248787
As always pirate stupidity:
> Thought they could run this on commie dreams and hopes
> Did not enforce a hourly/daily data cap on non donators (donators could get better caps according to the amount they donated each month)
> I asked a question on their discord on why they used .zip and not some better format like .7z, which would allow them to save 20-40% bandwidth. They told me it was to give better compatibility because apparently pirates are too retarded to install 7zip on their computer.
This is what they get when they give things for free to third worlders. They leech off the system until it collapses.

>>108249189
>pirates
zoomers

>>108248787
oh believe me I am
I don't need EVERYTHING but there's a lot of games that are a bit harder to find on the spot and also it's good to keep all the bios stuff etc archived somewhere, doesn't take much space but makes life a lot easier if we're entering the dark times of file hosting

Ok, where can I get complete sets of Nintendo ROMs upto N64 and PS1 ROMs?
I've just been piecemeal downloading ROMs from myrient as my interests meandered

>>108248787
lol how could you let it get this bad? as soon as my monthly expenses surpassed $50 i'd be shutting off the freefags immediately.

All is impermanent

>>108249189
Maybe I'm just too tech-illiterate, but why didn't they just go the nyaa route? Why self host all the content to begin with?

>>108249279
seedboxes will get more expensive too

>>108249189
holy shit
good riddance. if your IQ is below 100 why even bother hosting in the first place...

>>108249189
zip is read by many emulators. I assume that's what they mean.

>>108249290
>seedboxes will get more expensive too
That's obvious. That said, it would still be much cheaper to not host all the content, let alone not loose the entire website if one seedbox owner can't pay their bills. Their priority should be converting the site into a P2P site, and moving the content onto a bunch of seedboxes and users willing to seed them regularly. It should be much easier project than nyaa, there isn't a constant stream of new content, all encoded with a half a dozen formats and translations. There isn't a batch of new PS2 or Wii games I'm aware of.

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>>108249279

just torrents and usenet

>>108249279
GGn exists, they are not needed
everyone should have grabbed all this from Ugg years ago anyway
zoomers are too dumb to torrent

>>108249386
>mutable torrents
holy security nightmare

>>108249386
>nobody seeds obscure shit
>myrient is the only seed by default
No different than being the host of the direct download and they'd be much much better off for all the popular stuff
>BT v2
Enforce that shit anyway and force people to update their torrent clients. Most modern clients should already support it if they use libtorrent

>>108249386
He can also just seed all of the torrents. That's not going to help with his storage costs, but it should suplement some of the bandwidth. The site is also organized like a fucking retard.

i got 4tb to spare what should i download?

>>108249386
And the problems listed is somehow easier than paying a five to six figure monthly bill? The only other option honestly is to geo-block the third world, which this idiot won't do.

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>>108248787
Why not use torrents for popular games and fallback to server hosting for not so popular games?

>>108249431
somehow harder**

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>>108249189
Sorry, sounds too bait-y. Imagine actually paying for goyslop, get a Fagbook and a Gaystation 5 at this point.
>>108249386
>>108249401
>>108249406
>mutable torrents
>BT v2
I didn't know about this and I don't know how secure that is, but I could imagine there is something like an "owner key" where only people with that key can edit torrents. So they could just mix very popular games with unpopular games via statistics, so everything is seeded.

>>108249421
Tiny Best Set Go is a good romset.

>>108249453
Fuck, wrong reply.

>>108249436
You can just check the files you want in a massive torrent

just make a torrent
>>108249189
this, i blame thirdies, especially brazilians

>>108249471
looks good
will download and put it on my chinkheld

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APOLOGIZE.

>>108248787
>>108249265
Literally this desu desu, always shocked when I hear people keep stuff online at any significant cost to themselves. And their take on torrenting is retarded, some browsers have built in torrenting and there's a chance people will seed with would reduce server load even if they still need to host every file themselves

>>108248787
Uh, isn't this announcement going to increase traffic even more from people downloading everything en masse?

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Where do I find entire romsets/console libraries on this website? I've downloaded specific games before here but never an entire set.

>>108249693
read the FAQ
most shit is inside no-intro and redump

>>108249696
Let me rephrase my question. Is it possible to download entire romsets/collections here?

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>>108249707
https://github.com/bradrevans/myrient-downloader
open wide

>>108249713
Ty

>>108249386
>>108249279
Ok but now no one can download it, because the whole site will be gone
If you had just said you were transitioning to a torrenting-first policy on the most popular and biggest torrents, everyone would understand.


I really don't get this shit because now there is a mad scramble to scrape the site, which is going to balloon costs WAY HIGHER this month in particular than every month before combined.

>>108249532
aaieee I kneel I kneel

>>108248787
Will this include hshop?

>>108249279
Because Alexey is a dumb commie and a dumb slav, all in the same person. All he had to do is implement a data cap and turn the most downloaded files into one torrent for each platform like >>108249406
and >>108249436 said. it would reduce his bandwidth costs 10x.

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>>108249757
>now there is a mad scramble to scrape the site
With what hard drives?

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>>108249501
the site is already getting hammered
90gb shouldnt take me more than 20 minutes

>>108249857
i'm sure some /hsg/ chad is making double backups of the whole thing.

The whole hard drive thing has finally made the investment into a blu-ray burner worth it, for me. I can finally find a use for 100GB blu-rays.

>>108249863
So it's not just me. I have fiber optic and I might be here for a while.

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#!/bin/bash

URL="https://myrient.erista.me/files/Touhou%20Project%20Collection/"

WGET_CMD="wget -m -np -c -e robots=off -R \"index.html*\" --retry-connrefused --read-timeout=20 --timeout=15"

while true; do
    eval $WGET_CMD "$URL"
    EXIT_CODE=$?
    if [ $EXIT_CODE -eq 0 ]; then
        break
    else
        sleep 10
    fi
done

>>108248787
Never heard of it. Don't care.

>>108249532
I fucking kneel.

>>108249386
An index on IPFS would literally solve this while being seedable by multiple peers.

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>>108249935
Same, just went to check and was just a bitch basic rom site with various random shit thrown in.
https://myrient.erista.me/files/

Goes up to 7th gen consoles but I don't even know if they even come with DLCs or updates since everything is in zip files. The touhou stuff was a nice surprise but most fans were smart enough to use torrents. Don't know why video games pirates are so afraid of torrents.

>>108249820
hshop is staying up apparently

>over 390 terabytes of data
it's over, no one is saving this for free. if little bro did torrents and limit bandwidth he wouldn't be out of pocket 6000 month

>>108249247
archive should still have sizeable collections, I'll post an example
https://archive.org/details/retro-roms-best-set

>>108248787
I hope this is just another donation drive and the money issue is resolved

>>108249247
Literally everywhere, those gens are lightweight and lots of trackers have full romsets. Problems start with gen6 where game size starts to bloat. And nobody wants to hoard gen7 because of how huge those games are, and how everyone perceives them as recent and therefore not worthy of being preserved

Did everyone being online for two years around COVID scare the jews this much, holy fuck.

>>108251058
when cattle aren't being pinned against each other, out of boredom they will start to look beyond at who had put them in the fight pits in the first place.

>>108249189
They were getting scraped daily by fucking paywalled scam emulators like Hyperspin dude.
These people sell 12tb "packs" of games + emulators for upwards of $60 and then scrape the data from places like myrient instead of hosting it themselves to avoid legal trouble.
Thats what the post was mentioning, these retards just scrape over and over and over until the sites hosting the content can't take it anymore and fold.

Truthfully, torrent hosting systems maintained by intelligent people with rate limits are the only way to keep data safe and hosted online.

>>108250955
>like 20 guys with 20tb of hard drive storage each could do it
>"ITS OVER ITS OVER ITS OVER"

The data will be fine anon, the most obscure and important of it will likely be archived within a day because its not that much data.
Its really like MAYBE 50tb of important/unique shit and then hundreds of terabytes of PS3/PS4 games with PC ports that make almost all of them nearly irrelevant.

>>108251098
data hoarders don't share. hence the name hoard.

>>108250955
they could upload it all to archive.org, itd survive there publicly for a while atleast

Whoever running the site bit off way too much they could chew. They're also running hshop for the 3DS too. Too many redundant files which adds up into a lot of space used.

>>108248787
imagine writing your shutdown notice with AI... on Discord

>>108251098
Do you know 20 guys willing to donate 20tb of HDD space for this? The "someone else will do it" mentality is exactly why nobody is going to do it.

>GBA no-intro set is over 13GB
Damn, didn't realize it was that much. Although I know all sets have a ton of useless shit and language duplicates.

>>108249386
>People don't seed the things they don't download
Woah. Almost like more obscure things need less seeds. I'm pretty sure seed to download ratios tend to be better for less popular things anyway.

>>108251323
Language duplicates are important too, lots of people don't bother preserving original Jap versions and only have western trannyslation remakes

>>108251351
I only need the English version 99% of the time. Rarely is the PAL/Europe version better or a Japan release contain English language.
>trannys
>2001
Get off /pol/ and go outside or are you too far gone and see trannies everywhere? Are they in the room with you right now?

>>108251359
>I only need
That's because you're gay and retarded. Trannyslated versions have been changing names, stories. replacing entire characters and sometimes even rebalancing games or changing game mechanics since the dawn of time
>gets triggered by "trannyslation"
Case in point

>>108251265
You're conveniently ignoring the fact someone IS doing is right now you colossal doomposting faggot.
The fact that they've announced its ending and they aren't doing it any longer is an example of the fact they WERE doing it, as someone else did it before them and someone else will do after.
I imagine almost everything on there is already on private trackers anyway.

>>108251374
Not what triggered means, but thanks for admitting you're too far gone. I hope you get help. Enjoy replying to yourself and the trannies that are in your head because I won't see anything you reply with.

>>108251379
>on private trackers
Wooow so I only need to fellate some discord mod to get access to it? Yuppie!!

>>108249189
not a valid argument

>Windows 11, version 24H2 supports ZIP, RAR. 7z and TAR archive formats.
source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/zip-and-unzip-files-8d28fa72-f2f9-712f-67df-f80cf89fd4e5

>>108251385
nta, but I got into all my private trackers through open signups. People like you seem to only care about the cabal trackers. There are plenty of good ones out there that'll have 99% of what you need.

>>108251382
Sorry that you got triggered but everything I said is true. For example a game called S.C.A.T. changed the name of the game (yes that's the NEW name), replaced a character AND changed a game mechanic in the trannyslated version which according to you is the only one we should preserve

>>108251391
You seem to forget how retarded 3rd worlders, zoomers, and gen alpha are when it comes to computers.

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>mfw 2 years ago I downloaded almost every Japanese rom and iso for every console from PS2 and older, every Wii game, a curated selection of PS3/360/Wii U games, and the entirety of hshop
Feels good.
It all fit on two 4 TB hard drives (with compression and filtering out westoid games).

>>108251404
>downloads shit he can't even read & understand
Proving that weebs are actually mentally ill and retarded

>>108251417
Nigger I haven't played a Japanese game in English in five years.
Don't project your own inability to learn things.

>>108251424
>didn't deny that he can't read & understand the games
>didn't deny that he's mentally ill and retarded
Thanks for admitting I'm right

>>108251379
>I imagine almost everything on there is already on private trackers anyway.
Nope, private trackers are extremely outdated, especially for tosec stuff.

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>>108251429
>didn't deny that he's a nigger

>>108251436
Not how that works, but good job proving you're just another 60 IQ retard on 4chan. I accept your concession. Filtered. Now be a good retard and reply more, I'll never see it. I know you can't resist.

>>108248787
Who and what do I download?

>>108248787
I don't care, nothing's fun anymore, i'm gonna get into fishing or something

>>108251506
Sorry, no fish no more. They drained the lake water for AI data centers.

Never seed anything to public shitters and this is the primary reason. They are worthless leeches.

>>108251506
untrue.
they pumped the 20% they didn't evaporate back into the lakes. Unfortunately, it was polluted by then tho.
>yesterday I saw you standing by the river
>weren't those tears that filled your eyes
>and all the fish lay in dirty water dying
>all you do is stand and cry

How can I start archiving? I'm not prepared. I just graduated and recently got a job but I can't even buy HDD to keep what I want.... I fucking hate this era, everything is dying on the internet

>>108248787
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

>>108251691
You can probably fit all pre-PSX shit on a single 256GB flash drive

>>108249400
fuck you gatekeeping cuck

>>108251894
>tech illiterate zoomie seethes again
kek

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>>108249189
>They told me it was to give better compatibility because apparently pirates are too retarded to install 7zip on their computer.
well they're not wrong on that. Lots of people have unknowingly downloaded malware from 7zip dot com instead of dot org. Apparently some youtuber put the wrong link under his tutorial too.

>>108249386
ahahahaha, what a retarded logic

>>108251691
Hey anon, gemini pro offers 2TB in Google drive and is free for the first month. Just encrypt and put password in the.zip file if you're going to do that.
At least you can save what you want until you get an hdd

>>108249904
This, I will do, but with a downloader.

>>108248787
Most games are shit, you should be able to get every "good" retro gam and still come in under a terabyte.

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>>108248787
That sucks, that site was well designed too

>>108249436
Or just set up http sources for torrents.
This was a terrible plan and now this is the consequence.

>>108249386
Is he retarded? Just seed the torrents then. That also gives him a very easy way to control bandwidth by reducing or entirely cutting off seeding on popular torrents.

This project seemed doomed to fail though. It has no barriers to entry, no bandwidth limits, and no indication of its monetary requirements besides a small message that reads like a tip jar rather than a request for critical funding.

>>108248787
Why do I only find out about shit like this once it's going down

With this download speed I won't be able to grab shit in 1 month, it says 4 days just for the no-intro DS folder
Might as well open a tmux on my server and do a dumb wget and leave it there

>>108248787
Funny.
I can't think of anything really worth preserving in there.

>>108249453
>right click deselects your unpopular game folder
>nuthin personnel

>create useful website
>threaten to shut down
>watch the dough roll
>repeat after whatever it is the average time for people to forget your scams

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>everyone is trying to download entire folders
>site choking to death because of the massive concurrent downloads
>had the owner created a torrent with a web seed, people would only request from the server the files that nobody downloaded yet, for all the other files people would be sharing their bandwidth, everyone would be downloading much faster, the server would be receiving much less requests
>plus it would be infinitely more convenient to simply check on qbittorrent the folders you want
>literally zero downsides
>but there isn't a torrent because uuuuuuuuuuuuuh
Welp, at least I understand why it's shutting down.

>>108253024
What if they are zipped up together? hehe
>magnum_opus_x_kusoge.zip

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>>108253003
>With this download speed I won't be able to grab shit in 1 month, it says 4 days just for the no-intro DS folder
Instead of organizing what you want into a priority queue you're wasting time downloading
>madden nfl 2009 (us)
>madden nfl 2009 (eu)
>madden nfl 2009 (jp)
>madden nfl 2010 (us)
>madden nfl 2010 (eu)
>madden nfl 2010 (jp)

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>>108248787
oh no
anyway

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STOP FUCKING DOWNLOADING GIVE ME BANDWIDTH

>>108249189
no, it should never rely on only one person/service, but in modern dead internet that is impossible, the culture is too fucked up

>>108249419
>muh seeding
Web seeding from HTTP has been a thing since the mid 2000's

>>108253172
>dl all
>extract only folder I want
>right click delete torrent
nuthin personnale

>>108253153
truth nuke, so sad to see computer illiterates fumble like this

>>108253153
>had the owner created a torrent
they really should have
but i already got the roms i wanted so im in no rush

>>108248787
GOD DAMMIT

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too bad. What are some alternatives? I know of vimm's lair, but I'm kinda hoping there's something better.

Just use AI to port every game to C, you'll only have to serve a model and prompts that generate the correct assets.

>>108249189
Everyone who brings up communism in relation to foss and piracy should be shot

>>108248787
>reupload everything to catbox.moe
>catbox.moe also shuts down

1h to dl 5gb jeezus

>>108253808
romheaven is probably the best sortof clone in appearance

>brb, downloading all the shit I care about
>tfw all the shit I care about is shit with literally tens of other sources
>tfw I will start caring about other shit after the shutdown, but that shit nobody will have it backed up
Every fucking time.

You all acting like this permarandom site is the only site with ROMs on it, lmao

someone post the list of stuff that's not easy to acquire so that people don't have to download hundreds of terabytes
Like I don't think a fucking NES romset is difficult to grab

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>>108249453
I sometimes forget qbittorrent is even running. I have a home server running in my closet and I haven't been inside that closet in months. I have several torrents with me as the only seeder and I've apparently brought some torrents back to life just letting them sit for years

>>108249713
do zoomers really need these programs to (mass) download something? embarassing

>>108254182
JD2 is great for pretty much every site and really the only program if you're a DDL paypig.

>>108254135
I love you, anon. I wish you all the dick and/or pussy in the world.

>>108254135
You filthy bastard. You are meant to hoard them and not share and die while not even consuming them.

>>108249386
Absolute retard argument given MAME has been running off one dude uploading magnet links to GitHub for the last decade or so. Just seed the latest torrent or only the unchanged files from old torrents and let the swarm deal with the rest. It's not rocket science.

>>108253808
archive, any dht scraper. Just remember the names of important ripping groups like TOSEC, redump, no-intro, ... and you'll always be able to find stuff. Verify checksums with their web sites. Individual download venues never mattered.

>>108249386
fuck I didn't even know btv2 had mutable torrents until reading that
very poor marketing

>>108256824
Hell doesn't archive.org have some 8 and 16 bit no-intro sets?

>>108249386
>the truth is we are faggots
Web seeds exist. Fucking retards.

>>108251391
Since when is windows 11 an emulator? He was talking about zip roms being emulator compatible, especially emulators for older systems.

I have a couple of chinkhelds loaded with roms.
i am just too lazy to download any more even though i have many TB to spare.
also i feel in general about retro games that 9/10 of even the acclaimed ones basically fall into the 'had to be there' category.

Who cares? Everything worth archiving is already on usenet/pt and the rarest stuff is probably like 10tb top lol

Public torrenting would help if normalfag and retards didn't literally stop seeding or delete their files asap as they finished OUT OF SPITE or that the stupid fucks on r/datahoarders would seed stuff instead of bragging about having a 4K LOTR remux in 7 languages

>>108261250
>Public torrenting would help
Public torrenting would have helped, period. Even if absolutely everyone deleted their torrent after finishing, which is arguably false, they would still be seeding while they're downloading. Even if literally everyone limited their upload speed to 1 b/s, the server wouldn't be working more than it has been working now. No matter how you look at it, there would be zero downsides, and almost certainly it would have helped a lot reducing load on the server.

Web seeds were created literally for this, there was absolutely no reason not to use them. I have nothing but respect for people keeping huge archives and allowing other people to download from them instead of having them only to brag on reddit, but it's painful to see how they ignore the easiest and most effective solution to their biggest problem.

>>108248787
Sad day. Hope the same doesn't happen to nyaa.

>>108261272
a VPN and your good to go if your country is anal about it but yeah, wouldn't surprise me if its an ego thing or something

You don't need to download more than one game every few days anyway, unless its a small pack. Main problem imo in current time you have 3 type of people

>your average casual torrenter, who used to have hdd but now have like 2tb ssd, hate sharing because of the invidiualist/hustle/sigma/patrick bateman culture
so its worse than before
>your average data hoarder with 100tb and refusing to share anything because he think he is sitting on a mine gold, despite leeching everything from people and having mainstream shit
>the casual pt guy with 20tb+ and who is willing to archive and share to everyone

Main problem is that the new generation doesn't WANT to OWN ANYTHING or NOT PROFIT FROM IT (aka donation or selling your leeched stuff) and the "data hoarders" are just mentally ill leech

>>108249247
are you serious
vimm.net

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>>108261417
>download roms one by one
>100kb/s
>wait 15 seconds before downloading
>you can't simultaneously be downloading more than x roms
>wait 30 minutes before downloading next rom
>watch this ad while you wait
>sorry, that nintendo rom you're trying to download is unavailable

>>108262084
Try to download a psx games.
It takes an hour.
Size is 560 mb.
At least the hoarding scum will never get a single set this way before it closes.

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>>108262084
nigga it's a free video game have some patience

go jack off, read a book, go for a walk, download before you sleep

>>108248787
>this thing you didnt know about is shutting down

cool

>>108262529
Shut up hoarder scum.

>wife's son told me he wants to play gen 6 and 7 pokemon 2 days ago
>found this site to download the roms
>sees this
welp

>>108262614
better start downloading

>>108262629
Enjoy waiting a week to download anything.

>>108253647
>>dl all
>>extract only folder I want
>>right click delete torrent
>nuthin personnale
Are you like this? Or are you larping how this would turn out? I think you redpilled me on private trackers

390TB?
What takes so much space? PS3 and onward games?

>>108262693
They include every version, so its like 100TB if you remove useless duplicate (same versions) and you could probably get it to less than 50TB if you remove dual console duplicate (exact same guy on 360 and PS3)

I hope someone makes a giant torrented archive of all of their stuff.

>>108262732
I see. 50-100TB makes more sense.

>>108262689
I'm joking, I don't really do that but then again I don't really keep games longer than like a week. I haven't enjoyed gayming in a decade

>>108262787
>I haven't enjoyed gayming in a decade
Relatable, thats why I'm trying to come back to old classics.

>>108262732
>>108262767
Compression would cut it down a small amount to; 7z, CHD, GCZ, WUX, etc.

>>108262954
>retard thinks that compression is magic
I bet you love AI too.

>>108262954
>>108262991
>Compression would cut it down a small amount to; 7z, CHD, GCZ, WUX, etc.
True, but they even have that stuff twice or thrice. They added a section for retroachievements which are all compatible games for RA, in compressed formats like chd. So they already do this, but instead of replacing stuff, they added stuff.
>>retard thinks that compression is magic
It is, lol.

>>108262991
Strawman/10

Your 60 IQ is showing

>>108249386
So... why not torrent ? why not seeding EVERYTHING yourself and let peoples seed it too ? this way you will save bandwidth

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>>108263025
+5 izzat
>>108263027
+2 izzat

>>108263025
The RA set hasn't been updated in 3-5 months, so it is missing some. Not horrible, but an annoyance for some. Also, holy shit even that is almost 3TB, mainly because of PS2.

>>108263043
>doesn't understand what a strawman is
Not surprising since you have a 60 IQ. Thanks for admitting it and not even attempting to deny. I accept your concession. Filtered. Be a good retard and reply more, I'll never see it. I know you can't resist, you're already typing. Prove me right again.

>>108263058
+10 izzat!
You're on fire today good saar!

>>108263043
can you not make me learn useless made up group based honor word bullshit from pre civilization era?

>>108261417
>no switch roms
ids ogre

>>108249247
Soulseek

>>108263202
>switch roms
that's putting a huge target on the back of your head

>>108263202
I've seen a few emulation jewtubers stop showing anything Nintendo. They are very protective and will try to strike your channel/get the video taken down.

>>108249713
as much i would download for my own, but i bet my entire body that the whole roms inside that website has been made a backup and distributed to literally any various rom websites existed. So yeah im not gonna bother it. Also thanks for link

>>108254135
>>108249482
>>108249492
>>108249399
not downloading your csam folder

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>myrient is shutting down
>download everything now before it is shut down
>literally servers being fucking spammed because of it, speeds are shitty

I just wanna get my ps2 games while I can I guess I better wait.

>>108263765
>I just wanna get my ps2 games while I can I guess I better wait.
nigga just get them from vimm

>>108263779
oh i thought vimm got taken down

>>108263779
vimm is also glacially slow though
it's the #1 reason why people go to other sites in the first place

>>108263813
yea but myrient is slower now, literally taking hours to download 1 gig, while vimm is only taking 5 mins.

>>108263820
well shit, I can't argue with that

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>>108263813
I just got a ps1 game off there in under a minute, it would probably take like 20 on myrient right now.

>>108263863
nah a 500 mb game on myrient is taking 7 hours to download right now, its sad.

>direct download
>only one server to download from
>A error ? must redownload it from 0
>Site die ? you're fucked
why not using torrent ? Make a giga pack and let peoples seed it, this way it will survive and you will have to pay only for the obscur shit nobody care about (and so who aren't downloaded often)

>>108263882
>nah a 500 mb game on myrient is taking 7 hours to download right now
ooof

>>108263883
because literally anyone can fucking seed a torrent, including the people who want to send you cease and desist letters. Its not worth it.

>>108263883
in 'merica most torrents get camped by ISPs and 99% people don't care to use a VPN

>>108249386
If he's concerned about seeding, he could host these files in a private tracker sort of manner. It would encourage people to seed the files they download.

>>108263894
host it in some crappy country that nobody knows about
And how is that different from getting letters just to host it on your own site and server?
nyaa is still there 20 years later

>>108263894
It's basically free toilet paper.

>>108263942
downloading from a website isn't easily trackable as downloading from a torrent, even if you don't seed they still see your IP with a torrent. You can't see an IP when you're downloading from places such as myrient.

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I've downloaded all that shit years ago, why are you so lame, why are you so stupid, oh my fucking god.

>>108264041
not everyone hoards data like you're sperg ass.

>>108264023
just use a vpn

>>108264057
Free VPNS are shit and I don't feel like paying $20/month for a VPN, and the alternative being $120/year. I don't waste money on subscription services.

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>>108264047
And who is crying now?
Good luck finding cheap hard drives to store all those files you will never get enough time to download.

>>108250154
ipfs sucks dick for large files. as other anons have pointed out there is literally no reason not to use the torrent protocol. give premium users the option to download directly and everyone else seeds.

>>108264076
idk, i'm not. Honestly when 1 site goes down another will pop up, i'm not worried, also Vimm is still available. I barely ever used myrient. Also I don't hoard like I said so I'm not trying to buy new hard drives, I got my hard drives that I have and thats all I need.

>>108249189
>>108251391
It's not just because of 7-Zip OS support, the zips are in a specific standardized format called TorrentZip to ensure that they're identical archive files for the same dump, so you can join torrents with those files among other things. There is a 7z version but it didn't catch on so much with ROM manager tools since it takes much longer to compress archives and update existing ones.
GGn uses it for disc-based consoles where the file savings over zip are more worth it, though

Holy fuck, I miss downloading with 80-100mb per sec. Since this shit got posted on xitter, the download speeds are cucked.

>>108264136
>There is a 7z version but it didn't catch on so much with ROM manager tools since it takes much longer to compress archives and update existing ones.
CHD?

>>108264228
No, it puts out .7z files and isn't disc image-specific like CHD but has standardization like TorrentZip
https://pleasuredome.miraheze.org/wiki/Torrent7zip

>>108254182
you don't need wget?

>>108262084
this sh1?

>>108263888
I'm trying to download a few japanese ps2 games, it's so slow the downloads keeps failing and stopping.
>Averaging 56.2 KB/s

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>>108264854
Actually, make that lower. Only 10 more hours to go

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>>108248787
I backed up all cartridge based consoles I could, it's a shame about disk based ones though, they take too much storage, so I had to be more selective, also arcade/MAME stuff is though to back up too much. It's sad to see Myrient go, the current electronic scene with prices going up, the world going to shit in general, is all depressing, and it'll likely get worse.

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>>108249406
>Most modern clients should already support it if they use libtorrent
They should but both qBit and Deluge have it as a separate build, most people using qBittorrent won't even know the libtorrent 2.0 build exists as the update prompt links directly to the download page instead of the folder view.
Transmission supports fully supports it since 4.0, I don't think uTorrent supports it but anyone paying for that shit is beyond help anyway, other clients idk.
Some people avoid libtorrent 2.0 because it has worse write performance (should be fixed in 2.1), also on initially Linux it would use more ram due to caching, you could tune it but I think anyone seeding a large amount of files just reverted because with slower writes plus zero adoption of v2 there was not much point in using it, also most private trackers don't allow v2 torrents and a few banned LT2.0 because it aggressively retries connecting to every peer.

I guess the solution is just to have a big banner and a one-time popup for retards, then hope you get people to update their seedboxes to support it.
Hopefully one day we all move to v2 so that anime torrents will finally no longer need a separate download to fix mistakes :)

>>108262084
You can get full sets off archive.org or any DHT scraper. You have to be clinically retarded to mass download 8-bit ROMs one at a time.

>>108264073
I pay like $90 for 3 years with multiple devices and know I'm getting fleeced a little. Who the hell is paying $20/mo?

>>108264108
I hope someone with a little sense makes a torrent of their PS2 sets and some of the more obscure TOSEC stuff, because that's legitimately hard to find. At least all in one place and good quality. 5th gen and earlier was already quietly available long before myrient.

>>108249406
>>108264947
While those clients may support protocol v2, I don't think any of them have actually implemented the mutable torrents feature or are going to any time soon

>>108248787
>everyone START DOWNLOADING WHAT YOU LIKE WHILE YOU STILL CAN
I'm not a manchild

>>108265276
Yet you feel the need to argue on an imageboard, curious!

>>108248787
>MYRIENT
what is this and why should i care?

>>108264932
with MAME you can at least backup all ROM-based games ignoring CHD-based games, split romset from pleasuredome is only ~84GB.

>>108265336
some site for downloading console ROMs. Literally never heard of it until today with some retards started spamming threads about it on /v/.

The real loss will be some 3DS and PS3 PSN games that are not backed up anywhere else.

The ugly truth few retrofags want to face is that 95%+ of people panic downloading roms now will neither ever play them nor share them.

>AI became the new escapegoat for your own stupidity

>>108265782
I've seen this news relayed quite a few times with people saying "Fuck AI" or "AI ruined it". So it works quite well.

how is storage a problem when there are no new games

>>108265975
maybe the retard pays montly per TB of storage to the hosting provider instead of just buying the hardware himself and colocating it.
Would explain the ridiculous >6k in expenses.

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i just learned of the existance of such platforms

besides the obvious, what have I been missing on?

>>108265272
You don't need it. Distribution on pleasuredome was working without it for 20 years. The swarm doesn't instantly disappear because the originator switched to a new torrent.

this site doesn't have anything to download that you can't get elsewhere

>>108249386
retard take

>>108265975
New ripping groups coming up with slightly different copies of the same stuff and data hoarder stupidity blocking efficient encoding.

>>108265751
>about it on /v/.
don't forget /vr/ and/ /pol/

>>108248787
I loved Myrient, my main issue with it was not being able to download whole folders on a single click, that sucked.

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>>108262614
>wife's son

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>fully expected it just being nintendo pulling the plug
>it's actually due to the owner's tech illiterateness
geg

>>108265782
>>108265821
I mean it does ruin most of the internet at this point. Faggots will still praise this shit out of it and spam Luddite death because being a bootlicker is trendy I guess.

I don’t think the dude was saying anything outright about AI so it’s pretty much telling about you more than anything.

Hoarders scramble to scrap everything.
Won't be able to download virtual boy fulls et before the site closes because of the bandwidth hits.
Feels good.

>>108265782
The guy not being able to make a fucking torrent it's a pretty big clue that he's not the sharpest pencil in the case, but stupid or not, he was able to keep the site running until your ai grifters made storage prices raise tenfold. So, yeah, sorry, but no, ai is to blame.
Or, rather, there are endless chatbots already, endless image models, even a video model that makes Hollywood nervous, and "ai" was never a problem until openai decided to buy all fucking on the market to stop other companies from making their own models, so I'd specifically blame sam altman, I hope that piece of shit will get cancer.

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>>108262693
Aside from that, there's tons of stuff on there which isn't even video games. Go digging around and you'll find Laserdiscs, DVDs, HD DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs, SACDs, wallpapers, magazine scans and all sorts of other shit on there. Just keep in mind that you're downloading fucking Dawson's Creek box sets if you're trying to archive everything on there.

>>108268670
Then just set up a better version of the same site? It should be easy for you right anon?

There literally isn't more than maybe 2-3TB games worth of playing on Myrient

>>108270786
A better version of the site would be a bunch of magnet links on a github blog. The trick is extracting the contents of the site in under a month.

>>108265687
>split romset from pleasuredome is only ~84GB.

wait, what? pleasuredome still exists? I thought it went under a decade ago.

>>108271778
It's just a github page with magnet links that track the latest MAME sets.

That's all any of these sites need to be. People always want to add midwit complications to put their own spin on it or cater to idiots.

>>108264136
...so use torrent7z?
Honestly, you can make reproducible archives with tar --sort=name and just set the date stamp on every folder and file to the UNIX epoch anyways. Then just compress it with xz -T1 -9e or something.

>>108249532
IPFS gud.
Though I wish it wasn't written in golang, fuck this 88MB binary bullshit.

So much shit in there I don't know it's worth downloading at all or hoarding, that's the issue.
I have a 2TB HDD I don't use but this is too much shit I can't even decide what's worth saving and I know for a fact at least a good chunk of this stuff will be available elsewhere, not much more inconveniently.
In fact, come to think of it I must have used this website maybe once to download Fable 2 and that's about it.

>>108268032
Anon, your

wget -r -np <site subdirectory>

?

>>108248787
This is why you cannot make anything good public and based on good faith that it will not be abused and that people will give back. Newsflash: They won't. Gatekeep everything and keep it hidden.

I've never even heard of this site. Who cares? It doesn't seem like anything special. All of this shit is on archive.org (even though I think that website is in some trouble)

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>>108248787
>>108248879
Since he's shutting it down and most likely not adding anything anymore, why won't he just make some plain old torrents of all the files he has right now (even one torrent with all of them would work) and let everyone seed the files they want???
Some people could seed all that, some only parts of them, but the whole data could still be complete, even if each person holds only a small part of it.

>>108272637
See how long it takes to piece together an up to date redump PS2 set on archive.org and get back to us.

>>108249386
HOLY FUCKING FAGGOTRY
Is the content seriously not mirrored on any torrent site?

>>108248787
literally who? qrd please

>>108249532
How can I download roms from ipfs?

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I got a spare pool on my truenas. How much memory do I need?

>>108272489
All bad ideas.

For optical dumps you have CHD, which is already reproducible and more efficient due to format awareness.

Pre-gen 7 ROMs are so small it kind of doesn't matter. Just download the whole set to update. It's maybe 100GB at most. Later gens usually have their own compressed distribution format, which is close enough to state of the art you can just use it directly.

Someone make an archive using httrack or some shit

>>108250255
what the fuck even is that shit? linux nightly builds?

>>108272585
Where do I type this in?

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>>108249189
tar.gz, zstd are sequential, 7z is sequential and solid. zip allows for random access. I could, from the web, get the listing inside every zip file for a fraction of the cost of downloading even 1, and I could run arbitrary commands on a single file inside a zip.


However they are retarded for hosting single isos in deflated zips

Length   Method    Size  Cmpr    Date    Time   CRC-32   Name
--------  ------  ------- ---- ---------- ----- --------  ----
1273823232  Defl:X 582718415  54% 1996-12-24 23:32 ce12d364  Busin 0 - Wizardry Alternative NEO v1.03 (2003)(Atlus)(JP)[SLPM-65378].iso
--------          -------  ---                            -------
1273823232         582718415  54%                            1 file

If they stored it without deflate or not in a zip then you could read the iso, the correct format is chd which would save 60% at least and is randomly readable (which could save 99% depending on the users needs. )

Didn't know about this site and literally have no time to peruse now. Damn, oh well.

>>108249335
Do people run their roms without extracting first?

>>108248787
Is anyone else having slow download times? Maybe the server is overloaded.

>>108273088
Pretty much always unless you're using something nuts like zpaq or delta CHDs.

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>>108250955
>>108248787
I got all the important stuff.
PS2 is not complete because the entire library is +16TB but I did get the good exclusive games it had.

Someone could easily upload this to the IA or make a torrent.

>>108273516
torrents already exist so this site is redundant

>>108273520
show me a complete redump ps2 torrent

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>>108273613

>>108273461
Duh. He literally said that everybody should download what they can while the site is still up. Of course it's gonna slow down. Thousands of people are trying to download their entire catalog.

>>108273673
Funnily enough seems that some Myrient's sets are not as updated as the ones on GGn

Myrientfags on suicide watch lmaooo

is there a single thing that this website has that a torrent on any website, public or private, would not?

>>108274283
jeet ips

>>108274283
Of course not. The point is ease, not exclusivity.

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>>108248787
MYRIENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH

>>108273673
>2 years ago
it won't have the gamesharks and other unlicensed discs that were only made dumpable by a may 2025 update to the "redumper" software. thus, not a complete redump ps2 torrent as the anon requested.

>>108274283
They have some Redump categories that I haven't been able to find elsewhere (at least not nearly as complete or constantly updated), such as DVD-Video and Audio CD, which contain bonus discs bundled with games, and game related DVDs/CDs in general.

>>108248787
Surely some richfag(s) will catch wind of this and inject some money into this?

>>108274392
why would they

>>108274392
It would be cool if Annas-Archive backed it up. They already expanded into music by scraping Spotify, so why not games too. They have plenty of resources to host it too. And they do a better job of preventing abuse.

>>108274436
am I misremembering or didn't spotify retaliate

>>108274450
Yeah.
https://torrentfreak.com/unsealed-spotify-lawsuit-triggered-annas-archive-domain-name-suspensions/

>>108249713
great how the fuck do i store all this shit now that storage is expensive

>>108274478
You don't. Get used to owning nothing and being happy.

nobody uses that site anyways

>>108274148
The fact that public ddl sites are more up to date on anything should have private tracker weenies rethinking their life choices.

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So people use these ROMs on what, emulators? How does this shit work? Can the emulators run on phones/tablets?

>>108248787
>go on google and search for No-Intro romset, or Redump romset
Wow

>>108274680
retroarch

>>108274680
>So people use these ROMs on what, emulators?
yes
>How does this shit work?
it emulates real hardware
>Can the emulators run on phones/tablets?
all retro consoles can be emulated on android, chinese manufacturers are selling handheld consoles with a bunch of emulators and roms preloaded, ranges from just snes handhelds up to handhelds that can emulate switch and even some ps3 titles and lighter pc games

>>108274680
>/g/ users don't know how to use an emulator
It's funny how people on this board are actually more tech illiterate than /v/ users

>>108274687
>just have infinite free time lol

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>>108274696
>literally the first result on google
https://archive.org/details/ni-romsets

>>108274696
in the time it took you to make this post you could have googled it

>>108274702
>>108274704
>all this dumb shit that's already in mame
Check the Google results for anything >100GB or the redump DVD or CD audio sets, or TOSEC-PIX

>>108249386
Bullshit excuse. Plenty of people seeding obscure PC98 music nobody listens to.

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>>108248787
i got what i needed a year ago.
was considering fetching xbox360/ps3 now but i dont have enough space.
emu can be a bitch on those platforms too.

>>108274702
Already tried this one, download links are broken
>>108273673
What is this from

>>108273003
all the linux mounters that mount zip just extract the entire zip on memory

for true random access you need squashfs

>>108248787
what is myrient?

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>>108248787
> bandwidth got too expensive
>shutting down the website because you're in debt
>make lame announcement instead of publishing magnet links
>tons of people rush to download everything
>bandwidth expenses soar tenfold
>accrue even more debt

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>>108248787
>ftp server in 2026
That's gonna be a yikes from me, brother.

just host some torrents lil nigga

>>108248787
>$6k per month
Grim

myrient more like my rent I cannot pay because I have to buy all of these fucking hard drives

>>108249189
>third worlders
this low key sounds jeet phobic

>>108275879
It's just attention seeking emuschizo behavior.

>>108275983
It makes sense. You have lots of ready to go clients with lightweight directory listing and glob-based downloading. The contents are tamper-proof so encryption doesn't matter.