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Vimms Lair is getting removal notices from Nintendo etc. We need someone to help make a rom pack archive can you help? (slrpnk.net)
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10273849

Vimms Lair is getting removal notices from Nintendo etc. We need someone to help make a rom pack archive can you help?

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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Dang, that sucks. It was a good place to find stuff.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

they may want to consider lifting their blocking multiple concurrent downloads for this to get done ahead of them starting to remove titles

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think Vimm's is doing this, I think it's a community effort

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

oh of course, I just meant that if the Vimm's team would remove that restriction on the site, the community would be able to dump the roms and help archive them way easier than if we had to sit and wait for individual iso's to finish downloading

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They run the site for free and there's basically no adds. You expect them to afford capabilities for 100s of people doing 30-40 rom downloads at once?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

well considering the circumstances of having Nintendo going after them, I just think it would make sense to get all the help they can to dump and archive files to help keep the games preserved

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I think you misunderstood. they don't restrict it to be petty. Allowing lots of concurrent downloads means paying for more bandwidth, or it means the site goes down.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

The classic hug of death

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Torrents exist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

sure, and eventually that'd be a good way to share them. Either way, loosening limits on downloads would crush their servers now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

But they could keep those limits in place and crowdsource bandwidth capacity now using torrents of rompacks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

This would be a good option for preservation and to spread the load. I just downloaded GIMP yesterday and they have a torrent link to download their software.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The classic hug of death

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I actually noticed something similar the other day when looking for Red Dead Redemption PS3 on Vimm's I got given.

'Download unavailable at the request of the Entertainment Software Association'

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What exactly are you asking for?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I personally could do with Mario kart 64 and super mario 64. Also LSD Dream simulator for PS1 as that's apparently supposed to be this really spooky scary Japanese game

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

~~This repo should have what you need if you are having trouble finding them.~~

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Thank you (ah I already looked here and I couldn't find anything mainly gc and Wii games sadly)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

My apologies, that repo most definitely used to have what you are looking for. I tried out LSD dream emulator off of their awhile back and they also used to have N64 Roms. I should've checked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Aw sucks to be me thanks anyways. At least you've tried to help me. it's the thought that counts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

At one point, I found a complete set of ROMs for every single game on retroachievements.com. It’s almost assuredly out of date by now, and I’m not saying it would have every single Vimm ROM…. But there would be a lot of overlap. If any are already wiped from Vimm and nobody has a backup, let me know and I’ll do some digging to see if I have anything comparable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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