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
they may want to consider lifting their blocking multiple concurrent downloads for this to get done ahead of them starting to remove titles
I don’t think Vimm’s is doing this, I think it’s a community effort
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
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?
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
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.
Torrents exist.
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.
sure, and eventually that’d be a good way to share them. Either way, loosening limits on downloads would crush their servers now
The classic hug of death
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 It’s almost assuredly out of date by now, and I’m not saying it would have every single Vimm ROM….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.
