MY FAVORITE ROMS DOWNLOAD SOURCE IS SHUTTING DOWN, WHAT IS THIS SHIT.
>>12413948And that source is.....?
torrents don't get taken down. roms barely take up any space whatsoever and it's trivial to back up literally every console game ever made forever
archive.org?
>>12413952The official Discord server. The webmaster announced it's going offline on March 31.And, according to them, none of it had to do with being too open about its existence and C&Ds coming of it. It's actually due to rising component costs and no one donating money for sustainment (something people around here always scoff at).
>>12413956Myrient
>>12413962:(I don't use them that often, but they run the H-Shop. 3ds stuff is about to get a lot less robust.
>>12413962>download before it shuts down in a month from nowWell what are you waiting for
>>12413962It absolutely sucks don't get me wrong, but I feel like this is more of an example of someone biting more than they could chew (wanting to be the go to rom source and run hShop) and not understanding the logistics more than anything. I've rarely used the site, but hopefully they regroup in the future and relaunch. Also option 2 is fucked up. Who the fuck was paywalling myrient?
The internet is ending generally and has been since roughly 2012. It is in it's terminal phase now/ Get your stuff on your offline lan.
>>12413962shit really? thats one of the best places to get roms/isos
>>12413962I always thought that place would have been a ballache to run cost-wise. Guess I was right.
>>12413948learn to gatekeep better, retard
>>12413991>look at me i didnt read
>>12413956No, not that one. Though they do occasionally remove files that might potentially bring the legal hammer down on them. Especially nowadays after that whole mess involving various book publishers back during the kung-flu.
Someone should do exactly what Pleasuredome did with MAME and host a simple github site with magnetic links for full redump/no-intro/tosec sets. There are plenty of seedboxes with those sets.
Bandwidth is such a bitch of a thing to pay for.It's not even storage that racks up the cost but simply the costs of people traveling to your site to get stuff.
>>12413962how do these guys even afford paying 6 grand a month out of pocket? any man would be driven to poverty after 1 month
>>12413948unsurprising since redditard script kiddies were making stuff to bypass the bandwidth limit instead of donating, entitled fucks have no right to cry after leeching off the host until they sucked out all its blood, fucking retarded pieces of shit
>>12413991dumb retardMaybe you should read the thread, again.Might stick this time.If you relied on Myrient anyway, you're a sucker.
Wouldn't magnet links solve this?
>ai data centerseveryone says mgs2 predicted ai and praise the line "who else would sift through the garbage data you people create", but ai IS the garbage data.all these hard drives and ssds going to aislop data centers and driving up prices genuinely fucking blows. this earth sucks ass man
>animetosho dead>myrient deadlol the internet is dying and no one cares
>>12413948It SAID delete the roms after 24 hours, and that included themselves.
>>12414010zoomies can't into torrent or soulseek or usenet or anythiing other than clearnet links
>>12414015It sucks these johnny come latelies are going away, but the biggest loss will always be Isozone.
>>12413965>but they run the H-Shopmyrient and hshop accounted for 100% of the sites I downloaded shit from nowadays. I guess ill be downloading a lot this month.
>>12413961The official discord server of... the concept of rom downloads???
Fuck, it was very good for CD based games (specially PS3). Hope the archive links live enough for that, the megathread is still being updated.
>>12413965reee hshop was so easy
>>12413948test
>>12413962What will it take for people to embrace P2P again?
>>12413965H-Shop is supposedly still going to be a thing
>>12413948Emuparadise got shutdown, but still works
>>12414024Torrents rely on seeders.
To be fair, soon or later someone will upload these Redump games again, but damn it hurts.
>>12414114>To be fair, soon or later someone will upload these Redump games againNah fuck you guys
>>12413962FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
>>12414061No, it's just a good source of cia files. I install with a computer and run faketiks. Using H-Shop as intended takes so long it's not worth it.
>>12413962Fuck no. FUCK NO. HOLY FUCKING SHIT NOOOOOOOOOO
>>12414130Specially for games that went over the 1GB barrier, that shit was slow.
>>12413962Bummer
>>12413983Its the very best and its not even close. This is horrible
>12414007>Maybe you should read the threadno
> no as in cannot readdumb retard
>(space)this ain't discord rajeesh
>>12413992No that was literally the problem. If myrient was more of a secret then its server costs would be lower and thus wouldnt need to shut down. Too many people downloading is whats killing it.
>>124140016 grand a month is nothing to a certain class of person out there. Women in real estate make 680K a year in real estate for instance
Considering there are hundreds of other places, many that do not have "$6000 monthly costs"... who the fuck cares if they go down?
>OH SHIT A GOOD ROMS PLACE IS DYINGIt is myrient....? so? It is middling at best.
>>12414169>Women in real estate make 680K a year in real estateas opposed to what?
>>12413948PIRACY DOESN'T PAY FAGGOT
>>12414110And DDLs rely on people paying for servers, which is why Myrient is shutting down
>>12413948>zoomer gets locked out of emulating because he can't learn to torrent KWAB
>>12414174Not like them, thats for sure. If you think otherwise you are simply kind of retarded.
>>12413967I'm downloading a game now. It's slow, slower than I've ever seen from Myrient. It may already be over.
>>12414289Everyone will be panic downloading all they can I guess
>>12414289Oops, my bad.This is not my picture.
>>12414291It's best to start now before the info of it closing spreads further, just finished curating gamecube right now.
>>12414130>>12414135very very slow but if I'm just grabbing something from time to time it is convenient. Anyway I have all the stuff I actually play backed up already
>>12413948>WHAT IS THIS SHIT.A silly rant by an angry retarded child
>>12413948>NOOOOOOOO I CANT STEAL GAMES FOR MY BACKLOG ILL NEVER PLAY WHY GOD WHY
>>12413948Ok
>>12414505t. coomlector
>>12414076is this just speculation or what?
>>12414740enjoy your slow download speeds>>12414760everyone i've asked has said it's gonna be fine. I get I shouldn't trust randos on the internet but I don't see any reason to not believe them here
>had a schizo moment two years ago where I decided to download pretty much most games I could think I would want to play all the way through PS2/GCN/XBOXHoly fuck thank you schizo moment
>>12414968>slow download speedsHigh download speeds only matter if you want to download entire sets, so they don't matter since you still have time to download Myrient's filesI genuinely don't mind downloading a PS2 game at 4 MB/s if I'm actually going to play it for a dozen hours
>>12413948JD2 to the rescue so I can bulk download entire systems. Going to grab everything I can and dump it to my NAS.
>>12413953>PS2, Xbox, and PS3 ISOs don't take up any space whatsoeverAre you retarded?
>>12414975People will always make fun of the digital hoarder/archiver until they're actually needed.
>>12414010nobody's seeding
>>12414027>theisozone>snesorama>romshepherdnow I'm sad
>>12413962Aren't you happy AI fags?
>I don't donate to emulation sites, I'm not a chump.>I don't seed my torrents, I'm not a chump.>WHY CAN'T I FIND [some obscure NeoGeo CD shit from 1995]
>>12413948Remember: Cut off one head of the hydra, more come out.
Speaking of irl guns I've been selling all my old games and with the money been buying guns and ammoSo far I've bought a Beretta 92fs, a ruger gp-100 and a Henry frontier .22 lever action rifle just by selling my old pokemanz games
>>12414186More like pirates don't, the shitters.
>>12415381Except the problem here wasn't Nintendo throwing its weight around, it was hosting costs. That can actually snuff the flame irrespective of whether or not any legalities were being threatened.
>>12414168>If myrient was more of a secret then its server costs would be lowerNot how it works sadly...
Myrient's greatest value to me has been PS3 games.Vimm has them (they're even decrypted, reducing the amount of work I need to do before moving them to my PS3) but not all of them.So that's going to be biggest loss.
>>12415414>PS3 games?
>>12415015Uhh they don't, comparatively, 50$ can store them all. Instead of like 8 modern AAA games fitting in the same space.
>>12413953>trivial to back up every console game ever made>need at least 200 tb
>>12415424It's okay if your poor or stupid.
>>12415435>he thinks $50 can store every PS3 game ever releasedDamn, where is this new storage technology that only you have access to?
>>12415441$0 can store every PS3 game ever released
>>12415447Troll, got it.
>>12415480Not retro. Go talk about your Soulsshit on /v/.
>>12415564>doesn't deny being a trollThanks for admitting I'm right and you're wrong. I accept your concession. Filtered. Reply more, I'll never see it. I know you will, you're already typing.
>>12415570That was my first post in this thread. It isn't a troll when multiple people are telling you to stop talking about non-retro non-existent games. Kill yourself, retard.
>>12413948>>12413962Retards actually go to niche discord servers to get roms they can find literally anywhere...???Is this entire board nothing but zoomers?
>>12415575It's retards who don't know anything besides HTTP in a web browser. Not generational necessarily
>>12415015>PS2, Xbox, and PS3 ISOs don't take up any space whatsoeverWhy would I want any of that
>>12415579Myrient is a normal site, though the shutdown announcement was posted on Discord.
>>12413961>And, according to them, none of it had to do with being too open about its existence and C&Ds coming of it. It's actually due to rising component costs and no one donating money for sustainmentThat's just a smokescreen. The owner is probably in prison for a minor violation. (Violating a minor.)
Well I guess I'll stop adding to my hoard of games and just copy to my HDD, anyone know when the megadrive cart version of earthion is getting released? that was my intended stopping point anyway.
Or and this is a wild take - you can search Russian, Indian, or Chinese Internet and look for ROMs there. The people there don't give two shits about copyright.
>>12415441While $50 isn't reasonable his take is. I paid $180 for a 16tb external drive. That is enough to fit every single game that is considered retro for this board plus extra. The drive is slow but who cares, it's gonna sit in cold storage until I need it. >>12415015Relative to most modern games they really don't the absolute most biggest game you'll find on PS2/Xbox/Xbox 360 is like 9gb and even that's a rarity. A handful of multi disc games existed but those are so rare it's crazy. The PS3 obviously had the ability to have much larger games and a lot of the exclusives for it are much bigger, generally around 20-30GB. Still even with all of that you can spend like $500 tops to have enough storage space to have literally every single console game ever made up to like 2014-ish. If you take out multiplats you're looking at even less than that.I have like 90tb of storage space so this shit ain't nothing to me man, just buy more drives lmao they aren't expensive.
>>12413962dont fall for the obvious honey pot anons.
>>12414032H-shop? Not familiar w this
>he’s not on ggnlollmao even
>>12414015>animetosho?????????
>>12414075I genuinely don't understand what happened to P2P for people to be so turned off by it. My entire life I used torrents because DDLs have the expectancy of having a short term lifespan in comparison for the convenience. They were both good, but one very clearly is ignored for the other.
>>12415949What can I get there that I can't already get elsewhere? Having to do the whole seed x to get an invite and then doing it all over again is not worth the effort, for games at least.
>>12415979Zoomers bought into the FUD because of sites like iknowwhatyoudownload.
>>12415979I never trusted it due to needing seeders to help you along. Finding something that you can't seem to find anywhere else only to see it's not being seeded is disheartening as hell.
>>12415986It’s piss easy. Or it was piss easy 10+ years ago. All I had to do was tell AB my favorite anime and now I’m set for everything I could always want. Zoomers get fucked.
>>12415628I say again, who gives a shit about some literal who distributor shutting down when there's like, 20 alternatives?
>>12416325shut the fuck up you stupid nigger
>>12416325>when there's like, 20 alternatives?While it is true that there are alternatives, Myrient is generally considered to be the best ROM site at the moment, so it shutting down does suck.
>>12416437the real shame is that it's shutting down for gay monetary reasons and not even lawsuit shit
>>12416325Bro, come on, are we really going to pull this crap? This was a website that through all intentions met the true definition of preservation and was actually UNDER the lid compared to Vimm's Lair and CDRomance. People didn't know about it. The fact it got impacted (and laterally exploited by mass downloads) is something to be concerned about.
>>12416325>literal who distributorYou are retarded. Myrient is the gold standard for media presentation.
>>12415579>can find literally anywhere.You do realise most rom sites are riddled with questionable stuff.>>12416325>20 alternativesName ten, ones that aren't riddled with malware etc.
all this agitation about this shutdown notice feels susthe dude behind the site probably made tons of money
Am I missing something? Did all rom sites disappear over the years or are zoomers just downloading from a singular source and not even remembering that torrents and OTHER sites exist?
>>12416764Judging from the thread, most zoomers can't figure out torrents and VPNs or they click the big green download button on the ROM site and get ransomware on their PC.
>>12416514Good riddance.
>>12416771>look at me i want (You)s
>>12416754Don’t worry about it, goy. Just give me money in my bitcoin wallet.
>>12416754>the dude behind the site probably made tons of moneyfrom who? Are you implying that, since there are no ads on the site, he got so much money from donations that he could afford the upkeep + profit but he is choosing to throw away this gravy train and shut down the site to.......... bait donations even though you think he was already making money from donations?
>>12417037You have to remember that literally everything is some sort of jewish plot according to Anons
>>12417057Unironically true. Kvetch moar, jew boy.
I haven’t really looked yet, but does the site have the entire set of DBZ, because I wouldn’t mind putting that in my 3ds. Also, get your def jam fight for ny downloads before its gone cuz that shit is like 130 dollars for a decent looking disc.
>>12417067I don’t have my images, but here’s your prostitute (You).
>>12417071I don’t know what that means but I probably deserve it
>>12417139>but I probably deserve itHm.
funny, i don't have that problem
>>12417203That guy's problem is incelism and looking like a fucking tool.
>>12413948/t/?
>>12416770Worse than that, they think a big bad LETTER will come in the mail and tell them to stop being a bad goy. Never mind the fact that they've never seen such a letter. They are completely destroyed by the jews. Very sad.
>>12417221>Never mind the fact that they've never seen such a letter.Ive gotten like 10 letters over the years from my isp telling me to stop torrenting. It hasnt stopped me but I do get letters.
>>12417223You're lying. Or, POSSIBLY, you're going out of your way to download the latest Marvel slop and nigger rap.
>>12417225I havent gotten anything in years since now I only use private trackers but I believe every time I got a letter it was referencing a torrent I got from TPB. Dont be so quick to dismiss shit happening that you havent personally experienced.
>>12417227>but I believeOk, you vibing retard. Complete waste of time.
>>12417228man youre retarded
>>12417230Believe more, vibe-kun.
>too broke to afford a new SSD>have 1TB of storage left on my main SSDguess i'll go through best of lists to get the games i want, i don't care about 90% of licensed games. this is devastating news.
>>12417203imagine you define yourself as a person through old electronics and retro games. human garbage if you ask me. you can enjoy these games without making it part of your life lol
>>12417815I define myself as an elite master of calling people over the Internet cum-sucking faggot trannies, you cum-sucking faggot tranny.
>>12415992>Finding something that you can't seem to find anywhere else only to see it's not being seeded is disheartening as hell.ThisAny time I found a torrent of anything uncommon or rare I had been looking for, unless it was something that just came out all the torrents were always at zero seeds.
>>12414024i've been using it for close 15 years and for whatever reason it didn't occur to me prior to like a year ago that slsk could come in handy for anything other than music.
>>12415424That form of the meme is old enough to be retro itself by now (not saying the PS3 itself is), just because the PS3 was around long enough to eventually get games. The modern version of it is that The PS5 Has No Games, because after all these years the goddamn thing still has fucking nothing.I know, because I didn't bother with a PS5 because there were no games to interest me, meanwhile I dusted off my PS3 last year and have had a ball.Now I just need to find an old CRT screen in decent condition for my old NES, so I can get my Duck Hunt and Lone Ranger on. Also a fixed controller for my N64, along with a flashcart and the RAM expansion.>>12417769It's bad news, but just know that this CAN all be rebuilt. I know it's for hosting cost reasons, but those of us who care can still make sure to take part in hoarding content to preserve it, so that something like this can be built once again.
You know, it's becoming a lot harder to not become a schizophrenic.
>>12415992>I FOUND IT :D>n-nobody's seeding it?>;_;Torrenting is helpful until something is obscure.
>>12414740Does it actually have every single file that myrient does? The more obscure shit, not the redump and tosec normalfag magnets
>>12417895>i eat fast food and drink sodas all day i dont know why i keep feeling like shit
>>12415440my poor or stupid what?
>>12414981>I genuinely don't mind downloading a PS2 game at 4 MB/sis that supposed to be slow? the average PS2 game would only take like 15-30 minutes to download at that rate. something meatier like FF10 would only take an hour. i think the largest games on the PS2 were around 8gb which would be ~2 hours at that speed; literally just go eat a meal and take a fat shit and come back and your game is ready.
>>12413948I am downloading all RA files. I don't care about cheevos but my logic is that almost all good games would be popular enough to someone bother to do a set for them. It is under 3TB total and the PS2 is more than half of it. And for Wii/WiiU/3DS MyRient wasn't the best option anyways.
They even have fucking Casio Loopy ROMs? Not that I'll ever use or want them, but I'm impressed someone bothered to dump that shit, let alone host it.
