Fell for it again award

>>12414016
dupe of >>12413948

Just buy a 20 tb hard drive and have it be your dedicated rom storage
This is not difficult in the least.

>>12414040
Except no one can tell because that OP is retarded and includes no identifying information.

>>12414043
Sold out. Ai bought everything. And even then a 20tb drive will costs you thousands now.

>>12414050
Well that was fast, I just bought a 12tb last year, didn't realize the price jumped on hard drives too
When will this gay bubble pop already

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>>12414050
>a 20tb drive will costs you thousands now.
Maybe thousands in whatever shitty worthless third world currency you use, but they're less than $500 USD on Amazon.

>>12414058
Ignore him, he's a retard.

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>>12414075
What will it take for people to embrace P2P again?

>>12414079
Are there any worthwhile trackers to be on anymore?

>>12414079
A protocol that makes tracking of the users and copyright trolling impossible while maintaining decent speeds.

This sucks, they were genuinely a great resource. Fast downloads and no bullshit. Hopefully a suitable replacement will pop up.

>>12414118
Unless you are some bitcoin billionaire who can just throw money away, the options are getting low for the reasons mentioned in the post.

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ALL ROADS LEAD BACK TO THE KING

>>12348826
lmfao

>>12414016
2026 fucking sucks

>>12414016
QUICK! POST GAME CHARTS. I JUST BOUGHT A 12TB DRIVE AND WANT TO FILL IT BEFORE MYRIENT CLOSES.

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>AI keeps destroying things I love
we need another Ted, or several of them at this point

>>12414016
never heard of it, so it must be trash website

Jdownloader2 is good for downloading all of the links on a myrient page to a certain pc location if anyone wants to know and can't find actual romsets.

>>12414149
I mean it was also people bypassing the site and actually paying for the privilege, rather than donate to keep the site alive.

>>12414040
But this thread is better because that one is vagueposting garbage.

>>12414016
>The number 9 best rom spot is closing
lol? All of us will keep using the better places.

>>12414147
just be yourself :)
download what (you) will play instead of filling your precious disk with crap.

>>12414129
literally who

>>12414189
That's fair, anon, HOWEVER... I'd rather have what I don't need and not need for what I don't have.

>>12414147
https://vsrecommendedgames.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

>>12414182
There's nothing better for obscure hard to find homebrews.

>>12414043
I long since started collecting nointro/redumps, yeah i will never play most of them but it beats going around trying to find obscure roms. Stuff like nes, n64, etc, forget downloading individual, just find a no intro download. I have most consoles from the 90s and the whole thung was less than 100gbs.

>>12414129
good for individual, not nointro/redump

>>12414189
It literary takes more time to search individual games than just download the whole thing.

>>12414297
No one cares about, nor will they miss, those anyway.

>>12414170
This shit is literally what killed the site

>>12414353
fuck you got mine

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>best site still going strong
cool idc then

>>12414062
HDDs in US are cheap.
In Europe I can't even get high-capacity ones without paying 3 times more than in the US.

I knew it was too good to last forever. Savor it while it lasts. Hope you got your HDDs all in a row.

>>12414353
myrient literally recommends jdownloader on their FAQ

>>12414353
who gives a shit

Barely ever used it
Everything I want is in vimms or archive.org

>>12414383
myrient has the best complete clean sets
and archive.org is atrocious to sift through

>>12414362
That's pretty much an interest site, anything there is because the uploader thought it was interesting or someone requested it. It's not the same as Myrient which had everything.

So what are some small sets that are a must download? I imagine everything up to SNES/Genesis must be a few GBs at most

>>12414395
Just download them all dude.
Atari through PS1 era
Ain't no way you don't have 5gb to spare

>>12414401
ps1 full set is like 4tb bro

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i fucking hate rom sets that try to separate everything in folders only for every folder to have repeats of stuff in other genre folders
and then they also have alphabetical folders
just put all the games in a single folder sorted by alphabet

>>12414406
I dont know if myrient has it, but for PS1 and Dreamcast at least, you can get compressed .CHD versions of the catalog that loses nothing and compresses everything big time.

PS1 set is like 400gb
Dreamcast like 400gb

>>12414376
I checked the prices on the hdd I bought half a year ago and it now costs twice as much. It's not looking good even for the hoarders

>>12414406
i saved a lot of space using Jdownloader and filtering out european versions of games, betas, demos etc

>>12414406
It's exactly 2.987TB which spans 10,886 files. And that includes PAL, NTSC-U, and NTSC-J, which obviously, you don't need a copy for each region nor do you need 3 copies of "Happy Wappy Game #001".

And fags have the gall to get snarky when I hoard roms.
>um, have you beaten ALL of those 30,000 games? thought not

The site would live if they downsize massively you don't need EVERY revision of a rom or ISO

And implant a fucking rate limit download. Everyone makes fun of Vimm's but THAT'S WHY IT EXISTS TO STOP THIS

>>12414474
Like I said in the other thread, they should've had a little foresight when it came to handling bandwidth. Especially if they wanted to be a database for every rom.

>>12414383
Archive had a huge purge a while back, last time I checked almost everything was gone.

>>12414486
I cannot confirm nor deny that users reuploaded stuff.

>>12414129
>only US releases
lol

>>12414507
Retard

>>12414394
he uploads every fan translated game and that's all what matters
am not following news of every single fan translation project and many of them do not use that shithole Romhacking, that's why Spike is cool he and his people have their eyes all over the place bringing us the latest updates of fan translations

>>12414016
Literally never heard of shit shit before

>>12414474
>>12414476
They have a bandwidth limiter, fags found a way around it, and some ultrafags made paywalled apps that will get around his bandwidth limit and not share any of the money they rake in from their stupid customers

>>12414540
>Literally never heard of shit shit before
How can you zooms just freely admit this and not feel any shame? Do you even play games?

>>12414540
Myrient tried to keep a low profile, but it was a no-nonsense site where you could get pretty much everything for any system you like. It was especially great for really obscure stuff, romhacks, and fan translations.

>>12414542
It must not work very well, I just downloaded like 150gb worth of shit just clicking on links, no special program.

>>12414542
I downloaded a 100GBs of PS1 games now and the only limit I noticed was six downloads at a time. Why the fuck would anyone need to do bandwidth bypasses? Now I need to do Sega Saturn, Dreamcast, Gamecube and PS2 but only have a 6TB HDD to house this stuff so I need to be selective on PS2 and Gamecube games. Granted the 6TB is a backup storage I bought specifically for backing up all these games, but still.

>>12414563
Just report him to Nintendo's piracy division and he will literally be sued into oblivion since he is charging people for downloading their IPs. Might as well take advantage of Nintendo's jew lawyers for something.

>>12414501
Gib referral.

>>12414561
Exactly, that's what I mean by "no nonsense." The paywall programs are scammers using his bandwidth to make money off idiots.

>>12414563
>Exodus_cl
>cl
I wouldnt call it a small country, it is a long country though.

>>12414486
That was years ago, everything was reuploaded

>>12414540
By design to keep normalfags like you the fuck out

>>12414501
>outdated sets
kek

>>12414618
This is not the burn you think it is considering the site is dying

>>12414016
Why Myrient is so important?
archive.org has no-intro and 1g1r for nearly everything

>>12414380
(you) do.

>>12414362
Still not joining your message board, Spike.

>>12414650
what archive has is irrelevant in respect to its fucking awful download speeds

>>12414778
You only have to download them once.

>>12414632
It's dying because normalfags found out* and bandwidth costs went through the roof

* mostly because some douche made an app for retards that bypasses bandwidth restrictions and didn't share any of the money he got from said normie retards with the guy who is actually hosting the files

>>12414016
thank your local pajeet for this
they made "download managers" using AI slop "code" because they can't stand white people winning
this is izzat in action

Fucking hell.
>>12414790
Somewhat relevant. I remember seeing a leddit screenshot on /v/ of some retard who posted about Myrient on a big emulation community there, with links and all, and even the ledditors were smart enough to tell him to delete it. Then the poster claimed to have contacted Myrient by email and got a reply saying that it wasn't a problem to share link with other online communities. I think the dude(s) in charge were too naive...

Any of you archiving everything there?

>look up what the hell "myrient" is
>it's just a shitty ROM site
Why do people still put up with that garbage? For most systems, it's easier to download a ROM set and call it a day.

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>site named "myrient"
>owner fails to pay "my rent"
It was over before it started.

>>12415013
Playstation "romsets" are fucking terabytes in size.

>>12415034
Hence why I said "most systems". For everything else, r/roms is better than any alternative.

>>12415042
Doesn't r/roms link to myrient?

>>12415067
Wait, what? That's myrient? I thought that was just some generic file host similar to rapidshare. Guess I'm just a retard.

>>12414026
first rom site shutdown for some of the newfags. welcome to retro preservation

>>12415140
Can't blame people for believing...

RIP the only good place to find Japanese ISOs

>>12415025
is it pronounced like "my ree ent" or "meer e ent"?

>>12415042
What about homebrews? Myrient has a bunch of aftermarket stuff that's tough to find elsewhere

>>12414016
I'm not clear on how this is the discussion of classic, or "retro" games. If a child wasn't able to play a mario rom because they/thems mommies had to help them go poopoo no one would be talking about it. What do you imagine the difference is?

>>12414650
Everything I download from Archive never runs.

>>12415407
You're supposed to mount the ISO anon...

First they came for Emuparadise
And I did not speak out
Because I did not use Emuparadise

Then they came for Myrient
And I did not speak out
Because I did not use Myrient

Then they came for Archive.org
And I did not speak out
Because I did not use Archive.org

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

The Arutha IRC bots and seedboxes recently shut down as well. I wonder if that was also because of the generation of ai slop made everything expensive.

>>12415369
myriad of entertainment = (myri)(ent)

>>12414501
I haven't used this site since they added ratio back, it's worthless now.

Emulation will be dead by 2030.
People will pay $20 for system-locked NES re-releases and like it.

>>12415190
So are you guys trying to download everything you can from the site so it doesn't become lost?

I don't see why a bunch of anons can't get together and download chunks of the site onto 20tb external drives and collectively archive it that way.

>>12415436
They're going to take my computer away in 2030?

>>12415463
Yes.

>>12415436
Why would it be, most here have already curated most systems and now we have 1 month to fill in the gaps. I already started yesterday. And I've already bought chinkhelds for my nephews and nieces and filled them with my curated sets. Everyone should do this so they don't fall into roblox and other tard games and get as retarded as gen z.

>>12415372
Isn't all that shit for cart based systems? These roms are so tiny there's no excuse for you to simply download all of it. Everything until N64 needs like 100GB of space.

>>12415419
Actually pretty clever.

>>12415521
>I lost all my SDDs in a boating accident

>>12415463
More like no one is gonna be alive in 2030 due to all of us getting cleansed by the nuclear fire.

You can save space by converting multiple versions of the same game as delta CHD file which only stores the data that differs from the parent CHD. Its been a feature in MAME for a while and can significantly reduce space depending on the game. Some emulators like PCSX2 and Duckstation can play delta CHD files but for others you have to revert them.

To make a delta CHD
chdman copy -i "clone.chd" -op "parent.chd" -o "delta.chd"

To revert a CHD
chdman copy -i "delta.chd" -ip "parent.chd" -o "clone.chd"

AI will destroy everything you care about.

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>>12415647
Nah

>>12415463
No but good luck buying a new one in 2030.

>>12415553
How do we speed it up

>>12414050
>a 20tb drive will costs you thousands now.
>will costs you
Kel what kind of ESL are we cooking out here? Also drives aren't that expensive yet in the first world like other anon said

So one should prioritize consoles and DLC by newness, correct? I seems older consoles have way more alternatives.

>>12414026
pure pottery. karma gets leeches

Honestly pretty surprised they lasted this long, I thought Nintendo would have shot them down over Hshop by now

It's 2026. By now, don't we have everything we want downloaded and stored somewhere else?

>>12415459
>So are you guys trying to download everything you can from the site so it doesn't become lost?
lol no
i can't even afford to buy a 1tb hard drive, it literally costs me a month's worth of rent where i live
thanks to ai i guess, it literally went 10x in price in the last few months

>>12415897
Grim

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>>12414016
i got so lucky
downloaded the bulk a few days ago and now the servers are getting hammered

Fuck Indians.

>>12415939
benchod

>>12415859
Name the jew.

>>12415918
Is there a way to know how much is the whole Dreamcast collection, or PS2 for example.

>>12416019
not on the site directly, there is a downloader on github that shows it tho
https://github.com/bradrevans/myrient-downloader
the entire dreamcast collection is 773gb and US only is 147gb

What do we lose with Myrient that Vimm doesn't have?

"No-Intro/Non-Redump" are gonna be the ones that'll slip through. Mostly demos, betas, and prototypes. No idea where else I'd find this stuff.

>>12414031
Retard doesn't know the difference between downloading and streaming. Also
>wanting to watch movies with a fat fuck
>here lemme find that disc in my shelves of slop
>oh you wanted 1080p? Well, I got the DVD but it maxes out at 480i
>ooops disc read error, looks like disc rot
>want to watch another movie instead?

>>12416028
Decent download speed

>>12414362
He cucked out again didn't he? Also HE FUCKED THE GIRL OUTTA ME

>>12416038
Long rundown?

>>12416034
Fair I guess but you should only ever have to do this once so I don't think it matters that much.

>>12416019
You can do a --dry-run with rclone

>>12415870
Yes, that is correct. I know this is /vr/ so newer platforms are out of the scope of discussion, but they are where the issue lies. Everyone ITT saying "everything pre-6th gen is only a few terabytes" is missing the problem here.
I only have about a terabyte of free drive space at the moment so I can't do too much to help, but I've been downloading digital only Japanese 3DS games so that I can seed them after the shutdown.

Also, as >>12416030 alluded to, prototypes are important to save. The 360 and PS3 each had a program where anyone with a developer kit could get builds of pretty much any near-launch game. These platforms have an enormous amount of prototypes as a result, and as far as I can tell, many of them are currently exclusively hosted on Myrient.

Was there stuff on myrient that's not on vimm?

Also, I guess I'll start trying to get into ggn now.

>>12414362
>best site
Which are you referring?

I guess they couldn't pay their rient.

>>12414790
Nta, but what are some treasures that need to be rescued asap from it?
-t. has at least a half dozen or more non-torrent sources that I am not sharing with anyone.

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>>12414365
Yeah but you get free healthcare when Ahmed rapes you :)

>>12416065
>Was there stuff on myrient that's not on vimm?
Vimm is a pond. Myrient is an ocean.

>>12415861
Micro sd cards seem pretty cheap. For about 100 u can get half a Terabyte and it even comes w a cool sonic logo. And that’s just the Samsung premium cards I’m sure you could find cheaper that work. Unless ur download post retro half a terabyte should cover a hell of a lot. Some anon said the entire DC USA library is only 100 gigs or so.

>>12416130
>$100 for 512MB
What the fuck. I got a 1TB for like $110 only a couple years ago...

>>12416130
lol what retard

>>12415870
I would say start with the smaller systems and grab the most obscure stuff first, prototypes, unlicensed, Japanese only or other region locked stuff, aftermarket/homebrew. Maybe grab whole collections of systems that aren't well known, Sharp, Watara etc. Then move on to the bigger stuff.

So how big is the entire collection?

>>12416130
sd cards are the only storage ive ever had break on me
ive got 20 year old hdds that still work fine but maybe 4 sd cards in my flash carts have corrupted

>>12416162
~400TB iirc

Alright, so we need to know, what shit on here is actually irreplaceable and can't be easily found elsewhere? That's the main priority for archiving and we need to make sure we save it.

I am going to download all the prototypes and betas for the PS2, but what else is needed?

>>12416178
DLC files for PS3 and VITA games.

>>12416178
>>12416203
Anything ancient-classic that needs to be saved from them?

>>12416130
SD cards are incredibly unreliable and not designed for long term storage.

>>12416117
Wtf? Vimm has 99.99% of PS2 titles.
Like what exactly? Every Atari game. Every genesis game. 99.25% of Saturn games. Every console I check has at least 99% and many are complete.

So what's missing compared to Myrient?

>>12416214
nta but does vimm have the fan translations?
pretty sure i tried downloading magic vacation and he didnt have it

>>12416178
Tosec stuff and any old computer stuff. The imb pc one is also rare to find, even on archive.

>>12416214
>So what's missing compared to Myrient?
Tosec
Rom hacks
fan translations
other consoles like the wii-u/3ds
updated no intro
and many more.

>>12416221
>>12416241
>Rom hacks
>fan translations
You people are too coddled by CDR, you're supposed to know how to patch those yourselves

>>12416130
I think if I get a couple as backups that might work. Thx anon.

>>12416214
I haven't gone through all of Myrient so I can't say for certain this is true for every single ROM, but for the most part, old consoles are well trodden territory that you can easily find on other sites. What's at risk of disappearing are PC games (specifically unaltered ISOs), 7th and 8th gen console / handheld games (especially updates, DLC, digital only games, and game not released in the US), 7th and 8th gen prototypes and demos, and revisions of modern arcade games. The problem is that the files for all of this class of material are massive (several gigs per file, for tens of thousands of files), so unlike, say, the Saturn library, you can't easily back it all up in once place.

I just noticed myrient has gigabytes of hentai games from dlsite kek

>>12416271
I found Skyrim in the TOSEC section. For research purposes, where would one look to see these dlsite files?

>>12416213
>>12416171
Even the Samsung ones? I think there is a huge difference in quality plus that’s what you use for hacking the 3ds… I haven’t seen any complaints of them messing up when using the premium Samsung cards but maybe you guys have?

>>12414618
And now it's dead, ha-ha.

>>12414353
using the site killed the site

>>12416032
You sound mad because you can't afford to own your own video games

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Newfags acting like the sky is falling every time a site shuts down is funny as hell. You guys have no idea how many sites and programs and processes I've used over the years and most of them are gone.

There's always another.

>>12416332
go to sleep old man, it's past your bedtime

>>12416332
yeah if he shut down today with no warning it might be a problem but with a full fucking month of warning anything worth saving from there is going to be downloaded 100+ times and reupped somewhere else

>>12416271
>it's all demos
Now that is a waste of space
>>12416314
No-Intro

>>12416332
yeah yeah i'm old as shit too and saw many sites go down. it still sucks to see high quality sites getting knocked off the web.
with hardware prices skyrocketing i'd expect more shutdowns before anything good comes along again

>>12416318
Samsung ones are high quality, but the problems with SD cards are innate to the medium. They weren't designed for long term storage. They were designed for transferring files and to be temporary storage for devices like cameras. They can last a long time, but not reliably enough for archival purposes.

>>12416324
I have an SD card of roms in my wallet.

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>these transfer speeds
it'll be kill before i complete it even though i have the disk space

>>12416362
That's a pretty bad idea anon. SD cards die easily, frequent friction in your pocket could ruin it. Also they require frequent electric charge i.e. they're designed to be plugged into some device at all times.

>>12416348
I expected only basic emulation stuff from the No-Intro section. Now I'm finding evanescence songs, itch.io games and 85gb of scandanavian bladerunner 2049

>>12416357
Well that’s annoying. Here’s hoping at least the one I’m using for my 3ds hack just werks. If it does ever give out I’ll be sure to bitch and moan about it on here. I have an old work laptop that I use simply to store roms and old pc games. It can’t even run most games but it was free and the hardrive has worked for over a decade now so I have stuff back up on there just in case (like alll the old stuff nes snes gameboy genesis game gear, older arcade titles that don’t take up a ton of space and a lot of classic PC games like UT99 etc). Good heads up tho on the sd card info I appreciate it.

>>12416368
It's friday at a time when euros haven't gone to bed and muricans are home from work, basically everyone is slamming it right now, will be better on monday hopefully

>>12416071
reddit, stay there

>>12416381
If you're just using one casually it'll probably be fine. But in the context of running an archive or library they're too risky to be acceptable.

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>>12416241
>Tosec
It's a little over 300GB.

>>12416395
What would you recommend as the best portable hard drive? I’m going to be getting an up to date gaming PC in the next few months, but I’d like to have a reliable, detachable hard drive that will last for… well decades

Wonder if the higher traffic is due to the popularity of emulation handhelds, since everybody feels the need to download entire libraries so they can scrape all the cover art and not play the games

>>12416431
I'm not super familiar with hard drive brands so I can't give a good answer to that.

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The more you dig, the more stuff you find, holy shit. They even have stuff from Desura! Losing all this is going to hurt big time.

>>12416452
>Desura
That's a name I haven't heard in a long long time

>>12414706
just make a 10minmail throwaway lmao
not that hard

>>12414550
didnt they advertise themselves on reddit before?

>>12416094
>free healthcare
if you can wait 2+ years without dying, then it's "free"
Calling EU healthcare "free" is like calling games in game pass free

>>12416541
>YoULL DiE wAiTiNg iN LiNe!
So tired of this Fox News talking point

>>12416553
Idk who tf you talking about.
You either wait in line or pay
It's not burger propaganda. It's a sad reality.
BUT
You can call an ambulance if you have a stroke and they leave you to die because you had a drink.
I would love to have a choice in terms of paying 1/5 of my salary for healthcare I never use.

fellas can we talk about the fucking video games instead

>>12416094
>>12416541
>>12416553
>>12416568
dumb retards
not retro

Wow, myreint is actually the only source of sets for some stupid no-intro shit like Bandai Little Jammer, not even IA has those

>>12416271
>>12416314
Why is dlsite even datted by no-intro? Completely futile effort

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You guys know that since there was a heads up and plenty of time before shut down, 95% of the site will be reuploaded elsewhere right? I'm willing to eat my own words if that doesn't happen, but they got their stuff from somewhere anyway. Hell I'm willing to bet a few especially autistic data hoarders have already downloaded the whole site before the news even came out.

>>12416630
You're not wrong, but how long is it gonna be until someone makes a bullshit-free site like myrient without ads or other bullshit? The guy who's been hosting myrient is a fucking saint. There's no hosting site like myrient and who knows how long it'll be until we get a proper successor. We can't take sites like these for granted.

>>12416630
There should be enough hoarders out there to save most of the files. If he's honest about the 6k/mo upkeep then it should be expected that we won't see the same quality or download speeds from alternatives, not for a long while at least.

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>>12416071
>>12416394
:)

>>12416646
Nta, but you're too optimistic. Time is likely up. We're seeing the winding down of the silver age of vidya downloading. I've seen this in every case for everything. No one else is gonna step up like that, and why would they when everyone who cares already has it all? I'm certainly not going to stick my neck out, but I will archive.

>>12416647
Its honestly only a matter of time. I give it 2 more years max.

>>12416630
>You guys know that since there was a heads up and plenty of time before shut down, 95% of the site will be reuploaded elsewhere right?
Where? Usenet? You sure as hell can't rely on torrents these days.

>>12416646
>If he's honest about the 6k/mo upkeep then it should be expected that we won't see the same quality or download speeds from alternatives

I would take slower download speeds if it meant the new sites don't burn themselves out like Myrient did.

>>12416673
>You sure as hell can't rely on torrents these days.
why

>>12416647
Where do you think they get their source roms and disc images to patch genius?

>>12416678
Probably because people don't seed and are even disincentivized to do so because ISP's send scary letters to your house for doing it

>>12416691
Ah, you're a (((propagandized))) zoomer retard. Gotcha.

>>12416678
When it comes to bigger sets like PS2 ones, seeders are always in single digits and leeches only leech things they want like they always do

>>12416697
What part of what I said is wrong? People don't seed

>>12416698
Fair enough.

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>>12416686
Internet archive

>>12416704
The part that wasn't about seeding. You incredible drooling retard.

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>>12416673
>Where? Usenet? You sure as hell can't rely on torrents these days.
>Relying on a single source for uploading and archiving

>>12416707
I fucking love downloading stuff at 50kbps

>>12416720
Or waiting 15 minutes only for it to time out :(

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>>12416720
let me know your internet provider so i never get scammed by them

>>12416686
Where did Myrient get the majority of its shit?

>>12416669
Considering Spike received a bunch of DMCA takedown requests (they were probably from butthurt t.annies though,Spike has made a lot of enemies in the romhacking community over the years that want him gone and/or dead) in December of last year that it scared him enough to block the ability to download anything on the main site that's been uploaded after 2025 (everything before that is still up, for now...), then yeah, I'd say the future is uncertain.

>>12416739
Probably archive before the takedowns.

Sad that people gave up on p2p because they don't understand using external programs and only know browsers.

>>12416739
There's a page on the site for submitting files, so I'd assume some dumpers sent their files directly to Myrient. It's weird though. The No-Intro and Redump websites record when a checksum was added to the database. Even for obscure 7th gen games, almost every checksum I've checked predates the existence of Myrient, yet as far as I am able to search, Myrient is the first appearance of most of these ROMs on the internet. I guess the source of ROMs being opaque is by design, with distribution being illegal and all.

emuparadise has always been there for you all of these years
as long as you dont care about bing bing wahoo

>>12416784
That requires a workaround script just to download a single rom. There's no way you could do Jdownloader batches or whatever.

>>12416787
download what you want to play as you feel like playing them
you dont need the entire romset your never going to play barbie horse adventure

>>12416790
That's fine for some, but this thread is obviously mostly concerned with archiving.

>>12416707
how do you find obscure stuff?

>>12416790
what this guy said >>12414193

>>12416647
Thank you anon. Screw that other elitist anon.
I will use this knowledge and service respectfully.
>>12416739
Myrient had (has < March 31) a user-upload option on their site.

i know reddit are downloading everything and slapping it onto archive
but a lot of this shit has already been DMCAd from archive before

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>>12414016
My fucking vidya tunes

I see Myrient has translated roms, but not romhacks, am I right? Not even the .ips or .xdelta files

>>12416828
>reddit
lmao

>>12416828
man they're retarded

>>12416842
RHDN for the patches, CDR for the prepatched roms.

>>12415463
(((they))) want to remove personal storage devices so you only can store things on the cloud. This is part of the AI scam bubble. You will own nothing, not even your own data and all your personal files will be algorithmically sifted through.

You will need an internet connection to consume any media and all media is subject to retconning, revision for political correctness and altering the races of the characters. This is truly what they want. They want to destroy man's ability to even enjoy art.

>>12415436
i wouldnt even mind using something like NSO for old titles if it was basically the entire catalog without killer apps being picked out for 20 dollar releases

>>12416856
>You will need an internet connection to consume any media and all media is subject to retconning, revision for political correctness and altering the races of the characters. This is truly what they want. They want to destroy man's ability to even enjoy art.
They don't actually give a single solitary shit about any of that

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>>12416858
>i wouldnt even mind using something like NSO

>>12414016
What the hell happened to all the roms sites that used to exist?

>>12416876
hey its better than VC which is what many people used to first experience nes-64 stuff

>>12416907
I never understood this. The people who hated VC because you had to purchase each rom were then pissed that you had to pay a subscription to play roms. I don't disagree with them, but just admit you want the games for free.

>>12416873
You got the inside scoop, jew boy?

>>12416907
No it's objectively worse because you can't own the old console games plus Nintendo is way worse now than they were then about what you were allowed to do with your console. The one and only thing it has going for it are the Arcade Archives and the fact just a tiny select few retro console games are available for purchase.

Also the fact they won't let you download compilation games like the Genesis Classics collection. That's a physical only. Fuck that company forever for this shit. That plus it's 450$ for a giant ransomware brick bomb that can go off if you slightly break the rules. Enjoy your infinite subscriptions. Better have an internet connection and be paid in order to rent forever.

>>12416921
They should offer both. Subscription and purchase.

>>12416925
>That plus it's 450$ for a giant ransomware brick bomb that can go off if you slightly break the rules.
???

>>12416905
>Operating costs, half of the time, the other half, lawyers.

>>12416925
>Also the fact they won't let you download compilation games like the Genesis Classics collection. That's a physical only. Fuck that company forever for this shit.

They did that because of their expanded NSO with the same Genesis games except they also are offering MERCS (ooooh!). Glad I downloaded it while I could.
>Enjoy your infinite subscriptions. Better have an internet connection and be paid in order to rent forever.

Well, in defense of Nintendo (I can hear the wails now) their subscription service is a good way to give someone a taste of over a hundred games that otherwise they wouldn't have bought outright for $5.00, but I do agree that both forms of availability should be offered.

is there a retard friendly guide for how to bulk download from myrient? I've got roughly 15tb free right now so I could grab some stuff

>>12416961
Jdownloader is the most retard friendly tool i can think of

>>12416987
Which the website itself explains. Dumbass Reddit spoonfeeder.

>>12416929
Nintendo is super draconian about you violating DRM and in the terms of use agreement they reserve the right to brick your console whenever they deem fit.

>>12416994
take a break from the internet

>>12416942
>Well, in defense of Nintendo (I can hear the wails now) their subscription service is a good way to give someone a taste of over a hundred games that otherwise they wouldn't have bought outright for $5.00,
That's fine and I could get behind that as long as they hold individual purchase and ownership as a sacred an unalienable right of every Nintendo owner.

In fact offering both is a great idea because it satisfies people who want to own and people who want to rent and try everything. Nintendo is just greedy.

>>12417002
Kill yourself.

>>12417010
i'll live a long happy life just to infuriate you

>>12417001
Are you talking about Switch 1 or 2?
>yes
Because my hacked Switch 1 did curiously blue screen after I dumped my first cart.

>>12416730
Which downloader is that?

>>12417018
freedownloadmanager
i did read that using a manager helps with archive download speed for some reason

>>12416630
lots of people hoard roms but paying to keep a site up is a whole different matter entirely

>>12417132
It was because of ledditors spreading it around until it reached those kinds of people

>>12417132
I've honestly thought about going deeper into the web because Indians and others have made most websites unusable. Even 4chan has slowed down and most of the boards have become filled with Indians and other types.

>>12417154
It isn't just Indians, anon. It's children. Children are online by the hundreds of millions now and it shows. When you're being totally reasonable, on topic and pleasant, and in return you get:
>Shut up
or even threats. It's because their parents are antichrists who hate life. That's the long and short of it.

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>>12417159

>>12417162
True. I mean, they do literally worship a devil who promises to annihilate the planet.

But anyway, now that you brought this up, I'm just here to hoard information in order to hoard classic roms and maybe to get help with emulators. That's already asking for way too much from this shithole now, but a man can dream. I'd also like to have more comfy classing gaming discussions, even if they're POAST YON 'ATTLESTATION TREAD #689 threads that may be repetitive, but at least they reveal some soul.

tl;dr I will suck this place dry, then shit on its grave, then head to YouTube. (like everyone else)

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>>12417140
>It was because of ledditors spreading it around
Ironically, the Myrient team advertised it on reddit themselves

>>12417178
There's a fine balance with these sites, maintaining obscurity and a functional userbase. I don't know the full picture but reddit adverts seems like far too much exposure

>>12417132
I'm a 30-year-old white guy from a pretty standard suburban background. When I used Myrient, I always downloaded files one at a time manually: no scripts, no automation tricks. I even tossed them a donation afterward, even though I'd already grabbed everything I wanted, just because I appreciated the effort they put in to preserve all those sets and make them freely available. It felt like the decent thing to do for a project that gave so much to the community.
Then, maybe a month or two back, some Indian, threw together an AI-generated bulk downloader script and shared it publicly in plebbit. Not long after, the Myrient team dropped the announcement that the site's shutting down at the end of March 2026. From what I've pieced together, a couple of indian niggers ended up making competing scripts, got into arguments because others kept demanding features and fixes, but the code was basically just prompt-engineered garbage, not real programming skill. It turned into a mess of entitlement and low-effort tools hogging bandwidth.
I get why people like Stenzek (DuckStation/PCSX2 dev) sound so burnt out these days, and why a lot of emulator devs quietly back away from supporting Android ports. The flood of low-iq brownoid morons and endless demands without much give-back really kills the goodwill.
Look, I'm not out here trying to start a flame war or claim some grand superiority thing. I'm Catholic, raised to believe in the dignity of every person, but after years in tech communities and seeing patterns play out again and again, it's hard not to notice how certain cultural habits--mass scraping without regard for sustainability, expecting everything for free while no contributing--end up ruining good shared resources. Some groups just approach things differently, and when that clashes with preservation efforts built on mutual respect, it burns people out. That's the frustrating reality.

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>>12417286
>I'm a

>no honour amongst thieves

>>12417017
2 but one is probably not much different.

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>>12417293
I'm not a Jew, Anon. I'm simply expressing my honest opinion.
I'm disappointed and frustrated by what Indians have done here and by how easily IA can harm something as valuable and principled as Myrient.
If you interpret my view as proof that I'm some kind of crypto-Jew, that's your prerogative.
God bless you.

>>12414079
>suck the dick of some autistic tranny to gain access to his secret stash (that is only available when he isn't wasting his bandwidth on BambiSleep videos)

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>>12417304
>J

>>12417286
All of this is true. It's horrible. Just do not ever ever ever develop phone emulators. That should be considered a crime against humanity. Make Linux based emulators instead. Get the big companies like Nintendo to sue Apple and Google and keep emulators off their app stores.

>>12415415
nobody's ever spoken up for me anyway

>>12415436
>casually admitting that piracy isn't a service problem, it's a poverty problem

>>12416246
we live in 2026, not 1996. no reason to not host patched ROMs.

>>12416856
*picks up an exceptionally chalky piece of rock and scratches it on some slate*
heh, nothing personnel...

>>12417304
Don't respond to dumb frogposters, he's probably upset because you talked shit about third worlders like him.

>>12417304
>>12417416
>least obvious jewish samefagging

>>12417286
>>12417304
Reads like some pearl-clutchin WASP with baby-soft hands typed this shit. So white a brownoid’s already throwin a complete fuckin melty over it

>>12417431
kek, truth

>>12416773
>myrient is the first appearance of these roms
Myrient is like 3 years old, so no, not even close

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>>12416032
disc rot doesn't exist i didn't know how many faggots could actually fall for this corperate psyop.

>>12417494
lol, tell that to all the discs I've had to throw away because they became unreadable over the past twenty years. Top quality lasts a lot longer than the shitty cheap discs I used to burn my warez on, but even the highest quality CD and DVD media still uses organic compounds that are subject to decay over time.

>>12417494
My Wahoo sunshine is rotten, but I'm not even mad about it.
There are archival-grade discs from CDs all the way up to BDs. The regular OGs or "normal" ones have a certain percentage of organic materials in 'em, which is why they degrade over time. But the archival-grade ones (like M-DISCs) ditch that shit entirely: no organic dyes, just rock-like inorganic layers. They're rated for up to 1000 years if stored right and can handle some seriously absurd environments.
My autistic little goal is to burn stuff onto these archival-grade discs and donate five copies of each to my local library. That way my (white) community can access it without everything getting fucked by the brown flood that's ruining the internet. The future's going back to local shit: communities and physical stuff. Sites like 4chan or r*ddit are gonna get completely taken over by brownoids. The silver lining? It's super easy to spot a real white guy in a dirty brown sea.
So far I've donated five external BD drives and 20 M-DISC BDs loaded with discographies, books, magazines, and videogames. Myrient hitting EOL is a huge kick in the nuts for my project, but I ain't quitting. I do gotta give those guys respect though... $6000 a month to keep that beast running? That's insane. They earned it.
To be real, my solo method ain't the most efficient way to do this, and I'm doing it all by myself. But fuck it, it's what I've got.
The Eye, AlvRo, Myrient... total respect and mad gratitude to all of 'em.

>>12416630
I'm not worried about anything being lost forever, but Myrient was great because it had a sane layout, no obnoxious ads, no download restrictions and full support for download managers. It was even better when it also had FTP support, but the loss of that was acceptable. I doubt that any new site will be as convenient, because there aren't many, if any, people out there who are going to sink $6k a month to provide the same degree of service.

>>12417494
dumb and baby retard
disc rot was documented before you were born. go look up bronzing cds and laserdisc rot.
>corperate psyop
can't spell corporate, can't understand chemistry, yet confidently wrong anyway. humble up or kys.

>>12417518
>>12417589
>"the heckin' disc rot boogeyman is the reason why you should just buy subscription services and own nothing, cattle!!!"

I don't listen to retarded shills, we'll see how well you do 20 years from now when online publishers get dominion over everything you consume and take it away from you like a parent taking away the ipad from their child.

>>12417593
dumb and baby retard
rot is why archivists rip media. publisher control is why we mirror it. you have somehow managed to misunderstand both problems at once.

>>12414016
Even worse is people going "i hope someone is backing shit up" instead of backing shit up themselves

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Can't wait for April so retards here can look dumb from how much of a nothingburger this turns out to be
No-Intro and Redump sets were all over the internet before Myrient existed

>>12417605
>maybe if i repeat the one english sentence i learnt in my indian english class he'll change his opinion

"disc rot" only happens if you leave your discs in bad environments, aka most of the media you own will never experience any kind of rot and it will outlive you. You're shilling something that only happens due to poor maintenance like a retard, its like saying nuclear energy is bad because "oh well chernobyl!"

>>12417593
Brown hands wrote this

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Dear God
The servers are being raped right now

>>12417652
saaar pls listen
disc rot is 100% white man psyop saar
just like hygine and brush teef and all dat nonsense
our organic CDs DVDs BDs are made in mother India they last forever saar
no rot only eternal data saar trust me 5000 year civilisation saar
western disc die because they eat beef and no offer to ganesh saar

>>12417652
dumb and baby retard
you are too young and too slow in the head to understand real media decay. CD bronzing, laserdisc delamination, DVD layer rot were documented decades before you were born. OSes and drives might patch tiny errors once contents are loaded from disk into memory, but they can't save a disc that is actually dying. happened often enough that operating systems had to deal with them in one way or another.
your "corperate psyop" flex is peak ESL fantasy and you are obviously some brown or black turd worlder trying to be a cute racist.

>>12417649
I see no-intro sets on myrient you can't find anywhere, even on private trackers, like the getchu and dlsite one.

>>12417664
Few people coordinate to preserve rare and obscure shit like UMD music/videos, magazines, laserdisc images, and oddball systems like the Toshiba Visicom.
Their effort gets drowned out by thousands of brownoids wasting bandwidth on garbage like Diddy Kong Racing.
I fucking hate third-worlders. The worst part is you parasites don’t even acknowledge the burden you are to humankind. No words can describe how destructive your kind is to the human race.

>>12417593
>like a parent taking away the ipad from their child.
It's reading like an Indian or Brazilian, a real one wrote this. You've got to be fucking kidding me. Fucking ESL.

>>12417676
I can only hope no other site deems it a good idea to waste what is probably terabytes of space on DLsite game demos you could just grab hassle free off DLsite itself.

>>12417697
>complaining instead of doing it
Either your skin or your spirit is brown

>entire thread is people calling each other brown or jewish
Modern 4chan in a nutshell

>>12417697
Super obscure shit needs to be hosted separately from nintendo and sony roms.

>>12417716
Look here, Pajeet, is so obvious he’s one of them’ that's why he’s pissed at your whole race. keep wastin bandwidth.
Place taken by the flood.

>>12417697
Blame the retarded owner for not providing a torrent.Plus the owner is pajeet or huehue.

>>12416030
Most of it can be found here, although there are some exceptions:
https://hiddenpalace.org/
Anything released in the last 10 years, still purchasable and first party Nintendo games don't provide links to the roms.

>>12417819
And I forgot to say, most Myrient romsets have these included already including more recent discoveries. Alongside the rom itself Hidden Palace also shows the contributors, differences between the prototype & the final release and the development history.

for me it's archive.org

Is there a reason why CHD is not a standard for distribution? Iso/bin sets should be eliminated completely.

>>12417835
Wait, I was under impression chd offered better compression. 7z it is then.

It took me an hour to download 500mb single iso.
This fucking retarded owner and his disdain toward torrents.

Thanks to that above anon who just said to use a download manager for internet archive. Sometimes the best solution is the easiest one!

>>12417859
cant even get a fucking (you)
used me up and spit me out

>>12417748
Yeah I don't get why not do a torrent (or multiple) of the whole thing. People say torrents aren't practical for sites like Myrient because files get added and revised constantly, which would cause issues with people downloading and seeding, but since the site's shutting down it's like the ideal time to do it.

>>12414091
>forced seeding or else banned
>on a fucking website that shares roms
Yeah, no

Getting a fraction of the download speed compared to last week, not lookin good.
>>12417649
I hope the more obscure stuff like game updates, dlc, magazines, artwork, manuals etc don't all disappear. There's a lot of interesting things I never considered that are a part of this library.

>>12417632
>Even worse is people going "i hope someone is backing shit up" instead of backing shit up themselves
1. It's about 300TB of data, if not more. Very very few here are going to have the bandwidth OR the storage space to do that.

2. There are currently at least two (Though they might merge) preservation efforts. One from a Discord group and one from /r/DataHoarder. There is a guy on Datahoarder who had already backed up 200TB of data from Myrient previously even before this news hit.

12418103
Go back

12418104
>Retard who is not putting an ounce of effort into preserving the site can only repeat things others have told him
Many such cases

Brown

>>12417835
1. It does not compress as well as other compression formats, this is on purpose since it's meant to be usable as-is in emulators and some ODEs, meaning you can't compress it as well as a format designed to be extracted before use. This is on purpose since it's meant to be runnable as-is, not to focus on maximum compression.

2. It would not be feasible to make any sorts of hacks or translation patches designed to be applied directly to a CHD file because it has multiple revisions and can even compress the same file differently based on your settings. BIN files are a raw dump of a track so they will always be the same data if they were dumped properly.

3. It lacks features that some games require to function properly, any Saturn game that has indexes past 1 in it's CUE file would lose that information if converted to CHD and not function properly.

CHD is useful for it being the end format to run a game from, but not a good format for distribution.

>>12417178
>>12417212
Seeing reddit fags seethe and cope about people using download managers killing Myrient when Myrient literally advertise one in the f.a.q was funny

>>12416697
stupid nigger

>>12418103
>One from a Discord group and one from /r/DataHoarder
this is the kind of people who use /vr/ now... this board really is dead

>>12418135
are you doing anything to solve the issue at hand?

>>12414178
>I mean it was also people bypassing the site and actually paying for the privilege
He really should have disabled direct links. The site itself was free to use with no registration, speed caps, ads or captchas required to be clicked through, daily limits, or any such bullshit, yet idiots created downloader clients (Likely with AI because they can't code worth a damn) and charged to use their features. Leeches that did jack shit were profiting off this site and bypassing the site itself and any of it's donation or other messages while sucking it's bandwidth. Worst part is these idiots will just go off now with their money that they gained by killing the site while one of the best game preservation sites on the plant to exist in years dies off.

>>12418135
Can you be any more butthurt that people are actually doing something while you stand here brainlessly repeating things others told you to say?

>>12414820
>remember seeing a leddit screenshot on /v/ of some retard who posted about Myrient on a big emulation community there, with links and all, and even the ledditors were smart enough to tell him to delete it.
Of course it was /v/. I saw a thread about Myrient there too and the first reply was someone proudly boasting that they didn't know what it was with everyone else circle-jerking about that too and going "fpbp", even the Myrient thread on /g/ had more intelligent replies.

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>>12417669
>>12417673
kek i love coming back to this steaming pile of cope which is just nothing but insults and no serious argument, 4cuckers never change.

>>12418135
Explains why the board went to shit

>>12418212
shut the fuck up faggot

>>12418128
The problem isn't "using a download manager" it's "selling a download manager to phone users, that bypasses the bandwidth throttling that the site owner uses to keep its costs down, and does not contribute any of the money it makes towards the bandwidth costs it incurs." Defend that if you can.

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>>12417697
>trying to be a cute racist

>>12418260
You sound upset.

>>12418269
poo poo faggot

>>12418263
>a bloo bloo
Defend illegally hosting and distributing 400TB of content that doesn't belong to you. It's always funny when thieving niggers complain about other people doing the same thing to them. You don't have any moral high ground to stand on if you choose to run a piracy site.

>>12418274
shut the fuck up poo poo faggot

>>12418135
>redditors organize and do good things
>4chan has a toddler tantrum over it while doing nothing themselves
tale old as time

>>12418280
>>redditors organize and do good things
What "good thing" are you talking about? Who does it help to have these retards backing everything up to a hard drive and throwing it in a drawer, to be discovered along with their bloated corpse when they die? If you're not going to make the stuff you're "preserving" freely available, which the moralfaggots of plebbit will never do, then it's fucking useless. Myrient going down is NOT a preservation issue in the first place, and it's typical of the self-aggrandizing activist retards of that shithole to turn it in to one for updoots.

>>12418289
>retarded anon throws a shitfit and doesn't understand what he's talking about
tale as old as time

>>12414016
>all these faggots crying over this
1. you should have everything you need hoarded by now, its not like new retro games are coming out kek
2. unless you're under 18, you've lived through sites coming and going. There will be another one.

>>12418289
could you imagine if people like you were capable of any kind of self reflection? It would be so funny seeing how embarrassed youd be if you could realize the pointless and stupid reason youre upset right now.

>>12414016
>retarded plebbitors make download managers for the site
>retarded site admin doesn't outright block them because "lol free access as long as you dont pay for it"
>gets abused a lot

>>12418301
>>12418308
>zero arguments
I accept your concessions. Now go back.

>>12418289
What makes you think they aren't going to be making it available? That is the plan, they aren't going to just back it up and then lock it in a safe. If you bothered to even look into the very thing you are throwing a tantrum about you would have known this.

>>12418103
What good is that a hoarder of two make a "backup" of the site? Best chance it will be shared among a closed knitted circle of other hoarders.
>>12418280
>>12418301
No, really , what good thing "reditors organized" do? Hate and cancel people they don't like? Donate to political cause they like?
Do you think normal people will risk hanging around trooncord to grab limited portions of the whole thing?
Why don't you just go back plebbt, retard.

>>12418314
you don't have any arguments yourself anon. you're having a meltdown over a scenario you created in your head. you're proving me right every time you post.