>>12467571
This site only came around post 2020, it was convenient but obviously never going to last.

>>12467571
There's going to be a bunch of mirrors and backups, just like rhdn, and the original site will realive itself, just like rhdn.

>>12467586
Do you promise?

Any stuff worth getting on there before it goes down? I try going through the different fan translations directories and made sure to swap out all of my bin/cue Saturn games with chd files, and my iso GC games with rvz files

>>12467660
>swap out all of my bin/cue Saturn games with chd files, and my iso GC games with rvz files
why? iso/bin/cue is more accurate that this newage compression shit

>>12467665
to save space on the handhelds i play them on

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>>12467680
>not the front preservation argument

It doesn’t matter.

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Tell me, a Gen Xer who had to do battle with stegosauruses on my way to the corner 7-11 so that I could play Sky Shark (and lose badly on level one), what should I download now before it's too late from Myrient?

>>12467586
It's a huge hassle to host roms and isos, very different from hosting romhacks.

>>12467739
Nta, but I'd say it's a pain in the ass to host anything but the likes of Atari 2600, Intellivision, Colecovision, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, NES, Master System, Genesis, and SNES due to file sizes.
MAME and CD-based games? I can't see that as being anything other than a huge pain in the Asteroids.

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>>12467665
>iso/bin/cue is more accurate that this newage compression shit

I downloaded all the games I wanted, but the sad truth is I won’t have enough time in my life to play them all. I grabbed about 150 PS2 games, and if I finish one each week, it’ll take me around three years.

>>12467762
>only jas 3 years to live
You lucky fuck

#### Arcade

##### Capcom
###### CP System I
1. 1941 - Counter Attack (1941)
2. Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (dino)
3. Captain Commando (captcomm)
4. Final Fight (ffight)
5. Ghouls 'n Ghosts (ghouls)
6. The Punisher (punisher)
7. Mega Man - The Power Battle (megaman)
8. Strider (strider)
9. Three Wonders - Wonder 3 (3wonders)
___
###### CP System II
1. 19XX - The War Against Destiny (19xx)
2. Alien vs. Predator (avsp)
3. Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness (cybots)
4. Darkstalkers - The Night Warriors (dstlk)
5. Dungeons & Dragons - Shadow Over Mystara (ddsom)
6. Dungeons & Dragons - Tower of Doom (ddtod)
7. Giga Wing (gigawing)
8. Marvel Super Heroes (msh)
9. Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter (mshvsf)
10. Marvel vs. Capcom - Clash of Super Heroes (mvsc)
11. Mega Man 2 - The Power Fighters (megaman2)
12. Street Fighter Alpha 3 (sfa3)
13. Super Street Fighter II - The New Challengers (ssf2)
14. Vampire Hunter 2 - Darkstalkers' Revenge (vhunt2)
15. Vampire Savior - The Lord of Vampire (vsavu)
16. Vampire Savior 2 - The Lord of Vampire (vsav2)
17. X-Men - Children of the Atom (xmcota)
18. X-Men vs. Street Fighter (xmvsf)
---
###### CP System III
1. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - Heritage for the Future (jojoba)
2. JoJo's Venture (jojo)
3. Red Earth (redearth)
4. Street Fighter III - 3rd Strike - Fight for the Future (sfiii3)
---
##### Konami
###### GX###
1. Aliens (aliens)
2. Astérix (asterix)
3. Bucky O'Hare (bucky)
4. Contra (contra)
5. Haunted Castle (hcastle)
6. Metamorphic Force (metamrphj)
7. Mr. Goemon (mrgoemon)
8. Road Fighter (roadf)
9. The Simpsons (simpsons2p)
10. Sunset Riders (ssridersubc)
11. Super Contra (scontra)
12. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (tmnt)
13. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (tmnt2)
14. X-Men (xmen)
---
##### Midway
###### T-Unit
1. Mortal Kombat (mk)
2. Mortal Kombat II (mk2)
3. NBA Jam (nbajamr2)
###### Wolf Unit
1. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (umk3)

>>12467571

It's a really cool site but some of the zip packages can't be installed as they expect to be run from a Cd or floppy medium.

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>>12467571
>Go on /vr/
>Be reminded Myrient is shutting down
>Be sad again

>>12467761
REDUMP rejects chd for their archival because compression techniques can be prone to lossy failure.

No-Intro or Redump, which is better?
Are there any differences?

>>12467782
Redump for disk based systems, No-Intro for cartridge based ones.

>>12467782
No-Intro: cartridges
Redump: optical drives

>>12467771
That's not a fact, that's an anecdote.

>>12467778
Are you 60 or what?

>>12467778
How was I supposed to know what you downloaded you seething faggot lol

I'll just go to tiktok to find the next doomed rom website

>>12467824
It's a fact that compression inherently gives you less consistent results, yes.

>>12467883
I take it that you distrust the zip archives on Myrient then?

>>12467883
>source: dude trust me

>>12467896
You can uncompress zips easily. These filetypes outright delete bytes that are assumed but not guaranteed to be unused space. What kind of comparison is that?

>>12467998
Now I don't know about CHD specifically, I was commenting on your categorical claim
>It's a fact that compression inherently gives you less consistent results
which contradicts
>You can uncompress zips easily.

>>12468006
*The method that strips data bare from files, not the type that algorithmically reallocates the same bytes...

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>>12468017
But that describes data reduction, not compression. They call it compression?

Who gives a shit, everything you need is on archive.org or vimms

>>12468078
It's a synonym

>>12468178
>It's a synonym
Wtf? It is not.

>>12468169
Honestly this
People have been backing up things that are freely available in many other places en masse. Myrient is going to get fucked so hard by the bandwidth cost that it might take hShop down too.

>>12468169
>everything
No. Just no.

>>12467665
Both formats are lossless and reversable, do you also avoid zipping folders? Retard

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I'm downloading games for PS1, PS2, and PSP. I grew up on a Tendie diet (N64, GBA, and GCN). So far, I've got about 400 GB and 354 games. Snoy fags ate good back in the day.
I confess I've also downloaded some multiplats that I could've played on GameCube or N64, but I never did because I was too busy replaying Ocarina of Time for the millionth time.
Because I’m autistic, I’m making a list in Markdown and I’ll be linking a page for each game I play to keep a journal of it. I’ve done this with books, and I think it will work well with games too.

>>12467571
Finished downloading everything last week, will check again one last time that I have everything I want in the coming days

Recommend shit to download

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>they didn't just get the pigzipped site rip

>>12467748
Lmao ‘pain in the asteroids’

Had me rolling bro that’s a good one.

Download speeds tanked again. For awhile there it was moving quick but it’s at a crawl again.

>>12468718
Glad you liked it. Tell your loving family about it, oh wait they don't exist.
Oopsie!

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I wish i had money to buy more HDD. Already maxed out my 4tb drive and i haven't even downloaded a single game yet.

>>12467571
I know. I'm glad I downloaded all the Dreamcast games I wanted from there.

Y'all fake mofos donate to Minerva

>>12467571
How do I use this site? I have a Saturn and a fenrir arriving in the mail this week. Forgive me for asking such a dumb question.

not my problem

i bet you never even used a dialup bbs
you'll never have elite access

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>>12468383
It's buggy, half-finished crap.

>>12467660
>and made sure to swap out all of my bin/cue Saturn games with chd files
Why waste the bandwidth downloading those if you already had them in bin/cue? You could have easily mass-converted them yourself.

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>>12468383
>Both formats are lossless and reversable
Not true, there is some information that CHD does not retain and is lost in the conversion, and yes this lost information does effect playing the games. There are a few dozen Saturn games effected by it, results range from the music or voice acting being messed up to the game not working at all.

People have been asking the MAME devs that made the CHD format and chdman conversion tool to add support for this for years, but they don't seem to consider it a priority.

>>12467782
>>12467786
>>12467792
What is the go-to for computer games? And to clarify by computer I mean computer systems in general, not just IBM compatible PCs, but systems like Commodore, Apple, Spectrum, etc. No-Intro doesn't seem to have most of those systems at all, and the ones they do they seem to just have a few handful of dumps. Redump is only for disk-based games, and even for computer games that were released on disk a large amount are missing.

TOSEC has just about all of them but they are a huge mess with everything split into sub-sub-sub-sub-sub categories based on file type and even game genre, and there are literally millions of useless nonsense files in there on top of the games.

>>12468078
>But that describes data reduction, not compression. They call it compression?
NTA but you're an idiot, that's just the difference between lossless and lossy compression. Converting a WAV file to MP3 is still called and considered compression, even though obviously data is lost in the conversion. Are you seriously trying to argue that CHD is lossless in all situations just because of the semantics people use?

I know myrient has a bunch of homebrew games with unreleased roms otherwise. Someone should get those

>>12469793
NTA but wow it sure seems like the guy who invented CHD is being overly defensive about their shitty algorithm and doesn't give a shit what words mean

>>12468169
Ok, where are the nintendo and game freak leaks on archive or vimms? Where is the Eggman’s Arcade Repository? A proper full TeknoParrot archive? The full LittleBigPlanet 1-3 level archives?

We're not just talking about downloading Nintendo roms here. Also, downloading from archive feels like I am back on dialup speeds compared to myrient.

>>12468721
Probably everyone who procrastinated realizing they have about a week left and are trying to jump in before it closes. Glad I finished downloading what I could a few days ago, even if I wished I could have gotten more. Not enough harddrives.

>>12469603
>Already maxed out my 4tb drive and i haven't even downloaded a single game yet.
With what? Anyway, better to download the non-game stuff, the games will be easy to find everywhere unless it's some of the most specialized or obscure stuff like TeknoParrot that are a broken mess all over archive. A lot of the stuff outside of console games under no-intro and redump is what's in danger of being lost.

>>12469715
>i bet you never even used a dialup bbs
I did, I don't miss those days. Most stuff like that these days is on private trackers.

>>12469798
>Thinks this is exclusive to CHD
Stop being retarded

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I played a chd of Rayman once, and I swear to god, there was a seemingly undocumented glitch right in the first world where one electoon cage refused to appear. I figured I'd go back for it later and played the entire game getting every other cage and I couldn't figure out ehat I was doing wrong. Then on a whim I deleted my save and got another dump, dure enough I ended up spawning that cage. Cages, in case you don't know, are required to finish the game. Good thing the game also has a password system, so I just said screw it and looked up a skip to the final level.
All this to say, fuck CHDs.

>>12469809
I think there are tricks to improve speeds. I remember when it was slow I used an app called 1.1.1.1 and then the archive DLs nearly used up my bandwidth

>>12469816
That sounds like you changed your DNS server, which if you don't know what you're doing or trust the DNS service is a real bad idea to just use some random one that someone told you about. Granted, 1.1.1.1 is a well known one, assuming the app actually used that and not something else.

>>12469815
how the fuck does that even happen i wonder? i'm not an expert on how compression works but I find it odd that anything going wrong with it would cause just one part of the game to be missing and not corrupt the whole thing or make it unplayable.

>>12469346
Wow what an incredibly mean response to my complimenting your joke that made me lol. Are we projecting much?

>>12469950
I didn't make the post you're replying to.

>>12469898
That Anon is lying.

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>>12471489
If I knew there'd be this thread, I'd had kept the save for dissection. I identified the problem as a bad CHD dump, but believe what you want to believe.

>>12471508
It’s not about believing or not, but about what is and what isn’t. Truth and reality aren’t about what you believe.
That Anon (not sure if it’s you) is clearly lying, and it’s obvious.
PS:
>CHD dump
You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. Take your (you), filthy slut.

>>12471583
i believe >>12469798, what now asshat?

>>12471608
There's no such thing as a "CHD dump," you idiot.

>>12471583
>CHD dump
Lmao of course if you have something corrupted and you compress it then the compressed file will be corrupted. If you rip a scratched cd and the dump is bad it's not the fault of your drive or the program you're using to encode it to mp3 or whatever. It's because all the date wasn't even there to begin with.

>>12471668
That anon here, I mistyped because I deleted an unnecessary sentence mentioning a bad dump and so "bad CHD" accidentally became "bad CHD dump", you pedant.
>>12469765
Really, with the maintainer's history of just ducking responsibility I wouldn't be surprised the Myrient thread summoned him here lol.

>>12471682
see: >>12471705
>I mistyped because I deleted an unnecessary sentence mentioning a bad dump and so "bad CHD" accidentally became "bad CHD dump", you pedant.
Imaging white knightning a fucking Anon. Kekaroo

>>12467765
What do you need to download for CPS3 games? I know those games are an arcade board and CD, but are the arcade roms on myrient an "all in one" type thing?

>>12469809
>nintendo and game freak leaks
>oh no my heckin prototypes I would never ever touch
Kill yourself
>Where is the Eggman’s Arcade Repository?
Literally who, there are a million other places for arcade games
>A proper full TeknoParrot archive?
Again literally fucking who
>Free & Premium emulation, online multiplayer, leaderboards and much more!
Kill yourself lmao
>The full LittleBigPlanet 1-3 level archives?
Literally archive.org

>>12471771
It's not my fault you can't use your words to convey a coherent message you snarky bitch lol. If you can't manage to proofread your reply before clicking post that's on you.

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>>12469898
>i don't have the slightest idea on how compression works

>>12472234
tl;dr
>I'm brown and proud! india superpower2020!!

>>12472234
>I am too retarded to know what any of this is ha ha ha kill yourself
You need to be 18 to post here

>>12471459
Okay, I was like wtf is this response but rando trolling makes sense

Do you all think I should add my ROM folders to my Soulseek shares? I don't think many people get video games from there, but there's no reason not to, right?

>>12469751
I can understand not wanting to do that on Windows. The programs just suck and crash in 10 and 11 for me. I fired up a Linux VM just to do so.

I got my 20TB of fill and I'm pretty good.

Any mirrors/archives will stay up?

>>12472846
??? I have used it dozens of times on Windows to convert hundreds of gigs of files to CHD with no problem. There is just one program on windows. chdman, which comes with Mame. What weird shoddy programs are you using?

>>12467571
torrent?

>>12472573
I didn't make any of those other posts either tbqh

>>12467571
no wonder rom/iso site gets taken down,i've seen people openly link website like vimm and stuff directly on facebook and the like,i think the more people got on the internet the worse it got.
i hate normies so much.
didnt felt like making a thread for this so found the most related thread

>>12473687
Myrient itself states that it's absolutely ok to share it.

>>12473692
Yeah that's no biggie, the dick move is to make an android app that downloads stuff off myrient without the user ever seeing the site or the "please donate" banner, and keeping all the money for yourself.

>>12469765
There's also this.
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/issues/12805

Can I please get some recs for rail shooters, for any console?
Actual rail shooters though, like the S&P games, Panzer Dragoon, Child of Eden, Rez etc, not light gun games

>>12473736
You know what they say: India is a superpower. Indian chads were the only ones to profit from it. It’s about Indian superiority. Don’t be mad, we’ll always be better, I mean; there’s a good reason why many, if not most, CEOs are Indian. I wouldn’t be surprised if your boss, or even your boss’s boss, is Indian as well.

>>12472846
You only place chudman in a folder and have a few lines in a bat file

>>12469816
I tried 1.1.1.1 and it didn’t help at all. Just seems like the middle of March everything was normal and fine then a week ago speeds just plummeted again.

>>12474346
Saar, we are CEO of scams and scummy low trust behavior. Which is why India is such a great place to live

>>12474413
It seems I struck a nerve, Timmy.
By the way: I’m developing an Android app that lets users download from Minerva without having to deal with "torrenting" or interfering with the user's bandwidth since my app won't seed. I might share it here once it’s ready, and I’m currently getting support on Reddit.

I just wish you could download an entire romset without some third party shit

>>12467571
Idunno, I feel like there's a good amount of alternatives so I'm not really "feeling" the loss. It's mostly a loss for redundancy to me, unless I'm missing something unique and special about this site? Legit never even heard of it before until recently, I just have my other websites.

>>12474485
It is (was) by far the most convenient romsite: simple and clear interface and organization, excellent coverage of various collections and no restrictions on downloads. The last part of course being part of the reason why it's going down, but it was fun while it lasted.

>>12474485
>I feel like there's a good amount of alternatives
name em

>>12474647
I feel like it's a bad practice to spread the names around but "VL" always covers my needs

>>12472521
>>12472528
he's right doe
I've never heard of those shit before the announcement of Myrient shutting down
you can find all the ROMs that matter pretty much everywhere else

some of the way you people scoff at videogame preservation just because the english version of most popular games will always be easily available is a bit disheartening

>>12474418
>"my app won't seed"
You realize trackers can keep track of a user's ratio and ban for not seeding

>>12474697
Vimm is no fucking secret, and it's organization is a joke compared to myrient. If you don't "get" what makes Myrient so special then read the posts in this very thread, people have mentioned unique files that are pretty much nowhere else. We aren't just talking about redump or no-intro sets. (And even then, good luck finding the big ones like TOSEC's DOS in one piece)

>>12474723
>I've never heard of those shit before
That just makes you ignorant, not the site irrelevant

eXoDOS is based.

I don't have the drive space for them, but surly someone somewhere has all the gigaleaks saved, right? All the original downloads they were sourced from are gone, and nowhere else seems to be hosting them, so if no one has them saved they are gone for good.

>>12474830
That was the main thing I was after and the first thing I downloaded, pretty sure I got them all. Though I highly doubt I was the only one.

>>12474856
Nice. It's insane how many there are. I bet to this day there's a bunch of interesting undiscovered stuff in those. There was just too much all at once for people to thoroughly comb through.

>>12474892
>I bet to this day there's a bunch of interesting undiscovered stuff in those.
I would not doubt it. They are about 1.25TB combined, mostly of repos. The Game Freak leak had 100GB files.

>>12474901
nta, wtf are you guys talking about?
I thought gigaleak was 90% pokecrap and product reports, the only interesting thing was the batch with L-is-real?

>>12474795
I never said it's a secret but the less these sites are mentioned by name the better

>>12474795
>We aren't just talking about redump or no-intro sets.
Even among those, there's some Redump sets that I can't find anywhere else (at least not nearly as complete/up to date), like the video DVD and Blu-ray sets. They're mostly comprised of bonus discs that were bundled with games, or were given for pre-ordering them, or are just game-related in general. Others are there for having (or being entirely) DVD menu-based games, or for having PC (or even a few original Xbox and PS3) game demos also on the disc. There's some discs there that I can't find even a single mention of elsewhere on the Internet, such as "Cool Boarders 2001 - Boarding Pass (Canada)" and "Downhill Domination - Cinematics (Europe)".

>>12474795
I'm ignorant because they are irrelevant
who the fuck cares about arcades, who even plays them

>>12474924
It's hundreds of gigabytes of development materials spanning dozens of projects from decades of the company's history. "The only interesting thing was the batch with L-is-real" is a naive take. There were entire, finished, unreleased games unearthed. I doubt anything that exciting is left to find, but there are certainly tons of scrapped game assets that have been glossed over. I mean, people are still making new discoveries in retail releases that are have been available for decades longer and aren't nearly as dense.

>>12474987
Maybe I'm being overly optimistic about this, but presumably the people who made the dumps of uber obscure games like the ones you mention are aware that Myrient is shutting down and are looking to host them elsewhere.

>>12475094
Outside of the obvious first party stuff like Yoshi's Island, there was also a mid development build of Super Castlevania IV in there with a lot of interesting differences, a mid development build of ChouMakaimura, a mid development build of SFC Goemon, plus a late build of the SFC port of Street Fighter II. Why Nintendo had these builds is anybody guess since they're clearly from before lotcheck submissions; maybe they were asking for Nintendo's opinion on them or Nintendo wanted to use them for marketing the SFC/SNES, but whatever the case, who knows what other protos of big 3rd party games could still be buried in there. While I'd think most anything would've been found by now, the attention span for these sorts of things has gotten really low in recent years (there's barely any documentation of the previously mentioned SCVIV proto, despite it being interesting and having a lot of differences) and the proto community has long since moved over to sperging out over other things, so I don't know if anybody is even still looking.

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>>12474924
You are probably thinking of the Teraleak of 2024, which was all Game Freak stuff, the Gigaleak was in 2020 and was mostly Nintendo stuff in general, a LOT of crazy stuff was discovered in that about nearly every Nintendo franchise.

>>12474970
Nobody mentioning a site here is going to make a lick of difference. Myrient isn't even shutting down because it was known despite being advertised as the go-to site for roms everywhere, if it was the shutdown would have been immediate, not given a month warning. It's shutting down due to costs. This place could not be any less populated, and I assume you any site you know about is well known, likely more well known than Myrient. Everyone knows about placed like Vimm's or CDromance or Emuparadise, they are not a secret. And no, none of them hold a candle to Myrient.

>>12474987
Yeah, there is a shitload of non-game related content under redump and no-intro, such as those leaks (and even other leaks), HDD dumps from store kiosks, dev/testing software, etc. People thinking "I can just download Super Mario World from Vimm or Archive" are entirely missing the point, that's not what people are worried about being lost.

>>12474307
please please please PLEASE reply

>>12475213
Does anyone know what happened to that other archive of myrient? The progress was displayed at myrient.org, but the github repo of the guy that made it, is now gone, and the page itself just says 0%. I assume that whoever made that tracker, just backed it up for himself and then disappeared, wasn't meaning to share. I don't have a lot of hope in minerva, was hoping someone else would step in.

>>12475424
I recommend you get into a good genre.

>>12467571
What site will everyone use when it closes? What's even still around after the decades of shutdowns?

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I love paying rent with myrient!

>>12467765
Where do I find these? I can't find the board specific directory.

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Finally got every PS1 game that I care about. Now I can rest easy knowing that I'll never play any of them.

>>12475584
Nice try, government but we ain't telling you

I don't know my man, 3 days left. Whatchu hoardin?

I've had a full set for the NES, SNES, 64, GB, GBC, and GBA for a long time, added other small systems like all of Sega's games for completeness and finished archiving all of PSX in the last month.

I haven't ever really looked around on the site much, but seeing that massive archive of PC games makes me feel overwhelmed. There's way too much there for me to grab a full "set" like consoles, unless I had a way to divide it by year or something. Can anyone recommend any PC games older than 2008 I should pick up? I'd like to grab anything that's original and pre-Steam just so I have a small repository of old PC games. It always feels great to have things to play that don't require an internet connection or modern DRM.