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>>12748159Save the manuals, burn the rest.
Thanks zoomers, you killed yet another site
>>12748165millennials actually, but yeah it sucks
damn it was working just fine yesterday
Again?
Good thing I downloaded everything I need it months ago.
>>12748159It’ll be back
>>12748159not the first time. Won't be the last.Anyone else remember when it went down on 9/11
Still not signing up for your forum Spike
>>12748295kek, this
>>12748159two more weeks
>>12748159Oh noAnyway
So glad I never see anyone mention the site's i use and no im not sharing :)
>>12748330I've been using the same ROM site for 20 years, virtually unknown, never saw it mentioned online for this long and yet, the other day some anon namedropped it and my heart sank
>>12748159Fuck off retard.
>>12748328Does that include a full set of PS3 and 360 games too?
>>12748334Make me.
>>12748336https://r-roms.github.io/Sony/sony-playstation-3
>site goes down for routine maintenancedo we need to do this every time?
>>12748332People need to learn to send normies to vimms
>>12748330>>12748332Gatekeeping is great. Secret clubs are the best.
>>12748364Find your own to send all 20 of your normie friends to and fuck it up. I heard vimms lair is great.
>>12748368No.
vimm kinda sucks thono real loss
>>12748389it's fine as an entry level no nonsense romsite where you download individual games.
>>12748423It's fine for anything that's gen 4 or older really
It's working fine though. You guys OK?
>>12748389>>12748434It's easy to use on my phone, just click and download and they run right in my emulator.
>>12748328we cant rely on IA. just the other day they removed a guy's archive of demo discs and banned him. its only a matter of time before all the roms get taken down
>>12748159I dont remember being cheaper but I remember costing about the same but you could play ps1 and ps2 games on it.ive never heard anyone say it was cheaper ever
again?
>>12748389fag
>>12748443Zoomers raised on today's consolidated internet comprised of only a couple of perpetually online websites have little to no concept of a site going down for routine maintenance, so when it does happen, they piss and shit themselves thinking it's down for good.
Myrient sisters... Vimm is back up... it's not fair...
>>12748159Trannies killed it AGAIN? How many times can that fucking site die?
I had to download a ps3 game off fucking coolroms the other day because vimms gave me 10 kb/s download or something ridiculous like that. I probably have a miner in my PC now but kinda worth it to have demon souls running so nice.
>>12748328Thanks for the link, time to report it to Nintendo
>>12748328IA is trash, slow download speeds and constantly removes sets
>>12748601>slow download speedsMeh, fast enough for me. I can wait 10 mins for a game
>>12748506Just use the archive of myrient. If anything it's better
>>12748613Depends on the game. Some download at like 50Mb/s and some I only get 525 KB/s.
>>12748665Pull a piece of gold They'll come immediately
>>12748613>I can wait 10 mins for a game
>they think OP is talking about the status of the siteSorry to break it bros but Vimm lived in Colombia. Lived.
Works on my machine.
>>12748492Servers are expensive to maintain. Gotta make room for more copies of random ass Youtube videos from 2014 and obscure podcast mp3s.
>>12748645(you) gonna seed?
>>12748159Never once used VIMM's Lair for anything.
>>12748504Oh yes, precisely. There’s a whole generation that grew up with the internet as a handful of effectively permanent, always-on platforms, so the concept of a website simply being unavailable for a while feels almost alien to them. To anyone who remembers the old web, a maintenance page wasn’t a catastrophe—it was just Tuesday. I weep for the new generation.
>>12748978>QUICK! NOW! CAN'T WAIT! WILL PAY TRIPLE!Boy, I say, Boyyyy you're in for a mighty suprise with what the future holds. Giddy up, now.
>>12748980Living is worrying and I'll stop when I die (obviously)Whatever, Sega Master System rocked.
Centralization doesn't work. >>12748601Use multiple http threads. Seed the torrents.
>>12749006Torrent seeding requires me to use up storage space for something that's benefiting everyone else.
I needed Vimm's yesterday because I was moving my Dreamcast games from one ODE to another and the new one doesn't like the format some of the old one's games were in. So I had to redownload those games in a working format for the new ODE.It went down briefly but was back up again in less than 10 minutes.
>>12749081>noooo i can't imagine doing things for other people's benefits i can only think of me me me!distinctly melanated skin behavior. the bittorrent protocol is one of the very few genuinely positive things about the internet.
>>12748159Fuck you
>>12748328Alot of these fags set these collections to private tho?
>>12748364"Secret" my ass, half the people here didn't even know that Myrient existed and were going "I have Vimm's lair anyway" despite it being promoted on other rom forums. These places don't even have to be secret, practically nobody knows about them even when told, and fewer care.
>>127490811. You can download only what you need from torrents, you don't need to download the entire thing2. "I want to just leech something that only exists because others are also sharing it" is pure 3rd worlder behavior>>12749630You just need an account for those, create a throwaway account with made up info, not like they check or care
>>12749624>>12749642I seed back what I downloaded (if possible - if I'm the only peer then...whatever, sorry).I feel unbeholden to keep files and bandwidth available for consumption past 1:1, however.
>>12749659next time you screech about something not being available, remember what you posted here.it takes a village.
>>12748332>site
>>12749818>zoomering my zoomzoom in the boomboom
>>12749725Well in theory if everyone applied the same philosophy then you'd have somewhere to get something from every time.Then again I don't like Torrents exactly for this reason in the first place.
>>12748492This was because he was retarded and kept prodding about the log-in requirement that goes on every archive of pirated dataHe just couldn't accept a simple login wall that they do to fucking protect shit like this
you know a lot of pain could be avoided if these sites just stopped offering nintendo roms...
>>12749081>he doesn't see the benefit in keeping the latest full sets for himself
>>12750568That's exactly what a lot of ROM sites did back in the early-mid 2000s, including Vimm at one point. It sucked fucking donkey balls. IDSA/ESA protection notices pissed me off.
I'm building no-intro sets on my own right now. I use the worst possible sources of roms to start with then I progress to patching in things from the last goodset and someone else's recent no-intro set. Then sadly most other things have to come from Vimm's which is a pain in the dick but oh well. I deal with it so someone else doesn't have to.
>>12748159S. Fuck that site.
>>12748332My secret club is Freçois and it has everything. I downloaded Radarscope and Raw Thrills's Fireteam Raven.
>>12748332I'm not autistic, so I just download shit from any site that hosts it.
>>12748975I remember when World of Warcraft went down for 8 hours every Tuesday for maintenance.
>>12752968Shit, 4chan itself went down a lot early on, hence all the "moot ran off with the donation bux to Mexico" jokes.
>>12753732I arrived here in 2006 and I don't remember it going down for those reasons. I remember dumb shit like /b/ going to war with itself over boxxy and ddossing the site into oblivion. Things were real fuckin stupid here. But that's what made it feel fun and unpredictable. Now nothing feels new about anything ever. It's like I've been watching reruns of a show for 20 years, they rarely show my favorite episodes, and I'm too damn lazy to get up and change the channel.
>>12753738Yeah, it had mostly stabilized by then, but things were quite precarious in the first year or so as the site was pretty much entirely donation-driven (something that would later be referenced by word-filtering TEH REI into DONATE TO 4CHAN). As for predictability, well, it helped that moot and the other mods, fags though they were, actively participated and contributed to the chaos themselves. Today's administration, such as it is, is not interested in such in the slightest.
>>12753745Yeah I'm not going to say what I feel because I don't want to catch a 3 day but being banned by Snacks just for being annoying is not part of the modern 4chan experience.
>>12749081Storage space you're already using. For the exact same thing. The only reason I can understand not seeding for is if your ISP is one of them real evil ones like the triple evil ones not just the normal evil.
>>12752389>Fireteam RavenIs that the Halo game?
>>12753738>I arrived here in 2006There's your problem. It was more stable by then. 2004~05 was the chaos and instability of the site
>>12754509We still had chaos and instability but it was on account of the users not the administration. The sort of situation where you wake up, think "I wonder what's happening on /b/ today" then open it to find the whole board flooded and everybody fighting about something you can barely parse while it keeps logging out. Explosive user growth, no captchas, and a growing reputation for being the scary hacker website. I guess the level of stability it did have under all that pressure is quite impressive.
For me it is FFShrine.
>>12753747>being banned by Snacks just for being annoyingBeing banned for being annoying is something we need to bring back. The internet desperately needs more "shut the fuck up jackass" temp bans.
Crappleheads killed a good site again
>>12748159Surely you've already downloaded all the ROMs and ISOs et cetera that you wanted by now? I've had all my favourites curated and backed-up to a HDD since 2021. And yes I have a back-up of that HDD so it is basically impossible for me to lose access to those files unless my entire house gets destroyed somehow.
>>12748159Fucking reddit and AI bullshit
>>12748361why use vimms as the scapegoat? it's a genuinely good site, gatekeep it too. tell normies to try and find torrents, those can't really be taken down.
>>12756982Well truth be told it's not as if these limits and the shitty buggy scripts enforcing them don't encourage users to build such tools in the first place. I was using the site normally trying to build no-intro sets for the Gameboy and Gameboy Color. I encountered a few roms where whatever shitty scripts he has to switch between versions of a rom prevented a few from being downloaded and the obvious logic, simply constructing the URL using the ID number manually hit the anti-hotlinking script. In the moment the solution was to copy the curl command for a different download out of network tools in the browser, change up the ID, and use that to download the roms I needed.But I'm sure you can infer from all that shit that right then and there I thought "you know what, if I just feed all of this into a LLM I will get a nice script where I can give it the URL to a rom's page, it can parse the json and list them by ID, then I select the one I need and it downloads. Free Deepseek could one shot this."Creating a situation where a single site is a bottleneck for the distribution of roms is really dumb too but what is anyone trying to do to solve that? Except for people like me compiling sets and sharing them.https://archive.org/details/nointro-gbc-20260731https://archive.org/details/nointro-gb-20260731
>>12748364when it comes to piracy it's literally a requirement, retard. the popular sites get taken down or run into DMCA issues, so if a good site exists and you want to keep it that way then gatekeeping is how.
>>12749081when all the websites get taken down and shit gets worse, the people with the files you want won't let you have copies because they'll have your degenerate mindset.
I also want to say if you can't find some commercially released game that came out during the life of a console you are probably retarded. They are mirrored in many different places on the internet many times over. You don't need updated sets to find them. You can probably find a file that has been kicking around the internet for 20 years and it will still verify against the latest dat. I can get scene isos and they verify against redump. Some site going down does not matter for most people's needs.The problem has always been at the cutting edge of it, trying to get the latest dumps of protos and homebrews to complete your set.
>>12753751Not even that is really a reason, none of the ISPs give a shit about what you do if you don't get complaints, and literally no company is issuing ISP complaints over retro games. Not even Disney sinks that low, they'll complain about a new Kingdom Hearts game but don't give a shit about the PS2 or handheld titles.
>>12757007>Well truth be told I'm one of those redditors
>>12757018If that's the story you want to go with I don't care. But if the frontend wasn't a buggy piece of shit I would have no reason to view the page's source, inspect the requests, and start understanding how the backend works. I didn't want to do all that. I just wanted to hit download like a normal person. But it didn't work like it was supposed to so I made the API my bitch.
>>12757007>no-intro sets for the Gameboy and Gameboy Colorare there even really even that many Gameboy games worth playing? I can see Color, but like when I glance at what's on the Gameboy it's almost exclusively shit not worth touching. It has, like, a unique Donkey Kong variant that is neat, and not much else.
>>12757023you're one of the faggots that ruins shit for everyone, fuck off for real.
>>12757023If you want to prove someone wrong, don't do exactly what they accuses you of and then admit it.
>>12757025There's some stuff here and there. I'm actually interested in exploring whatever monochrome homebrew people made more recently because I'm sure the tooling is better and they aren't under so much pressure to deal with rom size constraints.>>12757029Are you going to have a cry about it?>>12757031It's not as if I actually made scripts with AI and released them on Reddit. I just manually made a few requests with curl. But here I'll give you an actual reason to cry:https://pastebin.com/raw/2u5UQDUwThere now I'm your villain. Public on Pastebin. No expiry. What are you going to do about it? Try to send me to jail? If you two didn't whine and cry this wouldn't exist. But now it does. The hacker known as 4chan strikes again.
>>12757046lmao at the level of public tantrum you're having. do you actually think anyone cares that you're human garbage?
>>12757052>you're the one that's mad actually, y-y-y-you human garbage! you evil bad guy you!
>>12757046based
>>12757046>I'm going to double down on being a faggotImagine bragging about nuking rom websites so people can use your two mid ass rom sets for fucking gameboy. You're doing exactly what Vimm's lair said. Clout chasing ass clown.
>>12757060Yeah because being able to download one rom at a time manually with a python script is going to nuke an entire rom site.
>>12757064>I'm going to triple down on being a faggot and fully admitting itThat's nice, I'm sure reddit liked it as well.
>>12757070You just want something to be angry about. You don't truly understand why you are angry. You don't have a rational argument except outsourcing it to the hated outsider tribe once the reasons for your anger are called into question. On the other hand I think your anger is really funny. It's an infinite resource that is easy to be mined. So it all works out.
>>12757076There is no argument when you've already fully admitted to doing the faggot shit in question retard. It was over once you wrote an entire blog post about it.
>>12757089You really want to be trolled, don't you?
>>12757091Merely pretending is the most overused tactic these days anon. You're better than that, I hope.
>>12757110There's nothing I did or said that is worth getting emotional about. Now let's mutually agree to stop derailing the thread. I could probably wind you up for hours if I wanted to but it's already getting old.
>>12757117>It's derailing a thread to post the cause of the topic of the threadI honestly want to see you're trolling because you suck at this.
>>12757121Take a deep breath. Step away from the keyboard. Go get a glass of water. Maybe go take a piss. It's all going to be okay.
>>12757134Who said it wasn't? The sites back up, the reason for it being down was posted and you're still going to be a faggot.
>>12757142All this anger. All for nothing. It's just words on a screen. Don't let it get to you.
>>12757150Pathetic anon, you puffed your chest and this is what you delivered.
>>12757161I had legitimate technical arguments. I could make more and give more opinions about the actual situation. But what's the point when it provokes a meltdown from people who are operating from a place of emotion rather than logic? People who don't understand any of the words on their screen. People who just want a target for their seething? Being that target was funny for a couple of minutes.Now we reached the pure cope stage where nothing of value about anything is being said and I'm offering you a clean exit and a lesson to be learned but you keep desperately grasping for the last word. You know that's the only thing close to a "win" you're ever going to get out of this.
>>12757173You did exactly what the image accused you of, you didn't have to keep writing about how your part of the problem but you did anyway. It was entirely your choice to sound exactly like what Vimm's was describing. That's it.
Consolation prize status: awarded
I hate to be the messenger that gets shot. I hate to piss on your parade. But it isn't 2004. Just checking a user's referer header is not protection, it's cope. If you want to stop scrapers you need to implement heavy javascript checks, tokenize and IP lock your generated download URLs in addition to rate limiting users, and do other things that make the user experience worse yet make the bot situation untenable. As it stands the site has little protection against the kind of retarded Redditor who would do something like vibe code a python script to download an entire redump set from there then check it against a dat. You can spit on me, screech at me, and call me slurs because I downloaded 100 Gameboy roms using crude curl commands and relied on other sources where I could download thousands of roms in single archives like any sane person for the rest. You know, the considerate behavior that doesn't harm everyone else. But regardless of what I do the site as it stands is very scrapeable. I wasn't even gonna go way into detail about it but I might as well. Cope.
>>12757195Take your own advice and let it go dude LOL
>>12757197Is anything I just said wrong? I'm open to dissenting opinions if you want to have a legitimate technical debate about this.
>>12757202Come on anon, you don't lecture people about letting things go and "having last words" and then want to continue have a discussion about it. Grow the fuck up. The hilarious part is there's better websites to grab roms from and you're bragging about Vimm's lair? It was hilarious.
>>12757207I'm not really interested in continuing a slapfight with you. If you want to talk about the actual subject of this thread let's do it. Otherwise this is a pissing contest. I get in those all the time but one hour is enough man. Let's talk about something of substance.The world does not work like you want it to. Vimm's Lair is a website on the internet. Let's think of the internet like a filthy neighborhood infested with drugs and crime. Vimm's Lair is like a house with the key to it's back door hidden under the welcome mat at the front door. There's no button we can press that makes all the Redditors in this world simply disappear. If the tards on r/datahoarder can scrape your site at will then they're gonna do it. You can say in a way that I'm "victim blaming" Vimm's but as someone who works in this industry in a professional capacity I took one look at that and said "what the fuck" before this situation happened. I got what I needed without abusing the fuck out of the website and it's resources. I moved on. A userscript to correct what's broken about the js used to display different versions of a game probably could have fixed it too then I could have completed the requests in the way that was intended. But it would have the same effect so why bother?Your position is "I don't like this" and if you actually pay attention to what I am saying beneath the criticism of Vimm's you can see that I am saying that I don't like this or think it's right either. But if simply asking people not to do a bad thing stopped them all of this planet's societies could be utopias.
>>12757220>I'm not really interested in continuing a slapfight with youYou'll do it with anybody who comes across this thread. Have some humility my man. It's funny because after you told me I needed the last word I knew you were going to rant like an old man for another hour.
>>12757228Are we going to talk about Vimm's or are we going to talk about each other? Do we need to move this to >>>/soc/ ?
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/ROM_%26_ISO_sites
Scraping rom sites? Old. Boring. Right now I'm scraping one of those sites that loads roms with an emulator in the browser.
>>12757007>no-intro setsWhy are you using a site where you download roms individually for full sets? This isn't the 90s, your only source of ROMs isn't some random Geocities page you Yahooed anymore. Just get a fullset from archive or something if you are going after full sets and not individual games, or use a torrent.
>>12757461Okay so if you understand how no-intro works, they give you a dat with all the hashes right? People don't think of it in these terms they just think "download a full set" but how did those full sets come to exist if no-intro only gives hashes? When they update the dat files with the latest roms where do you go to get them? The answer right now is Vimm's. When a new dat is released an automated message gets placed on the site asking for people to upload these roms. I have looked at sets from before Myrient shut down and they were getting the newest roms from Vimm's, probably scraping it too lmao.Before things like this there were some oddball forums where the collectors would hang out and post those updates. I got a lot of cool stuff from them like different scene BBS sets. But that's dead and everything is kinda centered around Vimm's now. So for such sets to exist in an updated forum some autist like me has to go to Vimm's and download the missing roms one by one to complete the set then share it.
>>12757478>but how did those full sets come to exist if no-intro only gives hashes?The same fucking way redump sets exist when redump is only hashes, people took the time to make already put together sets with said hashes. Again, this isn't the 90s where you compared your goodset dat files against the random ROMs you scraped off here and there, people already did this work for you. You are trying to reinvent the wheel because you don't trust that wheels are supposed to be round.>When they update the dat files with the latest roms where do you go to get them?Newsgroups, private trackersAlso, that would only apply to new dumps, which basically means either homebrew or some long long proto that was recently found, 99% of the library will have been dumped decades ago and isn't changing, there is no reason to download the retail games that were released 30-40 years ago one-by-one, those have already been dumped and verified an eternity ago. You aren't going to suddenly find Super Mario Bros 4 on the NES or Sonic 4 on the Genesis. If you want to just get homebrew and protos being uploaded to Vimm's then whatever, but there is zero reason to scrape entire sets when 99% of it are the same hash-checked roms dumped decades ago that everyone else has.
>>12753738Lol dude the internet and 4chan is unrecognisable now2007-2011 it was still more or less a wild west and you could stumble upon anything even on sfw boards.. now the internet and 4chan in general is completely controlled by governments and big corps. A.i is the final nail in the coffin for freedom of imagination and expression. But you hit the nail on the head, I feel like I'm watching re-runs of the bad episodes and too lazy to change the channel
>>12757497If you read my posts you would understand that yes, I am trying to complete a set. I started off doing it as a proof of concept. I wanted to see how close to complete I could come using the worst available romsets that I had access to. I started with scene roms, the nintendo gigaleak lot check roms, and the last goodset available. That was entertaining. Then I bumped it up using the latest no-intro set from private trackers which hadn't been updated since myrient went down. Nobody is carrying that torch. So why not me I'm dicking around dating roms anyway? What started off as fun became something to fill a need. If nobody else is doing it I might as well. Now that I have given all the info about how the sausage is made anybody else who wants to do it can too. The sane way is to grab the latest no-intro set you can find and work your way up from there. I'm using https://igir.io/ to do it.
>>12757507If you count homebrew then the set for any major system will never be "complete" because homebrew is still being made for it.
>>12757007Have you ever had sex?
>>12757510I know and I'm not sure I want to be updating sets all the time. It will be cool if other people will do it too so I don't need to be the only one downloading 30 variants of Yu-Gi-Oh games from Vimm's that I don't even want to play. But that's what game preservation looks like in 2026. It's tedious. It's boring. It had me considering tracking down the PC game and trying to extract the roms out of it myself instead. Once it's done it's done and nobody else ever has to do it again though. >>12757512Many times! I'm married.
>>12757025If you have 245MB to spare, you can store the entire No Intro Game Boy set zipped.Anyway, check out the GB versions of Bionic Commando and Battle Arena Toshinden if you haven't.
>>12748173>>12748180People are mass scraping the site with AI models because vimm doesn't require a captcha, verification, download limits, logins, etc. It's like how RHDN's moderators sabotaged their own site by running a bot that's constantly downloading every hack at once, believing this will somehow give them ownership of a fucking web domain.
>>12757642>RHDN's moderators sabotaged their own site by running a bot that's constantly downloading every hack at once,I'm sorry, what?Are you telling me they're stealing hacks from other sites?Explain.
>>12757461If vimm's lair doesn't want people downloading entire romsets from his website then maybe he shouldn't give people the ability to do so. It's his own fault really. I hope someone uses AI to clone his entire website and profit off of his services without vimm seeing a single rupee.
>>12757650not him, but people were trying to do a hostile take over of rhdn. the owner announced the closure of the site shortly after but decided to keep it open. the evil party moved over to a new site, romhacking.
>>12757693>the evil party moved over to a new site, romhacking.kek I saw like 3 different variations where the ebul site was some rival (hi nightcrawler) Anon's not talking about that Discord dramabait that went nowhere.
You will own nothing and be miserable.
>>12757718Doesn't apply to me. I got what I wanted before it disappeared.
>rom sites going down left and right, people mass scraping everything from the remaining ones>meanwhile i like downloading one at a time, beating it first before moving onto the next one (same thing when torrenting bigger games) >having gigs upon gigs worth of games i haven't played gives me anxietyi'm fucked aren't i
>>12757784Not really. All the retards gather around one site. Then when it goes down they claim it's a calamity and game preservation is dead. But if you look at https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/ROM_%26_ISO_sites you can see there are more than enough sites out there. If you get really desperate you can even find roms on soulseek.
>>12755020god, yes, please. would solve so many problems
>>12757664They still not going to use your romsets retarded faggot lol
>>12757016You'd be surprised, I'm assuming theres is some kind of automated system for it. But in general you rarely will see that shit. Only one ISP in my life was really gay about it but they did every shitty thing an ISP could do, constant dropping connection, data caps, forcing their own modem and so on.
>>12757016>>12757982you're even less likely to get ISP notices now because there was some court case in the past year or so that basically said they no longer are legally bound to notify copyright infringers.
>>12748169Millennials were the ones fighting to keep Vimm's Lair alive, it's that emulation has became so mainstream that companies started to hunt down these sites on their own merits and kill them off one by one.Also the site is back up.
Genuinely don’t mind if every rom site and emulator got hunted down. Wouldn’t mind if every video game youtuber got hunted down too. It’d make me laugh so much. I only play retro games but I just want things to get worse so bad. I don’t know why.
>>12758018>I don’t know why.well that's easy: because you've been a pathetic friendless loser that's done nothing with their life and you want everyone to suffer like you do. normal well-adjusted people don't think like you do
>>12758012Lol the only people who actually care are Stop preserving Mario and Pokemon and your site would still be up.UM YEAH WE'RE NAMCO PLEASE REMOVE ACE COMBATTU 3
>>12757784>>meanwhile i like downloading one at a time, beating it first before moving onto the next one (same thing when torrenting bigger games) >having gigs upon gigs worth of games i haven't played gives me anxiety>i'm fucked aren't iThe anxiety thing is just silly, you can always just download the fullset to have it yourself and put it on some external backup drive or something, only using it when you want to move onto a new game. A lot easier than hunting down the individual game you want to play every time.
>>12758010Link? I don't recall seeing anything about this.
>>12758247No, it's "Continue preserving Mario and Pokémon and your site would still be up."
Website is perfectly fine and the retarded jeet is bitching about nothing.
>>12749973>He just couldn't accept a simple login wall that they do to fucking protect shit like thisThen why didn't they just say that? Why did the random IA mod feel the need to be vague and ignore his messages for almost a month before just banning him when asked why the post was still locked? Or how there's a shit ton of other posters on the site who have the exact same situation happen to them? It's probably more likely that a mod got a little upset and decided to power trip.
>>12759265Well anon this is my opinion. It may not be a popular one but whatever. If you are relying on some service to host your pirated material you are forever at the mercy of them. You may not like what they choose to do. But they bought the drives and the bandwidth. In this case you're lucky enough that they took on the legal exposure too as opposed to just purging your fucking shit like most platforms usually do. As if IA doesn't have enough legal exposure/problems already. Everyone wants to complain. Nobody wants to solve the problem. So we're stuck with IA and Vimm's.
>>12757023so you have the competancy to know this is possible and make tools to do it but you are somehow unable to find ANY other places to download in bulk?
>>12748159>get smg from v>add it to wii through backup manager>play>crash on opening ufo cutscenewow great site you got here, really preserving things
>>12760907Sounds like a (You) problem
>>12748159it's back up
>>12757025>"I can see color"I can't :(
>>12761148KEK! Fucking loser lmaaaaoooo
>>12760894That's not the problem. I am not downloading from Vimm's in bulk. I could probably come up with 100 different places to download roms from that I could even automate if you gave me enough time and reasons to try. I am mostly assembling my sets from files I have had on drives for years.The real problem is the long tail. All the new roms that are added to no-intro dats and need to be found to complete the set. Vimm's has proven to be the best and only place to get them so it's the bottleneck of the operation. Whatever is wrong with it has to be dealt with to get what's missing.
>>12757025>are there even really even that many Gameboy games worth playing?Mario Land 2Wario LandWario Land 2But yeah, I also think the GBC has more good games and if you compare games in the same genres, they're often better on ColorFor example GB's Golf is just completely inferior to GBC's Mario Golf which is a fucking masterpiece
>>12757025Kirby's Block Ball and both Kirby's Dream Lands
>>12757784One site goes down another one pops up. That's just the nature of online piracy in general. It's cutting the head off of a hydra.
>>12757784Download the set for everything small enough, extract one at a time, get a similar experience. If you're completely autistic though setup a homeserver to host a website only you can access, host the games there, download your games over the internet from a computer in another room.
>>12748364This but unironically. The TotK incident and the iPhone emulation surge proved normoids are not to be trusted on the seven seas.
