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Vimms Lair is getting removal notices from Nintendo etc. We need someone to help make a rom pack archive can you help? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 5 months ago by xnx@slrpnk.net to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml

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Vimms Lair is getting removal notices from Nintendo etc. We need someone to help make a rom pack archive can you help?

Vimms lair is starting to remove many roms that are being requested to be removed by Nintendo etc. soon many original roms, hacks, and translations will be lost forever. Can any of you help make archive torrents of roms from vimms lair and cdromance? They have hacks and translations that dont exist elsewhere and will probably be removed soon with ios emulation and retro handhelds bringing so much attention to roms and these sites

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[–] Jean_Lurk_Picard@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They run the site for free and there's basically no adds. You expect them to afford capabilities for 100s of people doing 30-40 rom downloads at once?

[–] sudo_aptget_karma@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

well considering the circumstances of having Nintendo going after them, I just think it would make sense to get all the help they can to dump and archive files to help keep the games preserved

[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think you misunderstood. they don't restrict it to be petty. Allowing lots of concurrent downloads means paying for more bandwidth, or it means the site goes down.

[–] hondacivic@lem.sabross.xyz 6 points 5 months ago

The classic hug of death

[–] TheFrenchGhosty@lemmy.pussthecat.org 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Torrents exist.

[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

sure, and eventually that'd be a good way to share them. Either way, loosening limits on downloads would crush their servers now

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

But they could keep those limits in place and crowdsource bandwidth capacity now using torrents of rompacks

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago

This would be a good option for preservation and to spread the load. I just downloaded GIMP yesterday and they have a torrent link to download their software.