cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10273849

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

  • Arrow@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    they may want to consider lifting their blocking multiple concurrent downloads for this to get done ahead of them starting to remove titles

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        5 months ago

        oh of course, I just meant that if the Vimm’s team would remove that restriction on the site, the community would be able to dump the roms and help archive them way easier than if we had to sit and wait for individual iso’s to finish downloading

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          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?

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            5 months ago

            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

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    5 months ago

    I actually noticed something similar the other day when looking for Red Dead Redemption PS3 on Vimm’s I got given.

    ‘Download unavailable at the request of the Entertainment Software Association’

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    At one point, I found a complete set of ROMs for every single game on retroachievements.com. It’s almost assuredly out of date by now, and I’m not saying it would have every single Vimm ROM…. But there would be a lot of overlap. If any are already wiped from Vimm and nobody has a backup, let me know and I’ll do some digging to see if I have anything comparable.

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    As soon as I heard about the emulator stuff I grabbed some archive torrents to seed overall more then 5 tb. All WII DS 3DS and SWITCH roms so they aren’t gone if you have the space to join seeding pm me and I’ll send you the magnet links because there are like only 5 seeder and a lot of leecher