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

  • brax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    VIMM’s Lair has been around for ages… If Nintendo really cared why didn’t they do something around, say, 2002? 🤔

    Why is there no statute of limitations on this kinda bullshit?

    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I don’t think that’s a good argument. In a more general case, if you didn’t pursue your rights 10 years ago that doesn’t mean you can’t get your shit together and do it today. Maybe you’ve lost some of what you deserved but you still should get future benefits.

      As for statue of limitations, if it keeps happening today then it doesn’t matter when it started. They could only talk about things that happened in the past year - it’s still being hosted and shared.

      To be clear, I’m not taking Nintendo’s side, all efforts to preserve these games are amazing and I love to see everyone keep it up :)

      • brax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 month ago

        It’s more the fact that actual crimes can be nullified by a statute of limitations, but shit like this doesn’t seem to have any expiration date

        • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          1 month ago

          If someone shared ROMs 20 years ago and stopped, Nintendo wouldn’t be able to do anything about it today. The statute of limitations does apply.

          But if someone started sharing ROMs 20 years ago, and continued doing it every day until today, then that means they shared ROMs yesterday. The “crime” still happened yesterday.

          Edit: but they care a lot more about preventing it from happening tomorrow.

    • JJLinux@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 month ago

      You know humanity is fucked (pun unintended) when the post with the most likes is actually “fuck (insert whatever)”.

  • BillionsMustSeed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    30 days ago

    Any updates on this? I can’t provide much, as Nintendo games are not something I’m interested in, but I guess I can allocate 800-1000GB or so for some time for this, if there’s an archive torrent already made

    Found a comment below, but after thinking about it we’d need something a bit more “official” and “centralized”, like Vimm’s was, otherwise we’d be spreading it too thin and would end up with many different un-searchable, un-findable torrents with few seeds for the same things

  • wuphysics87@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    A friend of mine and I put this together a few years ago. I hope yall find it helpful:

    #!/usr/bin/env bash

download_roms(){
    for ((i=$1; i<=$2; i++)); do
        cd "$HOME/retroarch"
        curl  -G -L "https://download3.vimm.net/download/?mediaId=$i" -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/110.0' -H 'Referer: https://vimm.net/' -O  -J
    done
}

choose_system(){
printf "\n============================================"
printf "\n NOTE: This Script has not been fully tested"
printf "\n       It may not work as expected"
printf "\n============================================\n"
printf "Download roms for which systems?
    1. NES
    2. SNES
    3. GameBoy
    4. N64
    5. GameCube
    6. Sega Genesis
    7. Playstation1-2
    8. Playstation Portable
    0. All\n : "

read -r system
    case $system in
        "1") download_roms 3      981    "NES";;
        "2") download_roms 983    1770   "SNES";;
        "3") download_roms 2955   5932   "GameBoy";;
        "4") download_roms 2465   2761   "N64";;
        "5") download_roms 7461   7634   "GameCube";;
        "6") download_roms 1771   2464   "Sega Genesis";;
        "7") download_roms 6071   9894   "Playstation1-2";;
        "9") download_roms 23991  23973  "Playstation Portabale";;
        "0") download_roms 1      100000 "All";;
    esac
}

mkdir -p "$HOME/retroarch"
choose_system
    • Barzaria@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Thank you for the awesomeness that is the script. If I might ask a question: why is the user agent Windows 10 if this is a bash script? I’m genuinely curious and I don’t know why.I imagine this might be WSL. You did mention it was an old script so maybe it had something to do with that?

      • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        1 month ago

        The “user-agent” part of the script is the same as a browser’s user agent. So it’s trying to emulate a common user so the site doesn’t know it’s a script, and there’s not a more common user than a Windows one, so it’s lying about it.

    • XNX@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      For now. Myrient doesnt use torrents either so when Nintendo comes for them the files are gone

          • mister_monster@monero.townEnglish
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            1 month ago

            The site says 200tb, and I’m mostly interested in the nes, SNES and genesis archive. I’ve got archives of every game made for those already, but I don’t have every mod and such. Those archives are very small, the nes one is a few hundred megabytes. I’m guessing most of that big number is ps1, 2 and n64 games. I’d probably be interested in archiving those as well but I think the old pre 3d console games are probably worth saving more, since not many people have copies.

  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 month ago

    The whole point of IP laws (according to the Constitution of the United States) is to develop a robust public domain. Every registered idea, multiplied by every limited rights extention is a violation of public interest and public rights.

    By burying or failing to preserve content, they are in fact stealing from the public, since we won’t be able to access it when it is our right.

    • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
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      1 month ago

      This is America, the only law that is enforced is ownership by means of a monetary transaction.

      “Ownership” by public nature is laughed at.

      C.R.E.A.M :(

      • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Here in the US, there are no progressive legislative bodies. The Democratic party treats its progressive members as the red-haired stepchildren who have to dine at their own table.

  • SternburgExport@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Nooo… that was my goto rom archive after emuparadise went down. F u Nintendo I‘m not paying a monthly subscription to play retro games.

    • Kiosade@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 month ago

      No it’s because all the Apple emulator users being reckless as fuck, flocking to the site all at once to try games they could have emulated on PC for decades now…

  • bier@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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