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
It reads like many ROMs are already gone? So any archive created now would be incomplete, right?
Centralized archives will always be vulnerable to this.
Wait is CDRomance also under threat? Ugh
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
Whoever runs it must have all of that stored locally, too, no?
Need a list of missing games first.
Damn…Vimms Lair was my favorite, friggin Nintendo doing what it does best…
vimms lair was where i first played seiken densetu 3 back in 2000 when it wasn’t available anywhere
At least vimms lair still has xbox roms. Pretty hard to come by compared to nintendo roms.
My kid has the first Nintendo Switch, he wanted the new one, but I told him “you’re getting a Steam Deck, and we’re smashing all Nintendo shit with a sledgehammer”. Then I explained to him why it’s wrong to support compaies that enshitify life, and now he is waiting for his Deck and has already pirated all the games he liked and has been testing a few emulators.
I’m proud of him.
Thats some proper parenting right there. It sounds like you are raising an upstanding citizen.
I like his logic about this. We paid for the games, so nothing wrong with using them however we want. I just want my kids to know they have options and use them.
They should still be on myrient, not?
For now. Myrient doesnt use torrents either so when Nintendo comes for them the files are gone
Is there a way to download their entire archive?
Prepare to store 600Tb xP
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.
Yea… I guess I had it wrong in mind 😁
Nintendo is just cheap Japanese Disney for gamers. They’re every bit the corporate monster the mouse is, they’re simply just not as powerful yet.
Worldwide, Mario is more recognizable than the mouse. Nintendo is going to start their own movie studio soon. They are copying the blueprint set out by Disney.
This shit pisses me off so much. I need a gun
Use a NES Zapper converted to an actual gun, seems fitting.
Why not a super scope ?
Please also post on the filehoarder subreddit.
[email protected]? Or is there one on another instance?
I guess he means the subreddit in reddit : https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder
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Esa? European space agency?
Let’s start mirroring and torrenting full ROMsets!
I recommend switching to Myrient! Has been my source for quite some time now, because Vimms was just to slow for me.
Issue with myrient is lack of box art and stuff, thing ibliked with vimm is the bonus ability to browse games
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?
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 :)
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
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.
