/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4638841
Preserving digital history for future generations isn't as important as copyright holders who pillaged long-dead company IPs and are sitting on them forever.

>>4638851
It's a sad and worsening state considering archive.org and emuparadise are both cucking. I'll likely piss off my ISP soon and start downloading full 4th and 5th gen ISO sets since we're going back to torrents easily tracked by The Man or scrounging for certain games on random shitty sites.

>>4638851
my property
my rules

>>4638880
Eh, whatever dude. It's less convenient but I'm still going to get your property one way or another, larper.

Does that mean I have to download the whole ftp to my drive instead of hoping archive will have it in the future? I wanted a reason to save space but I feel compelled to hoard

>>4638887
There are still places to get them, and on archive.org they haven't scrubbed all the sets out, but my links for PS1, PS2, DS, Saturn, and GC on there all have restricted downloads now. It just pisses me off more for some reason that it's there but 'restricted'. Fuck off with that. So yeah, probably, unless you wanna search for every stupid game you want or rely on nigger tier torrents. The safe bet is to probably hoard and dupe all you can.

>>4638841
I’m amazed people put roms on archive.org in the first place, let alone they they thought the roms would stay there uncontested

>>4638901
Yeah. Fun ride while it lasted.

I don't think it's because of Copyshit. I think it's because it's a massive download and there are too many people hogging the bandwidth. Upload each pack separately. Have you seen what else you can't download on their "high bandwidth" section?

Also, for now, log in, go to the "Show all" section and copy the file name into the URL like this:
https://archive.org/download/No-Intro-Collection_2016-09-06/Filename.zip

Also, if anyone wants to help redump.org, you can look up "doujin game" on ebay, and there's a decent amount that haven't been added.

>>4638957
>forgot to say many of them are under $20

ROMShepherd also posts fullsets.
I need sleep.

The files are still present on the site, brah.

>>4638957
consoles dont really have "doujin game"

>>4639174
>he doesn't know

>>4638898
torrents are the only answer.

>>4638957
Thanks man

There are a million distribution vectors out there. How about put in a little more effort than the first Google search result?

>>4639179
What tracker?

>>4639796
No shit you can still find it if you search, asshole, but tell me one other direct download source that covers as much ground archive.org with download speeds that fast and unlimited. Not emuparadise. They've cucked on various IPs and companies, and their ISOs can be questionable now and then. Don't even get me started on fucking torrents...
>private trackers their ratio horseshit.
>anyone can see what you're doing
>fucking around with proxies so there are no consequences for that
>variable speed depending on how many other fags are seeding
I can still find what I want, even without torrents, but it does suck that this can't be relied on anymore.

>>4638841
>why didn't i download everything when i could

>>4638841
You can blame those fuckers that put a direct link to archive inside their emulators to fast access

>>4639829
Are you saying they got rid of everything? I just downloaded full sets of NES and SNES like two days ago.

>>4638841
muh illegal downloadz

the most entitled thread ever

everyone crying about not being able to steal thousands of games, pretending like they're some museum curator being stopped form the altruistic goal of preserving history (as if actual professionals aren't going this, and you'd be helping by making a duplicate of widely available files from the most popular archival site)

>>4638841
>Why not take them down altogether
so you can still "preserve history" and find your random little file. sorry they're not going to make it easy to distribute every single retro game in history all in one package?

>>4639829
>>4639905
You can still download the restricted files, just do as >>4638957 said:

>log in, go to the "Show all" section and copy the file name into the URL like this:
>https://archive.org/download/No-Intro-Collection_2016-09-06/Filename.zip

>>4639829
>>4639915
You can still download the restricted files, just do as >>4638957 said:

>log in, go to the "Show all" section and copy the file name into the URL like this:
>https://archive.org/download/No-Intro-Collection_2016-09-06/Filename.zip

>>4638880
>yes goy, leave it to 'real' curators like Frank Cifaldi. You only need to see screen caps of Sim City NES, peasant.
>leave the retro games to the corporations. Buy only what they deem necessary over and over again, generation after generation. Sorry, no games with petty licensing issues real people don't give a shit about allowed.
>pay out the ass and fill your living space with literally rotten hardware

Not even considering that, I do like being able to conveniently download everything, in fact. I bet you do too, you disingenuous shitter.

>>4639976
Centralization isn't preservation, though. There's still an alarming rate of 'professionals' dumping stupid demo discs instead of semi-cheap Japanese PC games cause they're overtly cheap asses that want to spend less than $5 per disc to provide quantity over quality, and you can find these same jackasses cross-posting their dumps on 'amateur' piracy sites like ROMShepherd, anyway.

>>4640238

Not him, but centralization is a key aspect of any preservation that matters. Money does not come from thin air and relying on educational institutions for preservation of most forms of media, ESPECIALLY new ones like video games, is much more laughable than some preservation program that doesn't bother with pornographic visual novels.

>>4640260
>doujin games are pr0n
You're an idiot, just proof no one cares about preserving the indie market.
Demo discs don't matter.
'Curators' don't matter.
Prototypes are largely incomplete garbage that are barely useful for anything of value besides showing off.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, LJN and most every licensed piece of shovelware on the Wii and Pachinko garbage byuu dumps is irrelevant and objectively worthless, the irony being that MAME has documented 30+ arcade titty games like Pipi & Bibis.

If an earthquake or Truck of Peace hits everyone's precious archive.org, I'll laugh as you cry in agony, ironically as they never took their Doxbin uploads down because they're disingenuous scum.

>>4640313
Archive has a physical backup in the library of Alexandria.

>>4639821
I would like to know too

>>4638841
>muh full sets
>on archive.org
fucking retard. you don't go to archive.org to download games, you go there to download old magazine issues.

>>4640313
>muh anti-intellectualism
you’re as bad as the islamic fundamentalists you hate

>>4641745
Me three lads.

>>4639179
Post tracker bro

- Servers me right for being LAZY FAGGOT, as I've got only got NoIntro 2015.
- Fortunately, some guy on their forum reuploaded the EverDrive packs, so it's not that bad.
- Need to figure out the MSU-1 patched games and run them on sd2snes.

>>4638841
What happened? Did a bunch of ROMs get taken down?

>>4642775
nah you just have to dl each game individually now instead of every game in a single zip

>>4642826
Did someone threaten to sue them?

>>4642864
Everyone was hogging all the bandwidth D/L-ing those fuckhuge romsets. It could DMCA shenanigans, however the previous reason seems likely.

>>4642864
kek you might as well ask why cant you find games of plebs episodes or the doors music on that site

>>4642886
so basically, insane selfish hoarders harmed the site, and now they're mad because they can't continue doing it?

>>4642886
>>4642903
I'm not sure what else Archive expected to happen...

I guess there's always private trackers if you're willing to seed.

>>4642456
Why hate them? They probably have ISIS private trackers ensuring the survival of RapeLay since we all know rape games cause rapists.

>>4639821
>>4641745
>>4642554
>>4642557
No.

>>4638857
>It's a sad and worsening state considering archive.org and emuparadise are both cucking

lawyers don't grow on trees my dude

>>4642826
Do you know where I can get individual Redump stuff? Or is that stuff all non-Redump? Thanks.

>>4643558
>No.
And ladies and gentlemen, is how it's done. Good man.

>>4643558
>No.
And that ladies and gentlemen, is how it's done. Good man.

am I the only one here who just downloads specific roms I want to play?

>>4643645
i do that too.

i like it more than having every single fucking game ever.
feels like going to blockbuster and selecting a game for the weekend.

>>4643645
why?. cartridge system take take little space

>>4643657
there's no reason to hoard shovelware, and these sets often miss real hidden gems.

if I just want to play 0.1% of the games in a console's library, why should I download all of them?

>>4643737
>and these sets often miss real hidden gems

These sets contain literally every game officially released (in the US, at least) for these consoles (unless you're talking about bootlegs, romhacks, demos, betas, cancelled games, and unlicensed shit).

>>4643657
not that anon but for me i feel more compelled to finish the game if i dont have millions of other roms available.

>They took down the fullsets!
>Now I have to go to EmuParadise and download games I want to play individually!

Theme song for this thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwvlbJ0h35A

>>4638957

>it's because it's a massive download and there are too many people hogging the bandwidth

People did that? I always just took the individual ones. Why yould I download a huge pile of shit when I just want some of the gold nuggets?

>>4643741
https://archive.is/DLmsQ
>respects No-Intro over GoodSet despite their site going down almost every day over tiny files
>pic related is No-Intro's SNES dat
>117 matches / 3 per game = 39 unlicensed games
I really don't think No-Intro lovers know how to look at a dat file.

>muh official release
Enjoy your Barbie games and Shaq Fu.

>>4643754
Emucuckadice removed a large amount of shit and still has outdated GoodSets/fullsets.

>>4643787
They're desperate for packs of shit while condemning GoodSet for being a pack of shit. Ironically, a download of even the most recent GoodSet might even be smaller than these packs, because GoodSetters for the most part know to .7z Ultra the entire pack of ROMs instead of .zipping them individually since .zip is basically the Internet Explorer of compression.

>>4643850
Then what kinds of games are these "hidden gems?"

>>4643850
>Enjoy your Barbie games and Shaq Fu.
What's wrong with them?

>>4638957
>I could've done this to get the guaranteed Redump ISO I wanted instead of downloading from some slightly shady-looking site but I was too retarded to read the entire thread carefully.

Oh well. Thanks, though.

This should be a reminder to back up anything you value offline, because this shit ain't gonna last forever. The days of the Wild West Internet are a setting sun.

>>4643936
>The days of the Wild West Internet are a setting sun.

If only people were reminded of this more often.

>>4643936
>>4643938
paranoid and insane
> thinking we're going to go backwards in time
> what is decentralized web

>>4643945
this..a new internet is emerging

>>4643945
>decentralized web

it's cute you think people have enough passion for that

>>4639821
>>4641745
>>4642554
Looks like pleasuredome

>>4643961
if only there was an incentive, and if only people were working on it. oh well.

anyone know if theres a significant difference between: "The Complete Sega Saturn" and "Redump - Sega - Saturn (20160527)", or between "PSX Redump NTSC" and "Redump - Sony - PlayStation (America) (2016-06-17)"?

>>4643902
No clue what "hidden gems" he's talking about, but No-Intro doesn't give a shit about homebrew, so if you want to play Battle Kid, Kira Kira Star Night, Super Star Shooter Advance or something, you'll have to get the GoodSet or hopefully someone replaces it since there's no GoodFDS set, and they don't care. No-Intro is just hypocritical about what kind of unlicensed shit it bothers to add, so you'll see Custer's Revenge but no Bubble Bath Babes or Donkey Kong Country 4 for NES which isn't that bad.

>>4643928
I wish Redump didn't spend so much time on demo discs. It's amazing they haven't gotten to Safecracker or the later Safecracker for PC, yet, since they're busy with dumb demos. Why is it so hard to get people to give a shit about PC games in general?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obAeszQyHrg

>>4643964
ZeroNet recently added a test uploader called ZeroUp and there are a few torrent sites popping up on there. I think once everyone gets backed into a corner and realizes there's no real alternative, they'll come back to the dark side.

>>4643972
https://archive.org/details/SgaStrnCmplt
https://archive.org/details/ZapSnowboardingTrix98Japan

The latter appears to have been updated more recently, but according to reviews they apparently have broken cuesheet that can be fixed with IsoBuster. Also, the former includes game manuals.

https://archive.org/download/PSXRedumpUS
https://archive.org/download/RedumpSonyPlayStationAmerica20160617

"PSX Redump NTSC" apparently has only 3 games and a torrent file for (presumably) the rest of the pack. "Redump - Sony - PlayStation (America) (2016-06-17)" has all the games there already and have been updated more recently.

These sets still work:

https://archive.org/download/No-Intro-Collection_2015-03-03

>>4644001
>https://archive.org/download/RedumpSonyPlayStationAmerica20160617
this one has all the games, but the torrent file only includes A-B so you'd have to download each file individually.

And sadly the Saturn torrents have no seeds

>>4643558
Why even post it if you not gonna share?

>>4644023
>>4643963

>>4642440
You go there to get old ass DOS shit

>>4644025
Thats not pleasuedome, they got similar torrents, but they are not freeleech, which for like 700gb makes it an impossible download

>>4638957
wow, thanks my dude, you're a life saver.

>>4639821
>>4642557
>>4642554
>>4641745

I guess it's RW

>>4644027
dos games are usually available everywhere. you go to archive to get the rare demo versions.

>>4639976
>sorry they're not going to make it easy to distribute every single retro game in history all in one package?
Don't be sorry. There are plenty of places that do actually make it really easy.

Archive going down has been a good thing for me. Forced me to find alternative and better places to score complete rom sets.

>>4638957
> I think it's because it's a massive download and there are too many people hogging the bandwidth.
This is the real issue. They've done it with other downloads in the past.
What happens is it gets hosted on Archive, then other sites link their downloads directly back to Archive causing them a shit ton of downloads/bandwidth.

>>4639976
this, basically.

archive is an extremely useful site. they have a lot of stuff that literally don't exist anywhere else on the internet, all free for download.

and here, people are crying that the site "serves no purpose" and "might as well get shut down" just because they don't allow fullsets anymore. I mean, seriously. is this how kids use the internet nowadays? instead of looking up a particular game because you've heard about it and think it's interesting, you immediately go for "le xX_KillerSniper_99_Xx's ultimate every game ever made megapack brought to you by coca cola", and if said pack doesn't exist you get offended? what the fuck is wrong with you?

what archive is doing is great, with or without your shitty meme packs. stop discrediting them just because they don't approve of the way you use their services.

Now where I will download my NDS roms?

>>4644714
Archive.org has a DMCA exception for old software and has a direct link for Diablo and Starcraft that are still up. I don't know why people couldn't just upload everything separately like "No-Intro NES" and "No-Intro Genesis/Mega Drive". The GoodSet/NonGood combos on there are updated as recently as early this year and have very low chance of being limited since they're separated and almost no one wants them. That's a more believable reality than the claim about Copyrights, here, especially since if Nintendo actually does file a complaint about one entire GoodSet/No-Intro pack, that annihilates the entire pack, but if they were separate, then they literally can't go for the rest of the systems.

This amuses me, because the Redump tards think it's a good idea to upload the entire PSX or PC sections in one archive, which means that when someone else decides to upload the entire PSX/PS2/Wii/etc. archive AGAIN in one go like the retards they are, it'll help cause extreme duress and wasted space on the servers.

This is one of many reasons why I despise the pretentiousness of most faux-preservationists, especially the ones uploading shit in .zip format when .rar is much better for discs. Almost none of them think of the consequences of these all-in-one disc packs.

>>4644731
i agree with you but don't use meme as an adjective, it's 2014'er shit.

>>4638957
I know the PS2 iso set gets reposted alot with normies

suddenly my hard drive hoarding is completely justified

>>4644918
& now its restricted

>>4644994
it's thanks to you that it happened in the first place

>>4638841
There are thousands of sites with roms on them. Quit relying on 1 or 2 sites and start using a search engine.

>>4645132
and who's laughing now?

>>4644775
>Archive.org says they have an a DMCA exception and I parroted without verifying
Archive.org is never mentioned in the exemption they claim is "theirs"

>>4645527
Since that Jason Scott dude uploaded the full TOSEC pack years ago and have been a piracy site for longer than every other piracy site while having gone through less domain name changes than The Pirate Bay, whatever it means to be a "nonprofit library" or whatever should probably be something the rest of the piracy sites should strive to be, cause it looks like it's working.

>>4644775
>.rar is much better for discs

Can you explain why? And is .7z any good for them?

What does no intro mean?

>>4645612
It's a toss up between the two depending on circumstance for each disc. The .7z format should be the go-to for any type of similar files as it's meant to combine them. If it's an archive inside of an archive, the compression doesn't work the way it's meant to.

>>4639829
You're acting like archive.org was ever the primary distribution route for any of these video game preservation projects.

>>4645624
back in the day warez groups would inject intros to the games they dumped for reputation purposes

no-intro started cataloguing the roms without added intros

>>4645584
>thread about ROM downloads no longer working
>looks like it's working

>>4645941
Still better than Megaupload, Rapidshare, 2shared, Hotfile & KaZaA at this point, champ.

>>4645941
Wouldn't know as I've never tried that kiddo shit. I've had all that shit on my own servers for ages, champ.

>>4645853
Only dumps I know of with intros were the ones that had to be cracked to run, like old computer games. C64 especially. That, and modified games with trainers.

>>4638898
yeah Ive been spending months doing the dl>test>store thing its almost like a job.

>>4644767
You can still download them from there.

>>4645941
To be fair, i think a lot of us thought we couldn't download the games from the archive anymore until >>4638957 pointed it out

>>4647356
To be fair, reading comprehension. You just needed to read the post I replied to to see that's not at all what we were talking about.

>>4638851
dirty jew lawyers ruin everything