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Greeting anons,

I'm a system administrator from The-Eye.eu. The Eye is an open directory based file-archive, currently hosting around 22 terabytes of data. Out of those 22 terabytes, over 3 terabytes are reserved for retro gaming roms and iso's.

As of today, we host ad-free, bullshit free direct downloads for over 50 gaming consoles, with a possibility to download romsets in bulk using tools like wget. We also offer romsets that we do not host publicly on request via our Discord server, as long as you are able to set up a valid rclone endpoint for us.

We currently serve around 900 terabytes of data each month, while keeping the site completely ad-free, paying the bills from our pockets. We're here to keep digital history alive and we're doing our part to keep the romscene alive and intact.

If you have any questions regarding the site or our operation, feel free to ask. I will be replying to all of your questions.

the-eye.eu/4chan.txt

>> No.5074554

hi you're cool have a nice day

>> No.5074563

Your Sega Saturn and Playstation collections are pretty good, but I wonder if you'd let me upload some of the rarest NTSC-J games to it. Some of the stuff (like the VOTOMS games) was pretty hard to find even when Loveroms and Emuparadise were alive.

>> No.5074571

You're pretty cool but I believe the snes romset is the same incomplete one from old archive with no chrono trigger, some Mega Man etc.

>> No.5074572

Hello, friend.

It would be cool if you had NTSC-J collections.

>> No.5074576

And you post about it in here so someone can report your romsite to dindendo..

>> No.5074580 [DELETED] 

>>5074553
Reported see you in jail

>> No.5074584

I'm donating £20 and downloading all your Sega Saturn ROMs. Cheers!

>> No.5074619
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5074619

>>5074553
>all these saturn files
thank fucking god. These things are a massive pain in the ass to obtain due to a lot of the games being jap-only and the saturn being a relatively obscure console in the west compared to the ubiquity of others like the NES, N64, PS1, etc.

>> No.5074667

>>5074619
They're all over a_____e.org though.

>> No.5074670

>>5074667
try that again

>> No.5074707

Do you have any plans to publically host PSP games in the future? They're quite difficult to find compared to the DS that came out the same year. Is it the file-size of the games that's the problem? Thanks for your contributions

>> No.5074718

>>5074707
>Do you have any plans to publically host PSP games in the future? They're quite difficult to find compared to the DS that came out the same year. Is it the file-size of the games that's the problem? Thanks for your contributions

Filesize is the main problem. We dont have funding to upgrade our servers at this time.

>>>5074553 (OP)
>>all these saturn files
>thank fucking god. These things are a massive pain in the ass to obtain due to a lot of the games being jap-only and the saturn being a relatively obscure console in the west compared to the ubiquity of others like the NES, N64, PS1, etc.

You're welcome!

>>5074584
>I'm donating £20 and downloading all your Sega Saturn ROMs. Cheers!

Much appreciated!


>>5074576
>And you post about it in here so someone can report your romsite to dindendo..

Nintendo is well aware of us :)


>>5074572
>Hello, friend.
>It would be cool if you had NTSC-J collections.
>>5074563
>Your Sega Saturn and Playstation collections are pretty good, but I wonder if you'd let me upload some of the rarest NTSC-J games to it. Some of the stuff (like the VOTOMS games) was pretty hard to find even when Loveroms and Emuparadise were alive.

We will look into these!

>> No.5074796

I don't think advertising like this is a good idea

>> No.5074864

>>5074718
Thanks for your reply dude, it sounds like someone has contacted you on behalf of Nintendo about the site. Do you plan to pull the plug when things get risky or are you confident in your anonymity? I don't know how risky it is asking these questions but if there was ever a place

>> No.5074880 [DELETED] 

figured I'd ask in this thread instead of making one for a simple question: can I find redump or no-intro for all japanese games on famicom, super famicom and playstation?

not asking for a link (idk if that's ban worthy around here) just curious if they exist

>> No.5074998

>>5074864
>>>5074718 (You)
>Thanks for your reply dude, it sounds like someone has contacted you on behalf of Nintendo about the site. Do you plan to pull the plug when things get risky or are you confident in your anonymity? I don't know how risky it is asking these questions but if there was ever a place

We are DMCA compliant and we make 0 profit from the content, nintendo has asked us to remove games in the past and we have done so. Nintendo is only agressive towards sites who market and profit off their IP (eg. LoveRoms)

>> No.5075418

Awesome!

>> No.5076387

>>5074619
>a massive pain in the ass to obtain
They're fucking everywhere and have been for over a decade.

>> No.5076542

>>5076387
broken dumps can be had everywhere, yes

>> No.5076602

>>5074880
Yes.

>> No.5076624

>>5076387
Not available en masse or through public trackers. A lot of the time you have to track them down individually through shitty sites like emuparadise, coolroms, romhustler, etc that make you have to go through virus-laden ad sites each time you download, and then the iso is broken and gives you a drink coaster anyway.

>> No.5076753

>>5074553
Yeah, why did you guys get rid of your manga collection before you switched over? It used to be under Datahoarder, but then it disappeared. You guys had some rare shit in there.

>> No.5076783

Are you ever going to consider actually archiving everything? Like getting all games for every single system. For example you're missing more obscure systems like Acorn Archimedes or Memorex VIS, lots of collections also aren't even collections or are really barebones. 3DO and CDI missing tons of JP games, Apple Pippin only has like 10% of the games that were on it. Also there's that Win3x collection which is kind of random and is missing tons of games not preserved well (see Legendsworld).

>> No.5076785

>>5074553
Why do you have the Eye of Horus in your logo? Is your website run by Freemasons?

>> No.5076792

>>5074553
I really appreciate your site and the Saturn set especially. Was really delighted to see you had unreleased stuff like the canceled US release of Deep Fear. Is there a reason why some of your sets are by request only and not hosted on the site?

>> No.5077064

>>5074998
So the "discord-only" roms are the Nintendo games then. I'm guessing you also keep Digital Leisure iso's low key too?

>> No.5077068

>>5074553
This sounds fucking awesome, man. So glad to see someone doing this.

>> No.5077146

Excellent site, thank you for providing this service

>> No.5077373

>>5076753
Stuff that aren't on The Goddess?

>> No.5077553

>>5074553
What's a good way to send you guys some cool prototype stuff and other rare games you might be missing?

>> No.5077570

>>5076783
Yeah I don't even see PC98/88 or Japanese PS1 games. Really missing a lot of stuff that can easily be filled in

>> No.5078436

Bumping this past the garbage.

>> No.5078582

How about Ps2 homebrew?

>> No.5078612

>>5074553
Nice try, FBI

>> No.5078614

Some downloads are really fast and some are extremely slow and take literally like 1 to 2 hours with a less than one gb file, is this just rate throttling?

>> No.5079189

>>5078582
I'd imagine the problem being that some of it is still being updated quite frequently. OPL for example didn't get a "number" release for a few months (years?) already but everyone is using the git builds anyways, with some people prefering the fork over the main repo. How would one handle that? Keep the most up-to-date build? Keep every build? Keep just the number releases? Who would update it that often?

>> No.5079256

>>5078612
A Masonic honeypot.

>> No.5079262

thank you so much for providing this service

>> No.5079401

>>5077373
>The Goddess
What's that?

>> No.5079416

>>5079401
/a/s sikrit club

>> No.5079489

>>5079416
It's so secret I can't find it on the catalog. Is it any better than the old mangatraders archive? I have that, but it's missing some stuff, both old and new.

>> No.5079492

>>5079489
It is, it's currently at 6.03TB total data, isn't the old MT archive on nyaa like half that.

>> No.5079684

Where can I find a USA rom of Ocarina of time 1.0 or 1.1? Your site doesn't seem very well sorted, it doesn't say version number, and the date is incorrect as well. I want the original version with the arabic chanting

>> No.5079710

>>5079684
>with the arabic chanting

I've never been to the site, but I would suggest looking for a section called "Shriners."

>> No.5079836

>>5074553
Get the DSiware set on there.
It's only out there as a 5GB rar 03-08-2018 full set on mega with no individual downloads, which is inconvenient.
No one else hosts them because they either confuse DSi-enhanced DS retail releases with it, or because they have no idea how to open them (no$gba)

>> No.5081348

>>5079836
>It's only out there as a 5GB rar 03-08-2018 full set on mega with no individual downloads, which is inconvenient.
where

>> No.5081898

>>5074553
If your still around here OP, where are your severs located? I'm asking this because you have a .eu in your domain and the EU will soon pass article 11 & article 13 in the coming months around dec of this year or jan of the next year.

>> No.5081929 [DELETED] 

>>5081898
Based Euros finally purging filthy poorfags and third worlders.

>> No.5081939

>>5081348
!9R4QwILA
!pGF_Yq-4PX5ap5bpMQOSUY_2oy5PtrVbrrIDUjFTjmc

Add these in succession after "/#" in a mega url.

>> No.5081981

>>5074553

How are you getting away with doing this all in the open on a publicly accessible website with no membership, password or anything?

How do I know this isn't some sort of honeypot?

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5082005

Do you have opinions on IPFS or similar systems?
Do you think they will help archive permanence and prevent DMCA censorship?
I'm very unhappy with how many services have gone down and how much data has been lost recently.

>> No.5082032

>>5081981
>How are you getting away with doing this
It won't last forever.

>> No.5082951

>only 15 Japanese PS1 isos
>some even prepatched with fan translations
Is the rest of them available through doing rclone thing or you don't have a full set?

>> No.5083014

>>5082951
This link will stop working in 2 weeks.
I'm only posting it for the sake of posterity.
https://ghostbin.com/paste/7e5h2

>> No.5083329

>>5081939
bless

>> No.5083337

>>5082032
Vimms lair is in America and it's still going.

>> No.5083349

>>5079256
G men

>> No.5083690

>>5083337
Though we did have that scare a few weeks ago when they just went down

>> No.5084569

can someone tell me, is this site legit, or a honeypot

>> No.5084573

I wish you had original Xbox games hosted. Good work either way, just needs more Saturn and Playstation.

>> No.5086439

>>5083014
Thanks a lot, will seed it forever once it's downloaded.

>> No.5086454

>>5084569
>honeypot ROM sites

Ah the world we think we live in. I remember back in the day I was all worried about the feds coming to bust me for uploading a few hundred gigs of data linked to a site that we thought was compromised. Turns out a competing site hacked it and threw the fake takedown notice up. Good times.

You'll be fine btw.

>> No.5088207

I hope you fix your Saturn NTSC-J rips, around half of them are early 2000s ISO+MP3 rips rather than BIN+CUE.

>> No.5088765

>>5084569
Nah, they're legit, I'm usually on their discord and have been following the site ever since I found it on datahoarder/opendirectories

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5088851

>>5074553
Thanks!

>> No.5088861

Your layout is fucking garbage, navigation would be easier if I were blind in an asteroid field in a tesseract

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5088995

>all these rooms hacks and homebrew

>> No.5089036

>>5074553
I like your site. Miss emuparadise, but yours is an excellent replacement.

>> No.5089197

Nice site but why is it so...creepy? Makes me feel like im on a deep web site or something or some occult shit.

>> No.5089234

>>5089197
they do have occult books and things. I've gotten lots of old radio shows and such there too.

>> No.5089309

>>5089197
Well the Eye of Horus has the connotation of being the "all-seeing eye", which is pretty fitting for an archive
The planet symbols are implying some sorta hidden knowledge thing, since they're associated with alchemy
and I'm sure you can invent some justification to have the sarcophagus face imply Ozymandias somehow

>> No.5089503

larping aside you've got really shit roms

>> No.5089664

>>5074796
they mirror all of reddits porn, I'm pretty sure people know about it.

>> No.5089693

Thanks for the link

>> No.5089719

Holy shit your comic section is fucking amazing.

My rom needs have been met but all those comics still makes this a hell of a find. Good shit sir, good shit indeed.

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I'm just gonna leave this here OP

https://mega.nz/#F!F59WkSqQ!quGKSFIswBgv0rxAAaF8Pg!ctEDjaKL

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5090106

I'm just gonna leave this here OP

https://mega.nz/#F!F59WkSqQ!quGKSFIswBgv0rxAAaF8Pg

https://mega.co.nz/#F!10IGCLjQ!Aim8asXQ62YKRqzGfAqX5w