You ARE saving gaming ROMS before the internet iron curtain closes, right?

I just started emulating the other day after years of being a pussy over the fear of getting a virus. So far I've downloaded emulators for the N64, PS2, SNES, and i'm about to start on the NES

>>717048568 (OP)
I have romsets for a few older consoles, but honestly I don't ever see roms becoming hard to find, maybe harder if you are allergic to torrents

>>717050017
PAL roms can be hard to find for 6th gen stuff

>>717048568 (OP)
im doing retroachievments for some old games.
right now im doing the gba castlevania games and then probably golden sun.
just finished the ps2 sly games and 100% the retroachievments for them.
that was fun.

>>717048568 (OP)
>seagate

>>717048568 (OP)
but anon, torrents are still saved.

>>717050125
https://r-roms.github.io

>>717048568 (OP)
I have been saving rooms to desperate drives ever since Nintendo started even harder on cracking down on rom sites years ago. The thing is there are still plenty up and have been going for years. Its the most recent shit like Switch games you have to hold on to.

>>717050213
Thank you anonymous

I don't really care at this point. I've built up several ssd's full of romsets/hacks for every console + movies etc. and most the time it feels like there's no point to having it all on hand. Who knows when they will fail on you anyway

>>717048568 (OP)
the future was supposed to be about spreading wealth of human knowledge and creation to everyone, eliminating scarcity and the need for trading through currency, ensuring this short human existence is about total freedom of expression and sharing of creations for nothing more than genuine desire for all to enjoy
why is everything moving towards the opposite?

>>717050614
... self-enrichment?

>>717048568 (OP)
What censorship?

>>717050614
yeah but you let the jews run wild.
Enjoy your dystopia full of niggers and indians

>>717050524
oh no.
anyways.

>>717050524
>reddit guide
>implying they don't already know
Anon pls

>>717050614
you know that quote about good men doing nothing and evil winning? it's that
people are too comfortable and naive and evil people never sleep and they never stop because they want it all
they're not like you, they're mentally ill, their brains are broken from birth and they're given all the power and money in the world because taking it from them is "mean" or "socialist"

>>717050614
>why is everything moving towards the opposite?
Sorry, but the future is copyrighted.

>>717048568 (OP)
I just finished updating my sets
2x 16tb disks for ps2 and xbox
1x 10tb disk for everything else
anything newer I don't bother
don't forget to follow the rule of 3s

>>717050183
seagate has high(er) failure rates but anecdotally I think western digital lets entire bad batches slip by
long story short I've had a 80% failure rate on a batch of wds, nothing ever as bad with seagate
also have a 15 year old toshiba that's still trucking along
wd 4tb drives are also the devil

>>717050693
the kosa one

>>717050998
I will never understand retards like you saving ENTIRE SETS of consoles/roms/isos and whatever.
You will need multiple lifetimes to play even half of all that shit.
Just get a few dozens or maybe a hundred of (YOUR) favorite games of whatever consoles and call it a day/week

>>717048803
how to not get a virus? the internet just aint the same

>>717048568 (OP)
Im saving roms, music and buying books.

>>717051230
Same, I've got a Seagate external hdd from like 14 years ago that's still chugging along

>>717053453
emulation specially N64 and lower is proofed. it absolutely can't go wrong. install adblock, go to romhustler or even google/yahoo-search "[game] rom", done. if you're unsure about a newer console you check that you downloaded a rom file with the right filename switch=.nds I guess?
When it comes to PC games...you've to be a torrentCHAD. Not everyone can be a l33t torrentchad, I won't even bother if I were you. Only a select few master hackers can do it, but for console it's ez.

>>717050125
>PAL
For what reason? No seriously why would you want pal roms other than playing in swahili or papuan

>>717050998
Based hoarder.
I hate that you need to invest into redundancy at some point.

Is a 500 gb hdd ok for every game before PS1?

>>717055502
should be easily.

>>717055502
I doubt it, there is A LOT of shovelware.
PS1 wasn't the first cucksole using compact discs.

>>717048568 (OP)
>OH NOES. THEY'RE TALKING AWAY MY BBC KEKOLD SISSY WAYLAND CAPTURE HYPNO PORN. THIS IS LITERALLY TRANS GENOCIDE.

>>717048803
You chances of getting a virus from the emulator itself is pretty low. It's the ROMs you gotta be careful of. I use Linux, so I don't have to worry as much you do (I still have to be careful though).

>>717055047
This Anon is fucking retarted.
>>717053453
Go torrent, look on the /t/ archive "Retro games thread"
Ctrl+F what you're looking for.

>>717055502
Here's a list from Plebbit

>>717055502
And here's another list from Plebbit

>>717056214
Is there any set with all non-dogshit old games?

>>717048568 (OP)
>>717048803
>>717050017
Now that nsw2u is dead how do you find NS stuff? There are a couple of sites that offer downloads but no torrents or no updates, no dlcs.

Reminder that downloading whole sets is for suckers. You're wasting time, energy, and SSD/HDD space/health on garbage games you'll never play. The smart hoarder only saves shit he knows he likes. There's way too many games that exist to play all of them before you die anyway, why bother with ones you know are bad?

>>717050571
SSDs are terrible for archival, anon.

>>717056949
It's all relative. I have a 10 year old SSD that still runs at perfect health with no errors or faults at all. Granted it's used as a back up of a back up of a back up, but still. People are autistic and want a 100% non-failure rate storage solution that will last for 100 years but realistically you don't need anything that severe. You'll be dead before it matters.

>>717057072
If they're not unplugged, they should be completely fine, tho.

>>717057196
Why does being plugged or not matter?

>>717057637
>SSDs store data in flash memory. These non-volatile memory cells can hold or release electrical charge in underlying transistors and capacitors to represent 1 or 0 respectively. This is how your SSD reads and writes data, using electrical charge to represent data in the binary format. Now, the very nature of "non-volatile" memory means that an SSD can retain data even without power.
>However, the key question is: for how long? Normally, the SSD you use on your PC would stay powered down for, say, a few hours, days, or weeks, at the most. Even if your PC is turned off for months, your SSD will still work as intended when you turn your system on the next time. The real problem begins if your SSD is devoid of power for longer periods, say, well over a year or so.
> Let's say you've changed devices, leaving your PC turned off for more than a year. Alternatively, you might be using multiple SSDs for cold storage, keeping them unplugged and stored safely, intending to use them only when you need to access the data. In both these cases, your SSD might start to lose data due to a loss in voltage. It might not leave it completely useless, but the data integrity could be compromised, which could be inconsequential or detrimental, depending on the sensitivity of the data.
>This is why people predominantly use mechanical hard drives for cold or archival storage.
https://www.xda-developers.com/will-ssd-lose-data-without-power/

>>717057637
SSDs need a little recharge now and then. They don't always need to be plugged in but if you're leaving them unplugged for several years then you could have issues. Most of the time it shouldn't matter, since if you're using them for regular backups they're going to end up being plugged in at reasonable intervals.

Bump

Be honest niggas. Did I fuck up by putting my OS on a SSD? Should I have just put it on a HDD?

>>717060226
>Did I fuck up by putting my OS on a SSD?
No.

>>717056153
hey, I'm just saying you won't get a virus even if you download roms normally so-to-speak. how high do you have to be to manage to do that. you can download it one go for nes/snes roms, no need for a torrent.
https://www.romspack.com/snes-roms-pack/

>>717056142
>I use linux
No one fucking asked, faggot.

>>717056402
Just download any retropie set

>>717060541
I asked

>>717056142
how the fuck do you get a virus from roms that are just useless files you can't even interact with on your computer without an emulator in the first place?

Why are you stupid fags trying to download every single game for old consoles? Just download the one's you already enjoyed, or ones that interest you. You dont need all the shovelware. Like what the fuck are you going to do with the eye toy games? Are you really going to play hannah montana ps2 game?

>>717048568 (OP)
I want to but I honestly cant think of any consoleshit that's worth downloading.

>>717060574
>I just started emulating the other day after years of being a pussy over the fear of getting a virus. So far I've downloaded emulators for the N64, PS2, SNES, and i'm about to start on the NES

No you didn't, tranny.

>>717053303
Alternatively, you can just buy cheap HDDs and clone your sets of ROMS into it then sell them back for a significant price for those too lazy to download it for themselves
It's what that one company does, i think

>>717050614
spreading the wealth of human knowledge hurts profits, please understand.
companies make much more money if people stop thinking and eat the slop that's shoveled out in front of them daily (Tiktok, Instagram, Disney, Netflix crime documentaries, Marvel movies)

>>717048568 (OP)
I don't have a TB across all my drives.
But i do keep a good MSX collection alive.
And i mean actually good, disk images and all, not that "goodMSX" faggotry that barely has 50 MB, with like 100 ROMS.

>>717048568 (OP)
I don't have enough storage space. sets are too fucking large for 6th and 7th gen

>>717056943
Cartridge based systems (up to the DS at least) take up so little space there's no reason not to download them all.

Complete sets up to and including gen 6. Above that I don't really care. I have a handful of titles I think I'd want.
They're stocked up on my 8drive NAS and also in cold storage.
I don't really care about PC games so none of those really.

I am psychotically depressed and just don't care if anything gets saved anymore.

>>717050614
Because you're afraid of slaying the people causing it.

>>717060872
>Dipshit wants to fill his drive with shit like picrel

Fucking do it.

With all the talk of HD failure; is there an easy way to strip the file structure and details out of a HD without taking all the data. Like a breakdown of the folders and what's in them. There's probably a better way to phrase that but I'm retarded.

>>717057637
>being this tech-illiterate
you need to be 18 to post here
>>717050868
>evil people never sleep and they never stop because they want it all
this is false. evil people do give up, but more evil people are born every minute. the fact is that it only takes 1 drop to poison the well for everyone. a society is only as good as its most unscrupulous members, so unfortunately, it's much harder to keep things running than to ruin them
and lastly, the presumption of innocence and safeguards let evil go unpunished. at the same time ditching either is not an option because you open the door to professional victims and cry-bullies

>he doesn't carve the program data into granite slabs and store it in his climate controlled bunker

>>717048568 (OP)
I already have every game, retro or otherwise I've ever wanted downloaded as of last year. I saw where things were headed. Fuck the feds

>>717048568 (OP)
I already have complete sets of every non-disc platform up to gen 6. Beyond that I have enough stuff downloaded to entertain me for a lifetime. Currently I'm rampaging through gog-games trying to get anything I'm interested in and copies of some of my steam games without DRM.

>>717061096
The entire GBA library is 12GB. It's literally nothing.

>>717061472
Nigga, you're not even going to play that shit.

Is myrient a reliable website? Will it give me a virus?

>>717061173
You sound like one of those despotic fucks who never miss their chance to lick some boots or promote MUH SECURITY MUH THINK OF THE CHILDREN in exchange for everyone else's rights and privacy. In short , I think you should hang yourself. There are too much of goons like you lately.

>>717056943
in the apockalips you can be the based entertainment dealer

>>717061634
Just compare the hashes against Redump or No-Intro, anon.

>>717048568 (OP)
>All of my hard drives are full
Go on without me

>>717061172
To answer my own question if anyone is interested: Wiztree made nice .CSV files of my drive details for me.

>>717060491
What happens when the shit gets taken down by Nintendo? In years time that link will not work, I guarantee you.

>>717061173
>this is false. evil people do give up, but more evil people are born every minute.
They believe they are actually good, which is why they never give up. This compounds itself once they start group-thinking with their other like minded, they then start believing they're smart too. They think they're smart so that automatically makes everyone else is stupid and that there's no way they could be wrong or evil because they're too smart and good in their own opinion.

Vimm's Lair added back everything that got removed last summer. Just noticed today

Bros I don't want to buy 1PB worth of storage.

>>717063042
>Putting all his eggs in once basket
ngmi

>>717048803
The only reason for the surface web still being relevant is for torrenting and downloading software such as roms. Every other facet of it has become so astro turfed and dumbed down for the ignorant masses that it no longer has an applicable purpose.

>>717050614
>why is everything moving towards the opposite?
Jews

I have everything relevant up to PS2 and Gamecube.

>>717063001
Wait, is true. What happened now?

>>717063486
>What happened now?
I don't think anything happened. He just had to lay low for a while until the heat died down

>>717061650
if you think I'm on the side of corpos and gubmints then you don't know how to read. I can't believe retards like you claim to care about freedom

>>717056214
Realistically speaking you don't need every region's full romset, just grab the US set, add in any English translations, and then finish with PAL/Japanese region exclusives. Or maybe you're one of those sick freaks that actually believes the PAL versions of games are superior.

>>717060226
No, your OS should always be on the fastest storage device in your PC.

>>717056214
>Gamecube redump (Japan) is 1/4 the size of other regions
What happened here?

>>717064794
The Gamecube simply wasn't a very popular system in Japan.

i started downloading pkgs for ps4 but shadps4 doesn't play any of the games i got
it only keeps on crashing

>>717065647
>the bloodborne emulator doesn't play anything other than bloodborne
No way?

>>717066175
pardon?

>>717050152
RA is nice, hit 30k points not long ago
shame the community is like 50% troons though, can't enjoy fuck all anymore without them infesting

>>717056214
>No-Intro contains 80% of retro systems
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/List_of_computers

>>717048568 (OP)
>You ARE saving gaming ROMS before the internet iron curtain closes, right?
100%. I got all of the ROMs I need on my HDD, SSD and 2 backup HDDs.

>>717055441
Not that anon, but I'm from Poland and we had PAL shit here. If you grew up with it, you want to play it that way later too.

>>717055441
>why would you want pal roms
Some Japanese games never released in the US, so the PAL versions are the only way to play in English
Forbidden Siren 2 is one example

...what? What is happening exactly?

>>717055441
I speak F>>717055489
rench and Italian

>>717067664
a lot

>>717048568 (OP)
All of them!!

What are some good GameCube or psp games? I just played F-Zero GX for the first time this year and it's awesome. Wonder what else I'm missing. I dig arcade genres

>>717048568 (OP)
>completely burned out on gaming, anime, movies, TV series, manga and other types of content
Just in time I guess

>>717067816
Explain

>>717050614
rhymes with shoes

>>717050998
Scrub the ISO's retard

>>717048568 (OP)
Yep. However, my windows 7 laptop wont play ps2/gamecube emulators unfortunately, so ill just stick to what i have
>>717067664
Remember not too long ago when porn companies made people use their real life id to get onto their sites? Youtube will be doing that august 13 and rumor has it that many sites are to follow.

>>717050614
You allowed self-interested structures of power that work from top to bottom, instead of structures working from the bottom up.
Power given to concentrated power means they will always want to concentrate even more power for themselves. By any means. By taking it from you, the individual. The end result is poles that compete with each other, trying to bite chunks out of each other in games of power, while you are ground to dust under both of their feet.

>>717068483
Super Monkey Ball 1 & 2

>>717069446
I hope that's just UK/US thing cuz fuck that, lmao. Nobody will use their services.

>>717053303
It's not about you, it's about everyone.
You might not play it but if it survives on your drive long enough to get backed up again, someone else might, even generations down the road.

>>717068483
Kirby Air Ride
Wind Waker
Twilight Princess
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Monkey Ball 1+2
Pikmin 1+2
Metroid Prime
Phantasy Star Online

>>717048568 (OP)
Somebody has to say it. Some richfag has to buy tons of HDDs NOW and save absolutely EVERYTHING. Animoe, games, movies, books (all pirated), 4chan archives, everything. It will cost thousands of dollars. Most likely tens of thousands if you follow the 3-2-1 rule. But the treasure trove of knowledge will be worth far more than that once all the Ass Surveillance laws kick in just 4 MONTHS from now, and the best part is, you'll be able to just copy the files to distribute and not lose anything. You'll be glad that you did. It'll be the best money you'll ever spend.

>>717050614
We're unironically in the 40k timeline. No Really, look up recent research on "mirror neurons" and the Blue Brain Project. Psychic hell scape but real in 20 years I bet.

>>717061472
Pokemon gen 3 ROM hacks alone is like 120GB

>>717069446
>rumor has it that many sites are to follow.
Spotify also confirmed they'll be doing it too the day after Youtube announced theirs.
Expect it to roll out to all of the big corporate internet sites by the end of the year at the latest.
Gunna have to spend my fucking weekend next week backing shit up in case no-one bothers to make a browser extension that bypasses it or forgets to make alt websites.

>>717048568 (OP)
That makes me wonder. Should I still keep bin / cues around? I've converted every disc based game to .chd to save on space, but I guess you can't really reverse it to a clean dump but does that actually matter?

>>717050614
you renounced communism for sake of greed

>>717072293
Might matter if you plan on playing romhacks.

>>717072293
>I guess you can't really reverse it to a clean dump
I thought you could, what do you lose?

>>717072481
>communism
Where they made monks and nuns have sex at gunpoint, crucified dogs, stole the property of villagers and thus resulted in death by starvation of millions because they were too retarded to work the land?
Sure seems like a normal bunch of people to me...

>>717048568 (OP)
but of course...
what a silly question

>>717072551
apparently you can go back from chd to bin/cue, but it's still NOT a non destructive conversion, like for example Flac for audio.
Things like the index information from the original disk get discarded, so you can't ever go back to a clean dump that has the same check sum as the original bin / cue you downloaded

>>717072692
Yes, exactly that, they were in the process of killing all those that would obstruct the victory of humanity. Some of them definitely had taken their victory dancing too far, but if we executed all the psychopath child eater richfaggots today, it wouldn't even be three decades until (((historians))) would begin writing about how evil baby eating fourchanners killed the best intellectuals of their generation. I cannot imagine how fucking stupid do you have to be to fall for this sort of propaganda while at the same time condemning fairytales about bending shotguns and human skin lamps.

>>717073059
You are an absolute mongoloid and have no idea what you are talking about.
Communism is a Jewish invention and Nazism is just another degenerate movement of faggotry, just a bit different than communism. All authoritarian bootlicking systems are breeding grounds of faggotry and degeneracy bar none. This modern corpo authoritarianism is the same.
All of that is the same Satanic spirit of rebellion against anything normal and good, just expressed in different ways.

>>717073201
>schizo drivel
Communism turned a shithole filled with illiterate peasants into a nation with near 100% literacy that held currency value parity with the US dollar at the peak of its power, launched the first satellite into space, put the first man into space, enabled free housing ,free healthcare, free education and damn near free rent and transportation for all of its citizens. It was a paradise on earth for all the people that had lived at that time and the only ones that chafed under it were the same monsters that torture you today for their profit and amusement.

>>717048568 (OP)
Hoarding roms is pointless because there will always be a torrent up with all of gen 1-4 roms neatly arranged. Only makes sense to hoard CD/DVD based games because they take a lot more space and people are a lot less willing to hoard them

>>717050183
I disagree.
I have 5 4tb seagate drives and a couple of 12tb ones. All of them worked fine with no issue for many years.
In the end all hard disks fail, it doesnt matter if its sg or wd.

Why the fuck are normies like this? Remember when the fucking idiots started hoarding toilet paper during covid because of their stupid penchant for mass hysteria?
Yeah start buying hard drives en masse to download pokemon firered, it's literally going away FOREVER in TWO MORE WEEKS

>>717073615
I mean 20k porn games literally did go away forever. You think anyone has them all backed up? You can't get all of them anymore, they're gone

>>717048568 (OP)
Where do you download? After vimm i cant access any other website.
I refuse to use torrents

>>717073615
It's normies who wake up each day and always assume everything will be there all the time. That they will always be able to access streaming, that information will always be there for them each day. No need for any offline data.
Then suddenly one morning it is not. Old fags that where here before the days when everything was cloud/streaming/online know better.

>>717073059
Humanity's victory is destroying itself through pure pointless evil. That's what all of history has been building up to. Humanity craves the end.

>>717072481
this is actually the reason full stop
capitalism is still sacred among a large percentage of the population however, so we're stuck with all these happenings for at least the next 60 years or so, by then new generations MIGHT have had the veil lifted

>>717048568 (OP)
I have 2x 20TB and 2x 22TB drives in preparation for internet apocalypse.
So far got all console games up to PS1 era and about halfway done with PS2 era. Also about 7TB of anime.
My plans for the next couple years is getting all games up to PS4 era, as many visual novels as I can find, and more anime.
Need to buy more HDDs for backups.
Most people online call me a schizo and a doomer, but honestly I think everyone is awfully optimistic and naive for thinking the current free internet will last forever.

>>717074096
No, by then humanity's endless greed will have thoroughly ended all life on the planet, as it should be. The goal of life is to end all life, and the only reason needed to do that is "Because I can." Praise evil, beautiful, petty, pointless, self-destructive evil!

>>717064149
There's a 1G1R project to do that with USA>JPN>EUR, but eurofags like to jump on with EUR>JPN>USA and fuck shit up.

>>717056214
Is there a good set for DOS/Win 3.11/Win 95 games out there?

>>717066578
If you're not looking for a specific translation that's not NTSC (or playing "accurate" with original hardware or retarded emulator settings), there's no reason not to choose NTSC. The vast majority of games were developed for it (and Square showed they give no fucks about PAL with the gradually desyncing cutscenes in FFX), and you always have the option for at least 30fps, if not 60. You can argue native resolution, but it doesn't matter when emulating.

>>717055441
Ape Escape PAL version has superior voice acting. Your character shouts FUCK when double jumping.

>>717074279
bitch we can't even kill all the germs on a surface with sanitizer and there are organisms that can survive nuclear apocalypse and more we are not ending all life on earth even if we tried our damndest

>>717074431
Weirdos also seem to prefer the literal who in the PAL version of Gex, when Dana Gould was the original intent and superior because he's Dana Gould.

>>717048568 (OP)
Reminder to have backups of any content you collect and would be beside yourself if you were to lose. It is more expensive, but safer down the road.

>>717056943
>The smart hoarder only saves shit he knows he likes.
How do you know if you'll like the tens of thousands of games if you've never played them before?
Also, the financial investment to buy a couple 20+TB HDDs is very small. No reason to not archive full sets.

>>717073615
Downloading the content you like so that you have it in the future when it may not be there is just fundamentally good practice. You'd know this if you were around the hentai scene during the 2014 Wanipocalypse, or the 2019 almost-pandapocalypse, or the 2020+ Irodoripocolypse. Media gets removed from the internet all the time. Backing it up so it's yours is the best and only real thing you can do.

So what size and brand of hard drives should I get?
I assume you wouldn't want just a single big drive.

>>717060692
>Why are you stupid fags trying to download every single game for old consoles? Just download the one's you already enjoyed, or ones that interest you. You dont need all the shovelware. Like what the fuck are you going to do with the eye toy games? Are you really going to play hannah montana ps2 game?
It takes too much time to weed through the games you'll never play. It's much quicker to just download everything for each console. HDD prices are also not an issue.

>>717056751
nxbrew

>>717055441
>why would you use Perfection At Last and not Never The Same Color?

>>717050614
Yeah nah. How about higher quarterly earnings for shareholders tho

i've been hoarding roms lately and what i found was extremely disturbing. if you take off the nostalgia goggles and evaluate which roms are even worth downloading you'll find that every console ever made is laden with shameless slop-tier shovelware. i'm only archiving the good shit. from the NES to the 360 era I've got less than 3TB of games and i'm not sure how anybody could justify much more than this without making the massive concession that they are wasting storage capacity on purpose to archive shitty games that they will never play. if you are willing to admit you are wasting storage so you can archive garbage shovelware to score internet bragging points then fair enough but it couldn't be me

>>717074853
Youre never gonna play more than3TB of that shit either retarded nigger

>>717061172
I'm guessing you're asking this because you want to avoid having corrupted files on your HDD.
You can ask chatgpt to write a script that will map folder structure of your HDD and collect sha-1 hashes of all files on the HDD, then save that data in a text file.
If you have 2 or more HDDs with the same data and you want to make sure the data on them doesn't get corrupted, then every couple months run this script on each drive and compare the text files. If they aren't identical, then you can see which files don't match.

>>717069646
Europe and aus have it coming too

>>717070846
Based.

>>717072993
for most purposes it's fine.
i was redoing my ps2 opl hdd (which takes iso files) and it was fine going from chd to iso for dvds as well as chd to bin/cue to iso for the cd games. opl manager found them, ps2 booted them.

>>717055037
this but 5x8tb shucked drives, one of which is the above ps2 drive

>>717048568 (OP)
The more people emulate the harder it becomes to stop it.

I have a western digital 5tb external hdd but I'm scared to put my hundreds of thousands of pictures and videos on it because I feel like it's going to shit itself with that many files
and I would be doing it from a phone through a steam deck which just feels like something will go wrong
how do you transfer that many files properly and browse through them on a likely smr double platter hdd without it shitting itself and killing everything

>>717048568 (OP)
>Saving your ROMs on a Seagate
same as throwing them in a fire.

>>717075801
>scared to put my hundreds of thousands of pictures and videos on it because I feel like it's going to shit itself with that many files
tar your shit then KEK

>>717050524

>>717048568 (OP)
REMINDER
MegaUpload: down (2012)
RapidShare: down (2015)
Zippyshare: down (2023)
FileSonic: compromised, takes down content
FileServe: compromised, takes down content
Hotfile: down (2013)
BayFiles (original): down
Putlocker: down
YIFY/YTS (original): down; current YTS compromised
KickassTorrents (KAT): down (2016)
Demonoid: down
ExtraTorrent: down (2017)
Torrentz: down (2016)
IsoHunt: down (2013)
OpenBitTorrent: compromised
1337x clones: compromised
The Pirate Bay (TPB): compromised
NOVA: down (2024)
RARBG: down (2023)
YTS.mx: compromised, takes down content
E-Hentai / ExHentai: shut-down scare (2019), takes down content
AnonFiles: down (2023)
TeraBox: compromised, takes down content
1fichier / Uptobox: compromised, takes down content
Google Drive / Dropbox: compromised, takes down content
MediaFire: compromised, takes down content
Sendspace / WeTransfer: compromised, takes down content
Yandex.Disk: compromised, takes down content
Imgur: shut-down scare (2023), takes down content
Pastebin: compromised, takes down content
Telegram file channels: compromised, takes down content
YouTube: compromised, takes down content

>>717074853
i like having the option to play anything if i want to even if i will never play anything.

>>717048568 (OP)
Oh yeah, saving roms, porn, music, movies, books, etc. Buying up pretty much everything from the used media stores around here. Going to drop my internet service as soon as I see the first age verification/face scan thing. Spending my next paycheck on more external drives and devices. And no, I'm not happy about this. I liked the internet.

>>717076710
on top of this, torrents lose seeds over time.. whatever good shit you got like JAV that's 1080p or higher is no longer available elsewhere.

JAV stream sites only stream shit quality and, again, torrents lose seeds over time. I've had good JAV stuff that's gone forever because I didn't make a proper backup. Even learning russian and going to their sites won't do anything.

citron

>>717076710
>YIFY/YTS (original): down
A10V10bros...

>>717074451
It doesn't matter. As long as humanity dies screaming, Lord Moloch will be satisfied.

>>717050614
That wasn't gonna happen. Look into history and notice how things are just repeating.

>Printing press happens
>WOW WE CAN SPREAD KNOWLEDGE
>censorship, needs government approval to publish, burned books

>Wild West happens
>WOW NOW WE CAN DO WHATEVER WE WANT YEEHAW
>censorship, land rush, outlaws are outlawed

>Internet happens
????

STOP

STEALING

GAMES

>can't buy games that jewment processors hate
>US want to block pirate sites
Guess it's a way to tell people to wageslave harder instead of playing games.

>>717078995
>pirate sites
Imagine sucking this much at pirating that you're literally using a web browser to find warez.

>>717078738
It's not stealing anon

>>717079058
How do you do it then?
Usenet, xdcc, torrents are all missing tons of shit you can find using a browser.

>>717079271
Usenet has everything. Most good servers have retention going back 15+ years, and anything you can think of is posted. Gitgud.

>>717048568 (OP)
I have downloaded over 1 TB of roms in the last few months since they started taking down rom sites

If buying isn't owning pirating isn't stealing.

>>717056214
these are all duplicates, all ps2 games can fit on 2-3 tb

>>717055441
They might have some different or new content

>>717048803
get a des emulator too, they got some decent pokemon and harvest moon games if you like comfy stuff. There are also emulators for your phone, assuming you have one.

>>717048568 (OP)
I have like 5000 games from early eras, less than 2 TB

I buy media, I don't sign up for services
I buy software, unless there's malware built in
I don't use hardware unless I have full control
Why would I pay for your garbage where you have all the control when I can do it myself FOSS?
Imagine bootlicking a software company

>>717076710
Rutracker bros we won

I remember hoarding shit 20 years ago when piracy was going to end 'any day now'. Truth is it just helps sort the good shit from the bad. The good stuff will always be available.
AI will make non-user-customized media completely archaic and irrelevant before piracy ever goes away.

>>717079470
>full romsets have multiple versions of the same game
No way? Who would have though?

>>717062008
>Go on without me
>

>>717048568 (OP)
I would never ever steal from Nintendo but if I were a criminal I'd already have romsets of all Nintendo, Sony and Sega consoles up to the GameCube era

Guys remember, they're also censoring and adding I.Ds to youtube in america by august 12th. You should be downloading whichever videos you want to actually watch before its too late.

>>717080084
the guy asked for every game pre ps1, not for romsets and redumps redditfaggot

>>717048568 (OP)
there is nothing worth saving until 2015

>>717078738
I bought the games on archive.org saar
https://archive.org/download/RedumpSonyPS2NTSCU

>>717068629
>Just in time I guess
You feel this way now, while you can access it whenever you want. Will you have the same energy when its all gone and you can't just pick it up on a whim? You should be saving what you might want to play or watch or read again.

What I'm interested in is a decentralized way of sharing stuff. Torrents are shit, ddl is tracked.

>>717073615
>winter will never come
>so why bother preserving your harvest for after?

>>717079340
Usenet doesn't have bluray releases of many anime that I can simply get on nyaa
It also doesn't have up to date repositories of no-intro and redump roms.

>>717080316
Yeah, using my vaction days this next week to download all the stuff I need. Doing nothing but archiving and backing everything up. Also clearing out local stores that sell stuff. I already have more games than I could play in a lifetime. Only thing I really need to worry about is getting more physical media in the house.

>>717080352
Anon you seem to be lost

>>717074096
>>717074279
You are both the biggest faggots in the thread.

emulator "gamers" can never be spotted actually playing any games, only collecting useless roms and configuring emulators

almost like its an autistic tinkering fixation and not a gaming hobby

>muh complete collection
I just handpick the games I'm personally interested in still ended up with over 500GB for just the PS2 alone

>>717078995
Opposite, I'm probably going to quit my job and drop out of school if this really goes through. I don't see a point in doing stuff in an enviroment of complete oppression.

>>717081085
tendie spotted, mad you spent money on copies of copies?

>>717080973
>I can't follow a simple thread

>>717080924
>could be playing vidya and watching anime
>have to do this instead

>>717048568 (OP)
I don't store ROMs, I store installation files of goon games i.e the actual target being attacked by the credit jews.

>>717056142
isn't it the opposite
Roms are basically running inside virtual machine (emulator) so as long as the emulator itself is not compromised (or has some vulnerability) you should be safe

>>717078738
stop fucking with shit people like.

>>717081326
I wish I liked VNs. And RPGM CG hunts.

>>717073615
Do you have any idea how many TV moments would have been lost to time if some autist in the 1980s didn't decide to hit "record" on a VCR before a show came on? Shut the fuck up, this is a very good thing

>>717081297
I was going to have to do it eventually. I already have years of data just chilling around the house. Basically just organizing stuff and filling in the holes at this point. I'm in my late 30's and I do remember an era before the net was everywhere. I'm basically just going back to that, only this time I'll have significantly more stuff around to keep me occupied and entertained when I don't want to spend money.

>>717048568 (OP)
I've had Nintnedos entire cartridge based library for almost a decade now anon. Same for Sega. Then I have all of my favorites on later systems, up to PS3 downloaded. I'm good.

>>717081247
We know anon

>>717053303
Stuff up to like the N64 is negligible space wise. Oh compressed, the entire SmES library is like a couple GB. Oh God what do I do? Really, it's nice when I get the itch to play some random snes game I don't have to download it, I just extract it from my existing library.

>>717081085
>emulator "gamers" can never be spotted actually playing any games, only collecting useless roms and configuring emulators
I played 70 DS games in Bizhawk emu last 2 months. There's also nothing to configure in most emus, besides the initial configuration of inputs, hotkeys, etc.
Even pcsx2 runs most games fine without the need for fiddling with configs. And if there's an issue, you visit the wiki to see correct config for each game. Takes a minute.
You outed yourself for not knowing shit about what you're talking about.

>>717073615
>Yeah start buying hard drives en masse to download pokemon firered, it's literally going away FOREVER in TWO MORE WEEKS
This isn't even about muh pokemon fire red, the internet as we know it is literally being killed as we speak globally. Unironically we'll need to go to the dark net to get the same internet experience as we had just a decade ago on the surface web, and that's coming sooner rather than later. Shit's fucked all over in case your retarded ass hasn't been paying attention.

>>717081783
>I played 70 DS games in Bizhawk emu last 2 months.
narrator: he didn't

>>717081297
Endsinger sexo

>>717081332
This. Plus, websites like no-intro and redump catalogue clean roms, so the already low risk becomes even lower. Especially when there's multiple unrelated dumpers who uploaded the same exact dump, essentially proving the legitimacy of the rom, and of the community project as a whole.

What exactly am I supposed to download from youtube? I just use it to watch funny gaming content creators. If youtube kicks me out because I need ID then I'll just stop watching them

Toshiba stuff is reliable and doesn't break down, right?

>>717082098
I have 4 Toshiba 20tb drives since 2023, they work fine so far. 5y warranty too.

>>717055502
I got full romsets for nes snes megadrive n64 gbc and gba and it's like 20gb total.

The death of the old internet isn't coming just from payment processors and youtube, but also OS companies like Microsoft and Apple. IIRC W10 S doesn't even let you download .exes because "you might get a virus", and I'm pretty sure this is the direction they want to take W11. Eventually you won't even be able to run anything on your machine that isn't vetted by big corporations first "for your safety". You won't be able to download emulators, you won't be able to download games (outside of the Microsoft store), you won't be able to download any cool, fun little program for organizing your PC or watching videos or whatever, it has to be an MS sanctioned product that is going to bill you monthly and definitely not allow you to use your own media files in it.

tl;dr learn Loonix

>>717082098
Literally everything is a gamble nowadays, QA is a fucking joke.

>>717082318
Smart phone users killed us

Russian anon here

TБ - is terabyte
ГБ - gigabyte

Also I have empty new 8 TB WD blue(CMR) on a shelf, but I am lazy to install it right away.
>>717082635

This fella (WD fucking green) worked non-stop from 2011. Used as my main drive at that time. Later used it for torrents.

>>717082801

>>717082919
Forgot to add screenshot

>>717082958
List of discs

>>717074732
Some games are outdated though right? Like the outbound ghost doesn't have the latest patch that fixes the game, and the admin said he got hacked by a file in one of the games

>>717082046
Absolutely. People sleeping on the archival side of this don’t realize how critical projects like no-intro and redump are. You’re not just grabbing some sketchy ROM off a random site - you’re getting validated dumps that have been hashed, verified, and cross-checked by multiple independent collectors. It’s the same mentality as proper preservation in any digital medium; we need these known-good copies before corporations finish nuking everything off the internet for reasons. The day the lights go out on the surface web, these community sets will be the Library of Alexandria.

>>717082635
>>717082801
Dangerously based

>>717083046
You could replace it with 1 24TB drive. Two for redundancy.
Never understand people who needlessly complicate their life.

>>717050614
because kosher knowledge, a dilluted, almost lie version of reality with double speak. Asmon is a great example of this.
"yep expedition 33 is so good guys, everything else looks like shit next to it"
He probably played it for a few hours, and got bored of it. He said this to please his handlers at night media while indians furiously astroturfed on every site possible. Normalfags nod to this so they can have a good sleep at night knowing someone who is more popular than them acknowledged their opinions. They are completely unaware of reality of indians with 100+ phones with different accounts astroturfing up the ass, as they believe everything is organic. Its just like when boomers just nodded whatever the big box showed on its tube screen. They only show a very surface level of knowledge, because a deeper version is a direct opponent to kosher knowledge.

>>717048568 (OP)
>seagate
you ain't saving shit lmao

>>717073615
Best case nothing happens, Worst Case global internet censorship either way doesn't matter because I still have my own microcosm of entertainment that I wont have to worry about losing because some retarded shit forced the original host to take down all their content.

>>717083259
Yup. Unfortunately, this kind of vetting and transparency doesn't exist with pc games. The .exe files are almost always modified to bypass protection checks, and those .exe are a pool of tar. There's no way to say for certain if there isn't a keylogger or remote access baked into the file.
That's why I never pirate PC games, unless it can't be bought anymore.

>>717076710
>mediafire
>yts.mx
I was dumb enough not to download the star fox 64 PC port from mediafire before they took it down, I was waiting until I had a burner computer at hand since the last time I downloaded something from mediafire I got a virus, and YTS.mx is missing a lot of movies, even relatively mainstream ones like The Lovely Bones, Meet the Feebles and Big Money Hustlas, nevermind that it tends not to have extended, unrated or director's cuts of movies.

desu I don't even know what I'd backup at this point. I have all the games I like already. Am I supposed to go to youtube and backup every funny meme video just so I can have a home server I can type in "gmod vagineer" and have a laugh? Seems like more trouble than it's worth. If youtube disappears or becomes fully corporate I'll just start watching bitchute or whatever.

>>717073615
>dude why do you need a command prompt? Just because you can't access it anymore its not a big deal

>>717083396
First, I didn't buy it in one time. I bought one in 1-2 years.
Second, high capacity drives are expensive as fuck in Russia and there is a high probability that they have already been used.

If I had money for it, I would bought NAS with 4 x 24 TB.

>>717083663
The only PC games I'll backup are my own, that I know I pulled from trusted or official sources.

>>717064149
>Or maybe you're one of those sick freaks that actually believes the PAL versions of games are superior.
EU version for Nintendo games tend to be better for handheld games since you don't have to deal with 50Hz like with console games and English translators aren't the same as American "localizers".
Otherwise yeah US tends to be better.

4chan ID requirement when?

Whats the best DAS/NAS out there to just data hoard rom sets.

>>717084518
Yesterday

>>717084776
Wait really? Bongs have to upload ID to Hiroshimoot? lmao

>>717050998
You are converting them to .chd and .xiso and not just saving uncompressed isos, right?

>>717081547
I had to sell my old game collection to pay my way for my grandma's funeral, so now I get to spend my weekend trying to cobble together ROMs of the physical media I lost just half a year ago.

At least I'm in a better spot now and can start shopping for NASes if things get bad.

>>717080225
>I would never ever steal from Nintendo
Kek what a cuck

>>717062213
>>717075109
corz.org

>>717080225
I'm going to pirate AND seed Nintendo games after reading this

>>717050183
I've heard that, but I've got a 500gb HDD that's been chugging along for like, 15 years or more.

>>717048568 (OP)
Full Set
Dreamcast
NES + pirates and crispy stuff
N64
MAME
Saturn
NEOGEO
Java Wap Games

Large selective
PS2
PS1
Flash Gayms


Just special stuff or to complete a serie
Gamecube
PS3
PSP
Xbox
ahem... Teknoparrot is evil and a chalatan which employs actual emulators in backend for profit.

>>717082801
>>717082635
MUH NIGGA

>>717060975
GLOW HARDER

>>717050614

>>717050614
>t total freedom of expression and sharing of creations
Turns out most humans dont have anything interesting to create.

>>717048568 (OP)
I've saved the entire NES, SNES, and GB/C/A libraries. I should get on downloading the Genesis library as much as I don't care for Sega.. Alas, things spiral out from there, filesizes are a limiting factor. Archival of larger libraries is difficult.

Now that the Switch is retired it is now legal to emulate Switch games, right?

>>717092215
You do realize 20tb drives are 300-350 bucks now?

>>717073615
no anon, you are the normie (normalfag)

>>717048568 (OP)
im hoarding like a motherfucker right now

>>717095527
They dont stay good forever either and copying 5tb of data is hell. I have no idea how to do that. You cant just drag and drop your one 5tb file onto another drive and have it not corrupt 60% of it lol

>>717096959
>You cant just drag and drop your one 5tb file onto another drive and have it not corrupt 60% of it lol
Yes you can wtf? What kind of gay ass cope is this?

>>717096959
As long as you have the same file system on both drives it should be fine

>>717093893
As long as you delete the ROM within 24 hours :)

>>717096959
rsync nigga

4tb of hentai rpg maker games Jesus Christ
Never mind all the visual novels I’ve collected over the years
And I still fap to shadman

>>717098404
>1st PC 3GB HDD
>25 years later
>6TB of smut
Where did it all go wrong?

>>717057637
Flash memory is more likely to corrupt if left without power for several years. Temperature plays a big role in this, so leaving it in a hot room vs a fridge will impact data life by decades.

>>717097981
I don't know where that meme started getting pushed, did people hosting ROM sites just make it up? It's not shown anywhere in any law.

Any recommendations for xbox 360 emulators?

>>717070846
I started backing up my bookmarked youtube channels last week. Got 400GB, not even halfway through and now google is rejecting my downloads.

>>717096602
We all are. I was saving my overtime to go on a trip overseas. But I think I need spend it on external drives and disks. There is a lot of media I don't want to lose. Really didn't want to spend the entire month of August hunting down data. But it is what it is.

>>717050183
Been using a Seagate for like 7 years now. Checked it along with all of my other non Seagate drives last week, no real located sectors or any other things to be concerned about

>>717050125
Why would you ever want to play pal roms period?

How much of this is just doomposting? I get that the internet is at a tipping point but it's not like people haven't always found ways around it.

>>717099753
Reallocated*

>>717063306
Every time

>>717099905
Not this time. Soon we won’t have anything to rely on except for private trackers.

Question. How the fuck do you organize your Hard drives? Holy shit I have like 5 externals, and 4 or so internals.

>>717099905
This seems pretty real, especially with face verification and government issue photo ID requirements or general access to fun things. I'm taking it seriously. Already started raiding local second hand retailers for games, hardware and media. The lack of access is going to have a trickle down effect. Get ahead of it now.

>>717100230
roms on 1, repacks of current games on another, movies and music on another

>>717100239
Isn't the photo ID thing only in the UK? The one the EU is working on is some other system that won't have your ID sent to every third party online.

you hoard all that stuff but do you play it

>>717100463
The UK is the testing grounds for the rest of the world.

>>717100230
I stick labels on them, for example #1 1-5gen (it has all games up to 5th gen), and I always have a backup hdd which in this case has a label B#1 1-5gen.

>>717100463
I don't trust it, especially with the recent social security hacks. KOSA probably won't go anywhere but there are other initiatives in the pipeline stateside. The private second is trying to get ahead of it. I'm not taking chances. I also really don't want to sniff around the less reputable nets just to find shit after things change.

>>717082801
>gachimuchi
>1.4Tb
I fucking kneel

>>717066578
I grew up with it and I never touch PAL roms lol it's just worse

>>717100469
No, I only share them for altruistic reasons (also to stick it to the man)

>>717067664
>>717069446
Not just that, the US is trying to implement a law that allows corpo to block any international websites from the US as long as they fill in a piracy claim

>>717100858
My efforts are focused on music. Can't have people forgetting that music wasn't just made by yuppies and negros.

>>717099905
>How much of this is just doomposting?

>>717100940
*The US and the EU. Libgen, Scihub and several are already hit

>>717081326
What software are you using to catalog all these games?

>>717048568 (OP)
All pre world Monster hunter
Ppsspp emulation is great because both p3rd and fu has daily active online lobbies but 3ds online is dead

>>717083446
Been buying hard drives since he late 90s and every single seagate i've ever encountered has died in under a year, some with barely any use.

>>717081297
Pretty much. Finally have a weekend where I don't have to do shit. Oh well. Time to hoard.

>>717101075
Ditto, I rotate my backups and seagates always fuck me after awhile. Never got a dead drive after 12 months, but it has been close.

>>717048568 (OP)
I do but out of fear of hard drive failures and not about some "iron curtains closing".

>>717082635
you are based
I will download and reseed everything.

>>717082635
I KNEEL

>>717099905
I've been around since before the internet was really even a thing and it's getting bad. I do expect pushback, but the way the government goes is 3 steps forward, 2 steps back.

I've been stocking up on used hard drives for close to a year now so I can get as much bulk tv shows and games as possible, and to back them up.

The next thing they'll go for is VPNs, maybe not ban them entirely as they have legitimate uses (business), but I can see them requiring ID to use one but also force said VPN to keep logs.

Tor is an option, but its a terrible idea for downloading large amounts of data. So yeah, prepare yourself.

>entire /lit/ libraries already taken down by surprise due to the governments simultaneous crack down on piracy just yesterday
Why is everything moving so fast? Just what is happening right now?

>>717101562
Source? Also how long until they'll go after archive.org?

>>717074853
but that's a good thing
every year I hear retards say shit like 'nah man, gaming is so soulless now, so many games are unfinished and buggy unlike the good old days where every game was made with love and care, didn't have bugs and were not about chasing profits'
there's a lot of zoomers and people with nostalgia goggles who have forgotten the insane number of dogshit games we used to get

>>717101623
Google the new BEARD act, the next step after the entire Online Child Safety debacle currently going on

>>717081783
You may have launched 70 games, but you didn't finish them.

>>717101849
>so many games are unfinished and buggy unlike the good old days
that's true though
Internet killed quality assurance and testing because it is way cheaper for companies just to patch their games later (or not patch them at all)

I stopped saving smut because I found I was more interested in organizing it then fapping to it

>>717101562
Israel really wants to finish off Palestine.

>>717101562
Wait really?

>>717089802
Shit spamton would say

>>717102305
Same

>>717102435
Deltatroon is living rent free in your head

>>717050614
Unfortunately a bunch of trillionare pedo jews used america to take over the world. Enjoy your degeneracy, us vs them and massive amounts of filth.

>>717053453
There's definitely not a website called vimms lair and there's definitely no library of safe roms, game manual scans, fan translations and romhacks. No such thing exists and it would be fool8sh to believe so.

>>717102419
New US proposal for cracking down on piracy. The FBI listed LibGen, Sci Hub, ZLib, Anna library and a few more as their target. Belgium also prosecute a few people who was hosting ZLib or something at the same time

>>717102652
so it is only fine when companies use those libraries to train their AI?

>>717102652
>I can't even get fucking books anymore because of corporate/government lockdowns
We need more Luigis.

>>717102787
Indeed
Rules for thee but not for me
Big tech is a fucking plague

>>717101562
2025 is the big push for Agenda 2030 goals to start being implemented
The phase out whatever freedoms you had left, the phase out of free and open internet, the phase out of concepts like privacy, ownership, free speech and more
People really need to decide soon whether they want lives of freedom and liberty, or slavery disguised as such. The window for action is closing faster and faster. It shouldn't be a hard choice with how abundantly clear it is that the government no longer serves we the people and no long fears wronging us.
>inb4 glow accusations
I do not recognize the illegitimate terror state of Israel and denounce the Talmud wholeheartedly.

>>717048568 (OP)
I have a decent number of roms and isos downloaded, as well as multiple emulators, but I've been lacking on downloading full romsets due to lack of space.
I really should get around to buying some high-capacity HDD's for archival purposes.

>>717099081
Which youtube videos are you going to be wanting to go back and watch years from now? I appreciate the spirit but Youtube has always been ephemeral content to me.

not pictured: 2x external 14tb drives i back up these internal ones to every month (or whenever i have some big project i want to keep safe)

(all 4 are the same model - external 14tb WDs acquired on black friday sales, 2 of them shucked and used as SATA drives)

one cool thing about these huge hard drives is they are very fast. because of the amount of platters and how they can be read/written simultaneously, i suppose

>>717075109
Some file systems like ZFS and I think BTRFS basically do this automatically. They even write the hashes to multiple places on your HDD in case one gets corrupted and if a file is corrupt then it automatically repairs it from a known good copy if you have one.

>>717100463
>Isn't the photo ID thing only in the UK
Never trust that something is going to stay isolated to one corner of the world, especially in today's globalized climate. Something done on the other side of the globe can easily be applied to you in a relative instant. The only upside is if the ID thing stays in the UK for about a year, and then fails catastrophically due to hacks/leaks to the point where the rest of the world decides against it. But it's not worth the risk just hoping that will happen. If it does "well" then you can guarantee it will eventually apply to you.

>>717051230
I had my first WD failure recently
It developed 200 bad sectors three weeks after I replaced a failed disk in my array
Pissed me the fuck off
Generally speaking, most disks last five years
If they last that long, the failure rate drops off sharply and they're not likely to fail compared to same-batch drives

>>717101562
I don't know. Things have been getting exponentially worse over the past month for some reason.

>>717102652
Anna's Archive is still up though.

>>717102652
>Look up zlib
>There's like a dozen websites all called zlibrary with different URLS showing the same book archive
Are they scam sites or is it people mirroring zlib in preparation for a full takedown?

>>717103896
It's Israel, my ostrich friend.

>>717104002
zlibrary's domains get seized so regularly it's not even funny
But more to the point, they deliberately have like 500 mirrors

>>717074479
>Dana Gould

>>717104413
based

>>717056142
>I use Linux, so I don't have to worry as much you do (I still have to be careful though).
I remember when linuxfags were boasting about pirating while condom-less and now look where you're at.
You empire is a joke.

>>717050614
>why is everything moving towards the opposite?
Because we did all those things you describe and it only made things worse so in order to correct course we're now moving in the other direction

>>717101982
>You may have launched 70 games, but you didn't finish them.
Yeah, bad games don't need to be finished. Your point?

>>717056142
Getting viruses from ROMs is literally fucking impossible unless you're using an emulator that's shit.

>>717106984
Then why have them?

>>717050786
Nah the problem is exactly what >>717050614
said the internet was supposed to be.
All of these things fly in the face of (((them))).

>>717107123
Like Zsnes.
But who the fuck is embedding malicious code on fucking Snes roms, holy shit.

>>717083663
Sure there is. Unmodified executables should be signed by the developer of the game and the signature should check out. That of course doesn't help with data files, so the ideal format to store is either ISO images, installer executables from somewhere like GOG, Steam depots with associated metadata or whatever archive the site in question distributes (like zip/rar files for DLSite)
That said there's no universal way to store PC games so it is a much bigger pain to keep archival-quality.

>>717107170
I play shitty games for an hour or two. If I can see the end in sight, I finish them, if not, I bullshit my way with RAM search tool and poking ram addresses to reach the end. Sometimes I watch the rest of the game I didn't finish on youtube, usually skimming through the video. That's if someone bothered to upload a longplay.

Still worth archiving every game because you never know if you'll find an obscure game that's half decent. Not hidden gem, as those have been all found years ago.

>>717107519
Every single cracked PC game is using modified .exe launcher to bypass antipiracy checks.

>>717107875
I catalogue cracks and patches separately from clean files. That is my point.

>>717073673
>I mean 20k porn games literally did go away forever. You think anyone has them all backed up? You can't get all of them anymore, they're gone
exactly, because normies are too busy driving up hdd prices (yes, they are skyrocketing) and hoarding the finite amount of hard drives in order to a hysteria to save the 587 millionth copy of the same romsets

What are the essential 25 games of every console prior to the PS4/Xbone gen?

>>717108190
Okay and you still can't trust those cracks. Nobody can verify what's inside the executable.

>>717109105
It's almost like there's this thing called "sandboxing" whatever that means.
Wild, huh?

>>717109105
they sold original mafia on steam with a cracked .exe

>>717102652
>The FBI listed LibGen, Sci Hub, ZLib, Anna library and a few more as their target
shit shit shit shit CODE RED THIS IS NOT A DRILL, DATAHOARD EVERYTHING

>>717108779
You're asking for way too much data to be contained in a 4chan post. But hey, the short version is, every console already has a bunch of top 100 games lists just a google away.

>>717109105
I'm willing to trust Malwarebytes.

>>717048568 (OP)
>single sshd
>not using multiple cheaper HDD for redundancy

>>717048568 (OP)
https://x.com/gelbooru/status/1951486311749038104

>>717110848
>trusting a bunch of grep regexes that constantly misfire
Yeah, no, "trust" can only be acquired by comparing the two executables in ghidra

>>717111242
That's like saying you can only "trust" a piece of candy isn't poisoned if you run it through a mass spectrometer. There are other factors you can consider when deciding if a piece of software is safe or not. For one, if something exists that can defeat extremely thorough analyzing by top tier malware identifying programs and services, do you really think it's going to be used in an .exe for a 1990's doujin fighting game only a dozen or so people in the world even know or care about?

saving only the one I like, but yes, I'm doing my part :D

>>717109740
So you just run malware on your system and think it's sandboxed?

>>717061173
The answer is simple. Destroy humanity entirely, and all other life in the universe just to be sure. Then, and only then, the mistake that allowed evil to exist will be erased.

All we have to do is trigger either a grey goo scenario (will consume everything it touches), or a true vacuum (destroys everything at the speed of light. Slow, but it WILL get the job done in a few eons).

>>717111128
They're trying to ban all adult content from the internet so that children can go anywhere and get groomed by them.

>>717061650
Only bootlicker I see is you.

>>717112212
Shit analogy. Candies are safe because it's in best interest of candy makers to make them safe. While it's in best interest of a cracker to sneak in keylogger or remote access switch.

>>717111128
Nah, this is total bullshit. 4chan told me it's the jews behind this, yes the joos that own pornhub are also... trying to ban.. it? Those sneaky jews work in mysterious ways but regardless they are definetly behind all this.
Also it can't happen here in the west since the very knowledgeable folk here told me when they went after porn online in Japan it was clearly an attempt by the jews to monopolize the market for themselves. The market that they are... now... trying to ban themselves... in the country where they... own it...
BUT ANYWAY, check this guy's Early Life section, nothing there. So he can't be behind anything.

>>717102367
Why would the Jew be doing this? I see it more like the Troons are engaging their secret plan.

I see you hate on Jews so much. Why don't you side with the troons then? They also hate jews.

>>717113835
So what you're saying is there's other factors you can consider when deciding if a piece of candy/software is safe or not? I'm glad you agree with me, then.

>>717112212
>extremely thorough analyzing by top tier malware identifying programs and services
How do you think antivirus software works? It isn't performing some detailed analysis of your files and figuring out if they can execute harmful code, it's literally just comparing your files to hashes of known malware. If it's not in that database, ie it's a new or obscure malware, then it's not getting detected.

>>717113835
Aren't candies made out of addictive chemicals to hook in lifetime buyers?

>>717113948
>the Troons
How much power do you think a handful of sexually confused teens and suicidal midlife-crisis femboys have?

>>717114190
Okay but that just plays into the next thing I said. Who would waste this kind of incredibly dangerous, new and obscure malware on some indie game being passed around by preservationists that's only going to hit like 20 or so people?

>>717113484
NTA. Yeah, there's ways for malware to escape VM and infect the host. Sandboxing is a meme, or half-measure at best. To be safe when playing pirated PC games, I play them on separate PC with no internet access.

>>717114207
unless you consider sugar an "addictive chemical" then no

>>717113484
No?
I run anything I don't trust inside a a separate UNIX user with access to literally nothing aside from their own home directory and use selinux to enforce permissions.

>>717114371
>who would want to pwn 20 or so people's computers?
That's 20 computers you can get access to that has their browser cookies, personal information, identities, and can be used as part of your botnet to infect more computers and nobody will suspect how you did it.

>>717114913
Fair enough, but I still think that sort of thing would be better used on something that's being passed around more. Why infect 20 when you can infect 2000? Even just dropping it on some new indie F2P game would be way easier, which is what actual hackers (or probably just script kiddies) have been doing on Steam lately.

I regret to inform you that Nexus has decreed Alice is now child-coded, and Alice's game is the latest in a retarded adult mass-delete

https://www.nexusmods.com/games/alicemadnessreturns/mods?showAdultContent=true

>using the word "whilst"
>Alice isn't a minor in this game
>Because Alice is designed to look like a child

Make up your fucing mind????????

Use Texmod, cracked exe
https://files.catbox.moe/x1b3ii.tpf

>>717115150
Sure but if your idea of safety is "nobody would bother trying to do this" then you're not really safe.

>>717115272
It's less "nobody would try this" and more "the chances are less likely", but I get what you're saying.

>>717114371
bro how else do you think it's gonna stay obscure and thus dangerous? Also because indie game are more likely to run an obscure exe

>>717115150
>Why infect 20 when you can infect 2000?
1. not everyone has an avenue to trick 2000 people into downloading and running their exe
2. What makes you think they can't just do both

>>717115256
>Because Alice is designed to look like a child
Fucking grim. Thanks for sharing, anon, glad I still have both Alice and Texmod installed from years back.

>>717053453
What the fuck are you talking about you stupid zoomer faggot, THERE WERE INFINITELY MORE VIRUSES PRE ZOOMER ERA THAN NOW!!! JUST BEING CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET WAS ENOUGH TO GET A VIRUS BEFORE YOU WERE BORN YOU STUPID ZOOMER FAGGOT!!!

>>717115871
We just redefined what a virus is. Stealing your data used to be malware, now it's a feature.

>>717048568 (OP)
Games, Porn
I've been data hoarding like crazy these past few months

>>717050614
/pol/ is never wrong

>>717115653
I unironically think the world is more prepared now to deal with viruses, even just with basic bitch Windows Defender on 10/11. Which is why pretty much everyone who gets caught by RATs, ransomware or trojans usually are running shit from shady pirate sites that tell you over and over "bro it's a false positive just turn off your AV, run as admin and accept all prompts regardless of what windows tells you".

And I get that this reply chain is all about verifying crackers/cracked EXEs as safe, so yeah you can say that would be the riskiest thing to archive/run if you're trying to save everything.

>>717056214
>>717056327
How can there be a god when people are allowed to openly link Reddit and still draw breath.

>>717050017
my only problem with torrents is lack of seeders and its impossible to get in private trackers

>>717115958
Next time someone wonders why something is dogshit and retarded, it's because this poster is the target market. Not only does this poster require everything to be retarded and dogshit, they request it to be dogshit and retarded.

I know consoles have no-intro and redump databases. But is there something like that for PC games? I need to start archiving PC shit too. Especially the pre-2010 games.

>>717116293
Also to add to this, a lot of the hacking is account related now. It's less about taking over your actual PC (since there's a lot of protections around that now) and more about tricking retards to log into their google/steam/PSN/Microsoft/reddit/gmail accounts on fake phishing websites.

>>717116339
what reddit link?

>>717116717
>just 'pretending' to be retarded

>>717116853
ctrl+f and you'll see there are no reddit URLs in the thread

>>717116853
>waah a bunch of size calculations were on bad platform, save me orange daddy
Get over yourself.

>>717071604
You're supposed to store those in patch form, dumbass

>>717050614
>eliminating scarcity
it baffles me that people believe this shit

>>717055441
The PAL version of Rhythm Heaven Wii has both ENG and JP languages built in while the NTSC is missing JP so you have to listen to "wubuduba is that true?" which is fine but cmon at least lemme listen to the songs with the original intended languages.

>>717048568 (OP)
i never really have the time for games, but i do have most pc98 games archived for when i feel the urge to play retro jap games.

>>717116979
>i regurgitate reddit comments onto 4chan
i bet you also listen to women speak, faggot.

i have most roms, but whats the must-have roms to download?

>>717115256
>Halloween costumes are now child-coded

>>717118007
I don't, which is why I will not be replying to you again, bitch.

>>717117672
Yeah, I wish I knew that before I got like halfway though perfecting on NTSC. Fuck english love rap

>>717104561

>>717048568 (OP)
>PS2
>GameCube
>N64
>Wii
>Dreamcast
>PS1

Everything else i dont care about.

I already have enough games to last me for the rest of my fucking miserable life.
Naah i think im good with my ""limited""" library compared to you weirdo hoarders who wont even play 1% of their romsets and full libraries lol

>>717060692
Because I can. The fuck you gonna do about it?

>get designated PC for gayman
>install all games, source be damned
>destroy internet connecting capabilities
>gaym
Why wouldn't this work?

>>717121024
I'm sure there's a scarce handful PS3 games you might want to archive. Asura's Wrath. Katamari Forever. Odin Sphere Leifthrasir, maybe.

>>717074853
When it comes to earlier consoles, the entire library is like 30MB big. Might as well just grab the whole thing. Once you get to disc-based consoles you're forced to be more selective unless you have a ridiculous amount of hard drive space.

>>717121821
Remember when /v/ was making a big stink about "Stop Killing Games"? That's why it wouldn't work. For certain games.

>>717048568 (OP)
>Seagate
You might as well store your games on a flash drive

Good games never get banned

>>717072692
>Where they made monks and nuns have sex at gunpoint

>>717123740
Uh chud? Your version of FF7 doesn't have gay niggers in it, we will be confiscating this.

>>717083663
Anon, for old games, these cracks have existed for 20+ years on the same sites
If they had some epin backdoor shit in them, we would have figured it out by now
And it's incredibly unlikely they'd do shit to a modern OS in the first place
And directions exist for hex editing your own EXEs in some cases

>>717123889
Prove Barret isn't gay for Dyne.

>People have finally started when reality hits them in the face
>tfw ive been datahoarding since the Pornhub/WafflesFM exodus knowing that nothing stays online forever if some corpo/govt body says so

Have a stash of just garbage in case the country goes full on right. Thank me later.

>>717100463
Remember when the email thing and timer was just a /biz/ thing?
Once you get the foot on the door you can accomplish a lot.

>>717124329
I'll thank you now. Keep fighting the good fight, archivist executor.

>>717103728
>Generally speaking, most disks last five years
most of mine are so much older than this and I've never had one fail
I guess I'm living risky but what the hell do you guys do with yours to get them to fail?

>>717103728
>If they last that long, the failure rate drops off sharply and they're not likely to fail compared to same-batch drives
this is exactly why you buy 5 year old refurb enterprise drives
if your drive lasted 5 years spinning and getting used 24/7 it's going to last another 10
thanks for beta testing

>>717127604
3 digit IQ move honestly, not only do you get a guaranteed non-lemon but you get it cheaper. meanwhile I sit here buying new HDDs at MSRP

>>717127604
Yeah. Well, assuming your local shipping services don't regularly destroy packages for fun.

>>717099905
2nding this, the sadpanda going down was a nothingburger. Is this a nothingburger?....or a somethingburger?

>>717128821
I don't see any connection. Just download retro game/romset that you wanna play tbqh.

>>717076710
>putlocker
that takes me back

>>717127054
You get more failures if you're constantly writing/rewriting data to them. The 5 year failure rate thing is based on data from data archival centers IIRC.

>>717098404
>shadman

>>717048568 (OP)
>>717127604
>>717127931
>OY VEY!! these goyim keep buying HDD's to circumvent our strict regulations lets make external HDDs illegal too!!!
Coming to a future near you lol

>>717102569
>deltarune
are you gay?

Everything's becoming stricter.. soon we'll need to present IDs just to get around, and you will be labelled for your posts anywhere (implying it's not already being done)

Another problem are HDDs, they're quickly being phased out by SSDs, no one around me even sells those anymore, I have to buy online.

>>717129621
oh no, believe me I know how hard the RIAA was blinded by Napster and Limewire, that shit legit infuriated them, if they had their way they would make shit like simply ripping a CD punishable by facing a wall and getting shot.

>>717082098
Anything can break or be stolen or destroyed. Even if you buy good equipment, redundancy needs to be part of your plan.

>modern games are so shit that i dont want to pirate them

>Wow anon, that sure is a nice collection of the entire internet on your 1000TB Drive and -ACK!!

>save Roms
>nintendo sees rom number
>hard bans every account ever used in state>money stolen

Has the entire PS2 Library (Japanese Only Games and PS2 ROMHacks as well)
Entire NES, SNES, N64, PS1, GBA, DS Library
Some handpicked Wii and Gamecube games to avoid repetition with the PS2 games
Plentiful of PSP games that I consider matters

Working on Wii U and PS3 exclusive titles.

>>717130443
Urban legend innit?

Is there something like lancache for myrient downloads?

>>717130861
bitrot is real you tech illiterate retard

>>717130684
>SEPHIROTH (S:)

>He doesn't play with real hardware
Sad.

>>717131041
I love my three niggas in a row

>>717130861
He's trolling but its real in an albeit dishonest way, look up ":lossy vs lossless formats"

>>717131159
C is for Cloud
S is for Sephiroth
Nic-

E = Tifa !!!
D = Barrett !!!

>Still planning to buy storage(only 2 TB since i'm a poorfag)
Man, i really hate being retarded.
Should've started saving shit earlier.

>>717131609
you still got time until the end of the year, that's when they put into effect the ID shit and seeders start to drop like flies.

>>717131609
That enough for every good game up through the Wii/PS3. Not everyone has to be an archivist.

>>717130443
>rsync -c every once in a while
wow so hard

How do you grab all downloads on a myrient directory without also grabbing all of the other country releases? I just want USA releases of, say, GBA games.

>>717132363
most vtards are poorfags who only own 1 big drive and don't bother to do checksum for their data

They are going to outlaw the possession of HDDs like with gold. All computers will have read only memory and all data will be on the cloud. They know how many seconds you even keep any image on your screen.

>>717132530
>like with gold
This was repealed, FUDtranny.

>>717048568 (OP)

I have all roms for non-cd systems and all of the notable games for cd systems. About 1TB worth of roms. Also about 19TB worth of movies. I'll never run out of non-globohomo and non-AI things to watch.

>>717048568 (OP)
not having downloaded all the ROMs you intended to ever play yrs ago already expecting this to happen in the future

We've been heading towards the end for some time since 2010s.
I know underground places will still exist, but majority of niche and old media will most likely be lost.
Storage for long term are also gonna be gone someday (even HDDs are kind of shit), and they'll probably make some new port that's incompatible with HDDs, moving to state-like drives for speed and no more thoughts on the long-term.
Then they'll probably make some CPU that refuses to play media without online checking.

>>717131159
>4 nigga hdds in a row
lmao
But come on... why didnt you name Tifa and Barret the T and B drives...
you half assed it all

>>717055502
MAME alone is like 100GB. Sega CD games are large-ish as well.

>>717133112
>Have to drive down to some IRL shithole where people are getting raped and there's children being trafficked just to buy a replacement CPU for my 2025 PC so I can watch old episodes of Thundercats in peace
Great! I love it!

>>717132708
Once the government steals everyone's drives and destroys all the data i'm sure it'll reassure them that they might repeal the law that let them do it later

>>717133112
>((they)) will do this , ((they)) will do that
Hey man... even ((((they)))) need to store their goddamn data securely in HDDs and the likes too, and it wont be on some cloud crap.
It needs to be locally and secure for many companies, or else hackers will have a super fun field day hacking government agencies and their stupid cloud services day and nigh.
If the big boys have access to HDDs on their future computers, so will the goyim like you and me in one way or another

>>717133740
And I'm sure millions of people didn't just bury their fucking gold. Lmao.

>>717133925
more realistically they'll just stop selling any persistent storage devices to consumers and only silicon valley giants will be allowed to buy them. Old ones will wear out within a decade.

>>717134002
Ok blackpill tranny.

I haven't deleted anything since 2001, I just buy more hard drives. Will trade warez for lego. Bring your own USB drive.

>>717134002
>only silicon valley giants will be allowed to buy them
Dont care.
A new line of VEeeERY lucrative business will be born then : black market HDD business. ((They)) can suck a dick

>>717060226
No. It would be a fuck up if you put it on your HDD. When I made the switch (and I held out for a long time because I was too lazy to buy a SSD), the difference was like night and day.

Please bros tell me what hard drives/ ssds to get. I'm freaking out. Should I get those external hard drive slots so I can just plug in an SSD when I need it?

>>717134367
is paying 1000 for a 2TB HDD that was refurbished in some guys basement "clean room" really a gotcha??
I mean you can look at the darknet markets for stuff like stimulants and how that the black market turns out, paying a $1 a milligram for pressed caffiene and meth. And to think this is the case when stimulants aren't even actually banned and are somewhat easy to get albeit with a prescription. Imagine how much worse things would be if they were actually banned.

>>717134508
>im freaking out
Dont, your life isnt about to end anon.
Anyway, I have a bunch of Western digital brand external HDDs and a couple SSDs and many are like 5-7 years old and they still work perfectly fine and their health is good.
Just look up WD external (or internal) HDDs in amazon or some shit and you'd be fine

>>717134508
Get the most expensive thing possible. Buy three of them. And then three more.

>>717134508
get HDDs, the 'flavor' being those best used for NAS.
SSDs are only for your 'active' devices like computers, not for storage, but good for speed.
better to have 3 2TB HDDs with redundancy than have all your shit on 1 HDD that will get lost once you accidentally drop it.

God I love Playnite bros
I don't see the point in downloading whole sets of games including shovelware, but I respect the autism.

I beat Mario Lost Levels on the SNES recently, fucking annoying game.

>>717134714
>is paying 1000 for a 2TB HDD that was refurbished in some guys basement "clean room" really a gotcha??
If that's how you feel then take your own little premonition to heart and start investing heavily into HDDs then. You'd make insane ROIs anon..

>>717134716
I'm confident at this point that there are paid WD shills in these threads.

>>717048568 (OP)
I've had my 2 current external hard drives for a few years now and another new one tucked away...might have to consider backing things up again.

What do we do when the internet's gone? How to make Internet 2? I can't ask on 4chans because this place is first on the chopping block when shit gets real.

>>717134508
make sure you buy nvme ssds you need several
always remember the 3-2-1 backup rule
3 backup ssds offsite, 2 backup ssds on site, 1 backup ssd on your person hidden somewhere safe ;)

DO NOT buy hdds. They are loud, slow, big and bulky, and outdated. NVME ssd are the current gold standard. An HDD backup is practically no backup in 2025.
Good luck anon!

>>717134960
internet's not going down. BigCorpo wants you to be online to track your movements. It's just getting more gated.

>>717099905
I would rather overreact and prepare ahead of time than to not prepare and wish I had.

>>717050614
Jews had another idea, sorry :(

>>717135120
You'll need to use a photo ID, and you'd have to be a drooling fucking retard to do that. Even dumber than giving your email to this website pre-hack.

>>717135018
Already doing my butthole stretches so I can fit 5 2tb NVMEs in my colon. Stay strong bros.

>>717134873
>WD shills
???
How about remember to take your meds. I simply bought WD HDDs and they.just.werk for many years, it's that simple.
You could call me a shill if i started talking about some no-name chink brand in multiple replies sure.

>>717135018
>>717134783
>>717134725
I was thinking about getting a bunch of 1TB micro sds so I can easily store them

>>717064794
Gamecube had no games.

>>717134783
>get HDDs
>>717135018
>DO NOT buy hdds
Suck a dick both of you. Make up your damn minds.. im almost starting to feel bad for that anon who's already sweating and you're making him sweat more with these contradictions

>>717135425
>1TB micro sds
Literally the WORST thing you can do anon.
You trying to smuggle shit in your anus or you trying to backup your important stuff??
external hdds and especially ssds are very small these days if you're worried about having space to store stuff in your little mud hut.

>>717135476
Well poisoning kikes and trannies entered the thread a while ago.

>>717134862
way ahead of you
you think I'm joking, but not only is it literally already happening, my investment has already doubled in less than a year

>>717135425
Those are way more volatile since they're intended to temporarily hold stuff to move between computers. Not good for long term storage. Though I've had tiny USB keys that have lasted me for over a decade so IDK.

>>717135608
>Well poisoning
water muddying rather

>>717135463
Gamecube only had stuff like RE0, RE1R, RE4, Tales of symphonia, mario sunshine, Wind waker, Metroid prime 1 & 2 and a few other Nintenderp games that i dont care about.
The good thing is that ALL of the games above have been ported over to either Switch, PC and/or the Wii, so gamecube emulation is useless today (unless you're a Smash Melee faggot, or a diehard Fire emblem lover then ok)

HDDs have a good track record of lasting since the 1980s at least. But I've heard the high density ones are more susceptible to bit rot.

>>717073059

>>717135697
Good for you anon. And no im not being sarcastic.

Serious question here.. why the FUCK are all the external HDDs above 5tb (6tb and up) all mega huge and bulky (pic rel) ? and you have to power them on with a damn power cable AND plug them via usb to your pc... what the everloving fuck.
Theres nothing higher than 5TB thats just as small and compact?

>>717135476
read the thread and do your own research

>>717135220
Yes, but just because you're required to provide an ID doesn't mean the internet's going down.
If you have met some good online frens and learned about some stuff, you would have found your own tight-knit community.

>>717137118
Better to do that irl.

It's not like nu/v/ can into computers anyway, and they're payfags who fellate big corpo penis subscription

>>717136704
brainlet here, isnt it just because larger drives need more power draw than you can reasonably pull from usb that they need the wall socket plug?

>>717074853
it's not about bragging points you retarded slug it's the principle of preserving history and information as is without bias.