Vimms lair is starting to remove many roms that are being requested to be removed by Nintendo etc. soon many original roms, hacks, and translations will be lost forever. Can any of you help make archive torrents of roms from vimms lair and cdromance? They have hacks and translations that dont exist elsewhere and will probably be removed soon with ios emulation and retro handhelds bringing so much attention to roms and these sites

  • wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    There are some gaps in the numbers. That could be the case. Was it for all of the ones you tried to download?

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      5 months ago

      Every section had missing downloads. But with some web inspection, I found some interesting obfuscation using what I think is JavaScript on the web pages that “used” to hold the download links, for the files that were requested to be removed. If we can figure out how to reverse the code to reveal the link again we could grab (assuming they are still on the server) the files manually.

      If you want to chat about this I’m on matrix

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          5 months ago

          My profile has my matrix name. I figured people have known that was a feature for lemmy profiles, but I guess that was my mistake.

          @codname_goose:matrix.org