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

  • Codename_goose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I can confirm that the script still works, but sadly the site owner of Vim has removed the file from the server. The script sees a file link but will download nothing. When testing the script with just NES, it will see a game, but will throw an error of “remote files name has no length”, so going forward you could test via a vpn and see if they adjusted their files to be available via a country that doesn’t care, or they just haven’t gotten around to cleaning up their file directory list post removal.

    P.S. the script showed that 23 field failed to download so one can assume those files were the one Nintendo decided to have them remove.

    • wuphysics87@lemmy.mlEnglish
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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?

      • Codename_goose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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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