Emulation Nintendo ROMs taken down from vimms lair

[The Catboy]

Vimm's Lair's vault is kill.

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Let’s hope more ROM sites come up to replace it. Fuck companies trying to push the “impermanence of media”

Vimm had absolute 1:1 copies of the original ROMs though, it isn't comparable to other fit or romantic sites where the dumps are of variable and often bad quality.

Skill issue
It’s not that hard to find good roms

 

[Maximumbeans]

Vimm's Lair's vault is kill.

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I will now play my emulated GBA, NES, SNES etc games with an even bigger smile on my face. It’s not much but it’s something.

 

[chrisrlink]

when doug bowser dies by whatever reason I'm gonna piss on his grave

 

[linuxares]

Well No-Intro romsets are still around and they're quality

 

[chrisrlink]

and take a dump on it (so going to hell for this)

 

[Kioku]

Well No-Intro romsets are still around and they're quality

...and stupid easy to find..

 

[CeeDee]

Skill issue
It’s not that hard to find good roms

...and stupid easy to find..

This is exactly why sites like Vimm's receiving takedowns, frankly, isn't that big of a deal. I genuinely don't see why people act like the sky's falling when ROM sites that get popular receive DMCAs, when at any given moment there are probably dozens of other places to get ROMs if you just look a bit.

 

[chrisrlink]

I wished more romsites are like private tracker sites for torrents you'd think they learn I'm part of one and I think they scan/trace IP's of users and blacklist vpn services

 

[Kioku]

This is exactly why sites like Vimm's receiving takedowns, frankly, isn't that big of a deal. I genuinely don't see why people act like the sky's falling when ROM sites that get popular receive DMCAs, when at any given moment there are probably dozens of other places to get ROMs if you just look a bit.

I get a little leery as it seems like a step towards the worst possible outcome for game preservation. However, that's just the doomer in me.

 

[The Catboy]

This is exactly why sites like Vimm's receiving takedowns, frankly, isn't that big of a deal. I genuinely don't see why people act like the sky's falling when ROM sites that get popular receive DMCAs, when at any given moment there are probably dozens of other places to get ROMs if you just look a bit.

I literally have an entire section of my bookmarks filled with ROM sites. I am shocked anyone would call themself a “pirate” and not be ready to sail into different territories

 

[CeeDee]

I get a little leery as it seems like a step towards the worst possible outcome for game preservation. However, that's just the doomer in me.

The way I look at it-- for every time one of these ROM sites dies or get C&D'd by the big N, two more will pop up in its place. These games are more than well preserved by many sources, and will never be lost. The worst that'll come of this is that you might have to find somewhere else to get your fix of Super Mario 64 (USA).z64.

 

[Kioku]

The way I look at it-- for every time one of these ROM sites dies or get C&D'd by the big N, two more will pop up in its place. These games are more than well preserved by many sources, and will never be lost. The worst that'll come of this is that you might have to find somewhere else to get your fix of Super Mario 64 (USA).z64.

I've got libraries available across many sources. No big loss on my end.

 

[Raydi]

Let’s hope more ROM sites come up to replace it. Fuck companies trying to push the “impermanence of media”


Skill issue
It’s not that hard to find good roms

It really isn't though, it's hard to find individual ROMs. You and the other trog saying:

Well No-Intro romsets are still around and they're quality

miss the point entirely. Who wants to download 300,000 files at once from some seedy dickhead located in Ruzzia who can't be fucked to use a seedbox and torrents at 300bytes/sec? No one. Especially when 99% of the games on a console are complete ass.

I wished more romsites are like private tracker sites for torrents you'd think they learn I'm part of one and I think they scan/trace IP's of users and blacklist vpn services

Blocking VPNs? What shit "private trakkur" does that nonsense? LOL.
"Hey guys want to download from us? Drop your pants and let us fuck your ass blind. Also ignore that most ISPs need a VPN to allow non-throttled P2P connections."

when doug bowser dies by whatever reason I'm gonna piss on his grave

The only good millionaire is a dead one.

 

[linuxares]

@Raydi
"Who wants to download 300,000 files at once" You know you can just pick the files you want right?
Sounds like a skill issue

 

[Raydi]

@Raydi
"Who wants to download 300,000 files at once" You know you can just pick the files you want right?
Sounds like a skill issue

reading is your friend reicho

 

[The Catboy]

It really isn't though, it's hard to find individual ROMs.

Skill issue
Literally just use Google, forehead

 

[Latiodile]

Skill issue
Literally just use Google, forehead

to be fair most sites will either choose to turboblast you with ads, wait timers, insanely slow download speeds or extremely shady downloaders, vimm's didn't do that
also a super casual pirate isn't going to know like 100 immediately available rom sites that won't shred your system with viruses instantly

 

[Raydi]

Skill issue
Literally just use Google, forehead

I love getting awful dumps that only ZSNES and other 20+ year old emulators can work with.

to be fair most sites will either choose to turboblast you with ads, wait timers, insanely slow download speeds or extremely shady downloaders, vimm's didn't do that

All of that and the fact that the dumps are just legit bad. Even the romantic sites that get praise have awful dumps that nothing loads. His pre-patched ones are the worst, I don't understand why he even bothers.

 

[Wolfy]

Not what I was expecting today, sad days and hope N eats a heaping pile of -

A friend was telling me about it the other day and saw it was still up, sad to see it go because of how good the site was. Guess I'm self hosting a ton of stuff for me and friends to download from for the foreseeable future.

 

[The Catboy]

I love getting awful dumps that only ZSNES and other 20+ year old emulators can work with.

I legit have never run into this problem, so I am just going to keep with skill issue. Seriously, it’s not hard to find ROMs.

to be fair most sites will either choose to turboblast you with ads, wait timers, insanely slow download speeds or extremely shady downloaders, vimm's didn't do that
also a super casual pirate isn't going to know like 100 immediately available rom sites that won't shred your system with viruses instantly

Yeah, that was a benefit of Vimm’s but it is a skill issue to not find clean roms outside of Vimm’s. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of ROM sites out there. It’s not like there’s only 10 or something. If one sucks, go to another