Try downloading something. The games patched or otherwise are no longer hosted directly. Now you have to get the instructions from their transcord. you copy the cdr_ticket from each game page and paste it into the field in cdromance.org Pretty sure Spike got DMCA'd or otherwise threatened/actioned legally and even this will be temporary.
>or otherwise threatened/actioned legally and even this will be temporary.
so why wont this piece of shit just filter ips of whom this 'dmca' was sent from using his favorite cuckflare method? he sure didnt have any qualms in filtering ru ips when receiving very similar letter from Semen, now did he?
face it, he is a glowBlack person
glowies own biggest cp ring and its biggest distributors. why it comes to you as surprise that glowies wouldnt own piracy sites too? they log everything you do. torrents included
Nobody knows if it's Nintendo or not, but some entity was able to get the site reported to Google to get their ads removed. Yeah I know, nobody sees ads because they use adblock, but if your site gets ads pulled by Google then not only are you blacklisted from getting ads again, but it also heavily affects how search engines see your website and if it'll mark it as "safe" to browse.
The guy that owns the website is in lockdown mode while Google is doing a corporate-standardized website inspection of CDRomance, don't know how long that'll last but until then you can't access the DL links normally. In this case, the only thing Google cares about is whether or not CDRomance is hosting roms and letting people pirate them, no other content or coding matters to them, so once that's over it'll go back to business as usual.
There's only 10 ROMs for each system, it would be better to buy an external CD/DVD RW drive and rip my games locally. Or just play the discs directly through an emulator.
>Download this now from dodgyurlshortener.chink/f4gG0t >Five captchas later >ShittychinkyDLsite.c**t - 100KB/seco- oopsie woopsie your download dropped, start over
If it dies, it deserves it.
Was always direct and fast for me dunno what you're on about.
Frickin jeez if they take archive.org man. Frick. Been pre-mourning the big off switch for archive's roms but I don't think I'll ever be prepared enough.
>there are legal precedents against archive.org
The library & ebook thing truly was a chronic mistake.
It was a novel (HAR HAR) idea, libraries closed due to 'rona so allow access to books, until they cut into popular works and were straight up sharing PDF rips of commercial books.
Like I get normalgays could only ever access something like zlib from a .com frontend or not request files through bots but I still don't know what Archive were thinking.
At the time I remember looking for a specific edition of a book so I could check the formatting & typeface for matching on an 8" reader and I had a decent amount of trouble finding it. Then archive did their silly library sharing, it got flooded and all of a sudden there were just pdf scans from the commercial book right there for me to look at and copy with no need to go tracking it down irl, but not just that specific edition, almost every reprint was there too including editions currently published.
All this and they do it at a time when normalgays weren't commuting so publishers were worrying about their physical book sales and trying to also get people bored at home into the idea of buying ebooks.
I still don't know what the frick they were thinking.
Developers and publishers do not give one single shit about old games, but book and manga publishers have only been becoming increasingly draconian in recent years. They missed out on a ton of sales due to allowing so many series to go out of print and refusing to release anything digitally, and are only now starting to realize their mistakes. Trying to read light novels online has been a real wake up call for just how bad things have gotten
>cases still in court or rejected are legal precedents
i'm glad you're not my fricking lawyer. you and i would both be in jail thanks to your remaining iq point.
there are legal precedents against archive.org, it's a matter of time.
archive has enough support and money to last a bit longer in court than a couple guys hosting a ROM site. archive is also user uploaded content, which is legally distinct (for now).
Sod the frick off, narcicisstic egocentric frick. >>.chink
Nice try moron Shitpiece, but Romhosting sites aren't all hosted in the greater China area.
Some were hosted in the US, while others in Europe, SE Asia, or South America. Then there's torrenting.
i'm surprised none of them use a patreon outside of their being legal issues for taking money for hosting copyrighted content, but at the same time if ad's were already paying server costs like spike claims then isn't that really the same thing ?
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.
Hopefully this isn't the end, but if it is, Rip to a pretty damn good site.
>https://gist.github.com/iamevn/3afea03de61fa351bcde666f7c6d13f6
For some reason this script doesn't work for me. I tried reloading and it still doesn't show the link at all.
>They had
now they are lost in time forever and nobody will ever play them, or even see an ingame image of it.
The hard work, the creation, the ideas and many hours of a hard working dev vaporized for nothing. Heil EU, Heil EU,... Obey the west.
Through sanktion we grow into a better working part of their democraty.
At least you can find some patches on their respective sites and apply them yourself, but others based on non-Redump releases, dead patches and a bunch of Undubs are a big loss. Damn.
Oh, never mind. I checked the new deal out. You don't have to "join" the Discord server, and I'm sure people will post the method somewhere else if they haven't already.
Try downloading something. The games patched or otherwise are no longer hosted directly. Now you have to get the instructions from their transcord. you copy the cdr_ticket from each game page and paste it into the field in cdromance.org Pretty sure Spike got DMCA'd or otherwise threatened/actioned legally and even this will be temporary.
I have before, but it was nice having access to the official ones as you knew you weren't going to run into any potential issues that you might when making your own.
I'm already making a big ol' list and freeing up space on my pc for everything. The timing of it all is just killer. I JUST get my Steam Deck and realize how absolutely comfy it's going to be for emulation and the most convenient site is now in the cross hairs.. Breath of Fire 3 and 4... Are Combat 3 Electrosphere... gotta grab em all.
>Where am I even going to find eboots for my vita now? >NPS still works
Frick you, got me spooked for a moment there
Anyway, r-roms.github.io for the tech illiterate
>PSX eboots
Get a redump iso and shove into pop-fe converter
https://gbatemp.net/threads/pops-on-psp-vita-config-research.607286/
The internet is becoming a really, really small place. Better grab what you guys are wanting while the new method still works. Gonna spend the rest of my day getting the must haves from the ps2/GC. thankfully I've got pretty much everything I want up to that point but it's still a shame one of the last great sites is going down.
First WCO went full israelite, now this. Heartbreaking.
Watch Cartoons Online.
Had a HUGE collection of obscure cartoons and movies but they are charging a monthly fee to watch any of the movies on there now and the shows will follow.
it's worse than that, sometimes translations need a very specific game dump that can be hard to find
try applying a patch to the PC-98 version of Yu-no, it's a bit of a nightmare finding the exact hard drive dump that was based on, and no searching for crc 2820FD3C does not help
Spike doesn't do PC-98 but would have been nice if he did, just having a pre-patched rom to download on a site that gets updated very quickly for new translations is very convenient and occasionally saves a lot of fuss
Pre-patched PC-98 Yu-No is on archive.org like pretty much every other non-windows translation.
https://archive.org/download/En-ROMs/En-ROMs/NEC%20-%20PC-9801%20%5BT-En%5D%20Collection%20%2805-01-2024%29.zip/Yu-No%20-%20A%20Girl%20who%20Chants%20Love%20at%20the%20Edge%20of%20the%20World%20%28Japan%29%20%5BT-En%20by%20BabaJeanmel%20v1.03%5D%20%5Bn%5D%20%28Harddisk%29.zip
there's a 1.04 patch so this isn't the latest but again if you actually try to find the original hdi it's annoying to nail down the right one, the point I was trying to make was that having pre-patched files is useful
for the record the only place I've found with this file is the torrent set on nyaa with title "PC-98 ROM Collection" and file "Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shoujo YU-NO (with Special Disk).hdi" which has crc 2820fd3c
nb: the fact that archive.org is increasingly treated as authoritative is making it a single point of failure -- when it inevitably gets what's coming to it I fully expect there to be no other way to find many items it is hosting that hopefully some data hoarder has kept on a NAS
>Translating video games and anime is something only mindbroken trantoons with twisted minds do
Bullshit, I say, fricktard with an anger-obsession frickwads suffering from GID
Frick off back to the corner populated with downies and defectives like you.
It's always been crazy to me how long CDR has been running with impunity.
Also Spike just seems incredibly based. One time I told him to upload something in a random comment box just because it was something I wanted, and he did it
You know it's not like I don't think the lawyers don't already know about most pirate sites or anything but I do remember a time when we all at least pretended to try and keep things a secret. Now it gets shared all over twitter, discord and whatever else. People will put it up on youtube like a bunch of morons.
The numerous threads on Ganker about this topic already have been fricking ridiculous about this already. >The site's dead! >No it's not. Don't worry. Look everyone, here's the thing you have to do! >Stop posting that. You'll draw too much attention. >Who cares, there are plenty of other sites!
When's the last time you were on Ganker? Are you going to try and convince me those aren't children who run their mouth off on Twitter constantly?
3 months ago
Anonymous
>When's the last time you were on Ganker?
years because i loathe fast board where every decent thread dies in 3hours. anyway cant really stop them from being moronic, i hope someone remind them to keep things in the shadow and that's it. no point in losing your sleep over things you cant help with.
>Just decided to finally finish my PS2 HDD that I started five years ago
Holy shit....talk about dodging a bullet. Glad I got everything that I think I needed
Side note, anyone know if the psp or ps1 versions of Breath of Fire 3 and 4 are better?
Thankfully it's all still up for now, but it's a now or never situation for everyone that hasn't gotten to it.
It's because dumbasses post links to it all the time and goody two shoes Nintendo fanboys notify Nintendo about them and they send a C&D
If I remember correctly, Snoy and Nintendo actually teamed up to go after what they consider "piracy" so it's a concentrated effort by the worst of the worst to kill history so they have a better chance of making a buck off it. Gross stuff.
>so it's a concentrated
As much as I hate Sony fanboys, Sony really don't give a frick that people download PS2 games
Nintendo actively do
Sony really only care about piracy on their current console
I'd have to look it up (and I'm busy downloading like crazy at the moment), but I could have sworn I saw they were teaming up to take down emulation related sites, like I said.
But yeah, Nintendo is definitely the biggest dick about it for sure. These last couple of years they have been downright nasty about it considering their crapy switch emulator that they use as an incentive to pay for their overpriced access to the internet. Gross times we live in.
The thing that's annoying is that they really aren't making tons of money off this endeavor. Sony barely released any PS2 classics for PS4, and their PS2 emulator to this day is fricking busted on PS5. So many games have graphical issues and yet they still sell them, it's criminal. And even then it's more expensive to buy PS1 games for your PS4/5 than it is to buy them on your PS3, adding funds requires more of a workaround but its still possible.
As for Nintendo, it's sort of true in regards to BING BING WAHOO, but its not like they make constant collections or sell them on eShop, let alone honor Wii U/3DS era purchases. And even then they made their 3D All Stars collection a limited time deal, so they aren't even making money of of that either. They're just moronic to an aggravating degree.
Yes that's the gayest part about it is it's just copyright trolling by corporations that have no intent on even making more than a tiny amount of these games available in playable form on current hardware and so aren't even making or potentially losing money here anyway.
they are losing a ton of money by having consumers exit the market and get free content indefinitely. They want that unavailable and for you to be forced to pay again if you want any video games.
Most people are too tech illiterate to even install the most basic emulator and where to find isos. I doubt this is anything more than a paranoid power play to exert control over a market that is by its very nature distributed instead of centralized. It's the same reason Nintendo actively gimped the N64 and Gamecube just to prevent piracy which was barely even occurring at the respective contemporary periods due to fundamental limitations of computers at the time. Plus, the market for the Switch is not a replacement to the piracy market. You can be a pirate and play Switch games legally.
I was emulating Smash Bros when the N64 was still being sold. Go back to your internet historian websites and stop trying to larp as knowledgeable, zoomtard.
3 months ago
Anonymous
I doubt it, seeing that you can't differentiate between personal anecdotes and very obvious general statements like the absolute mongoloid you are
3 months ago
Anonymous
Personal anecdotes don't take away from the fact that it was possible and it was happening, kid. Be more upset.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>Personal anecdotes don't take away from the fact that it was possible and it was happening, kid.
I never said it wasn't moron. I said the average person can't and won't do that just to play games, old or new. You can argue whether they are moronic for doing this (protip: yes) but you're going off on a completely different tangent because you have zero reading comprehension and decided to argue without understanding what I'm fricking saying in the first place. That is 100% former ESE student behavior. You are acting like a moron over nothing.
>Be more upset.
Why would I be upset about some moron's opinion?
3 months ago
Anonymous
Look up UltraHLE.
3 months ago
Anonymous
I know Nintendo 64 emulation goes back to the late '90s and have used UltraHLE and Project64, along with a host of other emulators like NESTicle, PCSX(2), VisualboyAdvance and Mednaffe. Your average normalgay doesn't. Why can't you Black folk understand that you aren't the average person and that just because you personally know something doesn't mean the average person on the street does?
You could try to find someone else's save file. I know Gamefaqs has save files. I could also give you my save but I think I'm 100% unless I made lots of saves but I doubt it
I just grabbed Star Fox Adventures last night to test out the Deck's emulation capabilities. This JUST happened, which means they are no doubt on their last leg.
[Spoiler]looking around online, apparently reddit has a nice archive of old games but I haven't tried it yet.[/spoiler]
On that note, has anyone been backing up RHDN? There used to be this, but the author is an idiot and asked RHDN for permission.
https://gitlab.com/felleg/rhdn-scraper
https://archive.org/details/rhdn-20210914
Stuff gets deleted from RHDN fairly often, whether it's the modder sperging out or the RHDN admin deciding it violates WrongThink laws. That's why other sites like BaddestHacks and RHDO exist.
you don't need to fear RHDN getting taken down by corporate greed but by egos getting hurt,
the troons running it are power tripping and deleting shit, wannabe ecelebs creating romhacks sometimes just deletes their own shit, and one day I guarantee RHDN mods will take the site offline with no warning
I can see there being a few copyright trolls willing to do so. Probably not to the same extent that they would for sites hosting Nintendo platforms, but the risk is still there.
There are games on myabandonware that are owned by Microsoft, and abandonware is not a legal concept. They are allowed to exist because no one gives enough of a frick to go after them.
And they are taken down when and if someone starts to care about them. They do comply to dmca and even post links to where you can buy the game if it's put up on sale. Maybe the whole site could be taken down but I don't really see why anyone would bother and risk a bigger lawsuit when you can just basically ask nicely and get your game off the site.
Your wife's boyfriend must be so proud of you gaylord.
The internet is becoming a really, really small place. Better grab what you guys are wanting while the new method still works. Gonna spend the rest of my day getting the must haves from the ps2/GC. thankfully I've got pretty much everything I want up to that point but it's still a shame one of the last great sites is going down.
First WCO went full israelite, now this. Heartbreaking.
>see thread on Ganker about this where the OP was too moronic to understand what is going on
I guess this will work pretty good at reducing site traffic and keeping CDR out of the spotlight for a while. I'll be sure to not bother correcting anyone and let them keep thinking the site is dead.
I'll be honest, I don't really go there often anymore. Reason being I have full romsets for all of my cartridge games, and for CD-based games I prefer CHD's as they save a ton of space, which CD Romance does not have. It's still a great site especially for pre-patched roms and translations, but otherwise there are faster and more efficient ways to collect retro games.
Are you seriously incapable of packing an .ISO or .BIN + .CUE into a .CHD yourself?
Is the command line or double clicking a batch file too difficult?
This is like people complaining that Ganker doesn't support modern web image formats.
Yes. I dont know how to use MAME or retroarch either. Im more of an Openemu and retro classic plug n play mini console kinda of guy , if its not real hardware.
> copy mame exe into a folder called mame > click on exe > edit the path to where your roms are located > exit out and reload so it can scan the roms > play a fricking game
wow. that was so difficult.
I wrote a script to curl a jav site's html, piece together an stream hls manifest url from bits of it available in several elements in the html, pass the hls manifest into ffmpeg to construct an mkv of the stream bypassing a whole bunch of gay security in the way to mass download 3000 files in the past few months in a cron process
I'm plenty capable of this but it takes work
if someone makes a readily available version of what I want upfront I'll get that instead, no fuss no muss
also CHD files are aids just get a bigger hard drive
>also CHD files are aids just get a bigger hard drive
Nta, but elaborate, please. Been using them for almost four years now. It saves space and loads as fast as uncompressed files. If I want the original file, I can easily uncompress them, checksums remain the same. So, what's wrong with them? Also, your argument about hard drives are pretty pointless: "what you mean fix the holes on the road? Just get a helicopter, bro!"
CD Romance was like my favorite site. With this down, and Archive.org going down in a couple years, where do you guys recommend to download full sets before it's fully too late?
>To be more specific, the ESA filed a whole lotta claims against a whole lotta sites, which included CDRomance. Spike thus got his AdSense revoked and CDRomance is currently being inspected by Google. If they find anything wrong with the site, it gets delisted from Google, which would mean no Ad site ever would work with him. Thus CDRomance wouldn't afford to be able to stay up. This countermeasure is in place to show Google that this site is A-OK. If all goes well, nothing further will happen and Spike will find another Ad service to keep the site up.
They're not hosted on the domain he's trying to earn ad money from. I don't know what his new domain is costing him, though, so I'm sure this isn't ideal for him in the long run.
I just torrented the full US PS1 catalogue because of this. I don't feel like clogging my hard drive with it, but I don't feel like getting caught off guard next time I want an ISO.
Last time I mentionned that I had full torrents sets for several systems on my hard drive, several posters on this site laughed at me for "wasting disk space"
I bet they're not laughning now.
They probably think archive.org is gonna last forever too.
I could do it but I would rather not be the monkey that has to track down the most obscure possible rip of the game that the criminally insane person that hacked the game used that it is only compatible with and it's nice as an aggregator of new releases.
>This site doesn't host any files >but this site with the same name does >nono, we are totally unrelated to this other site that hosts the exact same files
this is too 4d chess for me
Try downloading something. The games patched or otherwise are no longer hosted directly. Now you have to get the instructions from their transcord. you copy the cdr_ticket from each game page and paste it into the field in cdromance.org Pretty sure Spike got DMCA'd or otherwise threatened/actioned legally and even this will be temporary.
There's a work around guys, it's fine
I could do it but I would rather not be the monkey that has to track down the most obscure possible rip of the game that the criminally insane person that hacked the game used that it is only compatible with and it's nice as an aggregator of new releases.
I blame this homosexual. He put this in the readme for that puzzle game no one gave a shit about, then has the same warning for Linda Cubed Again minus calling out Spike.
>redistribute this patch in bad faith
What does this even mean? How is a pre-patched ROM especially a redistribution in bad faith? Translations are always credited on their page.
>How is a pre-patched ROM especially a redistribution in bad faith?
you would think the average translator working for a free is a good guy willing to share his passion with others, the reality is far more grim. a lot of them are just full-blown schizo fishing for attention.
>you would think the average translator working for a free is a good guy willing to share his passion with others >the reality is far more grim. a lot of them are just full-blown schizo fishing for attention.
Translators/romhackers claiming games, playing up drama and crying about the woes of a project is grim shit that nobody should expose themselves to willingly.
I still hold active contempt for Zhi after his MULTI DECADE LONG mental breakdown over a title and his attitude in the later years. I learned Japanese in that time partially to sate my hunger for games & literature but also out of spite for RH&translation drama in the scene.
Romhacking scene is all fricked up from all the new kids that grew up in the era of Paid Skyrim Mods and Third Wave Feminism. Yeah there were homosexuals like Gideon who would hoard translation "rights" for a gorillion games despite not working on them, but it was never so bad that these romhackers would go around destroying other people outright simply for touching their precious little work of art after it was finished.
>Don't pre patch it! >Just look for super specific game version bro (: >Then patch it, god help you if the patch steps are esoteric as frick
Its still going against the fricking law you dumbass. You're just going through extra steps. I would understand more of it was to stop bootleg sellers (unless you literally made the cart yourself for your own personal use) but pre patched roms have existed forever
In the Saturn community we had a situation going on similar to this. Basically there was a group of people who would redistribute pre-patched games but also go as far as to sell them on repros and claim credit for doing the patch themselves or imply the people doing the patch were working under them. If anything went wrong with what they were doing they'd immediately deflect the blame back on the patch devs. So then devs would get complaints like "I paid $50 for a repro of this game and now it's crashing. I want my money back!".
So this created a pretty nasty situation. When devs asked these people to please give proper credit for the patches, and not sell repros with buggy work in progress patches burned to the discs, the people doubled down on the behavior. As a result a lot of devs started putting splash screens in their patches and disclaimers in their readmes to make it clear who made the patch.
That said, most of us in the Saturn scene never included Spike in those disclaimers because he actually was a respectful and decent human being. If an early beta patch was put up on CDRomance and the dev didn't really want it up on a place like that yet, all you had to do was ask Spike and he'd immediately take it down. He's in it for the overall community, not to stroke his ego.
I really hope this whole CDRomance situation didn't arise simply from this guy being a little b***h. If it is determined to be the case then I have zero sympathy for him if he faces prolonged doxxing/bullying/harassment and isn't able to produce another translation patch again.
In the Saturn community we had a situation going on similar to this. Basically there was a group of people who would redistribute pre-patched games but also go as far as to sell them on repros and claim credit for doing the patch themselves or imply the people doing the patch were working under them. If anything went wrong with what they were doing they'd immediately deflect the blame back on the patch devs. So then devs would get complaints like "I paid $50 for a repro of this game and now it's crashing. I want my money back!".
So this created a pretty nasty situation. When devs asked these people to please give proper credit for the patches, and not sell repros with buggy work in progress patches burned to the discs, the people doubled down on the behavior. As a result a lot of devs started putting splash screens in their patches and disclaimers in their readmes to make it clear who made the patch.
That said, most of us in the Saturn scene never included Spike in those disclaimers because he actually was a respectful and decent human being. If an early beta patch was put up on CDRomance and the dev didn't really want it up on a place like that yet, all you had to do was ask Spike and he'd immediately take it down. He's in it for the overall community, not to stroke his ego.
After-all it's not like Spike's a dirty chink lowlife selling misinformed coomlector morons non-functioning bootlegs, he makes no profit off this stuff and goes out of his way to fully-credit the translator in his upload.
This is the one:
https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=23340.0
this is the game
https://github.com/Eight-Mansions/addies-present
here is the so called prepatched game
https://cdromance.com/psx-iso/addie-no-okurimono-to-moze-from-addie-japan/
read the comments, turns out its not pre patched
Cargodin jumped the gun here, fricking moron. If this really was a labor of hard work and love he wouldn't act like a total moron. This guy is simply a narcistic butthole who is full with himself because muh translation community and too much fame in his butthole.
People like this are moronic. If I'm in the market to buy a bootleg with your free work on it it's because I want the physical object. I'm not getting ripped off if I'm paying some AliExpress chunk 20 bucks for it, I am paying for exactly what I want and getting exactly what I expect.
How much space would you fellas recommend for gathering complete sets up to 6th gen? PS2 is easily going to be the heaviest storage-wise, followed by Xbox, but I think everything else should just be a few terabytes, right?
Unless you're an archivist, you don't need complete sets. Theres' like 90% of PS2 games no one will ever play again because they're awful. Of the remaining 10%, only maybe like 2% are remotely good enough to play by the average person.
iirc my mostly complete set of gen 1-5 is like 1 or 2tb and most of that is just ps1. I say mostly complete because I just opted out of getting the PAL versions of the disc based consoles. There's really not much of an excuse to just not get everything especially with how cheap external drives are these days. Getting games one by one from a romsite like this is moronic.
Oh, that's a shame that they are getting attention now. Guess it's what you get when you keep telling every tattling moron about it. Works for my sekrit clubs. Maybe the 1 extra step will filter millions and keep it going considering that's what most of the content on there is anyway.
I'm surprised it lasted so long without any captcha, adfly or a hidden download button with script like emuparadise does.
Hope it stays up and than they don't got after vinm lair next.
It should be around 30TB, including all the shovelware and 60 versions of Mahjong on each console.
Double if you include multiple regional versions. Triple if you include prototypes, revisions, hacks, undubs etc.
You don't need that many games, 1 TB will be enough for a lifetime, especially if you play cartridge games.
I figured something like this would happen sooner or later. The site was (is?) such a good resource.
A few months ago I went through my list of links, downloaded, added them to my spreadsheet, and copied games over to everdrives & etc. Just expected the site to get got one day or another.
I've been using it for pre-patched fan translations and especially PSP eboots, there's basically nothing else that does good quality eboot downloads. Plus recently he started uploading hard to find older english patched Windows games like Magna Carta. It's also got a nice interface for just filtering other roms, was a nice way to go through and see if there were any interesting RPGs I missed.
this hurts more than any other site loss in the last 10 years. Roms and isos with undubs, fixes, and hacks for games that will never be remastered is a valuable thing. I hope something like this is always accessible.
I had no clue anything happened recently, but I did have to use the site today as happenstance, so I assumed it was "dead" for a long time. It wasn't hard to figure out the workaround, you people must be fricking hopeless drooling at the mouth if you can't figure it out. Goddamn son
Don’t bother dude the Pablos having a collective burrito melty for the second day in a row are still too busy screeching it’s over in 65 threads and on discord despite the fact plenty of websites have gotten these and been just fine, even spike himself said it’s fine AND everything is still up and Jose STILL can’t connect those beans in his brain
I've been messing with rom sites for over 20 years now. When one goes down, three pop up to replace it. There's no such thing as forever. Even Vimm's had a comeback.
THE STORY AS I KNOW IT:
To be more specific, the ESA filed a whole lotta claims against a whole lotta sites, which included CDRomance. Spike thus got his AdSense revoked and CDRomance is currently being inspected by Google. If they find anything wrong with the site, it gets delisted from Google, which would mean no Ad site ever would work with him. Thus CDRomance wouldn't afford to be able to stay up. This countermeasure is in place to show Google that this site is A-OK. If all goes well, nothing further will happen and Spike will find another Ad service to keep the site up.
Some further notes:
Spike has said that this is probably gonna be how it works moving forward, as it's safer and he doesn't want a repeat of what happened with other sites. However he is willing to make changes to the current system after the fiasco ends in order to make it more clear.
If the site gives you a "Not Found" error, that is normal. The ticket IDs change consistently, so refresh the cdromance.com page and you should be good
Check the pin in general (how-to-download)
NEW: This specific channel is in slowdown mode, as Spike wants it to be kept semi-clear so he can see questions people have with the site without them being bogged down by everyone else asking something different.
If you see someone in here with a question you know the answer to, or would like more context about, start a thread around their message. This gets around the 10-minute restriction.
Yes, the BIOS files are still there, just use the Ticket at the top of the page.
I'll edit some further info here if more frequent confusion arises
>Download is temporarily offline
wtf, what actually happened? What is the westernized world up to know?
Do we have an ru server without any klaus schwab shittery?
What ever is going on it is affecting other sites too (vimms lair). What spike did is only temporary, we do not know how this will end! But what we know now is, something is going on.
Get a big cup of coffee
Get a fresh drive
Close your door, tell everyone you are sick
archive everything
at least the prepatched, translated stuff.
Once again, a proof that if a file is not yours if it's on someone else's server. Used 1TB HDDs are 10 bucks now, better download and hoard ROMs while it's still possible. It's only going to get worse in the future, I've already lived through this once with the death of Emuparadise.
Im so glad I downloaded almost everything from there I wanted but there was and would have been so much more. We just started getting tons of stuff I always wanted like Racing lagoon those summer games and linda... but man....
and why would he need a fricking network to make offline backup, you fricking moron? especially since i literally see 3.5" hard drive in there. is that machine somehow makes it different over ethernet than just using sata on a computer?
if the idea of cramming another harddrive makes you groan like anon apparantly is, then it's time to offload storage into a separate box.
also being on network lets you plug multiple computers into it.
you can plug your modded consoles and your raspberry pi into it to load games over ethernet.
3 months ago
Anonymous
I work for a big cloud service and what you try to tell people here is bullshit. Stop it. It is always better to use a cloud service for this.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Who is to say the cloud service won't use AI in the future to remove everyones Mario Bros 3 rom.
3 months ago
Anonymous
They can already do that with a simple CRC match, thing is, cloud storage is personal too, you can have your own legit rips of games, music, and movies on there. Imagine if your harddrive deleted copy protected content from itself, that's what cloud drives that do that would essentially be doing. The issue is when you start publicly sharing that stuff.
Have to refresh sometimes as the tickets change after a few hours, anytime it doesn’t work refresh and repaste you might have just gotten caught in a ticket change, spike said that on trooncord
I am glad I downloaded whatever I wanted, this hurts a lot.
One thing I really liked about the site is how they kept every patch up to date.
Cdr was a beacon of hope in truly dark times, I hope something else will pop up.
THE STORY AS I KNOW IT:
To be more specific, the ESA filed a whole lotta claims against a whole lotta sites, which included CDRomance. Spike thus got his AdSense revoked and CDRomance is currently being inspected by Google. If they find anything wrong with the site, it gets delisted from Google, which would mean no Ad site ever would work with him. Thus CDRomance wouldn't afford to be able to stay up. This countermeasure is in place to show Google that this site is A-OK. If all goes well, nothing further will happen and Spike will find another Ad service to keep the site up.
Some further notes:
Spike has said that this is probably gonna be how it works moving forward, as it's safer and he doesn't want a repeat of what happened with other sites. However he is willing to make changes to the current system after the fiasco ends in order to make it more clear.
If the site gives you a "Not Found" error, that is normal. The ticket IDs change consistently, so refresh the cdromance.com page and you should be good
Check the pin in general (how-to-download)
NEW: This specific channel is in slowdown mode, as Spike wants it to be kept semi-clear so he can see questions people have with the site without them being bogged down by everyone else asking something different.
If you see someone in here with a question you know the answer to, or would like more context about, start a thread around their message. This gets around the 10-minute restriction.
Yes, the BIOS files are still there, just use the Ticket at the top of the page.
I'll edit some further info here if more frequent confusion arises
But there's nothing to learn? Just use LunarIPS/XDelta or whatever is more up to date? It's about the convenience of having a direct download of pre-patched games.
moronic.
You should have aimed for hack/translated best version. What you got there is just the best of/ sraped wiki list, worst you got even some version double because of asian/usa version.
What a moron would do that?
Final Fantasy 7? yeah great, how about the bug fixed version with the better retranslation, or that lunar shit without the sjw bullcrap in it?
Are you going to play that, dude? I don't think so.
>You should have aimed for hack/translated best version
I don't touch such a thing, it's filthy. >version double because of asian/usa version
More than double. I have the 6 GT1 and the 6 GT2, and I don't count the demos and the arcade discs. I don't even dare to count the Tomb Raiders. >What a moron would do that?
Me. >how about the bug fixed version with the better retranslation
I don't touch that. That's disgusting. >Are you going to play that, dude? I don't think so.
No. But I have it.
It's just the beginning of my collection
>You should have aimed for hack/translated best version
I don't touch such a thing, it's filthy. >version double because of asian/usa version
More than double. I have the 6 GT1 and the 6 GT2, and I don't count the demos and the arcade discs. I don't even dare to count the Tomb Raiders. >What a moron would do that?
Me. >how about the bug fixed version with the better retranslation
I don't touch that. That's disgusting. >Are you going to play that, dude? I don't think so.
No. But I have it.
It's just the beginning of my collection
This sucks to hear but I am actually pretty optimistic about this. These sites only get better over time. When it comes to internet-library-style access for ALL media, old and new--I don't know where the hammer will fall. But in terms of old games and fan translations--no chance that shit ever holds up should it go to court big time. I'd actually kinda love to see Archive finally go to court because I think they'd win.
If we're not talking about really specific shit like pre-patched romhacks, yes. Just learn how to patch roms, it's not hard. Myrient is probably the best romsite I've ever used: Every single official version of commercially released games, no useless web design and straight to the point
Shit, some emulators like RetroArch even do it for you on the fly these days. Don't even need to learn how to patch unless you want to apply multiple patches.
If we're not talking about really specific shit like pre-patched romhacks, yes. Just learn how to patch roms, it's not hard. Myrient is probably the best romsite I've ever used: Every single official version of commercially released games, no useless web design and straight to the point
Patching is a no-brainer, but just finding the hacks collected on there is more than half of the convenience.
The web is has been swallowed up by giant companies and everything has to run through what they say to do.
The big tech companies are increasingly also big media companies as well as being largely under the control of US and EU authorities. Today that is leveraged mostly block two specific very illegal topics & content, but in 10 years time why not apply it to everything illegal? After all, piracy is illegal including piracy of 35 year old rom dumps.
The idea that it isn't Google and Microsoft's job to police the internet is increasingly seen as old fashioned. They regularly go after topics they just don't like for example with search results and "platform" availability to anything that disagrees with the LGTVHDR10+ community.
"Just build your own alt tech site" well look at KF.net for a trial of what they will do to anyone who doesn't toe the line -- it's still running, barely, but they are now fricking with bgp to block routing at internet backbones and that's where the sidewalk ends.
How long will it be before media companies and tech companies conspire to eliminate piracy from the internet? There's a lot they would be able to accomplish with existing tools but open collaboration to "stop online piracy" is very achievable.
If you don't already have a NAS full of everything you've ever cared about (mine's at 19tb / 28tb full) you should get on that sooner rather than later. It's going to get harder to get this stuff.
I don't write this to doompost but nobody is coming along to save the internet.
No they did not
Not for discussing public information provided freely by terminally online people
But especially not giving a precedent to start blocking other independent websites until only big corporate internet remains
>But in terms of old games and fan translations--no chance that shit ever holds up should it go to court big time
They're totally illegal. There's not even really any gray area about this.
I did, and it tells me nothing that I already don't know. The patcher already tells me that the checksum is wrong, and I can already check the file hashes of the ROM I'm trying to patch, but what I don't know, is what version of Paper Mario is the correct one that I actually need, and it doesn't say anywhere on the site or in the readme, unless I'm missing something.
The hack is looking for a Paper Mario ROM with a CRC32 hash of 54257164. I don't know where he got that file as that's not a verified ROM. Anyone that refuses to check the base ROM when you're making a patch for your stupid hack should be shot in the head. This isn't a CDRomance issue.
>How do i become a hacker myself?
While your PC is turned on, firmly touch its internals until you start to be electrocuted. Endure the pain and say out loud: "don't hurt me, big boy! I just want to understand you!" Show no fear, your computer will notice if you're afraid. If you're successful, your machine will be tamed and you'll know its binary secrets. PCs all around the world will know you're the dominant, and they'll be submissive.
Every time someone posts a gay eulogy or “hey I just heard the news….damn……so what’s everyone doing haha” it’s a thinly veiled spoon feed request from a third worlder
Ok, it's not retro but I hope there's still a way to get the DLC collection on the site: https://cdromance.com/sony-psp-dlc-list-psp-downloadable-content/#!
>Jersh "James Potter" Moon, owner and operator of the Kiwi Farms, posts vexatious litigant Russell Greer's DMCA request on the front page of the site along with some mocking insults >the courts hate Kiwi Farms because it's chudpilled and has *literally dwiven twanspeople to heckin sewerslide*. >They rule that while hosting links to copyrighted content isn't illegal (otherwise, Google would be shut down), hosting these links in such a way that it encourages people to use them IS copyright infringement >as a DIRECT RESULT of Null mocking this weird schizo who's famous for suing Taylor Swift, CDromance and every other piracy site will shortly be taken off the internet
Clownworld strikes again. And Kiwifarms was originally the cwcki forums, so if you think about it, it's really Chris Chan's fault that CDromance was taken down. >https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/court-ruling-may-doom-kiwi-farms-but-set-dubious-copyright-precedent/
>copy cdrticket >paste in dot-org >get download link >yet half the thread is people acting as if the website disappeared
Are you people fricking moronic? Can't even follow these simple instructions? Can't even find the fricking instructions?
>ohno cdr is dead >check the iNtErNeT to see what's up >first result is pic related
jesus christ, look at this insufferable reddit garbage. literally can't find a single scrap of info with all that "UPDATE GOSH THANKS FOR THE REDDIT GOLD STRANGER" trash. what kind of fricking human beings are these people? how does anyone live like this. it's like I can literally see the bearded söy jaw just from the text
meanwhile fourth post best post in this very thread and now the problem is solved in 3 seconds. have some Ganker gold stranger ;o)
lol no
No matter on which side you are, or what you think of the situation, the problem is a 100% MY fault, and mine alone. I did everything, all my plan.
>the download counts are lost forever >this triggers my autism
Why exactly? The download counts were literally just for that site out of a hundred others, why do you care?
What the frick, Spike.
You did many of us a favour by pre-patching all those translations. Just pull the plug if you're going to go the Emuparadise's shitty way.
Workarounds like these usually don't last long until download are disabled alltogether.
I really wonder what went through Spike's head. Maybe some legal threat? Otherwise, he went full moron and fricked up the best site for fresh and patched roms.
>he didn't already have a hard drive full of ROMS he was interested in backed up >he doesn't have at least one or two alternative sites
another site will come along eventually, while this sucks since cdromance was probably the best of the current providers it isn't the end of the world.
reminder to treat ROM's like youtube videos you like, back that shit up before it eventually gets expunged from existence.
This, I started backing up all of my roms, movies, books, music and even modern vidya that I really like after Emuparadise got shittershattered. Thank frick that the HDD price for GB per Dollar has sunk so much in the last 8 years, I've just started buying cheap(ish) and slow 5TB WD HDDs and are in the process of moving all of my backups from my older and smaller drives onto these and then keeping all of them safely in their own little plastic cases with labels on them in an airtight plastic container in my closet.
It was a pain in the ass at first but after I started using Excel to keep track of all my shit it got a lot easier since I can just save said spreadsheets on a tiny 16gb thumbdrive along with a backup of each specific spreadsheet and a copy of OpenOffice on each respective drive.
>What's the best way to store data for long-term?
I'm interested too. I've read that while SDD are more resistant to physical shocks, it's worse for long-term data retention (though still not bad). If you take good care of it, then an HDD (the mechanical one) is one of the best options available to the average consumer. Surely there must be better and more complex solutions.
>What's the best way to store data for long-term?
I'm interested too. I've read that while SDD are more resistant to physical shocks, it's worse for long-term data retention (though still not bad). If you take good care of it, then an HDD (the mechanical one) is one of the best options available to the average consumer. Surely there must be better and more complex solutions.
I just have an external SSD chamber, I buy a new SSD every 5 - 7 years and back it up to that.
I got a new 2TB SSD for $60 last year, so it really isn't that expensive considering you could easily spend that on one old game.
outside of that I just make sure I have at least two separate drives where something I like is saved.
People actually put ROMs of different platforms into a single folder?
3 months ago
Anonymous
ye, but I'm more so talking about how having a single folder containing 500GB+ of data is less stable than having a handful of folders with 50GB - 100GB data.
obviously for industrial use you can ignore this rule but i try and keep all my folders from exceeding 200GB at least in current times.
3 months ago
Anonymous
[...] >a single folder containing 500GB+ of data is less stable than having a handful of folders with 50GB - 100GB data
Can you explain?
I store full sets by system (which means nearly a folder of nearly 3TB for psx).
>the larger a folder is, the more likely it is to corrupt sooner.
Is this true? I use Linux, so it's different from the usual Windows' NTFS. Never had this issue.
whilst i'm not super into it technically, i believe any drive that makes use of a FAT32 approach to data compartmentalising is vulnerable to it.
especially when copying and writing folders which is something you'll do a lot with external or secondary drives you use a lot.
not sure if linux uses fat32 since I remember having to re-format drives to make them linux usable but if it does than yeah I'd imagine the issue follows over onto there as well.
I thought the first poster in this chain was totally full of shit but now I'm way less sure, lol. We shouldn't be using FAT32 anymore anyway.
3 months ago
Anonymous
unfortunately my psp uses fat32 sd card. but i had alphabetic ordering for sub folders for awhile now exactly due to psp's emulators not skipping roms fast enough, it's much faster if they organized in alphabetical folders
3 months ago
Anonymous
I'm not full of shit, copying and writing large folders (especially compressed ones) CAN do damage to your drive over time.
incremental yes, but it'll keep your drive in better health AND should it start to die in use (which it won't if you monitor it's health occasionally), you'll have a greater chance at recovering more files than losing it all.
3 months ago
Anonymous
I also heard you should not fill up the drive and have at least 10% of free space
3 months ago
Anonymous
Do you also wait until Windows tells you it's safe to remove your usb peripheral?
3 months ago
Anonymous
I got my USB corrupted like that before but it was a shitty cheap one
3 months ago
Anonymous
i never mount external (or internal) media on windows, so no.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Why not
3 months ago
Anonymous
What a painful post.
Lots of small, fragmented files = lots of drive seeking and head movement. That's about it, and only applicable to HDDs. Windows even defragments on a schedule by default since 7...
ye, but I'm more so talking about how having a single folder containing 500GB+ of data is less stable than having a handful of folders with 50GB - 100GB data.
obviously for industrial use you can ignore this rule but i try and keep all my folders from exceeding 200GB at least in current times.
>a single folder containing 500GB+ of data is less stable than having a handful of folders with 50GB - 100GB data
Can you explain?
I store full sets by system (which means nearly a folder of nearly 3TB for psx).
3 months ago
Anonymous
the larger a folder is, the more likely it is to corrupt sooner.
instead of having a single folder full of ROMs for a system, break it down into a couple, I list mine alphabetically and have 4/5 folders dependant on the system's library.
obviously for fourth gen and before this doesn't matter since entire ROM libraries are likely to take up so little anyway.
I might be a bit paranoid but it's always the system I've stuck to when cataloguing shit on a PC.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>the larger a folder is, the more likely it is to corrupt sooner.
Is this true? I use Linux, so it's different from the usual Windows' NTFS. Never had this issue.
3 months ago
Anonymous
whilst i'm not super into it technically, i believe any drive that makes use of a FAT32 approach to data compartmentalising is vulnerable to it.
especially when copying and writing folders which is something you'll do a lot with external or secondary drives you use a lot.
not sure if linux uses fat32 since I remember having to re-format drives to make them linux usable but if it does than yeah I'd imagine the issue follows over onto there as well.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Linux uses ext4 instead of fat32.
(There are some people who choose other filesystems instead, but ext4 is most commonly used one for now.)
3 months ago
Anonymous
I don't think any mainstream OS uses FAT32 anymore. Even Windows defaults to NTFS for around 20 years now. Smaller-capacity flash drives do tend to use FAT32, but more for universal compatibility issues than anything else, since we have exFAT nowadays. Anyway, older filesystems without journaling (or alternative techniques) do have a higher corruption rate, but it's not something people with newer drives and systems should worry about, specially if they take good care of them.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Linux uses ext4 instead of fat32.
(There are some people who choose other filesystems instead, but ext4 is most commonly used one for now.)
I don't think any mainstream OS uses FAT32 anymore. Even Windows defaults to NTFS for around 20 years now. Smaller-capacity flash drives do tend to use FAT32, but more for universal compatibility issues than anything else, since we have exFAT nowadays. Anyway, older filesystems without journaling (or alternative techniques) do have a higher corruption rate, but it's not something people with newer drives and systems should worry about, specially if they take good care of them.
linux uses fat32 for bootloader, thanks to uefi poz
the larger a folder is, the more likely it is to corrupt sooner.
instead of having a single folder full of ROMs for a system, break it down into a couple, I list mine alphabetically and have 4/5 folders dependant on the system's library.
obviously for fourth gen and before this doesn't matter since entire ROM libraries are likely to take up so little anyway.
I might be a bit paranoid but it's always the system I've stuck to when cataloguing shit on a PC.
is it really the case?
I find it hard to believe modern systems have that problem
Price is good, but I'm a third-worlder and things are rougher here. Even if you have the dough, getting a 2TB drive is annoying, because of availability issues. I have to make do with an 1TB and a 640GB HDDs.
>finally actually about to finish my first romhack >thought it'd be cool to finally have something of my own up on CDRomance
fug. guess I was too slow.
I made a really minor patch for a game enhancement, uploaded it on romhacking.net and even that got patched to the ISO on CDRomance
sorry to hear that you couldn't get your work made in time Anon but maybe there will be a nice site soon
Frick the companies that does this shit. The only reason why everyone does this shit in the first place is because it is the only way to play a lot of these old games and even when there are options they are worse 99.9% of the time.
I get why Black personendo and Snoy goes after sites that host current and even last gen games since they are still being sold by these companies but anything from the PS3 era and older should be available for FREE unless these same companies makes an actual effort with keeping these games alive and no, shitty ass remakes and fricking sub models are not a viable strategy for this as it provides a MUCH worse experience for consumers while increasing the cost of overheadthe bottomline for these companies.
The "free" model of current emulation is the best version for everyone involved since it removes the bottomline costs for companies so that they aren't legally obligated to keep this shit onlinesupported forever and it gives almost everyone equal access to (arguably) to old cultureart that has shaped our current societies.
Abandonware should be an actual legal concept that works just like how its meme version currently works ffs. Yes, I'm mad.
I usually get something I need from Redump sets at NNM-Club, should be decently fast in (Eastern) Europe, for example
https://nnmclub.to/forum/viewtopic.php?t=311228
https://nnmclub.to/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1053778
(other sets are linked in the first posts)
Ouch... I loved this website, I'm glad it still sort of works, but seeing it being targeted really sucks... which company motivated them to do this? Or is it something they did as a sort of precaution?
It's always a bit scary to see emulation being targeted, I get why executives and companies do it, especially due to online services and remakes, but most old video games are unavailable now.
You don't browse it, but it has the exact same layout as the Files section on the webpage. So if you only want one particular folder, add its link onto the end of the rsync link.
I dunno, I just grab specific games I want to play from the files section
I used to do that, but the direct downloads are throttled to shit nowadays.
M'Nigguranth, nevermind that the whining was stupid to begin with (the downloads never went away), there are idiots a few posts up that are still lost.
This is not the first time, everytime a site is too popular on search engines, it needs rebranding, another domain, etc. Copyright claims stops until it become popular again
How about you get in touch with him and offer to pay his server bills then? I'm sure he'd get rid of the ads. Or is the point that he should take a financial hit for YOUR principles?
How about you get in touch with him and offer to pay his server bills then? I'm sure he'd get rid of the ads. Or is the point that he should take a financial hit for YOUR principles?
NTA, but I'm assuming he means that advertisers make it easy for the (new) site to be tracked, despite his purpose for the new site.
Yeah but romhacking.net isn't curated, afaik the CDRomance guy only uploads stuff he likes. I don't want to sift through a million stupid pokemon romhacks.
i mean honestly i didn't even know CDRomance was for rom hacks, i just thought it was a place to find bios files and playstation roms, thats the way it use to be
It's just some site where a dude personally uploads things he wants to share. It's one of the last sites online that still kind of feels like the old internet.
3 months ago
Anonymous
if you want websites that feel like the old internet then make this website your homepage
https://weboasis.app/
I honestly don't understand why people say "the old internet is dead" when there are people who keep lists of websites, its just people are lazy and don't bother searching, but I guess thats what happens when everything is just handed to you on a silver platter.
F
WHAT NOW?
Try downloading something. The games patched or otherwise are no longer hosted directly. Now you have to get the instructions from their transcord. you copy the cdr_ticket from each game page and paste it into the field in cdromance.org Pretty sure Spike got DMCA'd or otherwise threatened/actioned legally and even this will be temporary.
>or otherwise threatened/actioned legally and even this will be temporary.
so why wont this piece of shit just filter ips of whom this 'dmca' was sent from using his favorite cuckflare method? he sure didnt have any qualms in filtering ru ips when receiving very similar letter from Semen, now did he?
face it, he is a glowBlack person
a glowie owning a pirate site, sure. go back to the front ruskie.
glowies own biggest cp ring and its biggest distributors. why it comes to you as surprise that glowies wouldnt own piracy sites too? they log everything you do. torrents included
>He doesn't think glowies own pirate sites
>a glowie owning a pirate site
who do you think goes through all the trouble to set up and maintain a pirate site?!
get real
Fed.
Nobody knows if it's Nintendo or not, but some entity was able to get the site reported to Google to get their ads removed. Yeah I know, nobody sees ads because they use adblock, but if your site gets ads pulled by Google then not only are you blacklisted from getting ads again, but it also heavily affects how search engines see your website and if it'll mark it as "safe" to browse.
The guy that owns the website is in lockdown mode while Google is doing a corporate-standardized website inspection of CDRomance, don't know how long that'll last but until then you can't access the DL links normally. In this case, the only thing Google cares about is whether or not CDRomance is hosting roms and letting people pirate them, no other content or coding matters to them, so once that's over it'll go back to business as usual.
Elaborate, or get laughed at for false-flagging.
It looks the same but the download links are gone. Sucks, it was super convenient to try out translations.
Get them from here
https://archive.org/download/En-ROMs/En-ROMs/
nice, thx anon
There's only 10 ROMs for each system, it would be better to buy an external CD/DVD RW drive and rip my games locally. Or just play the discs directly through an emulator.
Stop lying douchebag.
Old Nintendo/Sega systems are 100% but anything beyond 5th generation of consoles is only 5% of the total library.
>Download this now from dodgyurlshortener.chink/f4gG0t
>Five captchas later
>ShittychinkyDLsite.c**t - 100KB/seco- oopsie woopsie your download dropped, start over
If it dies, it deserves it.
Was always direct and fast for me dunno what you're on about.
Frickin jeez if they take archive.org man. Frick. Been pre-mourning the big off switch for archive's roms but I don't think I'll ever be prepared enough.
Instead of download links it now says:
>This site doesn't host any files.
RIPperoni, went the way of emuparadise and other greats of the past.
there are legal precedents against archive.org, it's a matter of time.
>there are legal precedents against archive.org
The library & ebook thing truly was a chronic mistake.
It was a novel (HAR HAR) idea, libraries closed due to 'rona so allow access to books, until they cut into popular works and were straight up sharing PDF rips of commercial books.
Like I get normalgays could only ever access something like zlib from a .com frontend or not request files through bots but I still don't know what Archive were thinking.
At the time I remember looking for a specific edition of a book so I could check the formatting & typeface for matching on an 8" reader and I had a decent amount of trouble finding it. Then archive did their silly library sharing, it got flooded and all of a sudden there were just pdf scans from the commercial book right there for me to look at and copy with no need to go tracking it down irl, but not just that specific edition, almost every reprint was there too including editions currently published.
All this and they do it at a time when normalgays weren't commuting so publishers were worrying about their physical book sales and trying to also get people bored at home into the idea of buying ebooks.
I still don't know what the frick they were thinking.
Developers and publishers do not give one single shit about old games, but book and manga publishers have only been becoming increasingly draconian in recent years. They missed out on a ton of sales due to allowing so many series to go out of print and refusing to release anything digitally, and are only now starting to realize their mistakes. Trying to read light novels online has been a real wake up call for just how bad things have gotten
>cases still in court or rejected are legal precedents
i'm glad you're not my fricking lawyer. you and i would both be in jail thanks to your remaining iq point.
archive has enough support and money to last a bit longer in court than a couple guys hosting a ROM site. archive is also user uploaded content, which is legally distinct (for now).
the links were never direct and resumable
Sod the frick off, narcicisstic egocentric frick.
>>.chink
Nice try moron Shitpiece, but Romhosting sites aren't all hosted in the greater China area.
Some were hosted in the US, while others in Europe, SE Asia, or South America. Then there's torrenting.
People have been longing to go back to the old internet for ages. Now you got it.
I don't know what site you're describing, but it definitely isn't CDR.
> woopsie your download dropped, start over
This has literally never happened to me
It was good while it lasted, spike got emuparadise'd.
I snatched Racing Lagoon yesterday
>Mohan forcing his Ganges smellin' ads on us (or trying to)
>cdromance getting (mostly) rip'd
Things only get worse, don't they?
est fini
He should stop relying on google and go to another main provider of ads and other such things.
This mindset is what leads to dogshit sites with a million popup ads and video ads covering your site.
i'm surprised none of them use a patreon outside of their being legal issues for taking money for hosting copyrighted content, but at the same time if ad's were already paying server costs like spike claims then isn't that really the same thing ?
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.
Hopefully this isn't the end, but if it is, Rip to a pretty damn good site.
>It's "real"
FRICK.
Now the west has truly fallen.
Billions must torrent.
>the west has fallen
if only
Damn, this one hurts more than emuparadise. How come wowroms is still alive?
theres a script yknow
>the script
he didn't know
>https://gist.github.com/iamevn/3afea03de61fa351bcde666f7c6d13f6
For some reason this script doesn't work for me. I tried reloading and it still doesn't show the link at all.
i was talking about the emuparadise one. never used cdromance. i patch the game manually.
for me, it was iso zone...
me 2
these frickers had the only working drop of Saturn battletech game
i remember a lot of original xbox homebrew being hosted here that vanished afterwards. might've just been on xbins though.
There were so many weird ass prototypes for games on there
this one actually really sucked. They had a frickton of weird Win98-XP games
>They had
now they are lost in time forever and nobody will ever play them, or even see an ingame image of it.
The hard work, the creation, the ideas and many hours of a hard working dev vaporized for nothing. Heil EU, Heil EU,... Obey the west.
Through sanktion we grow into a better working part of their democraty.
Nothing, NOTHING will ever hurt as much as losing Megaupload. It was the internet's equivalent to the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
Facts.
I remember the Rapidshare/MU/Netload.in days.
🙁
NOOOOO I wasn't finished building my ps2/ps1 library!!! It better come back or I am marching on Tokyo this time next year.
oh my god what the frick
>It's dead for real
GOD FRICKING DAMNIT
At least you can find some patches on their respective sites and apply them yourself, but others based on non-Redump releases, dead patches and a bunch of Undubs are a big loss. Damn.
Oh, never mind. I checked the new deal out. You don't have to "join" the Discord server, and I'm sure people will post the method somewhere else if they haven't already.
yup i just figured it out.
Even I'm moronic, because
even posted it.
>just get an oled Steam Deck for emulation
>sweet, time to finally play Panzer Dragoon Saga
>...
>this site doesn't host any files
I hate vidya companies so much it's unreal. Where am I even going to find eboots for my vita now?
i don't think anyone else has eboots ready to download. get pxs2psp and make them from iso
I have before, but it was nice having access to the official ones as you knew you weren't going to run into any potential issues that you might when making your own.
I'm already making a big ol' list and freeing up space on my pc for everything. The timing of it all is just killer. I JUST get my Steam Deck and realize how absolutely comfy it's going to be for emulation and the most convenient site is now in the cross hairs.. Breath of Fire 3 and 4... Are Combat 3 Electrosphere... gotta grab em all.
Uh, this website. Using the method relayed on one of the first posts of this thread.
Oh I know, I'm thankful to the anons in the thread saving me the trip to discord. It's just a crying shame.
Stood his ground as long as he could. Feels like Emuparadise all over again, hopefully he gets away without getting the anal raping though.
>Where am I even going to find eboots for my vita now?
>NPS still works
Frick you, got me spooked for a moment there
Anyway, r-roms.github.io for the tech illiterate
>PSX eboots
Get a redump iso and shove into pop-fe converter
https://gbatemp.net/threads/pops-on-psp-vita-config-research.607286/
>but muh romsets
https://nyaa.si/?f=0&c=6_2&q=&s=size&o=desc
The internet is becoming a really, really small place. Better grab what you guys are wanting while the new method still works. Gonna spend the rest of my day getting the must haves from the ps2/GC. thankfully I've got pretty much everything I want up to that point but it's still a shame one of the last great sites is going down.
First WCO went full israelite, now this. Heartbreaking.
>WCO
World Customs Organization?
Watch Cartoons Online.
Had a HUGE collection of obscure cartoons and movies but they are charging a monthly fee to watch any of the movies on there now and the shows will follow.
>charge monthly to stream shows they have no legal right to host
Why didn’t I think of this?
because crunchyroll stole the idea a decade and a half ago
wcostream.tv seems to work fine. When did this happen?
Click one of the movies
I just watched a full episode of a show without issue. I think you're probably using wco.tv, which is a shitty version of the site.
you can bypass it by clicking the playlist button, for now
You absolute king.
Well the workaround is simple enough, thankfully
It is, but I imagine it ain't gonna last long. They are in Nintendo and Snoys sights so get it while the getting is good.
Man, I gotta dig up the old Ganker recommends charts. Sucks cuz there will definitely be some Fan Translations and Undubs I'll miss.
Some games cant be found tho
like Syphon Filter 2 (USA)
Europe version works tho
Simple but still a drag, I'd rather not have to copy-paste something on other site.
>/vr/ zoomers are literally too moronic to patch their own roms
Yeah, I always knew this place was redditlite
It's more about another archive of old games going down. The patched games are just convenient
Reddit could understand how to patch things.
Zoomers and Alphas are dumber than reddit, if you can believe it.
I've been patching game since the 2000s. If someone does the work ahead of me and offers it, why shouldn't I take it?
it's worse than that, sometimes translations need a very specific game dump that can be hard to find
try applying a patch to the PC-98 version of Yu-no, it's a bit of a nightmare finding the exact hard drive dump that was based on, and no searching for crc 2820FD3C does not help
Spike doesn't do PC-98 but would have been nice if he did, just having a pre-patched rom to download on a site that gets updated very quickly for new translations is very convenient and occasionally saves a lot of fuss
Pre-patched PC-98 Yu-No is on archive.org like pretty much every other non-windows translation.
https://archive.org/download/En-ROMs/En-ROMs/NEC%20-%20PC-9801%20%5BT-En%5D%20Collection%20%2805-01-2024%29.zip/Yu-No%20-%20A%20Girl%20who%20Chants%20Love%20at%20the%20Edge%20of%20the%20World%20%28Japan%29%20%5BT-En%20by%20BabaJeanmel%20v1.03%5D%20%5Bn%5D%20%28Harddisk%29.zip
there's a 1.04 patch so this isn't the latest but again if you actually try to find the original hdi it's annoying to nail down the right one, the point I was trying to make was that having pre-patched files is useful
for the record the only place I've found with this file is the torrent set on nyaa with title "PC-98 ROM Collection" and file "Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shoujo YU-NO (with Special Disk).hdi" which has crc 2820fd3c
nb: the fact that archive.org is increasingly treated as authoritative is making it a single point of failure -- when it inevitably gets what's coming to it I fully expect there to be no other way to find many items it is hosting that hopefully some data hoarder has kept on a NAS
vimm's lair bros be careful
Oh no, not muh troonylations
>Translating video games and anime is something only mindbroken trantoons with twisted minds do
Bullshit, I say, fricktard with an anger-obsession frickwads suffering from GID
Frick off back to the corner populated with downies and defectives like you.
You just fell for bait. Just ignore these contrarian homosexuals.
>muh troonylations
The site was also simply the easiest place to go and grab an ISO of your fav game.
It's always been crazy to me how long CDR has been running with impunity.
Also Spike just seems incredibly based. One time I told him to upload something in a random comment box just because it was something I wanted, and he did it
It's because dumbasses post links to it all the time and goody two shoes Nintendo fanboys notify Nintendo about them and they send a C&D
You know it's not like I don't think the lawyers don't already know about most pirate sites or anything but I do remember a time when we all at least pretended to try and keep things a secret. Now it gets shared all over twitter, discord and whatever else. People will put it up on youtube like a bunch of morons.
The numerous threads on Ganker about this topic already have been fricking ridiculous about this already.
>The site's dead!
>No it's not. Don't worry. Look everyone, here's the thing you have to do!
>Stop posting that. You'll draw too much attention.
>Who cares, there are plenty of other sites!
Ganker is not that big, you should gatekeep normies posting in normies' shithole like twitter, facebook, whatever.
When's the last time you were on Ganker? Are you going to try and convince me those aren't children who run their mouth off on Twitter constantly?
>When's the last time you were on Ganker?
years because i loathe fast board where every decent thread dies in 3hours. anyway cant really stop them from being moronic, i hope someone remind them to keep things in the shadow and that's it. no point in losing your sleep over things you cant help with.
>Ganker is not that big
It's bigger than you think it is.
Fricking moron, Ganker averages about 20-30 twitter threads a day. Probably the most normalgay board on this shit site.
this.
Everyone is underage.
Nobody sages threads they don't like.
Everybody takes the bait.
Nobody reports.
Mods don't care.
>Probably the most normalgay board on this shit site.
That's still /misc/
nah is Ganker
It's closer to 30 an hour. The number of Twitter threads per day is easily in the triple digits
There's a work around guys, it's fine
>Just decided to finally finish my PS2 HDD that I started five years ago
Holy shit....talk about dodging a bullet. Glad I got everything that I think I needed
Side note, anyone know if the psp or ps1 versions of Breath of Fire 3 and 4 are better?
Thankfully it's all still up for now, but it's a now or never situation for everyone that hasn't gotten to it.
If I remember correctly, Snoy and Nintendo actually teamed up to go after what they consider "piracy" so it's a concentrated effort by the worst of the worst to kill history so they have a better chance of making a buck off it. Gross stuff.
>so it's a concentrated
As much as I hate Sony fanboys, Sony really don't give a frick that people download PS2 games
Nintendo actively do
Sony really only care about piracy on their current console
I'd have to look it up (and I'm busy downloading like crazy at the moment), but I could have sworn I saw they were teaming up to take down emulation related sites, like I said.
But yeah, Nintendo is definitely the biggest dick about it for sure. These last couple of years they have been downright nasty about it considering their crapy switch emulator that they use as an incentive to pay for their overpriced access to the internet. Gross times we live in.
(Just grabbed the ZoE games.)
The thing that's annoying is that they really aren't making tons of money off this endeavor. Sony barely released any PS2 classics for PS4, and their PS2 emulator to this day is fricking busted on PS5. So many games have graphical issues and yet they still sell them, it's criminal. And even then it's more expensive to buy PS1 games for your PS4/5 than it is to buy them on your PS3, adding funds requires more of a workaround but its still possible.
As for Nintendo, it's sort of true in regards to BING BING WAHOO, but its not like they make constant collections or sell them on eShop, let alone honor Wii U/3DS era purchases. And even then they made their 3D All Stars collection a limited time deal, so they aren't even making money of of that either. They're just moronic to an aggravating degree.
Yes that's the gayest part about it is it's just copyright trolling by corporations that have no intent on even making more than a tiny amount of these games available in playable form on current hardware and so aren't even making or potentially losing money here anyway.
The worst part is they are willing to take down 90% of the obscure games just to procure a quick, nonsensical buck.
Gotcha, appreciate the heads up. Found conflicting things on the versions. Thank you.
they are losing a ton of money by having consumers exit the market and get free content indefinitely. They want that unavailable and for you to be forced to pay again if you want any video games.
Most people are too tech illiterate to even install the most basic emulator and where to find isos. I doubt this is anything more than a paranoid power play to exert control over a market that is by its very nature distributed instead of centralized. It's the same reason Nintendo actively gimped the N64 and Gamecube just to prevent piracy which was barely even occurring at the respective contemporary periods due to fundamental limitations of computers at the time. Plus, the market for the Switch is not a replacement to the piracy market. You can be a pirate and play Switch games legally.
I was emulating Smash Bros when the N64 was still being sold. Go back to your internet historian websites and stop trying to larp as knowledgeable, zoomtard.
I doubt it, seeing that you can't differentiate between personal anecdotes and very obvious general statements like the absolute mongoloid you are
Personal anecdotes don't take away from the fact that it was possible and it was happening, kid. Be more upset.
>Personal anecdotes don't take away from the fact that it was possible and it was happening, kid.
I never said it wasn't moron. I said the average person can't and won't do that just to play games, old or new. You can argue whether they are moronic for doing this (protip: yes) but you're going off on a completely different tangent because you have zero reading comprehension and decided to argue without understanding what I'm fricking saying in the first place. That is 100% former ESE student behavior. You are acting like a moron over nothing.
>Be more upset.
Why would I be upset about some moron's opinion?
Look up UltraHLE.
I know Nintendo 64 emulation goes back to the late '90s and have used UltraHLE and Project64, along with a host of other emulators like NESTicle, PCSX(2), VisualboyAdvance and Mednaffe. Your average normalgay doesn't. Why can't you Black folk understand that you aren't the average person and that just because you personally know something doesn't mean the average person on the street does?
PSP BoF3 is better in every way
BoF4 doesn't have a PSP version. Only PS1. And PC but it's shit
I wish there's a method to convert the PS1 save into the PSP version, I don't wanna start again.
You could try to find someone else's save file. I know Gamefaqs has save files. I could also give you my save but I think I'm 100% unless I made lots of saves but I doubt it
There is:
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Save_converters#PlayStation_1.3C-.3EPlayStation_Portable
It's different here, because BoFIII has a PSP port.
What the frick
Site still worked for me yesterday
I just grabbed Star Fox Adventures last night to test out the Deck's emulation capabilities. This JUST happened, which means they are no doubt on their last leg.
[Spoiler]looking around online, apparently reddit has a nice archive of old games but I haven't tried it yet.[/spoiler]
psst, hey kid press ctrl s next time
Shit, I'm running out of sites, this one was great for prepatched roms.
On that note, has anyone been backing up RHDN? There used to be this, but the author is an idiot and asked RHDN for permission.
https://gitlab.com/felleg/rhdn-scraper
https://archive.org/details/rhdn-20210914
You don't need to back up RHDN unless some troon rages out and deletes it since it's not breaking any laws.
Stuff gets deleted from RHDN fairly often, whether it's the modder sperging out or the RHDN admin deciding it violates WrongThink laws. That's why other sites like BaddestHacks and RHDO exist.
you don't need to fear RHDN getting taken down by corporate greed but by egos getting hurt,
the troons running it are power tripping and deleting shit, wannabe ecelebs creating romhacks sometimes just deletes their own shit, and one day I guarantee RHDN mods will take the site offline with no warning
Anyone in "the scene" has terminal Asperger's. Random rage fits are to be expected.
>Anyone in the scene has terminal aspergers or somethiing like it
[citation needed] Mr. "I think I'm omnipresent at everyone's house".
It's true, he's in my house right now.
Help.
Just don't make a sound and slowly walk backwards. You can do it. Live now, fight another day.
>Mr. "I think I'm omnipresent at everyone's house".
KEK I'm stealing this, but I'll credit you.
>you don't need to back up RHDN unless <reason to backup RHDN>
Not actually true
>You don't need to back up RHDN unless some troon rages out and deletes it
this has happened to individual hacks hosted on the site multiple times.
The age of piracy is slowly coming to an edn
Once zoomers are the majority of internet users it will die for good
Is there a chance they take down myabandonware?
I can see there being a few copyright trolls willing to do so. Probably not to the same extent that they would for sites hosting Nintendo platforms, but the risk is still there.
Impossible
Abandonware is literally unlicensed software
the only way it gets taken down is if the site is abandoned
There are games on myabandonware that are owned by Microsoft, and abandonware is not a legal concept. They are allowed to exist because no one gives enough of a frick to go after them.
>abandonware is not a legal concept
It is and if Microsoft want things removed they will do so
And they are taken down when and if someone starts to care about them. They do comply to dmca and even post links to where you can buy the game if it's put up on sale. Maybe the whole site could be taken down but I don't really see why anyone would bother and risk a bigger lawsuit when you can just basically ask nicely and get your game off the site.
Why do people still go to dedicated romsites to get 1 game at a time. Im glad your moron site is down go grow a braincell.
New translations are added all the time. People are in different stages of amassing their ROM hoard.
This is "but no one did hit me" logic.
YO NO WAY WHAT THE FRICK!... now where am I going to download my prepatched ps2 translations?
>Softmod my PS2
>This happens one day later
I mean, there are plenty of other sources, but this one was nice...
Never used it, but thanks for reminding me these sites are temporary and to download everything while you still can.
>downloaded 2 translations yesterday
It was me guys. I did the copyright crime. I'm sorry.
Your wife's boyfriend must be so proud of you gaylord.
Thanks God I moved to Kimcartoon years ago
>get called a homosexual for playing translated japanese games
>immediately imagine a cuckold scenario
you're immune to the irony here
Is this some form of advanced schizoposting? The sites still up for me?
try to download something
It's fricking over.
You all realize eventually we're going to have to revolt, right?
The west has fallen billions must pirate
Where am i gonna get the psx to psp eboots now
>see thread on Ganker about this where the OP was too moronic to understand what is going on
I guess this will work pretty good at reducing site traffic and keeping CDR out of the spotlight for a while. I'll be sure to not bother correcting anyone and let them keep thinking the site is dead.
I'll be honest, I don't really go there often anymore. Reason being I have full romsets for all of my cartridge games, and for CD-based games I prefer CHD's as they save a ton of space, which CD Romance does not have. It's still a great site especially for pre-patched roms and translations, but otherwise there are faster and more efficient ways to collect retro games.
Are you seriously incapable of packing an .ISO or .BIN + .CUE into a .CHD yourself?
Is the command line or double clicking a batch file too difficult?
This is like people complaining that Ganker doesn't support modern web image formats.
Yes. I dont know how to use MAME or retroarch either. Im more of an Openemu and retro classic plug n play mini console kinda of guy , if its not real hardware.
> copy mame exe into a folder called mame
> click on exe
> edit the path to where your roms are located
> exit out and reload so it can scan the roms
> play a fricking game
wow. that was so difficult.
I wrote a script to curl a jav site's html, piece together an stream hls manifest url from bits of it available in several elements in the html, pass the hls manifest into ffmpeg to construct an mkv of the stream bypassing a whole bunch of gay security in the way to mass download 3000 files in the past few months in a cron process
I'm plenty capable of this but it takes work
if someone makes a readily available version of what I want upfront I'll get that instead, no fuss no muss
also CHD files are aids just get a bigger hard drive
>also CHD files are aids just get a bigger hard drive
Nta, but elaborate, please. Been using them for almost four years now. It saves space and loads as fast as uncompressed files. If I want the original file, I can easily uncompress them, checksums remain the same. So, what's wrong with them? Also, your argument about hard drives are pretty pointless: "what you mean fix the holes on the road? Just get a helicopter, bro!"
just ignore the schizo piece of shit
bro what the FUUUuUUUUUCCKCKKK, MANNNN
CD Romance was like my favorite site. With this down, and Archive.org going down in a couple years, where do you guys recommend to download full sets before it's fully too late?
FRICK OFF GLOWIE
Schizo
>To be more specific, the ESA filed a whole lotta claims against a whole lotta sites, which included CDRomance. Spike thus got his AdSense revoked and CDRomance is currently being inspected by Google. If they find anything wrong with the site, it gets delisted from Google, which would mean no Ad site ever would work with him. Thus CDRomance wouldn't afford to be able to stay up. This countermeasure is in place to show Google that this site is A-OK. If all goes well, nothing further will happen and Spike will find another Ad service to keep the site up.
looks like cdromance is laying low for a while
but none of that implies he'll ever go back to file hosting right? it's so over
The files are still hosted but you gotta look at the discord to figure out how to access them.
They're not hosted on the domain he's trying to earn ad money from. I don't know what his new domain is costing him, though, so I'm sure this isn't ideal for him in the long run.
I just torrented the full US PS1 catalogue because of this. I don't feel like clogging my hard drive with it, but I don't feel like getting caught off guard next time I want an ISO.
You'll be glad you did in the long run anon. I don't regret doing this with all of my cartridge consoles including SEGA CD and Turbo CD
I would have done PS1 and Dreamcast at this point as well if they weren't so _YUGE_
Last time I mentionned that I had full torrents sets for several systems on my hard drive, several posters on this site laughed at me for "wasting disk space"
I bet they're not laughning now.
They probably think archive.org is gonna last forever too.
Enjoy wasting disk space homosexual.
Good thing I can easily delete things when I need space then!
tbh I did that years ago, I just used CDR for prepatched translations and occasionally the hacks.
Luckily I'm not a braindead drooling moron who has to rely on a site and catch patch games on their own.
Well, you're right about one part. also congrats on solving the captcha
I could do it but I would rather not be the monkey that has to track down the most obscure possible rip of the game that the criminally insane person that hacked the game used that it is only compatible with and it's nice as an aggregator of new releases.
>This site doesn't host any files
>but this site with the same name does
>nono, we are totally unrelated to this other site that hosts the exact same files
this is too 4d chess for me
yeah, I will run the english language to the ground, don't even @ me
At the moment, this is about ad revenue and not legal liability. The other domain doesn't matter because it's not related to adsense.
copyright as it is now it's not more than a israelitery. i bet the original devs that worked on this games cant even pay their bills.
different surname. it works for people too.
wat site, anoms
read homie read
this.
I blame this homosexual. He put this in the readme for that puzzle game no one gave a shit about, then has the same warning for Linda Cubed Again minus calling out Spike.
>redistribute this patch in bad faith
What does this even mean? How is a pre-patched ROM especially a redistribution in bad faith? Translations are always credited on their page.
>How is a pre-patched ROM especially a redistribution in bad faith?
you would think the average translator working for a free is a good guy willing to share his passion with others, the reality is far more grim. a lot of them are just full-blown schizo fishing for attention.
Aeon Genesis
>you would think the average translator working for a free is a good guy willing to share his passion with others
>the reality is far more grim. a lot of them are just full-blown schizo fishing for attention.
Translators/romhackers claiming games, playing up drama and crying about the woes of a project is grim shit that nobody should expose themselves to willingly.
I still hold active contempt for Zhi after his MULTI DECADE LONG mental breakdown over a title and his attitude in the later years. I learned Japanese in that time partially to sate my hunger for games & literature but also out of spite for RH&translation drama in the scene.
maybe one day we'll get SRW Alpha finished by that homosexual holding it up.
>making a file to be used with a rom or iso is fine
>but distributing a prepatched rom is BAD FAITH
Fricking how? It's not like the company is still getting money for their fricking obscure retro puzzle game that's technically abandonware anyway.
It's Narcissism
Romhacking scene is all fricked up from all the new kids that grew up in the era of Paid Skyrim Mods and Third Wave Feminism. Yeah there were homosexuals like Gideon who would hoard translation "rights" for a gorillion games despite not working on them, but it was never so bad that these romhackers would go around destroying other people outright simply for touching their precious little work of art after it was finished.
I never fricking understood this
>Don't pre patch it!
>Just look for super specific game version bro (:
>Then patch it, god help you if the patch steps are esoteric as frick
Its still going against the fricking law you dumbass. You're just going through extra steps. I would understand more of it was to stop bootleg sellers (unless you literally made the cart yourself for your own personal use) but pre patched roms have existed forever
What a fricking moron
Romhacking in general is full of entitled attention prostitutes that only care about themselves, not the games
The same people later will cry about "preservation" and shit like that
Spike is doing gods work preparching this ROMs.
In the Saturn community we had a situation going on similar to this. Basically there was a group of people who would redistribute pre-patched games but also go as far as to sell them on repros and claim credit for doing the patch themselves or imply the people doing the patch were working under them. If anything went wrong with what they were doing they'd immediately deflect the blame back on the patch devs. So then devs would get complaints like "I paid $50 for a repro of this game and now it's crashing. I want my money back!".
So this created a pretty nasty situation. When devs asked these people to please give proper credit for the patches, and not sell repros with buggy work in progress patches burned to the discs, the people doubled down on the behavior. As a result a lot of devs started putting splash screens in their patches and disclaimers in their readmes to make it clear who made the patch.
That said, most of us in the Saturn scene never included Spike in those disclaimers because he actually was a respectful and decent human being. If an early beta patch was put up on CDRomance and the dev didn't really want it up on a place like that yet, all you had to do was ask Spike and he'd immediately take it down. He's in it for the overall community, not to stroke his ego.
I really hope this whole CDRomance situation didn't arise simply from this guy being a little b***h. If it is determined to be the case then I have zero sympathy for him if he faces prolonged doxxing/bullying/harassment and isn't able to produce another translation patch again.
After-all it's not like Spike's a dirty chink lowlife selling misinformed coomlector morons non-functioning bootlegs, he makes no profit off this stuff and goes out of his way to fully-credit the translator in his upload.
Of fricking course it's a troonylator shill
This is the one:
https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=23340.0
this is the game
https://github.com/Eight-Mansions/addies-present
here is the so called prepatched game
https://cdromance.com/psx-iso/addie-no-okurimono-to-moze-from-addie-japan/
read the comments, turns out its not pre patched
Cargodin jumped the gun here, fricking moron. If this really was a labor of hard work and love he wouldn't act like a total moron. This guy is simply a narcistic butthole who is full with himself because muh translation community and too much fame in his butthole.
Frick this shit.
People like this are moronic. If I'm in the market to buy a bootleg with your free work on it it's because I want the physical object. I'm not getting ripped off if I'm paying some AliExpress chunk 20 bucks for it, I am paying for exactly what I want and getting exactly what I expect.
what a faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggg
Dear god, please protect wowroms forever, amen
this but the lair
Vimm's Lair sucks. You can't even download GC games in a playable form.
They work on my Wii, drag and drop.
It seems they offer .ciso files in addition to the obnoxious nkit.iso files now.
I have nkit.isos on my actual GameCube. It's supposed to be the optimal filetype when playing on original hardware, right?
Quite literally skill issues
moron
Moron
good thing I grabbed everything I wanted
I didnt ;_; not enough storage space...
How much space would you fellas recommend for gathering complete sets up to 6th gen? PS2 is easily going to be the heaviest storage-wise, followed by Xbox, but I think everything else should just be a few terabytes, right?
Unless you're an archivist, you don't need complete sets. Theres' like 90% of PS2 games no one will ever play again because they're awful. Of the remaining 10%, only maybe like 2% are remotely good enough to play by the average person.
iirc my mostly complete set of gen 1-5 is like 1 or 2tb and most of that is just ps1. I say mostly complete because I just opted out of getting the PAL versions of the disc based consoles. There's really not much of an excuse to just not get everything especially with how cheap external drives are these days. Getting games one by one from a romsite like this is moronic.
Huh glad I got some games I wanted like Amagami before they died.
So what's next? Is he just gonna update normally or what?
He'll rebrand and just starts fresh again by launching dvdromance.net
Who knows, but I have no idea why this is a crisis situation for this website. Are we asking for a sticky next?
The old internet disappears more and more each day ;_;
i fricking hate the mobile app focused corporate nu-web internet.
It would be even more of a tragedy if the Wayback Machine comes to an end.
Physical media brethren we stay winning.
Oh, that's a shame that they are getting attention now. Guess it's what you get when you keep telling every tattling moron about it. Works for my sekrit clubs. Maybe the 1 extra step will filter millions and keep it going considering that's what most of the content on there is anyway.
/vr/ hosting site when
At this point most of you should have the full romset of consoles you like. Storage is is not an issue anymore
>Laughs in PS2 sets
you can fit the entire american set zipped in a 4tb hd
>american
only if you're made of money
Used server hard drives are under $200 for a 10tb or larger drive with a five year warranty.
that's still a lot if you're poor
You can get a 250GB HDD off of Amazon for like $15-25.
I have no need for that many games, most of them will go in the recycle bin anyway.
i unironically use his website to catch up on the news about the latest cool hacks, translations and undubs
Sucks, I guess I'll hurry up getting everything I want while there's still a workaround.
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
Everything still works, discord isn’t necessary, billions of terminally online latinos must overreact
I'm surprised it lasted so long without any captcha, adfly or a hidden download button with script like emuparadise does.
Hope it stays up and than they don't got after vinm lair next.
Did anyone work out how much storage space is needed to hold every game up to 6th Gen?
6th gen home consoles alone are a bit over 30TB, adding up their redump sets. i don't feel like adding up all the rest.
do you really need to store every shit game you won't have the time or will to play?
It should be around 30TB, including all the shovelware and 60 versions of Mahjong on each console.
Double if you include multiple regional versions. Triple if you include prototypes, revisions, hacks, undubs etc.
You don't need that many games, 1 TB will be enough for a lifetime, especially if you play cartridge games.
all roms can be stored on 64gb flash drive
the disk isos is where issue begin
I figured something like this would happen sooner or later. The site was (is?) such a good resource.
A few months ago I went through my list of links, downloaded, added them to my spreadsheet, and copied games over to everdrives & etc. Just expected the site to get got one day or another.
I've been using it for pre-patched fan translations and especially PSP eboots, there's basically nothing else that does good quality eboot downloads. Plus recently he started uploading hard to find older english patched Windows games like Magna Carta. It's also got a nice interface for just filtering other roms, was a nice way to go through and see if there were any interesting RPGs I missed.
R.I.P. to a real one.
They were OK for recommendations if you didn't wanna bother watching reviews and straight-up DL'ing the ROM but no major loss.
There's still that one French site that I won't mention in case the copyright glowBlack folk are reading this. It's where I get most of my ROMs.
Frick, were do i rent my games now?
this hurts more than any other site loss in the last 10 years. Roms and isos with undubs, fixes, and hacks for games that will never be remastered is a valuable thing. I hope something like this is always accessible.
Those fixes DO still exist what are you talking about
moronics thinking it is dead...
You can download stuff even from Emuparadise if you are not stupid
Thread shows a work around, of its some troonygay being a special boy trying to attack the site. If its not israelites, its troonygays
I had no clue anything happened recently, but I did have to use the site today as happenstance, so I assumed it was "dead" for a long time. It wasn't hard to figure out the workaround, you people must be fricking hopeless drooling at the mouth if you can't figure it out. Goddamn son
Don’t bother dude the Pablos having a collective burrito melty for the second day in a row are still too busy screeching it’s over in 65 threads and on discord despite the fact plenty of websites have gotten these and been just fine, even spike himself said it’s fine AND everything is still up and Jose STILL can’t connect those beans in his brain
I've been messing with rom sites for over 20 years now. When one goes down, three pop up to replace it. There's no such thing as forever. Even Vimm's had a comeback.
Baffles me how tech-illiterate this place is. Even on boards like Ganker.
how were you supposed to know about the .org?
what the frick
This is how its done now
Is this done just to outsmart automated piracy detection systems?
Semi Official FAQ
THE STORY AS I KNOW IT:
To be more specific, the ESA filed a whole lotta claims against a whole lotta sites, which included CDRomance. Spike thus got his AdSense revoked and CDRomance is currently being inspected by Google. If they find anything wrong with the site, it gets delisted from Google, which would mean no Ad site ever would work with him. Thus CDRomance wouldn't afford to be able to stay up. This countermeasure is in place to show Google that this site is A-OK. If all goes well, nothing further will happen and Spike will find another Ad service to keep the site up.
Some further notes:
Spike has said that this is probably gonna be how it works moving forward, as it's safer and he doesn't want a repeat of what happened with other sites. However he is willing to make changes to the current system after the fiasco ends in order to make it more clear.
If the site gives you a "Not Found" error, that is normal. The ticket IDs change consistently, so refresh the cdromance.com page and you should be good
Check the pin in general (how-to-download)
NEW: This specific channel is in slowdown mode, as Spike wants it to be kept semi-clear so he can see questions people have with the site without them being bogged down by everyone else asking something different.
If you see someone in here with a question you know the answer to, or would like more context about, start a thread around their message. This gets around the 10-minute restriction.
Yes, the BIOS files are still there, just use the Ticket at the top of the page.
I'll edit some further info here if more frequent confusion arises
to comply with the letter of the law
Thank you bro.
This site dying is like Nhentai, the most normie hentai site, loosing a bunch of copyrighted stuff.
Boo hoo
vimms is fricked too
>Download is temporarily offline
wtf, what actually happened? What is the westernized world up to know?
Do we have an ru server without any klaus schwab shittery?
Imagine being so fricking loser to put Content warnings in your translations
Just checked the other rom sites, they are still ok.
ok ok.
ANONS LISTEN
What ever is going on it is affecting other sites too (vimms lair). What spike did is only temporary, we do not know how this will end! But what we know now is, something is going on.
Get a big cup of coffee
Get a fresh drive
Close your door, tell everyone you are sick
archive everything
at least the prepatched, translated stuff.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
its just a handfull of games
https://cdromance.com/translations/?search=&language=english-patched&platform=n64-roms
they might be gone forever, after the super bowl
I can't tell if some anons are shitposting or if they are actually moronic
They’re actually moronic it’s fricking third worlders all the way down dude
archive dot org doesn't allow you to read pdf anymore, at least old vidya magazines
You know what grinds my gear, Hypercapitalism.
Works with the ones I've tried https://archive.org/details/HobbyConsolas069
huh, happened the day before the super bowl too, vimm being hit aswell
Vimm's Lair seems to work again
It's fricking OVER.
Once again, a proof that if a file is not yours if it's on someone else's server. Used 1TB HDDs are 10 bucks now, better download and hoard ROMs while it's still possible. It's only going to get worse in the future, I've already lived through this once with the death of Emuparadise.
Man...
Im so glad I downloaded almost everything from there I wanted but there was and would have been so much more. We just started getting tons of stuff I always wanted like Racing lagoon those summer games and linda... but man....
I saw this first thing this morning and it just put a damper on my whole day.
How big are complete rom sets anyway. I was going to get PS1, but I have frick all space and would have to buy another harddrive.
sounds like you need a NAS.
a wat
network attached storage
and why would he need a fricking network to make offline backup, you fricking moron? especially since i literally see 3.5" hard drive in there. is that machine somehow makes it different over ethernet than just using sata on a computer?
if the idea of cramming another harddrive makes you groan like anon apparantly is, then it's time to offload storage into a separate box.
also being on network lets you plug multiple computers into it.
you can plug your modded consoles and your raspberry pi into it to load games over ethernet.
I work for a big cloud service and what you try to tell people here is bullshit. Stop it. It is always better to use a cloud service for this.
Who is to say the cloud service won't use AI in the future to remove everyones Mario Bros 3 rom.
They can already do that with a simple CRC match, thing is, cloud storage is personal too, you can have your own legit rips of games, music, and movies on there. Imagine if your harddrive deleted copy protected content from itself, that's what cloud drives that do that would essentially be doing. The issue is when you start publicly sharing that stuff.
vimms back
What happened to the CDR ticket thing? It literally worked for a day, now doesn't work
It does work, what the frick are you talking about?
Weird, it wasn't working for me just a while ago. The number was hidden. But now it is working
Have to refresh sometimes as the tickets change after a few hours, anytime it doesn’t work refresh and repaste you might have just gotten caught in a ticket change, spike said that on trooncord
tampermonkey script when?
I am glad I downloaded whatever I wanted, this hurts a lot.
One thing I really liked about the site is how they kept every patch up to date.
Cdr was a beacon of hope in truly dark times, I hope something else will pop up.
According to
everything is fine, give it some time.
You wouldnt need cdr if you spent 5 min learning how to patch translation hacks.
But there's nothing to learn? Just use LunarIPS/XDelta or whatever is more up to date? It's about the convenience of having a direct download of pre-patched games.
whats the difference between lunar ips and flips?
there's no point in any of these sites once you can find shit on archive.org
convenience is the point.
centralized + reliable + fast = popular
>reliable
I don't about where I find my roms. I know how to check them.
>centralized
>reliable
pick one
it's both until it isn't. given the nature of the enterprise, this is to be expected.
the archive is all those things if you use a download manager
yes, let's hope it stays around
Rate my collection.
moronic.
You should have aimed for hack/translated best version. What you got there is just the best of/ sraped wiki list, worst you got even some version double because of asian/usa version.
What a moron would do that?
Final Fantasy 7? yeah great, how about the bug fixed version with the better retranslation, or that lunar shit without the sjw bullcrap in it?
Are you going to play that, dude? I don't think so.
>how about the bug fixed version with the better retranslation
you didnt beat the game
>if you didn't see this guy are sick and have beneficial bugs that helped you, you didn't beat the game
cuck
>You should have aimed for hack/translated best version
I don't touch such a thing, it's filthy.
>version double because of asian/usa version
More than double. I have the 6 GT1 and the 6 GT2, and I don't count the demos and the arcade discs. I don't even dare to count the Tomb Raiders.
>What a moron would do that?
Me.
>how about the bug fixed version with the better retranslation
I don't touch that. That's disgusting.
>Are you going to play that, dude? I don't think so.
No. But I have it.
It's just the beginning of my collection
Spike, your new site layout sucks balls
This sucks to hear but I am actually pretty optimistic about this. These sites only get better over time. When it comes to internet-library-style access for ALL media, old and new--I don't know where the hammer will fall. But in terms of old games and fan translations--no chance that shit ever holds up should it go to court big time. I'd actually kinda love to see Archive finally go to court because I think they'd win.
>These sites only get better over time
If we're not talking about really specific shit like pre-patched romhacks, yes. Just learn how to patch roms, it's not hard. Myrient is probably the best romsite I've ever used: Every single official version of commercially released games, no useless web design and straight to the point
Shit, some emulators like RetroArch even do it for you on the fly these days. Don't even need to learn how to patch unless you want to apply multiple patches.
Patching is a no-brainer, but just finding the hacks collected on there is more than half of the convenience.
I would argue it's only going to get worse.
The web is has been swallowed up by giant companies and everything has to run through what they say to do.
The big tech companies are increasingly also big media companies as well as being largely under the control of US and EU authorities. Today that is leveraged mostly block two specific very illegal topics & content, but in 10 years time why not apply it to everything illegal? After all, piracy is illegal including piracy of 35 year old rom dumps.
The idea that it isn't Google and Microsoft's job to police the internet is increasingly seen as old fashioned. They regularly go after topics they just don't like for example with search results and "platform" availability to anything that disagrees with the LGTVHDR10+ community.
"Just build your own alt tech site" well look at KF.net for a trial of what they will do to anyone who doesn't toe the line -- it's still running, barely, but they are now fricking with bgp to block routing at internet backbones and that's where the sidewalk ends.
How long will it be before media companies and tech companies conspire to eliminate piracy from the internet? There's a lot they would be able to accomplish with existing tools but open collaboration to "stop online piracy" is very achievable.
If you don't already have a NAS full of everything you've ever cared about (mine's at 19tb / 28tb full) you should get on that sooner rather than later. It's going to get harder to get this stuff.
I don't write this to doompost but nobody is coming along to save the internet.
KF deserved to get kicked off for stalking and harassing random people who don't harm anyone. Go frick yourself.
No they did not
Not for discussing public information provided freely by terminally online people
But especially not giving a precedent to start blocking other independent websites until only big corporate internet remains
They broke the rule of "look don't touch"
>nobody is coming along to save the internet
Not with that attitude.
people's surfing habits are the reasons everyone goes to a dozen of sites
>But in terms of old games and fan translations--no chance that shit ever holds up should it go to court big time
They're totally illegal. There's not even really any gray area about this.
This shit is why CDR getting fricked is fricking Black person shit.
use romhacking.net's online patcher. it tells you if it's the right checksum etc.
I did, and it tells me nothing that I already don't know. The patcher already tells me that the checksum is wrong, and I can already check the file hashes of the ROM I'm trying to patch, but what I don't know, is what version of Paper Mario is the correct one that I actually need, and it doesn't say anywhere on the site or in the readme, unless I'm missing something.
The hack is looking for a Paper Mario ROM with a CRC32 hash of 54257164. I don't know where he got that file as that's not a verified ROM. Anyone that refuses to check the base ROM when you're making a patch for your stupid hack should be shot in the head. This isn't a CDRomance issue.
How did you find out what CRC32 it was looking for?
It's not a CDR issue, but having prepatched roms does help prevent this issue.
UPS and BPS have the CRC32 in reverse order at the end of the file. Skip 8 bytes, reverse the next 4
Ahhh, Ok. What are you viewing this in?
Any hex editor is fine. I mostly use HxD and WinMerge.
Thanks, I haven't used any hex editors in a long time, so I was wondering what was good. Thanks for that info.
Are guys hackers or some shit? How do i become a hacker myself?
Install Gentoo
>How do i become a hacker myself?
While your PC is turned on, firmly touch its internals until you start to be electrocuted. Endure the pain and say out loud: "don't hurt me, big boy! I just want to understand you!" Show no fear, your computer will notice if you're afraid. If you're successful, your machine will be tamed and you'll know its binary secrets. PCs all around the world will know you're the dominant, and they'll be submissive.
Delete System32 and you'll enter developer mode on your PC. Developer mode is where all the hacking tools are, as well as instructions on how to hack.
Depends on what you wanna hack/modify. Mod a game console? Crack DRM?
I am hack
Delete system32 for l33t hax0r skills
what is this site?
I'm still downloading my roms on Emuparadise with a basic script.
Every time someone posts a gay eulogy or “hey I just heard the news….damn……so what’s everyone doing haha” it’s a thinly veiled spoon feed request from a third worlder
Ok, it's not retro but I hope there's still a way to get the DLC collection on the site: https://cdromance.com/sony-psp-dlc-list-psp-downloadable-content/#!
durr I missed the ticket at the top
>Jersh "James Potter" Moon, owner and operator of the Kiwi Farms, posts vexatious litigant Russell Greer's DMCA request on the front page of the site along with some mocking insults
>the courts hate Kiwi Farms because it's chudpilled and has *literally dwiven twanspeople to heckin sewerslide*.
>They rule that while hosting links to copyrighted content isn't illegal (otherwise, Google would be shut down), hosting these links in such a way that it encourages people to use them IS copyright infringement
>as a DIRECT RESULT of Null mocking this weird schizo who's famous for suing Taylor Swift, CDromance and every other piracy site will shortly be taken off the internet
Clownworld strikes again. And Kiwifarms was originally the cwcki forums, so if you think about it, it's really Chris Chan's fault that CDromance was taken down.
>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/court-ruling-may-doom-kiwi-farms-but-set-dubious-copyright-precedent/
Frick Null. Nothing good has ever come out of that trash site, this is just the cherry on top.
>copy cdrticket
>paste in dot-org
>get download link
>yet half the thread is people acting as if the website disappeared
Are you people fricking moronic? Can't even follow these simple instructions? Can't even find the fricking instructions?
I don't think that's the issue
it's more that it's barely known
I hope someone releases a script for this.
>a script to copy paste
wut?
A script to direct download from the main website.
Anon, it's literally just copy paste on a new window
What if I want to download 100 games?
Then you're a moron for using CDR in the first place, given there are so many better places for downloading games en masse.
What if I want to download 100 pre-patched roms?
this is exactly the kind of normie you want to gatekeep.
>ohno cdr is dead
>check the iNtErNeT to see what's up
>first result is pic related
jesus christ, look at this insufferable reddit garbage. literally can't find a single scrap of info with all that "UPDATE GOSH THANKS FOR THE REDDIT GOLD STRANGER" trash. what kind of fricking human beings are these people? how does anyone live like this. it's like I can literally see the bearded söy jaw just from the text
meanwhile fourth post best post in this very thread and now the problem is solved in 3 seconds. have some Ganker gold stranger ;o)
Leddit is truly a mental asylum.
Is he coming out of the closet on his next update?
>UPDATE 6: I have a vegana!
ironically posts like this are part of the problem. you're adding to the clutter.
but i dont give a frick cause i know the work around
lol no
No matter on which side you are, or what you think of the situation, the problem is a 100% MY fault, and mine alone. I did everything, all my plan.
there's no "clutter" because the answer is already at the top of thread, dumb fricking reddit shitstain
and so we find the whole hacker and cracker scene of the omnipotante 16bit era in one bread.
I present to you all this image, now look at it and tell me what you feel when you look at it.
What’s the context?
>can still download via workaround
>but the download counts are lost forever
this triggers my autism in unimaginable ways.
>the download counts are lost forever
>this triggers my autism
Why exactly? The download counts were literally just for that site out of a hundred others, why do you care?
CDRomance was a great replacement for when EmuPradise shutdown. Sad.
Well. Time to stop being a criminal.
Go away bootlicker.
First, you use my services. Then, you label me as a criminal.
It's a legal backup, even has the same region number. You are the type of idiot that will say ad blockers are illegal.
What the frick, Spike.
You did many of us a favour by pre-patching all those translations. Just pull the plug if you're going to go the Emuparadise's shitty way.
I think the tickets are a good workaround if they can keep it
Workarounds like these usually don't last long until download are disabled alltogether.
I really wonder what went through Spike's head. Maybe some legal threat? Otherwise, he went full moron and fricked up the best site for fresh and patched roms.
>Maybe some legal threat?
They disable his ads, so no ads, no income, can't pay for the servers
Should set up a patreon for the servers. I'd give $5 monthly for the service.
No.
read the thread moron
Bump
Why
>he didn't already have a hard drive full of ROMS he was interested in backed up
>he doesn't have at least one or two alternative sites
another site will come along eventually, while this sucks since cdromance was probably the best of the current providers it isn't the end of the world.
reminder to treat ROM's like youtube videos you like, back that shit up before it eventually gets expunged from existence.
This, I started backing up all of my roms, movies, books, music and even modern vidya that I really like after Emuparadise got shittershattered. Thank frick that the HDD price for GB per Dollar has sunk so much in the last 8 years, I've just started buying cheap(ish) and slow 5TB WD HDDs and are in the process of moving all of my backups from my older and smaller drives onto these and then keeping all of them safely in their own little plastic cases with labels on them in an airtight plastic container in my closet.
It was a pain in the ass at first but after I started using Excel to keep track of all my shit it got a lot easier since I can just save said spreadsheets on a tiny 16gb thumbdrive along with a backup of each specific spreadsheet and a copy of OpenOffice on each respective drive.
What's the best way to store data for long-term?
I have a couple of 2 and 3 TB WD HDD that I just plug in when I need to copy something.
>What's the best way to store data for long-term?
I'm interested too. I've read that while SDD are more resistant to physical shocks, it's worse for long-term data retention (though still not bad). If you take good care of it, then an HDD (the mechanical one) is one of the best options available to the average consumer. Surely there must be better and more complex solutions.
I just have an external SSD chamber, I buy a new SSD every 5 - 7 years and back it up to that.
I got a new 2TB SSD for $60 last year, so it really isn't that expensive considering you could easily spend that on one old game.
outside of that I just make sure I have at least two separate drives where something I like is saved.
also, don't be that moron who bundles all their shit up into a single folder, spread your collection out for better storage stability.
People actually put ROMs of different platforms into a single folder?
ye, but I'm more so talking about how having a single folder containing 500GB+ of data is less stable than having a handful of folders with 50GB - 100GB data.
obviously for industrial use you can ignore this rule but i try and keep all my folders from exceeding 200GB at least in current times.
I thought the first poster in this chain was totally full of shit but now I'm way less sure, lol. We shouldn't be using FAT32 anymore anyway.
unfortunately my psp uses fat32 sd card. but i had alphabetic ordering for sub folders for awhile now exactly due to psp's emulators not skipping roms fast enough, it's much faster if they organized in alphabetical folders
I'm not full of shit, copying and writing large folders (especially compressed ones) CAN do damage to your drive over time.
incremental yes, but it'll keep your drive in better health AND should it start to die in use (which it won't if you monitor it's health occasionally), you'll have a greater chance at recovering more files than losing it all.
I also heard you should not fill up the drive and have at least 10% of free space
Do you also wait until Windows tells you it's safe to remove your usb peripheral?
I got my USB corrupted like that before but it was a shitty cheap one
i never mount external (or internal) media on windows, so no.
Why not
What a painful post.
Lots of small, fragmented files = lots of drive seeking and head movement. That's about it, and only applicable to HDDs. Windows even defragments on a schedule by default since 7...
>a single folder containing 500GB+ of data is less stable than having a handful of folders with 50GB - 100GB data
Can you explain?
I store full sets by system (which means nearly a folder of nearly 3TB for psx).
the larger a folder is, the more likely it is to corrupt sooner.
instead of having a single folder full of ROMs for a system, break it down into a couple, I list mine alphabetically and have 4/5 folders dependant on the system's library.
obviously for fourth gen and before this doesn't matter since entire ROM libraries are likely to take up so little anyway.
I might be a bit paranoid but it's always the system I've stuck to when cataloguing shit on a PC.
>the larger a folder is, the more likely it is to corrupt sooner.
Is this true? I use Linux, so it's different from the usual Windows' NTFS. Never had this issue.
whilst i'm not super into it technically, i believe any drive that makes use of a FAT32 approach to data compartmentalising is vulnerable to it.
especially when copying and writing folders which is something you'll do a lot with external or secondary drives you use a lot.
not sure if linux uses fat32 since I remember having to re-format drives to make them linux usable but if it does than yeah I'd imagine the issue follows over onto there as well.
Linux uses ext4 instead of fat32.
(There are some people who choose other filesystems instead, but ext4 is most commonly used one for now.)
I don't think any mainstream OS uses FAT32 anymore. Even Windows defaults to NTFS for around 20 years now. Smaller-capacity flash drives do tend to use FAT32, but more for universal compatibility issues than anything else, since we have exFAT nowadays. Anyway, older filesystems without journaling (or alternative techniques) do have a higher corruption rate, but it's not something people with newer drives and systems should worry about, specially if they take good care of them.
linux uses fat32 for bootloader, thanks to uefi poz
I like giving my folders icons too, to represent the console
is it really the case?
I find it hard to believe modern systems have that problem
Price is good, but I'm a third-worlder and things are rougher here. Even if you have the dough, getting a 2TB drive is annoying, because of availability issues. I have to make do with an 1TB and a 640GB HDDs.
>SATA HDD
>Starts Clickin and Whezzing
Enjoy your files getting hollow currupted b***h
>SATA SSD
>Runs out of write cycles
enjoy your paperweight b***h
>finally actually about to finish my first romhack
>thought it'd be cool to finally have something of my own up on CDRomance
fug. guess I was too slow.
Put it in a new /hbg/ thread here, at least!
I made a really minor patch for a game enhancement, uploaded it on romhacking.net and even that got patched to the ISO on CDRomance
sorry to hear that you couldn't get your work made in time Anon but maybe there will be a nice site soon
F
h shop is next.
Frick the companies that does this shit. The only reason why everyone does this shit in the first place is because it is the only way to play a lot of these old games and even when there are options they are worse 99.9% of the time.
I get why Black personendo and Snoy goes after sites that host current and even last gen games since they are still being sold by these companies but anything from the PS3 era and older should be available for FREE unless these same companies makes an actual effort with keeping these games alive and no, shitty ass remakes and fricking sub models are not a viable strategy for this as it provides a MUCH worse experience for consumers while increasing the cost of overheadthe bottomline for these companies.
The "free" model of current emulation is the best version for everyone involved since it removes the bottomline costs for companies so that they aren't legally obligated to keep this shit onlinesupported forever and it gives almost everyone equal access to (arguably) to old cultureart that has shaped our current societies.
Abandonware should be an actual legal concept that works just like how its meme version currently works ffs. Yes, I'm mad.
I guess its back to ripping my ps1 discs..
welp
Are there any other games you can't download?
You can download all the other GTA games and PAL versions of SA are still available
Why the frick would you play the PS2 version. Some of you guys are peak hipster.
go on then what version should we play?
hot coffee
Welp
Vimm is done guys.
relax it's just that one game everything else is still able to be downlaoded.
not retro
the new method is in the cdr FAQ lol
Let this thread die third worlders do not deserve to be spoon fed
WHERE IS A COMPLETE FRICKING TORRENT OF ALL PSX AND PS2 GAMES?
I usually get something I need from Redump sets at NNM-Club, should be decently fast in (Eastern) Europe, for example
https://nnmclub.to/forum/viewtopic.php?t=311228
https://nnmclub.to/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1053778
(other sets are linked in the first posts)
so we passed through the eye of the storm? I actually like this new way of downloading the games more than the original way.
Ouch... I loved this website, I'm glad it still sort of works, but seeing it being targeted really sucks... which company motivated them to do this? Or is it something they did as a sort of precaution?
It's always a bit scary to see emulation being targeted, I get why executives and companies do it, especially due to online services and remakes, but most old video games are unavailable now.
archive.org might as well be shutdown too
this throttling is ungodly
How is that site so painfully slow it's so unreal. Can't even browse snapshots of old sites ffs.
Why are you morons not just using Myrient?
Is it safe to connect to their FTP server?
I dunno, I just grab specific games I want to play from the files section
i use their rsync server instead
How am I supposed to browse their rsync:// url?
You don't browse it, but it has the exact same layout as the Files section on the webpage. So if you only want one particular folder, add its link onto the end of the rsync link.
I used to do that, but the direct downloads are throttled to shit nowadays.
>it's been days
>morons are still acting like the site went away
check when the thread went up, m'homie.
M'Nigguranth, nevermind that the whining was stupid to begin with (the downloads never went away), there are idiots a few posts up that are still lost.
it's back, click "find links"
>why you always Liying?
Wait, I just downloaded a game, a more niche one but I did. So it's only big games from big companies that got taken down?
Download links are back on the main site. Comments are gone?
Moving to a new server in a country that doesn't care about piracy I guess?
CDRomance.com seems closed, you're redirected on the .org one.
Files are back under "find links"
why don't they just make torrents? assuming even only a small handful of people seed they won't be able to take it down
that's assuming a lot
there are still people seeding random rom sets on public trackers like 1337x. even if only a single guy seeds its now two guys instead of one
All you need to take down a torrent is to take down all of the trackers.
This brain dead homosexual made a .org site and decided to put ads on it again.
At this point he deserves to get nuked for being this moronic.
The whole purpose of the site is to make money,
He’s trying to cash out last minute before he gets nuked
This is not the first time, everytime a site is too popular on search engines, it needs rebranding, another domain, etc. Copyright claims stops until it become popular again
The old domain just redirects to the new one lol
Oh yes that's stupid xd
The ads pay for him to keep the site up.
You're the brain dead homosexual for not having ad blockers.
That is not the point
How about you get in touch with him and offer to pay his server bills then? I'm sure he'd get rid of the ads. Or is the point that he should take a financial hit for YOUR principles?
i rather just set up crawler on my router that automatically adds ad domains into blacklist on my custom resolver
and if i had spare money i'd literally just buy more storage space for my server and just download all roms myself
really garbage argument
NTA, but I'm assuming he means that advertisers make it easy for the (new) site to be tracked, despite his purpose for the new site.
Works on my machine
Wait, did they drop it? I can download from them again. What's going on?
>https://vimm.net/ in 2024
>forgotten
why did ya'll even still use cdromance when vimm is goated? lol
CD Romance pre-patches translation hacks, and also was just a good place for me to find newer hacks.
https://www.romhacking.net/
literally a whole website for that...
RHDN removes some hacks and translations for weird political reasons while CDR keeps them all
Yeah but romhacking.net isn't curated, afaik the CDRomance guy only uploads stuff he likes. I don't want to sift through a million stupid pokemon romhacks.
i mean honestly i didn't even know CDRomance was for rom hacks, i just thought it was a place to find bios files and playstation roms, thats the way it use to be
It's just some site where a dude personally uploads things he wants to share. It's one of the last sites online that still kind of feels like the old internet.
if you want websites that feel like the old internet then make this website your homepage
https://weboasis.app/
I honestly don't understand why people say "the old internet is dead" when there are people who keep lists of websites, its just people are lazy and don't bother searching, but I guess thats what happens when everything is just handed to you on a silver platter.
Because it is zoomie
>vimm.net
slow speeds, only one download at a time
oh boy like you need to download a shit ton at once, if you really need to do that just get a VPN and torrent.
What are people tripping about, I'm downloading an iso from there now