Hi, let me know if this is obviously stupid and won't work. I'm an old pirate but obviously still pretty uneducated. I've got a dead torrent that's a collection of roms. 4 seeders, 800 abandoned peers (ungrateful basterds). Seeders are rarely online or can't provide more than 8% after a week. The roms are pretty mainstream and it's strange for this torrent to have been abandoned.

If I can find find the exact releases of as many roms as possible in the collection from other singular sources, can I resurrect this torrent by just copy+overwrite into the unfinished folder? is it that simple or is this hubris? am I too old to be this stupid?

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[–] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 47 points 2 months ago (9 children)

The files have to be exact copies of the originals so this usually isn't possible. The only time I've ever had success with reviving torrents was by finding a DDL that miraculously hadn't been deleted that was an archive of the original torrent. I found it by searching online for the exact name of the release.

[–] sad_detective_man@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 months ago (8 children)

so I got a copies from Vimm's Lair to overwrite and bump up the progress on the torrent. but I just noticed the new files only show that they're 99.3-99.7% after overwriting and rechecking the torrent. would this indicate that they're the wrong hash afterall?

[–] IllNess 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I seed but never created a torrent file. I wonder if there is a command to create a new hash to see if you can compare the old one with the new one. That way you can see if it truly is the same file.

[–] sad_detective_man@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

my client has an option to create a torrent file. I wouldn't know how to compare the two though 🤔

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