ScratchySoft

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[–] ScratchySoft@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Maybe? But I can't imagine that would be particularly healthy for the site for legal reasons. I'm thinking maybe trying to do a biweekly to monthly feed of recently dumped ROMs and related media would be nice? Though admittedly I'm not sure how well I'd be able to keep up with doing that.

[–] ScratchySoft@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a wonder why people don't just start taking their encryption into their own hands. It's easier than ever with PGP, so I've heard.

Convenience isn't necessarily the only problem with a given service. Maybe their favorite movie got the "50 remasters of Star Wars" treatment over the years and the latest one doesn't look or sound that good, or the company behind it has shitty business practices like using death squads against South American union workers or something.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by ScratchySoft@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 

I was made a moderator of !retropirates@lemmy.dbzer0.com a while back, but now I'm not sure what to do with it. Direct links to newly dumped titles would be a violation of rule 3 (only reason I left the Grimace's Birthday post up is because the game was free in the first place so who cares). !roms@lemmy.dbzer0.com exists, and it itself is already niche but more popular than !retropirates@lemmy.dbzer0.com...

I'm not sure what to do with it that couldn't already be done in !piracy or !roms@lemmy.dbzer0.com... Do y'all think there's a good place for it on here? What would be a good way to differentiate it from !roms@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com?

[–] ScratchySoft@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So is this just going to be an I2P-based torrent tracker for ROMs?

[–] ScratchySoft@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I see... Is there already a retro gaming community on dbzer0? If not, maybe I could try reorienting the sub to be a more general retro gaming community? But that still doesn't solve the problem of tying it into the subject matter of the rest of the site without posting links discouraged under the site's policies (though I'm not sure how well-enforced that is)... Maybe discussing emulators and advancements in them as well as... Maybe information on new dumps bimonthly or something? Perhaps another issue is the fact that !roms@lemmy.dbzer0.com, already fairly niche on this site, is still the de facto retro piracy sub on here judging by how popular it is compared to !retropirates@lemmy.dbzer0.com.

Because I'd rather not get spyware.

Tribler is not Tor, and I know Tor doesn't work. That's why I asked if there's anything like Tor rather than just doing the stupid thing of using Tor immediately. I'll look into I2P.

[–] ScratchySoft@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I live in the US, so it is illegal here though not always enforced much, but a lot of trackers also encourage seeding for obvious reasons and it seems like poor form not to.

switched from a client application to a web interface

uuuuuuugh, good to know

 

I am not in a place where I can afford a VPN (do not start suggesting cheap VPNs to me istg), and in addition, you have to place a lot of trust in the VPN. Tribler seems promising, except... For the giant disclaimer that's been on the site for years. That worries me. I am quite worried about getting scary letters from my ISP or something when torrenting.

Do not put yourself in danger. Our anonymity is not yet mature.

Tribler does not protect you against spooks and government agencies. We are a torrent client and aim to protect you against lawyer-based attacks and censorship. With help from many volunteers we are continuously evolving and improving.

Edit: Seems like there are a lot of issues below the surface as well... https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/19118584/10120234

And Lokinet, I2P, and GNUnet have their own massive problems... https://comment.ctrl.blog/discussion/tribler-onion-routed-bittorrent

ngl, kinda depressing that it's like this...

Edit 2: I misread the article a bit, it's not quite as dire as I thought it was initially, but the warning and the fact that only the core file-transferring features are anonymized at all... Is a bit disconcerting.

[–] ScratchySoft@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Hey, uh... I'm one of the mods on !retropirates@lemmy.dbzer0.com. I haven't been on in a while because... Well, I just haven't been able to figure out what to do with it outside of posting links, which is... Discouraged outside of the megathread, at least last I checked the rules.

[–] ScratchySoft@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

Is there a full set of title keys anywhere? I can only find a small set out of all the titles in the eShop.

 

All versions of Grimace's Birthday for the Game Boy Color up to v1.6. Torrentzipped for your convenience.

Download: https://www.nextgenroms.com/topic/20239-parent-clone-set-grimaces-birthday

 

A full set of every build of Demons of Asteborg I could find. According to Steam, Demons of Asteborg is an action-platform game with elements of metroidvania.

Credits: Demons of Asteborg (World) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Pt-BR) (Steam) (Aftermarket) (Unl) [Yub_Noob] was dumped by u/Yub_Noob on Reddit. I added this one with their username because IIRC they claimed they got it from Steam, but it couldn't be found in any historical Steam manifests. However, there's nothing in the ROM itself that indicates it's bad, so do with this information what you will. Demons of Asteborg (World) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Pt-BR) (v1.1) (Steam) (Aftermarket) (Unl) (Alt) was dumped by ThiagoMG and Arctic Circle System. Demons of Asteborg (World) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Pt-BR) (v1.1) (Aftermarket) (Unl) was dumped by sourced from Deadlegion. The rest were dumped by Arctic Circle System and other unknown users.

Download: https://workupload.com/file/bcPUPt6Aymz

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