Vimms lair is starting to remove many roms that are being requested to be removed by Nintendo etc. soon many original roms, hacks, and translations will be lost forever. Can any of you help make archive torrents of roms from vimms lair and cdromance? They have hacks and translations that dont exist elsewhere and will probably be removed soon with ios emulation and retro handhelds bringing so much attention to roms and these sites

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    210 months ago

    That is incorrect. Partial seeding means they seed the part they downloaded, end of story. There are no downsides.

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      210 months ago

      Correct. And Isaid if everyone just downloads the same 20% of the torrent because the other 80% is shovelware and unpopular means it’s lost because nobody downloaded the remaining 80% in the first place.

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        110 months ago

        qbittorrent shows you how many seeders each part of the file has. Archivists can prioritise the parts with the least.

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          9 months ago

          Assuming those come to the rescue and quick enough before the last one abandons the seed without looking if someone is leeching the last part to make a 100% completion possible.

          Look mate. We all know every once in a while a torrent dies or will be incomplete for ever. There’s no denying that.

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            29 months ago

            That’s not a different or added risk vs a website.

            The only change is that it’s significantly easier to keep an archive going.