Hi, just stumbled on this community while searching.
I will be working on a demo in a few weeks, but would appreciate any help for designs and my mascots!
You can learn more in here! rentry.co/retrotorrents
Community page (Signal group) lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/RetroTorrents
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I just feel the need to point out that there are complete nointro and redump sets on archive.org distributed in nested zip files (any modern emulator supports unzipping by one level). You can browse through the files and download them individually if you have a (free) login to archive.org. They also have torrents. I would imagine that those are what most of the “advanced” users would use instead of direct download sites like vimm’s lair etc. It might be a good idea to address that in the rentry page, because as far as I understood things, direct download sites have been dogwater for ages. I’ve been using archive.org for over a decade for ROMs, so listing benefits compared to that would be good.
Another great resource, for emulation software, is 4chan’s Emulation General Thread’s wiki.
That said, I’m still going to support this project if I can.
Archive.org’s continued existence seems to be in minor jeapordy lately. Their torrent functionality is also not 100% reliable, with some torrent contents not consistently matching the direct download content (a few individual roms being corrupt through the torrent). Plus I have never been able to get the direct download backup seed thing to actually work.
It would be good and useful to have a group of seedboxes seeding the latest fullsets, and a group of people to ensure the magnet links get distributed far and wide.
On top of that, there’s a pretty big gap right now for retro PC game archival, as well as romhacks/patches and PC game compatibility patches.