cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10273849

Vimms Lair is getting removal notices from Nintendo etc. We need someone to help make a rom pack archive can you help?

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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they may want to consider lifting their blocking multiple concurrent downloads for this to get done ahead of them starting to remove titles

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I don’t think Vimm’s is doing this, I think it’s a community effort

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oh of course, I just meant that if the Vimm’s team would remove that restriction on the site, the community would be able to dump the roms and help archive them way easier than if we had to sit and wait for individual iso’s to finish downloading

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They run the site for free and there’s basically no adds. You expect them to afford capabilities for 100s of people doing 30-40 rom downloads at once?

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