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#SignalGroup for preserving the #Myrient #ROM database using #BitTorrent (tux.social)

submitted 1 week ago by Rhababerbarbar@tux.social to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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#SignalGroup for preserving the #Myrient #ROM database using #BitTorrent

Myrient is a huge collection of retro games and a very nice project. But as they are based on centralized cloud storage, the immense costs were not sustainable. By building a community of people who seed the files for free, the project can stay alive!

https://signal.group/#CjQKIFzvNuwfFh0pB7sIOqSiggDrZqeN6enZFTvCBhuxVDSlEhBLfn8Jy7Xa3wOZXjcpwq1m

Original Website: https://myrient.erista.me/

Archive Websites:
https://myrient.org/

#SignalGroups #Torrents #RetroGaming #Archival @retrogaming@lemmy.world @retrocomputing @retrogaming@lemmy.ml @retro @emulation @retropirates

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[–] Rhababerbarbar@tux.social 1 points 6 days ago

@pizza_the_hutt

The idea is to create a bunch of separate ones. The whole database is huge, 144TB exists on this archive alone

https://myrient.org/