This is why piracy is preservation. Torrents are just really damn good for this sort of thing.
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2026
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Great job to all volunteers who organized and participated in this initiative. And also, a big thank you to Myrient for having had so many games preserved all this time and for giving the community a chance to prepare for a time when it will no longer be around.
Torrents? Yes, but another SaveMyrient mod has confirmed “Torrents is only a temporary solution as of now.”
That's reassuring. I'll donate where possible, half my NAS is Myrient sourced well before the shutdown announcement.
Myrient and AI
The AI industry frenzy undoubtedly contributed to the original Myrient archive’s soaring costs, ahead of its closure announcement. Perhaps ironically, if Myrient hadn’t been saved, retro fans may have looked to AI to generate copies of their favorite apps and games of yesteryear?
Holy fucknuggets Tom's Hardware has gone way downhill.
Yeah why play Spyro for the PS1 when AI can make it :) surely that will work with no issues or nostalgia ruined /s
While I do plan on someday using AI to recreate games, I would still want the original games for it to reference. I am thinking of having stuff like 'Stars!' rebuilt from Windows 3.1 coding into GodotScript or C#. Once that is done, extensions can be considered, such as referring to ad copy for the never released Stars! Supernova.
Plus, some people just want to be purebred retros. While I personally don't get it, there is no reason why retro players shouldn't get to play the original versions.
Why save the actual game, when we can just generate it from an ai not trained on it?
Why train from it, when you could just save the one 650mb game
Non Tom's slopware original post:
I'm the head mod of r/savemyrient. today, we got some amazing news from the myrient community backup discord server.
Long time no see. We've been kicking major ass in the background getting downloads completed and validated. We can now announce that the Myrient mirror is now 100% COMPLETE!! Total size is 385TB Work is now continuing on generating torrents and getting them available. Website will be back soon, had to get that ready for the next stage and it was easier to just take it offline to do that. More news to come!
https://old.reddit.com/r/Roms/comments/1rr53dw/the_myrient_mirror_is_at_100_backed_up_see_post/
I didn’t open the article. I remember playing this game. Anyone knows the name?
Descent II
Descent, it’s the reason I play with an inverted mouse Y axis.
That game fucked my online gaming life for years /cry
I couldn't play anything where they hadn't added the ability to invert y axis...
Finally played a single game non inverted for like 6 months straight till my muscle memory finally broke.
Darude - Sandstorm
But if you mean the thumbnail/article graphic, just open the article and read the caption. It's labeled.
It's not a game, it's an archive of games
ppl on reddit are complaining about torrents being used. it literally says it's a temporary solution one, and two. guys idk if u know this but ppl seed torrents by having them on their devices... even if they end up dead links they can still very easily end up posted to a DDL service like pixeldrain
Need an authoritative source to step in every 25 years or so. Like an actual archive that reseeds with no bit rot periodically and corrects and fixes errors. Or a self correcting system like seeding parity files too. Can parity files fix each other? Maybe) o
I am glad it was saved. I didn't hear about it before and I discovered things I never thought I would see and began downloading furiously the stuff I wanted (mostly MS-DOS material). I hate it when things like this get lost.
I thought I saw an earlier story that suggested they may try to bring the site back if hardware costs come down to earth, but I may have imagined it. Did anyone see that?
im very curious about the logistics of this sort of operation. like is there a group of people that just dl like 4 tb each and then pack that as a torrent and all agree to seed one part? or like how does 385tb get handled you know?
I have maybe 16TB of Myrient. Mostly US releases. Got it about a year ago. So so glad I did now. It was back when they still had FTP online too. Man things have changed.