Guide to a Happy Share Thread

Guide to a Happy Share Thread

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Leechers:

1. Before you request, search online for the file you want, even use distributed search engines e.g. InfraSearch, Opencola, YaCy, FAROO.  See below for famous links.

2. Look first in the archives and on volafile for the file you are looking for.

3. When requesting, be as specific as possible. If you have the cover art of the file you want, post it on both the share thread and on vola room.

4. Due to asshats in our share thread, links to files will be purposely misleading (have spaces, lines, keys&passwords split in the post), including torrent hashes.

If you see something like:

c12fe1c06bba254a9dc9f519b335aa7c1367a88a |or| c12-fe1c-06bba25-4a9dc9f519-b335aa7c1-367a88a

, it's a magnet link's identifier, probably being a BitTorrent Info Hash (BTIH).

Assuming you have a shitty bittorrent client, make a url inserting

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:

, so that it results as

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:c12fe1c06bba254a9dc9f519b335aa7c1367a88a&dn=youDIMWITTEDmother.fucker.tar

 a. Find and Replace (sed/tr/awk) is your friend

Uploaders:

1. When in doubt, upload. Ask questions later.

2. Upload to many alternative sources (5+) and keep a local copy if space permits.

3. Use a URL shorterner (spaced or split) and/or paste relinks (https://www.zerobin.net/) on file links to confuse bots

4. Encrypt your uploads now with a password, key, or generator. Rename the files something random, even their checksums.

Maybe even pad files to the nearest GB or so, to confuse bots.

5. If you have a stable computer connection, it is extremely advisable to self host the file, using anonymity tools like Freenet, I2P, Gnunet, distributed NNTP or MixMinion/Mixmaster.

Volafile edition:

1. Before you upload a batch of miscellaneous files, like images and music, be sure they are unique enough to stand on their own, and that you ask for the majority's the consensus whether to upload the files individually.

2. Vola room owner edit- Upload 5 files and then zip the rest if the dump is larger then 6-7 files. Music Albums exceeding 5 files are to be zipped. When uploading a raw torrent which includes skidrow, codex, etc files either add them to the a zip of the game or just don’t upload those misc files. Properly label files so that they can be identified without asking someone else. For lewd stuff with filenames like RJ74765 either add a .txt file linking to the contents on a website or just add the title to the file "BIG BOOTY WOMEN SIT ON SHOTA FACE (RJ34734)"

3. You can filter files by file type (.txt, .rar, etc) or search the file list with the bar hidden by the filter files button.

 a. When in doubt, archive as a single [or split file if too large], then upload.

[R] - Registration required

Recommended sites to check prior to requesting:

pcgames-download.net|telecharger-jeuxpc.com

igg-games.com/list-game.html

nicoblog.org

small-games.info

skidrowreloaded.com

big-games.info

oceanofgames.com

g4g.it

?newgamesbox.net

playgamenow.me

[R] warez-bb.org/

ROMs:

emuparadise.me

romhustler.net

theisozone.com

romulation.net

doperoms.com

Archive.org MAME/MESS

Archive.org No-Intro No-Intro Sets (2015-03-03)

Archive.org No-Intro No-Intro Sets (2013-06-14). Some of the archives in the 2015 set are broken.

Archive.org TOSEC TOSEC (The Old School Emulation Center) Sets.

mamedev.org/roms/

http://www.get-your-rom.com/ - The interface is painful, but this is the one place where you can find dumps of Nintendo e-Reader cards and Pokémon Mini games. A few other rare systems are available, too. (There was a daily download limit of a certain amount of Megabytes, but the website has gone a restructuring, recently, that implies that the limitation is gone. Still, be careful.)

[R] romshepherd.com/ - Great site to request or fill requests for roms. Also has an invite only tracker, but do not ask for an invite on the forums, only privately.

PSX:

nitroroms.com/ - Good for Redump PSX rips. (1 GB daily limit)

[R] pspiso.com/ - PSP and PS1 games

Nintendo games:

[R] wiiso.com Mostly Wii games, but also other Nintendo games

PS3:

[R] ps3iso.com Many 'premium-only' links.

Many DOS collections and older games:

Archive.org Vintage Software

3DS:

[R] 3dsiso.com

ZX Spectrum games and applications as well magazines, cover art, booklets, and much more:

worldofspectrum.org/

Torrent:

torrent-finder.info

torrentz.eu

rutracker.org

kat.cr

nyaa.eu

Shoutouts:

gamesantigos.blogspot.com

old-games.ru

>>>/lv/

>>>/scurv/

>>>/t/

Private trackers

pleasuredome.org.uk/ - Great private tracker for getting full sets of many systems (No-Intro, Goodsets, Trurip, Redump, TOSEC). Does not allow newer systems. Strict ratio site that requires you to maintain a positive upload to download ratio.