https://archive.org/details/md_mods_and_romhacks_collection_20260320_patched

My personal collection of Mega Drive / Genesis Romhacks, in an already patched and ready to play ROM format. Most games are patched by myself, but not all are tested. Each .md file comes with a text description, copied from the places where I downloaded the Romhacks (but sometimes also from README files, random blogs and other websites too).

• 421 Romhacks across 166 different games (or across 163 games, depending on how you process data and count).
• Download one package size: 182 MB
• Unpacked size: 815 MB

flat structure: megadrive_mods_and_romhacks_collection_20260320_patched_flat.7z

     megadrive_mods_and_romhacks_collection_20260320/
        Sonic_Character Pak v1.0.md
        Sonic_Character Pak v1.0.txt

or sub structure: megadrive_mods_and_romhacks_collection_20260320_patched_sub.7z

        Mega Drive Mods and Romhacks Collection 2026-03-20/
            Documents/
                Sonic/
                    Character Pak v1.0.txt
            Games/
                Sonic/
                    Character Pak v1.0.md

Both contain same files, just different file structure.

https://archive.org/details/snes_mods_and_romhacks_collection_20260312_patched

My personal collection of Super Nintendo Romhacks, in an already patched and ready to play ROM format. Most (if not all) games are patched by myself, but not all are tested. Each .sfc and .smc file comes with a description, copied from the places where I downloaded the Romhacks (but sometimes also from README files, random blogs and other websites too).

• 1009 Romhacks across 174 different games (or across 169 games, depending on how you process data and count).
• Download one package size: 406 MB
• Unpacked size: 2.7 GB

flat structure: >snes_mods_and_romhacks_collection_20260312_patched_flat.7z

        snes_mods_and_romhacks_collection_20260312/
           Super Metroid_Nature v1.03.smc
           Super Metroid_Nature v1.03.txt

or sub structure: >snes_mods_and_romhacks_collection_20260312_patched_sub.7z

           Super Nintendo Mods and Romhacks Collection 2026-03-12/
               Documents/
                   Super Metroid/
                       Nature v1.03.txt
               Games/
                   Super Metroid/
                       Nature v1.03.smc

Both contain same files, just different file structure.

OC by @thingsiplay@lemmy.ml

download or let all games be destroyed. March 31st 2026 end-date.

I've found that all the web archiving software I've encountered are either manual (you have to archive everything individually in a separate application) or crawler-based (which can end up putting a lot of extra load on smaller web server, and could even get your ip blocked).

Are there any solutions that simply automatically archive web pages as you load them in your browser? If not, why aren't there?

I could also see something like that being useful as a self-hosted web indexer, where if you ever go "I think I've seen this name before", you can click on it, and your computer will say something like "this name appeared in a news headline you scrolled past two weeks ago"

OQB @kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108756/ Rating: 8.0/10 (8.1K) Rated: TV-PG The adventures of an impossibly upright Royal Canadian Mounted Police constable and his American colleagues in the city of Chicago.

Archive of 2160p, 1080p movies and shows.

Total Size: 1.0 PB / Total Files: 470,224 This is biggest open archive, it has a lot of HD content.

If you merge the three versions of DataSet 9 that are found so far:

DataSet%209.zip : https://github.com/yung-megafone/Epstein-Files Data Set 9.tar.xz : https://archive.org/details/data-set-9.tar.xz dataset9-more-complete.tar.zst : https://github.com/yung-megafone/Epstein-Files

You will end up with 531,282 IMAGES files (PDF). You would think that there is a lot missing, however, the partially corrupted DataSet%209.zip gives us a DAT and OPT file to see what files remain.

The DAT file reveals there are only 531,307 IMAGES files (PDF) supposed to be in the archive. Which means only 25 PDF files are actually missing.

You'd notice that 25 PDF files couldn't possibly be the remaining 80-ish GB that remains of the original DataSet 9, but the DAT file doesn't reveal how many NATIVES there were.

NATIVES are media files like videos and audio. You can see an example if you have a full DataSet 10. But from DataSet 10 it reveals to us that all NATIVES have a placeholder as a PDF which is always 4670 bytes.

So by searching all files that are that exact size, it reveals there are about 135 NATIVES (media files) that are missing, which would be the rest of the 80 GB that is missing.

I have listed below what IMAGES (PDF) and NATIVES (media) files are missing, such that it is easy to coordinate to track down the remaining files that we need for a complete DataSet 9.

(Though the remaining PDFs could be placeholder for up to 25 more natives, which would have to be checked when finding them).

MISSING_EFTA_IMAGES:
EFTA00709804,EFTA00709805,EFTA00709806,EFTA00709807,EFTA00770595,EFTA00774768,EFTA00823190,EFTA00823191,EFTA00823192,EFTA00823221,EFTA00823319,EFTA00877475,EFTA00892252,EFTA00901740,EFTA00912980,EFTA00919433,EFTA00919434,EFTA00932520,EFTA00932521,EFTA00932522,EFTA00932523,EFTA00984666,EFTA00984668,EFTA01135215,EFTA01135708

MISSING_EFTA_NATIVES:
EFTA00068376,EFTA00072394,EFTA00072395,EFTA00072396,EFTA00072397,EFTA00072398,EFTA00072399,EFTA00072400,EFTA00072401,EFTA00083881,EFTA00089243,EFTA00090492,EFTA00093515,EFTA00093697,EFTA00096469,EFTA00104842,EFTA00135578,EFTA00143411,EFTA00143735,EFTA00151167,EFTA00151168,EFTA00151169,EFTA00152684,EFTA00152685,EFTA00152686,EFTA00152687,EFTA00152688,EFTA00152689,EFTA00152690,EFTA00152691,EFTA00152692,EFTA00155484,EFTA00155485,EFTA00155486,EFTA00155488,EFTA00155489,EFTA00155490,EFTA00155551,EFTA00157542,EFTA00159164,EFTA00165150,EFTA00179442,EFTA00179443,EFTA00179444,EFTA00179445,EFTA00179446,EFTA00182656,EFTA00182657,EFTA00184097,EFTA00184098,EFTA00221035,EFTA00221036,EFTA00221037,EFTA00221038,EFTA00221039,EFTA00221040,EFTA00221041,EFTA00221042,EFTA00221043,EFTA00221044,EFTA00221045,EFTA00221046,EFTA00221047,EFTA00221048,EFTA00221049,EFTA00221050,EFTA00221051,EFTA00221052,EFTA00221053,EFTA00221054,EFTA00221055,EFTA00221056,EFTA00221058,EFTA00221059,EFTA00239786,EFTA00239787,EFTA00241270,EFTA00276490,EFTA00277088,EFTA00277091,EFTA00277094,EFTA00277095,EFTA00277096,EFTA00277098,EFTA00279451,EFTA00279453,EFTA00759424,EFTA00776196,EFTA01140431,EFTA01140602,EFTA01141209,EFTA01141213,EFTA01144362,EFTA01144363,EFTA01144697,EFTA01145825,EFTA01147043,EFTA01149290,EFTA01149291,EFTA01173979,EFTA01177273,EFTA01177560,EFTA01177632,EFTA01181146,EFTA01182315,EFTA01184143,EFTA01190710,EFTA01192998,EFTA01193063,EFTA01194887,EFTA01195505,EFTA01196058,EFTA01196418,EFTA01196421,EFTA01196518,EFTA01196747,EFTA01196752,EFTA01196754,EFTA01196756,EFTA01196936,EFTA01197105,EFTA01197126,EFTA01197787,EFTA01197931,EFTA01198064,EFTA01198505,EFTA01204371,EFTA01205883,EFTA01206089,EFTA01250813,EFTA01250814,EFTA01250815,EFTA01250886,EFTA01250917,EFTA01250922

OC write-up by @ermstein@lemmy.world

Soft 98 is an Iranian software distribution site, that has stood up after sanction had crippled the ability of the normal people and businesses in Iran from getting access to important software from the outside world.

As the Iranian government threatens to cut off from the world this rich archive of software is vulnerable to wiped from the internet. It is one of the most widely diverse software pool that's trusted I have ever seen.

Is there anyway to pool together resources to save the software's of this site, which to me is like The Software Library of Alexandria from permanent cyberspace loss.

Sorry if this is not the place to ask I also tried on a different instance as well

I bought an adapter to retrieve old files from ancient hard drives and I didn't save the stuff from one I had looked at. Now though when I plug it in it will only read as an android file system? It has 2 disk images now, one is labeled Presario D: which shows up as an android backup or something but all folders are empty. The other is Local Disk E: and if I click it it literally just locks up my file explorer to the point I have to restart the PC.

Any thoughts or ideas?

I may have plugged it into an android phone at some point? Not sure though.

OQB @WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world

Epstein Files Jan 30, 2026

Data hoarders on reddit have been hard at work archiving the latest Epstein Files release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Below is a compilation of their work with download links.

Please seed all torrent files to distribute and preserve this data.

Ref: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1qrk3qk/epstein_files_datasets_9_10_11_300_gb_lets_keep/

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Epstein Files Data Set 9 (Incomplete). Only contains 49 GB of 180 GB. Multiple reports of cutoff from DOJ server at offset 48995762176.

ORIGINAL JUSTICE DEPARTMENT LINK

• TORRENT MAGNET LINK

SHA1: 6ae129b76fddbba0776d4a5430e71494245b04c4

Unverified version incomplete at ~101 GB.

• TORRENT MAGNET LINK

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Epstein Files Data Set 10. Unzipped it's about 82 GB.

ORIGINAL JUSTICE DEPARTMENT LINK

• TORRENT MAGNET LINK

• INTERNET ARCHIVE FOLDER
• INTERNET ARCHIVE DIRECT LINK

SHA256: 7D6935B1C63FF2F6BCABDD024EBC2A770F90C43B0D57B646FA7CBD4C0ABCF846 MD5: B8A72424AE812FD21D225195812B2502

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Epstein Files Data Set 11. Unzipped it's about 27.5 GB.

ORIGINAL JUSTICE DEPARTMENT LINK

• TORRENT MAGNET LINK

SHA1: 574950c0f86765e897268834ac6ef38b370cad2a

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Epstein Files Data Set 12. Zipped it's about 114.1 MB.

ORIGINAL JUSTICE DEPARTMENT LINK

• TORRENT MAGNET LINK

• INTERNET ARCHIVE FOLDER LINK

SHA1: 20f804ab55687c957fd249cd0d417d5fe7438281
MD5: b1206186332bb1af021e86d68468f9fe
SHA256: b5314b7efca98e25d8b35e4b7fac3ebb3ca2e6cfd0937aa2300ca8b71543bbe2

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This list will be edited as more data becomes available, particularly with regard to Data Set 9.

Write up by @xodoh74984@lemmy.world

I heared Avif format is more efficient modern alternative, consumes less storage space. How can I transcode my old videos to it, with acceptable quality? ffmpeg?

Mario Builder 64 is a level editor realized fully in Super Mario 64 itself, which should run on real hardware I think. It is intuitive to use and the community created ton of custom levels. I think a custom software is needed to handle the community stuff, but the Romhack itself is playable on an emulator if you want test building your own levels.

The download page for the patch file (remember its not a Rom, its just a patch) got hit by a DMCA. Usually Nintendo does not do that with Romhacks. Sure the patch files itself are not Rom files, but they might contain data that is copyrighted. That's why Nintendo might be annoyed by this.

Get your patch file copies (.bps format) and archive it if you care.

• original download page (showing unavailable content): https://romhacking.com/hack/mario-builder-64
• source code and release build available on Github (but only v1.0): https://github.com/rovertronic/Mario-Builder-64 and https://github.com/rovertronic/Mario-Builder-64/releases/tag/1.0
• version 1.1 and 1.0 of the patch file available at: https://gamebanana.com/mods/514361
• find custom levels at (I think you need xxx): https://levelsharesquare.com/MB64/levels
• documentation: https://rentry.co/MB64-Setup-Guide

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/7719731

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/7719730

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/7719728

Here it is: https://annas-archive.org/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

Our project to preserve the history of Sega Channel — including over 100 new Sega Channel ROMs.

By Phil Salvador

December 15, 2025

Sega broke ground in the late 90s with one of the first digital game distribution systems for consoles. Sega Channel offered access to a rotating library of Sega Genesis titles, along with game tips, demos, and even a few exclusive games that never came out in the United States in any other format. In an era of dial-up internet, Sega Channel delivered game data over television cable — a novel approach that gave the service its name.

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https://gamehistory.org/segachannel/