Trigger warning: something might not be accurate or outside your tastes, but that is the magic of me and my friend (Bolívar) spending months on a document and marketing strategies.

For the longest time we have wondered one thing with ROM sites, why don't they use torrents? Is is that difficult?

"Hosting torrents is a total PITA. It's not worth it" - ████

So, we did some research around them and file formats that emulators use like CHD, RVZ and WUX for a few months and may have found a way to preserve retro video games efficiently and perfectly. But truth be told, we don't know if this idea is perfect or has something missing.

We have looked a bit about shadow libraries, but that will come when the site would be ready to deploy.

Currently, we are just experimenting the data with this, since it's free for testing.

https://www.screenscraper.fr/

Overall, we thought that the wake-up call on video game preservation should start sooner, rather than later. Also, thanks for reading this far!

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait, you just need to open the 7z file and duckstation can read that.

[–] EphraimEscobar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

You are absolutely correct muusemuuse! but when someone downloads a game as a torrent, they should be able to play it without extracting it. This could save space and convert the players into archivists.