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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[–] quexotic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It may be worth your time to have a chat with the veilid devs about using the veilid protocol to host all the files.

[–] EphraimEscobar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

veilid

Interesting, it sounds like I2P. I will send them an email about it! :)

[–] quexotic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

Here are more details written by people smarter than me: https://veilid.com/how-it-works/

Check out their discord!

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I haven’t heard of veilid before. How does it fit with the privacy tech like i2pd, Tahos-lafs, reticulum, etc?

[–] quexotic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'm not conversant enough about it to give you an intelligent answer. I'm only a peripherally involved in supporting the project.

It works by distributing a database across multiple nodes, refreshing node database info automatically as needed. Beyond that is more technical than I'm really prepared to address and I'm not familiar with the technologies you mentioned; it just seems to check the boxes of E2EE, distribution, and privacy that OP seems to need.

Here are more details written by people smarter than me: https://veilid.com/how-it-works/