/vid/ - Video Games

I torrent a lot, I don't even know where to get all the stuff if not from torrents.
I benefit myself but I also like to seed, it's like an idle game for me to see the numbers grow and knowing I helped someone get whatever they were looking for.
Unused bandwidth, is wasted bandwidth.

The only thing I dislike is that it's so inconvenient to revive dead torrents.
I have a lot of data because I hoard, but over the years I have lost thousands of torrent files and my torrent client and computer could not handle em all running either.
Problem now when I have a better computer is that I'm not going to manually find and match up each torrent file to whatever data, I just do a few sometimes when I feel in the mood.
And I'm too incompetent as a programmer/scripter to automate anything like this.

I'm not sure if I have been living under a stone or if development with torrent tech have stagnated a long time ago, this problem should have a solution right?
Like scan files available locally and automatically match up check-sums with torrents/magnets somehow, maybe from bigger archives that can be probed with the filenames, check-sums and such?
I know it would probably take a long time, but if it's doing that 24/7 as the client is running anyway, at least some would be revived? Or am I dreaming about computation belonging in the "sun will burn out" time frame?

Slightly unrelated to the original topic, what is the best setup to unpack, install, and launch pirated games on Gnu+Linux (Debian 13)? I've tried Lutris but sometimes it has problems setting up wine for windows games. Do y'all use some other system or do I need to git gud?

>>23
>what is the best setup to unpack, install, and launch pirated games on Gnu+Linux (Debian 13)?
alr lets see...
<unpack
gzip -d <game.tar.gz | tar -x
<install
./installer
<and launch
./game
>windows games
ah, so thats where the skill issue lies
wine game.exe
altho sometimes it struggles with stuff coded in india
the one thing i have never managed to get working is modern rpgmaker games
i heard that the engine has gone to shit and now it is some electron clusterfuckery that makes wine prefer to commit suicide than attempt to run it (same tbh)
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most of the vidya i play is stuff you can run on emulators. so i prefer direct downloads 90% of the time since they usually come with translation patches for non English games.

Torrent. Fitgirl or otherwise. 1337x. Pirate Bay for old stuff. Never private even though I slowly trickle seed huge ratios. So far worked for me.
>>13 Not if you keep the SSD running (to seed!)
>>21 The low upload speed in this shithole ISP made me rage so out of spite I made a point of using all the upload I have at all times. I also run a Tor Snowflake bridge and a Monero node.
>>23 Try Bottles.
>>24 You need dxvk and proton-ge and stuff for gayman.

>>6
Ah well, still cool

I could seldomly get wine to play nice with old games, fond memories years ago of being up into the early morning out of sheer frustration. Linux was like signing a contract 'I will not game (except nethack)'

Proton is making a pretty big difference, I have some friends that have gotten into Linux more recently and found most of their games work, some even run better. Personally I still keep Windows on a dual boot though.

>What is everyone's ideal retro setup?
literally just the same computer i play any other game
tho i dont usually play old games bc they lowkey suck
there are some games like doom that i can see how theyd be the pinnacle of fun when there was nothing better going on, but shit like pokemon just plain sucks
>old CRT TV
thank fucking god i dont have nostalgic memories attached to those games so i dont gaslight myself into thinking using barely-functioning hardware will somehow enhance the experience
>Linux was like signing a contract 'I will not game (except nethack)'
skill issue?
there is plenty of linux native games nowadays and i find that wine works very well for 99% of games i try
the only annoyance i have is that some games becoming unable to regain focus if i click outside the window
also i cant run some modern rpgmaker games bc apparently that shit now runs on electron and somewhere along the steps of simulating a javascript-capable webbrowser, wine gets really confused and the games "loads" indefinitely
supposedly proton can cope with that but holy shit im not gonna install something else just to enable this insanity
>some even run better
yea p funny how the windows bloat machine has even more overhead than translating system calls

i never had any consoles and i feel like i missed a lot. thanks to people who madeemulators i could at least discover great games, art and music that although it was detrimental to my lifestyle.

I've also gotten back into playing Diablo II LOD recently, for the first time in about 10 years. A lot of the mechanics seem cliche now because newer games have built on it, but I'm heavily nostalgic for it.

Not so interested in the modern version with remastered graphics, I actually prefer how it looked before. Sorceress has been fun to play, assassin is alright as well but the charge up moves plus a socketed weapon just feels like cheating in the early game.

>>8
>pokemon just plain sucks
I never liked Pokemon the battles are so fucking slow, the combat messages and animations need to go much quicker and being limited to 4 moves per monster makes it pretty tedious. Only really tried the older games.

>skill issue?
Probably lmao, it was years ago I was messing with Wine it may have improved since then

>>9
I don't think having the physical console matters that much, emulators are good I prefer playing everything from my puter anyway

Flea markets don't even have CRTs any more, but if I ever find one, I will be playing some Sunset Riders again on Sega 16bit. And some Sonic 3.

you are retarded

No I'm not retarded I'm just say my opinion