Vimms lair is starting to remove many roms that are being requested to be removed by Nintendo etc. soon many original roms, hacks, and translations will be lost forever. Can any of you help make archive torrents of roms from vimms lair and cdromance? They have hacks and translations that dont exist elsewhere and will probably be removed soon with ios emulation and retro handhelds bringing so much attention to roms and these sites

    • blindsight@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I don’t know the terminology, but so long as the torrent is active, you’re uploading. If you selectively download files, then you can only upload the chunks you have downloaded, obviously. Is that “seeding” if you aren’t a “seed” with 1.00 availability? idk.

      I’d still count that as “seeding” since you’re running the torrent for upload only, but idk if there’s a precise definition somewhere.

    • WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Yes. Select to download a part and when you downloaded that part you are seeding it. The torrent swarm counts you as a leecher, since it doesn’t know you are done downloading. But you are actually seeding your part.

      • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.eeEnglish
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        6 months ago

        What if I only want to download a specific part of it and not more than that. For example a specific episode of curb your enthusiasm and not anything more. Is that possible to stop and seed that episode? I thought by default it will try to download the entire torrent.