Ill conceived idea to resurrect a dead torrent (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 days ago by sad_detective_man@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hi, let me know if this is obviously stupid and won't work. I'm an old pirate but obviously still pretty uneducated. I've got a dead torrent that's a collection of roms. 4 seeders, 800 abandoned peers (ungrateful basterds). Seeders are rarely online or can't provide more than 8% after a week. The roms are pretty mainstream and it's strange for this torrent to have been abandoned.

If I can find find the exact releases of as many roms as possible in the collection from other singular sources, can I resurrect this torrent by just copy+overwrite into the unfinished folder? is it that simple or is this hubris? am I too old to be this stupid?

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[-] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 57 points 5 days ago

The files have to be exact copies of the originals so this usually isn't possible. The only time I've ever had success with reviving torrents was by finding a DDL that miraculously hadn't been deleted that was an archive of the original torrent. I found it by searching online for the exact name of the release.

[-] sad_detective_man@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 5 days ago

so I got a copies from Vimm's Lair to overwrite and bump up the progress on the torrent. but I just noticed the new files only show that they're 99.3-99.7% after overwriting and rechecking the torrent. would this indicate that they're the wrong hash afterall?

[-] nya@lemmy.kya.moe 8 points 5 days ago

I believe the 99.3-99.7% that means it's the right hash, but because it doesn't have the start/end of the next/previous file, the pieces that contain the edges of the rom aren't complete (torrents are devided into pieces of 1MB/256kB/8MB/...)

Could also be a small metadata error in the file though idk much about

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