Read it here!

• https://files.catbox.moe/l9cmlm.pdf
• https://wormhole.app/kzyPEq#WjEU7pMIH135gRwobOX68A (24 hours, but faster)
• magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4ebc47225c6c2b0d99738dcfb3165f4d247686f7&dn=RetroTorrents%3A%20A%20Detailed%20White%20Paper.pdf

A few socials and spaces

• Rentry page: https://rentry.co/RetroTorrents
• Lemmy Community page: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/RetroTorrents
• Bsky page: https://bsky.app/profile/retrotorrents.bsky.social

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.

• https://annas-archive.org/blog/blog-how-to-become-a-pirate-archivist.html

• https://annas-archive.org/blog/how-to-run-a-shadow-library.html

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!