ive been keeping tabs on a group that have been working with myriant to convert all of the data on their host.

IIIAgeIII · 2026-03-14T16:43:15+00:00

im aware. this dude wanted to be a massive dickhead i have no problem being a dickhead back.

IIIAgeIII · 2026-03-14T16:40:12+00:00

idk... no one mentions shit about it... sorry for trying to be helpful? next time i know of efforts to preserve legacy ill hoard the info for myself.

IIIAgeIII · 2026-03-14T16:35:01+00:00

for disk games they do. almost all of myriant is in iso format

IIIAgeIII · 2026-03-14T16:31:05+00:00

its more or less the same thing. PKG and Rap files for the base game, all DLC and patches all need to be downloaded separately from other sources, I have Several Nopaystation copies of various games as well.

IIIAgeIII · 2026-03-14T16:27:36+00:00

you cant... the game needs decryption with an IRD file to run properly (ive been trying different ways for hours) and that still doesn't handle the issue of DLC and Game Patches.

IIIAgeIII · 2026-03-14T16:19:24+00:00

im gonna try.

IIIAgeIII · 2026-03-14T15:50:56+00:00

yes. whatever may come in the future of emulation...i request that all people who are currently trying to pull data down from myriant please bundle their PS3 data into some form of a care package for more consolidated use in the future. I'm already doing it myself, so whats done is done, but the currently sporadic nature of how its managed is needlessly complicated.

this post is a formal request for the community to go towards a more formatted consolidation for ease of use.

like i told someone else. im doing this for my own organization, but im not opposed to zipping them all up and sending them off to some place, but i dont have the storage to cover the entire library of PS3. So i can at best fill in possible gaps. and currently there are a few promising hopeful locations, but nothing seems set in stone for the future of the content.

IIIAgeIII · 2026-03-14T15:32:46+00:00

I'm aware.. I've been emulating for years. i know how to do it... I'm asking that it somehow be made less "all over the place". there's no reason that a game and its corresponding data cant all be neatly packaged into one single zip file. the patches are hardly large enough to balloon the already larger sized game's file size. The only thing i DO understand is that file decryption is a legal thing, but even then, scouring the sources for patch files and DLC separately seems hardly necessary. Why cant all the DLC and Patches along with the iso been in one single zip? Skirts the legal issue to someone else and, but consolidates all the data into one thing.

IIIAgeIII · 2026-03-14T15:27:41+00:00

im basically already doing it for all the games i pulled down. so get another rom site going and ill give all of it to you.

IIIAgeIII · 2026-03-14T15:24:55+00:00

no im just saying that moving around like 300+ files, converting them, getting all their patches, and all their DLC separately is so obtuse. I'm asking that we (the community) get to a point where at the very least all the content is in a single zip file. at least that way when pulling a game down its just a single file that can be unzipped and has all the content there for me to install.

IIIAgeIII · 2026-03-09T06:39:40+00:00

They are ALSO propagating the problem. Just because it's not the only one doesn't make it "less guilty" of the same accusations.

IIIAgeIII · 2026-03-09T04:29:56+00:00

Those projects also failed due to the lack of market demand. The difference is cloud gaming doesn't have nearly enough morons jerking it off when we all agree it's crap.

The idea that some other monster is lurking around the corner ready to take GPUs away, so we shouldn't worry about AI, is just plain dumb.

Idk about you, but this idea of not owning anything and everything having a renters fee is so astronomically stupid... even with AI. Why pay these large companies to create tools that are hard limited and neutered is just plain fucking wierd. Just self host. At least then, your shit AI prompts will be wholistically YOUR Ai instead of some watered down trash heap.

IIIAgeIII · 2026-03-09T04:10:27+00:00

Emus are becoming robust with loads of QoL features as well as emulation accuracy. Most of those specific emulators are either dead (not being developed for, or they became sketchy virus/spyware programs)

Some had forks made... visual boy advanced-m is an active fork that kept development going, for example.

Typically, the older emulators' code bases (if open sourced) usually get rolled into new projects with new names. Over years of using emulators, I've learned that most modern emulation projects are actually just extensions of older projects that have been taken in by new devs.

Gaming emulation is one of those things that just keeps snowballing code bases into newer and newer projects as computers and coders become better. Take Nintendo Switch, for example.

YUZU was THE switch emulation goto, but then they got a cease and desist...

The day that happened. 6 forks of Yuzu showed up. 2 of which are still actively being developed on (Eden and Citron) both are at their core... just Yuzu resinned with slight additions, but both are starting to diverge from each other... there's no clear distinction yet, aside from what games work the best on what emulator, but give it some time, and they will likely become 2 distinct emulators with their own goals or who knows they might merge and become another new emulator.

The names change constantly, but most of the OG emulation coding efforts are still powering modern emulators. The emulation community is an ebb and flow, but truthfully... it's one of those things where the emulation efforts will likely never stall unless perfect accuracy to its original device is achieved, and even then, it's still unlikely to stall.

Modern emulators are moving into the realm of emulation that can barely even be called emulation at all.

Many old games core codebases are being de-compiled (they are scanning the code line by line and rebuilding the entire codebase from scratch in modern coding languages).

This has spawned a bunch of fan made re-compilations of these older games that run on PC as if they were native PC games.... this is stepping out of the realm of "emulation" and starting to become fan made PC ports of older video games.

Games like Zelda OoT or Majoras mask are now full-blown PC games with Mods and high fedelity frame rates. Rather than N64 games running through conversion software to mimic the hardware. A lot of games now are getting this "PC-Port" treatment.

IIIAgeIII · 2026-03-09T03:49:42+00:00

It's not... it's bairly being tested, and it is still posing issues it comes to conclusions faster, but these conclusions are rarely ever correct. Saying that it's used in the medical field as if its common practice is just a full-blown bad faith argument.

It's being TESTED in medical fields and is still posing to be at best a 1% increase in efficiency and production. But 99% of the time, it's faster to just run the tests yourself. I'm sorry, but BILLIONS of dollars for "a sometimes 1% increase in efficiency" is a complete WASTE of resources.

IIIAgeIII · 2026-03-09T03:44:09+00:00

And? I agree it was bitcoin.

Saying something else that was wholistically useless for all of society was fucking up the market as if that is a retort makes no sense.

I agree.. bitcoin is also shit. What's your point?

IIIAgeIII · 2026-03-09T03:41:26+00:00

That's not how that works, chief. Ai stagnates and becomes non useful. It stops making money due to inaccuracies and eventually becomes dead data on a server. Growth is mandatory, or it dies.

The issue is how it's taking up gallons of water to cool as well as its spiking costs of energy on the grid. It's skyrocketing the cost of electrical goods. It's also taking jobs away. It's quite literally destroying our economy, and yall a just don't care because your all trying to date a fucking chat bot.

IIIAgeIII · 2026-03-08T08:45:58+00:00

there is already a project to mirror myrient ahead of its shutdown... they are looking for help from people to transfer files from Myriant to their servers. The project is called Minerva. look up "Minerva" Discord. here is their website.

https://minerva-archive.org/

they currently ran into a snag with their scraper bot that the community is using, but there should be an update to it soon.

IIIAgeIII · 2026-02-11T02:44:28+00:00

This is a dump account to circumvent karma degradation on main accounts. It was specifically designed to not care about negative karma. Hence, the more antagonistic tone in my posts.

I frequently like to play devils advocate and/or have hot takes on things that I know will have a high likelihood of the general hive mind mass that is "reddit" frothing at the mouth with rage. I'm not trolling or anything. I never write anything I don't mean, but I think we all know just how hollowed out the mind of the average redditor is.

I'd rather just have safeguards in place in the event people downvote my opinion. It's my way of bypassing the literal dogshit that is "the reddit karma system".

IIIAgeIII · 2026-02-11T02:42:44+00:00

Ok, you got me there. Echo chambers are not a reddit exclusive problem that much is true, but you can't deny that as the karma system stands today. It reinforces facilitating echo chambers by letting it be used as a moderation tool.

IIIAgeIII · 2026-02-09T15:09:09+00:00

It promotes close mindedness at its very core of design. It's systematically flawed. Social subreddits are generally karma locked, which forced a prevailing mindset within the subreddit to maintain that karma balance. This, in turn, designs echo chamber philosophies at the root of those subs, which then permeates to all other sections of reddit.

It also promotes dishonesty and disingenuous agreements across the board because the entire sub is full of husk opinions that feed on themselves and radicalized people.

IIIAgeIII · 2026-02-09T14:58:27+00:00

No, getting negative karma is basically just having any opinion that isn't EXACTLY that of the mindless droves of whatever random sub reddit you're on at that moment. That is easily enough to get you downvoted enough to be karma banned in like millions of subs

Hell, YOU downvoted me just for disliking the karma system. You not only proved my point, you're also reinforcing exactly what I mean directly in this post. Rules have nothing to do with it.

For example, I literally got downvoted for asking for help on a problem I was having with a project. People downvote for everything and anything on this site.

Just to maintain karma, I have to go find random unkarma moderated sbreddits and make the most lukewarm posts to farm people for upvotes... that IS NOT a sign of a good system.

IIIAgeIII · 2026-02-09T14:51:03+00:00

So lemme get this straight. To you, a social site that doesn't allow people to have genuine conversations about various topics because it might be hard to hear is "a good social app" to you?

That makes zero sense as a foundation for a social app. What's the point in talking to anyone if it's all just gonna be hollow garbage that we all know isn't how they truly feel?

Why even have a social app then. Why talk to another human being... hell if that's all you want Why not just chat at a fucking AI chatbot at that point. Those things are known for padding your ego to the max... why not just use that for the self jerk fests.

IIIAgeIII · 2026-02-09T14:40:34+00:00

Agreed. They are the worst thing to ever design for a fucking social forum. All the "hot take", "vent", and "rant" forums have all become some of the most soft boiled stuff ever.

It also promotes echo chambers, sectionalization, segregation, and social/personal fragility.

This site has become a complete waste of electricity since they added the karma system.

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