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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[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Many ROMs are ripped by a small number of groups and pretty much copied and distributed everywhere.

There are a few websites that list all the ROMs and their hashes so you can check.

So chances are fairly big they actually match I'd assume?

Only difference might be that people tend to add "Downloaded from whatever" metadata or text files