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?
4 seeders
4 seeds means it’s not actually a dead torrent. Slow uploading sure, but not dead. I’d suggest just leaving it alone, if it’s going at 8% per week it should finish on its own in roughly 13 weeks assuming the speeds don’t change much. That’s going to be a while but once you’ve got it you’ll be seed number 5 as long as you keep seeding it on your end.
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?
Sure that may work in theory. Just keep in mind you’d need to find tons of ROM files that are exact bit-by-bit matches of the files in the torrent - otherwise overwriting mismatched data into your currently downloading torrent would make things slower for you since you’d now have to re-download that data to get back to 8% or whatever.
EDIT: Looks like you lucked out, congrats seed #5 :)
TY! :D I DID luck out. the first version that worked came literally from Vimm’s Lair which doesn’t offer multiple releases but I do prefer to use over other places.
you’re right, but the 8% stopped after the first day. it was dead since then. do some people only seed certain things on a rotation schedule?
More likely those seeds are super-busy so it just takes a while to keep a consistent upload. these type of seeds tend to be on a ton of other low seed torrents. So any new seeds helps.
And of course there’s the seeds that just don’t have great connections e.g. could be a laptop that is literally only online x hours a day or even week, or they can only upload at night or whatever.
ohhhh, that makes sense. yeah now that I’ve added this new files suddenly more seeds have showed up. also the number of peers has decreased to 1 (48). it seems like ever since I started using Tribbler as my client that these numbers fluxuate more than can be realistic
I tried this once and it did in fact work.
if the hash matches, yes. if you have the magnet, dm me i will seed it.
sent. thanks, man. thats gangster as fuck. Just curious because again, I’m still pretty ignorant. do you assume you also have the torrent because you’re a data hoarder or are you interested in trying to help me bring it back?
It’s downloading for me. You might have some port issue. Make sure you forward incoming port in router.
Regardless I’ll seed it.
honestly that wouldn’t surprise me, it happened before. Just hard to diagnose because it’s never consistent and Tribbler seems to be temperamental compared to other clients I’ve used.
after making some replacements other seeds showed up though and filled in the other files I hadn’t got to yet. so weird after 6 days of zero movement
Check the open port number of your torrent client – which should also be set in your router’s port forwarding or firewall config (alternatively enable UPnP in the router config to let it handle such things for you).
You can use a utility like CanYouSeeMe.org to check if it’s correctly configured.
EDIT If you can’t make it work, you might be behind double NAT, sharing varying IPs with multiple other of the ISP’s customers at once. In that case, you’ll need to find one of the few trustworthy VPN providers that support port forwarding to get connectable, as it’s called, and be able to connect to all peers no matter if they’re connectable or not. Alternatively, rent a connectable seedbox in the cloud.
well, my VPN is definitely trash and doesn’t have port forwarding. canyouseeme is not seeing me, it seems. none of my port settings are set in any app so I assume they’re all being managed for me. this is probably my problem and I need to study up on WAN in order to learn how to fix it
Then what you need is a VPN that supports port forwarding. There are very few, but I bet you can find a thread somewhere on Lemmy discussing the options you have. Then, if I’m not mistaken, you still need to know/set the port number in your torrent client and config the router correctly, probably through its admin site which you’ll find on the router’s IP in the browser. If you don’t know the login (and admin/admin doesn’t work) you can find the default credentials by searching the web for your router model number + admin login. When logged in, you can set new admin login credentials if you don’t want other users of your local network to be able to access or change the config settings.
you’re right. I just tried setting up the socks5 credentials which were the whole reason I even bought this VPN in the first place and they’re not working anyway. so screw it, time to start looking again.
Wait socks5 isn’t a kind of port forwarding is it? is what you just told me something I should have also tried using port 1080 but in my router settings as well?
I’ll add it to my seedbox at least.
beastly 👍
I’d be down to seed as well if you send it my way
Me too, I want roms.
sent 👍
I’m been 99% on an FF7 soundtrack torrent (only one song incomplete) and have been seeding for like 6 months lol.
It is possible, I’ve done it myself. I had two dead torrents with 0 seeders that I really suspected were the exact same thing, so one day I changed the destination folders to point at the same place, it worked.
What I don’t think I did is to have both torrents active at the same time while downloading.
Sounds like it should work. I can help too. DM me.
This is a neat idea and it will totally work, but they need to be the EXACT same files down to the checksums and file names. This could be harder to pull off than it sounds but it’s absolutely possible.
it totally worked!
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