"The Museum of DDR Simfile History"
 

Does anyone remember this? It hasn't been online in years, but here's an archive of my old website that had some info and blog posts about it:
The Museum

Well, I still have everything that I collected from all those years ago, and I'd like to share it with anyone/everyone who is interested.

I'm up for ideas of the best way to distribute it (especially without getting me or anyone else into any trouble for copyright claims; call me paranoid, lol).

I'll be hooking up my data drive tomorrow to review the files, and I'll post back here with an update.

*UPDATE* Foxfire has uploaded a bunch of my Museum files to his server! Here's his latest post with more info!

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Holy shit, epic ancient files incoming

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Whoa

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zip them all up in one big pack !!

(unless it's over 1GB)

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Last I recall, it could be nearly 50GB of data O_o

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50 mini packs? :P

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This is actually super-duper important, keeping my eye on this thread :o

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you can upload to dropbox.
i would like to share my dropbox account but my suscription of 1tb expired a few months ago. :(

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There's so many people interested, I know I want all of it! Appreciate the work you're about to do to spread the files.

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Release them as packs, and I assure you I will mirror this content immediately. I would love to have all of this old content archived for all to play as soon as possible.

Since you've been away, I archive packs of files, lots of them. I promise you they will have a home here for a very long time.

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Happy to see people chiming in with interest :).

What about bit torrent as another option? I could seed on weekends (starting on Friday nights, and running all the way through until around 8am on Monday mornings). I have high speed upload at work and could do it from there (300Mbps upload speed!). I don't see any reason the entire collection couldn't be uploaded to the first batch of peers within the first weekend.

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That's great to hear ff!

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I've had bad experiences with downloading packs from torrents speed wise, but I'll be down to try again if you set it up.

You can set up a free account over at MEGA for a cool 50GB if you want as well. All depends on how you plan to break up the files and how decent your ISP is at uploading / uptime.

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I guess we can give BT a try and see how it goes. If it ends up being way too slow, I'll look into the MEGA option. One reason I really like the idea of BT is that I won't have to mess with building packs. I really don't wanna have to mess with extra work. I spent way too much of my life in the past building the museum, lol. I'm at a point now where I just wanna at least see it find a good home ;).

With my fast upload rate, I don't foresee us having any speed issues.

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If my calculations are correct, it looks like you currently have about 413GB worth of simfiles hosted on your site! O_o... Looks like YOU probably have the biggest collection now :D

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I've wget'd the entirety of stepmaniaonline before and it was around 400gb, yeah
I should do that again

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I hope I do, I've went out of my way to download from everywhere on multiple occasions and have spent years trying to track as much down as I can. You are quite close, I have everything saved locally too and it's around 411GB on disk.

Post when you've got the torrent link up, I'll start grabbing from it as soon as I can!

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Will do. Unfortunately, it won't be until next weekend. I'm oncall this weekend and we've got major upgrades starting on Monday. I'll definitely keep everyone updated though as soon as I have new info! :)

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This is so exciting!