Taken from the official Discord:
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1:27 PM Alexey: Information about the closure of Myrient
Hello @everyone,
I have decided to shut down Myrient on 31 March 2026. Until then, the site will continue to remain available in its current state. Please download any content you find important, as you have around one month to do so.
There are several reasons for the closure:
Insufficient funding
As traffic continued to increase last year, the amount of funding from donations remained the same. I have been paying more than $6000 out of pocket every month in order to cover the difference which is not sustainable.
Paywalled download managers
In the past several months, many specialized download managers were created that completely bypassed the site, donation messages, and download protections. Some of these download managers locked certain features behind a paywall that required users to pay in order to gain access. The use of Myrient for commercial, for-profit purposes has always been strictly forbidden. Such egregious and abusive usage of the site cannot be tolerated anymore.
Rising RAM, SSD, and HDD prices
Since last September, RAM, SSD, and HDD prices have surged dramatically and continue to rise due to the ongoing extreme demand for AI datacenters. This has caused Myrient's hosting expenses to go up as well. Necessary upgrades to the storage and caching infrastructure only exacerbated the problem. With a large number of servers and the aforementioned existing monthly deficit in excess of $6000 out of pocket, there is no way to pay for the increased hosting and hardware upgrade costs.
There are still many other smaller reasons, I could go on and on about them, but nobody would want to read it.
In short, I can no longer afford to run the site.
If you have any comments, you can send them to [email protected] (I will read all of them and might respond to a few).
Thanks for using Myrient over the years.
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With Nintendo rampantly going around and getting ROM library sites taken down, as well as many emulators, I thought it pertinent to post the fact that one of the current best repositories I know of is going to be lost next month. It is my opinion that we're probably entering into a dark age of ROM libraries where games will be more and more difficult to find, so having a comprehensive collection should be at the forefront of any good gamer's mind.
Stock up, save hard copies of the emulators to run them, and keep the fire of Video Game Archiving lit, lads. My gut tells me it's all going to be over before we know it.
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https://myrient.erista.me/files/No-Intro/
https://myrient.erista.me/files/Redump/
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page
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EDIT - There does seem to be some grassroots support beginning already, luckily!
Very nice! Thank you for bringing this to our attention!
Man, there sure are a lot of files though. I would like to download the whole lot of them, but that would take such a long time.
I don't believe I'm particularly interested in the arcade-version of Candy Crush either. There's probably tons of games that I personally can omit from downloading.
What files are you guys downloading? Emulators for the NES and SNES and their accompanying games is a given for me, but files for the Playstation 3 are also very interesting.