First place to start, get a video started playing in your browser, then CTRL+SHIFT+C (at least in Firefox+derivs) lets you highlight elements on the page and it will take you right to the spot in the source where it is. Might get lucky and find a mp4 link sitting right there for the taking.

Something tells me they have it a little more locked down, though. Might be able to monitor the network tab in Dev tools and filter for media to find the stream, which could also come through in chunks instead of one big file. Might even be obfuscated depending on how much money they put into the web side of things.

Barring all that, use OBS to screencap in realtime

Let me dig my teeth into it first before we get going too fast, 5 days is a nice time frame for me to dig in and maybe even get started on mechanics if I do rebuild everything. You may be right on the move to Godot for multiplayer, and animating will probably be much easier since I know the system more and what it requires.

I have a codeberg for my other stuffs (which also has my email): https://codeberg.org/madamegaymes

Especially now that w4 games would help us port it to all consoles

Can you elaborate on this? Nevermind, I see what you mean now after searching a little. May or may not be necessary, but that’s down the road. Need functional gameplay first.

In terms of the cabinet, I don’t have any solid ideas. I’d need to be able to do some investigative work on the physical machine. My first thought would be to clone everything possible and get it running on something other than the cabinet, so I could really do some destructive research without worry. The idea was more of a joke, though. The thought of a pirating community raising $15k just to crack a slightly obscure game sounds hilarious.

And yea, open sourcing was exactly my thought as well. I didn’t even do that much digging on other projects that might be out there, but this one honestly seems like it has a lot already figured out. Even has MIDI implemented so it would be stupid easy to make a custom 4-player controller for it.

I can’t seem to get the web assembly version they have uploaded to GitHub pages to work though. I’ll have to check out the repo and run it locally. Depending on how well it’s done, though, it may only need a graphic enhancement and made more accessible. The only real benefit I could think of to add would be online multiplayer. I don’t specifically know Bevy, but I do know a little Rust and I’m pretty good at learning new things like this.

Have you tried running it? I’m very curious as to whether or not the controls/gameplay stacks up to the cabinet.

Let’s raise $15k and I’ll help crack it!

Or, maybe I could replicate it in Godot if I can find enough gameplay vids. Might give it a serious look, but can’t promise anything will come of it.

Alternatively, use a SearXNG instance to aggregate image search from all the engines

Don’t forget that yt-dlp is not only for YouTube, it supports many other sites as well.

My strategy is to grab 120k versions of music I want right now, using yt-dlp with Bandcamp. Then, when BC does their Bandcamp Fridays, I buy as many of the 320k versions that I can afford.

Also, check out https://squid.wtf/ if you want higher quality and better selection. I have pretty good luck with the Qobuz servers when I can’t find something on BC.

As others said, don’t forget that the purpose of all this is to fuck the corporations, not the artists.

Yup, looks like you beat me to it. As you can see, problematic.

Besides, their entire ecosystem at Proton is proprietary and closed-off, just like Google and everybody else that wants to harvest your life. That should be red flag number one, besides the CEO bits.

I would recommend Mullvad over Proton. Proton’s CEO is problematic and a bit of a wild card. They also have proven that they care more about money than privacy. They want to be a Google ecosystem and constantly push more product on you. Someone else mentioned this and it’s a good thing to live by: if a company’s service is free, you are the product. When it comes to being an application that has full control and insight into your network traffic, no thanks.

Mullvad is disgustingly cheap, costing only $5/month. I’ve been using Mullvad for 15 years now, and it’s always been $5/month. You get DAITA plus a whole host of other necessary sailing accoutrements. They have one of the best track records in terms of not shoving marketing bullshit down your throat and being true to what their website and documentation says. The only limitation in terms of network usage is that you can only have 5 devices tied to a single account. It’s mega easy to remove a device to free up a slot, though.

FitGirl has also had it on their todo list since the crack showed up on 1337x

lmao, I would believe that he believes it. He could play Ron Burgundy really well.

I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be if asked off-the-cuff without his advisors around.

So piracy is no longer stealing, right?

I agree with you. One possible way to rectify the meme is to change “determined by” to “adapting to” or something along those lines. I think that’s what the meme is actually trying to say, but used the wrong words.

Sick! Thanks for coming back around with the links. I was going to add to z-lib, but evidently they don’t hoard DICT files, oh well.

Torrents and Archive.org are the best ways I think. A third option would be to also upload to Z-Library.

All 3 for maximum redundancy. If you get a torrent going and don’t want to make a z-lib account, I can upload it there for you. Either way, I’d love to help you seed and spread all these datas.

From my experience, almost everything fails except for one combo: Amazon + United Kingdom. This combo has been flawless every single time, no failures, even when all others fail in the same session.

That being said, the downloaded audio format is hardly consistent. I’ll download a whole album, and half will be in FLAC, the other half in OPUS. Not a big deal with ffmpeg available, but still weird.

I use Mullvad and Transmission, and I generally never have issues seeding. I’m currently seeding a few torrents from 1337x, EZTVx, and some linux ISO images.

Whenever I grab FitGirl stuff, I’m usually scraping the Fucking Fast links and using this library to download them, so I can’t speak to whether or not it’s something with FitGirl (but I can’t imagine it would be). Most likely some setting on your end.

I been using Transmission since it came out 20 years ago. I never understood why you would use anything else.

It’s FOSS and has the simplest interface with all the options.

Throughout the years I’ve seen so many of these apps get mass-adopted, then a few years later some issue comes up that makes people mass-exodus to another app and it starts all over again.

Meanwhile, Transmission has been consistent (and you can self-host/run seedboxes with it).

They retained a large portion of their staff and are still headquartered in Toronto, though.

Oh damn, I hadn’t heard of that with the Avowed thing. That’s a Bethesda/Microsoft sleezeball move right there.

I think people in general need to just default to “finding content another way”, because companies should never be given the benefit of the doubt IMO.

Case in point is Obsidian, they are supposed to be one of the good ones.