One game I do not even know the title of. My brother used to play it when I was 6 years old. I remember the game being monochrome, not sure about the crt itself. But it was a kind of XCOM if I’d have to describe it, about some crew that lands on an underwater planet. It’s still my white whale coz I still have not found even the name . I tried chatgpting suggestions recently to no avail.
Hi-Res scans of paintings and photographs. Like starry night from van gogh:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Van_Gogh_-_Starry_Night_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
Would love a library of photos from Feininger or Salgado, paintings etc.
I would love a private tracker for art digitalizations.
Kind of shameful but there is this one porn movie I used to have on a CDR that got lost between apartments. It's stupid cause it's #17 of a 20+ series and you can find #16 and #18 in like 2 minutes, but this one has disappeared from the face of the internet. The studio stopped listing it some time ago then they were bought out and the new owners never listed that one. Believe it or not I literally sent an email to the male star of the movie, but he never responded. There goes my holy grail. It must have gone out of stock and maybe the masters got lost or something. I know one rip was made at some point cause I found a filename in a listing, but it is long lost. Farewell lost porn 🙋♂️ farewell...
A complete collection of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, including the first few years that nobody thought to record. The LLS Archive channel on YouTube is the most comprehensive source available but there's still huge gaps of missing episodes. Rumor has it there's one guy out there who recorded every episode on VHS but is refusing to digitize them.
Fun School 6: Futureland. Its a shitty edutainment game from the 90s that I played non-stop for like a year, that I want to get my hands on for nostalgia purposes. As far as I can tell its not available (online or physical media) anywhere. I finally found a copy for sale a few years ago, but it turned out to be a mislabelled copy of fun school 6: fairyland.
I will keep searching, eventually a copy will show up somewhere!
A good quality version of the "VR.5" tv series from 1995. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR.5
It's a TV show about virtual reality and has peak 90's aesthetic. They shot the scenes in "virtual reality"on black and white film and colorized them manually afterwards to create a very distinct and vibrant look. That must've been so much hard work.
Sadly, there is only a 240p VHS rip with extremely terrible quality out there. I've always wanted to watch the whole thing, but it's too degraded to enjoy like this.
I recently had the pleasure to slay it actually. It was the kinda like Twilight Zone but Horror 'Night Gallery' from 1996. It did exist, but the torrent that was circulating was messed up beyond belief. Episodes cut off at 20 minutes etc. Some dude on a private tracker ripped the whole thing anew for me.
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A rip of this specific limited edition CD, that contains a few bonus tracks that can't be found anywhere else in CD quality.
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A PDF of the short-lived Japanese edition of GURPS 4th Edition (specifically Characters and Magic). The books are very hard to find, and usually cost $300-500 when sold online. It seems like no scans were ever made.
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I actually went and bought my white whale and ripped it myself eventually. It's a silly movie called DEBS but every version I could find had an error in the final scene. So I ripped it from DVD, if only now I could figure out how to self host it.
On a related note, the first white whale I ever had is how I got into piracy, it was a kids show called ik mik loreland that we got to see in school as to learn spelling. They never showed us the entire series, and I had been obsessed with it for years untill on the news they talked about birate-pay. Eventually found a tracker on tickass-korrents. It took me 6 months to complete from what I assume was one seeder who didn't use a PC ever. Recently register it myself and am proud to say it now has 4 dedicated seeders.
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Dead Poetic band merch. A little-known post hardcore band from the early 2000's. I've got all of their CDs and some limited press Vinyls, but I would kill for some legit shirts. Years ago I found a sketchy site that claimed to have a handful left, but they were all too small. I wish now I still had bought them anyways, but oh well.
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A GameBoy game I played as a kid that was some kind of JRPG. It wasn't a well known one like Chrono, Mother, Final Fantasy Tactics, etc. I have searched through lists online and tried finding screenshots and videos of gameplay, been through several hours of vids, but nothing I've found has been it.
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A stupid video from the earlier days of YouTube called "The Poop." There is a "The Poop 2" but it's not the same. My friend and I found it randomly on some late night YouTube binge and cried laughing. It became an inside joke between us for years and we would link the video to each other or sing the music from it for instant laughter. It either got privated or deleted. I've spent hours and hours combing through the depths of YT and the internet at large trying to find a copy/reupload, same for my friend, but we've never found it.
<Edit> Number 2 is SOLVED!!! Holy crap, I literally just randomly found it. Talking about it here inspired me to try some more Google-fu and I happened across an ebay listing for Quest: Brian's Journey and the cartridge artwork immediately jogged my memory. Looks like I mis-remembered some details, that makes me even happier that I found it!
Going to be totally NOT downloading a ROM to play on my Steam Deck this evening...I would never...
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For years I've been trying to get a rip of the Dragon Ball Z: Rock the Dragon box set usually sells for hundreds of dollars. The thing that makes it special is that its the only release with the voice cast that originally aired in the States. Those voices (Vegeta and Krillin particularly) hold a lot of nostalgia for me
I've been trying to find this for years with no success but when seeing this post I decided to look around again and it seems like luck is finally with me. Some kind soul uploaded all of it along with the Westwood dub (same voice actors doing the later seasons that were dubbed by Funimation here in the states) to archive.org
Edit: After a really long time I finally stopped being lazy and figured out how to upload the book to ABB myself.
I actually managed to find mine a while ago.
I pirate a lot of hard sci-fi/cyberpunk audiobooks using stuff like Mobilism or AudiobookBay and using Sirin Audiobook Player to listen to them, one of the first series I added to my library was the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy by Richard K. Morgan.
See everything was fine with the first two books (Altered Carbon and Broken Angels) which were readily avaliable on both those sites, but it was the final book Woken Furies that I was really after, reason being there were two versions: One was everywhere I looked and is narrated by William Dufris and the other that I was actually looking for is by Todd McLaren.
Basically people really hated how the first version by William sounded (there was an unnecessary reverb effect in some parts and he pronounces the main character's name wrong throughout the whole book) to a point they started a petition to get Todd McLaren (who did the first two books) to redo the final one. McLaren actually says the guy's name right in all the books and generally is a better narrator, also the weird reverb effects were gone.
It took months of searching but I eventually found it through Mobilism (second result in the image), using a burner e mail I got a free trail of their premium service to directly download the file. Now I can rest easy knowing I have all three books read by the same person.
A full Nick GAS collection. I have a good amount of show and all the bumpers, but there's a shows missing a few episodes.
Lately, this documentary called OJ Simpson: Blood, Lies, and Murder. Despite being aired for the first time as recently as February of this year, it is now completely lost media. I’ve checked all of the streaming sites from the megathread as well as a few of the torrent sites, found nothing. Even skimmed a few really shady sites and came up empty.
I've been looking for the 3rd season of the Andy Milonakis Show for forever, I know it is probably hot garbage...but I love hot garbage. I also used to troll the internet for old CKY movies...but I found most of them, even the coveted "Cattlebag" movie by Brandon Dicamillo...it is all so horrible though...but meh...when one lives in a trash world, one gets a taste for the finest trash...
More “Riders in the Sky” CBS Saturday Morning episodes. Only one episode found on VHS has been preserved.
Digimon World 2003. I never owned a PlayStation (was a Nintendo-only fanboy for years until I bought a PS2 in the mid-00s a year before the Xbox 360 was announced) and tried to run an emulator of it for over a decade before it was fully supported. I also had trouble because I found out the only English version that didn't have that stupid "once you start fighting the final boss, you can't explore the game world anymore" thing they used to do in JRPGs was the European version. Now I can actually play it, even using gameshark codes, easily... if I could only find the time to play it!
MTV Undressed. It was a terrible show, but damnit it was fun to watch and is one of the first IMDb credits for a shit ton of people.
My white whale is the as-of-yet unreleased Quest 64 2. For obvious reasons.
I've been trying to find an Assamese movie called Ishu for years, but no luck so far.
Love this thread. My white whale is The New Encyclopaedia Britannica 15th ed. 2010 edition. Its here but a loan https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24447878M/The_New_Encyclopaedia_Britannica
No idea how to extract it.
archive.org has only 2007 ed :(
Books 2 and 3 to this series: https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Legends_Cycle_II
Heil Honey I'm Home!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heil_Honey_I'm_Home!
Pilot on the BBC. It's a sitcom about Hitler and Eva moving into an English neighborhood next-door to a nice Jewish couple. I had a copy from BTN but can't find it anywhere now.
Chad's World
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0960743/
Super-fucked pilot from DEN. A studio that was attempting a streaming business in the 90s or 00s, and abusing minors.
It stars fucking Stiffler. It's about a teen who's friend kills himself over the pressure/reaction of coming out to his parents. The teen is rescued by his brother and whisked any to LA.
It's an insane groomer story that matches the scandals at DEN. I have a 240p copy, but I SWEAR I had a better one before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brock_Pierce
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Entertainment_Network
Hypernauts (1996). It's an old TV series that was cancelled part way through airing. I found a complete season on a TV archive project website, but it's 480p and has baked in Japanese subs that obscure a lot of the screen. The show itself isn't great, it's just something I'd like to collect.
A late 80's TV show called Monsters
Caught a handful of episodes when I was a kid. It's available on Amazon, but I'd like a local copy. With as many TV shows have the word Monsters in it, it's hard enough to even search for.
Edit: ROFL and as I post this I decided to google it, and archive.org has all 3 seasons archived.
Any Apple+ fitness video
The full dicography of Soichi Terada is my whale. A bonus would be all the other Far East Recording artists too, but Terada is the big deal for me.
Terada is a Japanese house music artist who was most active in the 90s, but anyone outside of Japan might know him better as the soundtrack artist for Ape Escape for the PS1.
What makes it particularly hard is that a good chunk of his work was vinyl only. I've got his more recent stuff that got CD releases.
On Home Ground, an Irish TV series from 2001-2002.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289005/
Whiskey Echo, an Irish/Canadian miniseries from 2005.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Echo
Both seem impossible to find. I've been looking for three years.
I've been looking for the 3rd season of the Andy Milonakis Show for forever, I know it is probably hot garbage...but I love hot garbage. I also used to troll the internet for old CKY movies...but I found most of them, even the coveted "Cattlebag" movie by Brandon Dicamillo...it is all so horrible though...but meh...when one lives in a trash world, one gets a taste for the finest trash...
Isn't there not yet a consistent crack for Denuvo? Having such would be very, very nice.
Heck, there's at least one Denuvo game that got cracked, and then despite being cracked stopped working after a while, necessitating an updated crack. (It's Shining Resonance Refrain, for anyone curious.)
Misty.
Damn that girl was big.
But, damn could that girl fuck!
