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The original was posted on /r/roms by /u/Affectionate_Dog459 on 2025-08-30 19:24:04+00:00.

I had a DLed speed slowdown by like 1000% last night. So I started troubleshooting. I was DLing off myrient so I started searching to see if they would slow my speed and I ended up reading all about how Myrient started, why they started, what it takes to keep it running (financially). It really pulled at my heartstrings. Being able to play these old games and having access to them 20-30 years later is really special. For free at that. I started trying to calculate what my libraries where even worth, GBA, gamecube, ps1, ps2, ps3, psp, xbox360, nds, n64, saturn, genesis, dreamcast. 100s maybe 1000s of GBs of games ive played through. I likely would have spent $1000s just to get some of these games set up. Theres 500k members in roms community. I wonder how many have donated? If we all donated $1 Myrient could probably fund itself for another few years at least (maybe?). Im not affiliated with Myrient in any way or know anything about it aside from what is publicly available. However I have a new found respect for it, I wonder what everyone else thoughts about Myrient was and if they had ever donated? I also wondered what people thought their game libraries sourced from myrient were worth, if they weren’t available for free DL. Thanks Myrient, thanks roms community.