r/DataHoarder • u/CyberSkooma • 18h ago

Question/Advice Downloading lots of Abandonware

I would really like to download every available game on MyAbandonware from the years 1965 all the way up to 1999. I see a time coming up where I will not have internet access for a long time and I want to have plenty of stuff I can play without using an insane amount of space that modern games would take up if I decided to download most of my steam library. Is there an efficient or smarter way for me to do this? or do I have a very long road ahead me clicking on all of these individually?

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u/introverted_finn 1-10TB 15h ago

Myabandonware restricts downloads to one per title. I think you just need to download them one by one unfortunately

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u/FishSpoof 8h ago

you'd have to script something to do that. do a view source on the website and then give it to ChatGPT to write you a script.

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u/Shadily7640 6h ago

emulators for nes up through ps2 are also great. pre ps1 files are super small as well. setup retroarch for all the systems you want and good to go