Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

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.

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!

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.

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.

Any Apple+ fitness video

Anyone know where to find the Calm meditation app audio files?

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 dragon ball z game. I used to play it years ago. All I remember now is that you play as goku, is like 16bit games, can go into supersayan mode and mostly fight in the air.

Complete Baguazhang Nine Dragon System, by John Painter

It's out of print and good copies are about $130+

I am struggling to locate Snow Devils, the sequel to wild wild planet. I have the rest of the gamma one movies.

I don’t think it will be a great film but we love silly b-movies over here.

There used to be this one swiss cooking show for kids called „Cocolino“ with a blue cat that had a fried egg as an eyepatch. Been trying to find it online every once in a while, never with any success.

Cottage Country (2013). Meant to be similar to Tucker and Dale Vs Evil and I just can't find a torrent anywhere!

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.

Mr meaty, it took me a year or so to find it. Not on rarbg, not on pirate bay, not on iptorrents, not on DVD/streaming. I finally got it a month back and I'm exstatic.

Bluray quality Godzilla 1985, there's a handful of kaiju movies i need. But they never got released on bluray.

I'm aware of the RMR versions and i have them.

My white whale is the as-of-yet unreleased Quest 64 2. For obvious reasons.

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.

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.

local dub (Filipino/tagalog) of an old anime called Mr. Ajikko.

I'm not sure if this exists but English Dub of Nodame Cantabile (I only have 1 of 3 seasons).

I've been collecting for years, trying to get the full run of "Disney Adventures" magazine. I have a solid amount of physical magazines that i've been scanning, but would love to find a collection of the full run scanned and ready to download :)

I've been trying to find an Assamese movie called Ishu for years, but no luck so far.

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.

A 1080p version of W1A series 2

A BBC art history documentary series called "Private Life of a Masterpiece". I have about half in a mixed bag.

Also the 5th season (I think) of an old Food Network show called "The Thirsty Traveler".