Valiant Comics Bittorrent...?

BodaZoffa · Post by **BodaZoffa** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 1:42 pm

Alright,

After spending the last week downloading the Valiant collection off of Z-Cult, I finally have it completed. Thanks SOTU...!

Now, my question is I have a bunch of CBR & CBZ files that I don't know what to do with. I thought I was pretty PC savvy, but I guess not. What program do I use to burn these to disc with. Nero, Alchohol 120%.etc?

Please help.... Boda

BodaZoffa · Post by **BodaZoffa** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 1:55 pm

Nevermind, I figured it out...

http://www.sketchyorigins.com/comics/sh ... .php?t=424

soundoftheuniverse · Post by **soundoftheuniverse** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 5:37 pm

CONGRATS, now we gotta get Knight a copy of everything. I can burn them all for him but If some of you can maybe burn a CD and we all pitch in we can get Knight everything in the Bittorrent.

Now that you got it all figured out Boda it's pretty fuggin cool huh? I hadn't ever used CDisplay until now, it's simplicity is fabulous, perfect for reading comics!

Any of you who have the blank CD's and time to burn Knight a CD of Valiant books he's missing from the Bittorrent would be great.

Let us know what you're missing, I'll start burning once I know what you need. I probably could do it all but it might be better if we share in the fun!

BodaZoffa · Post by **BodaZoffa** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 7:38 pm

I could burn this entire volum onto a DVD using Roxio in a matter of minutes. If Knigt pm's me his address I could mail it out to him.

Boda

Steve Topper · Post by **Steve Topper** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:42 pm

BodaZoffa wrote:I could burn this entire volum onto a DVD using Roxio in a matter of minutes.

Your file sizes must be smaller than mine. I was planning to burn the entire package to a DVD but it came to about 5GB. And I haven't found any dual-layered DVDs around here yet.

Are you burning dual-layered or sending them on two DVDs?

Thanks
Steve

BodaZoffa · Post by **BodaZoffa** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 11:10 pm

Steve Topper wrote:
BodaZoffa wrote:I could burn this entire volum onto a DVD using Roxio in a matter of minutes.
Your file sizes must be smaller than mine. I was planning to burn the entire package to a DVD but it came to about 5GB. And I haven't found any dual-layered DVDs around here yet.

Are you burning dual-layered or sending them on two DVDs?

Thanks
Steve

I've got a little over 3.5 Gigs. If you have an rar file, extract the files & then delete the rar. If you don't do this, you pretty much have everything twice.... one set of files extracted & a second set compressed.

Boda

BodaZoffa · Post by **BodaZoffa** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 11:43 pm

Knightt...

Sent you a PM. I burned the Valiant collection onto disc along with the entire Miracleman collection & Wolverine Origin.

Give Miracleman a chance. The first 3-4 issues are slow readers, but it really picks up after that. One of the best reads you will ever find in comics.

Boda

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 2:25 am

Knightt_333 wrote:I have not seen it higher than 4 gigs... where are you seeing THIS ?

There are some different sets of scans out there. And the bittorrent is incomplete. The total is about 5G.

/Magnus

sd2416 · Post by **sd2416** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 6:28 am

I havent been able to get Bit torrents to work.

What exactly do you have to do to view the books?

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:41 am

Knightt_333 wrote:Again... where are you seeing this ? Is there another website out there hosting this 5G bittorrent ? Where is the 'complete' torrent ?

No, no. As far as I know there is no complete torrent. I only know of one torrent and it is not complete. That's what I wrote. This reminds me, how can I make a torrent and publish it?

/Magnus

tssgery · Post by **tssgery** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:49 am

magnusr wrote: This reminds me, how can I make a torrent and publish it?

Your best bet is to go to the Z-Cult site and look in the FAQ:

http://www.zcultfm.com/~comic

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 9:28 am

Magnus, I'm guessing you have them all by now. I'd certainly be looking forward to you making a torrent ... if that's what you had in mind.

Steve Topper · Post by **Steve Topper** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:15 pm

I've been thinking about building a set of Valiant torrents (like magnus), but I don't want to build a single 3.5 - 5 GB torrent. That could take people forever and a year to download. What I am thinking about is a separate torrent for each title or a group of titles (probably around 650MB or CD sized).

For example I could group Archer & Armstrong (142MB for all 27 issues), Eternal Warrior (361MB for 55 issues) and Timewalker (153MB for 17 issues) -- or 656 MB for the three Immortals.

Other groupings could be X-O Manowar by itself at 594MB for 75 issues; Harbinger, HARD Corps, and Visitor; etc.

Just a thought
Steve

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:04 pm

That sounds like an awesome idea Steve. Is your run complete?

Steve Topper · Post by **Steve Topper** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 9:24 pm

I consider it complete, although technically I am missing some issues from the "official" checklist. What I am missing and why:

Archer & Armstrong - 0 Gold - story available in A&A 0
Armorines - 0 Gold, 0 Card stock, 1 VVSS - stories available in regular editions
Bloodshot - 0 Gold, 0 VVSS, 6 VVSS - Stories available in regular editions
Chaos Effect - Alpha Red, Omega Gold - Stories available in regular editions
Deathmate - none of the Gold editions, the Tourbook, and the Pink Preview - Golds same reason as before, Tourbook doesn't contain any story (I think! - I haven't checked my Tourbook hardcopy recently) and Pink is reprinted in one of the other Preview books (Green or Orange), and I don't have both Green Previews - I felt one copy was enough
Eternal Warrior - 0 Gold, 0 Embossed, 27 VVSS - same reasons as previous
Geomancer - 0 VVSS - same as before
HARD Corps - 0 Gold, 5 Comic Defense - same as before
Harbinger - 0 Pink and Harbinger TPBs - stories are available in issues I have
Magnus - 21 Gold, 27 VVSS, 57 Error - same as previous
Ninjak - 1 Gold - same as previous
Predator vs Magnus - 1 Platinum, TPB - stories available in regular editions
Psi-Lords - 1 Gold, 1 VVSS - story available in regular edition
Rai (and the Future Force) - 9 Gold, 9VVSS, 21 VVSS, TPBs - stories available in regular editions
Dr Mirage - 1 Gold - story available in regular edition
Secret Weapons - 21 VVSS - story available in regular edition
Shadowman - 0 gold, 0 non-chrome, 0VVSS, TPB - stories available in regular editions
Solar - 0 HC, 10 2nd print, Second Death TPB - stories available in regular editions
Timewalker - 1 VVSS - story available in regular edition
Turok - 1 Gold, 1 VVSS - story available in regular edition
Unity - easier to just say I have 0,1, and both epilogues because the rest are reprints.
X-O Manowar - 1/2 Gold, Database VVSS, 0 Gold, 15 Pink, and TPBs - these contain reprints of regular editions
Miscellaneous:
Magnus/Nexus Preview Advance - included in regular Magnus/Nexus series
Valiant Era TPB - reprints regular editions
Valiant Free-View - contains advance look at upcoming stories which get included in regular editions.

So essentially, I have a complete set of the stories, not a 100% checklist set. So for reading pleasure, the set is complete.

Was this a long-winded enough answer?
Steve

Discovery · Post by **Discovery** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 12:11 pm

An updated, near complete run of Valiant Comics (pre-Acclaim Comics era) was posted yesterday at Z-Cult FM: http://zcultfm.com/~comic/viewtopic.php?t=11396. You'll need a BitTorrent client, plus 5.1+ gigabytes of free disk space.

This new torrent posting supercedes the previous 3.5 gigabyte torrent at Z-Cult FM.

-Discovery

kelargo · Post by **kelargo** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 2:26 pm

that sucks

I'm only 50% of the way down with the old 3.5 gig torrent.

I wish it was posted as a "diff" torrent.

kelargo · Post by **kelargo** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 4:40 pm

what's the exact error message?
what program is generating it?

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 9:53 am

Discovery wrote:An updated, near complete run of Valiant Comics (pre-Acclaim Comics era) was posted yesterday at Z-Cult FM: http://zcultfm.com/~comic/viewtopic.php?t=11396. You'll need a BitTorrent client, plus 5.1+ gigabytes of free disk space.

This new torrent posting supercedes the previous 3.5 gigabyte torrent at Z-Cult FM.

-Discovery

I did a quick scan ... the only book that I saw that was missing was the Outcast Special? Are there any others missing?

kelargo · Post by **kelargo** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:07 am

I use Shareaza for my bit torrent client.

From the tracker listing, I downloaded the torrent (DL on the tracker)

then from Shareaza, I open up the torrent. then from Shareaza, I wait for a long time for the download to complete... then I'll have the complete .cbz file.

http://www.shareaza.com/ open source client, no spyware!

let me know how that goes for you.

Ken

qrnd · Post by **qrnd** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:08 am

Knightt_333 wrote:
kelargo wrote:what's the exact error message?
what program is generating it?
I use Bit Torrent and get the following message: 'trouble accessing files -[Errno 24] Too many opens files: 'F"\\Comics\\Valiant Comics\\Solar Man of the Atom\\Solar Man of the Atom #15.cbz'

I ONLY have gotten this error message EVER with the Valiant torrent.

Any ideas ?

Switching to one of the 3rd party Bittorrent clients should resolve that problem. Its usually only the official program that has errors like that.

kelargo · Post by **kelargo** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:10 am

also, (I just re-read you post closer)

try opening the cbz with WinRAR. see what the files are like. see if that can open it, then try re-saving it. maybe the cbz file needs "repackaged".

what version of cbz viewer are you using?

kelargo · Post by **kelargo** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 11:54 am

on the tracker site, you can not download the torrent?
clicking on the DL does nothing?

are you behind a firewall or do you have a popup blocker?

kelargo · Post by **kelargo** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 2:49 pm

can you try a different bit torrent client?

kelargo · Post by **kelargo** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 5:02 pm

I hear ya!

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