What’s your white whale?

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!

That’s so awesome you could still find it. Priorities!

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.

Many museums are now offering hi res versions of many of their collections. Hopefully the collections or pieces you’re after are in the works
https://www.moma.org/s/ge/collection_ge/artist/artist_id-1832.html -Feininger
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/sebasti%C3%A3o-salgado?all/all/all/all/1

The entire series of Inside the Actors Studio.

Agreed. Between this, a full archive of Austin City Limits, Graham Norton and Later.. with Jools Holland I’m right there with you. Live and intimate long form programs are few and far between.
I would love this too

It's not a white whale, it's a Holy Grail. The white whale is something that occupies your every waking moment and you wish to eliminate so you can get on with your life.

This.

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.

Awesome story and thanks for sharing! For sure a link it a DM I can host also if it’s helpful
Please redistribute them in case someone like you wants them!
- I have it backed up in a Google drive so I can send the link or dm it to people if sending direct links isn't allowed
  Edit: I'm unsure how to upload to AudiobookBay but I know people there would really appreciate it

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).

Couldn’t find anything with Tagalog for Mr Ajikko just Japanese but there are a few options.
Nodame Cantabile there are some islands in the Bay and a couple options on 1337x.to
Good luck and let us know if you find them

A cracked version of Hatch. It's embroidery software that my GF has wanted to use for her hobby / tiny side hustle but a license costs literally hundreds of dollars.

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...

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.

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...

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.

Complete Baguazhang Nine Dragon System, by John Painter

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

Shakira's first 2 albums in lossless quality without any vinyl noise. I met a guy who shared a sample and I was amazed. Huge shame he's offline...

Have you looked on SoulSeek?
- Yep. Couldn't find any that didn't have vinyl noise. 😕

4 Nights in October

2004 Red Sox vs Yankees Games 4,5,6,7

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.

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.

Uncensored Metalocalypse with perfect subtitles.

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.

The Luck Luke animated films, released in the states on Disney homevideo with English dubbing in the 80s. I've had one sitting on 90% for well over a year.

A proper colour pdf of D&D 5E.

https://mega.nz/folder/17InnIJR#tbRsv7N-nU9SFeByG4lpIQ/folder/NuhD0agb
- Great work. Another W! Enjoy the weekend

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

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.

Prey tell, where did you get from?
- Torrentleach of all places

Once Upon a Time in Shaolin

Is this a movie or the Wu Tang album?

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? Had to buy it in the end 😓

Having an apartment, and a job at the same time.

I’m 40. I’ve almost achieved it.

Books 2 and 3 to this series: https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Legends_Cycle_II

Annas Archive has book 3 (Champions Trial) - search by the ISBN
- Annas Archive
  Sorry for the late reply but holy crap this is awesome, thank you! Two down, one to go. I loved these books as a kid.

A rip of this specific limited edition CD, that contains a few bonus tracks that can't be found anywhere else in CD quality.
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.

For gurps I think theeye.eu may have what you are looking for. I will message you a direct link.
- Thanks!
  Unfortunately theeye.eu only has some GURPS Classic books, not 4th edition. I'm specifically looking for scans of these:
  Characters
  Campaigns
  Magic

A full recording of "Live Aid" Form 85

Idk if I have the full thing or not, but my dad taped (audio cassette, no video) at least some of it, and I can digitize those four tapes if you're interested.
Edit: After finding the tapes and talking to my dad, seems he taped all this off the radio. Sounds fucking great tbh lol. I unfortunately do not have all of it though, it goes straight from summer of '69 into some U2 and seems to jump around from there, so it can't be.
- Thanks for getting back! Unfortunately, I'm looking for video mainly, because that's how my mum remembers watching the entire thing on her first TV.

The first 3 seasons of Timon and Pumbaa in Finnish. I've been hunting for years and I only have one episode here and another there.

It appears the Finnish version is still available on Disney+, according to the dubbing database: https://dubdb.fandom.com/wiki/Timon_%26_Pumbaa
- Can confirm, just checked Disney+, all the episodes are there as well as the Finnish dubs (at least in Finland).
  I don't know where you are, but it looks like Disney+ publishes all the dubs as alternate audio tracks so there's a good chance you can get it from Disney+ as long as it's available in your country.

Modern Marvels!

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!

Here you go: https://archive.org/details/fun-school-futureland
- Holy shit... for years archive.org only had fairyland and I'd given up on this one ever appearing. Thanks so so much for spotting this. MY QUEST IS OVER. Time to see just how crap it is :D

Seven Days. It has one of the coolest premises, and the lead is like a combination of James Bond and McGuyver.

I never found it on any tracker, but I literally looked it up before writing this and learned it has a DVD release in 2018, so that is exciting.

Here you go: https://archive.org/details/7-days-1998
It was a piece of nostalgia for me, and I was very glad to find it archived.

Japanese dubbed Star Wars. Japanese Palpatine be sounding really good judging from an excerpt found on YouTube. A veteran in the industry purportedly.