SPECIAL RESOURCES

RECOMMENDED TOOLS/PROGRAMS

• SOULSEEK: an incredible p2p filesharing program. mostly used for music but you can find pretty much anything there
• qBITTORRENT: torrenting client without any gross adware
• JDOWNLOADER: cool download manager program, makes DDLs way easier
• uBLOCK ORIGIN: best adblocker evar
• LUCKY PATCHER: great tool for modding .apk files, especially for unlocking free in-app purchases
• 2CYR: chances are you will download something from a russian site and the encoding in the .txt files will be super fucked. you can try putting it through here to turn it normal for easier translation

GENERAL

• rutracker: my beloved. best torrent tracker
• 1337x: another good tracker
• m0nkrus: very legit guy with good software (especially adobe stuff)
• darck repacks: repacked software, video games, android apps...tons of shit
• r/piracy: for real even if you think reddit is cringe it has great resources on piracy i prommy
• r/freemediaheckyeah: SO MANY special resources

VIDEO GAMES

• r/roms megathread: huuuge list of roms with great tips&tricks this site rules
• fitgirl: tons of great repacks for pc games, my first choice for game downloads
• gog-games: tons of games from gog/steam
• steamunlocked: ALSO tons of games from gog/steam
• cs.rin.ru: video game piracy forum (russian/english)
• romhacking.net: awesome resource for rom hacking & homebrew
• dlpsgame.org: i get all my playstation roms here but theres a bunch of other console & pc games too
• cdromance: another go-to for roms. they even have a bunch of english patched roms :D

3D MODELING/GFX

• cgpersia: DDLs for 3d/graphics software, plugins, classes, etc
• grafixfather: kinda like Cgpersia 2
• polyhaven: public domain 3d assets!!
• ambientcg: MORE public domain 3d assets!!
• huuuuuge list of 3d resources very good for game dev/character modeling

MEDIA

• library genesis: free access to books, magazines, comics, academic articles, etc
• sci-hub: free access to literally millions of research papers & books
• youtube-dl gui: never try to fuck with youtube to mp3 websites again with this
• bandcamp downloader: basically the above just for bandcamp
• mangadex: awesome manga hosting site with tons of scanlations
• nyaa: torrents for anime, manga, & other east asian media
• pdfdrive: mmmm im so full from pdfs yum
• r/moviestreamingsite: movie/tv streaming sites seem to pop up and leave like whack a moles so thank you to redditors for keeping up with them

AUDIO

• kvraudio: not everything is free but there are a lot of great free plugins
• vstplanet: tons of free vsts, a lot of them are old and weird so i love this site
• audioz: general audio warez, educational shit, sample packs, etc
• jackdark vsts: my favorite vsts. a shitton of old weird and slightly broken plugins for trashing audio up real good
• scorser: free access to sheet music, tabs, midis, etc
• plugintorrent: exactly what it says
• vstorrent: same as above
• freshstuff4you: same as above...again
• audiotools: same as above again...again

MISCELLANEOUS

• the mighty ginkgo: TONS of resources for creators on second life. i owe her my life
• second life copybot forums: *grins sadistically*
• ts4 rebels: morally grey way to get free sims cc (mainly sims 4)
• huge folder of sims 4 cc
• another huge folder of sims 4 cc

last updated: 9/15/21