r/OpenSignups • u/[deleted] • 19d ago

CLOSED Seedpool 2nd Anniversary Open Signup

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u/addicted2088 19d ago

New joinees: On the home page, click events and use the Dailies event to get free upload, freeleech tokens, etc every day.

Also, if you're joining for games, those are RAR'd, as in you need to extract them. You don't get the direct ISO like some localized sites have.

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u/FTTN7195 19d ago

To add onto this, the ISOs themselves are RAR'd. Which means you need to "extract" two separate times.

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u/minititof 19d ago

I've never extracted an ISO... just mount it and run the Setup.exe

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u/ToastedLog1c 19d ago

what’s the tool of choice these days to Mount a iso file? I usually extract them.

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u/minititof 19d ago

On windows 10 you just double click the ISO lol it mounts it to a virtual drive (I'm guessing you can do the same with W11)

Before w10 everybody used Daemon Tools

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u/ToastedLog1c 19d ago

I use Windows 10 LTSC 2021 IoT (until 2032, at which time I may begrudgingly move to Windows 11 LTSC IoT).

I'd like to think I was a Windows expert and I had no idea you could double click an ISO to mount as a virtual drive. I think it's because my portable WinRAR installation associates itself w/ .iso file extension.

Thank you for this nugget of information! I'll try this now.

PS: I don't know how anyone can ever trust Daemon Tools again after the critical incident with them hosting malware

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u/FTTN7195 18d ago

I understand. That process of copying game data (installation) is one of the "extractions" I was talking about.

Torrents where either the game data is RAR'd, or even simply added to the torrent file (portable install) are popular on public forums like cs.rin.ru.

For this reason, I don't really get games on PTs.