A list of websites and other resources I found to be very useful. Updated whenever I come across something deserving to be added here.
¶ Music
- VGMdb – database of video games-related media. Due to its long history of operation, contains a huge amount of old doujin ongaku entries. Uncompressed scans of printed media coming from community contribution can be accessed after setting up an account.
- Ian’s Nerdcore Encyclopedia – extensive compendium of knowledge on nerdcore releases gathered through the course of long-term research
- alist.thdisc.tk – tlmc.eu split-encoded to FLAC with direct download
- Fascinating Foreigner Ian presents “Enigmatic Cultural Differences” – blog written by the author of the Nerdcore Encyclopedia. Some posts provide more details on artists and labels discussed in the book.
¶ Net-labels (active)
¶ Net-labels (inactive)
¶ Piracy
- Redump – optical discs preservation database for video games, checksums for dumps
- Renascene – database for scene releases of PSP, PSV and PS3 games
- PreDB.me – the most reliable and fastest preDB publicly available at this moment, sadly with no API
- srrDB.com – scene releases metadata preservation project, also largest public NFO archive
- Panda Backup – collections expunged from sad panda due to copyrights infingements
¶ Technology
- releases.moe – comparison of anime encodes
- LANraragi – self-hosted manga-reader with web UI
- Track Awesome List – tracks updates of so-called “awesome lists”
- Learn C++ – C++ introduction course
- Cron Prompt – convert English into cron expressions
- devdocs – documentations of multiple languages and libraries in a single space