The Trove Rpg Archive Better ((link)) Jun 2026

: The hosting service eventually pulled support, and the technical backend failed during internal reorganization attempts, leading to a "perfect storm" that kept the site offline forever.

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While DriveThruRPG is the marketplace, The Trove is the museum. A "better" archive isn't just about having the newest Dungeons & Dragons release; it’s about having the 2nd Edition Planescape box sets, obscure 90s indie zines, and out-of-print lore books that are impossible to find legally.

The Trove stopped updating around the time Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything was released. That means you are missing:

The Trove was a massive digital repository and archive for tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs), hosting hundreds of thousands of files ranging from core rulebooks to obscure, out-of-print supplements. While it was a cornerstone of the community for many years, it ultimately shut down in mid-2021 due to mounting legal pressure and copyright infringement allegations.

Do you have the subtitles (SRT) files as well?

Afaik nobody is creating subtitles for these streams, so there are no srt files.

I am creating the subtitles. Do you want to create a GitHub repo and let me commit to it?

From the Handmade Hero complete playlist on YouTube, 433 out of the 674 videos have automatic speech recognition (ASR) subs. I have already downloaded those ASR subs. Interestingly, 3 subtitles were manually uploaded (day 1 and 2 of Intro to C and day 1 of Hero). So maybe someone was subbing but gave up?

As I watch, I have also been pasting the YouTube link into Kapwing and converting the JSON into SRT files. I have done several so far. Need to do this 200+ times for the remaining videos of the Hero series.

The subtitles are here.

Handmade Hero subtitles:

https://github.com/XP1/Handmade-Hero-subtitles

I have created the organize and rename scripts, which will sort each series into their folders and add titles to the video filenames.

Is this still seeded? My resilio sync client shows 0 of 0 peers online. If not, is there any way to get these original files?

Yes, it is. Usually ~20 to 30 peers are online all the time.

Hi, thank you very much for this! Is there a separate token for handmadehero_prestream as well by any chance?

Any reason why the latest episode is day 663? Why haven't you updated to day 667 yet?

Thank you so much for doing this!

I started syncing yesterday and got around 33% which was about 400gb+. I booted up handbrake and converted the Handmade Hero Day 663 from h264 to h265 bringing the file size from 6.3gb to 2.4gb (NVEnc) or 986MB (CPU). To me, the quality looks the same.

I started off with the H.265 MKV 1080p 30 template changing the following parameters:

Video:

• Video Encoder: H.265 (NVEnc) / H.265
• Framerate: Same as source
• Encoder Preset: Slowest (NVEnc)/ Slow (H.265)

Audio:

• Codec: AAC Passthru

I thought I'd share in case anyone has concerns about disk space. I'm going to try and batch through it, but I'm not sure how far I'll get.

Please seed people, It's not possible to download at the moment due to lack of seeders.