I have this installed on my unRAID instance and haven't yet figured this out..
Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player
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Re: Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player
#32Been tracking this for a while and it really needs support for renaming and validating ROMs (e.g. with .dat files) to be called a “ROM manager”.
Your comment piqued my interest, as that would be a required feature for me to use something like this. It looks like they do support integrating with a tool called Igir to handle validating and naming ROMs using DAT files. https://docs.romm.app/latest/Tools/Igir-Collection-Manager/
Re: Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player
#33Could you explain the benefits of using this over retroarch, lakka.tv, emulator station, EmuDeck (steam deck wrapper around some of these), etc. Playing through a browser seems like a downside for me personally
This is a self-hosted solution, unlike all those sofware you mention. You will install this in your server through docker and you will manage your ROMs library with a clean interface. Being able to play in the webUI itself is an extra since we just integrated emualtorjs (from emulatorjs.org)
Re: Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player
#34This might be a stupid question. But can you have a general import folder were you just dump a rom and the app IDs it and moves it to the correct system folder? I have this installed on my unRAID instance and haven't yet figured this out..
Re: Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player
#35Been tracking this for a while and it really needs support for renaming and validating ROMs (e.g. with .dat files) to be called a “ROM manager”.
Your comment piqued my interest, as that would be a required feature for me to use something like this. It looks like they do support integrating with a tool called Igir to handle validating and naming ROMs using DAT files. https://docs.romm.app/latest/Tools/Igir-Collection-Manager/
https://docs.romm.app/latest/Tools/Igir-Collection-Manager/ | https://igir.io/usage/desktop/romm/#
Re: Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player
#36This might be a stupid question. But can you have a general import folder were you just dump a rom and the app IDs it and moves it to the correct system folder? I have this installed on my unRAID instance and haven't yet figured this out..
(Pro tip: Use the {datName} template token instead of --dir-dat-name if you use clean with single DAT files, or the "only delete from folders we touched" rule doesn't apply, learned the hard way).
Re: Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player
#37This would be super cool if it becomes a smart TV app. Couldn't be too far off, right?
Re: Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a self-hosted solution, unlike all those sofware you mention. You will install this in your server through docker and you will manage your ROMs library with a clean interface. Being able to play in the webUI itself is an extra since we just integrated emualtorjs (from emulatorjs.org)
I think I might just be too far from the target audience to understand this. I don’t see any of the other options as non “self hosted”, they aren’t backed by some cloud infrastructure owned by a company, those are all locally running apps on your device
Re: Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been working on integrating RomM into Lutris ( https://lutris.net/ ) for a while, but it's not ready yet since I haven't had time to finish it. Not as a plugin but directly in the main Lutris repo: https://github.com/gantoine/lutris/tree/romm-game-service It would allow you to store your games on the server, sync the list in Lutris, and install them when you want to play them. I'd like to get a working POC to de…
I would love to see this working in Pegasus Frontend or Heroic Games Launcher, personally
Re: Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your comment piqued my interest, as that would be a required feature for me to use something like this. It looks like they do support integrating with a tool called Igir to handle validating and naming ROMs using DAT files. https://docs.romm.app/latest/Tools/Igir-Collection-Manager/
Have to dig and see if it handles retool items. Unfortunately retool has been basically abandoned. IGIR looked interesting until I realized it could not do parent/clone for redump like retool.