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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

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Post by sumtechguy »

papercrane wrote: post #40
sumtechguy wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Looks like it does support 1G1R with the --single option and can infer parent/clone information if it's not provided, like with redump DATs. You could also use retool to create a DAT with that information based on your preferences, but as you said that's probably not viable longterm since retool is no longer maintained. https://igir.io/dats/processing/#parentclone-inference

Yeah. The base problem is redump doesnt have parent clone. Some of MAME has it, retool has the currently basically static version. The name inference is ok for some of them because they are just basically the same name but diff regions. Others are in the native language or just totally different names but same game. Then there is TOSEC. That is a monster I have been trying to figure out what to do with and has similar problems as redump. No-intro and MAME are pretty good with its relationship metadata. The other two not so much. Some websites have it for particular systems but kinda not a cool move to scrape them. One of the cool parts I liked out of retool was its compilation part where there could be three games and it is in another 'game' thigs like '5 in 1'. Which is where p/c falls apart.

Re: Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player

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Post by pdntspa »

Can we collectively stop using the word "beautiful" for app descriptions. It is so overused and now effectively meaningless. Besides, beauty is supposed to be in the eye of the beholder, not the creator trying to put words in other peoples' mouths.

If you are aiming for 'beauty' (whatever that actually means), then build it to a high standard and let other people find the words on their own accord.

Re: Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player

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Post by dawnerd »

I'm using it mostly as a way to keep my copies of GOG games organized. I could use GOG's app, but the point of having fully offline copies is to not have them under the control of the people you bought them from.

Romm works really great for this too.

Re: Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player

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Post by gassi »

pdntspa wrote: post #42

Can we collectively stop using the word "beautiful" for app descriptions. It is so overused and now effectively meaningless. Besides, beauty is supposed to be in the eye of the beholder, not the creator trying to put words in other peoples' mouths. If you are aiming for 'beauty' (whatever that actually means), then build it to a high standard and let other people find the words on their own accord.

We're building this app for us, our friends and our community, and if we collectively find it beautiful, then it's objectively beautiful. :)

Re: Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player

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Post by M95D »

Fetching anything from the internet means some cloud knows what games I'm playing. It's a privacy risk. Games played are very revealing to personality type, and probably lots of other individual info, and that means the temptation to gather this data and sell it to advertisers is very high.

Re: Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player

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Post by doubled112 »

M95D wrote: post #46

Fetching anything from the internet means some cloud knows what games I'm playing. It's a privacy risk. Games played are very revealing to personality type, and probably lots of other individual info, and that means the temptation to gather this data and sell it to advertisers is very high.

It is optional. If you don’t configure the integrations it won’t fetch anything from the internet.

It looks much less impressive without cover art though.

Re: Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player

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Post by pdntspa »

gassi wrote: post #45
pdntspa wrote: post #42

Can we collectively stop using the word "beautiful" for app descriptions. It is so overused and now effectively meaningless. Besides, beauty is supposed to be in the eye of the beholder, not the creator trying to put words in other peoples' mouths. If you are aiming for 'beauty' (whatever that actually means), then build it to a high standard and let other people find the words on their own accord.

We're building this app for us, our friends and our community, and if we collectively find it beautiful, then it's objectively beautiful. :)

No love for understatement, I see

Re: Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player

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Post by pipes »

Looks lovely. Thanks for creating this.

If you have time:

Does it (or can it) run emulators natively? I'm trying to get my head around js emulator, how is that libretro? Is libretro compiled to wasm?

Is it running retro arch underneath or have you managed to implement the libretro API?

I love and hate retroarch. Its menus are ridiculous but it's still easier than managing multiple emulators.

Re: Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player

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Post by jfinnery »

Any way to run the Docker version without the external DB requirement? I have a bunch of things running on my home server and so far every one is a single image with no external requirements, which is very nice. Everything that needs a DB just uses sqlite, makes it operationally very simple, and nothing I do even comes within the same universe as the kind of usage that'd cause sqlite to become a bottleneck (and this doesn't look like it would, either).
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