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Game Library for Friends and Family (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago by WR5@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hello all! I have never selfhosted before, but I have a pretty extensive digital library of videogames (ROMs from a couple dozen retro systems among other executables) that my friends have expressed interested in having access. What's the ideal software for giving them access to the library hosted on my drives? I'm picturing something like a selfhosted Steam where they see all of the games and can search via retro system, game tags, by name, etc. and each of could keep track of separate user accounts by playtime, favorites, recently played, etc. I use RetroArch and a few standalone emulators myself connected to RetroAchievements, so I figured they would need to download any emulators on their ends and then just pick and play the games as they see fit without having to have their own copies of the games.

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[–] brewery@feddit.uk 32 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Check out Romm. Not every romm can be streamed but think it meets your needs.

[–] loric@piefed.social 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I haven't set either up yet, but my leaning is more towards gaseous-project due to not having to sign up for an IGDB account.

[–] cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Using the igdb integration with romm is optional and doesn’t overtly degrade the ux

[–] loric@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Glad to see this has been addressed! It was early last year when I was looking into this, and they only had IGDB support at the time. Thanks for the update!

[–] cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah the romm project maintainers are awesome; they’re very responsive to feedback/bugs and they’re constantly adding new features/publishing releases

[–] perturbed_panda@fedinsfw.app 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can second romm. it has EmulatorJS built in which will run most games in the web interface. there's also an android app (maybe iOS too can't remember) and they have apps for a few different handheld emulators. I have their app installed on MuOS on my RG35XXH and I can view my "cloud based" ROM library and download them straight to the anbernic's local library.

[–] brewery@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

Good point, Romm can integrate well with MuOS, Playnite and other client side software you and others can install onto their actual devices. I've used Playnite on my devices to manage the emulator side and download the ROMs from the ROMs server.

In theory, you could also try a sunshine server and moonshine client to steam the games from you're server but guessing it would only work well over a local network, not over the internet to friends

[–] ryokimball@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Looks much better than my response lol. Thanks

[–] brewery@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago

It's great to have options! Never heard of this one so will check it out too. That's part of the fun isn't it haha

[–] WR5@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

This looks cool. So they never get a local copy of the game file, it always stays on my server side I think? It also seems to say that the system saves are not available yet but coming soon, which means if they were to play one day and pick it up a week later their progress would be reset; is that correct?