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

submitted 1 month 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 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] perturbed_panda@fedinsfw.app 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] loric@piefed.social 1 points 1 month 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 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] ArchEngel@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gameyfin might be close to what you are looking for, my friends and I use it for our DRM free games.

[–] WR5@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does this work with both retro games (ROMs) in addition to modern games?

[–] ArchEngel@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Its much closer to a Dropbox/google cloud folder with game installers in it than it is to some of the other suggestions.

Like Steam or Epic or GOG, you click download, and it downloads the game files and installer, which you can then use to play the game.

So in the case of ROMs you would be better off with the other options, as this would just download the ROM file, and you would then have to figure out your own emulation situation from there.