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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      12 hours ago

      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!

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        7 hours ago

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