Romm support

[binarygeek119]

https://github.com/zurdi15/romm

RomM (Rom Manager) is a web based retro roms manager integrated with IGDB.

should also add MariaDB and redis as it works better then.

[zacaronii]

I’m also interested in whether or not this is something retronas would be able to integrate with in any capacity. I am using RomM mostly as a pretty way to view my game library.

However, they also support playing roms through emulatorJS, as well as saves and states. They have mentioned “device sync”, as a feature they are very interested in implementing but they do not have this yet.

I think the ability to use this with retronas would be awesome. I might even look at fiddling around with this, myself.

Also, as this is my first post on any part of the retronas project, I want to take the opportunity to give kudos to those that have put work into the project. My knowledge in Linux systems is all pretty surface level, but I’ll see if I can learn enough to try to contribute to the project, as well!

[drinksomewhiskey]

@sairuk I feel like this can be done similar to the analogue pocket support. Romm just needs symlinks organized by its own folder structure.

[sairuk]

@minorOffense is looking at this atm, there are some caveats with Romm that symlinking wont work at the folder level

First run at this support was here retronas/retronas#457

[minorOffense]

I have a prototype working. I'm just currently fighting with Ansible. I'm just trying to figure out how to get it to download the script to flatten the rom directory and run it.

Then I think it'll be good to review.

[minorOffense]

https://github.com/minorOffense/retronas/pull/2/files

Oh and then the fun task of updating the entire systems array to map to romm's naming scheme :-/

[sairuk]

i've added some comments to that pull request this morning

[sairuk]

where are you getting the structure information from, is there a source of truth for all directories we can pull down and process programmatically?

[minorOffense]

I was going by their mapping in the examples directory: https://github.com/rommapp/romm/blob/master/examples/config.batocera-retrobat.yml#L16

Comparing to how batocera was setup between retronas and romm. I think their list is based on the igdb database. So I was going to start there and see how it maps or not. I assumed I would have to ask the romm folks about that.

[drinksomewhiskey]

This could be helpful: https://docs.romm.app/4.0.0/Getting-Started/Folder-Structure/