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.
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.
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