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I am looking into Romm to organize my rom collection, I have an anbernic device running Knulli and it has syncthing. Does Romm play nicely if I wanted my roms to auto-sync with my handheld in the right folders?

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

That must be the most cryptic title I've seen on Lemmy today.

Romm + Knulli sounds like the name of a little known German 1970s children's show that later earned cult status.

[–] junkthief@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

I’m shocked that I actually recognize the references in an esoteric post.

Knulli - custom firmware for certain retro video game emulation devices

Anbernic - a currently popular manufacturer of said devices

Romm - self hosted software for gathering data about and organizing game roms (hence the post here)

Syncthing wouldn’t be possible to install on the stock firmware of their device, but it is with custom firmware like Knulli.

[–] Sebbe@lemmy.sebbem.se 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's even better in Swedish.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

omfg, you are right. Not a children's show, though.

[–] flork@lemy.lol 2 points 2 months ago

LOL in my defense they are the two most popular pieces of software for their respective duties.

[–] Good4Nuthin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

i thought it was a misplaced tenforward post. :/

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Theres a Romm app in ports you can use for this.

[–] Count042@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

This is the correct answer and should be the top post.

[–] flork@lemy.lol 2 points 2 months ago

Oh interesting, thanks!

[–] flork@lemy.lol 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you know if this syncs save states?

[–] Count042@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

I don't think it does.

[–] a@91268476.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

@flork @selfhosted no idea but following

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

I don't see why it wouldn't. ROMM stores them in the usual system/roms folder format. If you have any issues you can just setup some filters on sync thing. I would just test with one system first.

[–] flork@lemy.lol 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Looks like they don't do the exact same format, actually. For example Knulli calls it pcengine and Romm is tgx16. Same for genesis (Romm) and megadrive (Knulli).

[–] ISolox@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

You might be able to do some symlink shenanigans for those specific system.