romm

Media Servers

A self-hosted ROM manager and player that scans, enriches, browses, and lets you play your game collection in a web browser.

Python Latest 5.0.0 · 11d ago Security brief →

Features

Scan libraries with metadata from IGDB, Screenscraper, MobyGames, etc.
Fetch custom artwork and display RetroAchievements in the UI
Play games directly via EmulatorJS and RuffleRS in any modern browser
Official native apps for Playnite (desktop), Android (Argosy/romm‑mobile) and iOS

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5.0.0 New feature 11d

Auth RBAC

UI redesign, savestates, boxart, CRT, ROM patching

Open

No immediate action

4.9.2 Mixed 1mo

Crash fix + dependency bumps

Open

No immediate action

4.9.1 Bug fix 1mo

config.yml deserialization fix

Open

Config change

4.9.0 Breaking risk 1mo

Breaking upgrade

Sync engine + Play tracking + Thumbnails

Open

4.8.1 Mixed 3mo

Notable features

HTTP proxy support for outbound backend requests
Per-platform statistics loading made opt-in to reduce unnecessary homepage fetches

Full changelog

make loading per-platform stats opt-in so homepage doesn't fetch them by @cciollaro in https://github.com/rommapp/romm/pull/3158
fix: correct ZX Spectrum +3 ROM hashes in known_bios_files.json by @Abdess in https://github.com/rommapp/romm/pull/3191
Return link for romm-mobile app to README.md by @milktoastrat in https://github.com/rommapp/romm/pull/3207
Add outbound HTTP proxy support for backend requests by @dafal in https://github.com/rommapp/romm/pull/3189
chore(deps): bump lodash from 4.17.23 to 4.18.1 in /frontend by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/rommapp/romm/pull/3212
4.8 hotfixes by @gantoine in https://github.com/rommapp/romm/pull/3213
Fix 500 on /api/tasks/status after cleanup_missing_roms task completes by @gantoine in https://github.com/rommapp/romm/pull/3214
Fix registration invite links losing token on external redirect by @gantoine in https://github.com/rommapp/romm/pull/3215
fix: correctly delete nested (subdirectory) ROMs from filesystem by @gantoine in https://github.com/rommapp/romm/pull/3216
Fix GET /api/tasks/status 500 on expired job TTL (NoSuchJobError) by @gantoine in https://github.com/rommapp/romm/pull/3217

@Abdess made their first contribution in https://github.com/rommapp/romm/pull/3191
@dafal made their first contribution in https://github.com/rommapp/romm/pull/3189

Full Changelog: https://github.com/rommapp/romm/compare/4.8.0...4.8.1

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