Pi Romulus
NOTE Development of Pi Romulus is done at GitLab.
This repository will be kept up to date with releases from Pi Romulus, but only with releases and not during active development. For development versions, please visit the Gitlab page.
Retropie ROM downloader (v.1.2.4)
Based on Romulus, the Linux Retropie ROM manager, Pi Romulus is intended to fill a gaping hole in the Retropie functionality. It allows you to search for games for the Retropie that you already own and then downloads it directly to your Retropie installation, no further work required. What makes Pi Romulus so attractive, is that there is no need for any other computer system. You dont need to switch on your laptop to download and transfer the games. Just hook up a keyboard to your Retropie, or ssh into the Pi, search for the game, select and play.
Features:
- Searching ROMs (uses Emuparadise)
- Automatic detection of required emulator
- Automatic ROM extraction, if ROM arrives in an archive
- Places ROMs in the correct folder for direct playability
- Download notification
Technical Details
Romulus is written using Python 2.7. For it's GUI framework it makes use of the excellent npyscreen library.
Installation
- git clone https://github.com/ArthurMoore85/pi_romulus
- cd pi_romulus
- sudo apt-get install python-pip libarchive-dev
- sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
- python romulus.py
Developers
All code is licensed under GNU Public License 2 (GPLv2). This license allows you to copy, edit, and redistribute without restriction, as long as it retains the free GPLv2 license.
All help is appreciated, whether filing bug reports, squashing bugs, requesting features or anything else, simply clone this repo, and if you have improved it somehow, make a pull request.
Reporting bugs
If you have discovered a bug, please report it using the issues tab at the top of the project page. Before reporting a bug, check if the bug you encounter hasn't already been raised. You can also reach out to me directly.
Authors
Arthur Moore arthur.moore85@gmail.com