Ooh, I lost track of that one. I remember seeing the trailer but it was at least a year ago and completely forgot about it. I’ll definitely check it out!

Micro Mages is so good!

I have. it’s a solid resource. Was mostly hoping to some specific homebrew games to try before buying.

Hmm, I’ll have to look into the external library. I must not have paid attention to that as an option or at least didn’t understand it if I did read about it.

Syncthing would be great, but since my siblings are all out of state, I’d have to walk them through configuring it on their computers and I’ll be honest, I still struggle with adding new peers and folders with that app. That’s a “me” problem, and I’m willing to admit it. But I can look into other file upload options out in the Self Host world.

Where do you like to find them? I looked at the Megathread, but couldn’t really find a retro-centric source.

I love Vimm’s Lair and have used it a bunch. Only reason I didn’t start there this time is I want a new build for a Pi 5 and boy, Vimm’s is slooooooow. Great project and service offered though.

I was mostly worried about coming across some junk roms that won’t play, etc. But that’s probably not so common.

Good point. I think you’re right. I suppose that way I can cut out some of the junk roms I’ll never play. Good call.

I mentioned it in another comment but you can use rclone to mount the seafile data structure. And at least in my testing it works really well. I’ll have to test with more data and of course remote data. If I ever get the Backblaze B2 backend working then I could more easily test a use case where I didn’t have access to the server like you’re talking about. I have had great success with rclone mount with Dropbox, but those are not chunked files. :)

I do wonder if folks who are hesitant to use it because of the chunked files are also not using apps like Borg backup or Duplicacy. Both of which also chunk the data. I believe in both cases you can still leverage rclone to mount them as whole files for retrieval.

I have a Mealie instance running on a VPS. It has a backup function built in, but it just dumps a .zip locally. I could leverage Syncthing to send that over to my server. Other than that, what you described is exactly how I use Seafile. I have my documents folders on all PCs and my phone synced. Had to print something off downstairs and didn’t want to go get the laptop upstairs to either send to myself or print from the laptop, so seafile just let me reach to the server and pull it down via my Linux desktop client.

I really want to use Syncthing for something. I just haven’t figured out what yet. Only thing I can think of is to sync games saves from my Steam Deck for non-Steam games, since they don’t have cloud saves.

I was looking for a journaling app that didn’t have vendor locking, or required some weird export dump that messed your formatting and folders up. That lead me to Markdown and Obsidian. I love it. And when I die, that shit will still be readable by any basic text editor.