/vr/ - How do frontend emulators gather all there informa - Retro Games

Anonymous

08/05/26(Wed)21:18:07 No.12736303

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Anonymous 08/05/26(Wed)21:18:07 No.12736303 Archived

How do frontend emulators gather all there information for games? I'm currently working on my own and I truly don't get where they're getting the information from, especially when it's all so fragmented over the internet.

Anonymous
08/05/26(Wed)21:20:08 No.12736307

Anonymous 08/05/26(Wed)21:20:08 No.12736307

>>12736303
not sure what you mean by information, but mobygames is a good source
also, please don't shit out yet another worthless vibecoded frontend into the world

Anonymous
08/05/26(Wed)21:21:48 No.12736310

Anonymous 08/05/26(Wed)21:21:48 No.12736310

>>12736307
It's just for me. Don't plan to share it.

It just seems like they autoparse information, yet it's like.. Redump has this, PSXDatacenter has that, IGDB lacks things the other have, and viceversa

Anonymous
08/05/26(Wed)21:30:29 No.12736315

Anonymous 08/05/26(Wed)21:30:29 No.12736315

ngmi

Anonymous
08/05/26(Wed)21:30:42 No.12736316

Anonymous 08/05/26(Wed)21:30:42 No.12736316

Launchbox has its own games database that any user can contribute to.
https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/

Anonymous
08/05/26(Wed)21:55:19 No.12736351

Anonymous 08/05/26(Wed)21:55:19 No.12736351

>>12736316
Interesting. Had no idea.

Anonymous
08/05/26(Wed)22:21:04 No.12736395

Anonymous 08/05/26(Wed)22:21:04 No.12736395

>>12736351
It's loaded up with a bunch of random romhacks and shit, but it does more strict title matching in the program than on the site, so if you have "Ocarina of Time" as your game, it won't suggest a bunch of romhacks. You can download LB and mess with that end of it, at least.