webЯcade – WASM based retro emulation on any device

Re:webЯcade – WASM based retro emulation on any device by londons_explore on Saturday September 24, 2022 @07:18PM (#32967482)

This urgently needs shareable URL's for each game...

Otherwise when someone finds a cool game, they can't tell friends about it without that friend having to hunt through menus.

Also, search engine indexing ought to be possible so that you can search a game name on Google/DDG and go direct to it.

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Re:webЯcade – WASM based retro emulation on any device by nfriedly on Saturday September 24, 2022 @08:59PM (#32968014)

They recently added shareable links:

> Stand-alone links (shareable direct links to games)

https://github.com/webrcade/webrcade/releases/tag/0.0.5

However, with the exception of a few indie games, you have to provide them yourself. So the search engine idea probably won't work.

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Re:webЯcade – WASM based retro emulation on any device by oblak on Saturday September 24, 2022 @08:56PM (#32968000)

Sounds great. It really does. Question is who would be brave enough to provide such a cool thing. I don't think even 30+ year old MAME roms are not considered abandonware, as obtainable as they've been for the last 20+ years.

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Re:webЯcade – WASM based retro emulation on any device by kyriakos on Sunday September 25, 2022 @12:42AM (#32969002)

You can host your "own" roms on a Web server and feed them to it. I don't think that an emulator should provide the content.

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Re:webЯcade – WASM based retro emulation on any device by imtringued on Sunday September 25, 2022 @03:40AM (#32969643)

Put the ROMs on IPFS.

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Re:webЯcade – WASM based retro emulation on any device by jonny_eh on Saturday September 24, 2022 @09:23PM (#32968135)

The site is mainly freeware games.

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Re:webЯcade – WASM based retro emulation on any device by system2 on Saturday September 24, 2022 @08:58PM (#32968009)

ROM gaming is very similar to HAM radio. It is difficult to understand, share, and use.

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Re:webЯcade – WASM based retro emulation on any device by anthk on Sunday September 25, 2022 @05:37AM (#32970025)

Eh, maybe for Gen-Z ers not used to thinker. My non-geek GF was playing with MAME32 in mid 2000's.

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Re:webЯcade – WASM based retro emulation on any device by system2 on Sunday September 25, 2022 @02:34PM (#32974448)

Your GF was doing that really doesn't change what's going on today. Back in 90's I was able to download FULL mame without writing and begging on strange forums to find out what's needed for the particular game. It is a gatekeeping community and hard to play mame games today. I bet your GF cannot download a single game by googling today and can start to play from scratch within 1 hour after downloading mame. Or not even the same day. It takes time to find these things today.

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