Pi Romulus

Retropie ROM downloader

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

Technical Details

Romulus is written using Python 2.7. For it's GUI framework it makes use of the excellent npyscreen library.

Installation

Clone this app into a folder on your Retropie. If it isnt already installed, install pip and libarchive: sudo apt-get install python-pip libarchive-dev. After this, install all the requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt Once completed, run python romulus.py to start the app, or create a shortcut.

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