I dream of a program suite like [Overseer+Jacket+Sonaar+Plex] which would search, download and organize a video game library.
Does one already exist?
Would not trust automatically downloading executables unless you have a sandbox.
I’d recommend looking another way, find a source you trust (Fitgirl repacka or something) then Use an RSS feed to download the releases.
I wouldn’t recommend auto-installing, and games will also have multiple releases with updates to contend with
If it can be done via RSS, then an *arr tool can be developed. Unfortunately I’m not a coder 😓
I tend to grab releases that seem interesting to me (then buy the full game if I like it), but rarely install all of them. I’m more interested in the organization of the .zip/.iso I have laying in a folder, knowing what I have and what I should snatch.
It seems like you don’t need an arr like tool for your use case. ARRs are designed to download targets that meet criteria, you’re looking to download everything.
Instead it sounds like you are looking for a way to browse your downloaded games on a GUI like interface to help you pick which ones to install?
Breaking from if you need or need not an ARR; is your use case a GUI that lists your downloaded games and pulls the cards from IGDB.com?
Yeah, I guess what I would love are separate features, that are more than likely already done by existing tools/platforms:
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a GUI to list locally available content, with clean cards, metadata, community ratings and reviews (like it’s done on IGDB.com or HowLongToBeat.com)
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a GUI to organise ALL content (locally available and not-locally available) it into custom lists (like it’s done on HowLongToBeat.com or Steam)
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a GUI to browse gamelists and show availability on configured sources (stores, greystores, torrent, usenet) (like its done in Radarr/Sonarr)
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“Fitgirl” bugs the fuck out of me. They repack everything in an executable installer? Fuck that shit. I’ve been running her ‘installer’ on a VM, and then ripping the damn NSPs out. Why the fuck won’t they just distribute the NSP?
Compression. You could always just download the original copy/crack.
Does compression really matter when it’s a torrent and you’re just extracting the file anyhow? It’s not your bandwidth, it’s a conglomeration of everyones bandwidth, so you’re not really having to deal with back end things like saving data.
Not about saving data but I have shitty internet so repacks are a way for me to download stuff without it taking 50 years
I’m not sure about the downloading part but Playnite with extensions does an amazing job of organisation.
This is the first time I hear about Playnite. But it looks promising. Thank you.
Does it only act as aggregator for owned items across shops, just like GOG Galaxy?
Do you know if it allows title cards based on archives/folders?
I think part of the reason why that would be difficult (outside of downloading random executables) is that games don’t have a standard naming convention, so it’d be difficult to find everything. I downloaded assassin’s creed Odyssey a while ago, and the name was literally aco-cpy or something
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A guide on how to do that or some further information would be much appreciated.
Launchbox is a great option for organizing your PC games and roms, but it doesn’t really do anything automatically except for scraping box art and metadata of games/systems. It also doesn’t offer a server/client setup, so there’s no streaming games unless you have a VM.
Playnite with a plugin
I’ve never heard of that, thanks. I don’t think I’ll be pirating games but this looks really good
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