gorom | GoROM manages ROM sets and torrents for game emulators

gorom is a Go library. gorom has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Strong Copyleft License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

GoROM is a utility to manage emulator ROM files. It consists of both a command-line interface (CLI) and a graphical user interface (GUI). The CLI has more operations and is designed for power users. The GUI is designed for simplicity and just covers the basic check and fix ROM functions. In the emulator world, ROM sets are defined by DAT files which use an XML-based format that defines the ROM file names, checksums, and other metadata associated with the ROMs. GoROM supports both Clrmamepro and listxml styles of DAT files. GoROM also accepts gzipped DAT files (*.gz) which it will decompress on the fly. In DAT file parlance, related collections of ROMs are called machines. The ROMs for the machines are stored in either a zip file or a directory named the same as the machine. For each machine encountered in the DAT file, GoROM will automatically try to read either a directory or a zip file with the same name. For operations involving ROM files, GoROM uses a bolt database stored in each directory to save the SHA-1 checksums and file modification times to speed up subsequent operations. The database file is named .gorom.db. The GoROM CLI should run on any OS that has Go support. Note that the CLI uses ANSI escape codes for color output which are supported under most Linux terminals and in recent versions of Windows 10 command and power shells. Color output can be disabled with the -c,--no-color option if needed.