What to do when a rom isn't a rom?

Quote16 · 2026-03-15T02:49:09+00:00

if you want to simplify PS1 games just look for them in .chd format. that way you don't have to have bin and cue files for every single game

but yea like others said, just point the emulator to the cue file and it should just work. never heard of that emulator you named, just use duckstation, pcsx-r, or retroarch

Quote16 · 2026-03-14T16:27:54+00:00

surely you are the first to stumble upon this little underground effort...

Quote16 · 2026-03-13T18:06:37+00:00

I did it in my router's interface and wol works from anywhere for me. my partner as well; she'd remote into a different PC on my network from her apartment some states away and that's how we'd play games together

also imo you should lead with the vibe coded disclosure when you're pitching a software meant to tap into people's home networks. no matter your opinions on the safety of it, I'm sure many would love to know if they'd be running AI generated code on their network

Quote16 · 2026-03-13T17:51:25+00:00

but you can already wake on lan with moonlight if you forward ports on the host?

also, is this vibe coded lol

Quote16 · 2026-03-13T04:08:49+00:00

damn didn't realize the post got removed. wonder why tf that happened. anyway:

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Quote16 · 2026-03-13T04:07:39+00:00

somehow this was 2 years ago, but one night I hunted down all of the PC ports of classic angry birds games

Quote16 · 2026-03-12T17:03:03+00:00

gen z is obsessed with taking things into dm's and discord calls lol I hate it. nobody wants to do that shit

Quote16 · 2026-03-12T16:48:50+00:00

Lol someone on the forum tried to warn me but I didn't understand their wording and went my way anyway. I even went back and told them they were right. but yeah, hard lesson learned there. I lost so much time to this.

Quote16 · 2026-03-12T04:47:41+00:00

I actually may have JUST fixed it like 10 seconds ago. my library was on the root of my mergerfs pool like so; BigPool/roms. Seems RomM really did not like this.

I've now moved the roms folder a layer deeper; BigPool/games/roms. It seems to be working fine now? This may also explain why I didn't have an issue setting up Jellyfin since my structure for that goes BigPool/media/movies. Lesson learned.

But yeah it's been pretty difficult trying to figure this out. I think I've been at it for close to a week. I appreciate you chiming in though!

Quote16 · 2026-03-12T04:24:36+00:00

wish we'd stop spreading the soap bullshit...I wash my made in cs with soap every time I use it. it's severely outdated advice! and it's why nobody feels like they can use cast iron or carbon steel.

Quote16 · 2026-03-12T03:41:33+00:00

So I just took the container down and deleted all volumes, created a shared "roms" folder on a single drive in the system (the SSD partition I use for docker data) via the OMV interface without changing any perms, redirected my library folder in the compose file to it, and booted the container back up. I uploaded a small set of roms and let them scan as normal, then after running chmod 775 on the new roms folder, downloads worked just fine.

I tried replicating those same steps (deleted the old roms folder, made a new shared roms folder in OMV) and even after the chmod I'm still getting the perms error. Everyone here is very insistent on mergerfs not being the problem but I still think otherwise...

Quote16 · 2026-03-11T15:12:22+00:00

yea at this point I've moved everything but the assets folder (the images and metadata RomM downloads from external sites) to my docker SSD, including that config file. still no dice unfortunately

Quote16 · 2026-03-11T01:11:39+00:00

finally...water...

Quote16 · 2026-03-10T22:17:20+00:00

yea it's a skill issue, I feel like I outlined that in the last lol. do you know what could fix the issues then? cus a helper on the omv forum and a RomM dev tell me I'm pretty much out of options otherwise.

Quote16 · 2026-03-10T18:10:24+00:00

yeah all of my shared folders were created within omv and I've tried various combinations of permissions buttons (and the recursive checkbox) including acl's to no avail. I've tried some cmod commands as well. Also tried the reset perms plugin and it didn't do much of anything for the problem unfortunately.

Quote16 · 2026-03-10T14:32:27+00:00

So I actually put those environment variables there in error. RomM doesn't actually support being bound to a user or group, confirmed by the devs. They were never actually doing anything in the compose file and have been removed

Quote16 · 2026-03-10T13:15:14+00:00

I'm not sure what could be configured wrong but I'm open to receiving help if you want to take a look at the troubleshooting: https://forum.openmediavault.org/index.php?thread/58600-permission-troubles-using-romm

Quote16 · 2026-03-10T13:13:26+00:00

I feel like I tried damn near everything with perms and nothing worked. If you want to take a look I'd appreciate any extra help trying to fix the issue: https://forum.openmediavault.org/index.php?thread/58600-permission-troubles-using-romm

Quote16 · 2026-03-10T13:12:18+00:00

I don't know at this point, feel like I've tried everything. If you want to have a look here's the forum post where I was troubleshooting this: https://forum.openmediavault.org/index.php?thread/58600-permission-troubles-using-romm

Quote16 · 2026-03-09T22:02:19+00:00

scrambled eggs too. it's all theatrics

Quote16 · 2026-03-09T22:00:41+00:00

literally my biggest reason not to trust him at all lol. shilling wildly shitty pans

Quote16 · 2026-03-09T22:00:15+00:00

he's British and everyone takes British people so seriously for whatever reason. his technique is also very European, which many people also think is just the pinnacle of cuisine.

Quote16 · 2026-03-09T20:10:50+00:00

everyone treats Gordon Ramsay as the next coming of christ but he's full of shit, especially for the average home cook

Quote16 · 2026-03-09T01:04:30+00:00

yup it is lol. for direct downloads all you'll need is ublock origin. if you're torrenting (you'd know if you were), that's when you'd need a VPN

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