https://github.com/luandev/jacare
Open source / free
Jacare (Portuguese for "caiman") is a powerful desktop ROM library manager that brings your retro game collection to life. Built with Electron, Express, and React, Jacare combines the best of local-first architecture with cloud-powered metadata—giving you a single, unified experience to discover, organize, and launch games from your personal library.
https://i.redd.it/jz0x5g4dfu8g1.gif
What makes Jacare special:
- 🎮 All-in-one solution – Browse, search, download, and launch ROMs without switching between tools
- 🏠 Your data, your control – Everything stays on your machine; metadata is fetched from Crocdb but cached locally for offline access
- ⚡ Built for performance – Background job processing, real-time SSE updates, and intelligent caching keep things fast
- 🔄 Smart synchronization – Automatic scanning, metadata enrichment, and library management keep your collection organized
If you are looking for roms: Go to the link in https://www.reddit.com/r/Roms/comments/m59zx3/roms_megathread_40_html_edition_2021/
You can navigate by clicking on the various tabs for each company.
When you click on the link to Github the first link you land on will be the Home tab, this tab explains how to use the Megathread.
There are Five tabs that link directly to collections based on console and publisher, these include Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Sega, and the PC.
There are also tabs for popular games and retro games, with retro games being defined as old arcade systems.
Additional help can be found on /r/Roms' official Matrix Server Link
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Can it be used to organize files on a SD card? I have a Retroid Pocket and my game files are a MESS, I’ve collected them over the years from various sources and they are at least in folders by platform but I’m lost on the best way to “clean” them up and organize things like the bevels.
I’m new to using a consolidated program to access the roms, in addition to an android device…I’m used to using individual programs on a PC
It doesn't have a specific functionality for that, but I look into add it in the next few days, I will let you know
Nice!!
Where does it download from? What system roms can be downloaded?
it's backed by crocdb https://crocdb.net/, their downloads are free but the sorces can get a bit slow, so this manager helps with that
Nice I will give it a try!
cool ad
Web UI is behaving a bit weird for first time run on mobile. Won’t let me click into the search
https://imgur.com/a/44aJiX9
that's true! thanks for sharing with me, the screenshot helps a lot, I will add support for mobile in the next release and I will let you know :)
Just added support, you can pull the latest and should behave now
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e1da61e3-e5ae-4290-9195-9aa586adb13c
Oh this is awesome. I’m currently using RomM on my NAS. Will have to try this out.
have a go and tell me what you think, feedback is appreciated :)
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it also runs on desktop