Would not trust automatically downloading executables unless you have a sandbox.
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2023
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Even then I wouldn’t do it. Installing games takes a while too, so it’s not much of a time-saver compared to automatically organizing movies/shows.
And the risk of getting a misleadingly named game with malware is too high. Remembering to sandbox isn’t easy either, after possessing them for a while. Untrusted files should never be on a computer, imo. But I don’t pirate games, so take my advice for what it is.
More than likely they'll name the game exactly as it is for easy finding but include a crypto miner. It's already happening anyways, it'll make it easier.
It's probably possible and safe for roms, but then there are already more or less complete packs for basically every console and retro computer ever made so it's not that useful.
This would really rely on having a very competent and trust worthy source, and in not sure if that exists for software the same way it does for movies/ TV shows.
Vndb does exist for visual novels though.
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
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?
someone is going to make Gamearr because of this just you watch
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
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.