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Official Twitter page for Bradcade. Are old games still good today? Advocate of emulation & video-game preservation 🎮🕹

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@PlayStation

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@myretrolifeshow I worked in a video store back in 2007, and there were always certain customers who returned discs looking like they’d used them as sandpaper. Just pure disrespect. I have discs from 1991 that don’t have a single scratch.

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@PlayStation

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@PlayStation

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@PlayStation

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Sam Neill will always be Dr. Alan Grant to me. I spent countless childhood hours pretending to be him while battling my way through Jurassic Park on the NES. A true icon of the franchise, and a permanent part of my gaming memories. #RIPSamNeill

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@moonchild23580

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Given their scumminess, Sony could spitefully keep pressing discs while requiring hundreds of gigabytes of mandatory online downloads, reducing the physical copy to little more than a plastic license key just to fuck with you. #SONYISTRASH #corporategreed

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@JaceAVinson Yeah, and back in 2021, they still called it “purchasing games.” Now they’re careful to call them licences. Funny how the language changes once ownership disappears.

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@PlayStation Nothing says “20 years of PlayStation” quite like fondly remembering disc trays while actively plotting their extinction.

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@de3dsoul

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@PlayStation Sony figured out gamers like swapping parts, then somehow applied that freedom to a fight stick lever gate instead of the disc drive, game ownership, or anything that actually matters.

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@PlayStation

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Outstanding.

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One frustrated retro gamer accidentally built one of the best self-hosted apps on the internet.

Back in 2023, a developer named zurdi15 was struggling with a familiar problem. Thousands of ROMs scattered across folders, missing box art, no metadata, and no clean way to browse or launch games. Existing ROM managers felt outdated, local-only, or didn't work well on Raspberry Pi and ARM devices.

Inspired by how Jellyfin organizes movies, he decided retro games deserved the same treatment.

So he built RomM.

What started as a small personal Docker project quickly exploded after being shared on Reddit. Other developers joined, the project moved under the rommapp organization, and a hobby project turned into one of the most polished open-source gaming tools available today.

Today, RomM supports 400+ gaming platforms and can:

• Automatically scan and organize ROMs
• Fetch metadata from IGDB, ScreenScraper & MobyGames
• Download artwork from SteamGridDB
• Sync RetroAchievements
• Play games directly in your browser with EmulatorJS
• Support multi-disc games, DLC, mods, hacks and manuals
• Share libraries with friends
• Connect with Android, Playnite and handheld devices

Now, RomM 5.0 Alpha delivers its biggest update yet:

• Completely redesigned UI
• Controller-friendly navigation
• Live playing sessions
• Shared save states & screenshots
• Interactive 3D box art
• QR login for TV devices
• CRT mode
• Faster search
• Granular permissions
• Better performance for massive libraries

No investors. No subscriptions. No tracking.

Just a passion project that solved one person's problem and became the Jellyfin for retro gaming.

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@Pirat_Nation Bug. Sure.

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@Sony Eat shit.

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@myretrolifeshow “Consumer preference” is doing a lot of work here. People didn’t ask for ownership to be phased out. Corporations just realised digital-only means no used games, no lending, no resale, no preservation, and no real ownership. That’s not preference. That’s greed.

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@Memberthegame Been using Xbox360 controller since 2009.

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@DanFriedman81 “Your Blu-ray might die in 5 years” is weapons-grade nonsense. Disc rot exists, but this is digital-license Stockholm syndrome. My CDs from 1990 still work. My PS1 games still work. Streaming purchases vanish because companies are scum, not because of entropy.

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@VGC_News At that price in South Africa, I could buy three PS5s and still have change left for snacks while I laugh at the listing. Absolutely not.