RetroDb

RetroDb is a database and web server that is built from your Hyperspin / Rocketlauncher games lists and statistics.

WebServer / Client:

Browse & search all of your available imported games and favorites.
Media files are served from your existing media directories
Remote control Rocketlauncher including Pause menus

Requirements

Dotnet runtime 2.1.500 (aka 2.1.6) - https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download

Building

powershell -f build.ps1

Importing

See Import ReadMe

Web Server / UI

Server Settings:

See appsettings.json

  "ConnectionStrings": {
    "DefaultConnection": "Data Source=C:\\programdata\\retrodb\\RetroDb.db"
  },
  "Hyperspin": {
    "Enabled": true,
    "InstallPath": "I:\\Hyperspin",
    "MediaPath": ""
  },
  "Rocketlauncher": {
    "InstallPath": "I:\\Rocketlauncher",
    "MediaPath": ""
  },
  "Logging": {
    "LogLevel": {
      "Default": "Information",
      "System": "Information",
      "Microsoft": "Critical"
    },
    "Console": {
      "IncludeScopes": true
    }
  }

You can create C:\programdata\retrodb\ and add your imported database here or anywhere you like if you change the DefaultConnetion.

Ports

See hosting.json

{
  "server.urls": "http://*:60776"
}

Booting server

dotnet Retrodb.server.dll

Using the client

Open browser after running the server and go to the Url set, eg:

http://localhost:60776

Technical / About

Server/Client is built on an experimental framework named Blazor.

It's using "Server Side Blazor" which can produce latency issues depending on how far server is from client. On my tests this is fine for a local intranet.

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