alfagun74 @ alfagun74 @lemmy.world

I am a software engineer who apparently is mildly interested in computers a

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I already have set up through Playnite…

I think there might be a misunderstanding about the purpose of GameVault. It's actually not designed as a replacement for Playnite. In fact, GameVault integrates seamlessly with Playnite—it complements your setup by acting as an additional source, similar to how Steam functions alongside Playnite.

Just about everything you charge for is just leveraging some service or tool someone else already made for free.

I understand your perspective, but please consider that our app itself is entirely free to use. The only paid features we offer are integrations with third-party services—these integrations are optional enhancements and aren't required for using the core functionality of our app.

It seems you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. DRM and copyright are not the same, and the legal situation varies significantly depending on jurisdiction.

Many countries, like Germany (§53 Abs. 1 UrhG) and France (Article L122-5, French Intellectual Property Code), explicitly allow "private copies" of media for personal use within private circles, such as family and close friends by law.

Made me smile

First of all, thank you for trying it.

DLC, MOD and Patch file support is on the roadmap until then it's a solution to just put them into one tar archive or whatever.

Regarding the metadata not being found, it can happen in rare cases, you can simply enter the igdb ID into the remap search bar and that will do the trick, no need to edit files on your server or whatever.

Lastly the Microsoft store is only one of our multiple distribution channels, we also share precompiled executables on GitHub releases. It says it's unrecommended but don't worry about it. Check out the client docs for all ways to install the client.

sure it works but with GameVault you can browse them and track your progress :)

yeah browsing that 4000 game folder list sure is the same fun.

Because we decided its the main distribution platform. But there are multiple.

We've contacted heroic regarding a collab but they never wrote back. You can do this as a fallback though.

We had fantasies about it but its just too much work for us two, there are community clients for linux natively in development tho.

https://github.com/Phalcode/gamevault-app/issues/284#issuecomment-1865310371

It could handle modpacks, thats even an example on the site. You dont need to open it up to the internet, it works perfectly fine in LAN and VPN aswell.

It does.

"Unsupported and Unrecommended" is just wording to not get flooded with tickets for varrrrrious systems. We try our best helping always.

it is not exclusive to Windows Store. We also provide Windows Releases directly on GitHub, and there are guides on running this on linux aswell.

Zip and 7z are not a problem, it's exactly what GameVault needs! It does work with Roms, you can use it to browse and download them. Installing them directly into Emulators and EmulatorJS Stuff is planned!

There are ways to run this on linux.

Sorry if there were any miscommunication: We have github and email support aswell, its just lots of people find talking in real time easier.

https://github.com/Phalcode/gamevault-app/issues https://github.com/Phalcode/gamevault-backend/issues

it works for anything you put into archives. Dont expect a metadata entry for software though. :D

Regarding modern systems, Microsoft Windows 10 is our minimum supported platform. You may get it to run on older OSes aswell.

it is mostly optimised for pc atm. it will save them perfectly fine and you can download and browse them using this as well, but its still on our roadmap to build in a web based emulator, native emulator support and auto-install for roms. See details here

Honestly im not too familiar with launchbox, but from the looks of it: Launchbox has no server-side component, no steam-store-like experience, for a small community of friends and family I think. its just a front-end. We also have no fancy ROM features yet, just support for downloading them. We do have auto-extract, auto-install and so on. Also, our source code is available and not closed source.

There is a way using it on Linux outlined here in the docs, but no plans at the time for a native linux client.

No unfortunately not.