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RFC: Don't expose ROMs, embargo?

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
database

Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing metadata-only entries and the relationship between a proposed visibility or embargo flag and the "playable" flag. The issue does not define a selected design, implementation location, or acceptance criteria, so a decision on the metadata behavior is needed before coding can be considered done.

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Description

schema

We already have "metadata-only" entries, but we may want a flag/metadata entry (or an embargo?) to not expose or allow download of the binaries.

This may also overlap with the 'playable' flag.

Dominant language
C
Stars
95
Forks
52
Avg merge
7h 33m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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