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A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted ROM manager and player.

Is rommapp/romm beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, rommapp/romm merged 314 of 380 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 3 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

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Forks
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Open beginner issues
3
Indexed issues
151
Avg merge
13h 37m
Merged PRs (30d)
548
Dominant language
Python
License
AGPL-3.0
Last GitHub push
Oct 8, 2026
Latest indexed
Oct 8, 2026
No contributing guide
No code of conduct
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How to contribute to rommapp/romm

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's AGPL-3.0 license.
  3. Pick one of the 3 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
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  • [Feature] Pause the game when the player window loses focus
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

    rommapp/romm#5213 ·

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  • [Feature] Periodically auto-create and upload save states during in-browser play
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rommapp/romm#5212 ·

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  • [Feature] Performant /search
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 12/100

    rommapp/romm#5206 · 1 comment ·

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  • [Bug] The web player's start screen can default to a save state written by another client, which loads blank in the browser
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rommapp/romm#5199 · 1 comment ·

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  • [Feature] Add ability to add custom shaders
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    emulation

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    rommapp/romm#5195 · 1 comment ·

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  • [Feature] Custom directory creation
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    rommapp/romm#5194 ·

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  • [UI/UX] Adding games from multiple filesystems/paths/mounts
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    ui/ux

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    rommapp/romm#5180 ·

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  • [Feature] RPG Maker XP, VX and VX Ace support
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    rommapp/romm#5168 · 1 comment ·

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  • [Feature] Ability to Link SaveFiles/States to Rom Versions
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rommapp/romm#5162 ·

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  • [Feature] Put Patches at a Higher Hierachy level
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rommapp/romm#5161 ·

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  • [Feature] Add Permission Setting to allow Users to Upload Patches while denying them to upload roms
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

    rommapp/romm#5160 ·

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  • [Feature] User Tag System
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rommapp/romm#5159 ·

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  • [UI/UX] QR codes for download-conversion capable files
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    ui/ux

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    rommapp/romm#5154 · 2 comments ·

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  • [Bug] Gamepad works in controller debug but input never registers in EmulatorJS game
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    emulation

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    rommapp/romm#5139 · 1 comment ·

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  • [Feature] Videos/clips storage to go along with Screenshots
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    rommapp/romm#5135 · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Feature] Show IGDB similar games alongside library recommendations
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

    rommapp/romm#5127 ·

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  • Per-game "allow anyway" exceptions for age limits
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rommapp/romm#5093 ·

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  • [Feature] Promote a flat multi-disc set into one folder together
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    rommapp/romm#5082 ·

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  • [Feature] Configurable Version Filtering for "gamelist.xml" Export
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rommapp/romm#5034 ·

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  • [Feature] Export Collections with Metadata & gamelist.xml
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

    rommapp/romm#5033 ·

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  • [Feature] Add option to convert all media to .webp instead of only covers
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    rommapp/romm#5032 · 1 comment ·

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  • [Feature] Compute RetroAchievements hashes for disc images inside archives
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    rommapp/romm#4967 ·

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  • [Feature] Include username in log file when an authentication attempt fails.
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

    rommapp/romm#4954 ·

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  • [Feature] Calculate Hashes for 7th gen consoles
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    rommapp/romm#4865 ·

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  • [UI/UX] Menu bar blocks part of the bottom screen
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    emulation

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    rommapp/romm#4819 ·

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  • [UI/UX] Game page: more clickable metadata +proper pluralization + missing tooltips
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    ui/ux

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    rommapp/romm#4805 ·

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  • [Feature] Allow API image format preference
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    rommapp/romm#4804 ·

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  • [UI/UX] Display metadata match status in file tab
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    ui/ux

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    rommapp/romm#4803 ·

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  • [Feature] Option to delete files after Webp Conversion
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    rommapp/romm#4802 · 2 reactions ·

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  • [UI/UX] Column Headers in List mode
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    ui/ux

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    rommapp/romm#4752 · 2 comments ·

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  • [UI/UX] keep hidden/retired/do not play out of curated lists
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    ui/ux

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 57/100

    rommapp/romm#4750 · 1 comment ·

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  • [Feature] CBR/CBZ Support For Document Viewer
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    rommapp/romm#4704 · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Feature] Symlink Soundtrack Directory from Other Location on Filesystem
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    rommapp/romm#4703 ·

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  • [Feature] Adding our own Videos
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rommapp/romm#4656 · 1 comment · 2 reactions ·

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  • [Feature] GameCube Save Interoperability
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

    rommapp/romm#4649 · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Feature] Allow Users to hide platforms themselves
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    rommapp/romm#4637 ·

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  • [Other] Enable vueCompilerOptions.strictTemplates once v1 is deleted
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rommapp/romm#4630 ·

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  • [Feature] Surface a game's soundtrack on its sibling entries
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    rommapp/romm#4585 · 1 comment ·

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  • [Feature] Record provenance when a patched ROM is saved back into the library
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    rommapp/romm#4582 ·

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  • [Feature] Normalize HTML in scraped ROM summaries instead of storing the tags as plain text
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    ui/ux

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    rommapp/romm#4569 ·

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  • [Feature] Metadata from Hackdex
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rommapp/romm#4559 · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Feature] Per User Region/Language Preference Settings
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    rommapp/romm#4553 · 3 comments ·

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  • [Feature]: add VNDB metadata provider
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    rommapp/romm#4546 ·

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  • [Feature] Match multiple sources for manual rom matching
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    rommapp/romm#4536 ·

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  • [Feature] [WIP] SCUMMVM core for EJS is in development
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rommapp/romm#4535 · 3 reactions ·

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  • [Feature] Add the ability to link to a specific netplay room
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    rommapp/romm#4511 · 1 reaction ·

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  • [Feature] Collaborative collection permissions
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

    rommapp/romm#4503 · 1 comment ·

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  • Dependency Dashboard
    May be free again Open
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    rommapp/romm#4442 · 1 assignee ·

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  • [Feature] User-level identification/profile files
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    rommapp/romm#4388 ·

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  • [UI/UX] Indicate external links within images
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    ui/ux

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    rommapp/romm#4364 ·

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