Become a general game database?

[duarm]

Hello, thanks for working on libretro-database

There's no perfect solution for searching games, mobygames have the most extensive database, but the search is pretty limited, igdb is the opposite, the search is pretty good, but there's a lot less games, especially older ones, both are closed-source. Is there any interest for libretro-database to become a fully fledged game database, with search, tags and everything, and not just a db for libretro front-ends? I would love if PC games were to be included in the database, but even if only for emulated consoles, it would be a pretty good alternative to every other game database, https://db.libretro.com/ is already in a pretty good shape

[HeuristicPerson]

That's precisely the reason I started https://romdb.geeklogger.com/. Definitely I'd love to have a full community based DB able to be used from an API.

Regards

[duarm]

That's precisely the reason I started https://romdb.geeklogger.com/. Definitely I'd love to have a full community based DB able to be used from an API.

thank you, a database with extensive categorization is exactly what I've been looking for, I couldn't find the source code for the database and the site, did I missed something or is it yet become opensource?

[HeuristicPerson]

I tried to make the website as open as possible. In the documentation section you can find more details: https://romdb.geeklogger.com/documentation/documentation I wanted to make regular exports of the database in .csv format but, to be honest, I don't know what's the current situation; I'd say I created some automatic export script and upload to archive.org or similar but I can't find it now. Here you can download an outdated export of the versions database https://romdb.geeklogger.com/documentation/web-backups-and-screenshots.

The website registration was open since the beginning but recently I closed it because I was having some spam issues and no time to fix them. Feel free to send me your email, I can create an account for you if you want to further explore it (edition of entries, and so on).

Regards

PS. I'm not affiliated with any retrogaming organization, I mainly created the website for myself to feed data to some of my emulation projects but, as I already said, I did my best to make it as open as possible. I'm more than happy to receive any feedback on how to improve the website.