RomThief

Screen scrapes the planetemu.com website and downloads games. Nothing illegal, just that I'm lazy and I like old nintendo games. :)

Setup

• Using the node command line (I use git bash, but to each their own)

• Install the required node modules.

  • npm install

• Compile the romthief typescript file.

  • tsc src/romthief.ts
  • builds a javascript file (romthief.js) in the src directory (for now).

Execution

node src/romthief.js <game system: string> <page index: number>

Game Systems

• Nintendo NES = nintendo-nes
• Super Nintendo = nintendo-super-nes
• Atari 2600 = atari-2600
• Atari 5200 = atari-5200
• Atari 7800 = atari-7800
• Game Boy = nintendo-game-boy
• Nintendo 64 = nintendo-nintendo-64

Page Index

• The array index for 0 through 26.
  • Pages 0-9 = index 0.
  • Page A = index 1.
  • etc.

Example

• node src/romthief.js "nintendo-nes" 0
  • Downloads the first page of the NES page.

Known Issues

• Timeout issues with downloading large games. Working on it.
• No configuration for location saving. Will be adding that in the next version.