About

Vaporwave is a tool to manage, synchronize and backup ROMs and save files between different devices (computer, retro handhelds, smartphone, etc.) It's inspired in part from the e-books manager calibre.

Name is based on Steam (as the idea is to manage games and save files consistently between devices); the term vaporwave is also commonly associated with 80's/90's nostalgia, and therefore with retro gaming.

Features

• Navigate local ROMs collection
• Add device based on its SSH connection
• Compare ROMs between computer and devices
• Compare save files between computer and devices, and detect where the more recent save files are stored
• Download/Upload ROMs files from/to devices
• Download/Upload save files from/to devices
• Tested on ArkOS with a RG351M device

Future Changes

• Add proper executable for Windows, Linux and macOS
• Test/Add support for other devices and device OS (it's likely some OS store their ROMs differently)
• Add/Remove ROMs from collection
• Update local ROMs folder
• Improve UI/UX (file transfer progress bars, warning when user override save files that seems more recent, etc.)
• Save sync: Add a function that detects - for each ROM - the most recent save from all the locations, and uploads it to all locations. This could run in the background and sync on regular basis
• Sync with local RetroArch installation
• Add a nice app icon

How To

Run

For now, it must be run from the code or IDE. Executables for all OS will be added later.

Build

./gradlew clean build

Update dependencies

 ./gradlew dependencyUpdates --refresh-dependencies

Add a mocked device

For test purpose, it's possible to add mock devices. Add the following to data/devices.json.

{
  "type": "be.encelade.vaporwave.model.devices.MockDevice",
  "name": "mock",
  "mockDataFileName": "ls-result-test-02",
  "mockDataMd5FileName": "md5-test-02"
}

Test files can be customized.

Change logs

Version 1.0

• Navigate local ROMs collection
• Add device based on its SSH connection
• Compare ROMs between computer and devices
• Compare save files between computer and devices, and detect where the more recent save files are stored
• Download/Upload ROMs files from/to devices
• Download/Upload save files from/to devices
• Tested on ArkOS with a RG351M device