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Enter emulatorjsĮmulatorJS is new container which allows users to scan in their retro game collection and generate a web frontend for browsing/launching/playing games:

No real encompassing solution existed to self host your own retro collection without downloading external pages and hacking around with their code. The problem is that in order to do this all of the current solutions are mostly dark places on the internet riddled with ads, not to mention you need to download huge files from remote servers every time you want to play a single game. Recently my interest in running retro emulators in a web browser was fueled by the current and last generation of Xbox consoles getting an update to their Edge browser to be chromium based which opens up the ability to play retro games with no modifications to the system itself. Modern web browsers have become powerful cross platform tools for running applications.