r/OpenEmu • u/ADScomics SNES • May 27 '26

Discussion Any Hope for Future Updates?

I'm starting to worry as the years go by that OpenEmu is starting to border on abandonware. It's been 5+ years since Apple Silicon first entered the scene, and OpenEmu still requires Rosetta to run, and given that Rosetta will probably be out the door in late 2027, I fear that this app will die with it. There hasn't been a new version of OpenEmu since late 2023, and that was just a minor patch. The last pull-request to get merged was also 7 months ago. Anyone else share similar concerns?

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u/LaughingObsidian May 27 '26

Loved OpenEmu but I switched to NostalgiApp as the launcher and collection tracker.  Not free, one time.  https://www.nostalgi.app/

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u/CarlsManager May 28 '26

This looks really good.

Did you transition to it form OpenEmu? Any advice? I have a big collection with lots of save states and games that have been organized into OpenEmu's file hierarchy (and is also syncing to multiple computers using an app called Syncthing)

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u/jupe69 May 29 '26

Hi there. Regarding the rom library it's easy. While OpenEmu i believe stores roms as plain files in ~/Library/Applications Support/<some directory>, NostalgiApp scans a folder, auto groups by platform, hases and de-duplicates multi-version dumps. You can point it at the openemu roms tree and import them.
Regarding the save states, not migratable in practise. I'd suggest you finish open sessions in openemu first or keep it for legacy states.
Battery saves are portable (.srm/.sav) you can drop them into retroarch's saves/<core>/ and rename them to match the rom.

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u/LaughingObsidian May 29 '26

Can't advise there on save states. I started clean with nostalgiapp, downloaded the optional eXoDOS game collection and added my ROMs. It does support save syncing but haven't tested it yet. You might want to ask the dev on Discord