rom-cli
Terminal CLI to search and download ROMs, ISOs and Switch games. Interactive Textual UI, cross-platform catalog, resumable downloads.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 22, 2026 · 120 upvotes (top 13%) · 0 views
Niche: terminal user interface tools · 84 launches, 2 in the last 7 days ▼ -71% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- cli
- game-downloader
- python
- retro-gaming
- rom-cli
- roms
- +2 more
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Could you build this?
Yes A terminal CLI built on Python and Textual that searches catalogs and downloads files with resumable transfers. Those are standard patterns, and the AI handles them well.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 290 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #32 of 291 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 303 days after the earliest competitor.
- Play SNES, gba, in your terminal, even in tmux · hn · 2026-07-30 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- RompEmu · github · 2026-09-27 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- nexus-cli · github · 2026-10-21 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- OunceCake · github · 2026-10-25 · 517 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Game-Catalogue · github · 2026-09-19 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Stremio_CLI · github · 2026-09-22 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- NX2Apple · github · 2026-10-20 · 307 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- RomSieve · github · 2026-11-01 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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