Cool Emu - Web Based Retro Emulator

• migrated to astro 6
• added pagination
• fix an issue caused with games not being sorted by popularity
• tried to optimize the dev server(it was taking like 40 seconds when I tried to start the dev server) but failed
• fixed a small bug in the contact form

I need to make the pages for all the consoles now, after that I will just need to connect this to a domain and host on a service.

I spent like 2 hours trying to get the dev server to start faster but for some reason my efforts were not fruitful. I geniunely don’t know why its incredibly slow.

webscraping finally done. it took 10+ hours.

now need to do pagination.

• Added contact page
• Added features section
• Added more consoles to scrape roms for.
• Updated the index, games and play pages to be mobile friendly

I am currently waiting for the scraper to finish scraping games so that I can add all the other consoles too. As of writing this I have scraped more than 16 thousand games.

Implemented game page, you can now download the roms from individual game pages.

I wrote a small todo as well:

• Scrape all the other console games
• Features section
• Contact us page
• Make the pages for all the consoles(at least 10)
• Make the site mobile friendly
• Integrate some sort of privacy-first analytics
• Deploy on netlify/cloudflare workers/something else
• Buy domain
• Connect domain
• Replace the logo & favicon maybe.

Implemented a webscraper using scrapy and started a simple scraping run for sega saturn games.
I also added some pixelart icons to the hero section. Added an frequently asked questions section.

Updated the nes emulation page a bit.

Next I’ll be tackling the games page, that way people can find a game they would like to play.

I want to make the web design of this website good but I am having trouble coming up with good ideas. Next update hopefully will be better.

Created a new website by following the guide at https://www.shadcn-svelte.com/ and https://docs.astro.build/en/install-and-setup/

Using tailwindcss, shadcn-svelte, svelte, astro and https://github.com/EmulatorJS/EmulatorJS

Spent like an hour making a proper text container which switches the words by moving them vertically.

The logo is my recreation of “cool sunglasses emoji pixelart” images I found on google.

I also found a translation issue in emulatorjs and made a Pr to fix the localization of Turkish.

Due to copyright laws I wont be hosting game ROMS however you should be able to find game roms pretty easily online (legally, of course).

Anyways here is Super Mario Bros. running on the web!