RetroAssembly

Personal retro game collection cabinet in your browser. Play NES, SNES, Genesis, GBA, and more.

Port	8000
Registry	ghcr.io/daemonless/retroassembly
Source	https://github.com/arianrhodsandlot/retroassembly
Website	https://retroassembly.com/

Version Tags

Tag	Description	Best For
latest	Upstream Binary. Built from official release.	Most users. Matches Linux Docker behavior.

Prerequisites

Before deploying, ensure your host environment is ready. See the Quick Start Guide for host setup instructions.

Deployment

Podman Compose

services:
  retroassembly:
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/retroassembly:latest"
    container_name: retroassembly
    environment:
      - RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_DATA_DIRECTORY=/data  # Data directory for SQLite database (default: /data)
      - RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_STORAGE_DIRECTORY=/data/storage  # Directory for uploaded ROM files (default: /data/storage)
      - RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_PORT=  # HTTP port (default: 8000)
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/retroassembly/data:/data"
    ports:
      - "8000:8000"
    restart: unless-stopped

AppJail Director

.env:

# .env

DIRECTOR_PROJECT=retroassembly
RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_DATA_DIRECTORY=/data
RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_STORAGE_DIRECTORY=/data/storage
RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_PORT=

appjail-director.yml:

# appjail-director.yml

options:
  - virtualnet: ':<random> default'
  - nat:
services:
  retroassembly:
    name: retroassembly
    options:
      - container: 'boot args:--pull'
      - expose: '8000:8000 proto:tcp' \
    oci:
      user: root
      environment:
        - RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_DATA_DIRECTORY: !ENV '${RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_DATA_DIRECTORY}'
        - RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_STORAGE_DIRECTORY: !ENV '${RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_STORAGE_DIRECTORY}'
        - RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_PORT: !ENV '${RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_PORT}'
    volumes:
      - retroassembly_data: /data
volumes:
  retroassembly_data:
    device: '/path/to/containers/retroassembly/data'

Makejail:

# Makejail

ARG tag=latest

OPTION overwrite=force
OPTION from=ghcr.io/daemonless/retroassembly:${tag}

Note: Exposing ports in AppJail means that your service can be reached from remote hosts. If that is not your intention, do not expose the ports and communicate with the service using the IPv4 address assigned by the virtual network.

Podman CLI

podman run -d --name retroassembly \
  -p 8000:8000 \
  -e RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_DATA_DIRECTORY=/data \
  -e RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_STORAGE_DIRECTORY=/data/storage \
  -e RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_PORT= \
  -v /path/to/containers/retroassembly/data:/data \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/retroassembly:latest

AppJail

appjail oci run -Pd \
  -o overwrite=force \
  -o container="args:--pull" \
  -o virtualnet=":<random> default" \
  -o nat \
  -o expose="8000:8000 proto:tcp" \
  -e RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_DATA_DIRECTORY=/data \
  -e RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_STORAGE_DIRECTORY=/data/storage \
  -e RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_PORT= \
  -o fstab="/path/to/containers/retroassembly/data /data <pseudofs>" \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/retroassembly:latest retroassembly

Note: Exposing ports in AppJail means that your service can be reached from remote hosts. If that is not your intention, do not expose the ports and communicate with the service using the IPv4 address assigned by the virtual network.

Ansible

- name: Deploy retroassembly
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: retroassembly
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/retroassembly:latest"
    state: started
    restart_policy: always
    env:
      RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_DATA_DIRECTORY: "/data"
      RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_STORAGE_DIRECTORY: "/data/storage"
      RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_PORT: ""
    ports:
      - "8000:8000"
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/retroassembly/data:/data"

Access at: http://localhost:8000

Parameters

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_DATA_DIRECTORY	/data	Data directory for SQLite database (default: /data)
RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_STORAGE_DIRECTORY	/data/storage	Directory for uploaded ROM files (default: /data/storage)
RETROASSEMBLY_RUN_TIME_PORT	``	HTTP port (default: 8000)

Volumes

Path	Description
/data	Database and uploaded ROM storage

Ports

Port	Protocol	Description
8000	TCP	Web UI

Architectures: amd64 User: bsd (UID/GID via PUID/PGID, defaults to 1000:1000) Base: FreeBSD 15

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