myOrganizer-CURATOR vs Nearcade
myOrganizer-CURATOR
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| Figure | myOrganizer-CURATOR | Nearcade |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · ROM Management Software | 7.6 (#13) | 7.9 (#8) |
| License | CURATOR is free open-source software licensed under GNU GPL v3.0 or later. | The Nearcade repository is published under the GPL-3.0 license. |
| Purpose | CURATOR analyzes, validates, reconstructs, and organizes emulation collections using DAT-based authority data. | Nearcade is an open-source, self-hosted platform for playing local co-op games over the internet with friends. |
| Support | The project welcomes questions, feedback, bug reports, and discussions by email or through its repository. | The repository links setup guides, host usage instructions, API and setup documentation, and VPS server setup instructions. |
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myOrganizer-CURATOR
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Nearcade
Nearcade is a free, open-source, self-hosted platform for playing local co-op games over the internet with friends. A host runs the game, while viewers join from a desktop or mobile web browser without installing a client. Streaming uses WebCodecs or WebRTC and peer-to-peer connections. Hosts can allow gamepad input, raw keyboard and mouse, or keyboard and mouse mapped to a virtual gamepad; mobile viewers get touch controls and a virtual joystick. Sessions can use private Cloudflare or Zrok tunnels, or appear in the public Nearcade Arcade lobby. Public Arcade sessions are limited to 80 minutes and require a verified tunneling provider. A host needs Node.js 18 or newer and Python 3. Linux also requires PipeWire and the uinput module, while Windows gamepad support requires ViGEmBus. Linux is listed as production-stable; Windows and macOS are experimental, and macOS lacks gamepad support. The project is published under GPL-3.0 and provides setup, usage, API, and VPS server documentation.