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RetroPlayer branch of Kodi - garbear - 2013-02-14
If you came here for support, do this one thing.
POST A DEBUG LOG
POST A DEBUG LOG
RetroPlayer is a new player core for Kodi Entertainment Center. It is similar to the video player and audio visualizer, but it plays games instead of movies and music.
Design and Components
- RetroPlayer: Code name of a new Kodi component that can play emulators, standalone games, and NVidia GameStream.
- Controller support: Remote-friendly way to reconfigure controllers.
Future Components
- Game provider add-ons: Stream tens of thousands of games directly from the Internet Archive Software Collection
- Media readers: Cartridge adapters, like the Retrode, that give Kodi access to game
- Game save manager: Manage savestates and SRAM saves. This enables "gameplay persistence" - the game restarts right where you left off.
- Game library: What else other than the full Kodi experience? Box art, game trailers, gameplay videos, system intros, save states, and more.
- Network play: I fully completed a netplay add-on. It was slow and buggy and basically needs to be rewritten from scratch.
- Shaders: Let's start brainstorming what we want and how this could work. A CRT shader would be cool.
Update (2017-04-07)
After over four years of development, RetroPlayer was merged into Kodi v18 "Leia".
It's recommended that you change Kodi to identify some extensions as games using http://kodi.wiki/view/Advancedsettings.xml :
Code:
<advancedsettings>
<videoextensions>
<remove>.bin|.img|.iso|.zip</remove>
</videoextensions>
<musicextensions>
<remove>.cue|.zip</remove>
</musicextensions>
<pictureextensions>
<remove>.zip</remove>
</pictureextensions>
</advancedsettings>RE: RetroPlayer branch of XBMC - garbear - 2015-01-16
I updated the scope of the project. What do you guys think?
RE: RetroPlayer branch of XBMC - natethomas - 2015-01-16
I might suggest also listing shaders for future components. Making shaders mostly platform agnostic is probably quite a ways off, but I think the ability to emulate the look of a CRT screen might ultimately be a big positive for a lot of people.
RE: RetroPlayer branch of XBMC - garbear - 2015-01-16
Added shaders to the list
RE: RetroPlayer branch of XBMC - Scourge - 2015-01-20
Very nice, garbear. Wish I could be of some use
RE: RetroPlayer branch of Kodi - Heretic9 - 2015-01-21
This kind of shader would be awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLNfzZ-KMdI
RE: RetroPlayer branch of Kodi - teeedubb - 2015-01-21
Hey garbear, i love reading your posts and I follow your work with great anticipation - I'm really looking forward to seeing this merged. I've asked this question about a year ago so I hope you don't mind me asking again - what do you think the chances are of this being included in the next release of kodi?
RE: RetroPlayer branch of Kodi - da-anda - 2015-01-21
I don't see it in the next release, simply because we aimed for much shorter release cycles - let's see how this works out. Also next release must not introduce skin changes IIRC
RE: RetroPlayer branch of Kodi - Megatron - 2015-01-21
(2015-01-21, 11:19)da-anda Wrote: I don't see it in the next release, simply because we aimed for much shorter release cycles - let's see how this works out. Also next release must not introduce skin changes IIRC
How much shorter are the release cycles anyway?...every 6-8 months? When can we expect the next release to be?
RE: RetroPlayer branch of Kodi - iHateMemphiz - 2015-01-21
your efforts are the single most exciting development for me
hopefully we see the fruits of your labor soon, heck, i'd say release a kodi version just with this amazing feature
RE: RetroPlayer branch of Kodi - Lorax - 2015-01-30
support for high resolution texture packs in addition to shaders would be awesome as well.
RE: RetroPlayer branch of Kodi - garbear - 2015-01-30
@Lorax texture packs for what? roms?
RE: RetroPlayer branch of Kodi - Lorax - 2015-01-30
Yes, like what's shown in this article for Zelda.
http://lifehacker.com/bring-your-retro-games-into-the-modern-age-with-these-e-1516605379
RE: RetroPlayer branch of Kodi - natethomas - 2015-01-30
(2015-01-30, 16:17)Lorax Wrote: Yes, like what's shown in this article for Zelda.
http://lifehacker.com/bring-your-retro-games-into-the-modern-age-with-these-e-1516605379
Well that's pretty cool. Definitely seems like a v3 thing though.
RE: RetroPlayer branch of Kodi - Solo0815 - 2015-01-30
Pls let #garbear concentrate on finish this thing.
Can't wait to give it a try on Kodi or 14+1. We do not want to wait until 14+2
