2017-03-27, 23:19
I'm absolutely in love with this. I'm fine with no game art for now, there are a few quality of life improvements I'd like to see that I think in my head are more important.
First of all, emulator core selection, if there was a way to check "always use this emulator" for each game it would be so nice. I have hundreds of ROMs and some of them run best in one emulator, some in another, and it's annoying to try to remember which for all of them.
Secondly, the setting for Skip Steps really needs to be separated from regular videos, for videos I want my smallest skip steps in the 5-10 second range, with video games you often really want to only skip back half a second or a second. As a bonus dream feature, I would love for hitting the skip forward button to cause the emulator to go into 2x and then 4x etc. speed!
Everything else is working fantastically for me. I control everything with an Apple IR remote, which is super simple and only has 7 buttons, and then pick up my bluetooth gamepad after selecting a game. This setup is incredible because whenever I've set up emulation console computers before, there was always the annoying part of how you leave the emulator and get back to your ROM list. Last time I did an RPi build like that I ended up having to come up with a super complicated set of multiple buttons to be held on the gamepad to perform functions like save states and leaving the emulator, and even then the combination would sometimes get hit by accident during regular gameplay; if you have a controller with the spare buttons to set for those functions it's nice but you still run the risk of accidentally hitting them while playing. Now with Kodi I can play on my gamepad, and grab the IR remote to perform all of those functions! This is truly the nicest and most polished way I've ever seen to play emulated games on an HTPC.
First of all, emulator core selection, if there was a way to check "always use this emulator" for each game it would be so nice. I have hundreds of ROMs and some of them run best in one emulator, some in another, and it's annoying to try to remember which for all of them.
Secondly, the setting for Skip Steps really needs to be separated from regular videos, for videos I want my smallest skip steps in the 5-10 second range, with video games you often really want to only skip back half a second or a second. As a bonus dream feature, I would love for hitting the skip forward button to cause the emulator to go into 2x and then 4x etc. speed!
Everything else is working fantastically for me. I control everything with an Apple IR remote, which is super simple and only has 7 buttons, and then pick up my bluetooth gamepad after selecting a game. This setup is incredible because whenever I've set up emulation console computers before, there was always the annoying part of how you leave the emulator and get back to your ROM list. Last time I did an RPi build like that I ended up having to come up with a super complicated set of multiple buttons to be held on the gamepad to perform functions like save states and leaving the emulator, and even then the combination would sometimes get hit by accident during regular gameplay; if you have a controller with the spare buttons to set for those functions it's nice but you still run the risk of accidentally hitting them while playing. Now with Kodi I can play on my gamepad, and grab the IR remote to perform all of those functions! This is truly the nicest and most polished way I've ever seen to play emulated games on an HTPC.
