2018-11-02, 17:47
(2018-11-02, 16:59)martinconroy Wrote: Hi,
I like to keep all my games on my server. For some emulators, this is no problem, but others say that the files can't be on a network drive (e.g. PicoDrive and Genesis Plus GX for Sega Genesis). This is a real frustration and seems unnecessary, especially accessing a 2MB file on GB ethernet! Can this constraint be removed?
Thanks,
Martin
The ability to play games from a network drive is called "VFS support", because kodi uses a virtual file system to make network drives look like local ones. You can see the cores with VFS support here: https://kodi.wiki/view/Game_add-ons#Libretro_cores
The problem is that VFS support comes through the libretro API, so each and every core has to be modified for VFS support at the source level. This is a LOT of work. Kodi knows which cores support VFS, so you can try playing a core from VFS and see if any cores are compatible.
As an alternative, you can make the network share look like a local path my mounting in. On Windows, this is assigning it a network drive letter, on Linux this is mounting it to the local filesystem.