RetroPie as KODI addon
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@Anuskuss what I hear is the retroplayer will be incorporated in Kodi 18. Should be interesting
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@herb_fargus From a quick look this looks promising. I hope it'll work just like Advanced Launcher and close Kodi before running the emulators. The only thing I would desire is the simplicity of my addon approach. All files are in one place, and if anything fails, you could just delete the addon and reinstall it.
I guess that won't make RetroPie on small SBC obsolete but an official solution is (always) better ;)
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Retroplayer is a nice project, I don't know if you already tested the beta images for the raspberry pi, you can find them on Kodi forum. I only test them a little bit, but if you don't know, they make addons with the binnarys and they run them inside Kodi, is it really a "player", (hence "retroplayer") and it brings some advantages and disavantages. For me the advantages are the possibility of organizing everithing in Kodi, and just need that.
But RetroPie, at this time, offers a broader choice in emulation/retrogamming, more emulators/ports/etc and has better performance in all emulators, but this I think it would be obvious because of Kodi overhead. It is much better now but if you want the best perfomance, RetroPie is the choice. -
@Rascas What exactly do you mean by Kodi overhead?
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What exactly do you mean by Kodi overhead?
Emulation requires a decent amount of system resources. Running emulators on top of Kodi means the available system resources are lessened due to Kodi's own requirements (or "overhead"). This doesn't mean as much when you're running a modern desktop PC, but the Raspberry Pi often doesn't have the system resources to spare and emulation performance will likely suffer from Kodi's overhead as a result.
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@mediamogul But starting emulation with for example Advanced Launcher should quit Kodi and then there shouldn't be any overhead anymore?
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If Advanced Launcher quits Kodi entirely, then yes, it would eliminate the overhead. However, Retroplayer, when released, will work from within Kodi.
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@Anuskuss
Any more thoughts on retropie through Kodi? I love my retropie boxes, but with kodi coming full circle and officially now on xbone, I salivate at the thoughts of emulation possibilities...@herb_fargus
I have seen some pretty cool teasers of retroplayer on kodi lately as well... -
@dawtyne10 I've tested beta builds of it. It's cool how it's enabled by the Konami code. Still a bit gimmicky but promising to have the option at least
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@dawtyne10 RetroPie won't be available in Kodi, it is the module RetroPlayer, that will become available on Kodi 18. Although they are both about retro emulation, it is a bit different, RetroPlayer will include "only" the RetroArch core emulators.
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