RetroPlay Doesn't Work

[Saroufim]

RetroPlay doesn't seem to be working. No roms whatsoever are recognized and Libretro all in all does not seem to be available in the flatpak version.

[Marko10-000]

@Saroufim what do you mean with "no available"? Doesn't the file exists (copy it into your music folder, etc. or override the permission of Kodi) or when you start it, nothing happens?

[Saroufim]

When rom files are selected, nothing happens at all. I tried GBA and SNES roms. Had no luck with both.

[wsnipex]

that's expected, since all kodi game addons are missing: https://github.com/kodi-game/
It's going to be a pain to add them without using kodi's build system, which downloads dependencies during building,

[tilosp]

@wsnipex are there plans to bring the binary addons repo to linux?

[wsnipex]

they are available on Linux since the start, just not via the add-on repo. Same as with all other binary addons.

[wsnipex]

If it would be easy to provide binaries that work on every Linux system, flatpak wouldn't exist

[Saroufim]

How about adding them as separate flatpak add-ons? Gedit has flatpaked plugins that can be installed upon demand. El vie., 8 feb. 2019 8:49 AM, Wolfgang Schupp <notifications@github.com> escribió:

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[tilosp]

the problem with flatpak extensions is that the kodi addons install files to two locations (/app/lib/kodi/addons/ and /app/share/kodi/addons/). And flatpak extensions get mounted into one directory.

If it would be easy to provide binaries that work on every Linux system, flatpak wouldn't exist

but shouldn't it be possible to setup a kodi add-on repo that provides binary addons that work on every flatpak install? Then the binary addons could be build outside of flatpak-builder using kodi's build system.

[wsnipex]

you would have to build them inside the flatpak SDK...
IMO, the only reasonable way to build the binary addons is to use the kodi build system inside flatpak builder.

[razzeee]

RetroPlayer is working, at least with the games we ship

[inf0rmix]

is there any progress on this ?
as a ubuntu user which, I have to use flatpak now without any emulator addons.

[razzeee]

I'm not aware of anyone looking at this, but as I stated above retroplayer itself works.