Receiving earned NES achievements from retroachievements

[dimone-kun]

Quite pointless though, cause there are no achievements for NES platform 🙂

[jshackles]

This is really cool, I'll definitely be playing with this.

[Pab10Suarez]

I have a question, for example i play tetris in my tablet unlocking achievements but i don't have tetris installed in my computer, so to have achievements you will make a "retroachievements" integration? (linking retroachievments account) or you will include achievements in every individual integration?

[jshackles]

@Pab10Suarez achievements will be handled on a per-integration basis. So if you play NES Tetris on your tablet and unlock the achievement, RetroGOG won't retrieve any achievement information for that game unless it's installed on your PC (or attached to your GOG account by virtue of being linked in Galaxy)

The goal is that if you DO have Tetris for the NES on your PC and linked via RetroGOG, the achievements for that game will be updated in real-time as the plugin will attempt to pull data from RetroAchievements.

[Pab10Suarez]

Sorry i have a question, when achievements will work, let's say i play contra and unlock achievements, then i uninstall the game, the achievements will be erased from my account? or achievements information aren't saved in retroarch files?

[jshackles]

@Pab10Suarez achievement data, when set up correctly in RetroArch is synced online to RetroAchievements.org. I believe that achievement data is cached locally on your device so that if you're offline when you unlock the achievement, it'll push that data the next time you're online. I'm not 100% certain on that, but I think that's the case.

So if you then uninstall your game (after the achievements have sync'd online) the data will still be on your account on RetroAchievements, and then will be available on GOG Galaxy when you load up that game page.

[Pab10Suarez]

thx! where i know retroachievements only work online

i know this is not the place but idk where to ask sorry, recently i got a beta key for steam retroarch, is there a possibility to add support to it?
When i open games retroarch isn't detected by steam i guess the solution would be open a .ink of retroarch
Edit: also i saw that when you open the game from galaxy the icon of the console played doesn't appear, instead appears the retroarch logo (For expample opening contra you should see the nes logo)