Gaming emulation station on kodi (android).

[ulao]

Was hopping for a quick answer here as searching the net with these key words is mildly pointless. I have a retropi set up and just love it. I have a kodi box running on a android box(H96 PRO) for movies and love it. From what I know the processors are about the same. What i'd like to do is just run a Kodi like front from my H96 and play my games rather then using the pi. Less devices... So I believe what I'm looking for is a retro arch app and a kodi add-on. From my searching it looks like there are many over complicated solutions. There should be only one retro arch app for android, I don't see why we would need more? Also I can understand why there are many front ends but surly there has to be one that stands out?

Anyone do this?

 

[Ryccardo]

there are many [...] solutions. There should be only one retro arch app for android, I don't see why we would need more?

Different builds, to say only one some people prefer a single emulator app, others prefer one app per system, others one per game... then there are build variants, "optimizations", etc

 

[ulao]

Correct me if I'm wrong retro arch is designed for more then one core. If we are talking no multi cores here, then yeah I get that but the retro arch team only needs one build per processor type? reto-pi, retro-arch-x86, retro-arch-arm etc... Aside from special branches there should only be one arm branch, or at least one main.

 

[DaTank45]

You can set up rom collection browser and run games through kodi. If you add the Ares wizard to kodi it has an automatic configuration set up