Project closed

Due to the fact that I don't use OpenELEC anymore, I won't maintain it anymore.

This project is left open for archive purposes only, feel free to fork but don't expect any maintenance.

openelec-games

Retro gaming extensions for OpenELEC.

These extensions provide games for the OpenELEC.tv linux distribution compiled as XBMC/Kodi extensions. Extensions allow easy installation and removal for the end-user.

These extensions are for use only in OpenELEC. The binaries are built specifically for this distribution and many assumptions about internal paths are done inside wrapper scripts. Porting these extentions to other distributions/platforms would be a lot of work.

Supported programs

MAME : The Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, with its default SDL interface.
Retroarch : RetroArch is an open-source project that makes use of a powerful development interface called Libretro. Libretro is an interface that allows you to make cross-platform applications that can use rich features such as OpenGL, cross-platform camera support, location support, and more in the future.

Supported platforms

Currently, the only supported platform is the Generic x86_64 build of OpenELEC. It should be possible to adapt it for the Raspberry PI build.

Setting up openelec-games

Download the precompiled ZIP files
Copy the ZIP files to a USB drive (or any location reachable from XBMC)
Inside XBMC, go to settings / extensions and choose "Install from ZIP file"
Choose the previously downloaded ZIP file
The extension appears in the "Programs" menu and can be launched directly.
When the extension is launched, XBMC will stop, so it may be a bit slow. be patient.

The first time the extension is launched, a new configuration is created and the 'emulators' directory is populated in the storage directory. You will be able to put ROMs there and access saves, savestates, ...

Building from source

Clone the OpenELEC repository (adjust openelec-4.0 to the branch you wish) :

git clone -b openelec-4.0 https://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv.git

(optional) If you wish to build the whole distributions, refer to instructions to build OpenELEC
cd into the OpenELEC root directory
Fetch the openelec-games repository. If you built OpenELEC from source, you can use ''git submodule'' :

git submodule add https://github.com/retro16/openelec-games.git packages/openelec-games

Install build dependencies on your distribution. For Debian, you can run this command :

apt-get install build-essential automake gawk git texinfo gperf cvs xsltproc libncurses5-dev libxml-parser-perl unzip zip xfonts-utils wget libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev bc default-jre-headless fontconfig libfontconfig1-dev libxinerama-dev

Build each addon with the following commands :

ARCH=x86_64 scripts/create_addon mame
ARCH=x86_64 scripts/create_addon retroarch

Zip files are generated in the target/addon subdirectory