problems with game-emulators. who is responsable?

beta-tester · February 21, 2019 at 7:30 AM

hello, i'm new here,

i am using LibreELEC 9.0.0 on my RPi3B. i installed some game-emulator add-ons via:

and

but ScummVM i don't get work, also Atari-Stella and some other add-ons do not work on my RPi3B under LibreELEC.

my question is, who is responsable for those add-ons, who can i ask?

Kodi or LibreELEC (because those add-ons where listed under "LibreELEC Add-ons")?

for example:

in ScummVM i don't know how to start Monkey Island1 (monkey.exe), 2 (monkey2.exe), 3 (course.exe).

i only get the .exe file in the list to select. when i select the exe file, there is no ScummVM in the list as responsable add-on for that exe file.

and for atari-2600 (stella), i can select a game file ("my_atari_rom.a26"), i get some sound, but no picture...

only when i open the menü, i can see the in-game screen dimmed as the background, but when i leave the menu the screen is black again.

for Vectrex, when i select a game file "my_vectrex_rom.bin", then nothing happens (i don't leave the "file browser", no error message).

same behavioe, when selecting a playstation disk image "my_psx_disk_image.cue"

PS.: using Retropie with my RPi3B, those equal emulators works.

i own only a few games, so a retropie installation is way too much overkill.

but i only want to use LibreELEC in the future...

beta-tester · February 21, 2019 at 12:45 PM

ok, vectrex i could get it work by simply renaming rom files from <my_vectrex_rom>.bin to <my_vectrex_rom>.vec

**chewitt** · February 21, 2019 at 1:23 PM Official Post

Team Kodi are largely responsible for packaging the game add-on(s). Team LibreELEC are responsible for ensuring something compiles and we do the actual building (hence add-ons are in our repo). The fact that something compiles doesn't necessarily guarantee things will actually work; everybody is still learning about this stuff .. and the GUI still needs a lot of refinement to better guide users on how things should be used.

**CvH** · February 23, 2019 at 7:08 PM Official Post

just adding, we ship what Kodi provides, all QA is done by kodi - aka basically zero

so things might be very unstable for a long time

beta-tester · February 25, 2019 at 5:59 AM

thank you guys.

librero · June 13, 2019 at 3:55 PM

Quote from beta-tester

i am using LibreELEC 9.0.0 on my RPi3B. [...] but ScummVM i don't get work, [...] also Atari-Stella and some other add-ons do not work on my RPi3B under LibreELEC.

The libretro.scummvm-2.0.0.4.116 available in the official repo seems to be still broken.
Check this post with a solution and a link to the previous working version, libretro.scummvm-2.0.0.4.115. All the ScummVM games I tested work fine in my RPi3B with it.

Sadly, for the Atari-Stella and many other emulators showing a black/blank screen when starting a game, and showing the image only while the overlay popup is enabled, I've not found any solution for the issue.

**vpeter** · June 13, 2019 at 4:39 PM

If I remember correctly there are some unknown issues with LibreELEC build server when building libretro.scummvm.

Discussion addons: rebuild network-tools (lftp) and game.libretro.scummvm by vpeter4 · Pull Request #3479 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

Mario77 · June 14, 2019 at 12:19 AM

If you want something stable use Retroarch,Emulationstation and AdvancedEmulatorLauncher from Gamestarter Repo..plus you get more support on that here..and nicer UI to your roms collections.