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This is a custom build of Kodi by the lead developer for games in Kodi. It is based on the latest release plus some game-related features before they are included in Kodi.
Compared to the "Nexus" 20.0 release, this build includes:
Added features
- GSoC 2017, Shaders on Windows (#86)
- GSoC 2019, Shaders on OpenGL (#114)
- GSoC 2020, Game Metadata for Discord Rich Presence support (xbmc#21286)
Add-ons
The build also bundles some game-related add-ons to improve quality of life for testers.
- Includes all 76 controller profiles
- Includes VFS add-ons for compressed ROMs
- Includes add-on repos for:
- Includes service.games.discord.richpresence
Discussions and older builds
Forum thread: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=173361
Changelog
- Rebased on 20.0 final
- Enabled shaders on OpenGL
- Backported PRs for testing:
- Bump Android NDK 25b (xbmc#22116)
- CRenderSystemGL: remove use of global VAO (xbmc#22211)
- RetroPlayer: Add "zoom" stretch mode (xbmc#22330)
- CRPProccessInfo: make CreateInstance return a unique_ptr (xbmc#22349)
- [cmake] set policy CMP0135 to NEW (xbmc#22415)
Known issues
Kodi builds
- Windows x86: KodiSetup-20230115-fa7ecfab-retroplayer-20rc2-x86.exe
- Windows x64: KodiSetup-20230115-fa7ecfab-retroplayer-20rc2-x64.exe
- macOS: kodi-20230115-fa7ecfab-retroplayer-20rc2-x86_64.dmg
- Android ARM: kodi-20230115-fa7ecfab-retroplayer-20rc2-armeabi-v7a.apk
- Android ARM64: kodi-20230115-fa7ecfab-retroplayer-20rc2-arm64-v8a.apk
LibreELEC builds
- Community builder wanted! I can do individual test builds if requested in the test builds thread.