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This is a custom build of Kodi by the lead developer for games in Kodi. It serves as the stable build for the developer's media center, and is shared here for others. It is based on v22 Alpha 1 release, plus some game-related features before they are included in Kodi.
Compared to the v22 "Piers" master branch, this build includes:
Added features
- GSoC 2020, Captions for Discord Rich Presence support (xbmc#27089)
- GSoC 2021, Achievements (xbmc#22652)
- Kademlia (disabled) (xbmc#23696)
Added fixes
- Enhanced Linux key support (xbmc#26039)
- Two Android joystick fixes (xbmc#25179)
- Fixed Nearest Neighbor (NN) filtering (xbmc#26881)
- Fixed black screen in some games on LibreELEC (report, temporary fix)
Add-ons
The build also bundles some game-related add-ons to improve quality of life for testers.
- Includes all 84 controller profiles from the controller topology project
- Includes VFS add-ons for compressed ROMs
- Includes repos for game add-ons: AKL IAGL, libretro buildbot cores, Steam Launcher
- Includes repos for skins: Arctic Fuse, Confluence ZEITGEIST, OSMC Skin
- Includes service.games.discord.richpresence
Discussion
Forum thread:
Changelog
New fixes
- Fixed many Linux keys (xbmc#26039, thanks @oliver!)
- Fixed "Game add-ons" not showing up in My Games window (xbmc#27046)
- Fixed OSMC remote transparency (kodi-game/controller-topology-project#396)
- Fixed busy dialog crash (xbmc#27038, thanks @ksooo!)
- Fixed logging for HW rendering (xbmc#27037)
- Fixed crash when creating savestate in Debug builds (xbmc#27014)
- Fixed Xcode Simulator mounts showing up in My Games window (xbmc#27013)
New improvements
- Added Windows ARM64 builds (thanks @ddscentral!)
- Merged game loop fix (xbmc#27050)
- Updated XKBCommon to v1.11.0 (xbmc#27088)
- Updated scrapers (xbmc#27080)
- Updated controller add-ons (xbmc#27081, xbmc/repo-resources#561)
- Added initial plumbing for "alias" shader preset parameter (xbmc#27061)
Kodi builds
- Windows x64: KodiSetup-20250818-d70ce980-retroplayer-22alpha1-x64.exe
- Windows ARM64: KodiSetup-20250818-d70ce980-retroplayer-22alpha1-arm64.exe
- macOS x64: kodi-20250818-d70ce980-retroplayer-22alpha1-x86_64.dmg
- macOS ARM64: kodi-20250818-d70ce980-retroplayer-22alpha1-arm64.dmg
- Android ARM: kodi-20250818-d70ce980-retroplayer-22alpha1-armeabi-v7a.apk
- Android ARM64: kodi-20250818-d70ce980-retroplayer-22alpha1-arm64-v8a.apk
LibreELEC 13 builds
- Generic-GL x86_64: LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-13.0-retroplayer-20250818-d70ce980.img.gz
- RPi 2/3: LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-13.0-retroplayer-20250818-d70ce980.img.gz
- RPi 4: LibreELEC-RPi4.aarch64-13.0-retroplayer-20250818-d70ce980.img.gz
- RPi 5: LibreELEC-RPi5.aarch64-13.0-retroplayer-20250818-d70ce980.img.gz
- RockPi 4 Plus: LibreELEC-RK3399.arm-13.0-retroplayer-20250818-d70ce980-rock-pi-4-plus.img.gz
- ODROID-C2: LibreELEC-AMLGX.aarch64-13.0-retroplayer-20250818-d70ce980-odroid-c2.img.gz
- Other platforms: Ask in the discussion thread
Donations
- ENS: eigendude.eth