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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 "Piers" Alpha 3 release, plus some game-related features before they are included in Kodi.
Compared to the v22 Alpha 3 release, this build includes:
Added features
- Disc Manager (xbmc#27984)
- GSoC 2020, Captions for Discord Rich Presence support (xbmc#27089)
- GSoC 2021, Achievements (xbmc#22652)
- Kademlia (disabled) (xbmc#23696)
Added fixes
- Fixed rendering game video with transparency (xbmc#27912) (thanks @KOPRajs!)
- Fixed crash when loading m3u playlist in My Games window (xbmc#27990)
- Fixed crash on game resolution change (xbmc#27985)
- Fixed Nearest Neighbor (NN) filtering (xbmc#26881)
Add-ons
The build also bundles some game-related add-ons to improve quality of life for testers.
- Includes all 85 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 Open-Meteo for working weather out-of-the-box
- Includes service.games.discord.richpresence (disabled)
Discussion
Forum thread:
Changelog
- Selecting an item from Disc selection now returns focus to Resume
- Renamed "Selected disc" to "Disc selection" in the core string
- Added conservative display-only sorting for the disc list when labels clearly belong to the same numbered series
- Prevented adding .m3u files from Add disc, so Disc Manager only adds concrete disc images now
- Fixed VFS error (kodi-game/game.libretro#154)
- Added Amiga Competition Pro joystick (kodi-game/controller-topology-project#428)
Kodi builds
- Windows x64: KodiSetup-20260317-ecf18a6e-retroplayer-22alpha3-x64.exe
- macOS ARM64: kodi-20260317-190528bd-retroplayer-22alpha3-arm64.dmg
- Android ARM: kodi-20260317-190528bd-retroplayer-22alpha3-armeabi-v7a.apk
- Android ARM64: kodi-20260317-190528bd-retroplayer-22alpha3-arm64-v8a.apk
LibreELEC 13 builds
- Generic x86_64: LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-13.0-retroplayer-20260317-b29ab2851.img.gz
- RPi 2/3: LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-13.0-retroplayer-20260317-b29ab2851.img.gz
- RPi 4: LibreELEC-RPi4.aarch64-13.0-retroplayer-20260317-b29ab2851.img.gz
- RPi 5: LibreELEC-RPi5.aarch64-13.0-retroplayer-20260317-b29ab2851.img.gz
- ODROID-C2: LibreELEC-AMLGX.aarch64-13.0-retroplayer-20260317-b29ab2851-odroid-c2.img.gz
- Other platforms: Ask in the discussion thread
Donations
- ENS: eigendude.eth