[luppercut]

Yep, I'm a scrub but, I have managed to fumble my way through tweaking out a raspberry pi with XBMC and iStream, making a pretty snazzy media box. I found this project and I am very intrigued.

Most of the technical jargon I have read is way over my head. I was wondering if there is a simple set of instructions or perferably a repo that I can add to the raspbmc sources that would contain a wizard installer of sorts. Something we simpletons can manage.

I also had another thought... I use the XBMC remote control app on my phone to flip through movies and tv shows. That app has a typical button layout, a keyboard that pops up, and a neat gesture mode... Wouldn't it be cool if it also had a "controller mode?"

[garbear]

Hi luppercut,

our user Tuxity is working on getting RetroPlayer working with the Pi. I think he's trying to add retroplayer to Raspbian, but IMO I prefer openelec (tho i don't have a pi yet). I haven't checked in with him recently, but I don't think much progress has been made so far.

I'm working on adding more platforms to RetroPlayer. soon I'll have an OS X version, and after that Android will probably be my next target. Depending on how much help ppl need porting to RPi, however, I may prioritize that over android.

RetroPlayer relies on xbmc's existing input layer, so anything that can send input to xbmc (tv remotes, iphone/android apps, controllers, etc) can be used to control games.

[luppercut]

Thanks for info. Where can I watch for updates on the progress of the raspbmc version of retroplayer?

[ChrisMyhre]

Hi luppercut,

our user Tuxity is working on getting RetroPlayer working with the Pi. I think he's trying to add retroplayer to Raspbian, but IMO I prefer openelec (tho i don't have a pi yet). I haven't checked in with him recently, but I don't think much progress has been made so far.

I'm working on adding more platforms to RetroPlayer. soon I'll have an OS X version, and after that Android will probably be my next target. Depending on how much help ppl need porting to RPi, however, I may prioritize that over android.

RetroPlayer relies on xbmc's existing input layer, so anything that can send input to xbmc (tv remotes, iphone/android apps, controllers, etc) can be used to control games.

Very excited about the future Android release.

[Tuxity]

Hi here,

Yes I'm trying todo an apt repository of garbear work for architecture i386, amd64 and armhf but crosscompilation is kinda hard and I don't have a lot of time to really work on it. And when it's not a cross compilation problem it's a package problem. wsnipex help me a bit with that but he doesn't have so much time for me too.

Don't worry I'll keep you inform when it's ready, (I'm becoming a pro of xbmc compilation now )