[garbear]

Announcing test builds for the GSoC 2020 project, the Savestate Manager!

Following the project from its proposal thread, Nick has now submitted a PR for his summer's work: PR 120: RetroPlayer: Savestate manager.

The Savestate Manager has two interfaces: out-of-game and in-game.

Out-of-game:



In-game:



Grab test builds here! Feedback welcome.
 


 

• Kodi 18.8 and 19 alpha 1: Releases
  
• LibreELEC 9.2.3: Releases
  

[garbear]

Are 19 alpha 1 test builds desired?

[docwra]

This is great, so happy to see this not held up by huge database upgrades

Simple and effective, love it!

[matthuisman]

Looks amazing!
Great work

[garbear]

We've got a really cool feature in the works, something that's never been done in the emulation community!

For now, I've created test builds based on the v19 alpha 1 release of Matrix:

https://github.com/garbear/xbmc/releases

[RockerC]

We've got a really cool feature in the works, something that's never been done in the emulation community!

Tease! 

[NikosSiak]

We've got a really cool feature in the works, something that's never been done in the emulation community!

Tease! 

here is a spoiler

[matthuisman]

achievements?
Oh, it's pulling the progress from the gamesave?

[RockerC]

"nikos is exploring Littleroot Town with 0 Badges and 1/202 Pokemon"

Ohhh!!!! Wonder if "Badges" means https://retroachievements.org integration?

Retro Achievements via RetroAchievements.org is available in later versions of RetroArch:

https://retroarch.com/?page=achievements

https://docs.libretro.com/guides/retroachievements/

https://github.com/RetroAchievements

Kodi community leaderboard here we come?!

[garbear]

Presenting, test builds with the results of GSoC 2017 and GSoC 2020! https://github.com/garbear/xbmc/releases


GSoC 2020 adds RetroAchievements support:





Instead of implementing achievements, we use RetroAchievements to generate captions for savestates:

[RockerC]

Ah, nice! Really hope that makes it into Kodi 19.x "Matrix" so it will attract more retro gaming nerds to the community!

I could see RetroAchievements integration having the potential of becoming so much more someday

[docwra]

Yeh whats the plan on merging this? I love a good build but needs more public attention I think really.

[garbear]

I'm hoping that the PRs are opened and merged during hacktoberfest, putting @vel0city and @NikosSiak closer to that t-shirt

[RockerC]

I'm hoping that the PRs are opened and merged during hacktoberfest, putting @vel0city and @NikosSiak closer to that t-shirt

* @velocity (not @vel0city) I think