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This fork comes with all stock LibreELEC 10.x features but also with 3 different emulation frontends which were integrated into the Kodi Estuary theme. They allow you to run several libretro & standalone emulation cores to play basically all games of the common home consoles, arcade & home computer systems of the last decades. Moonlight allows you to stream your favorite games from your gaming pc if you use a Nvidia Geforce GPU & Generic builds feature Brave browser as well as Spotify as built in packages.
There are several Linux distributions available like Lakka, Retropie, Recalbox, Batocera or else but all of them are focused on either a single emulation frontend, come with a full featured (somewhat bloated) Linux system or lack standalone emulators for Generic systems.
I know there is also ongoing work to integrate the Libretro API by RetroPlayer but IMHO this Kodi feature will not be able to compete in the near future with standanlone emulation frontends like Emulationstation, Retroarch or Pegasus-Frontend. Things might change but for now IMHO
- read this F.A.Q
- read this How To's & Configuration
- You'll need a system partition size of >
512MB- you need to clean install my LibreELEC-RR 10.x image! - Updating from any other LE8.x or LE9.x official or community build is not supported! - DO NOT UPGRADE!
- You can always downgrade to vanilla LibreELEC 10.x or try an offcial nightly builds if you run into basic, non-emulation related, problems.
- This fork is focused on Emulationstation & Retroarch, not Retroplayer, Kodi-Game add-ons, Kodi-Game frontends nor any other stuff that is created for Kodi. You can still download and install them but they are not supported by me.
- You can use Retroarchs online updater for assets like overlays, databases or controller configs etc. You can still download cores but don't expect them to always run flawless since the lakka buildsystem is rather dated.
- All included emulators are tested on generic Intel i3-6100 & J3455, RockPro64 & Khadas Vim3 systems with at least one game, there might be some regressions from time to time, but usually they are treated & run fine.
If your problem exists on regular LibreELEC then create a new thread. That means you should compare with regular LE10.x if possible. Please include a debug log with all bug reports as this greatly increases your chances of anyone taking an interest in your issue.
If you get me log files either share a complete logfile .zip or get me a specific emulation related log file. So if Retroarch crashes get me a Retroarch log file and if Amiberry crashed an Amiberry log.
Bug reports without a suitable log will often be ignored - no debug log, no issue - or at best will take much longer to be investigated. I'm not a prophet nor do I own a magic glass sphere which helps me to figure out what's wrong on your device.
You need the .img.gz file to create an usb-bootstick or a sd-card which can be found here
You can install LibreELEC-RR 10.x the same way as you would install vanilla LibreELEC. You download the .img.gz file which matches your device and burn it to an usb-drive or sd-card for example with the LibreELEC USB-SD Creator. Also check out the Wiki for further information Installation LibreELEC.wiki
Currently WIP & not available!
You can use the Custom Update Channel in LibreELEC settings
set Automatic Updates to manual disable Show Update Notifications enable Show Custom Channels _change a Custom Channel to _ change the Update Channel to LibreELEC-RR (10.x = depending on minor version!) Now use Available Versions and choose the latest version. The name scheme is RR-YYYYMMDD-git so RR-20210314-379ac54 means it's a build compiled on 14.03.2021 and is based on commit 379ac54 . You still have to manually check for new builds but this should be more convenient than using third party hosts and manually sideloading the updates.
The update packages are still manually downloadable from this repo Index of /builds/ or check the Changelog or Nightly section for the latest builds.
If you like to say thanks or want to support my build feel free to do so, also I would gratefully accept hardware donations. For example the usual controller, TV-Box or generic hardware stuff would be useful for testing purposes or to iron out problems and preconfigure the emulators.
Well I highly appreciate the effort and work of the LibreELEC team, the guys behind all the libretro cores, Retroarch and standalone emulators, the team that forked and updated Emulationstation, the dosbox-staging guys who are always up for fixes, the moonlight dev who fixed video decoding in literally no time and all the guys I forgot. If you like my builds feel free to drop me a line and or donate some bucks to a project you prefer to keep things going!
Emulationstation - theme Carbon
Emulationstation - theme Pixel
Emulationstation - theme Simple-Dark
Pegasus - theme Grid
