I’m
not what you’d call a hard gamer ... probably I’m not a gamer at
all. So after a little playing with RetroPie,
and the few ROM files I managed to find, I continued with
experimenting with available RetroPie “ports”.
RetroPie
ports
are a plug-in system that usually allow you to add open source games
or additional emulation engine to RetroPie interface. The “KODI”
port instead allow you to install and start from RetroPie interface a
full featured media manager giving your retro-computing machine an
effective “double life”.
KODI
Media Manager
KODI,
previously known as XBMC
is a media manager software available
for various Linux flavours. On the Raspberry it's available both as
installation package and as stand alone distribution. KODI is of
course capable of playing music and video both stored locally on a
remote DLNA source. In addition KODI allows installing a great
variety of add-on
modules to display, for example, YouTube videos or whether news.
Installing
KODI “port”
KODI
can be installed and integrated with RetroPie interface from RetroPie
set-up script.
sudo RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh
I
selected the “Manage packages” menu, then the “Optional
packages” one at last I selected “KODI” package in packages
list.
Then
the installation script started and I only hat to patiently wait its
conclusion.
