Books and games

[mariner69 1]

Hello again everyone... I've successfully set up Emby on my Synology NAS... I've added all my media including books and games. Now, when I go to the book library it shows all the covers but I can't open a single book to read... media type is correctly set to books but no way... am I missing something?

Coming to games, I followed the guide I found here to set up game browser plugin .. It successfully get the plugin installed, I wanted to add arcade game system, so I did. I created the game directory and pointed the system to the rom folder. Made a scan, nothing happened. Tried to add the external player but could not find a way to add it. Now sitting with homepage showing a games library with nothing in it despite the library scan.

Running the latest emby server on DSM 7.2.2. 

I hope that someone can shed some light on these two apparently complicated topics

[Carlo 4560]

Neither of these library types are key features of Emby. They are both more of a categorizing feature than anything else.
They both require external programs to use. For books you download the book, then use a local book reader.
For gaming, it's basically limited to Emby Theater for Windows

It's been a while since I've tried Games in Emby but I think this would be the needed steps to get this setup and working.

• Install the GameBrowser Plugin: Go to the Emby server dashboard, navigate to Plugins > Plugin Catalog > Server > Gamebrowser, and click Install. Restart the server once the installation is complete.

• Set Up Game Folders: Organize your games into folders by platform. For example:

  Games > ATARI > Asteroids > Asteroids.a26
  Games > SNES > Donkey Kong Country > Donkeykongcountry.smc
  

  For MAME games, you can keep all .zip files in one folder.

• Configure Game Systems: On the server dashboard, go to Plugins > My Plugins > Gamebrowser and click + Add next to Game Systems. Choose the path to your game folders and select the appropriate platform.

• Add Games to Your Library: Navigate to Library > + Add Media Library, choose Games from the drop-down box, name your game library, and add the path to your ROOT games folder. The library scan will automatically detect your games.

• Set Up Emby Theater: Open Emby Theater, click on your profile icon, go to Settings > External Players > Add Player, and set the media type to Game. Enter the path to your emulator and the correct command line argument.

• Launch Games: Your games should now be available in Emby Theater, and you can launch them directly from there.

 Refer to this mega thread for any Gaming Questions

 

[Luke 42077]

@mariner69 has this helped?

[mariner69 1]

Hi Luke, nope… Emby does not fetch any metadata for games. Books covers do show up but as far as I understand I cannot read them from inside emby correct? Is just more like a catalog?

[Luke 42077]

On 1/31/2025 at 3:12 AM, mariner69 said:

Hi Luke, nope… Emby does not fetch any metadata for games. Books covers do show up but as far as I understand I cannot read them from inside emby correct? Is just more like a catalog?

Correct, but hopefully in future updates we will have that.