[Beta] ROMote – play your retro game collection in the browser (NES → PlayStation)

[Cappie76 0]

Thanks you

[GrimEvil 109]

@digitalironythat fixed it and all my stuff now shows up correctly, thanks!

Now on to another issue

3DO, PlayStation, mega drive controllers all have 3, 4 or more buttons on the controllers, but when you play using this setup you only have two a,b buttons on the web controller, if possible it needs to show more depending on the emulator, as it makes some roms unplayable. 

Thats it for now of course

 

Edited October 22 by GrimEvil

[digitalirony 36]

14 hours ago, GrimEvil said:

@digitalironythat fixed it and all my stuff now shows up correctly, thanks!

Now on to another issue

3DO, PlayStation, mega drive controllers all have 3, 4 or more buttons on the controllers, but when you play using this setup you only have two a,b buttons on the web controller, if possible it needs to show more depending on the emulator, as it makes some roms unplayable. 

Thats it for now of course

 

@GrimEvil thanks for flagging the controls. You were right, most systems were falling back to a basic two-button pad. 1.0.1.7 is out and gives every system its own controller:

Mega Drive / Genesis, Sega CD, 32X: full 6-button pad (A B C / X Y Z) plus Mode
Saturn: A B C / X Y Z with L and R
3DO: A B C, L, R, Play and Stop
PlayStation: triangle, circle, square, cross, L1/L2/R1/R2, Start and Select
N64: the D-pad now works as the analog stick (how far you push matters), plus C-buttons, Z, L and R
ColecoVision, Atari 5200, Jaguar: number keypads, which a lot of those games need to get past the title screen
Arcade: 6 buttons plus Coin and Start
WonderSwan and Virtual Boy: their second D-pad
You can also press two buttons at once with one thumb: put it between two neighbouring buttons and both register. In Mario, hold B to run and roll your thumb toward A to jump without letting go of B.

The emulator’s own generic on-screen pad (the one with just A and is now switched off completely, so you should only ever see ROMote’s controls. If you still get only A and B on PlayStation after updating, please post a screenshot and say which device and browser you’re using. That would mean the built-in pad is still getting through somewhere.

Multi-touch is also more reliable now: holding the D-pad plus a couple of buttons at once works, and tapping quickly no longer zooms the page on iPhone.

After updating the plugin, restart Emby and reload any game page you had open. Let me know how it feels, especially if the two-buttons-at-once zone is too easy or too hard to hit.

[GrimEvil 109]

Next thing

Some of the emulators do not get an icon, example below

Other ones do

that it for now of course

[GrimEvil 109]

@digitalironyother question

For the missing systems I used my own icons for now but.....

Am I currently missing any supported system/rom set ?

Also, the controller change so far is perfect,  thank you 

[kjhedges 69]

Loving the Plugin.  Working well

I have a query with regards the Date Added on games when they are added. I see that 99% of them have the data added as 24|12|1996 22:30:59 so in the latest media on homescreen they obviously dont show up as latest.  

As also mentioned above, we really could do with the Play button in the same place as for normal media. 

I have setup these platforms so far and populated them all with roms ect and everything is working fine. I have to use Chrome instead of Firefox to play games though.
I have some users who have played games on their phones too, bot sure on what phones though, just know that both Android and Iphone (later models work)

I also have a personal Emby to Discord bot plugin that sends rich embeds for new content, now playing ect.  Is there a way that you can have emby register in Dashboard when a game is started.  

[kjhedges 69]

I managed to inject the play button up top

[GrimEvil 109]

13 hours ago, kjhedges said:

I managed to inject the play button up top

But does that work just in the browser or across mobile apps as well, this was the issue originally, All we need now is away for it to work on android tv etc where their is no brower

 

[kjhedges 69]

3 hours ago, GrimEvil said:

But does that work just in the browser or across mobile apps as well, this was the issue originally, All we need now is away for it to work on android tv etc where their is no brower

 

For the cartridge games, it worked on later IOS, web and android (Not TV)
with the disc games needing the bios rom, it fails.