I have been able to get Arcade loaded natively on a windows machine, and it is working with only a couple of the usual bugs, which I can see these getting ironed out in further updates.
My suggestion is, can roms get an option “download to device” and play natively? I know this pretty much overruns the need for parsecs, but it seems to be the hangup for a greater experience.
Playing these titles on an emulator app vs streaming them is a vastly better experience, haveing been doing it for years, but I digress. Just curious if this was ever discussed. Thank you all for your hard work and dedication.
In the future, you might imagine that sort of an option existing, but the issue is it would be pretty limited in terms of device support; it could never work on tvOS or iOS, e.g. because of licensing.
So our goal for now is to make it work as well as possible across the widest range of devices possible using streaming tech. We realize that some people absolutely need local emulation, infinitely customized, and those people might be better served setting up their own retroarch, for now at least
Now you’ve got me wondering if some kind of configurable outbound API (webhook, os-call, command line, whatever) in the web client might satisfy those of us who want Plex UI as a front end to any old emulator (like retroarch, emulationstation, hyperspin etc) and don’t mind endless tinkering to make it work.
(I’m mostly kidding as then people would just moan about why the library scan didn’t support every type of content)
