With the release of Plex Arcade today I’m personally releasing a utility for managing your emulation cores inside PMS on Windows and macOS. I’ll be regularly updating and polishing the tool over the next several weeks
I’d prefer this thread be limited to questions specifically for Core Manager
Troubleshooting
If you’re in a state where a core hasn’t downloaded or the app isn’t loading correctly it’s helpful to me to get a log file included in any support requests to help me narrow down and fix the issue. You can get logs as follows:
Windows:
Open File Explorer and paste %APPDATA%\core-manager\logs into the address bar.
macOS
Open Finder and navigate to `~/Library/Logs/core-manager/
In the logs directory you’ll find a main.log file. Grab that and upload it with any support request. (In a future release I’ll make getting logs easier).
What is this?
This Plex arcade thing while seems like a good idea I am really staggering to understand how to get it working seems very poorly thought out and executed I am having to look here and reddit and peace information to greater to try and get it working not really the best way to implement a service you want to charge for TBH, until its better documented and implements I have cancelled it already and its only been an hour!!!
Umm ok, shame it doesn’t work though I clicked to download a Megadrive thing and it grabs something but nothing happens after that Plex still wont play the game, the core app thing becomes unresponsive not very helpful really
I’ve considered it. I’m not looking to host or distribute anything myself. So if they’re available on libretro’s buildbot server I’ll look at building that out. If not I could, at minimum, include some sort of helpful info in the UI.
Well, spoke too soon. It works on the Mac with the Web server, but I get a Parsec Client error on the Apple TV that I’m wanting to play this on. Error code (-12007)
first off thanks for working so quickly to get something up and working to help easily extend Plex Arcade. I realise I’m probably an edge case here; I have plex installed to the root of my p:\ drive, and Core Manager for Plex Arcade doesn’t find the installation; yes, I know, installing to the root of a drive is just silly, but still…
Looking forward to a future update when it recognises or allows setting custom installation locations!
Looks like the links for N64 are broken, your core manager just downloads an empty zip file. I think this is because they are not found on libretro site but hopefully there is another option. Great application, really makes it easy to manage your cores.
I’m working on handling those cases better but ran out of time before the launch. I should have an update out soon that hides cores missing for a given architecture.
You can put the bios files alongside your game roms and they should be picked up when you start a game.
That’s possible. I’m able to stream 4K movies just fine on our network, so bandwidth doesn’t seem like the culprit. I wonder if there is a handshake issue with Parsec and the Apple TV/IPhone? When I launch a game, I get a blank screen for about 1 minute and then the error code.
