Plex Lifetime user, subscribed to Plex Arcade. Installed windows plex server, signed in, accessible via network, got past the “need chromium” and “rom directory” setup. When I go click on any game, I receive “An active Plex Arcade subscription is required for game playback. Error code: 8013 (Accou…

Same here. I just subscribed. Got a livingroom server (main server) and bedroom server (where all my roms are) but it will only let me play games from the livingroom server which means I will have to move all of my g** d**n roms to another computer. What a pain in the ass… If I try to launch games …

Can I suggest restarting your server?

We can only provide emulators that we are licensed for, however, there is nothing stopping you adding your own emulator cores, as mentioned in https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-game-files-and-cores/

Okay that solved the account issue. Now I am having transcoder issues. Keeps giving me this error “The game transcoder exited unexpectedly. Error code: 8005 (Game Server)” I tried switching cores and it made that error go away but the games are loading to blank screens. I got one snes game to load t…

The restart issue also solved it for me. However, there appears to be no way to “interact” with the game, it simply plays as as video. Some sort of hint showing how to interact with it would be helpful at this point.

Do you have a controller connected to the device your playing it on? From what they are saying, if you can connect a controller to it then it should “just work.”

Nope. Their FAQs state that a keyboard works, but it clearly doesn’t. The games play like a typical video game waiting for a quarter, but you cannot interact with them. I don’t think this product is quite ready for prime time. Their FAQs do state a keyboard works ( https://support.plex.tv/articles/…

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[image] flxstr: Their FAQs state that a keyboard works, but it clearly doesn’t Input and Controls - Libretro Docs This is RetroArch's document page, modification or development information outside of this repo may be incorrect. Some games require you …

Will you be more specific? ROM platform, core, etc. These are the keyboard mappings: https://docs.libretro.com/guides/input-and-controls/#default-retroarch-keyboard-bindings . In practice playing with a keyboard is difficult for most games; a modern controller is recommended.

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