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Current state of RetroArcher #254
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Most of you have probably noticed that RetroArcher (.bundle version) has not had much activity in a while. The project is not dead, but it won't continue to exist in it's current form.
The project is quite complex as it ties many services together (i.e. Plex, Tautulli, RetroArch, Cemu, RPCS3, Android via ADB, etc.), The project is partially coded in an unsupported Python 2.7 due to the Plex plugin framework, and the remainder coded in Python 3.x. The documentation is confusing for the average user, and the steps required to actually get it working are extensive.
This was also my first real programming project beyond a simple batch/bash script, so there are many things that were just not done well... but the project was still quite innovative in my opinion, doing some things that haven't been done before. Some of these are:
The vision for RetroArcher is still there and to help us achieve our goals, we took over maintenance of Sunshine. If you're in our Discord server, you have probably noticed that most of the activity there is dedicated to Sunshine at this point. Since we took over Sunshine, many improvements have been made that will help RetroArcher in the future. For one, support for more platforms and distros was added.
Adding those platforms to Sunshine, gives a path for RetroArcher to also function on a variety of different server OSes besides just Windows.
RetroArcher is now being developed as a server application. Progress can be followed here: https://github.com/LizardByte/RetroArcher/tree/nightly
In the coming days, RetroArcher.bundle will be renamed RetroArcher-plex and will soon stop functioning altogether.
Thank you for your support.
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