Play games through Kodi

The Rom Collector Browser add-on enables you to transform Kodi into a hub for playing games, as well as accessing your media.

It supports standalone games, as well as emulator ROMs — these need to have been configured already (for example, through a GUI-friendly MAME variant, such as MAMEUI: www.mameui.info).

Assuming these are all in place, go to ‘Settings > File Manager’ and choose ‘Add Source’ to create a source pointing toward your game emulator folder (or parent folder, if multiple emulators are installed). Now install the Rom Collector Browser add-on via ‘Add-ons > Download > Program add-ons’. Once installed, launch it and choose Yes to create a config file. Choose the online option, followed by your platform, before pointing the addon to the emulator program folder containing your ROMs and artwork folder in turn. Once done, you can include additional ROM emulators if required, before reviewing the import settings and clicking ‘Import Games’.

The scrapers aren’t always accurate, so you may want to reconfigure Rom Collector Browser: Press the C key to bring up a menu, then select ‘Edit Rom Collection’ to make changes.