Game platforms emulators on Xbmc/Openelec

Question

Is it possible to run emulators on Xbmc/Openelec? I am familiar with an addon "Rom Collection Browser" and as my understanding of this plugin is that it can launch various games with different emulators. However I haven't managed to do anything useful with it.

I have deduced that I need an emulator either on my raspberry PI or somewhere else remotely.

So my question is:

• what are some most recommended emulators on raspberry PI (I haven't found any)?
• or how could one run an remote emulator to play games on raspberry PI?

In both cases I'm thinking about some very basic emulators (SNES/MAME etc).

Answer 1

XBMC supports starting external applications like MAME arcade emulator from it. MAME on Pi: http://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/11/better-advancemame-debs-with-sound/ http://ipggi.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/mame-arcade-game-fun-with-a-raspberry-pi/ http://www.newsdownload.co.uk/pages/RPiMameGpioJoystick.html