Plex Aracde

[Tribe Fan]

It looks like Plex is now a player in the gaming front end race:

https://www.plex.tv/arcade/

I’ve been using Plex about as long as HyperSpin and always thought it’d be a great platform for running retro games. Did not see this ever happening though. It definitely doesn’t have the eye candy of HyperSpin or Big Box, but the fact it uses libretro cores to launch adds a lot of extra functionality from within the frontend (I’ve never understood why other frontends don’t use libretro cores to bypass the whole extra layer of an ahk powered launcher). The ability to stream games is an intriguing feature too.

Would love to see HyperSpin take this approach with future updates. It could still allow for the ability to add external emus, but use libretro cores by default. 

[Spawk]

Monthly fee is a total fail in my opinion... also you still need an ahk module to run RA, it's no different from any other emulator.

[Tribe Fan]

The monthly fee does suck. It’s not using RetroArch at all though. It’s basically taking the place of RetroArch as the frontend for libretro cores.