Trying to make games work in Kodi. Not succeeding.



I’m pulling out my hair here guys.  I’ve tried lots of things to get games working.  I’ve downloaded retroarch.  I’ve downloaded individual emulators.  I’ve downloaded that Internet Archive addon.  I’ve spent wayyyy too much time on this.

I have made lots of progress, I have a menu item called games, I have a widget with each game system I care about, I can click on them and go straight to the games list for each system.

But no matter what I do I can’t seem to get any games to run.  Well, except for Atari 2600 games, they seem to run fine.  Every other system I try, I’ll choose a game, see the info screen, click Launch, and then get a black screen for a few seconds and then Kodi crashes.  No error message or anything.

I just wanna play some games, man.  What am I doing wrong?  It may be that I don’t have the BIOSes installed, but I tried using the BIOS tool and I got a bunch of red entries, so I’m not sure what to do now.  I thought the Retro BIOS tool would find the BIOSes for me but maybe not.

Can anyone help me troubleshoot?  I’m running Kodi on a Shield Pro.