[Feature Request] Mounting of SMB shares directly within retroarch?
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Description
I just bought a Chromecast with Google TV and one of the things I want to try with it is emulation.
The CC/GTV has a quad-core processor but only 4 GB of storage, and I have a personal file server with ~1 TB of storage with roms on it. It'd be really cool if I could read roms directly from my server's storage and play them on my chromecast or another device on my network, without having to use more storage on those devices. I know there are ways I can root my device and mount the file system that way but having it work within retroarch would be a lot easier to use with something like the remote.
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by determining how RetroArch handles storage paths on Chromecast with Google TV and whether SMB access belongs in the frontend or platform integration; done means reading ROMs directly from the personal file server through the remote without local device storage.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- networking
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100