Retroarch: Enable Discord's Rich Presence in RetroArch
Description
Well, yesterday Discord messenger launched its brand new Rich Presence API which allows users to send more detailed data about what they're playing (instead of the very simple MSN-like "Playing [game name]" used before) plus some naughty things like embedded/connected netplay, spectate and other data transmissions.
The game would be detected in a way like how retroachivements detect what game is running and set up its proper achivements.
More about Rich Presence
The full features possible with rich presence API are described here and here (thanks @RobLoach for the link).
EDIT: Here is a more detailed documentation, for developers. And a guide for users/players is here.
It would be awesome if retroarch could have support of this! Thanks in advance
vico93
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I agree, this could be something that is very nice to have. If you were to add it, 1 could be the icon of RetroArch. 2 could be the icon of the emulator you are using (or you could swap 1 and 2). 3 could display the name of the ROM you are using. And 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 could display Netplay stats. I don't know how this could be worked into RetroArch and it's just and idea for something that could be cool.
SkeletonsAreBad
on 28 Dec 2017
Rich Presence also allows you to host, join and spectate matches for games that have the integration. If someone were to implement this into Retroarch, it would be pretty revolutionary.
rogueyoshi
on 17 Jan 2018
The Rich Presence Discord API looks great. There's an example of using it in C asyncronously:
https://github.com/discordapp/discord-rpc/blob/master/examples/send-presence/send-presence.c
RobLoach
on 17 Jan 2018
Has this been worked on?
lilbud
on 4 Mar 2018
Good question! Discord itself added support for some games (and non-games software like Spotify); and the ones still without (like Minecraft) already have some mod to add RP too.
vico93
on 22 Mar 2018
@fr500 Think we could have it as HAVE_DISCORD, and bring in the dependencies during the build process? We should avoid having it on Buildbot, at least until its proven. Could even run it on a fork WIP.
RobLoach
on 22 Mar 2018
It looks like Dolphin has an active pull request for this feature: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/6983
saftle
on 28 May 2018
Dolphin recently had Rich Presence support officially merged.
https://dolphin-emu.org/download/dev/2cfdf89898c4689884fbffb1c693ec24a7083f66/?nocr=true
lilbud
on 26 Jun 2018
Is this still being worked on or nah?
FM1337
on 4 Aug 2018
We need somebody pushing it forward.
twinaphex
on 4 Aug 2018
Was that the final piece needed, or is there a bit more needed?
FM1337
on 5 Aug 2018
Closing this since it has been merged already
bparker06
on 7 Oct 2018
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Rich Presence also allows you to host, join and spectate matches for games that have the integration. If someone were to implement this into Retroarch, it would be pretty revolutionary.