Getting Started

If you followed the steps in the installation you should have a up and running Advanced Emulator Launcher plugin. Now it is time to configure it.

Running AEL for the first time

The first time AEL runs a default configuration is created automatically. This configuration includes an empty category named Emulators. Every ROM or standalone launcher in AEL must be located into some category. In the next shot, a new category called Apps has been created:

Notice that on addition of the Categories, AEL also includes 3 special categories: <Favourites>, {ROM Collections} and the virtual launchers <Browse by Title>, '<Browse by Year>', <Browse by Genre> and <Browse by Studio>.

An important concept in Advanced Emulator Launcher is the context menu. In Kodi, you can acces this context menu by pressing the key C in your keyboard. For example, move the arrows, select the Apps category and press C to bring the context menu. You should see something like this:

From the context menu you have access to actions like editing the selected category, creating a new launcher inside that category, and open de addon settings. It is very important to note that the context menu in AEL changes depending if you have selected a category, a launcher, a ROM or a special category.

Next, it is time to create our first launcher!

Configuring a ROM launcher

Let's suppose you are running Kodibuntu and have installed Retroarch with the bsnes core to run SNES ROMs. In this example we will see how to configure AEL to launch your SNES ROMs.

1. First, create the ROMs directory.

2. Create the thumb/fanart directories.

3. Create the new launcher.

4. Finally, scan you ROMs.