A solo project by Chris Hotchkiss, built for his kids.

The original motivation was very specific. The old family PS3 hardware had given up. The kids were still asking to play Skylanders. RPCS3 did the heavy lifting of emulating the console and the portal, but its UI is optimised for developers debugging an emulator, not for a six-year-old in front of a large TV. Every session started with a parent alt-tabbing to a Qt file dialog to pick a .sky file out of a long list of filenames. That was not sustainable.

This project is the fix: a phone interface the kids can drive themselves, with their own profiles so each kid’s figures carry their own save data, and enough guardrails that a sibling cannot accidentally wipe someone else’s Eruptor.

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Credits and attribution

  • Figure metadata, imagery, and canonical names come from the Skylanders Fandom wiki, which is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. Full attribution travels with the bundled data in data/LICENSE.md in the repo.
  • RPCS3 is the work of the RPCS3 project and its contributors. This project is not affiliated with RPCS3.
  • Skylanders characters, names, and trademarks are the property of Activision. This project ships no game content and encourages no piracy; it is a user-interface wrapper around an emulator users install themselves, operating on firmware backups users dump themselves.

License

Public domain. The project code is free to use, fork, or adapt. The attribution above covers the metadata and imagery specifically.