Frontrow under Mountain Lion it works!

Question

A lot of people want frontrow back, which has been removed since LION.
To get Frontrow running under Mountain Lion 10.8.2: here are the instructions that worked on the two macs I tested:
Copy these files from a snow-leopard installation (e.g. your backup) to the appropriate folders in Mountain Lion:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/BackRow.framework
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iPhotoAccess.framework
Confirm the copy process by typing in your password when required.
Open Apple Script Editor and type in:
#launch Front Row
tell application "/System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app"
  launch
end tell
tell application "System Events"
  key code 53
end tell
Save this as an Application. Store the created App in your Application folder end enjoy!
As usual, music files do not play, but all other things work beautiful. This is due to the fact that the actual iTunes Versions use a different Library format.

Answer 1

I just found a similar solution and was coming here to find more info.
To get Front Row to work under LION (not Mountain Lion), the following files were needed (Note: I got this info from elsewhere months ago, but I don't remember where.)
/System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/BackRow.framework
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iPhotoAccess.framework
/System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.RemoteUI.plist
/Applications/Front Row.app
When I updated to Mountain Lion today, all those files were still in place, but the app no longer worked.
BUT... Similarly to what you found, I noticed that if I manually launched the Front Row app that's in
/System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app
It launched the app! - NOT the one that was in my applications folder, but the one in the above directory. Once that was launched, I clicked "ESC" and was in.
- Pretty much the same solution as above, but done manually without the applescript.
HOWEVER, I'm only able to control the app and watch movies with the keyboard. I'd like to control it with the IR remote like before, but that's not working.
Any idea how to enable that?