Switching to the XMB/PlayStation Portable-like interfaceīy default, the GPi build of Lakka defaults to the RGUI interface. As long as you’re connected to the internet, Lakka will automatically get the images for you. You don’t need to put those in by yourself: just go to the Online Updater menu and toggle the on-demand thumbnails downloader on. If something didn’t get scanned, you can reach the /storage/playlists/ folder and add games by yourself.Īll of your scraped games can also have thumbnails and boxart attached to them. There are three ways to scrape everything you have uploaded:Ģ) with the Load Content menu by pressing the Y button over a button or folder you want to scan,ģ) by manually launching the game from the Load Content menu. Any game that was successfully scanned will be added to an appropriate playlist. RetroArch and, by extension, Lakka have a built-in set of databases for recognizing ROMs based on their checksum. The naming of the folders doesn’t matter as much as it does in RetroPie, but having games sorted by platforms is good practice for keeping everything easily navigatable outside RetroArch. Go to /storage/roms and upload your collection of games there. If everything went right, you shall gain access to Lakka’s filesystem. Using an SCP client, connect to Lakka using this IP address, SCP as the web protocol, 21 as the port, and root as both the login and the password. If everything’s done correctly, you should see your GPi’s local IP address, marked as (wlan0). After that, go back to the Lakka tab and choose Information -> Network Information. Make sure you’re connected to a Wi-Fi hotspot first, then enable SSH in Settings -> Services.
Just use the Wi-Fi menu in Settings, and type in the hotspot password using the onscreen keyboard. Lakka doesn’t require a wpa_nf file or an external keyboard to connect to a given Wi-Fi hotspot. You need an SD card that’s eight gigabytes or bigger, but you still can use the exact same tools you did for installing RetroPie. Get the latest official Lakka image for the GPi Case here. an optimal way to play games that are more demanding on the CPU, such as PlayStation, arcade machines and ScummVM games that run at a resolution higher than 320x240,.
a set of emulators with a (nearly) universal set of features, such as control remapping, savestates, rewind and netplay.a more seamless way to get into the game and back, utilizing the same menus across the board,.
an alternative to RetroPie that boots up much quicker: using Raspberry Pi 0W as an example, RetroPie takes ~40 seconds to get to the menu, while Lakka clocks at 30 seconds with the XMB menu driver and 28 with RGUI,.Lakka is a JeOS (Just Enough Operating System) based on LibreELEC, with RetroArch performing as both the frontend and the backend.