After more than a year of development published Distribution Release Lakka 3.0 , allowing to turn computers, telecases or single-board computers to a full-fledged game console to start retro games. The project is modifications LIBREELEC distribution, originally designed to create domestic cinemas. Build Lakka formed for i386 platforms, x86_64 (GPU Intel, NVIDIA or AMD), Raspberry PI 1 -4, Orange Pi, Cubieboard, Cubeboard2, CubiItruck, Banana Pi, Hummingboard, Cubox-I, Odroid C1 / C1 + / XU3 / XU4, etc. To install, it is enough to record the distribution kit on an SD card or a USB drive, connect the gamepad and download the system.
Based on Lakka lies the emulator of gaming consoles Retroarch , providing the emulation a wide range of devices and supporting such extended capabilities as multiplayer games, keeping the condition, improving the image quality of old games using shaders, rewind game back, hot connecting gamepads and video streamming. Among the emulated consoles: Atari 2600/7800 / Jaguar / Lynx, Game Boy, Mega Drive, Nes, Nintendo 64 / DS, PCengine, PSP, SEGA 32x / CD, Supernes, etc. The gamepads are supported from already available game consoles, including PlayStation 3, Dualshock 3, 8Bitdo, Xbox 1 and Xbox360.
The new release is built on the LIBREEELEC 9.2 batch database and is notable for the enable support for the VULKAN graphics API on systems with GPU AMD and Intel, as well as on Raspberry PI boards 4. Added support for Nintendo Joy-Cons game controllers. Support for new devices: Nintendo Switch, Odroid Go Advance, Anbernic RG351P / M, V / GameForce Chi and boards with IMX6 chips.
Emulator Retroarch updated to release 1.9.3, in which the screen keeper appears, the menu for paving blutooth devices, improved search and added Universal search for all playlists, simplified key redefinition and Added menu to configure CPU Governor.
Updated emulators and game engines connected in Retroarch. Added new emulators:
- Genesis Plus-GX Wide (Widescreen emulator for Sega Genesis / Megadrive).
- Stella (ATARI 2600 VCS emulator port)
- SUPAFAUST (SNES emulator option optimized for multi-core Arm platforms).
- SwanStation (PSX emulator).
- Lowres NX (RetroGame Console, programmable in Basic language).
- Mu (Palmos emulator).
- Opera (Fork Emulator 4DO / Freedo).