Published release distribution Lakka 3.3 , allows you to turn the computers, set-top boxes or single-board computers into a fully fledged gaming console to launch retro games. The project is the modification distribution LibreELEC, originally designed for home theater. Assembly Lakka formed platforms i386, x86_64 (GPU Intel, NVIDIA, or AMD), Raspberry Pi 1 -4, Orange Pi, Cubieboard, Cubieboard2, Cubietruck, Banana Pi, Hummingboard, Cubox-i, Odroid C1 / C1 + / XU3 / XU4 etc. To install the distribution is sufficient to write to SD-card or USB-drive, plug in a gamepad and boot the system.
In Lakka based on the emulator gaming consoles RetroArch , provides emulation wide variety of devices and supporting advanced features such as a multiplayer game, the state of preservation, improvement in image quality of older games at shaders, games rewind, hot plugging and gamepads strimming video. Among emulated consoles: Atari 2600/7800 / Jaguar / Lynx, Game Boy, Mega Drive, NES, Nintendo 64 / DS, PCEngine, PSP, Sega 32X / CD, SuperNES etc. Gamepads are supported by existing video game consoles, including the Playstation 3, the Dualshock 3, 8bitdo, Nintendo Switch, XBox 1 and XBox360.
In a new release:
- Package RetroArch updated to version 1.9.7, which is optimized scanning of large data sets, added support for multiple bind game controllers to a single input device, and improved usability in the mode “Analog to Digital Type”.
- Updated versions of emulators and game engines. Added a new emulator np2kai (PC-98). In Dolpin emulator implemented catalog of dolphin-emu / Sys, referring to the system directory RetroArch.
- Added support for MIDI-sequencer.
- Added support for kernel module “gamecon” (driver gamepads and joysticks connected to the parallel port).
- 4K modes disabled To Raspberry Pi.