After more than a year of development, the release of the Lakka 3.1 distribution has been published, allowing computers, set-top boxes, or single-board computers to be turned into a full-fledged gaming console for running retro games. The project is a modification of the LibreELEC distribution, originally aimed at creating home theaters. Lakka builds are made for platforms i386, x86_64 (Intel, NVIDIA, or AMD GPUs), Raspberry Pi 1-4, Orange Pi, Cubieboard, Cubieboard2, Cubietruck, Banana Pi, Hummingboard, Cubox-i, Odroid C1/C1+/XU3/XU4, and more. To install, simply write the distribution to an SD card or USB drive, connect a gamepad, and boot the system.
At the core of Lakka is the RetroArch gaming console emulator, which provides emulation for a wide range of devices and supports advanced features such as multiplayer gaming, save states, enhancing the visual quality of old games using shaders, rewinding gameplay, hotplugging gamepads, and video streaming. Emulated consoles include Atari 2600/7800/Jaguar/Lynx, Game Boy, Mega Drive, NES, Nintendo 64/DS, PCEngine, PSP, Sega 32X/CD, SuperNES, and others. Gamepads from existing gaming consoles, including PlayStation 3, Dualshock 3, 8bitdo, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 1, and Xbox360 are supported.
In the new release:
- New versions of emulators and game engines have been added.
- New emulators included: beetle-saturn, bsnes2014, snes9x2002, snes9x2005, and snes9x2005_plus.
- Improved support for the Nintendo Switch and Raspberry Pi 4.
- The port for Odroid XU3 and XU4 has been fully completed.
- The RetroArch package, updated to version 1.9.4, now includes support for battery charge indication.
- The Mesa package has been updated to version 21.1.1.
- Dolphin and PPSSPP emulators (Raspberry Pi 4, Generic 64-bit, Nintendo Switch) now have Vulkan API support enabled by default.
Source: opennet.ru
