The distribution kit Lakka 4.0 has been released, allowing you to turn computers, set-top boxes or single-board computers into a full-fledged game console for running retro games. The project is a modification of the LibreELEC distribution, originally designed to create home theaters. Lakka builds are generated for i386, x86_64 (Intel, NVIDIA or AMD GPUs), Raspberry Pi 1-4, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Hummingboard, Cubox-i, Odroid C1/C1+/XU3/XU4, etc. platforms. To install, just write the distribution to an SD card or USB drive, connect a gamepad and boot the system.
Lakka is based on the RetroArch game console emulator, which emulates a wide range of devices and supports advanced features such as multiplayer games, state saving, image quality enhancement of old games using shaders, game rewind, hot plugging of 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, etc. Gamepads from existing game consoles are supported, including Playstation 3, Dualshock 3, 8bitdo, Nintendo Switch, XBox 1 and XBox360.
In the new release:
- The system environment has been updated to the LibreELEC 10.0.2 package base (the previous branch was based on LibreELEC 9.x).
- The RetroArch package has been updated to version 1.10.1.
- Updated versions of emulators and game engines. The composition includes new engines superbroswar and sameduck.
- The Mesa package has been updated to version 22.0. The Linux kernel has been updated to version 5.10.103.
- Most builds for ARM devices have been converted to use the aarch64 architecture.
- Added support for additional devices based on Allwinner and Amlogic chips.
- Completely rewritten port for the Nintendo Switch game console.
Source: opennet.ru