Hi!,
I’m new with Raspi and Lakka so sorry if this is a silly question. I would like to know if it’s possible to add a joystick like this https://learn.adafruit.com/retro-gaming-with-raspberry-pi/buttons to Lakka and what would be the steps to do it.
The author of that post wrote a program to make it work but I don’t know if that would work with Lakka.
BR, poxyran
It should work fine with Lakka. It’s just a program that listens for activity on the GPIO pins and translates it to keyboard events. Once they’re keyboard events, RetroArch can handle them just fine. You’ll need to set it up to launch the program before RetroArch loads, which I know is possible but I’m not familiar with the particulars.
Regardless, tying into the GPIO pins is more complicated than just getting a USB arcade stick or a prebuilt keyboard encoder, such as an I-PAC, so if you’re willing to trade a little extra money for time saved, I would probably go that route instead.