Zaparoo is a system to use physical tokens (often NFC cards) to launch games. Well, they can do more than that, but that’s the main use-case.
Lakka is a very lightweight system with just enough stuff to run RetroArch, and no extra bloat. It is available to many platforms, more than other alternative OSes. It would be great to be able to plug an NFC reader via USB and use Zaparoo to launch games inside RetroArch/Lakka.
Combine Zaparoo core with the kiosk features of Lakka, and we get a nice system to let kids use, and to let people use in parties. A simple “locked down” system that won’t require people messing with menus.
Zaparoo could be considered “bloat”, but I think it’s very relevant to the Lakka project, and I believe it won’t add more than 20MB to the image. However, I understand if this could be considered too large.