Hi, is there any way to add a custom menu item to RA menu? I’d like to launch a system script from the GUI. I have Lakka setup in dual boot config and would like to have ability to quickly reconfigure the bootloader and reboot into other OS.
There’s a third party core called libretro-bash-launcher that you can manually build and sideload into lakka that will allow you to run scripts.
The github repo is easy to find with Google.
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This looks really good. Thank you!
Alright I managed to get libretro-bash-launcher working. A few notes:
- it’s easy to build no external dependencies
- you have to run Run the script as if it was a game
- you can add scripts to favorites
- you can scan a folder of scripts into playlist with Manual Scan then edit playlist file to add pretty display names
- if you add something to PATH in
~/.profileit won’t be taken into account here so remember to use absolute paths for extra stuff like~/bin - launching scripts acts a bit funny because there is video mode switch when core is started and stopped
- it takes quite a bit longer for reboot script to restart the system compared to when it is executed directly; the core even returns to menu for a few seconds before restart happens
Overall it’s not a bad hack although having direct scripting support in RA would be a lot better!
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HI! can you make an step by step guide? I have tried to get it working but my lakka doesn’t recognize the scripts .sh and the core 
I fallow the guide from the original github page https://github.com/SwedishGojira/libretro-bash-launcher
Perhaps you compiled core on your x86-64 PC and then copied to your ARM device? Then it’s not going to work because of different architecture. You need to setup cross compilation toolchain before building. I don’t know what system you’re using it’s very easy on Debian-based distro:
apt install gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu
And then build with
CC=aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc make