Megathread: "Which ROMs work with Lakka?"

Libretro Lakka
#15

Hello :smiley:

To create a new topic under Lakka, follow the link below and you should see a round blue button in the bottom right corner of the page (providing that you’re logged in), click on that and you should be good to go.

Link: https://forums.libretro.com/c/libretro/lakka-tv-general

What hardware and version are you using?

I’m still using the Christmas build on my rpi3. If a game tells me to insert another disc, i pull up the emulator options, scroll down to “Disk Control” and click ok, which brings up the option “Disk Image Append”, click on that and then all thats left to do then is find the disc image, and click on the .cue file.

Hope that helps :slight_smile:

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#16

Thanks. I can’t find the disk control option (even using rgui) on lakka x86_64 I managed to create a m3u for PlayStation and it does work (at least is loading the games so I guess that I’d only know finishing a psx disk) but I said, I don’t see any disk control option I did saw it on several videos about retropie but not in Lanka.

Thanks!

#17

The disk control option is in the quick menu.

#18

I still can’t find it on quick menu. The option is no there, but i managed to run PSX games with cue files and playlists as i read on another post and works flawlessly.

I build a mini itx quad core pc, -just mid end with integrated graphics- and everythings runs smooth. A BEAUTY.

Thanks for the responses and i excuse myself for the late response, i’ve been working a lot and i came back yesterday to this small ‘‘project’’ and i’m sorting the dreamcast games now trying to use playlists.

anyway, i still cant find a way to change the disc on the sega CD and 3DO games.

Until now, lakka did all by itself, but it wont recognize some roms. (for some of them the reasons are clear on the documentation) is a bit crazy with mame, but i converted the games to FB with some tools and most of them (at least my favorites) are working.

I will try to use a m3u list for 3DO and sega CD and i will give a look to the menu to see if i find any option to swap the disc.

#19

yep. Unfortunately, because of this new method, I have moved on to other platforms.

Same here. Moved from Lakka because of this method of generating playlists. Not to “necrobump” this thread, but this goes totally at the wrong direction of the “Easy to Use” principles of Lakka, managing roms that way.

I also think that the Old way of generating playlists should be available(one folder mapped to one core). It is frustrating when you copy a bunch of ROMs and you have to deal with adding manually roms to your playlist.

#20

I can offer two updates that are relevant to your critique:

  1. New experimental MAME playlist scanning will be part of the next Lakka release. If you are intrepid and want to try to manually add these MAME databases to your current Lakka installation there is a thread about it.
  2. There is now a bounty building up to implement a new “Alternate Playlist Scanning Method” which is probably what you are hoping for. Unfortunately there is only $15 on the bounty right now – if anyone reading this has a few dollars to contribute, that might help.
#21

Thanks for this additional info markwkidd.

After some digging, i have found these scripts that should work on indexing not recognized roms, since my problem is not only with MAME but also when creating playlists that have some SNES custom ROMS… I’ll try this at home.

This bounty you have linked seems interesting, but in my modest opinion, a more “direct” approach would be "folder X -> core X, folder Y -> core Y, scan databases for game metadata, and do not ignore those games without info, creating playlist entry with only the ROM name’. This method is used by 2 other systems and to me, they are “fine” to be used when i configure Rpi3 boxes to my friends :slight_smile:

#22

Thanks for the link to hdbreaker’s script, I have not seen that one and I thought I knew about all the playlist scripts out there!

If you’re using Windows on your main PC, Playlist Buddy has a GUI and a similar featureset.

Thanks also for the flowchart on folder-based scanning. That is pretty intuitive. Would you be interested in adding it to the github issue as a new comment? Or do you mind if I add it as a new comment, in case that turns out to be more viable?

#23

It will be great if you could add this info to the issue, since you have a better view of the entire subject.

I know Lakka has it’s ways to manage playlists, but a more simple approach would make the project more attractive.

I see so much more potential cause i had a better out-of-the box experience than other retrogaming projects with PS3 controllers, resource consumption and retroachievements integration, that having a better playlist management infrastructure will make libretro+lakka my 1st choice.

#24

Definitely, a better way to manage playlists would be great!

Right now the sheer amount of snes roms I have crashes Lakka when I pass it in the XMB.

That needs to be fixed.

#25

hi i have an old netbook specs atom d425 2gb ram gma 3150 and 500gb hdd would be nice to use this os in on this old netbook as a retro gaming pc but i wanted to know what systems will run on this old netbook thanks

#26

Hi All, I’m new to Raspberry Pi (3b+) and Linux in any variant but am slowly learning. I’ve had little to no troubles with PSX, SNES, NES and Sega MS but big headaches with N64 (researching that now). Which makes me ask, what other consoles are a struggle for Newbies? Sega Saturn, Dreamcast or Game Cube?

#27

Why lakka 2.2 on RPi2 does not have citra and dolphin core?

#28

because RPi2 is much too weak to run them.

#29

Not to be rude but, will gamelists still be based on “Known Roms” on Lakka? Lakka team has any interest on making gamelists based on 1:1 folders x cores instead of rom checksums?

#30

I just got a Raspberry Pi 4 and I know that Lakka is in Alpha for this system, but I wanted to try. I downloaded from here: http://nightly.builds.lakka.tv/Lakka-LE9.2/latest/RPi4.arm. Is that correct? When I boot, and then go to my Windows 10 pc, it shows the LAKKA network share, and contains 14 items: Backup, Configfiles, Downloads, Emulators, etc., but no Roms folder. What am I missing?

#31

You should be able to just make a ROMs folder in there. Where it looks for ROMs is dictated by the ‘file browser’ location in settings > directory, so you should be able to point it wherever you want

#32

Good to know about the setting. But I think it’s a list of samba shares, so I don’t think I can just create a Roms folder.

What I want to know is, why is it not there to start with, especially when all the tutorials just say to browse to the roms folder and put games there, don’t say anything about the possibility that it won’t be listed as a samba share.

#34

HI im new here but i cant seem to find how to post a new thread. im sure this has been answered somewhere before. but i cannot get Lakka 2.3.1 to boot to my old PC’s from USB i’ve googled and seen other forms and answers and it appears to be an issue with the 64bit version of the image file. is there anything i can do or can i use the 32bit version on a 64 bit system?

#35

Hi,

Any chance of getting Apple 2 emulator included in Lakka? I think retropie includes it.

Thanks,

Jussi