New to lakka, have some issues

Libretro Lakka
#1

Hi, I just installed lakka on my raspberry pi 2 and I’m using an SDTV for it. I have some issues

  1. How can I make the font bigger on the menus? I tried changing the DPI but that did nothing. The menus are barely readable on a SDTV
  2. I’m using a USB SNES like controller that has no Home button or L3 and R3, so I would like to change between the menu and game using START+SELECT. How could I configure it to do that?
  3. When I change options in the settings it doesn’t always save them after shutting it down and powering it on again, I have save on shutdown on, and I tried using the Save current config and Save new config commands. But I don’t know which one works and which doesn’t, it gets confusing. Going to Load Configuration doesn’t seem to work, it shows me 2 options, the second one says Directory not found and pressing it does nothing, the first one says retroarch.cfg and if i press that one it shows me the same thing but in another nested level so I can keep pressing it and it keeps advancing and then I have to press back several times until I get back to the beggining. Also when I do Save New Config it saves it with the name of the last core I used it instead of retroarch.cfg. What’s the right way to save and load the settings?

Thanks for the help

#2

You won’t be able to use lakka’s default XMB menu on an SDTV without difficulty, as you’ve found. Instead, switch to RGUI (or GLUI with DPI fiddling) in settings > driver > menu driver.

To do the menu combination, RetroArch doesn’t currently support combinations directly, so you’ll need to map select to ‘hotkey enable’ and then map the menu button to ‘start’. This disables the select button’s original functionality in some cores, though, so it’s not a perfect solution.

#3

Thanks for the answer hunterk. Would it be possible to map select to behave both as select and L3, and do the same with start as start and R3 in order to make select+start work as menu button?

#4

No, right now RetroArch’s input is confined to exactly 1-to-1. No support for 1-to-many or many-to-one, unfortunately.

#5

Hi supalex

  1. In the RPi2 config.txt, you can force an alternate resolution. i’m not sure it it can improve things, but it’s worth a try. What’s the resolution of your TV?
  2. In the input settings, you can switch the combo to Down+L1+R1+Y. If you really need it to be Start+Select, please fill a feature request on retroarch’s github issue tracker.
  3. We noticed this bug too. You can workaround it by using the Quit RetroArch entry that will force a save.
#6

Thanks for the tips Kivutar

  1. The TV is a common 480i CRT. The font looked bigger in the previous release, now it’s too small and the interlacing makes it really hard to read. I’m using an old monitor instead now with a VGA adapter and everything looks fine.
  2. I didn’t know about the Down+L1+R1+Y combo, it works fine but in the XMB menu it moves you down to the next option, nothing major and probably better than SELECT+START since some games may use that combination.
  3. Using Quit RetroArch seems to work fine and it reboots it so I find it better, I was using shutdown before.