Newb LAKKA questions Part 2

Libretro Lakka
#1

Here’s a refresher course on my situation:

I’m new to Lakka, Linux, and Retroarch emulation. I’ve got a Lenovo Q180 nettop box with an Intel Atom D2700 cpu clocked at 2.13 Ghz and 4Gb of DDR3-1066 RAM. It also has a ATI Radeon HD 6450A discrete graphics card clocked at 625 Mhz with 512Mb of RAM. Here are my new issues.

  1. Is there a good guide somewhere, for all the settings you can play with, to make the different emulator cores run better? Most of this stuff is new jargon for me.

  2. I’ve downloaded thumbnail art, from within Lakka, for Sega 32X and Game Gear, but the icons for the game controllers and the game cartridges are not displaying. The box art is displayed properly , but the other icons are black.

  3. How do I map a controller from within a game? When I open the controls menu during a game it seems like all the buttons are locked on “auto: xxxxx” for example. I can’t seem to remap them.

  4. Really choppy sound and slow performance in Virtual Jaguar. Is this not a well developed core? I know my little pc is pathetic, but it should be able to handle Jaguar. Not sure what I can tweak in that one.

  5. Is there a way to slow games down? Super Mario Bros had fast music and game clock.

Well that’s all I got. Any help is greatly appreciated.

#2

docs.libretro.com has info on most options.

Make sure your assets are updated.

Use the quick menu’s “controls” menu to move the core’s buttons around on the retropad abstraction. That is, you map your physical pad to the retropad in settings > input (or let the autoconfiguration handle it if you have a supported pad) and then move the core’s buttons around using that controls menu.

Virtual Jaguar core is slow.

That usually means you have a problem with vsync and/or audio sync. If you have both of those are enabled and it’s still too fast, try going to settings > frame throttle > maximum run speed and change it to 1.0x