[Question] Would Lakka Run on this?

Libretro Lakka
#1

Hey Guys!,

How are you?. First of all thanks for reading this, let me tell you my story: Some time ago, I bought a small present for my parents that wanted to mostly watch youtube videos on their LCD TV. The present was a “Noganet Smart TV Box”. It doesn’t do crap, honestly, its a piece of wasted hardware. It comes with an Android image (probably some wacked 4.x) that is full of bugs and 90% of the things you try to do it will fail miserably. Right now it is piling up dust on a corner, and I came across Lakka and tthink It can be salvaged onto a decent retro-gaming console :smiley: thanks to this project.

I don’t have physical access to it right now but I know for sure it has an ARM Cortex-A9 processor and probably a Mali-400 GPU, which is kinda standard for most of this “Smart TV Box”, I noticed that lakka has a Stable “cubieboard2” image which basically runs on ARM Cortex-A7 and a Mali-400 too…

So… do you guys think it will run? Any further info or tips I could gather to check for compatibility before just trying?.

Thanks!

#2

You can certainly try it, but it would need to have an accessible/unlocked bootloader, etc., which many android boards don’t have.

#3

Thanks for the tip, I forgot about that (my Samsung phone has that same issue and cant get Cyanogen in there). I guess I’ll have to open it up and look up the board number to dig further, completely forgot about that detail, thanks!.

#4

hunterk is right, you need to know if your TV has an u-boot branch somewhere, or another bootloader.

You will certainly need a specific kernel, and specific gpu blobs too.

Try to find a linux distro that support this TV, and if you find one, then you can port Lakka to it.