Several problems with Lakka. Please help

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#1

Please forgive me if this is in the wrong part of the forum, this is my first post.

I have a list of problems I really need help with:

1)When trying to download Lakka image to flash to USB stick, it downloads as extension *.img.gz What’s up wit that *.gz? Because of it, Win32 imager doesn’t see it when browsing, but if I remove this “gz”, and just leave *.img it looks like the image doesnt work at all. Either way, no matter which way I try ity, my computer doesn’t recognize this USB stick when flashing is finished. I am positive my computer is fine, my flash drive is fine, and well as the usb port.

2)If I try to use the “online updater” from within Lakka(I do have the old version installed) it gets to 15%, then drops to zero and starts over. This cycle continues again and again, but never finishes.

3)I cannot see Lakka network share in my Windows. I enables file sharing, nothing is blocking this, and yet it is not visible. I can transfer things through FileZilla, but I don’t want to use FileZilla if I don’t have to. If it matters, my main computer is a Windows 10 machine, and Lakka is installed on a old Dell Inspiron 6000 Laptop. If I go to my router settings, I can see than an ip is assigned to Lakka, but that doesn’t show in Lakka itself. If I go to the option for the ip address, Lakka just freezes and stays on that screen unless I reboot.

4)I did get a few SNES games to run using FileZilla, but they look like crap. Extremely pixelated, stretched, etc. I tried playing with video settings but there’s very few options. There is an option that sort of smooths out things called “HW Billeniar Filtering” but that makes things look unnatural. I want an experience at least somewhat close to how it was on SNES.

5)There is no Neo-Geo emulator? I thought there was? I am talking about the actual big console, not the pocket. I dont have it in the list.

I tried searching for answers to my questions in FAQ and forum, but cant find a working solution.

Thanks.

PS: Please don’t be an “internet forum snob” when answering, and try to understand what I already spent 6 hours trying to resolve all these issues, and I’m pretty upset as is.

#2

1.) .gz is a compression format called gzip. You can decompress it down to a regular img.

2.) that happens sometimes, usually with the thumbnails but sometimes with Lakka updates. We don’t really know why.

3.) Have you tried the steps on these pages? http://www.lakka.tv/doc/Accessing-Lakka-filesystem/ and http://www.lakka.tv/doc/Serving-ROMs-from-a-NAS/

4.) On an actual SNES, the image is only 256x224 pixels. On a typical HDTV, each SNES pixel is multiplied by 4-5 in each direction (i.e., ~20 pixels for each SNES pixel). So, it’s naturally going to a little weird. We have a bunch of shaders you can use to change the look of the output, though. When you have a game loaded, go into the quick menu > shader options > load shader preset and pick a shader preset. They’re dependent on your GPU, so the stronger your video card, the fancier the effects you can use.

5.) there’s no neogeo-specific emulator, but FB Alpha and MAME both run neogeo games. You just need to make sure you get games and the neogeo.zip from the romset that matches the core you choose to use. The neogeo.zip needs to be in the same folder as your games.

#3

Thank you.

Since I couldn’t update using the online feature, I updated to 2.1 manually from a flash drive. Now, Lakka wont boot at all. The flower appears, stays on for few seconds then screen goes black, and flower comes up just to reboot again. I am assuming the built in Intel Gfx are not compatible with the current Lakka build, but the older versions sure were compatible. Problem is, I don’t know what I had before!

How can I troubleshoot this issue?

#4

Intel graphics are typically fine. You could try installing 2.0 instead of 2.1 to see if it treats you any better. Does 2.1 boot to live USB okay for you?

#5

no it doesn’t. same boot loop thing. I installed 2.0 and still, I get the same thing.

I saw somewhere on the forums that I need to access a text editor and change display setting there. How do I access this editor if I cannot boot into Lakka?

#6

If Lakka is installed to the hard drive, you can load some other live linux distro, like ubuntu, and mount and access the files from the live session.

For the devboards like RPi, you can take the SD card and mount it on another machine to make the edits, but that’s not really an option in your case unless you want to pull the drive out and put it into an enclosure or whatever.