Why is Lakka so complicated to use?

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#36

No problem :slight_smile:
Do you have a crc checking utility installed?

I checked with Adventure (USA).a26 and there was no problem, so maybe you have not ā€œno-introā€ verified roms. Further i think ā€œno-introā€ is using only the *.sfc version of SNES roms, so your checksum may be wrong as well.

$ crc32 Adventure\ \(USA\).a26 
a6db4b3a

Final Fantasy II (USA) (Rev 1).sfc https://datomatic.no-intro.org/?page=show_record&s=49&n=0795

The only possibility is adding your games manually to a playlist or searching/dumping correct roms.

#37

I have default Lakka, no idea of that crc cheking utility thing. Is possible to edit the checksum in order to make it able to see the smc and a26 files?

#38

Checksum is a calculated value that is used to determine the integrity of data. Checksum serves as a unique identifier for the data (a file, a text string, or a hexadecimal string). If the data changes then so does the checksum value. This makes it easy to verify the integrity of the data.

So no, this canā€™t be changed.

If you are on Windows, you can use the 7z GUI for checking crc32 values.
You have to pack your rom (zip, 7z, rar, doesnā€™t matter) and in the archive-view of the GUI you will see the crc-sum of the rom

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[on LINUX you have all the shiny command line tools for this :wink: ]

#39

So Iā€™m stuck to search SFC extension roms. Thanks for the help.

#40

From experience it is probably a header on your *.smc roms. To remove the header you can try NSRT 3.4 (you find it on romhacking.net)

#41

bsnes used to pack a tool called ā€œsnespurify.exeā€ which converts .smc to .sfc by stripping headers and whatnot. Here is the last version (for Windows): bsnes_v087-64bit or bsnes_v087-32bit.

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#42

or you can just launch it manually, without making a playlist

#43

Found a nice web with tons of SFC roms, so thatā€™s solved. Wondering why my Atari .A26 roms does not appear.

#44

Wondering, what can be wrond with the A26 files?

#45

Hi natinusala, Perhaps it is my search skills, but I canā€™t find a bounty for the Bluetooth GUI. Iā€™d like to contribute. Can you point me to it?

#46

perhaps a good solution to this ā€œcomplicated to useā€ problem is to ship lakka with several ā€œdefaultā€ retroarch.cfg and upon first boot let the user choose which one to use. you could have several pre-made configs for beginners, intermediate and advanced users, that would pre-setup retroarch for each type of user. the script could also pre-create folders inside of roms dir.

#47

No, that is not a good solution. Better would be configure the software as easy as possible and let more advanced users change these settings via config or via a ā€œadvanced settingsā€ menu.

#48

In my experience Retropie seemed a bit easier to use than Lakka OS, Emulators in general have been a learning experience. There is Ludo OS but from what I have seen it still has a ways to go, some help would be appreciated with it.

When I started with Lakka there was not many tutorials for it, the info and documentation was out of date and still overwhelming to me. Some of the documentation on Lakka.tv is still out of date.

Ive kinda accepted it, I still find myself asking questions and looking up solutions. The guys from Lakka team answer questions of mine as well but it seems like they are stretched thin and are doing quite a lot on their own

Luckily there are more people making tutorial videos to help out there. A tutorial on updating for example. Itā€™s on Odysee and you can see the channel for more

#49

I know itā€™s an old thread, but Iā€™d add:

  • Why do I have to pick a core every time I start a game?

That seems unnecessary. Iā€™ll just select the same core per console every time. Besides there are some cores that are just too slow and too choppy, and I donā€™t even know why they are included.

#50

you can associate a playlist with a core in settings > playlist

#51

Older Lakka had default cores set for all playlists, which was very useful. Unfortunately in an overhaul of how playlists were managed in Retroarch, the ability to do this was removed, so Lakka devs cannot set default cores now.

IMHO playlist management is much better now, but sadly being able to set default cores was a useful feature that hasnā€™t been reimplemented.

#52

A post was merged into an existing topic: How can i create a new topic? :confused:

#53

Hello, my second posting here. Iā€™m new here. i am from hanover, germany (City of CeBIT). My english is ok, i hope you understand my words.

For me Lakka is easy to use, it looks like an older playstation layout, and yes there is a ā€œlearning curveā€. Ok i am a IT Nerd, and much things are easy for me, but i registred here over my github here at lakka Forum, because there are problems - you need solving from lakka specialists. :smiley:

BR Steev

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#54

Lakka and retroarch are very simple, they just have many options which you may also ignore and just download a core and play. I much prefer this than something like lemuroid.

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#55

Connecting Bluetooth controllers directly to Lakka is very spotty. I ended up just using an 8BitDo wireless USB adapter, and that works much better.