Using Lakka to build a Raspberry Pi as a universal game console

Recently found a fun thing, Lakka, what is it? It is a game simulator, but not those simple game simulator, it can play a lot of games, arcade games, red and white machine games, PS games, such as the synthesizer.
A link to the official website: Lakka official website
About Lakka's introduction, the direct official website cut a diagram to explain under:

Four points: strong, friendly, low cost, open source!!

Friendly on the table now to realize this universal game is too easy! The steps of the official website are clearly written. Let me summarize the next steps:

1. Choose your hardware platform

Because this lakka just ported to some hardware, as shown, if you want to implement on the platform you want, you need to compile the source code.

I was previously bought Raspberry Pi B +, now out of the latest Raspberry Pi 2, according to the official website, Raspberry Pi 2 words for performance reasons, support game simulator better, run more smoothly, the following figure is the various hardware platform for each game simulator support situation.

Analog device	RPi	RPi2	A20	imx6	C1	Pc
2048	A	A	A	A	A	A
3DO	-	-	-	-	-	A
Atari 2600	A	A	A	A	A	A
Atari 7800	-	-	-	-	-	A
Atari Jaguar	?	?	?	?	?	?
Atari Lynx	A	A	A	A	A	A
Cave Story	B	A	A	A	Av	A
Dinothawr	A	A	A	A	A	A
Doom	A	A	A	A	A	A
FB Alpha	C	B	B	A	A	A
Ffmpeg	D	?	?	C	C	B
Game Boy	A	A	A	A	A	A
Game Boy Advance	B	B	B	A	A	A
Game Boy Color	A	A	A	A	A	A
Game Gear	?	?	?	?	?	?
Lutro	?	?	?	?	?	?
Master System	A	A	A	A	Av	A
Mega Drive	A	A	A	A	A	A
Nes	B	A	A	A	Av	A
Neo Geo Pocket	-	A	A	A	A	A
Nintendo 64	-	C	-	C	-	A
Nintendo DS	-	-	-	-	-	A
Pcengine	A	A	A	A	A	A
Pcengine CD	B	A	A	A	A	A
Pc-fx	-	-	-	-	-	A
PlayStation	-	B	A	A	A	A
Psp	-	-	-	C	C	A
Quake	?	?	?	?	?	?
Sega 32X	?	A	?	A	A	-
Sega CD	?	?	?	?	?	?
SuperNES	C	B	B	A	Av	A
Vectrex	A	A	A	A	A	A
Virtual Boy	-	?	?	?	?	A
WonderSwan Color	-	?	?	?	?	A

As can be seen from the table above, the Raspberry Pi 2 in some places is significantly better than the Raspberry Pi version in support of the simulator. Have the above hardware platform and interested friends quickly try it.

2. Burn Lakka Package to SD card

Download the corresponding hardware platform on the official website Lakka package, the official website introduced in the LINUX,WINDOWS,MAC platform under the way of burning, I here is the Windows platform, burning is very simple, directly with Win32diskimager OK.

3. Start the game console

The next more simple, crossing network description:

1. Put the SD card in the Raspberry Pi
2. Put an HDMI wire between Yourraspberry and your TV light your TV screen
3. Plug an Ethernet wire (optional)
4. Plug one of the supported Joypads in one of the 2
5. Raspberry Pi USB Ports Plug The power supply of the Raspberry pi

It says that networking is optional, but preferably connected and must be on the same LAN. As for why, below you will know. Handle connection, support for Xbox and PS handles, I am here to buy a North pass, and later verify the perfect support without modifying the mappings at all.

4. Start playing the game

After power-on, enter the start-up interface:

For the first time because of the file system extension, it takes a little bit longer and will not be in the future. Enter the following interface to show that you are successful! You can start playing the game now! Does the interface look or compare cool?

5. Add the game you want to play

If it is just the above steps do not continue, congratulations, you can only play to bring your own 2048 games (before the very popular game, I said that simply can't stop, easy to get addicted), cut a picture to see:

How can you let yourself play the game you want to play? The premise is to mention the Raspberry Pi through the network cable link to the same LAN, and then open the net, found that there is a called Lakka, open it, you will find a lot of shared folders, where the ROMs folder is used to store the game we want to play, as shown in:

As for the Rom how to come, use the almighty Baidu search you want to play it. I tried a dinosaur fast hit and Super Mary, dinosaur fast hit the words a bit card, should be the relevant simulator in the Raspberry Pi simulation optimization is not the reason (see the Official document, Raspberry Party FB Alpha support level C, calculate the poor bar). After placing the folder in ROM, Lakka will automatically identify which simulator supports the game, and all you need to do is reboot. Select Restart Retroarch under the first menu and reboot after a few seconds, soon. Then you can choose the game you want to play under the corresponding simulator.

Finally attached to the welfare, found on the Internet to download the classic red and white machine game URL: Classic red and white machine game download

Finally put a few games:

Bask in my Raspberry Pi:

Using Lakka to build a Raspberry Pi as a universal game console