Lakka: Retro-gaming distro based on OpenELEC

12/11/2014 - Category: Raspberry PI,Banana Pi

![Lakka](https://misapuntesde.com/images/2014/11/lakka.png)

Interesting this distro found in the *Banana Pi* forums and although provides experimental support, for *Raspberry Pi* is complete and quite stable.

But what have this distro that don't offer others like *RetroPie* or *PiPlay*?. Jump to the post and see!...

Lakka menu on Raspberry Pi

As mentioned, the author has taken the *OpenELEC core*, get rid of *Media Center* features and created an elegant menu like *PS3* as you can see in the video above.

It's based on *RetroArch* and we can play emulators like *NES, SNES, Sega Genesis or PSX* among others, but the developer promises a fast system with the following features:

Based on RetroArch and OpenELEC
85 Mb Distro with read-only access
Update system not based on package, but on the whole file system and kernel.
Open source
Friendly menu
Rewind, hotplug hoypad, video streaming, screenshot, pause games, save states,...

The team is currently debugging the *front-end* and not just be available for the *Pi* but will support *Banana Pi, Cubix-i or Cubietruck* among others.

You can try stable version, but also provided daily versions for different devices on the link leave at the end of the post.

[ Test Log]

I have tested a development version you can download [here](http://sources.lakka.tv/nightly/Lakka-RPi.arm-devel-20141105152307-r19688-g50ca5b9.img.gz).
Overclock to *High* but It will work fine without modidy this parameter in the *config.txt*
On first boot, resizing SD to its maximum capacity.
It takes about **13 seconds to boot**.
The menu run smoothly.
Comes with *SSH* enabled by default (root@root).
Added to *config.txt*, *hdmi_drive = 2* to get audio through the *HDMI* port.
To copy *ROMS* it uses *Samba*, so you'll have to use another computer on the network. I have copied all without subdirectories and the menu show us sorted by the extension (*.nes* roms appears below the *Nintendo* menu, etc...)
I connected a wired *XBox-360* control pad and It recognized in just **2 seconds**.
Tested and working perfectly: FBA (Cadillac & Dinnosaurs), SNES (Kirby Superstar with craps sounds but this game is heavyweights. Super Mario Bros work perfectly), Genesis (Sonic 3), NES (Super Mario Bros 3).