Lakka 2.0 stable release!

Posted on 2017-04-28 by kivutar

After 6 months of community testing, we are proud to announce Lakka 2.0!

This new version of Lakka is based on LibreELEC instead of OpenELEC. Almost every package has been updated!

We are now using RetroArch 1.5.0, which includes so many changes that listing everything in a single blogpost is rather difficult.

There are also tons of new cores to play new types of games!

Full Changelog

Important changes

LibreELEC 8.0 stable rebase

RetroArch 1.5.0 Simplified menu Intuitive netplay: you create or join netplay rooms directly from the menu. Ability to change the icon set on the fly Revamped virtual keyboard Korean language support

New server for downloads and updates

Almost all libretro cores are now enabled on every image

Important bugfixes

Important Vsync Bug fixed on Orange Pi

White background bug fix for WeTek

Resolution bug fix for WeTek

Fixed physical keyboard typing in the menu

New supported hardware

Lakka 2.0 adds support for these new boards and boxes:

Raspberry Pi Zero W

Odroid C2

WeTek Play 2

WeTek Core

WeTek Hub

S805 TV Boxes

S802 TV Boxes

S905 TV Boxes

Note that we continue supporting the boards that already work with Lakka 1.0: Odroid, Orange Pi, UDOO, etc.

New cores (emulators and game engines)

In this new version, almost all of the libretro cores on every platform are now enabled. This is to increase netplay compatibility across different versions of Lakka.

EasyRPG, a new core, allows to run RPG Maker 2000/2003 games

UAE4ARM, an ARM optimized Amiga emulator

PUAE, another Amiga Emulator

CrocoDS, an Amstrad CPC emulator

VICE, a Commodore 64 emulator

PocketCDG, a Karaoke player

XRick, Rick Dangerous game engine

Frodo, a Commodore 64 emulator (work in progress)

Mr.BOOM, a bomberman clone

bSNES packaged for the PC images

All the cores have been updated. Non exhaustive list:

Atari800

Hatari

Snes9x

Beetle PCE Fast

FCEUMM

Beetle PC-FX

Genesis Plus GX

Picodrive

Beetle Saturn

Nestopia

Beetle PSX

FB Alpha

Handy

MAME 2003

Mupen64plus

ScummVM

PCSX ReARMed

Tyrquake

PCSX Rearmed

Parallel-n64

bSNES Mercury

Beetle PSX

Beetle Saturn

Dinothawr

Beetle PCE

mGBA

Lynx

Snes9x2002

Snes9x2005

The core updates include support for netplay and cheats, and also new renderers for PSX and N64 emulators.

The joypad profiles has been updated. The following joy pads required specific changes to work properly (and now do): * XBox One S * Wii U GameCube Adapter * OUYA controller * NVidia Shield Controller * Gen Game S3 Controller

Installing or upgrading

Our installation tutorial has been updated with the new images.

Users of Lakka 2.0 Release Candidate can upgrade directly through the graphical interface.

Users of the stable release of December 2016 will have to reinstall from scratch. Advanced users can also attempt a manual upgrade by placing the TAR in the Update folder.

Thank you all for using Lakka! Special thanks to all the testers and donators who made this release possible.