RA is optional of course but I agree that RA seems somewhat pointless now, since I only had SNES and NES games on my NES Mini. I will only run NES roms on my NES Mini through kachikachi and I will add a few more SNES games on the SNES Mini using the default emulator.Excellent! I wonder if the first release will basically be a tweaked version of 2.17d. Personally, I hope for a version that excludes RetroArch or addons entirely and just a custom core that allows additional ROMs, nothing else.