Lakka Switch, L4T edition
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I am proud to finally release the L4T version of Lakka Switch!
New kernel, new logo, new drivers, audio... everything is fresh and clean.

Did I mention Rayman 3 was full speed on Dolphin? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

General system updates

• New Linux kernel and underlying operating system, based on Linux4Tegra and Jetson Nano drivers
  • mainline kernel has been deprecated
  • system features should now be on par with the L4T Ubuntu distribution, except for dock support
  • Bluetooth was lost in the battle and needs some rest to come back stronger
• aarch64 is now the default and mainly supported architecture
  • arm has been deprecated since L4T doesn't support it
• New logo made with the help of jaames and the R:S community

New features and improvements

• Audio now works through the internal speakers and headphones
• The new GPU driver supports both Vulkan and OpenGL
• RAM is now locked at full speed (1600Mhz), was 800MHz before
• The system is now way more stable and should boot for everyone with a decent SD card (no more black screen of death)
• RetroArch has been updated to add menu widgets (fancy onscreen notifications)
• Overclock profiles have been updated :
  • Renamed all profiles
  • Added more overclock profiles
  • Added underclock profiles

New cores

• mupen64plus-next (N64 emulator)
  • The core is full speed, even on aarch64 thanks to the new dynarec
  • Includes the updated version of the GlideN renderer
• picodrive (various Sega consoles)
  • The core replaces Genesis Plus GX (Game Gear support has been dropped)
• Beetle PSX HW (PSX emulator with OpenGL and Vulkan renderer)
  • The core performs worse than PCSX ReARMed for now, even with Vulkan
• reicast (Dreamcast emulator)
  • The core is full speed on all commercial games, no visual glitches
  • The OIT renderer works (better accuracy), speed is still good on 1x resolution
  • The core needs the Dreamcast BIOS files to be placed in /lakka/storage/system/DC
  • WinCE games are currently not supported - there is a WinCE version of the reicast core in the works but the aarch64 dynarec is too slow for the games to be playable (for now)
• Yaba Sanshiro (Saturn emulator)
  • The core is full speed on all commercial games
  • Yabause and Kronos were also added but both perform worse than Yaba Sanshiro
• theodore (Thomson MO/TO emulator)

Updated cores

• Dolphin : Vulkan support
  • With Vulkan, Dolphin runs decently - some games are playable, some are full speed... see for yourself, try it and experiment with different games and settings!
• PCSX ReARMed : Switch optimizations and CHD support
• PPSSPP : doesn't crash anymore when closing content

Removed cores

• mupen64plus
• parallel-n64
• Genesis Plus GX
• Ishiiruka
  • It might come back once the core is updated with the (beta) Vulkan renderer

Credits

• Kernel and drivers work: NVIDIA, switchroot team (especially ByLaws and langerhans)
• Lakka Switch work: natinusala and plaidman
• RetroArch, original Lakka distribution: libretro team
• mupen64plus-next: Gillou and m4xw
• PCSX ReARMed: Switch optimizations by m4xw, CHD support by aliaspider
• Dolphin core: aliaspider
• reicast core: flyinghead

Download link

The Lakka Switch website has been updated with the new version: https://lakka-switch.github.io/documentation/

Please note that you can't dual boot Ubuntu and Lakka Switch for now (it will always boot Ubuntu).

 

[bad361]

is the sleep fix in this buld?

i think it would have been stated if it'd been fixed

 

[BaamAlex]

I have a blackscreen after launching the lakka config in hekate. The files are on sd card, and the card is correctly formatted with fat32.

 

[Dave_Chad]

All seems to be working well except for a weird text bug using Dreamcast core only it seems.

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix it? Picture attached.

Just to be specific, it's when you launch the menu whilst in a Dreamcast game. It doesn't ALWAYS do it. Just sometimes. Pretty irritating though.

Sent from my VOG-L09/Huawei P30 Pro

 

[skmp]

Ahoi everyone, after three months of inactivity I am happy to present to you a new Lakka update: Lakka-Switch.L4T.aarch64-2.2-devel-20190728151829-r28534-gbd694f826.tar.gz

Core updates:

• Reicast has been renamed Flycast

@natinusala, As the maintainer and primary author of Reicast, like to point out that Reicast has been forked, and not renamed. Reicast is independently developed from Flycast. Would be nice if you can update the post to reflect the facts

 

[Fenderbendr]

For some reason, after updating to this latest Lakka build, I can't select the video and audio drivers in the settings menu anymore. The options to do that are completely gone.

Did they get removed?

 

[Dave_Chad]

For some reason, after updating to this latest Lakka build, I can't select the video and audio drivers in the settings menu anymore. The options to do that are completely gone.

Did they get removed?

No you just didn't enable advanced settings

 

[Shaneus]

Anyone else having speed issues with the Genesis Plus GX core while using Nuked audio? On the core I compiled myself it seemed fine (in the original release), but in this the included one is definitely slower than it should be.

 

[Rya102396]

I'm also just getting a black screen like some of the other people in this thread. First time using Lakka, using a freshly formatted 32GB SD card formatted in fat32.

 

[Rahkeesh]

Your card needs to be formatted with 32k cluster size, I found this out the hard way.

 

[Rya102396]

Your card needs to be formatted with 32k cluster size, I found this out the hard way.

Thanks for the suggestion, just tried it but this didn't work for me, still just getting the black screen. Tried booting it multiple times, plus booting to Horizon before trying it again sometimes too.

 

[BaamAlex]

Your card needs to be formatted with 32k cluster size, I found this out the hard way.

And what is with a 400gb card?

 

[chillyshackk]

I posted the answer to the black screen issue many times,at least one way to solve it which worked for many, search my posts and hopefully it still works

 

[Jackson98]

All seems to be working well except for a weird text bug using Dreamcast core only it seems.

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix it? Picture attached.

Just to be specific, it's when you launch the menu whilst in a Dreamcast game. It doesn't ALWAYS do it. Just sometimes. Pretty irritating though.

Sent from my VOG-L09/Huawei P30 Pro

That happens when you have threaded video enabled when running dreamcast. Disable it.

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I'm also just getting a black screen like some of the other people in this thread. First time using Lakka, using a freshly formatted 32GB SD card formatted in fat32.

I have a blackscreen after launching the lakka config in hekate. The files are on sd card, and the card is correctly formatted with fat32.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/l4t-lakka-switch-now-with-audio-and-vulkan.538619/page-36#post-8651595

I know its annoying but please take a little time to search through the pages in future ;P this has been mentioned about 10 times through this thread the same solutions are listed many times, you aren't the only ones that have had this problem .

 

[BaamAlex]

That happens when you have threaded video enabled when running dreamcast. Disable it.

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https://gbatemp.net/threads/l4t-lakka-switch-now-with-audio-and-vulkan.538619/page-36#post-8651595

I know its annoying but please take a little time to search through the pages in future ;P this has been mentioned about 10 times through this thread the same solutions are listed many times, you aren't the only ones that have had this problem .

What has this to do with a blackscreen? Nothing. But i think i found the problem. The space of my sd card is too much. Tried with a 64GB card. Works!

 

[Jackson98]

What has this to do with a blackscreen? Nothing. But i think i found the problem. The space of my sd card is too much. Tried with a 64GB card. Works!

It is actually has everything to do with a black screen because many people on various switch models have repeatedly got a black screen and cannot boot into lakka using multiple SD cards. This solution has worked every time, if you have found another one that works for you, or your issue is different, good for you. Also you may not want to criticise people that are trying to help you in you future, because your "nothing" comment isn't remotely correct.

 

[Freeze1919]

Has anyone find a solution to get the analog triggers working in Dolphin by any chance?? Trying to play though Mario Sunshine . It is possible without, just annoying.

 

[toxic9]

Will it be possible in the future to add exfat support?

And another question, sometimes I see in videos Lakka xmb menu with console controller icons, and we navigate left and right and select the game below correspondent console. How do I set it that way? Thx

 

[BaamAlex]

exfat support?

exFAT can corrupt your files.

 

[toxic9]

All file system can corrupt your files.

exFAT can corrupt your files.

That depends on the exFat driver you use.

 

[Jackson98]

Has anyone find a solution to get the analog triggers working in Dolphin by any chance?? Trying to play though Mario Sunshine . It is possible without, just annoying.

I tried to find a solution to this multiple times. Their is no workaround at the moment.
The newer verions of Dolphin emulator have an option called "Trigger Threshhold" that ranges between 1-100% anything below 100% emulates an Analog trigger press. Unfortunately we do not have that option in in Lakka yet. However BBOX and Safe Texture options just got added, so their is hope for the future.

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All file system can corrupt your files.


That depends on the exFat driver you use.

Im pretty sure if you use exfat long enough you can definitely corrupt files regardless of what driver. As much as it is a pain transferring everything across and having a 4gb transfer limit(which can be worked around anyway), it isn't worth using exfat. I switched to fat32 never had any regrets. Had 2 SD cards corrupt using exfat, 1 after 6 months and another after several weeks. Ask 95% of the people that use these forums everyone else will tell you the same thing use FAT32 . Ive come to think of using Exfat like contracting SD card HIV, sooner or later it will likely get AIDS and die.