L4T Lakka Switch - now with audio and Vulkan
Lakka Switch, L4T edition
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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- mupen64plus
- parallel-n64
- Genesis Plus GX
- Ishiiruka
- It might come back once the core is updated with the (beta) Vulkan renderer
- 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).
