L4T Lakka Switch - now with audio and Vulkan

mcjmetroid · Jun 20, 2021

Hi,

Haven't posted here in AGGES.

I'm having trouble getting the joycons to work wirelessely with Lakka.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong with the dumping joycon BT for use in Lakka when it's docked?
I can connect the joycons seperatly via bluetooth within Lakka but I'm struggling to get the joycons to work together docked.

I have had the joycons paired in the HOS before so I know that's not the issue.

Am I doing something obvious wrong here?

I would love to switch over to Lakka permanelty, the only thing stopping me is the awkward multiplayer setup at the moment. For single player though it's the bomb!

Can anyone help with my issue?

Reynardine · Jun 21, 2021

mcjmetroid said:
Hi,

Haven't posted here in AGGES.

I'm having trouble getting the joycons to work wirelessely with Lakka.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong with the dumping joycon BT for use in Lakka when it's docked?
I can connect the joycons seperatly via bluetooth within Lakka but I'm struggling to get the joycons to work together docked.

I have had the joycons paired in the HOS before so I know that's not the issue.

Am I doing something obvious wrong here?

I would love to switch over to Lakka permanelty, the only thing stopping me is the awkward multiplayer setup at the moment. For single player though it's the bomb!

Can anyone help with my issue?

Did you dump your joycon BT in hekate?

In the hekate menu click on "Nyx Options" in the lower left corner. Then click on "Dump Joy-Con BT".

That should do it, really. After you did that the joycons should work in lakka 3.0 both paired with the console and wireless.

If that doesn't help all I can think of is deleting the lakka config files, in case they were still on your SD card from an older version of lakka.

Gabriel2Silva · Jun 21, 2021

Apparently the Lakka-Switch github io website is down. It gives me error 404.

I'm using Lakka-Switch.aarch64-3.2.7z.

If anyone here is struggling to get the Pro Controller to work (wirelessly or not), here's what I did. Worked for me.
Just hold the Sync button on the Pro Controller and then click Bluetooth on Lakka. It'll look for BT controllers, click Pro Controller. The Pro Controller will flash all lights and you'll get a message saying it's been connected. Then press all of the upper buttons simultaneously, that is, L, R, ZL and ZR. This will stop the 4 blinking lights and will leave 1 or 2 lights on, like on HOS.

You can't control the menus with any controller that's not Port #1, so you'll probably be unable to use the Pro Controller for now. Just go to Settings > Input > Port 1 Controls, select "Nintendo Switch Pro Controller" and then "Set All Controls". Manually map all the buttons. Go back, select Port 2 Controls and remove "Nintendo Switch Pro Controller" from "Device Index" so that only Port 1 is configured to use the Pro Controller. You can configure the Joy-Cons on Port 2 if you want.

Still, inputs on Lakka are a hassle. Everytime I fire up a new game it'll ignore my input configs and I need to re-do it manually. It works, though.

PPSSPP is absurdly faster on Lakka. Tried Tales of Eternia on HOS PPSSPP, both Standalone and RetroArch releases, unplayable on both. Stupidly low framerate, long 1~2s stutters everytime you change areas and black screen galore. It works flawlessly on Lakka PPSSPP, using Vulkan with no overclock (stock GPU, CPU Docked Stock Mode). No framedrops, no anything, just works.

PCSX Reloaded doesn't work as flawlessly to me, though. I had a better experience on HOS RetroArch. Still, I didn't fiddle with the settings or different video drivers/etc so that's probably it.

Snomannen_kalle · Jun 21, 2021

Gabriel2Silva said:
Apparently the Lakka-Switch github io website is down. It gives me error 404.

I'm using Lakka-Switch.aarch64-3.2.7z.

If anyone here is struggling to get the Pro Controller to work (wirelessly or not), here's what I did. Worked for me.
Just hold the Sync button on the Pro Controller and then click Bluetooth on Lakka. It'll look for BT controllers, click Pro Controller. The Pro Controller will flash all lights and you'll get a message saying it's been connected. Then press all of the upper buttons simultaneously, that is, L, R, ZL and ZR. This will stop the 4 blinking lights and will leave 1 or 2 lights on, like on HOS.

You can't control the menus with any controller that's not Port #1, so you'll probably be unable to use the Pro Controller for now. Just go to Settings > Input > Port 1 Controls, select "Nintendo Switch Pro Controller" and then "Set All Controls". Manually map all the buttons. Go back, select Port 2 Controls and remove "Nintendo Switch Pro Controller" from "Device Index" so that only Port 1 is configured to use the Pro Controller. You can configure the Joy-Cons on Port 2 if you want.

Still, inputs on Lakka are a hassle. Everytime I fire up a new game it'll ignore my input configs and I need to re-do it manually. It works, though.

PPSSPP is absurdly faster on Lakka. Tried Tales of Eternia on HOS PPSSPP, both Standalone and RetroArch releases, unplayable on both. Stupidly low framerate, long 1~2s stutters everytime you change areas and black screen galore. It works flawlessly on Lakka PPSSPP, using Vulkan with no overclock (stock GPU, CPU Docked Stock Mode). No framedrops, no anything, just works.

PCSX Reloaded doesn't work as flawlessly to me, though. I had a better experience on HOS RetroArch. Still, I didn't fiddle with the settings or different video drivers/etc so that's probably it.

Natinusala took it down and archived it due to it being outdated and referring to the old Lakka build. The release page for the new Lakka in active development can now be found alongside all the other Lakka releases on lakka.tv thanks to being upstreamed by the development team

bad361 · Jun 21, 2021

Gabriel2Silva said:
Apparently the Lakka-Switch github io website is down. It gives me error 404.

I'm using Lakka-Switch.aarch64-3.2.7z.

If anyone here is struggling to get the Pro Controller to work (wirelessly or not), here's what I did. Worked for me.
Just hold the Sync button on the Pro Controller and then click Bluetooth on Lakka. It'll look for BT controllers, click Pro Controller. The Pro Controller will flash all lights and you'll get a message saying it's been connected. Then press all of the upper buttons simultaneously, that is, L, R, ZL and ZR. This will stop the 4 blinking lights and will leave 1 or 2 lights on, like on HOS.

You can't control the menus with any controller that's not Port #1, so you'll probably be unable to use the Pro Controller for now. Just go to Settings > Input > Port 1 Controls, select "Nintendo Switch Pro Controller" and then "Set All Controls". Manually map all the buttons. Go back, select Port 2 Controls and remove "Nintendo Switch Pro Controller" from "Device Index" so that only Port 1 is configured to use the Pro Controller. You can configure the Joy-Cons on Port 2 if you want.

Still, inputs on Lakka are a hassle. Everytime I fire up a new game it'll ignore my input configs and I need to re-do it manually. It works, though.

PPSSPP is absurdly faster on Lakka. Tried Tales of Eternia on HOS PPSSPP, both Standalone and RetroArch releases, unplayable on both. Stupidly low framerate, long 1~2s stutters everytime you change areas and black screen galore. It works flawlessly on Lakka PPSSPP, using Vulkan with no overclock (stock GPU, CPU Docked Stock Mode). No framedrops, no anything, just works.

PCSX Reloaded doesn't work as flawlessly to me, though. I had a better experience on HOS RetroArch. Still, I didn't fiddle with the settings or different video drivers/etc so that's probably it.

I wouldn't say PPSSPP is absurdly faster on Lakka. The majority of games run the same as in HOS/standalone but yes, lakka PPSSPP is better. But i'd still stick with Standalone.

For PSX emu use swanstation, it performs way better than pcsx rearmed. It supports vulkan and internal res increase. Most of the games run flawlessly at 2x res without OC. Its the main reason for me why i use lakka.

As for input configs shenanigans, yeah.. I hope it'll get better soon too.

mcjmetroid · Jun 21, 2021

Reynardine said:
Did you dump your joycon BT in hekate?

In the hekate menu click on "Nyx Options" in the lower left corner. Then click on "Dump Joy-Con BT".

That should do it, really. After you did that the joycons should work in lakka 3.0 both paired with the console and wireless.

If that doesn't help all I can think of is deleting the lakka config files, in case they were still on your SD card from an older version of lakka.

I got this working in the end thank you.

I deleted my storage folder on the SD card letting lakka rebuild and it seems to have worked then.

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bad361 said:
I wouldn't say PPSSPP is absurdly faster on Lakka. The majority of games run the same as in HOS/standalone. Some games may perform batter in lakka (i didn't see any difference among my games of choice e.g.), so i'd still say that Standalone is the way to go.

For PSX emu use swanstation, it performs way better than pcsx rearmed. It supports vulkan and internal res increase. Most of the games run flawlessly at 2x res without OC. Its the main reason for me why i use lakka.

As for input configs shenanigans, yeah.. I hope it'll get better soon too.

The one game I cannot get to run on standalone PPSSPP is God of war: Chains of olympus. I'd be interested to see if it fares any better with Lakka.

bad361 · Jun 21, 2021

mcjmetroid said:
I got this working in the end thank you.

I deleted my storage folder on the SD card letting lakka rebuild and it seems to have worked then.

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The one game I cannot get to run on standalone PPSSPP is God of war: Chains of olympus. I'd be interested to see if it fares any better with Lakka.

Weird. It works great in Standalone, i've completed it recently actually. Though you need a 30fps cheat for consistent fullspeed. it performs better in lakka, i haven't played a lot but with vulkan and OC the first demanding area with a catapult in the beginning is fullspeed which is amazing and very promising.

mcjmetroid · Jun 21, 2021

In Lakka 3.2 is anyone else having issues with the retroarch settings not saving?
Like core settings are fine, input mappings not saving is a known issue.

It seems like everytime there's a little crash or a stall retroarch will reset to factory settings. When I reboot it'll do the same thing.

Also in the GameCube emulation side. Is there anyway to turn on VSYNC and have the games run at a decent speed? I've tried cutting down on everything to get it working

cl4ssik · Jun 21, 2021

@bad361 Have you already try the duckstation core for psx,
in my opinion i prefer duckstation than swanstation.

bad361 · Jun 21, 2021

cl4ssik said:
@bad361 Have you already try the duckstation core for psx,
in my opinion i prefer duckstation than swanstation.

I'm using it rn, but honestly i see no difference, all my games perform very well with both.

Reynardine · Jun 22, 2021

Does anybody know how I can extract a core file from lakka?

I enabled SMB in the lakka settings and connected to wifi. I can remote access lakka from my computer by typing "\\lakka\" in the file browser. But when I open the cores folder it is shown as empty.

I want to extract an older version of the YabaSanshiro core from the 2019 lakka build by natinusala. I want to play Sega Saturn Rayman and the game is broken in newer versions of YabaSanshiro.

There has to be a way to get the old cores and put them into the new lakka build.

bad361 · Jun 22, 2021

Reynardine said:
Does anybody know how I can extract a core file from lakka?

I enabled SMB in the lakka settings and connected to wifi. I can remote access lakka from my computer by typing "\\lakka\" in the file browser. But when I open the cores folder it is shown as empty.

I want to extract an older version of the YabaSanshiro core from the 2019 lakka build by natinusala. I want to play Sega Saturn Rayman and the game is broken in newer versions of YabaSanshiro.

There has to be a way to get the old cores and put them into the new lakka build.

The cores are located in /tmp/cores

Gavin_Darkglider · Jun 22, 2021

bad361 said:
The cores are located in /tmp/cores

Dont give false information. The cores are not located in /tmp/cores, you can find them in /tmp/cores, only if you boot lakka. That is because it creates a mergerfs mount there that layers the cores folder in storage on top of the /usr/lib/libretro/* folder, and places that mount in /tmp. that way we can point retroarch at one path, and merge in user configs/added cores, with the stuff included in the system.

cl4ssik · Jun 23, 2021

So in order to get the cores,
we have to boot lakka first, anf find them in /tmp/cores.

Gavin_Darkglider · Jun 23, 2021

cl4ssik said:
So in order to get the cores,
we have to boot lakka first, anf find them in /tmp/cores.

or you could just extract the SYSTEM file, and find them at usr/lib/libretro/... The system file is a squashfs image, it can even be mounted on most linux/mac systems.

Reynardine · Jun 23, 2021

Gavin_Darkglider said:
or you could just extract the SYSTEM file, and find them at usr/lib/libretro/... The system file is a squashfs image, it can even be mounted on most linux/mac systems.

Thank you for chiming in with helpful advice.

Now I extracted the old YabaSanshiro core. I renamed it to "yabause_libretro" and put it into the lakka/cores folder on my SD card. Guess I could also replace it inside the SYSTEM image instead, but this works just fine.

I can load the older core by selecting what used to be "Yabause" to play Rayman and still have the newest core available for other games.

mcjmetroid · Jun 23, 2021

Can't help but notice on the 3.2 release notes there is:
"

Nintendo Switch port is now able to stream your games from your PC (moonlight/sunshine)

How does one go about trying this out?

Gavin_Darkglider · Jun 23, 2021

mcjmetroid said:
Can't help but notice on the 3.2 release notes there is:
"

Nintendo Switch port is now able to stream your games from your PC (moonlight/sunshine)

How does one go about trying this out?

Load moonlight core, launch moonlight core, insert key on server, and if you are lucky it works.... some people have issues with a grey screen issue with the decoder. I am looking into it, but I dont really have time to do it right now, so hopefully it will get better as time goes on.

bonoboy · Jun 25, 2021

Hi guys, do you know if theres a way on how to update lakka without doing a clean install each time? Im on lakka 3.2 and I am really glad how's dolphin perfomance now

ber71 · Jun 25, 2021

There is an online updater but doesn't work at all.
What I do is rename the old Lakka folder, drop the new one, and move the storage subfolder which keeps all configuration files.

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