In this video I'm gonna show you the complete guide to setting up Lakka on your Raspberry Pi
That involves transferring ROMs, setting up the system themselves and optimizing for it's best performance
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Hey guys, Jonathan here with TechWizTime, where I teach you technology through tutorials
And today I'm gonna teach you how to completely set up Lakka from scratch, including transferring over ROMs, optimizing your setup and maybe a little bit of overclocking too
So for those of you out there who don't know, Lakka is one of the systems out there like RetroPie and Recall Box that let you play retro gaming games through your Raspberry Pi systems
Now most of you would have heard of RetroPie because that is by far the most popular system out there
However, Lakka does have a really attractinve interface, and that's what attracts a lot of people to it, so
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So what you need to do is you need to head over to "lakka.tv" and hit the "Get Lakka" button
Once you do that you may have come to this disclamer screen, if you do, make sure you just hit "Get Lakka" again
Now the Raspberry Pis are based on GNU/Linux, so, click on that
And lastly choose your model of Raspberry Pi, in my circumstance that's the Raspberry Pi 3, so you click on that, and then click on the "Download Lakka" button
Once that has downloaded you'll need to write this to a MicroSD Card, I recommend "Etcher", which I'm showing you here quickly
It's really simple to use and really doesn't need much explanation at all, so, write the image to the MicroSD Card and then, what we'll do is we will quickly have a look in the "config.txt" file because we're going to overclock this
Now inside the MicroSD Card there's a file called "config.txt", now don't open this up with just Notepad, you need something like Notepad++, which keeps the formatting, so
I'll put a link for that down in the description below
So scroll down to the overclocking section and you'll see the different settings there and what values you could use based on the different settings that they have, so, for Raspberry Pi 2
The very last lot of settings there you could use, where I'm chaging them here, so, in this circumstance I'm changing it for our Raspberry Pi 3, which is a little bit more stronger, so
These settings here are for a Raspberry Pi 3, but, if you do want it for another Raspberry Pi, then base it on the settings above here
Once you've done that you need to save the file and we'll eject the MicroSD Card and we'll jump over to the Raspberry Pi in one moment
So now that we've got the MicroSD Card all set up and it's all ready to go, what we'll do is we'll pop that into the Raspberry Pi and we'll start setting up Lakka on the Raspberry Pi itself
So once we've booted up Lakka, what we'll notice first is is that specially with my controller anyway, the Xbox 360 controller is plugged in via USB
But the B and A button are backed in from... I don't know which ever way to say that
Anyway, so what we'll need to do is we'll need to go and change that in the imput section, so
For the moment, you'll need to press B to make the option, A to go backwards
So under the settings cog wheel, we need to go down to imput and then inside imput we need to go to "Imput User 1 Binds"
Inside here I can see and set up the Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller, but, we need to remap the buttons and the sticks and so forth to make sure it's correct
So in order to do that we go down to "User 1 Bind All"
And now we just press the corresponding keys and, if like myself, you accidentally press the wrong key, you can go backwards afterwards, and actually go to the one that you missed and change it
So don't stress too much if you miss something here
So now that we've got the controller set up, the next thing we'll wanna do is set up the network itself
So under the settings menu, we go down to WiFi and then we choose our WiFi SSID name, if you're on a wired conection you won't need to worry about that right now
Nut once you selected your WiFi name you just need to put in your Passphrase, which is your Password for your WiFi
And then just press the "Enter" symbol, which is the second from the top
After you've done that, wait about 10 seconds or so and eventually it will come up and say "Online decided" if everything went correctly
So now that we've got the network enabled you may need to enable SSH, now if that's the case what you'll do is under the settings menu, go down to "Services", and here you can enable or disable SSH
Now for those that do use SSH, the username and password for the current build of Lakka is "root" and "root"
It is highly recommended that you change this because there are Bots out there on the internet that are actively looking for open SSH ports using default usernames and passwords, so, just keep that in mind
So now that we've enabled SSH, one of the things that you'll probably want to do is find out what your IP Address is for your Raspberry Pi right now
So to do that, underneath the Lakka menu, go down to information and select "Network Information", this will give you your wireless LAN or your wired LAN IP Address
Make sure you note this down, so when you just over to the computer in a moment, you'll have access to them
So what we'll do now is we'll just jump over to the computer and I'll show you how to upload a ROM to your Lakka installation
So opening up an Explorer window what you'll do is you'll type into the address bar here "\\LAKKA" or "\\youripaddress"
Now the first time this loads it will ask for a username and password, and you need to type in "root" and "root", and if you like, you can hit the save password for later
So now that we've accessed the Raspberry Pi, what we can do is we can go into the ROMs folder and from here, what we can do is we can add a new folder, and in this case, I'm gonna upload my Nintendo 64 game, which is Wave Race
So once I've created the Nintendo 64 folder, I can just copy in the ROM from my computer and once it's uploaded we can jump back over to the Raspberry Pi and actually load it in to Lakka
So back on the Raspberry Pi now, if we go under the Lakka menu and fo to "Load Content"
And now if we go to "Select File and Detect Core", and here I'll go to into the Nintendo 64 Folder, and I'll choose the ROM I just uploaded
Then i'll choose "Load Archive With Core"
And I've got a choice of two here, it's probably always beft to choose the top one, so we're gonna choose the top one here
And this now started up the ROM, now whenever you feel like getting back to Lakka from the ROM itself, all you need to do, on the Xbox 360 Control Pas at least, is press the middle button
So while we're in this menu I'll just show you quickly, you can change the state slot, which gives you the option of having it on any of those numbers
And also you can save the state of where the game is right now
So you don't have to actually use the in-game saving systems, and, just to show you, I'll reload it from that same state
And one of the other things you might want to do is you might want to customize the look of Lakka, so if you go to the settings menu
And under settings, if you go down to Menu, here you can change the menu icon theme by pressing left or right
You can change the menu shader pipeline, which is just the effects in the background
I don't reccomend changing this as the snow one is quite slow as you'll see here
So just keep it on Ribbon
And the other thing that you can do is you can change the menu color theme and you can see there's quite a lot of color choices there, so, whatever takes you fancy, you can choose it here
How awesome is that?
Ok so now you've got Lakka installed on your Raspberry Pi, and it's all set up, completely ready to go, there's nothing more that you need to do, except maybe find those ROMs to throw on there
So, did I miss a step or there is something that you want me to do as a tutorial in the future maybe
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