After quite some time the Lakka team released the new version 2.1.1 which – as you probably guessed from the headline – supports the new raspberry Pi 3 B+. Great news for these owners. Some updated and also some new cores like Higan, nSide, Cannonball, MAME2003 and much more.
Here is the changelog:
- Important updates
- RetroArch 1.7.3
- LibreELEC 8.2 fixes
- XU4 kernel update to 4.14
- Rockchip kernel upgrade
- Allwinner kernel upgrade
- New cores
- Higan, the famous SFC emulator from byuu
- nSide, a fork of higan v106 with additional features
- Cannonball, an enhanced OutRun engine
- MAME2003 plus, updated 2018 version of MAME (0.78) for libretro. with added game support and improvements
- Snes9x 2005 plus, Snes9x 1.43 plus BLARRG APU
- FreeIntv, Mattel Intellivision emulator
- Game Music Emu core
- Core updates
- Citra, the 3DS emulator
- ChaiLove, the chaiscript game engine
- MAME2003, the multi arcade emulator
- PPSSPP, the PSP emulator
- Sameboy, the Game Boy emulator
- Desmume, the Nintendo DS emulator
- and many more
- Fixes
- Keyboard fix for ARM based devices
- Bluetooth fix for S905/S912
- H3 boot
- Bonus
- Support for more gamepads (Zeroplus based gamepads)
- Support more Commodore cores
- Libretro overlays are now exposed in SAMBA
- Project cleanup
- XU4 fix display of the partition resize messages
For more information, head over to their blog post.
To update, use the internal update feature of Lakka. Download and reboot.