It has an interface that will be very familiar to anyone who has used Sony’s later PlayStations and, because it is open source, it is constantly being improved. You can hook up a joypad and even make use of the wireless controllers made for the PlayStation and Xbox ( there’s more about those here). Lakka allows you to emulate arcade games as well as titles originally released on a host of 8-bit, 16-bit, and even 32- and 64-bit systems. Fortunately, with the software platform Lakka installed on your Raspberry Pi, the path to gaming glory is much smoother these days.
In the past, however, this has also entailed finding and downloading the BIOSes of various machines and a fair bit of configuration. Whether you are nostalgic for the games of yesteryear or you’re simply dying to discover gaming’s rich history, all you ultimately need to get stuck in is a bunch of emulators and a stack of gaming ROMs.
