It can be zipped or not (Prefer zipped for Lakka)īut some systems are more complex.Special ROMsĬartdige ROMs from the famous consoles are well known and all follow the same rules: If you would like to generate playlists manually, or generate playlists for systems that do not have scanning support yet, the playlist file format has been documented. This database is based on No-Intro and will recognize only the good dumps. It is a convenient way to sort your ROMs on a per-system basis.Įach ROM stored in a folder being scanned by RetroArch is checked against a database.
Lakka uses a ROM scanning system to generate the playlists in its horizontal menu. It also supports loading ROMs from remote storage using network filesystems like NFS. Lakka supports loading ROMs from an external USB drive. You are free to organize your ROMs as you prefer.
