One menu to play, compete and rediscover the classics.
3D game carousel with animated backgrounds, categories, game pages with videos and pictures, attract mode when nobody is playing. Use it with your finger, a gamepad or an arcade panel.
From the Version screen you choose how the system looks: the new menu or the classic PhotoPlay designs from 2006 to 2011, Q1 and Q2, with the same games. Plus the PhotoPlay versions of the original cabinets (1997-2001), emulated and ready to start.
We rebuilt the PhotoPlay server from scratch: PhotoPlay cabinets are connected again for multiplayer, tournaments, leaderboards, profiles and automatic updates. Multiplayer lobby with everyone online: invitations, random matchmaking, rooms for up to 4 players and rematch. Tournaments with rankings and prizes, local and national leaderboards, profile with webcam photo, friends, messages, records and trophies. Every player chooses what to show (privacy).
The retro engine installs itself the first time you open it and downloads the emulators it needs. LUMACA includes no games or BIOS files: put copies of the games you own in the console folders and LUMACA finds box art, descriptions, videos and manuals (ScreenScraper, ArcadeDB, IGDB and more), sets up gamepads and keeps settings per console and per game. With a RetroAchievements account you earn achievements and points.
Everything is set from the menu, even with a gamepad. In Settings you connect Steam, Epic, GOG, Xbox and ScreenScraper and choose the edition. In Retro Settings you pick emulator and core for each console or single game, shaders, bezels and aspect ratio, see which BIOS files are missing and decide what to download for the game pages.
Installed games from Steam, Epic Games, GOG, Ubisoft and Xbox, plus your online libraries after signing in. Full game pages with trailers, pictures and descriptions in your language. PLAY starts the game and the menu comes back when you are done. With “My programs” you can add any application.
Quiz Arena and Beat Clash, the music game with real songs and three different rounds: solo, two players on the same screen or as an online challenge from the multiplayer lobby.
For the home PC or cabinet: no coins or prices, Spotify (Premium account), video apps such as Netflix, Prime Video and YouTube, and the Movies & Series section, all usable with a gamepad.
2-player arcade panels recognised by position, Commercial edition with credits and operator password, unique license for each PC activated online, updates downloaded and installed automatically with an on-screen notice.
Download the installer, extract the zip into a folder and run Lumaca_Setup_1.56.exe. To activate the license for your PC write to us in the forum (section “Get LUMACA”) or on Discord: we will also explain what you need.
