MIYOO MINI PLUS Ultimate Setup Guide - OnionOS, Roms, Box Art and Tweaks
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
- In this video, I'm going to show you how to setup your brand new Miyoo Mini Plus, which includes installing OnionOS, adding Roms, adding Box Art and Tweaking settings to get everything perfect.
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Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
01:04 - What do you need?
04:52 - OnionOS Install
07:06 - OnionOS Setup
13:52 - Adding Roms/BIOS
15:24 - Box Art
17:55 - Power Button
19:00 - Conclusion - Hry
![Multiplayer on the Miyoo Mini Plus! [Guide]](/img/n.gif)
Note: current recent release is Onion V4.2.0.
Also, if you have a newer firmware than mentioned in the video, you don't need to downgrade. Safe to go ahead.
HTTP and FTP have moved to Tweaks, Network.
Lastly, you may need to format your SD card as FAT32 before doing the firmware upgrade.
just downloaded, and popped the SD card in the mini, its stuck at the main Miyoo splash screen ... help!!
@@MrSkazimidid you format it to fat32?
@@MrSkazimi same here!! heeelp
@@simpy6060 is there any diference between FAT32 and Large FAT32? I'm using a 64gb SD card
same as MrSazimi here, right after the instalation is finished, it gets stucks on the boot miyoo mini screen and nothing happens :( my firmware version was of July but I even tried to downgrade it to the March firmware (the exact version of the video) but it didn't worked.
I'm an old man setting up his very first retro handheld. This video made a scary process into one that's very easy and the result is the machine of my dreams. Thank you very much for this. I really appreciate it.
I'm glad I could help!
I'm an old man too. I have the Miyoo charging out of the box right now. So I got to figure this out.
I'm 31 years old and this is complicated AS FUUUUUUU
34 and I made the guide. Age isn't a crutch.
can you help me i just got my miyoo mini plus today and I'm completely lost
Thank you so much for the guide! My dad is an old school gamer and I got this for him as an advanced Christmas gift. He was so excited when he found out that he had me set it up today. This is the most excited I've seen him in a while and I felt great seeing him smile. Needless to say Christmas came early for both of us this year.
I just wanted to come back and say thank you so much for this video. I was extremely nervous about doing this since I have almost 0 computer skills and have been putting it off for a few days. I started this morning and took me less than an hour. Thanks for all the hard work you do. Now I have the handheld of my dreams!
Thank you so much, I was struggling with the other videos. So happy you made this video and simplified it. Keep up the great work brother!
Hands down the best Setup Guide out there. You made my day, thanks man.
Thank You! I just got mine today, and this was a Godsend! I loved the pacing and clarity of this video :)
Got my boyfriend a Miyoo mini plus and this guide allowed me to set the device in 10min. Thank you Joey! Keep up with the great work.
❤
Lol fuuuuhhh how are so many people saying it's easy... this is so complicating for me 😢
@@Cheese_crackers it's definitely not EASY easy, unless you're already familiar with software/hardware terms and behaviors (my case). Totally ok to struggle and have to repeat few of the steps if needed =)
Just got mine today, extremely helpful! Wanna put in some notes though. FAT32 works the same as LARGE FAT32. If you plug in the SD card and charger (after adding the firmware file to your card) and you don't see a rocket, just the charging screen, you're good to skip the update part as you can already just put all the Onion stuff on your formatted card (or this worked for me, got mine on 7/27/23)
Thank you for your help, I found all the other videos I’d watched on this to be a bit of a nightmare and being new with emulation/roms/bios you made it very simple and straight forward for me to follow.
i've added a couple of new games so going to give the scraping a go tonight.
Does anyone else notice any slowdown with Sega CD games or is it me?
thank you for this solid guide. i personally use a retroid pocket but i got a miyoo mini + for my gf's xmas gift and i really wanted it to be ready to go for her. This guide was perfect.
Thank you for this guide Im at the scrapping part,Just got my miyoo mini + . Wish more guides were this clean and helpful
Its September 2023 and this video still works perfect. I didnt see your update, so I downgraded, but I'm sure its fine. Everything works great and I love this little system! Thanks again for a great video.
You're welcome!
For a noob like me, thanks a lot, you make retrogaming more accessible for everyone !
I got everything downloaded and ready to go. Now I’m just waiting for my miyoo mini plus to be delivered. Thank you.
Just got a Miyoo for Christmas and this is going to make something that seemed intimidating super easy! Thanks!
I love this device, it's so good. And onion just makes it so much better!
I have one of these arriving today, just in time for a 2 hour flight tomorrow. I will most likely leave it stock for this weekends trip but then dig into changing OS/ROMs later on so I'm bookmarking this video.
Joey this is my first handheld and i was foolish enough to buy this device without the knowledge of understanding that i would have to install onions on this device and other techy things. I have a new sd card and reader on the way and i am DETERMINED to play a game on this thing. I will be back to update my progress!
my firmware was 2023xxx so i went straight to the sd card reformat and os installion. thanks for this guide!
Pro tip tiny best set go (if you know you know) comes with all the roms you need and artwork already scraped.
So downloading just the tiny best set go, i will get artwork included? Seen on the page there is another download for art.
Cheers
Just read the page and follow the instructions and you can download that artwork pack as well, yep!
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds hi, I happened to see this comment and I have a quick question for you. I followed the instructions and unzipped all required folders into the same folder. When I unzipped the tiny best set go games zip folder, it asked if I wanted to replace or skip a bunch of files. There were 1800 or 1900. I skipped them but not sure if I should have. I did the 128 GB set so it said to download the folder I just mentioned plus the 64 and 128 expansions.
Likely didn't hurt. In all honesty, I don't personally use the tiny best set, as I have my own curated roms, but shouldn't be any reason why you'd need to overwrite them, so you should be fine.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds thanks for your help, I appreciate it!
Thank you so much, very thorough & clearly explained. I also appreciate the links that you've provided. Look forward to receiving my device & switching over to onionOS!
I'll be setting up my Miyoo Mini soon and found this video. I've never done anything with emulating or ROMs and was nervous I'll screw something up. But watching your step by step guide makes me feel more confident of being able to get my retro machine running. Thank you.
I'm all messed up here, i think i got most of it but i'm running into an issue with the tiny best set go games. it's missing about half of the folders he showed in the video. let me know if you have success.
All I can say is have the video up and copy moment by moment.(Although I needed to format my SD card before anything) That's how I did it. It took a better part of a day, but I eventually got my Miyoo setup.
@@nocrot1 i think i got it too!
Thanks I ordered miyoo mini plus and this guide explains everything, thank u
Took me all day to setup (that's definitely on me not because of your vid haha) but looks like I finally got mine setup and I'm ready to dive in. Thanks a ton!
Thank you for creating this video. Easy to follow. links all very helpful and the tiny best set and expansions will keep me more then busy on my upcoming vacation.
Thanks for the guide! Just ordered my Mini+ with a 256gb micro sd card and really looking forward to living my childhood dreams again. Cheers 🍻
I thought it only supported up to 128gb?
@@starmorpheus I'm not sure what the cap is but my 256gb works perfectly.
@@SargentAlebeard Good to know, thanks
Bought one tomorrow, so I am happy to get a miyoo, but awesome this guide, then I can already start searching for games I wanna play on it, and add them tomorrow 😁
just ordered my mini+ today cant wait to set it up
Another small update with the more recent versions of Onion, you wont see the FTP and Web necessarily in the apps anymore, however, once its enabled Via Tweaks > Network, you can then navigate to the IP assigned to your unit (check Network again for the IP) and you'll still be able to access the browser the same way. It confused me a bit at first until I realized I toggled the option on and to just try the IP assigned. The more you know :)
Thanks boss! Your clear instructions were best on youtube
Cheers!🎉
Love the guide, waiting for my miyoo mini plus.
This is the best guide for sure. For example, Russ from retrogamecore suggests using different software for formatting SD card, but that one doesn't even work on a clean Samsung 128 Gb SD card, lol! Also this guide specifies a way easier ROM/Bios approach.
Thank you so much for all the information. Thanks to you and allot of downloading I got mine all set up. So happy.
Thank you good sir. Concise, direct and worked perfectly. Very grateful!
Thank you for the guide, worked like a charm!!
Thanks so much, this is a great tutorial ! I have Onion 4.2.3 and apparently the whole "box art" section is not needed anymore, I already have the game thumbnails.
Thank you so much! This was an extremely detailed and helpful guide! :D
I subscribed too! :)
For connecting the Wi-Fi, the SSID name had to be one word without spaces and no special characters, but it finally worked!
Super tip at the beginning, " Use a branded SD card AND a branded card reader." Should have bought that card reader a long time ago, but thanks!! Was using the cheap ones with all kinds of read errors. Throw those away and buy a good one.
Thank you SO MUCH for this video!!
Thumbs-up from a seasoned computer/retroarch tinkerer! 😉
TY VERY MUH GOT One of these off temu and had no sd card and the factory os didnt read roms until i installed this os thank you!!!!
Amazing Guide, thank you so much ❤
Thanks for your useful guide. I followed it with very few problems (all of which were ahem... user error). I did download the box art packs from Tiny Best Set - much less painful than scraping and seem to be very accurate. I also agree that the included card reader is rubbish, it simply didn't work very well and has been consigned to the bin - what a waste of resources! The rom downloads did indeed take some time, but they say patience is a virtue!
Thanks for this - something that might be worth pointing out (especially if you're using 128+ gb micro sd cards) is that you have to format the SD card FIRST before upgrading the firmware to ver. 202303262339 otherwise your Miyoo Mini will not read from the SD card when you plug it in to the charger.
Can you explain this further? I need to format the sd card before upgrading the firmware, even if I haven't inserted the sd card into the Miyoo? I just cracked open the brand new Miyoo plus, and I have to wait until tomorrow for the SD card, so I'm wondering what I can do today before it arrives. I was going to upgrade the firmware, but your post made me hesitate. All of this is new to me.
@@-CrampedStyle- Just follow the formatting guide at 04:52 to format the SD card before upgrading the firmware at 03:19.
@@DanielBrain Just follow the formatting guide at 04:52 to format the SD card before upgrading the firmware at 03:19.
@@BloodShotChrome For what it's worth, for anyone else following, you just need to format the SD card correctly before loading anything on to it. You can have ROMs/BIOS/Onion/other stuff on the SD card during a firmware update and it still updates fine and retains your data. So in my case I had the SD card a week before the Mini+, I preloaded everything on to the SD card, and a week later used the SD card updating the firmware/installing Onion and now playing games. No need for an empty SD card to update firmware.
Thank you! was wondering why it wasnt working
I need this video after 20 days of shipping 😂
Getting mine tomorrow and I can't wait.
How was the setup? Tried using the "Done Set"?
Thanks for all of the details.👍
Where can you find and download the latest firmware of the Miyoo Mini+?
Thank you so much for this!!!
I love my Miyoo Mini plus!
Awsome it all worked out so well! Finaly got wifi working it only took the update tot onion 4.2.3 :)
Thank you for this detailed video! Is there a way to do this from a Mac?
bro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love BOF3 & BOF4, i thought i was the only person that knew about these awesome rpg games, they are my childhood favorite!!!!
Underrated games, under the radar nowadays.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds way ahead of it’s time, the mini fishing game to this day haven’t seen a better one and while everyone was lusting over playing FFVII I was a BOF purist
Thank you so much ! im so happpy :)
There seems to be games missing on the Tiny Best set that were on the original set of games included on the SD card
Got it setup thx for the help. What does the expert part of the setup do for the emulators?
Thank you SO much!
Hey any recommendations on which SD and plug I should buy? I couldn’t find the video where you mentioned it.
Any way to get faster download speeds? On the tiny best set it says I have to wait a whole day for the 64gb download
This was very helpful thank you so much! does the skraping only work with the tiny best set? If i add more roms would it work with those also? Again thank you for such a great video.
Yep, scraping works on everything and anything as long as it can match the names.
this video was helpful in allowing me to install onion os to my miyoo mini plus, but I did have to watch it multiple times and redownload files multiples times to actually get it working because I have no previous knowledge of how to do any of this. The only problem I seem to have is that there are no games in my console. Everything seems fine with the device, but it has no games.
The Web File Browser doesn’t work on mine. No idea what I’m doing wrong 😢
Is there a way to swap function of key A and B. Or even better make Key B to confirm and key Y to go back?
how long does it take to download the tiny best set go zip roms? should i download 1 at a time cause when i do all three it says like 40 days
Thanks mate! One question though. Why not use the sd card that came with the Miyoo? Cheers!
I have 2 questions. 1 do you necessarily need to use this software & what dose it do exactly? 2 can you just play the system straight out of the box?
Thanks! You said that within the console folder there should just be files, but what do you do if the rom comes with multi-track bin files and a cue file? I've noticed this as a thing for dreamcast & saturn roms (I know the miyu wont play these) but I've heard that also is common with ps1 roms?
Awesome video I got everything down. But it’s not recognizing the cd rom games. I copy n pasted in the bios folder not sure if I missed something.
This is an excellent resource for setting these up. Can anyone tell me if I can just duplicate the card after I get it set up the first time? I bought several of these to give as gifts. So I was hoping to create a card on the first device, then just copy it to all of the other cards.
Awesome...... A Big Thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!!
BEEN FIGHTING AGAINST IT ALL NIGHT, turns out it wouldnt install cause I named the sd MIYOO, and there was some kind of conflict with the folder in the onion package 🙃
@JoeysRetroHandhelds Awesome video, what do you have installed on your myoo mini plus ? also how do you input the scrapper username and password, as there is no onscreen keyboard :/
The tiny best set BIOS and Roms folders already come with both normal and zipped folders containing files. In the video, you say there should only be the files so should I remove the folders and take out the files in it or should I just leave it as is?
I just got one yesterday :D and came with Kingston Canvas Select Plus, 64GB :D I'm not throwing it :))
Mine came last week with a Lexar branded card. I think maybe they were hearing about failures on the generic cards and opted for higher quality ones for the more recently produced Miyoos.
You're a great help, thanks. I set this up a month ago for my brother, and now my games have no sound. The device still makes sound in the home page, settings etc, but goes mute when I start a game. Do you know if there is a fix for this? Should I update or reinstall something? Also, the mame games have some sort of copyright menu that keeps popping up everytime I press the A button. I don't know what my brother did, I'm so confused by all of this. Any help would be appreciated.
Where do you show later the clock thats built in???
This final game expansion takes so long.. scavenging for other roms I don't see on the list while I wait. Thanks for the help!
Glad to help!
Hi there!
Did anyone do this while using mac and can recommend a flash app for the process?
As a Cybersecurity professional i'm neverous about plugging the OG sd card into my PC to even update the firmware. Is it possible to boot into Onion OS on my own SD card without ever touching the included one?
Great, great video. Got one of these to give to my Mom for her plane trips while she travels because she loved playing Gameboy haha. Everything works except for wifi, for the life of me I can't get it to connect to my router.
Weird! Should just work, just a small range on these.
Might be new info but when you order this the company has an option to put onion on for you. And they come with thousands of great roms as well now.
Amazing guide. Thanks so much. Scraper doesnt show on the list when I press Y. Any thoughts on what might be causing that?
Hm, gut feeling is a missed step. Can jump into the Discord in my description and the Miyoo Mini Plus channel to see if there's ideas there, I'm not sure why that doesn't show.
thank you to much love the detail you when in to seeing as the im a noob at the
best Guide :)
Good job thanks bro
So do you need to use package manager, and if so how?
thanks SO much for this. Just got it set up with no trouble -- phew. Is there a reason why we need to have an account with scraper to get the images? What if we don't really care about the images, can we just ignore the scraper section? Thanks again- very helpful for someone who was really intimidated by doing this lol
Yeah you can ignore it. The account is just to get by the daily limit for scraping as a free guest, can't recall the limit.
When i installed onion os, i had to go and turn on recents and change the power button press to standby so it can shut down with long press like the stock os did.
thank you so much! 🙏
You're very welcome!
Question on the firmware update: do I need to use an empty SD card with only the firmware file on it to do the update?
Thanks a lot for this video. My dad has been looking for ways to play retro games so I decided to get him one of these and set it up for him for Christmas. On the game images- I'm curious if you can do it through tiny best set go? Is that what the image files are intended to be? If so, how would one do that? Or is it really easier to go and do the scraping through the miyoo itself? Just curious!
Yep, just follow the instructions on the tiny best set page, it's all detailed there :)
I'm extremely new to all of this and will be going through this process tomorrow. Is 7- zip necessary, and should I download it?
Ty in advance for the video. It will hopefully save me a huge headache .
Yes it is
I couldn't see from your scrolling does it have colecovision and/or MSX?
Hi! Super helpful video, it was easy to follow as well! But I wanted to know why I can't find any PS1 games in my console, don't know if this is because I bought a 32gb SD card?? And do you know any other place that we can get more games and more consoles like N64?? Thanks!!
I’m having the same prob
New here. Just a quick question, so I have this option stock os or onion os to purchase. Does the os version come with the SD card ? Or it's like built in to the device? Because I'm planning to buy stock os since it's more affordable and getting separate SD card with onion os installed. Tia
i accidently installed onion OS first. I was still able to upgrade firmware without issue FYI
I might get one for travel as a secondary devise
Me sirvió la ayuda, gracias!