GarlicOS is Here! Anbernic RG35XX Custom Firmware Guide
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2024
- In this guide I will show you how to set up the new GarlicOS custom firmware to greatly improve the Anbernic RG35XX user experience.
Full written guide: retrogamecorps.com/2023/01/03...
Where to buy the Anbernic RG35XX:
Anbernic website: bit.ly/3YmokyH
AliExpress: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DCG...
Amazon (more expensive but faster shipping and easy returns): amzn.to/3jNhl1S
Thanks to Black Seraph for creating GarlicOS; please consider buying him a Kofi to support his work: ko-fi.com/blackseraph
Timestamps:
00:00 introduction
01:44 download and installation
04:48 expanding partitions
07:05 add BIOS files
08:27 setting up SD2 card
09:53 software orientation
12:31 performance testing
15:50 other observations
17:02 updating GarlicOS
18:15 summary and conclusion
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#Anbernic #RG35XX #RetroArch - Hry
"Yea man, I want to do it." This is in my head now every time I flash a SD card. 👍
Facts lol😂
Me too 😂
Thanks for the written guide and video. Just got my RG35XXX today and I'm liking it a lot.
Thanks for the guide Russ. I always appreciate your videos, they are always very helpful. I wish you a great new year.
I've been waiting for this! Thanks
This is the Onion OS ambernic version I was looking for ^^ can't wait to test it, thanks for your amazon work Retro Game Corps, you're the best!
Thanks for the guide! I’ve been waiting for this to happen; just pulled the trigger on a 35xx. In before the scalpers!
I own both Miyoo Mini and RG35XX. While I really like my Miyoo, complaints I had so far was 1) it is too small for my hands (even though I have tiny Asian hands), and 2) L/R buttons just don't do it for me. RG35XX fixes both of them but was lacking in OS so I have been using Miyoo so far. With GarlicOS finally here, I can see myself leaning more towards RG35XX though. Thanks for the great vid!
they also have this white transparent case which Miyoo has nothing as beautiful
i speak the same grievances. i hope something like MiniUI is made for this anbernic
Garlic os is garbage compared to the original. The emulation isn't as good. For certain platforms and it's a glitch fest. Get ready to reset your machine constantly.
@@Nat3_H1gg3rs It works great for me! You have to remember that this is an indie effort that released very recently, and is still underdevelopment. As updates come out it will exceed the original OS by a MILE. There are some games that seem kinda borked, like Kirby Superstar for me for some reason (might be my rom) but overall the emulation is great!
This was built on RetroArch which is the best emulation platform with full customizability for your experience.
The original OS has far too few options, and some of the ROMs didn't work right. The Pokemon Gold rom for instance ran horridly, and was in black and white - while on Garlic OS it plays and looks perfect (plus I can use filters and scalers to make it look even more like the original did... The scaler in the original OS borked the text in some games)
@@robotoboy30 how much battery life are you getting out of your device? seems to me the battery of the Ambernic renders it a deal breaker...
Just got mine delivered in about a week’s time. It’s gonna primarily be my GB/GBA machine but I can see myself exchanging save files between this and my home consoles for snes/genesis. I’m glad this video exists.
This was the video we were all waiting for! Cheers Russ!
Thanks so much for this bro, you make it seamless 🔥🔥👌🏾
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! Here it issssssss! I love and appreciate everyone else’s tutorials but.. this is the oneeeee! Thank you!
I love the intro, I love the music and I love the channel!
My RG35XX had the SD card stolen and wouldn't work at all. Naturally, this bricked the device.
I just want to let you know that your guide saved my device. Thank you very much.
This handheld with this OS is a steal. I will probably get a couple to gift to family members.
Hopefully the arcade issues get sorted by being unlocked
Thanks so much for your guides and reviews!
My 35XX is en route. Can’t wait to install garlic!
GarlicOS; The official operating system developed by Wario and WarioWare Inc. employees
Except, wario inc. twist doesn't even work.
Thanks for this tutorial!
About a month into use the stock memory card died mid game and RG35xx was a brick.
Revived unit with a new memory card load up via this video (and pulling battery for PCB reset/back screws are torx t6) but lost all those included games...😭
Garlic OS is pretty slick 😎
Thank you for this immensely awesome video. I love your page and as a NEW retro gamer I am glad to see fantastic easy to follow videos. Now to find all the files! Any suggestions welcome!
Also I can use any libraries
So after watching your video review of this console, I ordered one and it arrived this week. I played with it with the stock OS and while it was nice to just play right out of the box, it wasn't the most efficient setup. I had always planned to install Garlic, which I did tonight with this guide. Easy to install and it's a beautiful OS. I love the system itself, feels great in the hands, the screen is very sharp, and paired with Garlic the experience is extremely smooth. The last emulator system I got was a Retroid 2, and that is nowhere near as user friendly as this. I definitely recommend the RG35XX with or without the Garlic OS. Thanks for all the work on this channel, it's such a fun hobby within a hobby
best places for bios and roms?
Google
Very impressive that the team behind GarlicOS was able to make all of that in such a short time. At the same time it's still sad that Anbernic is still not willing to put some effort into selling their products with good firmware straight out of the box. They could at least pay the people behind all these custom firmwares that are made for their products and sell them with these firmwares from the beginning.
Its just one dude (bascially). Insane.
@@Fifanman money is an insane motivator. That guy does insanely good work.
@@StatusQuo209 true, but GarlicOS is a labor of love, he aint gettin paid for this one.
That's what happens with every device. You flash custom firmware. Anbernic is no different in that regard, but they are different from others in they actually provide great products at a great price
@@tynao2029 But that shouldn't be the case. It shouldn't be necessary that customers have to flash custom firmware onto these products themselves. Anbernic just does 50% of the work they should do. After that they lean back and let their customers do the other 50% of the work for them. In no other market would that be acceptable.
Checked it out tonight and I've got to say it's super impressive. I got the 35xx over the holidays and the stock OS is definitely less than ideal - beyond the naff user interface (which is serviceable enough) the main issues were lack of scaling, iffy perf on some systems, and perhaps more importantly the inability to remap controls (rubbish for arcade fighters). GarlicOS fixes all this and while I was expecting a barbones, slightly janky interface, what I found instead is a zippy UI that is clear and lets you get on with it. Very minimal Retroarch tweaking required, everything works as it should. Arcade performance is more than fine on Capcom stuff - which for me is 90% of my arcade needs but I realise mileage may vary. NES performance seems slightly janky though, which I wasn't really expecting and will need to look into - just doesn't feel quite right. As a cheap GB/GBA/Snes machine? Not much can touch it at that price, but that's mostly down to Black Seraph's insane work.
That’s so good to hear as a gba fanboy, I’m so excited to get this thing in the coming weeks
Thanks for the video! Super helpful
I like the dev support for this custom OS. I noted your point of the games list not sorted alphabetically and checked the changelogs. Lo and behold, one single day after release of this video:
4. January 2023:
(...)
The favorites menu is now alphabetically sorted
Very good OS. It would be good if favorites would be in subdirectories of their devices (GB, GBA, ...). Only thing I miss are the game pictures inside of the game list. This feature was pretty cooler on the original OS
Great guide. Thanks!
amazing tutorial as always
Just ordered one from Aliexpress. My first handheld since the the original Gameboy Advance. Looking forward to it
I'm glad the newer rg35xx they're producing comes with garlic os already installed. Saves me a little trouble. 😊
Thank you for the guide
Thanks for the video and looking forward to the additional improvements to Garlic OS.
I love the intro song to your videos.
This is the first I am going to do when I get my RG35XX, I just ordered mine after the holidays, hopefully it wont take longer than 2 weeks.
great choice, what color did u get?
@@tynao2029 Got the transparent white, I've had it for about a week and a half and it's been the best Christmas gift for myself in a long time.
Thanks for the video. Was very helpful. 👍
Is this video still good or is it outdated ?
Mine just came in. Can’t wait to get into setup and play it.
how was it
Thank you man you’re the man
awesome stuff cheers!
Hell yeah River City Ransom is the best. Spent so many hours in the 90s playing it and now I can play it again on RG35xx
I'm glad there's a custom firmware to really make this handheld compete with the Miyoo Mini, because as soon as I saw the game people were playing on the Aliexpress store page for the Miyoo, I gave up on that thing.
I’ve been messing around with this as well. I’d say it’s transformative. The device felt like trash before. Now, it’s full of potential. Another great example of the importance of software.
My hopes for this: Arcade gets a boost and C64 rocks up in the available systems.
I've read on the new update that he is still working to make hardware acceleration work. I think when that works well the other performance issues will be gone.
I don't even care about this device at all but I love listening to your super calm voice explaining stuff
Thank you for this
This is making me more tempted to get this over the Miyoo Mini, but I can help but feel like there's always something better on the horizon >_
pull the trigger! white transparent is a great case color!😄
I just ordered a Anbernic RG35XX on Temu for $47, with a $20 off coupon and free shipping .. I’m new to these devices , as I haven’t really touched a video game since modern warfare on PS3 .. I’m already planning on upgrading to this operating system once I receive it in the mail .. thanx for the video! Can’t wait to sink my teeth into some games from my childhood .. hopefully I’ll be able to play the first two silent hill games, and the Capcom vs Marvel series!!
lovin' that transparent white color
Ordered one as soon as I saw this OS was announced. As the mini was just too small for my hands but I loved the OS. Now I’m just crossing my fingers the bugs with Garlic OS get figured out before my device arrives.
This firmware has been updated so much since this video hell it even had another update today that overclocked the processor +300mhz I wouldn't mind you doing another video on this software
Thank you!!!
i'm so glad I ordered the RG35XX when it just came out, despite most early reviews and comments being quite critical of the device - especially the stock OS (e.g. UI and lack of scaling options). I assumed a custom OS would be released at some point but I didn't expect it to be so good, so quickly.
The the ui and scaling options were the only issues with stock os? Cuz it seems like the ps1 abilities were worsened by garlic
@@humanbeingfromearth The stock OS is pretty poor in general: it doesn't look great, it doesn't have a sleep function (so battery drains even when screen is off). Garlic OS has QOL stuff like autosave, hotkeys for brightness, etc, which stock is missing. Generally it's more pick up and play than stock.
@@humanbeingfromearth yeah, stock OS runs Tekken 3 just fine for me. not even sure if all stock OS' are the same though (like depending on where/when you order) cuz apparently mine has an option to switch to garlicOS built in. haven't seen that mentioned in any of the reviews. haven't tried it though, just installed GarlicOS on a fresh SD card now waiting for all my roms to transfer over XD
I'm getting my system next week and I hope I will be able 2 install the garlic os
Been a gamer since the nes came out but been away from retro for a bit now. But absolutely love tech and where retro is going. Already order the pocket 3 and 353v. Def want to collect some more powerful units aswell. But need to fig which odin or loku i want plus steam deck a must.
Thank you for the guide Russ! Did you know there's Tomato OS for Trimui Smart? Are you gonna do a guide for that one as well?
Thanks Russ for the tutorial & BlackSeraph for providing the OS, you both are awesome.. I just wondering can you add box art for the games ?
still on the fence with this one. garlic looks great though, hoping arcade perf improves for non cps/neogeo games. curious how fighting games play on the vertical oritentation with the shoulder buttons
Hey Retro Game Corps, I really apprecieate your content. Thanks to you I bought a retroid pocket 3+ a while ago, and now I got the RG35xx, however, following this guide I ran into an issue.
The ROMS folder you mention at 5:25 is empty, and I don't know where I can find these files.
Having the same issue. Did you figure this one out? Thanks.
@@gavdanby-cooper9085 try to find it on a different partition - for me it was a J partition - probably because i have more hardrive, so the letters may vary depending on users amount of hard drives. let me know i helped!
Awesome guide as always! Does this device have Real Time Clock?
Hey ya'll, I did the logo for GarlicOS. If anyone wants other custom logos for stuff, hmu!
Note for mac, use iPartition to resize the sd card, couldn't do it with disk utility
This looks good to me. I only want it for the normal consoles (not arcade or Pico) that don't have/need an analog stick. Especially since the Miyoo Mini is hard to get.
My personal go-to games for SNES emulation checks are Star Fox and Super Mario RPG. If they can run those then I am good to go.
Pico 8 is great if you wanna make games
Thank you for the vid Russ, always a pleasure! Quick question, three weeks ago you mentioned the out of box games do not include any super Mario games, does this mean we now can get them? Is there any way to download and install them in the RG35XX? Thank you!
One thing: The original Game Gear (despite having the same resolution as the Game Boy) has an aspect ratio of 4:3 so that's what you should set it to imho. It's even more recommended considering that it would take the whole screen on this device that way.
For GB(C) of course 10:9 is correct and should be used (as you did).
I mean all of this disk resizing and formatting you can do on Windows in for example minitool partition wizard free version :X fat32 formatting, labels, even copying whole partitions somewhere, but still a great tutorial Thx.
Looks like it's time to buy this device.
the white transparent is beautiful and unique!
Awesome video. Will be gettkng mine in a week. One question tho, when i get the garlic OS installed will it automatically have extra emulators? Im mostly interested in Amiga and was windering if thats automatically included in the onion OS with the bios
If this matures a bit more, it would be the perfect device/price-point to introduce my young nephew to 8/16 bit games and PSX!
Totally brand new to emulation. Not a tech person either so I had a few questions.
Could I do all this using my MacBook?
Can I get away with just using one microSD card like the 16GB?
Thanks for the feedback and help.
It’s great that the custom firmware fixed the snes emulation and added scaling options
Mainly RetroArch did the scaling..
Would have loved a left analog stock and a bluetooth or wifi option to be able to play fighting games against my friends. But really compelling at this price.
I don’t buy 98 percent of these devices but love your guides they are very zen while I work at my desk just to keep informed, could you checkout Mario kart 64 Hd and see if it runs on the Retroid pocket 3+
Hey Russ, I would be very interested for you do an updated batocera tutorial with lots of very important tips to get the best experience. Anyways keep up the great work
Dang it Russ! I don't need this little thing because I love and use my steam deck for all this.
But the techno lust is real so you know I ordered this by the end of the video 😏
I hope anbernic gives you a little something for the recommendations. (I did used the link in the description to buy)
Thank you
@RetroGameCorps Would you recommend this over the GKD Mini Pro? I'm confliected because I really like the look of the GKD Mini Pro but I'm afraid of the lesser software.
Thank u 😎
Love the tutorial and the new OS on the 35xx. From someone who has little pc knowledge I tried to follow the tutorial best I could. Every time I tried to flash the SD card I got a failed but it still works just doesn't have all the folders like the tutorial on the SD card. Can you off the top think why I kept getting a fail.
the rg35xx new 64gbsdcard has the original os system and an option to change it to garlic with a ton of extras.
In a simple man. I see a video from Russ so I have to watch it
A comparison video (features and performance) between miyoo mini, rg351V/RGB20s and this would be good.
I've just finished setting up my new RG35XX and I'm super happy with it, thank you so much for the guides! However, my PS games or bios don't seem to be showing up in my consoles... I've no idea what's wrong either! Any ideas?
Sorry, can't help, just commenting for engagement hoping someone will see the comment who knows more.
There is no fast app switcher? The whole screenshot of the save state switching idea is my favorite UX advancement I have seen in these types of devices.
Have you tried the Koriki firmware yet? I do like Garlic os just wish there was a way to add a little bitt better Theme and Game art. I just subscribed to your channel and really enjoy your video's I always go to you first to find out if I want a particular device. thank you for your hard work.
Mans got the cleanest download folder i've ever seen.
The community saves another device!
Hi Russ, i've been watching your videos about miyoo mini plus and this rg35xx. Im interested in one of this (preferably the rg35xx plus).
My question, does onion OS on miyoo mini, and garlic OS on RG35xx plus have a sleep mode (like garlic os on rg35xx)?
Or does the stock os on all three devices i mentioned above have already sleep mode built in?
Really appreciate the answer. Thanks
great video! btw, how do you quit a game completely, i.e. when restart, it'd load the bios logo of the console instead of the save state?
Looks like it has potential. I'll be trying AmberElec when my Rg351V arrives. It seems to be less "hassle". Flash the image, put cards back into the console,. let it do its thing for a minute or two. Then take card out and put bios and roms on it.
By the way i left you a comment on the cheat video,. Just asking if configuring cheats on Elec is done the same way it is on Retroarch? Like, do i need to get into retroarch through Elec or is there an option on Elec to configure cheats? (I'm asking because I think Elec doesn't use retroarch?)
Were you ever planning or are you planning on doing a review for the arduboy?
I’m soo new to this. Can you complete this process on a Mac? And would I need a dual card reader since I see you mention setting up 2 cards and dragging and dropping files at once?
I’m just not sure where to begin
I somehow fucked up with flashing my sd card. Formatted it a couple of times and now it doesn't want to be flashed. Aside from that I'm loving this handheld
@Retro Game Corps does GarlicOS work on other anbernic devices? Like rg280v, for example? I assume it does not. But still, I have not found any explicit mentions of that.
Great!
I like that we now have a Garlic & Onion OS
Need shallot, red onion, chive, ramsons (wild garlic) and leek OS's next, then allium to rule them all.🧅😂
we should get barbecue OS next
Hey Russ! I absolutely loved the video and followed it to a T, but when I turn on my RG35XX, none of the games or even the icons showed up in the console section. What do you think went wrong? Love your content!
Did you ever figure this out?
Great video!!! Got to install Garlic OS bec of your video. Q. I have 2 SD cards inserted, 32GB and 128 GB. Device can't read the 128. I have both saved the OS and roms on the 128. Device won't power on if have the 128 card inserted in the 1st slot. Any idea to fix it?
I've completed the setup for the first SD Card, but I've ran into some issues along the way. First, once I flashed SD1, I noticed within the ROMS, the CFW folder was missing. I checked to make sure the folder wasn't hidden, still nothing. Thankfully, I already have an SD card set up (from previous owner), located the CFW folder and pasted it to SD1 (I should mention, the previous owner had a one-SD set up and I'm trying to set up a two-SD setup). Once I finished SD1 set up following this video guide, I popped it into my RG35XX to test it and see if it would boot. Everything booted up fine but once I was in the main menu, I'm unable to navigate anywhere. It seems none of the buttons work. I took it out and replaced it with the original, thinking I've ruined the device somehow, but it worked and brought me to the game I was previously playing- all buttons were working...
Any ideas what I did wrong? Or advice how to fix this? I even added only the exact same BIOS (while having full catalog at my disposal) shown in the video, put the original SD in the SD2 slot (to access its ROMS) and still unable to navigate. I am new to all of this but I felt confident I followed the steps well (even without having the CFW folder). Thanks in advance!
Thanks Russ. Always outstanding content as usual. So with the stock OS vs the Garlic OS, it seems that arcade games are still troublesome on the 35XX compared to say the Miyoo Mini. Can we expect this to improve or is this pretty much defined by the Hardware?
Thanks for the video! Hey I just got one for my nephew. And it already has both OS on it. If I wanna put a better micro SD card in it, can I just simply copy and paste to the new SD card? It has the latest garlic os on it. v1.4.9
I need something for the 353M, is there a good similar build for that? In particular I want the onion OS style of game switching and automatic game states. Having to manually slog through poorly designed menus just isn't practical for mobile gaming any more.
Will you be doing update vids (new features n such) for this OS?
I'm pretty new to emulator hand helds, this will be my first one. Would I have issues upgrading the OS to the Onion if I have already played on the stock OS and have game saves on the system?