GarlicOS for Anbernic RG35XX

Is this where I do the private messages?

Gameplayz

Hi, I need help creating a new set of dual boot sd cards

Gameplayz

controls cheat sheet to print https://anapan.ca/Anapan/GarlicOS_WHITEbg.png

Anapan

It does work don’t go to extract both only 001 it will pull 002 on it’s own

slvclw

Is it possible for a rg552 version?

Christopher Davies

What's the purpose of the .002 files?

Mattsui

As per the GPL, he is required to release all GPL'd code involved in the product. I don't see a download or git repo anywhere.

NoRezervationz

Hi guys I imaged the img file to the micro USB on TF1, it's only a 16 gig card, but I didn't bother resizing since I have a 512 gb on the TF2 with all the roms. However, when I put the garlic OS image drive in to TF1 it says system error trying to boot. What am I doing wrong, I skipped the resizing in the instructions since I don't care, but the rest of it isn't working

Eric

GarlicOS is lite, fast and stable. I think we're just missing a rom search functionality now.

Florent Morfaux

Hi Black, is there any way I can change the font size somehow? Both the one that displays the names of the systems and the one that shows the list. I can only change the font of the list of games, but I didn't find any information so I can increase or decrease the font size.

Davidson Moraes

So I'm extracting to the same folder both .001 and .002?

Dakota Kolton-Mitlyng

he had to release the code first in this case.

ihazcat

It seems development on Garlic OS is stalled or dead. Is it possible to make this Opensource so the development can continue?

Morgan Rai

Is there a way to download 1.3.4? I can't get controller support to work with the current release.

Matthew Heyman

https://youtu.be/mN-xGG2nhQY Try this skip to 3:50

SgtAlvarez

https://youtu.be/mN-xGG2nhQY Start at 3:50 should help

SgtAlvarez

none of these corrupted. these are splitted compressed files. if you never ever heard about this thing then extract the .001 file in total commander. it will automatically merge the files.

ihazcat

wifi would be nice. it's a common solution since many original vendors released their "mini" consoles. retroarch supports bunch of wifi chips. it is easy to get a usb wifi adapter and a type-c adapter. miyoo also sells this combo for their non-wifi handhelds.

ihazcat

still can't get it to work\

Frankie

So I got it to work. Instructions are a bit fuzzy. Basically 1. Download the .001 and .002 files into a folder. Have 7 zip installed already. Don’t open 7zip. Simply select the .001 file, right click and select “7zip extract here”. For some reason that is different than opening 7z and trying to extract or using rar. As long as both files are In The folder it works.

SgtAlvarez

That’s the thing anytime I try to extract any of the files from either zip I get files are corrupted and can’t extract anything.

kingpaul1985

May not help - but just received my RG35XX, download .001 and .002, and used 7zip as per instructions at top, and can confirm worked ok. "How to install: Download and install 7zip on your system, download the attached files into the same folder, right-click the part with the .001 extension, choose "7-Zip -> Extract Here"."

Simon Goodchild

Nope i think he moved on sadly.

kingpaul1985

Same, anyone heard from creator?

SgtAlvarez

the .001 and .002 at the end of the zip seems to make it impossible to open the zip file.

SgtAlvarez

disc image is corrupted

Frankie

i keep getting the zip files are corrupt. can anyone send me the zipfiles plz

kingpaul1985

Just add multi-discs to a separat folder within /Roms/PS and add a m3u file to the main PS folder for each game. By pressing Menu+X you can flip the discs within retroarch quick menu.

Daniel

I'm loving Garlic on my 35XX. I was wondering if there's a suggested way to play multi-disc PS games though? Does Garlic not support PBP? I've tried PBP formats for multiple games and haven't had any luck (specifically FF7 and Xenogears).

Adam Bienvenu

Wifi Via Adapter option would be a plus plus! We all should vote for this. Having this option will be a dream come true for all fans, and obviously all Batocera fans will move to Garlic OS.

Fiji Romeo

Will there be any more development? A few wish list items for consideration: - Color balance setting - Ability to delete Roms on Device - Wi-Fi via adapter (as in Batocera) - Scraper (as in Emulation Station)

Morgan Rai

Is the project still ongoing, or has it been paused?

Pulso da Terra

strange dint work for me.

Fiji Romeo

Don‘t get your #4. just press the menu button in a game. This creates a savestate and brings you back to gralicOS main menu.

Daniel

Looking at the architecture, I would still need to make sure the ARMv7 stuff is setup to get it compiled for proof of concept, but what is the possibility of adding the EasyRPG core to GarlicOS?

nephitejnf

Few things i'd like to add: 1. Battery Levels display - im sure needs to be fixed, even when if device is also off. 2. Please add video filters on GarlicOS or atleast a yellow filter for night mode - Currently my eyes strains are worse and im sure you will be saving every players eye, RG35XX HD and sharp screen is an eye sore for many adults/children 3. Please add dates next to file names above - so we all know the version and date if any new update gets released. 4. There is no exit or save option when game starts, so always have to hit reset, Even UI interface would be great if same as "Batocera" the way when u slide from one game to another with nice game background art. 5. 2 Player game does not work, tried a type 3 otg controller with a converter, hope it supports more basic controllers 6. Allow "waitForUSB" option on settings or add on setup for ease, currently users want to migrate game by simply connecting to PC and copy/paste Im not asking to resolve all, but you can resolve some of the above, would appreciate! Good Job Garlic OS Team and Developers!

Fiji Romeo

Update from my end. I already ordered a new battery once I ordered my RG35XX as I thought it still comes with a 2.1Ah battery. Yesterday, the new battery arrived. Nevertheless, I still have the same issues also with the new battery. Today I tried several options and the issue is garlicOS related. Having a new SD card with anbernic stock OS in TF1, the device charges properly as expected by 1A. As soon as i switch to garlicOS SD, it says it is fully loaded after 10min and the battery drain is tremendous. It looks like to be a software issue from garlicOS when it comes to interpretation of battery level.

Daniel

Anybody else with charging issues in combination with 2.6Ah battery? Charges to 100% and drains battery completely within 30min. After deplugging and replugging the battery it works perfectly until next time charging. Kernel file has been changed and I use a 5v1.5a charger. Already posted my issue also on Reddit but maybe Black-Seraph does have Reddit or has a look at it ;-)

Daniel

Sorry for being late to the party, but thanks BS! I've been under the weather the past few days, just wanna be sure can I copy this over 1.47 and all will be normal?

Jason Ramirez

thank you black seraph!

Ryan Huffman

Update to 1.4.9 perfect as always :D

Gabi90

Is there a collection of additional overlays like game gear or even game specific (e.g. Pokémon themed overlay) overlays available?

Daniel

Can you add the theme selector in the next update? thank you very much for all the work!

Gabi90

download RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.001 RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.002 and right click on RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.001 and extract here.

Gabi90

Tried downloading the RG35XX-Micro sd card image file but when trying to open it and extarct it with 7ZIP I get this error. Path: RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z Open WARNING:: Cannot open the file as expected archive type Error Type: 7z Errors: Unexpected end of data ANY HELP??????

That Dude In Orange

I honestly don't remember if it stays saved after updating, I don't know exactly if it continues the same when saving your .cfg file afterwards, I have always replaced it with each update in case the creator includes some improved configuration in that file, in my case I always replace it, but you could test what you say by making a copy of the original .cfg file first :)

Gabi90

Thanks for video. Gracias por el vídeo 😃 How do you do to keep your retroarch custom configuration when upgrading Garlicos? Do you keep a backup of your modified cfg files and copy them after copying CFW new version folder? Is there any better way?

Alejandro Sánchez

I am very happy to read this! that you enjoy your console to the fullest! :D

Gabi90

Thank you so much! I tried it in the same way, however I had the filter 4xTI83 activated which resulted in a crash as soon as I activated the integer scaling. After your video I first tried without filter (worked!) and afterwards with 3XTI83 (also works). Fully satisfied! Thanks!!

Daniel

Hello! Will it ever, in the future, be possible to group games together in collections on the RG35XX? would LOVE to have one folder with all of the Mario franchise games in it. One folder for all the Zelda games. One folder for all the "shoot'em'ups". One folder for Romhacks! And the list goes on and on... I really really want collections to become a thing! :)

Yngve Løkås

I have uploaded this video right now explaining how to put the overlay correctly in Garlic OS, I hope to be helpful: https://youtu.be/I-a2gO5fzkI

Gabi90

Another question from my end. In certain Videos I have seen retroarch settings „fullscreen“ in the quick menu which enables to play Gameboy games in its actual resolution with either black borders or an overlay. I cannot find the fullscreen menu, I only have the scaling option and overlay, but the game itself keeps stretched to fill the screen vertically. Was this feature dropped?

Daniel

you only need a single touch to the power button to turn it off, when you start a game and quit it, then you continue where you left off, although you can save the game with the MENU button + R2.

Gabi90

Hi, installed garlicOS for the first time today. Is there an option to turn off the device? Pressing the button on the right site brings the device to standby, right? Or is this actually the „turn off“ and a quick resume standby is not supported yet?

Daniel

I am waiting to receive that battery, specifically the 3500mAh "RG35XX" model, I suppose I will have to put the 2800mAh.dtb file as kernel.dtb? Thank you so much! you are doing a great job this OS is amazing, I love it!

Gabi90

I don't get it. I just received my battery ordered from the posted link, labeled as code 705068 and 3500mAh. Do you mean that this is actually a 2800mAh battery?

Alejandro Sánchez

Is the file cpuspeed with the clock 1488000 inside still needed?

Omen Frankfurt

This is pie in the sky, and you have been doing a lot of awesome work with this project with out this, but I find myself wishing the RG35xx would work with bluetooth headphones. Is there any way to get USB audio working? then I could use something like the Skull & Co audio stick. Thanks for all your hard work.

Nate Okun

Hi Black-Seraph, do you have capacity test data for the aliexpress batteries? I first ordered the 2800 mah one linked under a video by retro handhelds but then found the link that you posted. The batteries are definitely a bit different in dimension and the one labled as 3500mah seems a bit heavier as well, but I don't have testing equipment for batteries, so I can't check it myself. Anyway, thanks for your amazing work.

l0ud5p34k4

You should just try it, because otherwise you will never learn more about your PC :) It won't hurt.

Omen Frankfurt

Just download this files for clean install: RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.002 RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.001 Or this for update the OS: RG35XX-CopyPasteOnTopOfStock.7z.002 RG35XX-CopyPasteOnTopOfStock.7z.001

Gabi90

Just download this files for clean install: RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.002 RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.001 Or this for update the OS: RG35XX-CopyPasteOnTopOfStock.7z.002 RG35XX-CopyPasteOnTopOfStock.7z.001

Gabi90

When you are inside the game press the MENU button and the X button at the same time, go back to SETTINGS, VIDEO and activate the MULTITHREAD VIDEO option and return to the game and check if activating that option the game works better, you can also use the overclock pressing SELECT in the main menu of the console and a + symbol will appear on the battery icon, which is to go up one overclock level and if you press SELECT again 2 + symbols will appear, then ++ which is for maximum overclock you will also see that by pressing SELECT in the main menu also shows the symbol - and - -, which means the opposite of the above, said the symbols - and - - make the cpu work at a lower frequency and use less battery, etc. This can be used for undemanding consoles to save battery life, hope this can help :)

Gabi90

Just download all the files without the version number

Alejandro Sánchez

i just instald 1.3.4 , but how do i update to the latest version of the OS ?

Dennis van Hove

1.4.6 has been very stable for me. My only issue I've been personally having is getting wireless controllers set up with 8bitdo wireless dongle 2.

Ryan Huffman

I had the same issue a week or so ago and couldn't figure it out. In the end I removed and reisntalled 7zip and it worked again, so that may be worth a go if you're still have issues

Nicholas Starmore

Yes this worked for me. Hours of trialing with the other two files and then clocked there was a second set and that did the trick.

Sam Walsh

Thanks for the tip. All sorted now....i hope

Sam Walsh

Just download all the files without the version number 😉

waeggy123

Thanks for the improvements 🥰 Just one thing would make this handheld perfect for me: NDS games…. like in Batocera Lite Alpha.

waeggy123

Why don't I see any OS updates over 1.3.4? I don't see 1.4.6?

Nick Waugh

I've never encountered any issues downloading and extracting any versions. If errors persist, you can try grabbing them from here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vSyCq_G9QXcRSMC9MIckgpu3zBw1tto0?usp=share_link

bc28

My solution was to switch to a new sd card with a fresh install... this helped me from being stuck on the loading screen. Hope this helps!

William C.

When I first received my RG35xx and installed Garlic OS I had a similar issue - tried the unplugging the battery method worked but I didn't want to keep doing this over and over. Instead I tried another new sdcard with a clean install - no problems after.

William C.

I tested this file several times using 7-zip and I also received errors, ---Unexpected end of data--- when trying to extract. Hopefully this will be resolved soon.

William C.

You need both the 001 and 002 files. Download both to the same folder then extract.

bc28

The "CopyPasteOnTopOfStock.7z.001" file won't extract. It says that the archive is corrupt. The SD image .zip extracted fine. Am I doing something wrong?

Sarah Evelyn

I'm having the same boot screen issue. It only happens after I've charged the RG35XX with it powered off. Unplugging the battery fixes the problem.

Chris Leist

I just got my RG35XX today and I got GarlicOS installed, but I'm stuck on the loading sceen. I diconnected the battery for five minutes and tried again and no luck. Any new versions available that could work or new solutions? The newest version I can find is 1.3.4 edit: After formatting and reflashing my SD card with the other 2 links for the OS image, it started up great without any issues. I was just using the wrong links.

Cody LaRowe

I had to download winzip then drag and drop the file in winzip and it worked. Thank you

Frank G Vera

so i keep just getting the garlic OS loading screen. Ive reflashed the sd card and opened up the back to remove battery. Great it works....im playing my games, happy as larry....only to wake up this morning to the dreaded locked loading screen once again. I cant find a fix for this.....any ideas?

Sam Walsh

Hi Frank! Are you downloading RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.001 ---and--- RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.002 ??

William C.

Hello! Thanks for the reply! I did go back and reread Russ' guide and now see an UPDATE for the BIOS having it's own folder now. I added the correct BIOS to the proper folder as instructed. This solved the ---no PlayStation bios found - add for better compatibility--- issue. Unfortunately, it did not resolve the ---weird thing happening where the dialogue boxes and the character information screen pop-up (magic, items, equipment, etc..) now flicker really fast and hard to read.--- The game looks great on other emulators I have with no conflicts. I'm guessing this must be a minor tweak I'm not able to find or a Garlic OS PS1 issue atm? I do appreciate your help!

William C.

I think the files are not working properly. The one for retro arch are working

Frank G Vera

What"s up, I am trying to download the file for Garlic OS for the rg35xx but it isn't downloading the file with the 7zip??

Frank G Vera

Did you setup using Russ' (RetroGameCorps) guide? One of his steps addresses which BIOS files you should install. Bear in mind, you'll have to use Google to search for the BIOS file, but it's pretty easy to find once you know which one you need.

8trius

Updated to current 1.4.6 and enjoying this update very much! Only issue I've encountered is when I start playing any PS1 games a message pops up stating ---no PlayStation bios found - add for better compatibility---. I've been playing Popolocrois Monogatari (English) for the PS1 and it now has this weird thing happening where the dialogue boxes and the character information screen pop-up (magic, items, equipment, etc..) now flicker really fast and hard to read. The rest of the game looks great though. Everything else seems to be working great atm! Thank you! :)

William C.

Certain FBNEO games don't work well, I have to activate the multithread video option and this core works much better, but when saving the customization of the core or the content folder, it is not saved and you have to activate that option again, I notice this with some games like TMNT turtles in time or Violent Storm although Violent Storm seems to be more demanding and heats up the console and then goes bad, practically unplayable... Some GBA games like Sega Rally, V-Rally 3 or Moto Racer Advance does not work very well and you have to activate a + or ++, I hope this report will help you to continue improving, thank you very much for your continuous work and dedication! For now I have been able to find that, each time this CFW is better and better, congratulations!

Gabi90

Thanks so much for this tip. Anyone else struggling with this. I flashed the Sd about 10 times and it did jack sheet.....was loosing my mind. But then I went to a site called sdcard.org ( its free) and downloaded the formatter off that. When you reformat your SD Card, make sure it is formatted to Fat32 ( not sure of this is just for Mac users but that's what I needed to do).... This was doing my head in and a tiny step I kept missing....Then take the battery out the back of your RG35xx for like 10 seconds as instructed..plug it in...reset and boom its finally working!!!!

Sam Walsh

My dude, 1.4.6 is your best release yet. I have yet to encounter a single thing that needs work or fixing. And, it more accurately displays the battery? I'm astounded. Everything is buttery smooth, and Super Mario RPG and Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island play perfectly without any overclocking. Golden Sun is playing great at either one or two overclocks, and everything else plays fine on default.

8trius

Thanks for your awesome work! Just saw the low battery image is upside down :D

Tobias Matt

I thought it was cool to have returned the control of the CPU by select. It is more practical and the cool thing is that we are sure that it is active after showing the ++ signs. I hope you keep this always, but I can give you a suggestion. Would you be able to add to garlicOS the Brightness, Saturation, Contrast control option as in OnionOs? It would be amazing if you have this option on the RG35XX through your System.

Davidson Moraes

The more you learn, the more you like it, at first it seems somewhat complicated but when you see tutorials and read in forums and then apply what you have learned to your console and see that everything went well, you are very happy and you also learned something new! I am glad to read your words.

Gabi90

@gabi90 Finally got it up and running. WITH custom theme and console art. I thank you for making me come out of my comfort zone and get this party started! Even was able to flash my powkiddy x185s with lineageOS!!

Jason Ramirez

I just updated from 1.4.1 to 1.4.5. Playstation games (Crash Bandicoot) have become very laggy and stuttering (having run perfectly before) and sound quality is extremely scratchy with clock set to ++ (where it run perfectly before without overclocking). (I don't know if threaded video was enable or disabled in earlier releases, but I now have enabled it make the PS games playable again, without they wheren't anymore. I had to manually put 'threaded_video = true' into the PSX ReArmed Core's cfg file, because it would otherwise always be overwritten by the global configuration.)

Omen Frankfurt

You tried entering the RETROARCH OPTIONS of the game that you say and go to SETTINGS, VIDEO, and activate the option called MULTITHREAD VIDEO and the BILINEAR FILTER put it in bilinear, since maybe it is in bilinearx2, you can also go in KERNEL OPTIONS to AUDIO SETTINGS and set the SAMPLE RATE to 44100 for a bit more smoothness, after this resume the game and see if it works better for you and enable overclock++ if you want to increase performance. If those settings work for you, you can go to the retroarch menu, then customizations and I recommend the Save Game Customization option if you only want to change the settings for that game, if you want to save those settings for all the content you have inside the folder FBNEO you must use Save Content Directory Customization and if you want to save the configuration for that kernel you must use Save Kernel Customizations although I do not recommend using this last option, I hope I can help you :) EDIT: It may be that when saving the options they are not saved when exiting the emulator, if so, just put the same configuration back and that's it, at least it works for me at the moment with Violent Storm and is much more fluid.

Gabi90

I have found a 3500mAh battery for our rg35xx on Ali, it has good reviews, I have already ordered mine, I leave you the link in case you are interested: https://es.aliexpress.com/item/32664487625.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.5.1c07194dxcgCFi&gatewayAdapt=glo2eng The battery of my rg35xx is 2100mAh and it's a bit short for ps1 game sessions, so I decided to buy a higher capacity one.

Gabi90

Understandable, but as I said it’s not my speed yet, it’s comphendable, but it’s still not something I’m comfortable doing without full knowledge of it (flashing and portioning on windows. So in that respect I’m saying it’s not worth it for me, I am and was more than happy paying twice so far to support huia work, but I can’t get the benefits from donating, sure I got access to the files but I can’t use them with the little knowledge that I have on this, it’s not at all a disrespect to BS in any way

Jason Ramirez

Thank you very much for 1.4.5 version. There are still games that work worse than in older versions (i.e 1.3.1): - Console: 2600 battery - Core: FBNEO - Game: Altered Beast (ver 8) - Performance settings: ++ It just runs perfect on my SD with 1.3.1 version, but extremely slow in a SD with 1.4.5. (I have also tried to configure retroarch for maximum perfomance, but it still plays slow) EDIT: Also played Enduro Racer on FBNEO (1.4.5) and the screen fuzz is back :/

Alejandro Sánchez

Thanks…

Andrej Mrázik

update!! i had to reflash the micro SD card. . basicly set it up like a new SD card. remember to save your BIOS and Roms files if you need to do this

brett dahlquist

This is for install the OS: RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.002 RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.001 And this is for update the OS: RG35XX-CopyPasteOnTopOfStock.7z.002 RG35XX-CopyPasteOnTopOfStock.7z.021 The links are at the top of the post, If you don't want to install version 1.3.4 just ignore these files: RG35XX-1.3.4-MicroSDCardImage.7z.001 RG35XX-1.3.4-MicroSDCardImage.7z.002 RG35XX-1.3.4-CopyPasteOnTopOfStock.7z.001 RG35XX-1.3.4-CopyPasteOnTopOfStock.7z.002

Gabi90

If you have any questions here we will try to resolve them, but if you do not get an answer you can also look for video tutorials on the internet since there are many and very well explained, in the same way the $10 that you pay per month for this creator is a donation that you make to thank him for his work and in return you receive some bonuses... the creator offers us his content for free for all of us whether we pay or not and keeps it updated almost daily which is a great job for him and it is appreciated, I think I have donated 2 times because I appreciate his work and it works for my console and it makes me happy to have my rg35xx with this OS and it's my way of thanking him, it's as if you invited him to have a beer with him to thank him, for example.

Gabi90

i'm in the same boat, I don't think i'll be renewing again...My stupidity or lack of knowledge and no answers feels like a lot for 10$. a month.

Jason Ramirez

i would suggest just doing a fresh wipe. 95% of the errors ive come across personally have been resolved by a fresh install

Drew L

got it to work - I was using chrome to download it and it kept giving an error when unzipping - used edge to download the file and it unzipped just fine

Nick Siriban

Right click in the RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.001 and use extract here with 7zip

Gabi90

Thanks! when I download these files: RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.002 RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.001 and try to unzip them with 7zip I get an Unexpected end of data error

Nick Siriban

This is for install the OS: RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.002 RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.001 And this is for update the OS: RG35XX-CopyPasteOnTopOfStock.7z.002 RG35XX-CopyPasteOnTopOfStock.7z.021 The links are at the top of the post, If you don't want to install version 1.3.4 just ignore these files: RG35XX-1.3.4-MicroSDCardImage.7z.001 RG35XX-1.3.4-MicroSDCardImage.7z.002 RG35XX-1.3.4-CopyPasteOnTopOfStock.7z.001 RG35XX-1.3.4-CopyPasteOnTopOfStock.7z.002 I hope it helped you :)

Gabi90

how did yall get version 1.4.5? I'm only seeing 1.3.4 in the links section

Nick Siriban

I have already updated to version 1.4.5 and I have selected the file dtb2100mAh which is the battery that my rg35xx has and I have renamed it to kernel.dtb and everything is fine for me, thanks for your constant work! I am very happy with this OS! Better every time! :D :D

Gabi90

Hello, I'm using the most recent copy paste on top Garlic OS and I'm now unable to turn off my 35xx, whenever I press or hold the power button it turns off for a half second then immediately turns on again. Has anyone run into this issue?

Zach

Here you go: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2255799849972804.html?spm=a2g0o.order_detail.order_detail_item.4.27334c7fc7ft6X&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa&_randl_shipto=US

bc28

I am trying to upgrade to 1.4.4 and now my 35xx can not get passed the first garlic screen . i open it and unplug it and it keeps doing it. i tried to redo the the micro sd card thing. but still no luck . any help?

brett dahlquist

Hi, can you link the battery you found? I have only 2100mAh battery and was looking for something bigger that would fit the unit.

Andrej Mrázik

Update - 1.4.4 fixed audio in GB and GBC for me. SNES performance seems worse then in past, Yoshi's Island have more stutters - didn't play with the "new" performance options moved to Retroarch yet. And it seems that turning on Threaded Video fixed the broken audio in DOS games (tried it in the past, but it didn't worked, many times it just crashed the game/emulator) - not sure if it is ideal solution, games seems running slower when its turned on, but I am really happy the audio is working in my favorite games now..

Andrej Mrázik

I have updated to version 1.4.4 and the truth is that I love the work that is being done, it is simply beautiful, the game boy color with that overlay is wonderful, EPIC the same GBA and FC AND SFC, everything works really well and I love it Feeling the vibration of the console in games like GBC's pokemon pinball or perfect dark, as with PS1, is impressive, wonderful, I love it, I hope it continues to improve because this has a great future, I think, thanks for your work! For those of us who know retroarch and know how to use its options, this is wonderful.

Gabi90

I helped myself with setting the power management to managed performance. Standard is Balanced.

Patrik Werres

Ditto on 1.4.4. Default options had frequent stutters on plain GBA and PS1 games until I enabled Main Menu > Settings > Video > Threaded Video. It's been working since I did that under both a GBA game and a PS1 game, but I've never had this issue prior to 1.4.3 and 1.4.4.

8trius

RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.001 and RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.002 are the files you want to download! that will always be the up to date image.

Drew L

Why is 1.3.4 the only version I see to download? Am I missing something?

Clint Boyle

Bless your heart. Hopefully, you will find the support you need.

Nano

Upgraded to 1.4.4 and MAME performance is better but not 100%. Stutters are less frequent but still occurs on occasion. I also upgraded my battery to a 2800 mAh (original is 2100 mAh) and was wondering which kernel I should be using. Keep up the great work and progress!

bc28

I installed 1.4.3 and wanted to report that MAME performance has regressed, games will stutter during play. Performance seems fine for GBA, MD and PS1 consoles. This was not happening on 1.4.2. As per your instructions, I did wipe out the config directory during the upgrade to 1.4.3.

bc28

Hmm, I was still using the stock theme. Even formatted and re flashed a few times. Assumed it was a hardware issue and actually returned my unit this morning 😅 hoping to have better luck with the next one. Thank you tho!

Kevin

I think I solved this problem. I had been using a custom skin/theme for some time now and I just learned that, in newer releases of garlicos, the file settings.json got new parameters. I was replacing the whole skin folder on every update, but now my old settings.json file was missing those parameters. I just added them and no more flikering so far. Hope it helps!

Alejandro Sánchez

With all due respect, nobody asked you, either. This has been a known issue since the V2 screen came out, but the dev is only spending time on new hardware instead of maintaining old builds. You don't know where I have and haven't tried to reach the dev, I see black-seraph replying to other comments in this thread, so I tried here, too. Look at the RG353PVM thread, it's full of people who can't get it working on their hardware, but the dev is not answering any of them. Any other comments?

Eth3real

With all due respect there's a time, and place for that kinda pointless hostility, and this is neither that time, nor is it that place dude. Besides he never meant any ill will, he's just saying that if you want to talk about support concerns discuss it on the Github page where the dev is actively looking through issues, or concerns of many kinds. chances are you'll get noticed more then if you would post it here.

James Deveney

I was having the same issue Version 1.4.3 resolved this for me. You should give it a try.

Kolby Tackett

Kevin

Hi. I'm experiencing stutters on GBA-Games after the latest 1.4.3 on the default settings. When I set it to Max. Performance everything runs fine. In 1.4.1 everything was fine on default. Thank you so much for your great work.

Patrik Werres

Who asked you?

Eth3real

Wrong thread buddy.

Drew L

Threaded Video setting isn't saving with Overrides. I have to turn it on again every time I open a game. This has been the case for every version of GarlicOS I've used (1.3.1-ish and up). Perhaps the "disabled by default" nature of threading is causing this issue?

Luke Peters

Returned to GarlicOS after a while and now with 1.4.2 I have audio problems not only in DOS games but GB and GBC too… My other too main consoles I played on… Din't saw anyone mentioning it, am I only one?? It's not problem of the unit, audio on other platforms is fine…

Andrej Mrázik

https://youtu.be/fStOsRyPe5Q

The Hyur

Hi, I am experiencing this issue (recap: screen started to flicker when upgraded from 1.3.1 to 1.3.9 and 1.4.2. Console gets unusable, only reset works, but starts to flicker again after reboot): https://www.reddit.com/r/RG35XX/comments/123ftc5/screen_flickering_and_unresponsive_anyone_know_a/ Is there any way I can help to debug it? like providing some log files or something?

Alejandro Sánchez

UPDATE: I got it working!!! So I followed a video guide on the full idiot proof guide basically this hero holds your hand every step of the way on this install process I followed his method then I did as Black-Sareph said and I opened the system and unplugged the battery I let it sit for 5 minutes for good measure be careful when opening it the battery in mine was glued to the back plate and wired to the mo-bo very carefully unplug it and just give it a few then plug it back in the os loaded for me afterwards. I will post the tutorial in my reply to this comment t

The Hyur

He mentions it has been fixed in the release of 1.4.2

Ryan Mroz

Much appreciated. I will send you a test package over tomorrow once I've prepared everything.

Black-Seraph

I just sent you a message over there

Kolby Tackett

I am not but I would join or dm you to help you work out these issues

Josh Artrip

Are any of you on the Retro Handhelds Discord server? If so toss me a DM there if you are willing to help debug this issue together. I already own 7 RG35XX units... but Anbernic keeps pumping new revisions out so fast I can't keep up. Which means I need affected people like you all to get in touch so we can debug these issues together.

Black-Seraph

Power button freezes the system completely while in any emulators on 1.4.1

Dadam

just download the ones without 1.3.4 since the ones without it are always up to date

KyoloK

how do you access the 1.4.1 patch i only see the 1.3.4

Alucard

Too bad there's still no support for RG353 with a V2 screen

Eth3real

I am experiencing the same issue when power button is pressed during game play in said cores.

Ryan Huffman

I tried this (with both kernels) and it didn't make any difference for me. Still stuck on the boot screen.

T Sattoon

Yes, this had no effect.

Kolby Tackett

Just flashed as new on a 2022-11-19 motherboard. Haven't updated any configs yet. Confirmed that when I launch a title on NES, SNES, GB, GBA, and PS1 cores, pressing power during gameplay will lock the screen. Only a reset or holding the power button for 8 seconds will unfreeze. Haven't had any trouble creating or restoring from save states, though. Mine are working fine (of course, with the exception of games that use SaveRAM for gameplay elements).

8trius

On 1.4.1, try the last part of this paragraph from the release notes: "The TF2 UHS-enabled kernel DTB has been made optional and moved to kernel-tf2uhs.dtb as some user's cards stopped working with it enabled (I on the other hand can't get my card working at all without enabling UHS... as such, I now provide both DTBs and users can choose whichever works best for their cards, just rename the one you want to use to kernel.dtb and reboot your unit to use it)"

8trius

Have you tried this from the latest version (1.4.1)? "The TF2 UHS-enabled kernel DTB has been made optional and moved to kernel-tf2uhs.dtb as some user's cards stopped working with it enabled (I on the other hand can't get my card working at all without enabling UHS... as such, I now provide both DTBs and users can choose whichever works best for their cards, just rename the one you want to use to kernel.dtb and reboot your unit to use it)"

8trius

Testing 1.4.1: When pressing the power button while playing any game the console freezes instead of powering down. Game image will stay in screen, nothing else working besides the reset button. Also I had many frreze-locks when creating savestates. (won't rrecover, have to press reset)

Omen Frankfurt

2023-01-30 main board is stuck at Garlic OS boot screen. kernel can't load properly, and prevents the system from booting.

H. P.

Same. Got mine yesterday. Stuck at boot screen. Have unplugged the battery, tried reflashing, no success. Not sure what else to even try.

Kolby Tackett

Just received my new RG35XX purple unit and stuck at Garlic OS boot screen. I see the known issues about some units having this issue and the recommended action but that does not seem to have resolved my issue. I took off the back and disconnected the battery for over a minute. Any other ideas I can try? I'm dead in the water.

Kolby Tackett

It's really just for the RG35XX.

Nick Waugh

Work for RG353VS?

Jefferson Nogueira de Oliveira

This is what I did. you download them both, have both files in the same location, open 7zip, select the zipped file, then extract. It should give you a new folder. But both the 001 and 002 have to be in the same place. if you don't have both it wont work.

T Sattoon

I'm in the same boat as far as being stuck on the boot screen. Looking around, it seems like the newer units are not working with Garlic. Hopefully it'll get patched.

T Sattoon

Good to know. Thanks for your work on this! First Patreon I've ever committed to.

Luke Peters

I’m having this issue and it will only unzip one says the other it corrupt

Josh Artrip

I’ve tried that as well, still running into the issue

Josh Artrip

I have tried both

Stuart Talley

Are you downloading both the RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.001 and RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.002 files?

T Sattoon

If you want the up to date version choose the file that's "RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z" it will be the most current version.

T Sattoon

Hello, I am unable to extract the 7zip file and keeps saying that the file is corrupted, I have tried 2 different computers, reloaded and redownloaded all software and same issue every time.

Stuart Talley

i am completly dead on the boot screen, ive unplugged the battery, backup i created also failed, so im competly down, the links for download only are 1.3.4? am i missing something?

Josh Artrip

I updated it roughly 30 minutes ago so can only imagine it was the 1.4.0 release. I've had to go back to 1.3.4 version to be able to play my games again

Hawkes789

Did you use 1.3.9 release or 1.4.0 release? Just wondering if problem continues into the newest update just released

Drew L

Im also having this issue. When you turn on the device there's a message that pops up at the bottom something like "RG35XX D-Pad not configured". Had to reset it to get it back to the main screen. Also volume, menu and start buttons not working in game

Hawkes789

That was a notification issue more than a override save issue. It will get fixed as part of the 1.4.0 release.

Black-Seraph

Hi Black Seraph! I just tried 1.3.9 and I noticed that creating save states has slowed down drastically. With all versions before 1.3.9 it worked instantly each time, but now the game often freezes and/oir stutters between one and about three seconds until the message "Saved state.." appears. I have an UHS-I SD card ( TS256GUSD350V ) in slot 2 and this is where all my Retoarch pathes are pointing at ...

Omen Frankfurt

Just installed Garlic 1.3.9 and Overrides > Save (all options) don't appear to do anything now (settings aren't saved and the message at the bottom announcing a successful save doesn't appear). Very possible I messed something up, though I've done a few updates successfully before this.

Luke Peters

Joined the Patreon just to be able to reply to this comment. I'm also having the exact same issue after updating to April 1st release. Remapped buttons (A and B swapped in a lot of games/menus) and also the menu button not working within games. Thanks for all you do!

Drew L

Same here, new purple unit... Nothing seems to help... Really hope one day an update will fix this...

sUrfy

I just got my rg35xx and haven't been able to get past the boot screen. Ive tried pulling the bat multiple times, and reflashing on a new card, that has been formatted fat32, but still no dice. I've seen people saying that the latest batches aren't compatible with Garlic. Any insite on that? Fyi I have a grey one with a v6c main board, with the bigger battery. I'm using a new name brand 32gb card . I've tried different cards, and both the single and dual card setup.

T Sattoon

No, just the standard buttons. Also, thank you for your efforts, this firmware is top notch.

Millititus

I’ll be happy to continue to kick a buck your way regardless. Really appreciate all the hard work.

KrumpetPirate

Are you using an external gamepad?

Black-Seraph

That's actually on the to-do list. I'm in the process of cleaning everything up for an open-source release on Github. But there's plenty of work still to be done before I can do so.

Black-Seraph

Is anyone else having the issue where keybinds seem to be messed up? In the GarlicOS menu itself the A and B buttons are swapped. In retroarch, they are swapped as well, and when I remap them they stick, but you cannot remap the controls in the GarlicOS menu. Edit: I reformatted SD1 with the latest, and copied files to SD2 to update to 1.4.0, and now its working properly.

Millititus

just to confirm will it still say 1.3.4 on the home screen even though it's the up to date version? because mine still does

Hawkes789

I'm not sure its been optimized for the 35xx yet. If it has Im not aware

Hawkes789

I think given the scene of custom firmware for the RG35XX and the stability of this CFW that the right move is to open source this on Github so we can easily link ports and other instructions.

KrumpetPirate

I had it in the powkiddy v90 but I don't know where to get it.

Gabi90

I second this

Hawkes789

I thought there was one already?

Black-Seraph

The latest revision is always the one without a revision marker. 1.3.4 is mirrored to ensure that older apps / ports remain playable while developers update their code to support the 1.3.5+ gamepad driver.

Black-Seraph

there is possibility of a port of Streets Of Rage Remake for the rg35xx? i love it

Gabi90

It's always: RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.001 and RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.002. They get replaced every time an update is done. Ignore any of the other versions unless you have a reason to.

8trius

I'm not seeing the newest versions attached?

James Seiber

Listen to the man. He's right. But all parts in the same folder, make sure the names are correct, then right-click and 7zip -> Extract the first part (the one with the .001 file extension).

Black-Seraph

It's worth mentioning that if the files are renamed at all, it won't work. For me, I had a previous version in my downloads folder, so when I downloaded a newer version, it got renamed with a (1) at the end of the file name (before the extension) and didn't work until I made sure they were named identically.

8trius

I had problems until I made sure that they were properly named. If the file system renames them AT ALL, they won't work. This most commonly happened to me because I had previous versions in my Downloads folder, and my file system added a (1) to the end of the file, causing it to not work.

8trius

Bug report for 1.3.6 Summary: The NES core (FCEUMM) has bizarre behavior when VolumeUp and the Menu button are pressed. Details: The remapping of the controller means that Port 1 Controls use these as default: * Auto: 9 is A+B (Volume Up or Menu) * Auto: 10 Turbo A+B. (Volume Up or Menu) Solution: Disable Auto: 9 and Auto: 10 to nothing, Save Core Remapping. Or, if there's a way to fix this WITHOUT requiring a remapping, that would be preferable since there's a learning curve for new RetroArch users who just want to change the button layout without worrying about the other buttons demonstrating unexpected behavior.

8trius

May I ask where can I download the 1.3.6 image please?

Hawkes789

Was just about to ask the same question. I'm not seeing the 1.3.6 download.

Nick Waugh

Is 1.3.6 available?

Jimmer Seiber

I noticed if a game file name is extremely large it will just go off the screen, is there a way to have some sort of text wrap so that it doesn't go off the screen. Also would it be possible to be able to create a bound for the length of the text wrap so that if we add our own box art we can word wrap the text to the limit of the size of the art?

Mike Sullivan

Ahhh sorry, great stuff! I will try that now 😁 thanks for the reply!

Ironheart Customs

Please read the install instructions in the post carefully. The latest ScummVM core addons made the OS grow beyond 200MB, which forced me to upload the files as split archives. The files work fine, but you need to download all parts and put them in the same folder before right-clicking and extracting the first archive (the one ending with a .001 extension).

Black-Seraph

Yea same thing here it works with past links he’s posted like the one under this post I can unzip just fine.

Mugzy

damn... :( in 7zip on every single file it says " unable to open file, it's either not supported or damaged"

Ironheart Customs

Will try this thank you.

Mugzy

You download both 1 and 2 to same location then extract 1

Ryan Huffman

Getting same issue. Tried also 7zip and Winrar.

Raul Aguiar

why is there so many download links now? when i download the RG35XX-MicroSDCardImage.7z.001i also tried .002 and when i go to extract it tells me unexpected end of data or that its corrupt. I'm using winrar but did try 7zip as well. Please help

Mugzy

I have discord but am not a member on the server. I can give you an in depth description on what is happening but didn't want to do it here. Thanks

Austin Koske

I will need a bit more than "It crashes". Are you by chance a member of the Retro Handhelds Discord server? It is where I idle (for the most part) while getting work done and the easiest way to slip me some quick video footage of the issue in question and, if necessary, to get a TeamViewer session set-up so I can take a look at your unit via ADB.

Black-Seraph

'copy over stock .002' archive seems to be corrupted, as after download, is just 518KB and cannot be extracted. However, I managed to boot the Garlic, and found out that retroarch would not work with custom skin set which was working before. Also, recent menu does not shows the screens, for the same games/cores it used before.

Srdjan

I'm new to Garlic OS and am having major crashing issues. Sometimes it will work fine for a while then when I try to pull up the menu the system crashes and the screen glitches out. If I reboot, the GarlicOS screen comes up but then the screen glitches out again. I have to take out the SD cards and wait a minute or two then it will sometimes boot back up. I lost over an hour of gameplay today because of the crash and I'm losing my mind. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks

Austin Koske

OK, I finally found out what's wrong. Something must have changed in the tf2*.cfg file to point to screenshots in a folder that didn't exist. Russ' instructions for using a second SD card did not include creating a Screenshots folder on the root of the ROMs MicroSD card (for the TF2 slot). I created a folder on the root of the ROMs folder, Screenshots, and now the behavior does NOT happen.

8trius

From Jarno_Jarno on Discord, "Yeah the redirects are there on first full flash, but are gone also after that starting a game or RA. Maybe he only needs to create those empty folders in full flash (saves/profile/saves and states and the screenshot folder. Then it probably will work."

8trius

Just reflashed 1.3.3. and made zero changes to the installation. The problem is persisting across all cores.

8trius

I'll try flashing again. This was off a fresh install of 1.3.3. I'll download and refresh again.

8trius

You probably have a override set somewhere. I just prepared a fresh card and it saves them to the Screenshots directory on the card-root.

Black-Seraph

What do you mean?I already set up the sd card and stuff without it but I’ll try tommorow for sure

Corbin Swoope

You have to download both files to same location

Ryan Huffman

im trying to figure out the same

Ryan Huffman

Would it be possible to add USB keyboard+mouse support for Amiga and C64?

Omen Frankfurt

Huge screenshot problem on 1.3.3: When you take a screenshot, it is stored in the same folder as the ROM itself, which then shows up as a duplicate entry in the GarlicOS menu. Just tried making ten screenshots of Duck Tales for the NES, and there are now eleven entries of Duck Tales in my FC menu. I tested this on every core I use, defaults for: NES, SNES, GB, GBA, and PSX. It's doing it to all of them. I checked on the Main Menu > Settings > Directory and Screenshots are set to "Current Directory". This is gotta be it....

8trius

whats the difference with the 002 file and the 001 file?im a little confused

Corbin Swoope

Great work on the GarlicOS so far! Really like the snappy "just exit game and jump back to where you left" snapshot feature. Shame not all cores work with it yet.

Tronlec

Hi, anyone knew if it is possible to change game titles in console menus? Custom ROM/Game title - it's ok for most systems I am currently trying but Arcade and NeoGeo have crazy long names, 2 or 3 variants of the game title, some codes... It's borderline unusable (for some titles I cant read them their are chopped out).

Andrej Mrázik

it seems like ever since 1.2.0 or thereabouts launching Playstation games from the Console menu has been fixed, and even the Recents for PS games has also been fixed! this is much appreciated! :D

Jason

Hello Black Seraph! I have a rather new RG35XX (bought three weeks, ago, one of those that often reboot when trying to power off) and there's an issue with the buttons: When playing and after entering the Retroarchmenu (Menu+X), and then leaving the menu, the menu button often won't work anymore. Neither for going back to the 'main menu/game selection list', nor for entering the Retroarch config again. Sometimes, when then pressing 'menu' combined with 'DPad down' it 'fixes' this issue and the 'menu'-button will again work once for entering the menu.

Omen Frankfurt

Thank you for everything! I just upgraded to 1.3.1 from 1.0.6. It seems the GameBoy color overlays are missing? You Used to be able to scroll the color options with the L/R's. Would love some info/help!! Thank you again!! BIG FAN. ( FOUND IT!! All is well with the world )

Nick Waugh

I just want to say great work! I have no complaints or requests, you fixed some stability issues I had weeks ago already and since then my RG35XX has been my favourite device. Thanks for putting in this work :)

OS - V1.3.0 ROM - Pokémon Emerald Issue: Upgraded to 1.3.0, then transferred my .sav to roms/Saves/CurrentProfile saves/mGBA/ I changed the extension to .srm, however when I go to boot up Pokémon Emerald, it always starts a new game. Any insight?

Eric Tamao

So you mention at the bottom of the post a fix for when your unit is stuck on the GarlicOS boot screen; so far pulling the battery has not fixed the issue and for obvious (?) reasons it's not really feasible as a fix, anyway. Any idea if this issue is fixable on the software end or if it's just a Thing We Deal With? Installing v1.3.0

Tim Maki

Great work as always! I wanted to reach out, I'm very into creating themes for these devices... That being said the .json files for themes look different than of course onionOS, I wanted to see what sort of edits/customization variables we can use. For example: is there a preferred way to remove the labels on "Favorites" or "Consoles"? Changing that value to a blank space or leaving it empty in the language .json does not work.

mathew aguilar

You are doing A LOT of work, my dude. I just wanted it to be on your radar.

8trius

I've added it to my to-do list. Bit busy at the moment though so I can't tell you when the fix will land yet.

Black-Seraph

It also happened to me when I tried loading Lufia II yesterday after upgrading to 1.2.7 without my configs transferred. Once I disabled the feature, my saves loaded properly.

8trius

That would be a Black Seraph question, I'm ignorant about that level of porting.

8trius

Absolutely! I've tried Lufia II, Hook, and Contra III: The Alien Wars. Everything I've tried on a SNES game repeats this behavior. Steps to reproduce: 1. Launch game 2. Go to Quick Menu > Cheats 3. Manually add a cheat 4. Enable cheat 5. Apply cheats 6. Either RESUME or RESTART 7. Black screen I've tried codes on the NES and GameBoy cores with zero issues. But SNES hard crashes the entire system.

8trius

I will take a look into it. Mind telling me what game you've been using so I can re-create the situation on my end accurately?

Black-Seraph

Not that I know. Patreon is somewhat limited when it comes to file management.

Black-Seraph

Is there any way to have an unique endpoint for downloading RG35XX-CopyPasteOnTopOfStock.7z (not a new one for each version) ? I need it to automate my updates. thank you

FLY

1.2.7 Every time I try to apply a cheat code in a SNES game, the screen goes completely black and the entire device crashes. I have to hold the power button down for 10 seconds to get the thing to reboot, I can't exit to Garlic, I can't bring up the RetroArch menu. It just completely, 100% locks up.

8trius

new version, much easier to update (via USB + adb : https://github.com/Skekfly/garlicos-updater)

FLY

Also, there's yet another couple of people struggling with save progress getting screwed up due to the "Don't Overwrite SaveRAM On Load" feature being enabled. https://www.reddit.com/r/RG35XX/comments/11qz1nj/save_data_wipe_after_sleep_mode/

8trius

Nope, it's not the governor. It's something weird with the v-sync. A restart solves it. I have the Retroarch logs, if you're interested I can give them to you. It seems like when I have the stutters Retroarch cannot estimate properly the refresh rate of the screen.

Antonio D'Alonzo

Thanks for the answer! I didn't know that. Any chance it can be compatible with it later?

Antoine Guédès

Yeah the sound makes it unplayable. For the time being I copied everything to GPSP folder, so everything is like it was before. I'm sure there is a good reason for the switch to mgba, but as of now GPSP is just the better solution on the doubleX with Garlic for me.

Ole

I'm all in on the transition from gbSP to mGBA. I imagine this is a balancing act and quite difficult to navigate, but thanks for all the hard work! With all that said, the sound on every game I've used mGBA in 1.2.7 for sounds unbearably tinny and in some cases my ears can't handle it with headphones on. Just launch Metroid Fusion and try to see how long you can last with headphones on through the launch screen.

8trius

It's not just the speaker. I plugged my headphones in and had to yank them out when I launched Metroid: Fusion. The intro sounds horrible. So does Metroid: Zero Mission, and of course the Camelot games remain this "Fix this, break that" thing that I can't wait for us to move past.

8trius

GarlicOS is for the RG35XX, not the RG351V.

8trius

Is Retroarch launched with the performance governor? I'm thinking that the random stutters that happen even in overclock mode, that require a Retroarch restart, are due to the interactive governor not always ramping up in when launching RA. Am I wrong?

Antonio D'Alonzo

I can't get GarlicOS to work on my Anbernic RG351V console even after trying several tutorials. I flashed the GarlicOS image on a Samsung 64Gb SD card and when I plug it in and boot the console, I keep getting a system failure error with following message "Booting fail! Check kernel and dtb images!". I have tried multiple time to reset the SD Card, remove partitions and recreate ones but it keeps failing after I flash the GarlicOS images. Could it be that this SD Card is wrong? I will probably order a SanDisk one instead and try again.

Antoine Guédès

I noticed, that when playing a Gameboy game and having used the Retroarch Configuration for changing the Vieeo filter, and then going back to the game, the menu key stops working and won't take me to the recent menu. Could you please have a look at this? :)

Omen Frankfurt

Man, so many updates in the last days. Thank you for the work! GBA Audio quality now seems really bad. I almost thought something happened to my speaker, but SNES etc. seem normal. Any tips to get GBA sounding better again?

Ole

Yeah, this is a known issue sadly. The exact same issue that OnionOS had when they moved over to mGBA. :( Thankfully all you have to do is rename the .sav files to .srm and copy them into the mGBA saves directory.

Black-Seraph

Thanks for the update 1.2.6 I tested my FFVI save and it didn't load up properly since now the core points to mGBA instead of gpSP. I just wanted to mention if you face something similar and you had a recent manual game save that you can copy that one to the new folder after converting the format from .sav to .srm The save states are not compatible, I think.

cat-astrophic

That's much appreciated! Thanks!

Black-Seraph

Hello! I meant a terminal App, so we could do some configuration work like bind mounts, debugging and such directly on the device.

Omen Frankfurt

Thanks for all your work, I hope you can continue to improve until you do the best you can, since I think this console has a lot of potential but it has a rather poor stock firmware and thanks to you and your great work this console is much more enjoyable, and being able to play all the ps1 games in your CFW is wonderful, greetings and I invite you to a coffee ;)

Gabi90

Yes, I already compared the core between versions of GarlicOS which have and have not the problem and their are identical. HW-overleys are or have something to do with notification renderer? I tried disabling notifications in RetroArch but it didn't helped - is there a way for me how to disable HW-overlays even if just for test if that is the problem?

Andrej Mrázik

Nothing has changed in the dosbox_pure core since its color fix way way back. I figure the only big thing that has changed as of late is the implementation of HW-overlays.

Black-Seraph

A root shell? All apps run in root context on this device by default.

Black-Seraph

Hi, does somebody using RG35XX for DOS games? Any advice how to fix audio in DOSBox? It worked fine until GarlicOS 1.0.9.

Andrej Mrázik

I wanted to let you know there's a way to have fsck store it's temporary data to a drive instead of RAM. So you could create an additional partition on the sd card and enable fsck again. (https://www.aplawrence.com/Unixart/fsck.html) Thank you for all the great work in making the RG355XX useable! :) (PS: I also wondered if you could add a root shelll to the apps?)

Omen Frankfurt

Got it, thanks

cat-astrophic

Previously the text displayed in the menus could be altered via this file, this has now been deprecated in favor of localization files inside the lang subdirectory.

Black-Seraph

"No longer supported skin settings have been removed from skin/settings.json" what does this mean exactly?

cat-astrophic

I've confirmed that 1.2.2 is working, and I am using dual cards with 256gb in TF2. @BlackSeraph - Thanks and truly appreciate all the great work you've done to bring this device alive!

bc28

is there any chance an auto sleep option could be added for 5 minute and 15 minute of inactivity like in OnionOS?

another.alvin

If it can be useful for someone, I share here my scripts for updating easily my RG35XX with the latest version of GarlicOS : https://github.com/Skekfly/garlicos-updater

FLY

Here are some recent paste on top versions: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vSyCq_G9QXcRSMC9MIckgpu3zBw1tto0?usp=share_link

bc28

any news about the cold start issue? It's really annoying. Is a fault of my device or is a real issue for others too?

Antonio D'Alonzo

I upgraded from 1.1.7 to 1.2.0, but after the initial UI loaded the screen locks up and cuts to black (with the LCD backlight still powered). Unfortunately I don’t have the previous update files I had used to get to 1.1.7. Is there a repository with the past versions for a rollback posted elsewhere?

Gallo

Would it be possible to implement some sort of "collecrion"? I would love to have a "folder" with only rom hacks inside.

Yngve Løkås

I wasn't able to upgrade to v1.2.0 using the paste on top method. The device would try to boot up, then freeze up with the following screen, see photo: https://imgur.com/a/BZPQN6E Was able to roll back to v1.1.9.

bc28

Any plans to add a search function?

Mike

Here's how I carry over my RetroArch configs without having to re-do all my aspect ratio, don't overwrite SRAM, and other features, between updates. No Name > CFW > Retroarch > .retroarch > configs I just copy that entire "configs" folder from install to install. Has worked fine for the last couple of updates for me.

8trius

I'm not understanding. <s> Are you talking about the "save-states" compatibility or the "savefiles" compatibility?</s> And are you talking about the OnionUI? OnionUI has nestopia,vba-next and the plus version of the snes9x2005 core too. I don't have a Miyoo Mini for testing cross-savestates compatibility, however. EDIT: you were talking about savestates :D sorry

Antonio D'Alonzo

The reason we use the cores we do is for Miyoo Mini cross-save compatibility, I understand there are at times "better" cores available to us, but intentionally not use them as it would break cross-saves. We'd probably need additional patches in these new cores to somehow accept other core savestates, which IMO is just asking for trouble. What do you think about it?

Black-Seraph

Some cores are known to be glitchy when using savestates. There's just not much I can do about it I think. :( If you have a suggestion on how to best handle this though, do let me know.

Black-Seraph

Thanks for all the work! A few issues: 1) on cold starts (after the device is off for some time) I have screen glitches (like repetition of frames of a previous opened game, the screen divided in 4 for a bried period of time, or even an anticipation of frames, like a game Menu appearing half screen even before the game loaded) and stutters (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iVRYaNJMg6E). A restart solves it 2) <s>playing while charging every button press causes a sound coming out of the speaker. Sometimes I heard some buzzes when I have the flickers explained in the point 1.</s> it was the charger :) 3) notifications not staying up sometimes or appearing late. Sometimes when I'm in fast forward the notifications disappear and even the screen itself turns off until I stop the fast forward. 4) compiled some cores by myself, I have problems with Nestopia loading (here's the log https://drive.google.com/file/d/1226OcvtN6uzZfyln-be64F8G07gThEqa/view?usp=sharing). VBA-Next works good with threaded video on. I suggest you to change the stock snes9x2005 core with the snes9x2005-Plus one, this has basically the same performances but accurate audio (just change the "USE_BLARGG_APU ?= 0" line in the makefile of the core to "USE_BLARGG_APU ?= 1"). I use it without a problem. 5) mGBA audio is heavily distorted. I have the rg35xx from some days, tested with 1.1.8 and 1.1.9 GarlicOS. I use 2 SanDisk cards. I use stock overclock and +.

Antonio D'Alonzo

Some other extra issue: Wonderswan games get glitchy when you are using either autosave or save and load states. I have to manually restart the game and load up a regular save in-game to continue playing. GarlicOS version 1.1.9

cat-astrophic

I have a minor issue to report. Whenever I open a NeoGeo game the shortcut for going back to GarlicOS Menu (single tap Menu button) no longer works and I have to double tap instead to do that. This keeps happening to the rest of the platforms and the only solution I've seen is to reflash or reinstall garlicOS. I am on 1.1.9

cat-astrophic

can the .img be less of 4GB please? I have 4GB msd's lying around and when I image it says there are around 20~30 MB needed

Miguel Torrellas

It's very much not a big deal, but I wanted to let you know that your image doesn't fit on a 4GB Toshiba SD card I have here. Etcher said it's over by ~91MB, I can check for exact amount if you'd like.

KC

I can't seem to be able to launch PS One games from the console's menu. I have to manually launch from Retroarch. I do have the required BIOS files. the game switcher also doesn't work for PS One games.

Jason

Sound now working again with 1.19, thanks for picking these fixes up so quickly, awesome work!

Nicholas Starmore

Can confirm that my audio is now back on 1.1.9. Thank you very much Black Seraph for your hard work. It is so appreciated. Question: is there any way to keep my Retroarch config between updates? I like to change a few settings, set original aspect ratio, change the slow-motion into a rewind function, and remove the Y and X buttons. Edit: just wanted to add that when at full volume my speaker crackles and seems overdriven. Obviously not a game breaking bug I just keep the volume lower. But figured you might want to know if you don't have hands on this particular board revision.

JC

Excellent 1.18 is running nice and smoothly on mine after 1.17 had the button pressing issues. I still have no sound out of the speaker though. It will work perfectly though the headphone jack, so I don't know if that sheds any light on where the issue could be. Just to confirm it isn't a hardware fault as the sound is fine on the standard OS.

Nicholas Starmore

Alright, I can confirm that gameplay is more stable on 1.1.8, no unintended keypresses or interactions, but now I have absolutely no sound from the speaker. I've tried a fresh install on a new SD card with only the ROM file coming over, still no audio. Any suggestions? Edit: turned on fron sleep and audio was working. Started cutting in and out after 30 seconds of game play.

JC

We've found a few issues with certain PCB revisions that 1.1.8 will address. Please retry once 1.1.8 is live and let me know if the issue persists or not.

Black-Seraph

Yup same as me this build doesn't appear to be stable atm. Back to the stock OS for now 😢

Nicholas Starmore

Oh glad this isn't just me then, got mine yesterday put this build on and having this issue as well as no sound.

Nicholas Starmore

Hey I'm getting audio coming in and out on 1.1.7, I play GBA and GB. Can confirm speaker is a-ok from the original Anbernic SD. I didn't change anything from the 1.1.4 --> 1.1.7 update. EDIT: my system is generally unstable, lots of mis clicking and things cycling on screen I'm not actioning. Thougth I had a bum unit until I put in the stock SD. Maybe avoid until 1.1.8.

JC

great question. I second this.

Marc

sounds like I'm not the only one. Thats at least a positive. thank you!

Marc

Yes, there are repeated reports from folks at Reddit that 1.1.7 is causing a kind of repeated Select input pressing over and over again. I'm on 1.1.4 and I'm not experiencing this issue.

8trius

Did a fresh Install and I am having an issue with the OS cycling through all the over/underclocking options by itself at the home screen with no inputs. I thought this may be a handwear issue so I did an I/O test with the stock OS and there was no issue. Tried two different sized & branded SD's both with 1.1.7. Any suggestions?

Marc

Thanks for fix the Supergrafx emulator :)

Francisco Eugenio Feijóo Seara

Does the new PCB offer any improvements over the previous one? If it does I might buy a new one and give my current one to one of my kids.

8trius

I’d really like to be able to set up just my gameboy cores with a pixel grid video filter. In the latest build of Garlic (1.1.4) there doesn’t seem to be a way to save video filters per core. I can get them to work sometimes, but it never saves the override. And it locks me out of playing gb roms entirely if I try to do it on the system level. Can anyone confirm if video filters are buggy for them or am I doing something wrong?

Timaaaahhhh

I really want one of this for my Rg353v =)

Diego Menezes

It seems to be a simple settings issue with Dosbox Pure: it turns out that activating the setting "Force output to 60fps" is crucial. With that, the rest is just a matter of tweaking the Cycles settings when necessary as usual, and games like SkyRoads run great again.

Arno Fleck

Any plans to reinstate fast forward toggling on gpSP and gambatte in a future update? Older Pokemon games are a slog without it.

Alex Roggow

tnx, I have resolved in the meantime, so it's up .. today did a dirt flash to latest version, and all is fine. Things which I really cannot resolve (and I cannot distinguish if it more of retroarch or Garlic, as never dealt with neither of those) are (and rom version and bios setup should be already fine are: HDMI ouptut have no sound (stock has, so the cable and TV should be fine), HDMI outout is stretched to Y axis, so no whole screen is visible (TV has aspect ratio setip). HDMI output is too pixelated; slow Amiga emulation, and inability to load so many games, or swap floppies; NEGO GEO emulation in general; Bad dudes vs Dragon Ninja has no sounds, and cannot emulate Super Hang On know is a drop in a sea yet those are some of my favourites)

Srdjan

Your game folders are probably named wrong if you did the copy paste install. Garlic uses the Onion OS rom folder names that are different than every other format. Look up the Onion folder names and change them.

Michael Brockway

Something between 1.0.9 and 1.1.0 seems to have regressed the DOS performance - I ran a lot of DOS games perfectly yesterday, and after updating, even the simplest games stutter and run only at 50%, overclocked or not. Any idea what happened? EDIT: It got a little better with the update to 1.1.4 (instead of 50%, I now get 80%), but it's still stuttering and running slow where it worked completely fine a couple of days ago. Would really appreciate if this could get to working or if you have a hint what I could configure. Some more data points: I update with the full image, ROMs and data is on a secondary SD card. An obvious candidate for the issue is the game SkyRoads, which used to run perfectly.

Arno Fleck

Your comment is several days old and there's been a few fixes since then. Do you still have this issue on the latest build?

Black-Seraph

I am using my OnionOS card in my rg35xx. I'd like to keep the ports separately. Where can I configure the PORTS directory location? Spent sometime browsing the flat files in all 4 partitions but didn't find it. Will probably scan them all now for the PORTS string, but wanted to write here too. Thx EDIT: used "strings|grep PORTS" over every file in the FW microSD but couldn't locate it

RetroMinimalist

I did the last Garlic instal over new SD card, did all by the book, yet when boot the rg35xx, only I get is the splash screen, and nothing then happens. Any clue?

Srdjan

Thank you so much.

plank walker

Its supported now.

Black-Seraph

Amazing work! Here is a photo of my playing Crash with the 35XX on my CRT (a Sony PVM from the 80s.) One small request I have is - could there be a way to divert audio to the headphone jack, instead of HDMI, when headphones are plugged in? Unfortunately, my setup has no way to capture audio over HDMI. https://imgur.com/WMlumLh Another request, while I'm at it - it would be cool to be able to turn the screen brightness completely off while in HDMI mode. I think it would save a ton of battery life (and be less distracting).

Justin Raymond

Thank you so much for this! I have a Miyoo Mini and the RG35XX and Garlic really helps to bridge the gap between the two devices. Something that I would like to suggest is to use the right aspect ratio for the screenshots in the "recent games" played (the ones we can access with the menu key).

Helder Nascimento

Thanks for the excellent work! Will a new version have an option to delete the rom directly on the RG35XX? Also, a function to choose random games would also be nice.

Pulso da Terra

press start in the main menu to adjust date/time. If it doesnt work, your skin does not have the correct files to display the UI

Jack Brookes

So I finally updated the OS and now I see the time in the top right, but is there a way to set it properly? If not, can I remove/disable it?

Joseph Yannotti

Thx. So hopefully it'll be supported soon

Tommy Ha Phuoc

Yeah it works fine on StockOS. Tried it on Gran Turismo for instance.

Francesca Dysart

any chance to get scummvm games working from the consoles list? i can get them to show up there and i'm fairly certain i'm pointing to the correct location from there within the .scummvm file, but for some reason the games won't load. i don't see any errors within the log file so i'm not quite sure what's going on.

Raymond Romero

Awesome work! Honestly the only thing I'd like functionality wise would be an indication for volume and brightness, but otherwise Garlic is as polished as I'd expect from a commercial product. Surprised Anbernic doesn't want to hand out some zenny for such a nice OS on their system.

Michael Brockway

Hi, I'm trying to load a Supergrafx rom, but it doesn't work, even using retroarch, the screen goes black and doesn't load the game :(

Francisco Eugenio Feijóo Seara

No info regarding vibration? Has anyone managed to make it work on StockOS first?

Tommy Ha Phuoc

In retroarch go to input settings -> hotkeys -> take a screenshot and pick one.

Ole

Is it possible to take screenshots in GarlicOS? I see there is a screenshots folder in the hidden retroarch folder on the SD card

Joseph Yannotti

Can anyone tell me how to add doom to prboom?

Mark Read

I was definitely panicking trying to find an image of the 28 January update. Although now that I think about it I do have the 25 January one that I could image then use the 28 copy over on top of it.

Michael Brockway

If your double X gets stuck at a black screen you can also try plugging in a USB-C power cable to reset it. I've had freezes a couple times while plugging a second SD card in and that fixes it.

Michael Brockway

Yeah thats very very sad. i even try to find the previous garlicOS files

Manuel Niehoff

Awesome work, thank you so much. Makes this device really interesting and I'm in that nice "is there a new update?" phase. Could a visual info be implemented for showing changes in volume level? Feels weird to have no visual feedback when adjusting. Glad to see the update for pico8. Any idea, why certain pico games give the runtime error? Downstream Dream for example shows that error "No Carts Found" etc. while other games work flawlessly. Is that just normal fake08 behavior, or could something be done? Looking forward to future Garlic goodies!

Ole

Thanks for your work on this! A recent update removed pressing R2 to enable fast forward on GB/GBA emulators. Having to use the RetroArch hotkey combo is very annoying and blocks other inputs while held. Any reason for this or plans to re-instate it?

Jack Brookes

Hi. Thanks for making garlic os! It saved my rg35xx from the trash. Iz do have one issue. When launching future cop lapd chd for psx, i get a black screen that breaks the entire os. I have to flash my sd for that black screen to go away. I'm unsure if that's the only chd that does that. Keep up to good work. I love it!

Hannes Roets

Don't know if this affected anyone else, but this update wrecked my XX. I was on the 28 January version, did the update copy over stock, installed the catpuccino skin, and it basically stopped responding to the menu button. I was in Xenogears with enhanced res on that auto loaded. I flashed a new 16gb card to run roms off the second card so hopefully don't have another catastrophic fail like this.

Michael Brockway

WOW. Long live Black Seraph!

Jose Rivera

Awesome work. Basically saved this handheld!

Michael Brockway

I go on vacation for a week and come back to basically an entirely new handheld experience. Thanks Black-Seraph!

Dadam

I see a reference to the C64 on 14th Jan but I cant seem to get this working. do I need to load a core and if so which on as I cant see anything obvious

Andrew J Cranswick

There is one, normally...

Tommy Ha Phuoc

Menu + R2 to quick save state, Menu + L2 to quick load state. Otherwise, Menu + X for RetroArch menu and save/load from there

cordlord

SNES save states do not load correctly on newest update

cordlord

Does any one know how to add more video filters? Since there isn't GPU on this device, shaders can't be used. We can only rely on CPU video filters. But I find the default list limited, especially when trying to get a proper CRT look. Scanlines are only in 2x version, which don't fit well with Snes resolution when scaled to 4:3 format. Same for GBA Grid. Is there a way to add more or tweak them? Or any tips to get as closed as CRT and LCD look? Thx guys

Tommy Ha Phuoc

This is on the tech specs on the anbernic site: Support 2.4G wireless gamepad and wired gamepad connection, HDMI output TV, vibrating motor. There was definitely a switch on the original operating system.

Mark Read

Does this device even have a rumble motor in it? I have the transparent model and I can't see any inside

Joe T

Thanks! I saw that a few days ago when I changed software. I appreciate the reply though!

Phillip Angle

The +- ++ and -- etc in the battery icon are the notification of core frequency.

Mark Read

Hi could someone tell me why I'm not getting rumble/vibration... or how to turn it on... especially on psone? I've tried switching to dualshock in psx core but still no joy. I know out of box the rg35 had an option to turn on or off but can't find it on Garlic.

Mark Read

usb hub passthrough charging doesn't work for me. I wonder if that will be something possible to implement or if it is a hardware limitation.

Florent Morfaux

So it turns out the instructions were kinda confusing. It’s: “ROM” (as in the rom partition of the drive)/Rom(folder)/chosenconsole/Imgs So more directly for Gb it would be: ROM/Rom/GB/Imgs

Ryan

I have not had success with the new way either….hoping things get ironed out and someone can explain it to me?!?

iCue

when you're in game, hold down the menu button and press the X button. this should bring up the retroarch quick menu. from here there should be an option to save state, load state, etc. by default save states will auto-increment by 1 every time you use them, but that can be toggled in retroarch settings if you don't like it.

ryan but also cloud red xiii

Thank you so much, This has seriously made this device so much more fun. Is there a way to do Save States?

Jimmer Seiber

The RG35XX is a Cortex A9 and all capsimg.so in the web to support the .ipf files even when compiled for armv7 are not working. A possible solution could be fresh compiled capsimg.so from amiberry source code using the PLATFORM=s812 (Generic Cortex A9). If somebody has more experience and time to test it, it would be great, because my knowledge in compiling is absolute noob level.

waeggy123

A small bug on systems with a lot of games, 1000-2000 in my case : When i start to scroll the gamelist from the end, it goes back to the main menu of Garlic. Got the problem with SFC and MAME folders but it maybe occurs on others.

Julien Naels

Is there supposed to be a notification for changing core frequency when hitting the select button? Also battery indicator for my device jumps up and down all the time going from full all the way down to below half and back up over the course of a few minutes.

Phillip Angle

Good, the most important is that it works. But i prefer to have games on a second card so if the OS crash i just need to reflash the first SD card, which saves time. Managed to make it work in FAT32 but i would prefer to use EXT4 as it gets corrupted less easily. My quest is not over ! Have a great day guys.

Julien Naels

I decided to just use 1 card and everything works as it should.

Stephen Sayles

I tried a fresh install on another card and am still having the same issues (favorites are completely wiped now though). I ended up just switching back to the 1/22 release and it's working just fine. Very odd.

James Boone

Well it works using FAT32 partition. If it can help someone else ;)

Julien Naels

Hello, i can't even see folder of the sd card in retroarch, not talking about seing games or consoles... Tried lot of things, ext4, Exfat, created a roms/Roms folder, etc... Also tried different sd card all brand new... And also GarlicOS from different releases dates, no difference. If you have an idea ;)

Julien Naels

Just to chip in, my favorites appear to be intact

cordlord

Noticed my custom theme in RetroArch was over written after today's update. Can't help but wonder if any of my other custom settings for each core, directory, and games might have gotten overwritten as well. Otherwise looking great so far, will do more testing later

cordlord

I haven't had success trying either unfortunately

Ryan

my issue with loading art in the old method was that i was forgetting to include the extension in the name of the cover art, so like "castlevania-sotn.bin" should have matching cover art named "castlevania-sotn.bin.png" i haven't tried the new method yet so unfortunately i cannot help you troubleshoot there, but i can do my best to help with the old method!

ryan but also cloud red xiii

The latest version is giving me issues. Can't load a bunch of games and my favorites disappeared after the letter B.

James Boone

MENU + SELECT, the battery icon changes accordingly to the description of the updates: ( ) 1.0GHz (default) ( - ) 700MHz ( --) 500MHz ( + ) 1.3GHz ( ++) 1.5GHz

Bruno Funnie

How did you set the OC / UC? Super Mario RPG was playing great in the last release...it's chugging now

T33Hud

I'm not having any luck loading game art in the new, or old method. Any advice, or has anyone else ran into this?

Ryan

This latest update is very unstable (Jan 23) I thought I was doing something wrong but I think is something related to the latest OC/UC options, I`ve tried to OC (++) and it just bricked the OS, can`t open it anymore, gonna need to reinstall again.

Bruno Funnie

The sdcard must be in exFat or vfat format, then just add a Roms/, for example: Roms/SFC/ Roms/FC/ ...

Bruno Funnie

How do I use the ext 2 microsd for consoles, I can load up content with retroarch, but would like to have consoles populated as well from ext2. Thanks great cfw

Stephen Sayles

I like to return to recent games so I can easily switch from a game to another. An option to customize the home button behavior should please everyone <3

Florent Morfaux

Some CPS1 games are getting the image cropped. https://imgur.com/a/DhmmIGj

Bruno Funnie

Like @Dadam, when I turn off the Threaded video and save my overrides it doesn't stay off when open or re-open games... It's for all systems... I juste want turn-off Threaded video and that stay turn-off when I launch a New game. Thanks you from France for your marvelous work on this OS for this Amazing RG35XX!!!

Seiya Halliwell

Will you be adding the Atari800 core to Garlic OS? It seems to recognize the folder, but I'm not seeing the actual core in RetroArch.

Indiepocalypse.Social Admin

puae-2021 is great. Now I need to find the correct capsimg.so for the ipf files which i prefer :) If there are any ideas, it would be great to get some input. capsimg for retroarch already tested, but the game won´t load

waeggy123

for now i'd recommend making a backup of your misc drive then deleting the dmenu.bin, hdmi.bin, and uImage files. you should then have plenty of room to pull those files from the new update onto your misc drive.

ryan but also cloud red xiii

i'm currently encountering this as well, the most recent update (1/21/23) appears to put me over on my misc folder by ~3MB when i try to update. looks like it's a default warning as a result of the total amount of files to copy over being greater than the remaining free space on the misc drive, even though the bulk of files are being overwritten meaning that there should be plenty of space available. i'd guess that a reformat/expanding the misc drive should solve it but atm i don't have a backup sd card to test with

ryan but also cloud red xiii

its mostly as simple as making your own bmp and zipping it with gzip, but just exporting from GIMP or some other program as bmp may not work. i've found the best method is to make an image in whatever program you want to use then open it in ms paint and convert to bmp, then gzip the resulting file. while there are gz converters online, i've had the best results after just downloading and installing gzip on my pc

ryan but also cloud red xiii

Need help. I keep clicking on the MicroSDCardImage but it downloads as a text file only and not an image

Gudi Sandoval

Quick question: When I try to move over the misc folder I’m getting an error saying not enough free space. Anybody else encounter this and/or have a solution? Thanks

iCue

Dude you're a wizard, so much progress in so little time. Shut up and take my money.

James Giger

Thanks, I'll give that a shot. I've done a few attempts at fresh installs now. I'm currently running everything on one SD card again, and still encountering the freezing while trying to scroll through the SNES games

Andrew Green

Yeah; the png in that folder. I’ve made a gamboy one.

JKap

i've updated to the most recent version and I'm noticing it's not saving my history in retroarch anymore, i've tried a fresh install as well. has anyone experienced this?

Joe T

Is there a way to make a custom boot logo for this? Is it as simple as just replacing the boot_logo.bmp.gz file, or is there additional things that need to be done?

Joseph Yannotti

Not sure if this is related or not...but I had a similar issue when I first attempted to install this. I couldn't even open the menu for the SNES games. If I went through the Retroarch menu, I was able to load content and open specific games from there without issue. Does this work for you? My overall fix was to eventually just start from scratch. I was doing it on a Mac, did it on my wife's PC and had no issues second time around. Maybe something I screwed up along the way.

Joseph Yannotti

Did the new update cause an input delay on the main menu? After updating the files today (19th) I'm getting about a half-second of delay when just moving the focus. In-game is fine though, FYI.

TheColdOne

Love the updates but im not a fan of the menu returning you to recent menu.. it would make more sence to either keep it as main menu or return to console page. I really dont like recent page especially with the stretched screenshots. How does one edit this please, also the rotation option still not working on mame fba 2012 all shmups etc are showing vertically ( sideways) im not sure how others feel about the menu button returning to recent games page but id be suprised if its overwhelmingly positive.

Darren

Upon further testing, seems to only be crashing with SNES Games

Andrew Green

I'm new to GarlicOS (just installed it today) but I'm getting massive freezing issues, either it freezes if I'm in the menu too long, or I can play a game for about 1-2 minutes and then it freezes up. Did I do something wrong, or is that kind of normal right now? I'm finding it's mainly crashing on SNES games so far, like Super Mario World or TMNT Turtles in time.

Andrew Green

loving the updates so far, always excited to see more UI options! a possible suggestion if you're looking for ideas: with the new option for artwork when browsing games by console in garlic, would we be able to have a toggleable overlay, such as in recent games, to make text more readable if we have full-screen artwork for the games?

ryan but also cloud red xiii

If you don't mind slumming it with us ST boys. Hatari works really well :D

Luke

+1 I was trying to play some amiga games but performance was way too bad to even pass the first few screens.

Florent Morfaux

So, I ended up putting the file name at a -1000 margin, which removed the entire list from the screen. Then I added the box art and it works pretty nicely. Of course, you don't see what game comes next, but with a small curated list, it works pretty well.

JKap

Is there any way to make list text transparent? I’m trying to find an eloquent way to make boxart look nice. If I can make game list transparent, then I can just use the box art to choose the game.

JKap

That happens on occasion. Try deleting the file, ejecting and reinserting your SD card. Eventually you can delete and copy over the new one

JKap

I upgraded to todays build and had problems overwriting a retroarch txt file. End of the story is that no games work any more no matter what system. Im gona try a fresh image install now.

Wordstar

I've upgraded but I lost my recent games list and the save games also don't work. Any way of upgrading without breaking this?

Tiago Araújo

Some PCECD games still aren’t working for me and I tried your solution with no luck. Any idea what could be going on? Using the same bios files and game file on desktop and it runs fine.

gumbleinvegas

Back again about Amiga performance on Garlic vs Onion I was comparing the PUAE versions between Onion and Garlic Onion 1.10.3 (2.6.1) Garlic 1.14.0 (4.9.1) Seems Onion are using the older build which performs better on lower end hardware Is there any chance we can get the older version? https://github.com/libretro/libretro-uae/issues/290#issuecomment-1107389604 https://github.com/batocera-linux/batocera.linux/issues/6305

Luke

Can anyone help me? Trying to get Rondo of Blood for PCECD to run and it refuses to work. All the cores are set up properly, and the game file is good; it all runs on RA on my desktop just fine. But, as soon as I move everything over to the SD card for my 35xx, I get a black screen when I boot the game. For some reason the Addams Family game works and nothing else I've tried does, other games are causing the crash as well. I was on a single SD card but moved BIOS and ROMS over to a second SD card to try that and it didn't work. My directory is setup correctly.

gumbleinvegas

hey, sorry for the late reply but i used a program called memcardrex to read the save files and then copied them onto a new psx memory card file that i was able to put in the right save location. then i had to toggle on an option in retroarch called like "use 2nd psx memory card." i also had to add the psx bios file and activate it in core settings.

ryan but also cloud red xiii

Tip for everyone who plays pokemon on GarlicOS: When you save your game, FIRST exit the emulation via the menu button. THEN shutdown. The progress doesnt get saved on your SD Card when you shut down the device without exiting the emulation first. I spend hours of lost gameplay until i found out about this :-D maybe this is know for everyone,but iam new to CFW and just found out about this

Manuel Niehoff

Hello- any plans to make a second hotkey for volume/brightness using the d-pad?

Carlos Sanchez

yes you can use the copy and paste.

Wordstar

Hi there, Any thought on why Amiga performance is so laggy right now? I've tried tweaking the config which looks very similar to on the mini but its just way slower

Luke

did u find a fix for the sega cd thing btw? Todays update (jan14) fixed VB but sega CD resume is still broken for me

Edgard Sheleby

Dumb question - to update the OS from a previous build can I use the "copy paste on top of stock" zip or do I need to reflash every time?

JT Moen

I keep crashing all the time after an hour or so. Playing GBA Games. Sound loops, screen freezes, only reset brings me back to control. The sad: Saves are gone, too.... I replaced the Stock SD Card with a sandisk 128gb with the same result. now i tried my samsung SD card from my gamecube. crashing also. So, so sad :-( I cannot see anything concerning in the logfile

Manuel Niehoff

Thanks so much for all your hard work on this. It's made the 35xx so much better

Alex Tessler

I'll look into the 32bit color issue with VB. The problem is that this device runs on a 16bit LCD panel, so 32bit colors aren't supported (on a HW level). Cores that explicitly ask for it will, more or less, run into a wall. On older systems that don't occupy too much CPU time with actual emulation we might be able to just convert the pixel buffers to 16bit manually or patch the core up to produce 16bit color pixels from the get go.

Black-Seraph

Is the CPU in the RG 35XX weaker than the CPU in the Miyoo Mini? It has bilinear scaling. Excuse my ignorance.

F1reRa1n

Looks like they both launch without issues now. Well, relatively. For some reason these are the only two titles so far (across all systems I've tested) where they won't recognize an old save file (that I've used across New 2DS XL, RG351v, Android, etc). No idea why that'd be the case.

TheColdOne

Not possible because the CPU is too weak for bilinear/bicubic scaling and the device doesn't have a bicubic hardware scaler. :( The best you'll get that's close to bicubic (in the way it works) is bresenham, which we already have (semi-linear).

Black-Seraph

thanks for the reply. my Simpsons rom was actually working perfectly until the update that added arcade names. then it just dropped off the list. that romset was mame2003_plus. so in an effort to get all my roms working, i found something that said mame 2003 extreme uses the 0.78 romset. went and got those and i’m still having the same issues. which romset are you using successfully?

Raymond Romero

ive just got the same crash, with the same message. but i was playing GBA game

Manuel Niehoff

a lot has to do with the rom types. There are so many different sets. Mame, FB Alpha aswell as FB Neo Roms. Youll just have to test it out. I already have a working simpsons Rom.

Wordstar

anyone else having issues with certain arcade games playing? some have really distorted video and resolution, others just won't plain load, and the simpsons, for some reason, won't even show up in the list.

Raymond Romero

i got it working. Youre supposed to move to BIOS folder to SD2. Because of the file restructure in last update. lmao that was not mentioned in any guide i read. Thanks for helping out!

Edgard Sheleby

still nothing. i didnt suspect it was me using ISOs (because its loading my ps1 stuff just fine) but went thru the trouble of converting to to CHD and still the same issue. the bioses should be good, i pulled em from my miyoo mini, but i DO have them at 2 locations. 1 in RA system folder and 1 in the BIOS folder from one of SD1's partitions. deleted all saves too. which of the two locations are you using for bios directory?

Edgard Sheleby

Thanks for working on Garlic. Like everyone here coming from Onion and I gotta say I like the simplicity of Garlic. Can't wait to see all the improvements and fixes.

Florent Morfaux

i have all that. just tested thru RA and those 3 all work for me thru the RA app, but not thru the individual app launchers. it just goes back to main screen. Can you confirm if individual launchers for SegaCD, PCECD and MSX are working for you?

Edgard Sheleby

my 3G35XX came in today and i set everything up. But even after putting bios files, segacd, pcecd, msx vb and dos arent working for me. Just want to make sure if theyre actually broken rn or if its something on my end. Also, theres no bilinear filtering on this atm right?

Edgard Sheleby

Thanks for all the updates! If I start a game and turn the volume down, but then stop it with the menu button and open the game again, the volume comes back up. It would be great if the volume settings could be saved!

kazuu

Love all the work you've done with this so far, but scaling of certain systems isn't terribly pleasing with the current filtering options. Would it be possible to get bilinear and bicubic filtering working?

F1reRa1n

Has anyone else been able to launch any virtual boy games? I tested a few from multiple sources and it seems to just crash retroarch.

Alex Tessler

Hey Seraph, happened again on the latest build. Exact same issue. I got it to happen on PS1 and F1 Pole Position on SNES. Same thing on both, black screen and restart.

Brendan Lin

Found it - the partition tool I'd used created the FAT32 partition as a Logical partition! Converting it to Primary and it's working a treat!

Trevor Boys

I'm definitely doing something stupid but.... I've flashed the latest image from today onto slot 1 (32Gb card) and created a FAT32 formatted partition on 128Gb card for slot 2. Created a folder called BIOS files into the root of the slot 2 card and one called Roms. I've copied all of my roms (in the per system dir structure into the Roms folder and when I start up the console I see 8 empty boxes under Consoles. Looking under /mnt/SDCARD in RetroArch just shows "No Items". The card is slot 1 has the OS only and no other files. Is there something I need to enable for the second card to be used? Any suggestions?

Trevor Boys

Thx for the quick reply. Good work needs time and patience 💫

Marco 'Pooch' Puszina

That seems to work now, except it’s ridiculously busy with the games list on top of the box art. Maybe if it was in a separate panel?

JKap

Yea no worries I'll give it a try sometime today. I'll reply to this comment if it happens again.

Brendan Lin

That means you got a hardware issue then.

Black-Seraph

You can place a adb enable file in /misc and use a USB cable to listen to the kernel output.

Black-Seraph

Probably related to the FPU optimization issue we had earlier this week. Mind retrying on the latest build?

Black-Seraph

There was a FPU optimization bug in RetroArch earlier this week that caused the quick menu to crash at times. This has been fixed in the latest release.

Black-Seraph

It's on the to-do list along with several other points. Limited time and all, which is why this thing gets updated as often as it does, bit by bit as I find time to tick off another point on the list.

Black-Seraph

Box art needs to go into the CFW/skin/games/systemname folder and be named like the game file plus a .png suffix. Box art will only be shown in the actual game menus. The recent menu will show a screenshot of where you last paused. Example: "CFW/skin/games/PS/Bust-A-Move 4 (USA).chd.png"

Black-Seraph

You are correct sir! It wasn't the boxart and just a screenshot. I didn't look closely enough

JKap

Tested the boxart out. Only seems to work in the Recents menu and not under the system/consoles. Also, would there be a way to make two panes, one with the game title and one with the boxart instead of the background? Or at least left align the game titles?

JKap

Epic progress here! Thx alot! .. by any chance on the todo to have subfolders in the gamefolders being working tho?

Marco 'Pooch' Puszina

No worries I was just trying to sanity check myself. I think it makes things more simple knowing things are only in one place

Luke

ah yea, that seems to be right then. sorry about that. i actually just checked both SD cards and have BIOS on both of them, not sure if it copied itself over or i was just misremembering what i did in the first place.

Raymond Romero

Coleco seems to work. I don't know the system but tried Boulder Dash. MSX wouldn't run Boulder Dash but Bomber Man worked ok

Luke

Amiga is still laggy. I'll test the other systems and will get back to you

Luke

My understanding for the 11th Jan update. BIOS should go on the same sd as the roms "BIOS files now get loaded off the same MicroSD card the game ROM is located on (for compatibility reasons: different cards might have been prepared with different BIOS files, which can make a difference in arcade emulation)"

Luke

i have CFW and BIOS on SD1 and Roms on SD2, and it works.

Raymond Romero

This works SD1 - FAT32 partition \CFW SD2 \BIOS \Roms

Luke

I can obvs test this myself :D

Luke

Question do the CFW and BIOS directories need to exist on both SD Cards if I'm loading roms from slot2? BTW thanks for the awesome work.

Luke

Line 15 breaks the json change "ATARIST", "hatari_libretro.so", to "ATARIST": "hatari_libretro.so",

Luke

Coleco issues as well.

JKap

I'm having the same issue. I've tried reinstalling, dropping to a single SD card, etc. all with no luck.

Joshua Pierson

something is wonky with PS for me, when i try to load a game it just dumps me back to GarlicOS, but they seem to load and run when i go directly through RetroArch. went ahead and tested the rest of the systems i have loaded. pcengine/turbografx 16 has a weird issue as well, takes me to a mostly black screen and won't load, which is weird because pcengine CD works fine.

Raymond Romero

Looks like Lufia II works after accessing the RetroArch menu and restarting the ROM. Though the same can't be said for Terranigma, which just stops as soon as I touch the menu button.

TheColdOne

Brilliant update on today's release allowing us to set the core per folder, thank you so much for the hard work

earlparkers

At first I thought it may be related to PAL games, but I just had a freeze on "Super Mario World 2 - Yoshi's Island (USA) (Rev 1)", with a freshly flashed Garlic OS rom. Unfortunatly there's no log traces about the freeze, here's the log for reference : https://pastebin.com/QF5dDcD0 Anyway to check kernel traces ?

Thibault Jochem

Is there a known (potential?) issue with individual game compatibilities? Most games have worked so far, but I have run into two that won't boot for SNES. One is Lufia II, which shows a black screen indefinitely. Then there's Terranigma, which will be mostly black with some graphical flickering that looks corrupted. Aside from those, I haven't run into game-specific issues (I am sticking to the lower-end consoles/handhelds).

TheColdOne

Hey, Black Seraph, I've managed to crash a couple times in a row on PS1 Gran Turismo. Game was running fine for around 2 minutes. Got stuck in a freeze loop where the game boots up, freezes/restarts, the boots up again and does the same ting. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16G0DkZ-CWSLh7fTqioa_oclyNv3H-DQ-?usp=share_link

Brendan Lin

Hey just an update, saw an earlier comment about crashing. Seraph requested log files so here they are. Just recreated the issue on PS1: Gran Turismo after around 2 minutes of the device being on, then it went into a freeze loop where the device turns on, boots into the game, and pretty instantly freezes. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16G0DkZ-CWSLh7fTqioa_oclyNv3H-DQ-?usp=share_link

Brendan Lin

I'm having the same issue. Just left a comment about it, didn't see this one!

Brendan Lin

Hey there, great work Black Seraph. I've been encountering an issue for a while and I'm not sure if it's just because the OS is new, but I have tried it on the stock OS and it doesn't happen. Depends a lot on the system, but the device seems to crash, freeze, or restart after prolonged use. I've noticed this happens pretty fast with PS1, and I've encountered it on both SNES and pico 8 after around 30 minutes of usage. I also tried running Garlic OS off a couple different SD cards and I'm still getting the same issue. I've asked around and I've encountered one other person on a Discord server who has the same issue. Would be great if we can figure out just what this issue is. Thanks!

Brendan Lin

The issue seems to be if you hit a Menu+(any valid combos) too fast, then it'll quit the game immediately. I also have issues where I get double ups in my library. This is exacerbated when I open the same rom on different cores and check history. I now have three Legend of Zelda's in my recent. Is this the appropriate place to share bugs? I do bug testing as a side hobby so can share ones I come across if it's easy enough as I'd love to see this device flourish!

Ryan

I have a bug where I can't consistently use the menu + something else button. I'll press and hold Menu and go to press X but then it closes on press.

Ryan

@ryan but also cloud red xiii how did you manage it? I've tried a few times and can't figure it out..

Ryan

The King replies! Thank you for everything

Dadam

When i click left or right, the RG35XX also registers a click to the botton or top. thats very anoying in many games. happens in both garlic and stock OS

Manuel Niehoff

absolutely! loving garlicOS so far, although i seem to have issues getting my boot images to load properly. if there's anything i can do to help out with it, even if its just being a second set of eyes for typos or something, let me know and i'd be happy to help however i can!

ryan but also cloud red xiii

Welcome aboard.

Black-Seraph

Happy to hear everything worked out.

Black-Seraph

Something is off with your overrides then. I can't really say what though. It works just fine here and saves properly. I would really leave threaded video on though. It's more or less required for PS1 to run properly and because we have no GPU access we sort of need it for upscaling given the fact that a single 1GHz CPU core is just too little to do emulation AND upscaling all at once.

Black-Seraph

Documentation will follow once all the actual coding work is done. I have very little time to actually work on these things and think people benefit more from me actually fixing things rather than spending days documenting every little bit. As for battery percentage: I've omitted that data intentionally as the battery meter on the RG35XX is extremely inaccurate. I feel like all it would do is cause battery anxiety with people, as this device will happily sit at 0% for 3-4 hours before dying.

Black-Seraph

Thank you so much for your support, its thanks to people like you that I can work on these things in the first place.

Black-Seraph

The UI can only show you what the kernel lets it see, those values you see there are all I can give you without having kernel source code access. And with Anbernic's current stance on these devices there's little to no chance I will ever get my hands on that which means it is what it is.

Black-Seraph

The mame cores don't work properly yet which is why fbneo is filling the gaps at the moment regardless of what Arcade folder is being used. This will change as I find the time to fix up the mame cores.

Black-Seraph

I haven't had any crashes on SNES yet but your best bet is to go into the RetroArch log settings, enable logging and tick the log to file option. That way if something goes sour, you will have a retroarch.log file in the CFW/retroarch/.retroarch/logs folder that you can send my way.

Black-Seraph

What dpad issue?

Black-Seraph

Hi ! Thanks for the hard work, I bought a rg35xx as a present for my sister and garlic OS adds so much value versus the stock OS ! For now I only have tried snes games and I had a few random crash/freezes, how would I report that for helping the development team ? (steps can be technical, I'm a software developer 😅). Thanks again !

Thibault Jochem

Thank you for GarlicOS! I Subscriped after i saw GarlicOS on Youtube. Hope that we can bring the RG35XX to a real option for the future. BTW: Is there - from software side - any possible way to fix the Dpad issue?

Manuel Niehoff

only method is to use fb neo roms at the moment with the garlic ui. Switching cores might come in the future.

Wordstar

Hi all. Im wondering if i could ask some asistance. The new ui which is great on Arcade defaults to fb neo core regardless of mame2000 etc, problem this causes is my roms are mainly geared not for fb neo ive also found those roms dont play great, is it possible to have the option to select a core as default rather than having to go into r a to select mame2000 core.

Darren

I believe the UI is just showing what the kernel reports back at the moment.

Marco 'Pooch' Puszina

Has anyone confirmed the accuracy of the battery percentage in the retroarch menu? I know some CFW have trouble properly displaying how much battery is left, curious where this one is at with it

Dadam

Not yet

Adin Walls

just wanted to say thank you for your time and effort on this. you're my first and only patreon subscription. very happy to be able to help support you.

Raymond Romero

Can your please add what key combos do what in the readme? as well as adding battery percent I think that’s helpful!

slvclw

Hey thanks for all the work, just trying to do my part and provide a potential bug. Threaded video seems to be on by default at least for SNES, haven't checked other systems yet, and when I turn it off and save my overrides it doesn't stay off when I close and reopen a SNES game. EDIT: Its for all systems

Dadam

nevermind, i figured it out!

ryan but also cloud red xiii

any advice on grabbing saves/save states from the vanillaOS and importing them into garlicOS/retroarch? i have a couple saves (ps1 SotN, snes tactic ogre, etc) that i'm trying to pull into retroarch but i can't seem to locate the file structure when i search my sd card on my pc and i'm not yet experienced enough to know how to copy/paste within garlicOS (if thats even possible lol) other than that, enjoying learning my way around it so far! this is my first foray into retroarch at all, seems like once i get used to it i'll really enjoy it over the vanilla!

ryan but also cloud red xiii

Ya I got it working all set!

slvclw

Your Problem seems to be solved, it seems to have been that the battery was emty as i could read in your thread.

Wordstar

Please help…I was having an issue that the middle button didn’t work in garlicos. I rebooted and just get an ! I tried reflashing from stock and the garlic os image it’s only booting to ! See thread https://www.reddit.com/r/SBCGaming/comments/1014h40/35xx_installed_garlicos_with_overwrite_on_10mb/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf Update :1/2/23 I was writing the image using a usb writer program in windows both times for oem and garlicos. I remember when I mounted garlicos it showed Linux mount points and files that only showed as unformatted drives in windows for the 2 partitions btwn misc and roms at the end.Today I’m going to try to dd write the image in Linux and I bet that fixes it.

slvclw

Love the work you are doing for the RG35XX! I will be getting mine in a few days (hopefully) and I cannot wait to play around with GarlicOS on it.

Jeremy Spratt

Someone at Reddit posted a link to a Project that is supposed to have drivers for the GPU... Maybe take a look. https://github.com/shaqfu786/GFX_Linux_DDK

Wordstar

Does boxart work?

JKap

this is just what i have been waiting for thanks for the speedy work even over the holiday seasons

Damien

Wow !!! This is Amazing !!! Great Job !!!

Ray Salinas

Glad we have this up and running this week! Now I get something else to review next week! Thanks again Black Seraph for your hard work, as well as everyone who was a part of this endeavor.

Jimmy Rustles

Awesome work, though, disappointing picture. Not nearly as sexy as previous ones.

JKap

Wow 😮 great news, you are amazing…in other words: endgeil!!! I really like the OS name 🤣 The next OS for an unfinished low budget device could be gingerOS 😜

waeggy123

HERO MODE ACTIVATED! Thank you sir.

Retro Handhelds

Thank you so much for this!

Kevin Chapman