Get the most out of the handheld
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We’ve moved the topics to one page, so they’re better organized and up-to-date.
You can see and download all the themes for GarlicOs on the page: GarlicOs Themes
From the Youtube channel RETROVIDEOJUEGOS TV, we bring you a new review of the console, in which they show us Retroarch and the latest Official Firmware Update working:
Last night we discovered that there was already a new software update from the official page, dated 12-12-2022, but the download link did not work, and as it was already late we left it to try again today.
When entering the firmware download page again, we have found a new update, dated 12-23-2022, and the link works correctly, so we will try to download it and test it, making a backup copy of the original that bring, in case something doesn’t go well…
Here we leave you the download link in case you want to try it now, we will do it shortly and we will tell you what we have found:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HfGCxkratM_zYiYfGWCrHZ1AynO3hIwU?usp=share_link
We have also made a backup in our MEGA account:
https://mega.nz/file/LE5BkaAZ#Oiul5Vx_04ZQd6HHAq8M_53fZEfyLiy2R74qAKza63I
And in case anyone needs the one that originally brought the console:
https://mega.nz/file/3IJ2xBhI#VC75a8AiRx3oP22MZ9XU8jhBIczHAVrW9ePnj5dvRz0
Changelog:
2022-12-23 RG35XX software update V1.20221223 1. Slot 2 card can identify the background images and themes in the Skin folder. Images called by numbers 0-19 are needed in the hdmi and lcd directories. (such as 0.jpg) 2. PS1 BIOSes can be added to your folder on card 1 or card 2. 3. Added subfolders to ROMS. 4. The collection has increased to 300. 5. The saves of each platform will now be in save of each platform. 6. Vertical arcade games (like 1941 and others) have a new function button, the Y. 7. Now you can change discs on PS1. 8. GBA, GB, GBC, FC have scaling and overlay function.
Before going to bed we couldn’t avoid tinkering around a bit, and although we’re not Hackers, we’ve changed the Startup Logo (although later it continues to show us Anbernic’s).
Using a play on words, with great affection towards the console on which its design is based, we have decided to name it as MEGA BOY and this is the result:
We leave you here the .bmp file in case you want to use it. (You need to compress it to GZIP, with the name boot_logo.bmp.gz):
Today, after 13 days of travel, the expected RG35XX that we bought on the day of its launch has brought us by mail.
After seeing a multitude of videos and images about it, and waiting for a firmware update or some Custom Firmware to come out, we have started to investigate what comes on the card…
We have found 4 Linux partitions, 2 of them currently inaccessible to us, and the other 2, in one of them we have the ROMS that the machine brings by default (99.99% of them in Chinese) and in the other several files of system, to which we can do little. At the moment we can change the Boot Logo, the Recovery logo, the image for when it is loading, and the images of the loading phase.
We’ll keep messing around to see what else we find out…
Today we already have available the first revision of Retroarch working directly on the machine, from the Retro Handhelds youtube channel.
Yesterday we talked about how after the holidays Black Seraph was going to allow us to download what he has achieved, making Retroarch work on the machine, today he surprises us with a link to download it TOTALLY FREE from one of his pages, where in addition to teaching us how to install it, it will offer us updates.
Here you have the direct link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/76018226
After the first disappointments with the console’s operating system, due to scaling issues and other fronting failures more than anything, and while we wait for the first software update that Anbernic has promised, the user Black Seraph has been able to get Retroarch working directly. in the machine from the boot, giving us the possibility of using more emulators, more options like scaling and more. He promises that after the holidays he will be available.
It leaves us this image:
The Spanish Youtuber TuberViejuner reviews the console and shows us its unboxing, content, operation, etc…
