ANBERNIC RG35XX Ultimate Setup Guide - GarlicOS, Roms, Box Art and Tweaks

hey everyone and welcome back to Joey's retro handhelds I'm Joey and today I've created the ultimate setup guide for your brand new ambernik rg35xx full disclosure this device was sent to me to review by handheld retailer called lit NXT I'll leave a link in the description to the store check them out use code lit NXT for an extra 10 off as well this will be a long video but there's timestamps in the description to help you navigate around however I highly highly suggest watching without skipping as you might miss something important so this video will be an install of garlic OS as an operating system why garlic well it's the most feature complete operating system for the 35xx as of right now and better than the stock operating system the reasons feature which shows you an image of your last Save State alone is worth it what you see on screen for everything is what you'll have at the end of this video one last thing to note I tried to install the screen protector for this device like my last setup video but the included screen protector doesn't cover the entire screen with the bezels there's no way I'm installing a screen protector that only covers half of the screen now this is important before we start I have to make a few assumptions here Orwell asks the first is that you're going to need your own SD cards if you've watched any of my previous videos or been in the space for more than a minute you'll know that the SD cards that come with these devices are not good quality and prone to failure I mean the one that came with mine is literally called 64. you know that reliable SD Card Maker 64. move over SanDisk you'll also know the ROM SD card is not recommended to be purchased as well as they aren't good quality ROM files on top of being low quality SD cards so let's avoid that now and get two quality SD cards one for the operating system 16 or 32 gigs is good it was two dollars to get 32 so no-brainer for long-term use and one for ROMs 64 or 128 gigs is good 128 to avoid any storage worries alternatively you can do one SD card with everything if you want and I'll show you those steps but I find it much better just to separate them if you do a single SD card I'd recommend the 128 gig you're also going to need a good SD card reader which is another point of failure I'll have links to the SD cards and the reader I personally use in the description to take the guesswork out I'm going to repeat this because 99.99 of all errors people get during this process is due to a bad SD card or bad SD card reader avoid that now just do it the headache isn't worth it the last thing you need is your ROM and bios Library if you just want a big list of games and then you can curate them yourself if you'd like head to the spot I'm showing on screen and it'll be an easy way for you to get set up with a ton to play read the instructions and grab the version that matches your SD card size and the artwork if you want if you do grab the artwork this way skip my box art tutorial later the folders in the zip are all set up to work with garlic OS already so you can just drag and drop and off you go when we get to that last step just in case I'll have a link in the description to what your folder name should be for what garlic OS needs them to be ROMs and bios are something that I unfortunately can't support with so you're going to be on your own for a lot of this but Google and Reddit are great resources to help you out through this process okay so you have one or two SD cards an SD card reader and a ROM and bios Library ready to go let's continue there's a few software items you need to download if you don't have 7-Zip already you'll need it head to the link in the description download and install it you'll also need a tool to flash the image file to the SD card so download Rufus as well Link in the description for seeing the SD card after flashing you'll need minitool Partition Wizard Link in the description alright we're ready let's Jump Right In head to black serif's patreon page Link in the description and scroll down until you see two files rg35xx micro SD card image 001 and 002 click to download both of them and make sure you save them in the same location to avoid headaches select them both and then extract using the steps shown on screen and you should end up with two files a readme and garlic.image file it's not required to subscribe to Black Sarah's patreon to get these files but it's highly recommended as well if you want to support the developer now open Rufus and you want to flash the garlic.image file we just extracted to the SD card so connect your SD card reader and your SD card now if you're doing the 2sd card method like I am Flash the operating system SD card so the 16 or 32 gig one make sure that the option that you're flashing is your SD card and not a hard drive or anything else Rufus is pretty good about knowing click Start and it'll warn you about deleting the SD card allow it and go spend time with your loved ones from here on out ignore any warnings you get about formatting partitions or formatting the SD card whenever you connect the SD card back into the PC you're going to see them a bunch do not format close Rufus open up the mini tool Partition Wizard and check the left side you want to find the one where your SD card is you'll see several partitions and one of them is labeled FAT32 right click and assign a drive letter if it wasn't already assigned mine was it's j once that's done open up file explorer J drive for me or whatever you assigned and you should see three folders now bios ROMs and CFW for both methods cut and paste all three folders off the SD card and put it somewhere else for now I'll be putting them in a subfolder in my downloads folder for now for both methods jump back into mini tool Partition Wizard and right click on the FAT32 partition and delete then make a new Partition as large as it allows select FAT32 and name it ROMs if you're doing the single SD card method or just unnamed if you're doing the two SD card method for this single SD card method once that's done move the three folders you backed up onto that SD card CFW bios and ROMs if you're doing the two SD card method move the CFW folder onto that SD card and safely eject the SD card and now pop in your second SD card the 64 gig or 128 gig one that you'll be using for ROMs open up mini tool Partition Wizard and format that SD card as FAT32 give it a letter as well mine is G lastly grab those bios and ROMs folders that we moved cut and paste them into this SD card now for both methods we need to add bios files the BIOS files would be in the zip file we downloaded earlier from the website I showed copy and paste your bios files into the BIOS folder on the SD card bios files are a requirement for some systems so let's just get this out of the way now lastly we can move over your ROMs head to the ROMs folder on the SD card and you'll see the folders for each system since we set this up ahead of time just copy and paste your folders from the zip file earlier and they should overwrite if you're using your own ROM set there are restrictions on file types and we either zip files work for certain emulators so check the link in the description to see a full list of emulators and what does and doesn't work okay let's move on to how to get box art before I start ROM hacks would have to be done manually and not really part of the upcoming process so just keep that in mind head to scraper.net or the link in the description click download at the top and pick your operating system extract the 7-Zip file using 7-Zip and then open the folder and click scraperui.exe let's get an account click sign up now at the top click register fill in your information and register head back to the scraper application and now click validate with those details then next it'll download some resources this one took a while so come back in a bit go check on those loved ones again okay so let's connect your ROM SD card to the PC using the SD card reader so if you did the two SD card method that would be the bigger one the 64 or 128 gig and for everyone else it's your single SD card select recall box then click the folder to select your ROMs folder on your SD card and check to include non-recall box folders click next again and now on the left you're going to see all the consoles I found based off folder names it does Miss a few like PS1 and Super Nintendo so I'll show you how to add what's missing manually and it'll be up to you to check I'll do PS1 to show you the steps click the plus sign scroll to the console and select the PS1 logo now head to the left again click it and go to the games and front end tab update the game's ROM folder to where your PS1 games are you'll have to repeat this for any missing platforms scroll up to all systems then click game list and select no backup create new or override existing now head to the media Tab and this is where we select what media we want change the media type to user provided mix special thanks to eb0 for this next part head to the eb0 GitHub Link in the description and decide what mix you want full height three images or full screen mix if you want full height or three images click download zip here and follow eb0's instructions on the page I'll show you how to do the full screen mix which is what I want head to the instructions and there's a link that will take us to another repo special thanks to Timo for this one he has two options one without a border and one with click download zip on that repo and then extract it head back to scraper select the page icon and then choose the XML file you want I'll be doing black gradient Shadow border myself select the output folder and change it to ROM root folder imgs as it looks on screen and make sure cleanup output folder is selected leave the rest default and click play this will take quite a while come back in a bit for the last time go see your loved ones when it's done go to your file explorer and do a search in that SD card for game list delete any XML files you find now if you're doing the two SD card method eject the SD card and pop in your operating system card for single card Method Keep the SD card in that we've been using head to the SD card in File Explorer CFW then skin folder and open settings.json in Notepad change text alignment to left and change text margin to 32. save and close and we're all done with the setup if you're doing the single SD card method put your SD card into the first slot tf1 which is the one closest to the reset button if you're doing the two SD card method put your operating system SD card into that first slot and your ROM SD card into the second slot TF2 now turn on the device let's get into some tweaks you should do the first one is personal preference but I really hate stretching and not having the proper aspect ratio despite black bars there's two ways to do this you can do an entire override for everything and open retroarch settings video scaling and select keep aspect ratio head back to the main menu configuration and click save current configuration now open a PS1 game head to the same spot and turn off keep aspect ratio then head to overrides and save core override alternatively you can change the aspect ratio per platform by doing that same core override step for any platform just open a game in any platform and do those same steps so you have options here on what you want to do and it'll be up to you Pokemon fans are going to want the real time clock enabled so Press Start in the main menu and adjust the time to whatever time you want and press start done you're also probably curious what the hotkeys are for garlic OS and a super easy way to check is to push and hold your menu button in game it'll show you all the available hotkeys that you can use you can overclock and underclock this device as well pushing select on the main screen will activate this feature and it might be obvious but plus is an overclock two pluses is a larger overclock minus is a small underclock and two minuses is a larger underclock nothing is stuck I like nothing lastly how do you turn this thing off well a single power button press saves your state and shuts down the system to turn it back on push and hold on the power button until the green LED at the top shows the LED is also the only way to tell if you're low on battery it'll be red when it's in its last third of charge meaning charge to avoid losing progress next let's cover how to update garlic OS this will reset any changes you've made to retroarch settings so keep that in mind if you change the aspect ratio like I did this time when you go to Black serif's post you want to grab the other files labeled copy paste on top of stock001 and zero zero two select both when downloaded and extract like we did before Now find your misc partition an easy way to do this is to open mini tool Partition Wizard and look for the smallest partition and give it a letter if it doesn't have one look inside and if you see a bunch of files like mine that's the right one then you want to grab the misc folder and copy paste the contents of that into this partition overwriting any existing files if you get an error like I did about not enough space Delete the UL image file on your SD card and now you should be fine to cut and paste your files again next do the same thing with the CFW folder for this single SD card method this folder is on the largest partition that's FAT32 assigned to H for me you'll also see a bios and ROMs folder for the two SD card method it's on the operating system card so slot one you'll only see the CFW folder lastly do the same thing with the ROMs folder as it'll create new directories for any new systems the operating system supports so for the two SD card method insert your ROM SD card the slot 2 SD card now just jump into some games and have fun for normal usage that's all you need to do and that was the main point of this guide get you up and running and now the world is your oyster as always hope you liked the video and hope you all have a good one

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Published: Fri May 12 2023