sj_zero on Nostr: I just got my hands on an RG35S+ portable game console. The cheap portable game ...
I just got my hands on an RG35S+ portable game console. The cheap portable game consoles are getting insanely good. It's got a powerful CPU but also a GPU which my previous unit, a powkiddy V90 lacked. The difference means that you can play stuff like dreamcast games on this whereas the V90 struggled with SNES games at times.
The very first thing I did (even before playing many games) is I grabbed a reliable SD card and replaced the 2 it came with. The cards it came with are about the dodgiest things you've ever seen. The bigger one just has two letters on it: Z J, really inspires trust.
The original software looks really pretty, and if the SD cards were a bit less dodgy I probably would have just used them but my "this is going to die terribly" alarm was going off. Also, I found that I was having a problems trying to get my new SD cards to work with the old software.
Ultimately, I first grabbed the software from https://github.com/christianhaitian/arkos/wiki for the RG351MP which isn't quite right, but is close enough with one change.
I flashed that to the card using dd next.
One thing, I had two cards at first, a 16GB for the OS and a 128GB for roms. And what I discovered is that this thing is pretty dodgy about SD cards. The one I had was a pretty high test one but it wouldn't see it if you tried using it as SD card #2, so I installed the OS on it instead.
The next thing is I needed to go to https://github.com/tech4bot/r35s and downloaded rk3326-r35s-linux.dtb. Various write-ups say to replace one of the existing files, but I dropped the file into the boot directory and edited boot.ini to load that file instead of the other dtb file instead.
Once that was all set up, I booted up off the newly created card and it automatically created an exfat partition and made it the proper size, then I brought all the roms from the card onto my new card.
Now after all that, I'm finally ready to actually give it a shot. On the upside, updating the OS gave me a full year of additional work, going from mid-2022 to mid-2023, which could mean nothing but on stuff like this a year of updates can mean a lot.
Another thing I'm interested in is this unit has two USB-C ports -- one is designated for charging, the other is designated for OTG. It looks like you can plug a small USB-C Wifi hotspot into it, and the OS I'm using is ubuntu behind the scenes apparently so it might be pretty interesting.
One last thing for now, see that nice Fn button you'd expect to bring up the menu? Doesn't do anything. Select is the button you use in combination with other things to get back to the menu and the like. Select and start twice will return to the main menu.
The very first thing I did (even before playing many games) is I grabbed a reliable SD card and replaced the 2 it came with. The cards it came with are about the dodgiest things you've ever seen. The bigger one just has two letters on it: Z J, really inspires trust.
The original software looks really pretty, and if the SD cards were a bit less dodgy I probably would have just used them but my "this is going to die terribly" alarm was going off. Also, I found that I was having a problems trying to get my new SD cards to work with the old software.
Ultimately, I first grabbed the software from https://github.com/christianhaitian/arkos/wiki for the RG351MP which isn't quite right, but is close enough with one change.
I flashed that to the card using dd next.
One thing, I had two cards at first, a 16GB for the OS and a 128GB for roms. And what I discovered is that this thing is pretty dodgy about SD cards. The one I had was a pretty high test one but it wouldn't see it if you tried using it as SD card #2, so I installed the OS on it instead.
The next thing is I needed to go to https://github.com/tech4bot/r35s and downloaded rk3326-r35s-linux.dtb. Various write-ups say to replace one of the existing files, but I dropped the file into the boot directory and edited boot.ini to load that file instead of the other dtb file instead.
Once that was all set up, I booted up off the newly created card and it automatically created an exfat partition and made it the proper size, then I brought all the roms from the card onto my new card.
Now after all that, I'm finally ready to actually give it a shot. On the upside, updating the OS gave me a full year of additional work, going from mid-2022 to mid-2023, which could mean nothing but on stuff like this a year of updates can mean a lot.
Another thing I'm interested in is this unit has two USB-C ports -- one is designated for charging, the other is designated for OTG. It looks like you can plug a small USB-C Wifi hotspot into it, and the OS I'm using is ubuntu behind the scenes apparently so it might be pretty interesting.
One last thing for now, see that nice Fn button you'd expect to bring up the menu? Doesn't do anything. Select is the button you use in combination with other things to get back to the menu and the like. Select and start twice will return to the main menu.