Note: This guide is for the original RG35XX, not the Plus or H or 2024 edition. If you find yourself having any performance issues, try enabling Threaded Performance in RetroArch. In-game, menu key + X, B to back to Main Menu, Settings, Video, Threaded Video then B twice to Main Menu, Quick Menu, Overrides, Save Core Overrides. This is buggy - it may save for you, it may not, if you open another game and don't see it, there's another way to change this. On your operating system SD card (so slot 1 for those using two), go into the CFW folder, retroarch, .retroarch, config, go into the folder of the core you want, and then open the .cfg file with Notepad. Add a new line and type video_threaded = "true". Close and save, pop the SD card back into the device and Threaded Video should be enabled for that core. Do this for any core you're having performance issues with.

@hatchxable

Жыл бұрын

I've found that the Threaded Video option saves if you change it directly from RetroArch (No cores) at the right side of the main menu of GarlicOS. Make sure "save at quitting Retro-arch" is enable. In my case I figured that the overrides option was disabling Threaded Video giving me poor performance in PS1 games. I've only disable Threaded Video when playing some fast pace SNES games though HDMI out put as it may cause some latency and a bit of screen tearing because some of these emulators were designed to work on one core. The device, however, seems to be powerful enough to run SNES games on just one core, or at least the games I play.

@johnrutledge7591

3 ай бұрын

what website did u show earlier

@mattmcfarland3491

2 ай бұрын

What is different about the 2024 version?

Thank you very very much, this was the cleanest, clearest easiest Garlic OS guide i found on youtube, followed every step, now I'm just enjoying my RG35XX, everything works fine.

The RG35XX has come so far since it's late 2022 introduction. Thanks for the vid man, very thorough.

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

Жыл бұрын

It's pretty awesome. Been using it a lot since I got it, awesome little device.

Appreciate your work with this. After watching a bunch of poorly constructed videos, your planning throughout the video paid off, and my system is up and running with GarlicOS, with zero issues. Thanks a bunch!

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

5 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

This tutorial was absolutely perfect. We bought an RG35XX and it wasn't running well at all. This video was exactly what I needed and it was so simple to use! Thank you!!

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

5 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

very useful guide, thanks! the only things i'd add that i struggled to figure out from this were: - taking an SD card out of the ambernic device consists of pushing it in so it pops out - holding menu and H is how to enter retroarch from inside a game after setting up the device with garlic os

I recently purchased the RG35XX - And while waiting for it to come in the post, I've been looking at GarlicOS setup videos - I must say this is hands down the best guide I have seen! Kudos to you!

@TonyMontana-xj3zv

10 ай бұрын

Has your parcel arrived yet? If so, how do you like the rg35xx? I have been using mine for 2 days, I am very pleased with this equipment, I have 200 games on Playstation1 CORE, all of them that I checked run at full 60fps synchronization without frame drops (on the "balanced" CPU power management), it is great portable equipment for little money

Excellent, thorough video. Used your R36S video successfully as well for installing ArkOS recently as well. Your tutorials set the bar.

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

4 ай бұрын

Glad I could help

Man I appreciate the dedication to this tutorial. I’ll probably end up doing this once I get my device , but I’ll wait for a bit. It’s a lot to take in haha

Wow! You explained things so clearly and made sense of the chaos that is GarlicOS (at least to my mind). I can hardly wait to try this out for real and get my two-card system up and running. (Got my 128 GB card ready for TF2) I can't thank you enough for this clear explanation.

@stuff4brianka

Жыл бұрын

You, Sir, are a Genius. I was finally able to set up a 2 SD system that works! I'd name my first son after you, but at 27 y/o, I don't think he'd go for it😅

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha. Made my day, awesome, glad you got it!

@TonyMontana-xj3zv

10 ай бұрын

The one SD card method is the best, just buy a microSD card for 9-11 dollars with a capacity of 128GB and have everything on one. For the test, I did this, and in the second free microSD port I added a Kingston 256GB Canvas Go Plus card, on which I placed 100 GB of music in MP3 format, of course the folders were sorted as they used to be on HDD drives. My rg35xx has a music player (modification), initially I had the idea to put my 200GB music library on the second card, but after a few hours of listening to music through the 3.5 jack, I decided that I would rather not use the device as an mp3 player, but it is possible. A 256GB card works as a second slot without any problems. In the first card slot I had a Patriot EP V30, 128GB. I'm shocked that this little wonder with such limited guts can handle such large volumes

This video was a huge help for me. I only had one card and loved that you gave the steps for both ways. Thanks!

I just got my purple RG last Friday abs have been tinkering with it all weekend. Some one made a theme and icon swapper that runs in GarlicOS, so you don’t have to take your sd card out to change either of those. Problem I’m having is getting the video folder to show in the UI. I cannot find anything that explains it, except in very vague blurbs. Driving me nuts. Finally got my ScummVM and Ports folders sorted so that they work, and now this. But man, it’s such a great little system now that I changed the OS. Thanks for the video. The skraper section was very helpful.

You can leave double overclock on these days with no battery wastage, it'll only use the extra oc when needed. Finally got treadmill watching this 😉

@GRUBKILLER3069

11 ай бұрын

Big looking out 👍🏼

Thanks for the vid , really helped me out with my rg35xx device and got it running perfectly

Followed the steps today. Fantastic video my friend really easy to understand.

This is one of the best, most helpful videos I've ever watched lol thank you! Everything was laid out really clearly and was pretty easy to follow along with.

I love you, this was the exact video I was looking for.

Thanks, subscribed because it's such an easy tutorial to follow.

Thank you for making this guide! It was super helpful.

Can't wait to get this going after work today!

thanks man, this was super helpful!

this is the best tutorial i've seen on this topic. thank you so much

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

4 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

thank you so much for showing how to set the time! been searching how to do this for hours now and not one person is mentioning it haha thank you again!

This is an amazing tutorial.. thank you so much!

you just earn a subscriber!!! ive been trying to look for a 2 sd card where 1st sd for OS and 2nd is for games only

Awesome guide, thank you so much!

Thank you for this. I'm not the best with this level of tech but this guide helped me setup my partners xmas gift so its good to go on day :) Cheers!

@nedzadmidzic8068

5 ай бұрын

Also weak level of tech here😁 and good but not enough knowing of English language, so this guide didn't helped me at all. Sad but true. I have many issues with my sons device: Power on (must reset a few times before it starts), Blocade of the some of the games (and they have never deblocades) and other issues...

Thank you so much! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. So simple after watching this video

Thank you for the straight forward video!

thank you for teaching the alignment on text i was going crazy with it.

thank you for the Tiny Best Set part! I didn't know that existed!

Thank you so much for this, very helpful

Very good guide, thanks.

Great Video, very well done and with the right pace. Good job and thank you!

thank you for this video Joey, very helpful and much easier to follow for me than written guides. I did run into issues where MiniPartition Tool wouldn't let me Extend partition because it wanted me to pay for a full version, so just used EaseUS Partition instead. Other than that, smooth sailing! :) Hopefully Black Seraph works some more on GarlicOS but I have the feeling he's moved onto the newer releases from Anbernic :(

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

Жыл бұрын

Nope! GarlicOS updates are coming :) and thanks! Glad I could help.

@HughesyTech

Жыл бұрын

@@JoeysRetroHandhelds phew 😌 looking forward to the updates 🙂

@jaecult

Жыл бұрын

This happened to me just now. EaseUS Partition wasn't free either smh

@jaecult

Жыл бұрын

nvm, i downloaded the wrong version. thx @hughesy

@kristianmantalvanos9119

6 ай бұрын

FULL VERSION PAYMENT FIX - Just tried reinstalling MiniPartition Wizard without selecting "free trial" during installation and just selected "free", it worked and didn't ask me to register and pay for the full version :)

yooooo, this is lit! thanks for this vid!!

life saver man! Thank you!

Thank you so much man! This was a life saver (or money saver should I say).

Good video! I had no idea that the overclock settings were those minus and plus symbols on the battery xD

Finally somebody explained how to unzip both files at once.

Nice tutorial, thanks!

Excellent video great job

Great vid ! Thanks

Great guide. Thanks buddy.

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

4 ай бұрын

Glad it helped

I finally have the courage to migrate to Garlic OS, since my stock firmware was not keeping the in-game saves for snes for some reason (this only happened in Snes) i hope this bring the whole package. I must say I love You!

@A2daM2daZ

10 ай бұрын

Have you had any trouble with the preloaded ROMS since moving to Garlic OS? I was told the preloaded ones are kind of bad and I would need to build my own ROM library for the console but I feel less confident doing that

@JoseMarques9090

10 ай бұрын

@@A2daM2daZ You gonna have to re-build your own Iibrary anyway because the data on the original sd card comes encryptted. Besides the sd card which comes within the system is really cheap.

@JoseMarques9090

10 ай бұрын

@@A2daM2daZ My best hint is to install Garlic on a new card. Use the 2 cards setup. One for the system and others for games only. You can add games and systems as You wish. You don't need to start your library from scratch. Search for down Ioads on discussion threads. Good luck!

Hi, thank you so much for the video! When you have to update garlic, if I use 2 sd (one for garlic and one for roms and bios), the misc folder to be replaced in which sd do I find it? Can I find it on SD 1 or SD 2?

Hello Great Video. I'm Having trouble with my system booting up after I Put in the first sd card. I did do the two SD card method. Would be able to help me understand what i did wrong?

Is it possible to also move the safe states for the Games from the original pre-installed OS of the RG35XX to GarlicOS? Will I have less lag while playing GB or GBC games with GarlicOS when compared to the pre-installed OS?

May your pillow always be cool, thank you sir.

Great video, thanks

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

5 ай бұрын

No problem 👍

Thanks for this awesome video. I followed these steps and it worked like a charm. I was wondering though, is it common to press menu button several times to exit a game or is there another way to close a game with a single button ?

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

10 ай бұрын

Should just be a single button usually, sometimes I have to press it twice quickly in succession.

Great video! Looking forward to trying this all on Mac next week! :((((

very handy guide overall! I'm running into a snag here when updating box art - when opening the settings.json file in Notepad, mine looks COMPLETELY different from yours. Mine just shows a few lines about color-guide, color-inactive, color-active, some color codes, and that's it! Any idea why that may be?

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

Жыл бұрын

Honestly not sure, double back to make sure you did all the previous steps. That sounds weird. Does it not show text alignment or margin?

Great explanation ! But when i do scraping foe like PS games, i get a lot of "Http request failed with status code 502". Scraping time showed more then a day to finish.

thanks for the vid. Is there a way to autosave the state with a thumbnail but leaving the "load automatically" option off? Because no way this option is being saved at all in my configuration. What can I do to save it? Because i think the OS is very cool, the only thing I do not like is the automatic load state when i turn on the console and when i load a content.

I rather still be able to search for my games. That’s the only thing. That and I like stock with this device compared to most. Even if simplistic. I do however enjoy your video!

Hi! I like your video but I don't know how to add box art to the games that are on the second sd card. Can you pls help me?

Following the video was super helpful - BUT, for a 2 sd card setup after I create the new partition on the first sd card, I cannot move CFW onto the card - it says I am 700mb short. No clue how to fix this, can You help?

thanks a lot brother😊

Super helpful thank you! New to this. Im sad I cant use Skraper on MAC. I only have a Macbook so I dont know how else to get box art set up...

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

11 ай бұрын

This might help - retrogamecorps.com/2020/08/20/guide-scrape-rom-box-art-for-macos/

Great Vid! Just set mine up and added some PS games. 2 questions; after I add games how do I add new box art? And some most PS games say I need to install BIOS for better compatibility, is there any way you can direct me towards where to download them?

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

6 ай бұрын

Hey, both questions are answered in the video :)

Hi, can this all be downloaded on a mac? The only SD card reader I have is USBC and only my mac has those connections, any advice?

for box art, i have images i already downloaded, could they be used with skraper image mix?

Having only one issue with my ROMS. All of the system folders are there, but not all of the games are in them. The only games I’m seeing are from what I initially favorited. Any recommendations to fix it?

Can I do this and keep the Ron’s in the original card for use in the second slot and run garlicos on the first slot

Hey Joey, I have a follow up question. Do you know how to scrape just a few artworks? Say I wanted to add 3-4 more games to a folder, do I have to re scrape all the artwork for everything again, or can I just add artwork for those 3-4 games? If so, do you know what that process would be using the Skraper program?

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

10 ай бұрын

I think this might help? www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/attyfd/anyone_use_skraper_how_do_i_get_it_to_only_scrape/

@Agumon5

10 ай бұрын

@@JoeysRetroHandhelds thanks Joey!!!

when i do the partion its not showing the folders bios roms and cfw folders. just showing a whole lot of other folders and files any help?

I didn’t even know you had to change the SD card I’ve had mine for over 5 months and have just been playing games out of the box with no issues

Hey! I just finished am setting mine up and was curious about something, If I wanted to add games, would I be able to just take out the SD card and add ROMS to it and pop it back in? Or would I have to use the SD card reader and format things?

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

6 ай бұрын

Yep, just add to the roms folder!

Some of game play in small screen not full screen in garlic os.. how to change the screen to full screen?

Thank you. Followed your instructions and it worked. But I didnt get the art for some games as I dont know really know the abbreviation of some old consoles. Like what is FC and MD? Im also missing ATARI, but I dont know which one I need. Skraper had ATARIST that didnt work, and all the other options got different type of ATARI so I dont know which one to take

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

9 ай бұрын

FC is Famicom, MD is MegaDrive.

@Eplefrekk

9 ай бұрын

@@JoeysRetroHandhelds Thank you! I only found MegaDrive in Skraper though. When I uncheck categories, all I get on F is Family Computer Disk Sys, FM Towns and FM-7.

Hey Joey, Im trying to figure out the how to load the bios. Im not sure of the file you told us to download. I followed the steps but am onto the second 128 sd card and am lost of where the bios are. Can you help or explain? Thanks!

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

6 ай бұрын

The BIOS files are from the Tiny Best Set page.

Would it be possibly to just copy over all the files from the included sd card to a new one? The newer model of this device came with garlic pre installed

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

11 ай бұрын

You'd have to clone the entire sd card, not just move files over, but sure if you want to do that.

Any idea of what to do if rom freezes? If i go to the menu then back to the game, it just takes me back to the frozen rom

I am stuck at the part that deleting gamelist files because its not appearing. Also when I'm trying to scrape all systems it is saying no games found. What should I do for that?

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

Жыл бұрын

I'd double back and try following again, might have missed a step. As long as you're pointing it to your library, it should find all your games, scrape and then generate a gamelist file.

Where do i put my save files on teh SD card? When I play my games theres no save file and i have to start from the beginning

Very good video thanks! To flash the firmware I like to use balenaEtcher though

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

Жыл бұрын

Just be careful with Balena sometimes. ArkOS for example has issues with Balena.

I'm getting see through grey overly right over where the box art goes and I can't figure out how to remove it. Any idea on how to fix this?

@Wolfie1262

Жыл бұрын

It’s a png in the img folder. I saw this sane question on Reddit :) you’ve probably figured it out by now, but just in case.

For the Skraper I signed up and put in my SD card and selected ROMs like above and as soon as I. Hit next twice nothing opens any ideas? It’s also on the new SP one so not sure that matters

Getting my rg35xx+ and this video is making me video a lot less stressed to try and install garlic os but im getting confused at 9:00 on where the bios folder you’re talking about from the zipped file. I’ve never attempted to do anything like this before so i’m just very confused

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

22 күн бұрын

This video is not for the RG35XX+ unfortunately.

I already have Garlic os on my 1st SD, and its full with game. Can i put my another game on 2nd SD and what should i do?

Hi great video, can i use this method for ANBERNIC RG351V version?

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

9 ай бұрын

Completely different devices, so unfortunately not.

Are you gonna do a garlic 2.0 setup guide for the rg35xx plus? I could really use it

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

7 ай бұрын

When it's ready, I will be.

I laughed so hard when you showed your 64 sd card lmfaooo!!! I got the same one

At what point do we add the Saves / Screenshots folders?

When you said "Go see your loved ones" during the Skraper, I went to my parents' house, ate dinner with my family, then watched the Texas Rangers win game one of series 2. Came home, and Skraper was done! :)

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

9 ай бұрын

Lmao, it do be like that sometimes

hey so I downloaded and extracted all the art and roms from Tiny BSG... just wondering how to put them into the roms folder properly? the instructions say to put all of the extracted files into a single directory, but I am confused by what that means ._.

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

6 ай бұрын

Hey, just follow the steps on the Tiny Best Set page. You'll have a roms folder, systems inside, img folder inside that.

Hello everyone! I have an issue. If i align the text for the black border artwork, the text will overlap the photos if i enter the cores app. I have to mention that i use the dualboot version of garlic.

Not sure if you touched upon this, but how do I condense what appears in the PS folder with all the .bin and .cue?? When I go to select a game I see the same game title listed multiple times because of the numerous .bin files

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

7 ай бұрын

You can use CHD instead, convert what you have using chdman to CHD files.

Hey, Joeys! No matter what I try I can't run Pc Engine CD games. I don't know which system files I need and where to put them. Is there a tutorial on that by any chance? Cheers and have a great weekend!

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

Жыл бұрын

Hey! Not the best person to ask as I don't play PC Engine, but if you jump into the Discord in my description and the rg35xx channel, they can help.

I need help!!! I deleted and re-codemapped my "Videos" in codemapping from the CFW folder, in "config". I just need the original codemapping for "Videos" that's all. Please help!!!! Loved ur video btw 😁

Hi, Where do I put the box art archives downloaded from Tiny Best Set: GO?

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

10 ай бұрын

It tells you on that page, just follow their instructions.

Whenever I launch skraper, it restarts the config process. I launched it after it took two hours to load resources, went to go use it an hour later and it had to redownload all of the resources again, and again every time after that. Is there something I'm missing with this program? It doesn't seem to be working.

Hello, I did everything you said. However, I could not install games on my device via Scraper. I get a warning saying "game not found". can you help me?

so i started all of this and got half way through before i realized I got the pro and not the regular one do i have to wait for the updated version of garlic os?

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

6 ай бұрын

Yep.

Wonder why im getting. Pile of different things after flashing my sd eith garlic. Not just 3 folders.

Question: when I add roms and skrape the artwork will it re-do everything or just the new roms added? Thanks

My formated card looks just like yours with the files all in the same places and i belive i did all the steps correctly but when i put my card into my system it wont turn on. I put my orginal card back in and it boots up fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ive been trying to get this to work for 3 days now.

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

5 ай бұрын

Hey, the Discord 35xx channel would be the best spot to trouble shoot, in my description.

how do i add snes i noticed all the bios files it comes with are rom files?

The Anbernic RG35XX direct from them is saying it comes with Garlic OS already. What do I do in that case?

@JoeysRetroHandhelds

5 ай бұрын

SD card is likely still low quality, so you'd want to still follow the guide.