The save folder in GarlicOS has CHANGED. It is now on the same card or drive as your ROMS. ROMS - Saves - Current Profile. The saves need to be in a folder named the same as the emulator they run on in RetroArch and inside that current profile folder. *PLEASE KEEP IN MIND WITH THE PACE OF CHANGES ON GARLIC OS THAT SOME OF THIS COULD BE OUT OF DATE AT ANY MOMENT*

My SD card slot 2 stopped working. Following your guide I managed to turn the slot 2 256GB card into a bootable one, which now lives in slot 1, making it possible to use 1 sd card for both OS and games. Life saver, 🙏 thank you!

@HipsterBrooo

2 ай бұрын

Same here! This guy just saved me from falling into boredom

new to the handheld emulator community, thanks for explaining this in detail! you made it super simple!

You're a live saver man, lost my hope on my dead Anbernic and was going on a long road trip without it, and at the right time your video showed up. Respect!

Thank you for this. I too have no save ability on the default card. I am new to doing this, so this tutorial is a major help. 👍👍

@scaryifliteral

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@anbernicguy

Жыл бұрын

​@@scaryifliteral can you help me how to operate FFMPEG on Garlic OS?

The same exact thing has been happening to my 35xx since the second day i got it. I recently got the anbernic SP. Ive been eager to transfer my games and saves to the new SP because i prefer the SP system but i dont have all my old saves and i dont have as many games on the SP, but I am scared to do that to have the same thing happen to my new SP. Havent found a video to help me with this yet since im kind of new to using a PC and everything that seems like it should be easy looks too complicated for me lol. But this tutorial seems very helpful and very specific to my same situation, will definitely study this and give it a shot. Thanks!

I ordered one for my son and one for because of your videos! Thanks for the great content!

@scaryifliteral

Жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy it!

what a G thankyou so much dude my RG35XX was bricked out of the box and making a new sd card sorted it out :D

S U P E R useful guide, thanks so much! Safe to assume that the same process will work for an RG353v? Love your work, keep it up!!!

Literally unable to download the latest firmware from Anbernic because google drive download limitations.

It says that my disk is too small when i try to read files from old 64 gb micro sd card to move the data to a new 128 gb card is there a fix please help

Cant get my rg35xx to boot to the stock os on my 256gb micro-sd card. I followed all the steps up until the 7:34 mark. Only thing I could see as being an issue is that the download for the stock os from the Anbernic website was different. Its not the end of the world but its very frustrating lol

This is quite a nifty gadget! I may have to order one sometime.. looks great! I love it!! Nicely done video..

FYI, current Garlic OS files does't fit on stock paritition sizes. Stock size of Misc partition is 9 MB and garlic files are greater. Using Linux partition manager I was able to resize all the paritiions and make it fit after shuffling. Not sure the best solution for general users.

Hi Shane! It seems the links and files are now different from this video. Would you happen to know how to do the same thing with these new files now?

I just realized I wasn't subscribed yet. I made sure to like the smash button as well. Thanks for your mods and tips videos.

@scaryifliteral

Жыл бұрын

❤️

after 8 months still useful although with ew stock-garlisOS EN, however mines dont have any saves(check both), but i will take it. SUBSCRIBE

Hi, I have a question, recently I bought a RG505, I thought I bought it with the SD card on it, but I don't. So now my trying to make my own, but I don't know how. I could use this system you show to do it? I'm just, quite lost. I don't know if I have to instal some system on the Anbernic, or on the SD. I don't know how can I find it... Thanks for the help =)

Are you able to access saves from your roms Sd with both OS? I want to test a few OS but they all seem to save games differently

THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU SAVED ME A LOT OF TIME AND HEARTACHE

It took me awhile to figure this out but on the stockOS and SD card when you put that in a computer and open the ROMs partition the saves are actually not in the individual console folders. In the main list of console folders there is another folder called saves. Then when you open that there is a list of consoles. and within that are your save files that show up in the 5 saves lots on the stock OS. In the main game directory of folders it is true that there are .sav files that appear next to the Rom in the files list but I dont know what they are. I have some for games I never really played but maybe I just opened them. In the one game I have been playing the .sav file in the main directory for me had a time stamp that just didnt match my most recent save. It wasn't until I found this other folder that I found my save. I also notice it is a .0svs file. So I am crossing my fingers I can carry that over to Garlic OS.

@3xperiment8

Жыл бұрын

My in-game Saves on Snes games don't work on Stock OS. Whenever I close and restart the game, saves are gone. It only happens on Snes games. You know how to fix It?

@blakestrother5122

Жыл бұрын

@@3xperiment8 Hard to tell just going off what you describe. Could be a lot of things. The most likely cause is bad ROMs. The ROM collection that came with this device (which is highly illegal btw) is comprehensive but also filled with its fair share of junk. One common issue with some bad ROMs is in-game save functions now working. My first suggestion would be to find a new copy of the ROM for the same game and see if that fixes the issue. If it does, then yes that ROM was bad. All in all, I find this to be a minor issue, considering on any given OS you play on each features its own save state system. I tend to use these more then I do the built in save features of games that have that.

@3xperiment8

Жыл бұрын

@@blakestrother5122 It happens on all Snes games. And only in Snes games. I tried with new sd card and New rom copies and get same issue. GBA Roms and even PS1 Roms save normally with a built in virtual memory card. It's bad. I like to save in game for nostalgic reasons. And get this on Snes that is my prefer console :( i'ts a major flaw. I see no help but to migrate to Garlic iOS and lose all the Roms which came on stock iOS. It's a shame. I loved the OS that came in stock

@3xperiment8

Жыл бұрын

@@blakestrother5122 addendum: I saw other people getting same with Snes games. It maybe a problem in the Snes core. On stock OS

Do I understand correctly: You first install the stock OS on SD card 1, then you overwrite the stock OS via copy & paste so that GarlicOS is installed (SD card 1)? On SD card 2 (is called ROMS in the system) there are only the ROMS, nothing else? Thanks for your help and greetings from Germany!

@jrocha3128

Жыл бұрын

He's using two 64gb cards..one has stock OS the second one has stock OS with an add on of Garlic OS..the third card is the 128gb with the Roms that both card 1 & 2 read the Roms from.

@saufimuhammad8147

Жыл бұрын

@@jrocha3128do u need to install system on sd card 2? My sd card 1 is already full , can i put my other game on sd card??

Have one everytime i attempt to play a game as i press the game it flickers and wont open what could be causing this?

Good day Sir i accidentally click Format on 1 pop-up on my SD card., suddenly i dont have backup...what will i do?

I apologize, I don't speak English very well. Is it possible to have an operating system (OS) on each SD card, with one partition dedicated for the ROM, and still be able to access ROMs from both SD cards?

see but the opposite happened to me the what was supposed to be the 2.9gb unallocated was actually partiioned into something called roms and i have 55gb unallocated how to i proceed from there?

@juniorvalenzuela4096

5 ай бұрын

That's what happened to me to. Did you get this figured out? I am trying to put everything on one SD card

Can you put both cards in at the same time and we did choose between both different operating systems or do you have to switch them out manually?

I got an anbernic and it has a sd with loads of games and everything done but the sd is shit. I want to close it into a new sd card but i cannot. Also even though i got thousands of games the roms folder in the sd card shows only empty folders.

How's ur battery life... I got mine new but it seems like battery drains faster than what they claim it to be like 5hrs.. Mine is like lasts only for 2 hrs... I got the dual boot setup from the box

Very well explained! Thank you!!

What should I do when flashing my SD on balenaEtcher fails, I also tried using win32 for writing on my SD also failed. please help :)

is there any way to play am2r (metroid 2) on anbernic rg35xx?

Very helpful! Thanks!

this video is a lifesaver

Is there any way to get garlic on my so card without the use of a pc? I just have my ipad

i just to clarify this question. what if i have a 2nd sd card which is new, i formatted it to fat32, do i still need the other folders from the first sd card? or could i just create a new ROMS folder on the newly formatted sd card?

Mine was stuck at boot up. So... yeah, I just bought 2 new SD cards.

@Camelrs

9 ай бұрын

Same thing happened to mine. I ended up disconnecting/reconnecting the battery and it worked

@enriquerosales5487

5 ай бұрын

And it works? Mine stays in the boot logo when I turn it on

@curtislevey7639

5 ай бұрын

​@@enriquerosales5487 If you've tried discharging the battery and it still didn't work try flashing your SD card again. I did this and it worked.

i got it to boot and everything works but it wont read my roms

Recently I messed up the drastic config and can’t seem to fix it I was going to flash the os back onto tf1 would I follow this process or would I have to do something else since it already has the os on it ?

Followed this guide to the T and it wont power on with the new sd card ._.

do you have a step by step video on how to flash the RG353V OS/ROM to a new card? or how to backup drives/data/ROMS in the Anbernics' card to a new card? I'm brand new to this and just got the RG353V. There are 2 OS files for the RG353V, so was not sure how to add the two files onto one the new card. Thank you!

i actually want the old anbernic software/games. the koriki software either deleted or hid the games that came with it and i cant' find it anywhere :(

For some reason when I followed the guide, the roms wont show up. Before my os card died I switched to a new sd for my roms in slot 2. This worked just fine for a long time. Once my os card died I followed this guide. It now boots up which is great but my save states nor my normal saves show up and my roms on both cards are visable. I can see the roms on garlic os but I dont think my save states work through that os. It sucks because I was part way through a bunch of different games via the stock os save states. Is there something Im doing wrong?

I downloaded system +64G rom etc... i used 7zip to extract here and all i got was a file folder. What am i doing wrong. Sorry if its a dumb question

is there a way that i can copy and paste all the roms from the OLD UNBRAND SD card to my new sandisk memory card ? coz i cannot see any roms folder on the previous OLD unbranded sd card

hey where do u get your roms/emulators ?

So i just purchased the rg35xx 2 days ago and it’s on its way, when i receive it, do i purchase a better sd card ? What do I even do after that? I’m not an expert with tech, I just don’t want the device crashing and not turning on, on my first day

Hey, the stock card I got doesn’t look like yours. It 64 go and says Micro SD XC. Do I still need to do this?

So, if my sd 1 has garlic os but its already full and i put my sd card 2 , do i need install garlic os or i just need format sd to fat32 and copy the game on it?

I have RG35XX plus is it the same thing?

Psx cue&bin werden nicht erkannt, welche Ordnerstruktur verwendet Garlic OS? Müssen die ISO Dateien ein bestimmtes Format haben? Wo müssen die Dateien rein "PS" oder "PS1" ? Habe die Spiele mit Clonecd eingelesen und habe "bin"+ "cue" und beide in einen Ordner. Kann ich eine zweite SD Karte einfach in fat32 formatieren und psx im Stock OS verwenden?

Can the unit's 1st SD slot is only dedicated to the OS and the 2nd SD slot dedicated for ROMS?

Dear @Shane Craig, Please help, I don’t know how to fix this. I mainly play ps1 games on my anbernic rg35xx, and I have saved about 15 titles. Now seemingly I cannot save any more games cause the slots are all full. I don’t see the save files anywere when I plug the sd card in the computer and of course I cannot access the memory card content like I would on a ps1 console. Can you help? Regards,

So if all I'm looking for is a better SD card, all I'd have to do is swap the roms from the old SD card to mine and I'd be good to go?

@scaryifliteral

Жыл бұрын

No, you'd have to go through the process shown here to put the OS on the new card and then copy the roms over.

@susanox3

Жыл бұрын

@@scaryifliteral thank you.

Thank you, Can I have the roms on both? How to be sure that the system can save on the second card? If I understand you correclty, I can just buy a second card, call it ROMs add the CFW folder and it will save all files there?

Mine arrived today, and just suck on the anbernic logo? Please help

can i put 2 sd cards w/ different OS at the same time? im planning to buy another sd card to install batocera to play ppsspp but im worried of losing or misplacing it in the future so im planning to just put it in TF2 slot if wont be using it.

hello guys i need help so basically i got garlic os installed on TF1/sd card 1 and i wanna play my games on the 2nd sd card so i copied all the rom files on the roms folder on the 2nd sd card and the games wont show up . SD CARD 1 with garlic os dont have any roms on it

I did not understand why you are not formatting just right click on disk?? (you are using a program)

@ronsonwagner9401

10 ай бұрын

Windows won't let you format drives that are larger than some specific size as FAT32. That's why you need a special program to format it. For example, when I was setting mine up, the format tool in Windows only allowed me to select NTFS or exFAT (not the same as FAT32).

@zetnikoven

10 ай бұрын

@@ronsonwagner9401 thank you

my roms dont show up ;-; i tried renaming them all bc maybe the parentheses were interfering but still nothing, I need help I'm genuinely a noob!

Is it possible to complete these things using an android? It's the disk image and the fat32 I'm struggling with so far.

8:32 when I put the card in all it shows is a black screen, I can hear the buttons but that’s it

Can I flash both the stock os and garlic into one sd card only?

At first, I had trouble getting everything to work with Garlic OS. I had to rename the PS1 folder to PS. I may have had to rename other folders as well. I discovered on the PS games that I had to move all the files out of the folders they were in. But then Garlic OS reported no games in the PS folder. I tried moving some jpg files to the images subfolder and removing some special characters from file names. Finally, Garlic OS was able to see all the PS games. All the RG35xx PS games in the 64gig distribution seem to work except for Suikoden II. For some games, I had to turn on "integer scaling" and get a copy of the PS1 BIOS for them to run at full speed. I couldn't find any BIOS files on the original RG35xx SD card. Not all arcade games I have tried work. I am trying to see what I can do about that. Is it possible to change emulators? I also had some problems with the CPS stuff. I want to run some Sinclair Spectrum games, but some of these games require keyboard input to start. Not sure what to do about that. I think that Garlic OS user interface could be a little more user-friendly. I would like to have sub-folders. If a game distribution has 4 files then it will list all 4 files in the menu, and only one of them will work. It would be nice to be able to zip up PS games, although I don't know if there is enough system memory for that to work. I would like to run PSP games, but the system might not be able to handle it. I saw that another OS was running PSP games with difficulty.

the google drive link was flagged as a trojan by windows defender just a heads up. For that reason i used only used garlic os, also can you do another video on how to skin garlic os?

It is evident you are not trying to instruct novices. Aside from that this is a good teaching video for people experienced in the gaming world/computer world. For those with Mac's, they are going to have to look elsewhere.

it was kind of weird, I didn't need to format the roms drive it just was working at least at a glance.

@OwOLink

5 ай бұрын

nvm, I'm back because the update really makes the roms partition smaller as a 'fix'.

Amazing channel!👏👏👏👏

Seems a lot easier than i thought. Im super scared about messing with files like that out of fear of bricking my device or something. But this doesn't hard to do at all. So yeah right now I'm just waiting for a micro sd card reader to come in the mail and i may just put garlic on the stock sd card and if something goes wrong I'll just do what you did here.

@Sizzlemonds

Жыл бұрын

For a person that isn’t that computer savvy, this is extremely complicated.

@KovanNova

Жыл бұрын

@@Sizzlemonds well luckily now you can buy it with Garlic os preinstalled from ambernic themselves

@Nope-Nope

Жыл бұрын

Did it end up working for you? I’m scared to do mine 😅

@KovanNova

Жыл бұрын

@@Nope-Nope yes

How do I do all this with a MacBook? I can’t figure it out 😭

thank you that's very helpful

when using Garlic OS is there support for external control pads - as i cant find a way to do so - i can use external control pad on the stock OS but not on garlic

@scaryifliteral

Жыл бұрын

I don't believe so yet

Good morning to you Mr. Shane Craig

If your use case is that you just want to upgrade the SD cards to better ones what can’t I just copy the content of the old SD cards onto my computer. Format the new SD cards to Fat 32, drag the files off my computer onto the new SD card, plug the SD card back into the device and call it a day?

@scaryifliteral

6 ай бұрын

Nope. If it were that simple I wouldn't have wasted my time doing it like this lol

Any chance you might know why my device boots to the main menu then goes black. The LED shows it is still on but nothing happens. Was working fine for about a week. Tried installing new firmware on new SD card but still same results.

@scaryifliteral

Жыл бұрын

That's not something I've seen. Might try in one of the subreddits for these devices. Good luck!

the win32 disk imager is not locating that rar file meanwhile i have it sitting on my desktop im confused

@scaryifliteral

Жыл бұрын

Like wise, if you're not doing things I'm doing in the video you're likely making a mistake. 4:13. RAR file has to be extracted like I do in the video.

Are gold v cards required to secure the files?

Não entendi pq baixou o sistema original. Você já não o tinha de fabrica? Então se eu deixar como está , e comprar um outro cartão só para o GarlacOs, irá funcionar os dois sistemas tranquilamente? Obg pelo tutorial.

@scaryifliteral

Жыл бұрын

As said in the title and in the video, I was moving to a new card because the one it came with failed.

Noob question how we back up the roms from the old sd card to my pc 😮

@scaryifliteral

Жыл бұрын

Drag and drop

But this is not dual boot, there is no option at start up to select which OS to run, Is just a boot of each SD. This is what I understand.

the Roms was already there for me but there was no game files

need help locating that rar file with the win32 disk imager

If I want to just get a new sd card can I just highlight and drag to the new sd card and pop it in and it works or is it more difficult than that?

@scaryifliteral

11 ай бұрын

The process is what I show in this video

yeah i tried to install garlic os and it didnt work. it bricked my system, so now i have to use this guide to hopefully restore it to stock os. very annoying

This feels very complicated. I just want to move everything from the stock sd card. Is there an easier way?

I don't like wasting technology and material .. so: Can't you configure the underlaying Linux to avoid writes to the 'crappy' included card? Maybe then even run it as 'ro' and redirect all writes lilke savegames, recent lists and savestates to the 2nd sd card. For example by using bind-mounts. I would rather buy one high-endurance 128GByte card instead of two smaller standard sd cards for the same price or even a bit less, which would then be sufficient.. and the of course use a flash friendly filesystem like f2fs or at least exFAT on the 128GByte high-endurance card.

This is very helpful. However, quota has exceeded for us to download the Firmware :(

you are amazing dude .. can u please help me ! My RG35xx when i boot it , it just shows the logo of ambernek then the screen be black . what is the problem can you please help me ?

I accidentally deleted my games to stock sd card when I was updating to garlic OS, I was wondering if the games in SD2 is a back up one if you lose games accidentally on SD1?

@HayBaylers

Жыл бұрын

did you find the fix or something bevause i have the same problems, i lost all my roms.

@kingsmithie1712

Жыл бұрын

@@HayBaylers there are some roms you can still play on your sd2 card including gb to gba games but i not the other roms especially the mame and arcade ones which is the good ones and ps

Any suggestions for Mac users? I want to move to a new SD card and add more ROMs to my SD card.

@sooperheep

Жыл бұрын

search garlic os on youtube, theres a guy who has the whole walkthrough for mac and pc

@scaryifliteral

Жыл бұрын

Sorry, I haven't touched a Mac computer in years

@sooperheep

Жыл бұрын

@@scaryifliteral cool story bro

@blu_lasky5033

Жыл бұрын

I just inserted two the stock SD card it cam with and then backed it up onto a hard drive - I'm stuck at the adding more games. I just think it can be added to the second SD but not sure. I will search if you haven't already found.

@LaquitaMS

Жыл бұрын

@@blu_lasky5033 I figured I’d give it a month or so to see if anyone does a How To video and search again. I haven’t done anything to it since.

Is there a way of buying the SD cards with garlic OS on them because I do not know how to use a PC and I've got a few Anbernic and powkiddy handheld devices including the RG35XX 🙏🏽

@DerekJeterrl

Жыл бұрын

It's literally a step by step video bro 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

@glitczh

Жыл бұрын

@@DerekJeterrl LMAOOOOOO

Great channel!

@scaryifliteral

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

Where can i get games filtra ?

My unit won't charge at all. Won't turn on either. Any resources you know of to troubleshoot? I took the unit apart and did unplug and plug back up the battery. Still nothing.

@scaryifliteral

Жыл бұрын

Make sure you're using a pretty basic charging. PD chargers won't work on it.

@vboutique2188

Жыл бұрын

@@scaryifliteral It's usb c right? I'm just using a 2amp brick with usb c cable.

so im assuming you can switch between two OS’s with both SD’s inserted

@scaryifliteral

Жыл бұрын

Only one slot is for os

The thing is i never saved the saved files form the stock SD Card :( Please help me with this one :( ive got no games at all :(

@scaryifliteral

Жыл бұрын

I can't tell you where to get games.

Very helpfull tutorial for noobs like me, many thanks~!

@scaryifliteral

Жыл бұрын

Glad to help!

For someone that is not good in computer literate, this is so difficult :(

Arcade doesn’t work correctly on garlic os

that was my problem i didnt back anything up i formatted the sd card like a noob now it wont boot up

@scaryifliteral

Жыл бұрын

Only do what I'm doing. If you're doing extra stuff you don't see here you're likely making a mistake.