Can you please do a full length video of everything. I’m really confused

Question: can I transfer the roms that came on the original SD card into the Onion roms? Ie. Copy the stock roms into Onion? Or are the Onion roms a different format which I need to download?

Man this is a lot…. I just wanna play some games from my child hood

downloaded onion from the link and it bricked my mini plus. what do i do?

My games have gone missing from menu but can only play in retroarch woud a new SD card fix it or haw do I put them back thanks

Thanks for the video. Is it a requirement to copy those files to the bios folder? What do those files do?

@MjolnirStone

Жыл бұрын

It isn't an absolute requirement but it is highly recommended. Basically, BIOS files would have been included on the original hardware. The Mini includes them so it is convenient to copy them over. Some emulators will run fine without them, while some run better with the original BIOS (rather than a "faked" one included with the emulator), while some simply will not work at all without them (Sega CD and others). Of course, you could find them online later if you want or need them.

Great tutorial 👌

followed all instructions perfectly but when i turn on my system it does not install onion

Would be nice if you should us the computer part

So the package manager is especially the system that you wants emulator right? So click the ones you want roms to play, nes, sega etc

I’m not a computer guy. How do I use Rufus to format my 128gb card?

@MjolnirStone

Жыл бұрын

If you download rufus it is pretty straight forward. You just choose the memory card and select Fat32 (instead of NTFS or other options). Windows won't use Fat32 on a card that size, but rufus will.

When formatting a new sd card with rufus, its asking me to select a Boot Selection... Which option do I select? (non bootable, Disk or ISO image, MS-DOS, or FreeDOS)

@isidzukuri

11 ай бұрын

ofc non bootable.

My Miyoo Mini did not come with an SD card in it. That halts this entire process because I can't copy its contents. Help?

@MjolnirStone

9 ай бұрын

Don't worry. You don't *need* the things on the card. It just makes getting things like bios files easier. If you have no card, I recommend searching google for "tiny best set." I can't really say more than that or they will shut me down!

@theleanhead

9 ай бұрын

@@MjolnirStone I never came back to this to say but there was a tiny case with an SD card in it and after this process was perfect the rest of the way. Thank you for the breezy setup good sir 🫡

So I've been playing for a year with the basic OS, I got save files on that old default SD card, can I safely move and copy it onto my new SD card? Edit: what I mean is, like, what folder would my .sav files go (GBA games)

you should have shown what to do on the pc, some people aren't comfortable messing with it.

@MjolnirStone

Жыл бұрын

You're right, and I wish I had. Honestly I only copied over ROM files and didn't want to show too much of that for fear of angering KZread.

now you have to update the frimware before using onion OS

I think I bricked my Miyoo Mini while doing this process after watching your video. It refuses to start even after I remove the memory card? Nothing shows on screen. Please help.

@MjolnirStone

Жыл бұрын

So sorry to hear that! Were you able to solve this?

@powersanakin

Жыл бұрын

@@MjolnirStone I was not able to solve this. Can anyone help? I am stuck with a dead Miyoo Mini, thanks to this video.

@riderxxl8263

Жыл бұрын

Look for a video of RetroBreez about bricked miyoo

is this the same setup for v4?

Can you give a list of what games come out the box?

@MjolnirStone

Жыл бұрын

I wish I could but most of mine were actually in Chinese. I think what is included may depend on which marketplace you buy it from.

Update the link to github my dude. That version of Onion OS you are linkin to BRICKS the Miyoos that are shipping with the lastest firmware. People are coming to the miyoo subredit asking for help because they bricked their miyoo using this particular video

@MjolnirStone

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, updated!

Returning mine...this is too complicated om buying myself the retro 17 dllr game this is too much

I have 2 miyoo mini. Your SD card on the video can be less reliable and games in chinese because it doesn't come from the official Miyoo store. The official store only sends a 32gb card with the Miyoo Mini (no 64gb or 128gb). And most of the games are in english, I can confirm.

@MjolnirStone

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately the official store doesn't ship where I am, but many people have used larger SD cards without any issue.

@sebastien6744

Жыл бұрын

@@MjolnirStone I did order a 64gb game sd card on another non official store. It has many games, more than the original miyoo one. But I was lucky, only a few chinese versions. I think it really depends on the seller, they don't have the same games on the card. :(

hi! where does the Onion OS is installed? in the internal nand memory of the miyoo? or is still have the stock os when your remove the sd carD?

@MjolnirStone

Жыл бұрын

OnionOS installs on the SD card. When you remove the card it will still boot up, but if you have SD card in when you boot you will only ever see Onion.

@miracledn-mazu2411

Жыл бұрын

@@MjolnirStone thanks for the reply!

holy shit. I just bought one. haven't received it. I was under the impression all these games where pre loaded. I know absolutely nothing of what you just said. I check my email and use FB marketplace on my Mac. did I just buy a fuck'n paper weight?

@MjolnirStone

Жыл бұрын

hahah it does include a card with games, an hopefully you get a good assortment of them! I would still recommend you copy all of them from the card and then put them back on a new one. Some people just report that the included card is not the best quality and may fail.

@joeme8899

Жыл бұрын

@@MjolnirStone does it have techmo bowl and resident evil 1?

@TheMeekMingeMaster

Жыл бұрын

@@joeme8899 techmo no, re1 yea, but its a microsd, find the CHDs online from an ARCHIVE, drop em into the roms folder on sd, and then just run em, get an alternate card cause theyre chinese and corrupt easily, device itself is solid, ive got a few thousand nes, snes, gba, sega stuff. and a couple hundred psx roms(256gb microsd), shouldnt cause any sdcard issues unless you have a shitty card or mess up transfers a lot and corrupt files, like pausing a ton, cancelling mid transfers, and accidental disconnects all increase the chance to corrupt blocks on the memory card, works like that on all data transferring devices, not just the miyoo lol

I need to buy one but they're all sold out wtf

@MjolnirStone

Жыл бұрын

Keep an eye on their official aliexpress store! They do regularly put some up for sale.

Anybody know the max sd capacity? Just got mine and I'm wondering if i got a newer version with a worse dpad or what because i only heard good things. It's the worst I've ever used hands down.. no diagonals, character stopping movement, beyond game breaking for almost any game except side scrollers. Maybe a 3d print could fix it but the contact points look like they're the issue, they're so odd, not like any controller I've tore down

@MjolnirStone

Жыл бұрын

No issues with my dpad but as for sdcard, I know people have used 128GB and I am personally using 64GB.

@TheMeekMingeMaster

Жыл бұрын

exfat can take up to 2tb lol, just have to use larger blocks which maes things take up more space, im rollin with a 256 atm and have all games for like most of the list, plus some romhacks and translations and stuff and still have space leftover, 128 is nice but you get limited on psx or and CD based games you try to put, 256 lets ya get them, without upping the capacity to an unstable level (google says for miyoo to use 126 but exfat is stable in general and with that large variance of allowance , staying at 256 or 512 max is the safest, smartest choice

@TheMeekMingeMaster

Жыл бұрын

also the difference between V1 and V2 of the mini is the buttons, the v1 has less space on the outside of buttons making it a more snug fit that pushes your buttons against the walls of the molding sadly, the v2 opens those molds up so they arent rubbing the shell of the device , might have a V1 brother, my condolences and in reference to the dpad sucking, it was made for up to PS1 and has no gpu so it cant do n64 ,psp, or similar systems, all of the qualifying consoles only had a standard quadradirectional dpad , i think some of the rg models have an analog stick for any dualshock kinda stuff you wanna play, but miyoo is mainly for ultraportability and extra usability, some stuff was sacrificed in design, and some games were MADE for controls like that, as a good comparison, play dino crisis or resident evil, then play medievil, medievil has a moving cam like sm64, but the movement in the game is just much more fluid , they just started with tank controls at first for a ton of games bc A. easiest to code B. its all they really had, psx was i think the first real gaming venture into 3d so they just picked a poor idea and ran with it , and C. tank controls add to the tenseness of horror games bc of lack of character speed, so it fit the genre and was the most common kinda thing at the time, sorry for all the paragraphs, i ramble when im high

@Shoxpyre

Жыл бұрын

@@TheMeekMingeMaster Yeah I have heard about that tight dpad, it's definitely the v2 it's got plenty of space around the dpad. It's definitely something with the contacts, I get that a lot of rpgs, platformers etc are fine with quad movement but even ps1 all the way back to nes to atari all registered diagonals very reliably. Think yars revenge on Atari, gradius in nes. I can't scroll up cuz I'm already typing and I'm on my phone, did I say shooters? If I did I meant shmups/shoot em ups, a lot of older games with a space ship etc. For example, gradius 3 for snes one of my favorite games of all time, is playable on all of my emulator consoles, perfect on all my PC controllers, unfortunately unplayable on this device. I feel like I can get a diagonal movement to register 25% of the time. Oh well thanks for the replies man, I'm determined to get it working! Added a tiny bit of height to the center post and that helped a tiny bit. I don't see why people don't just copy the ps1 dmg nes or snes dpad 1for1 on handhelds tbh. And your good there i'm a paragrapher too man stream of thought ftw haha

@Shoxpyre

Жыл бұрын

@@TheMeekMingeMaster I'm seeing a new reply in my notifications but not in the comments 🤔 that's weird. so i can only read the beginning maybe it'll show up after some time!

Junk the USB, and don't tell us what to use instead?

???????

@MjolnirStone

Жыл бұрын

Yes?

Man. For the ones saying this is too much, Maybe you need to look into something else. Most of these Emulation devices, you'll have to do some tinkering. Rarely ever are they plug and play like a regular console you'd buy from a store. That's the nature of this hobby. If you want plug and play, Get one of the classic consoles. This tutorial is very dumbed down, so its not " Too Much." You just need to inform yourself a little more on how emulation devices work, How bios files and roms are used, and how to troubleshoot small issues that emulators are known to have. If you aren't willing to learn. Then this product, and many others like it, are just not for you.

@MjolnirStone

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, as far as these types of devices go, this one is about as simple as it gets. Especially when paired with Onion, all the emulators the device supports are pretty much pre-configured and ready to go. You drop in BIOS files and ROMs (or copy them from the card that probably came with the device) and well, that's pretty much it. No tinkering with settings to try to squeeze out on extra 5 frames on PS2 games, or toying with upscaling. It's pretty much set it and forget it.

@Sofia-rf4jg

7 ай бұрын

You messed up my friend you don't know what are you doing

Onion os is NOT worth the hassle trust me. Just stick with stock.