ANBERNIC RG35XX-H/PLUS CUSTOM FIRMWARE: THIS IS A GAME CHANGER!!!

[@doozeruk2000]

The first channel to show this OS upgrade that actually knows Batocera inside out. I've used Batocera on my rg351m and all my PC builds for years. Once this is a few versions in it will be more than just amazing... Great work, best guide on youtube, give this man a like and get this OS seen for all rg35xx users

[@thegamelounge659]

Thanks Doozer, really appreciate the nice comment. I’m super hopeful they continue to work on this one. It really could be amazing.

[@peterle8482]

Gonna wait until the cfw is better but thats amazing 😮the RG35XX+ is my first retro handheld so its awesome that it gets updates overtime 😁. I snagged mine a few weeks ago and it's been an absolute blast so far

[@thegamelounge659]

Yes with a few tweaks this could be amazing. Most retro handhelds are far from the complete product at launch.

[@Agumon5]

I don't think it's quite ready yet, but maybe once it leaves beta. I had a number of issues ranging from WiFi not working right, to not finding most of my box art on the device.

[@thegamelounge659]

Interesting, I was really impressed with the scraper and the Wi-Fi. But maybe that’s why it’s beta. Perhaps issues won’t occur for all

[@ElisBuenas82]

I'm still tinkering with the stock OS, but I want to try BL. Still didn't decide to rewrite the original card or use another. Would have to buy a new card in this case. Nice to know that there are more customizations. And it's beautiful to see the bezels. The PSP performance increase may be a mind changer for me and risk Batocera Lite once for all

[@thegamelounge659]

I think it’s not 100% there yet Dreamcast wise. I found the stock OS almost unusable so for me this is the point to switch but so far I am super impressed

[@SlakOffs]

There is a flycastvl core on batocera which runs dreamcast VERY well, at least as good as stock. Make sure to disable auto save/load state for that or it will crash.

[@thegamelounge659]

Ahh interesting, I’ll try this one out. Thanks for the comment

[@hazy33]

Some people might think the title is clickbait. But hold on "THIS IS A GAME CHANGER!!!" is exactly what the software does... you can select and change games. So well done 🙂

[@thegamelounge659]

🤣🤣🤣 I had to read the comment twice. Jokes aside I 100% think this improves the device

[@linkonprime]

Once I saw that there was a good custom OS available for this device, I went ahead and ordered on. It also helped to get the sale price too. This device will be what I take with me all the time, replacing my Miyoo Mini in that role.

[@thegamelounge659]

I hope it’s a great device for you. It has so much potential!

[@daily_pocket_review]

How much did you pay? Mine came out to about $80 after shipping... just wondering if I got ripped off ha

[@thegamelounge659]

Yes sadly mine cost about that, with shipping and taxes it makes Anbernic products rather expensive in the UK.

[@linkonprime]

​​@@daily_pocket_review Mine was $67.99 with free shipping from litnxt (With their $12 off coupon code).

[@glufke]

Bought today in AliExpress for 52 bucks!!!!

[@cartoonhead9222]

Be warned, many of the scraping databases have limits on daily/weekly/monthly usage.

[@thegamelounge659]

Yes I know screenscraper needs a username and password for more than one game at a time. I tended to only use it for incorrect matches. I only have a few hundred games. I guess if you have entire MAME libraries this could be annisaue

[@jasonshiers5771]

i tried Batocera lite on the plus model as well as the H , Dreamcast is okay if you frameskip and N64 is fine on Rice but has no hot key so you she's to reset the console every time. i'll wait till it updates before using it full time , the Stock OS does its job but is just clunky.

[@thegamelounge659]

Interestingly since I made this video there have only been 2 updates to Batocera. Hopefully another big one is inbound

[@jasonshiers5771]

@@thegamelounge659 , were the updates done via wifi ?

[@thegamelounge659]

No, I did them manually, Wi-Fi updates should work though

[@stepangryniv]

Visually it's superior but I couldn’t figure out the shortcuts/button combos so I gave up on it for now.

[@thegamelounge659]

Interesting, they certainly work if a system uses Retroarch. Potentially not if they use standalone emulators

[@SpagmanAus]

It looks great, a definite improvement. Wi-fi performance suddenly becomes useable and the scraping tools built in are fantastic. Unfortunately though, it turns the Dreamcast emulation to garbage, it reverses the A & B buttons and stops the function button up the top from working, so a bit more work is needed.

[@thegamelounge659]

Did you switch it to the standalone Flycast emulator in the settings. The function button brings up the Flycast menu and A/B seemed fine here. Performance in this still not there though. I hope it’s something that gets resolved quickly. There was another release as of yesterday although that focused on DS issues.

[@SpagmanAus]

thanks, still a emulator handheld noob here so learning new tricks every day. cheers!@@thegamelounge659

[@UrbanHim]

Great video, thank you! I'm still struggling to get my Amiga game library working on this, had no problem with all my other handhelds, but Batocera is constantly saying missing kickstarts which they're not, they're all in the BIOS folder, doesnt really give much detail on whether this is the correct folder for the kickstarts, i'm not sure where else they should be other than the BIOS folder.

[@thegamelounge659]

Thanks for the comment. Glad you enjoyed. I’ve never had an Amiga so it’s not something I’m familiar with. Do you usually put the kickstarts in the bios folder or the game folder in Retroarch?

[@UrbanHim]

@@thegamelounge659 Yeah, Amiga needs Kickstarts to play its games, and they are stored in BIOS folder which RetroArch points too. With my other devices, i've sometimes had to download the emulator within RetroArch settings, and do all the core updates etc, i'll see if that works. Amiga doesnt work on Stock OS either, just doesnt even show up as an emulator in the main screen, its not a massive issue, i've got Amiga working on all my other handhelds, but would've been nice to have them on this too. I'll keep messing about with it and see where I get. Appreciate your reply though.

[@DougHolmes]

It's great - unless the button mapping is all wrong, then it's an utter nightmare to use... The lack of Wi-Fi doesn't help much either. The modded - much smaller - version of the official OS is a better bet at the moment (until Garlic OS leaves Alpha).

[@thegamelounge659]

Wi-Fi now works fine as of the BETA and I didn’t notice any major issue with button mappings. Although there was a release yesterday sorting the DS mappings, the good thing is they are literally releasing a new version every day it seems. So hopefully the issues will be resolved.

[@thegamelounge659]

Actually I have had issues with the emulators not booting sometimes when using the HDMI out. It doesn’t crash as the hotkey brings you back to the menu

[@eduardosena3381]

What is this modded version of the game OS?

[@cosmicgamingunlimited]

I liked this overview. What I didn’t like was when yoi directly recorded with a screen capture device. You were showing it at 16:9 which is not represenative of built in screen. You should simply note when using a screencapture device and that you are using a external monitor.

[@thegamelounge659]

Hey, thanks for the comment and advice, you are correct. I do have the section about the HDMI Out switching to a widescreen capture and adding bezels, but the scraper section is before this so a little note (or simply putting this section after would have been useful).

[@Castallan]

I was hoping for this update!

[@thegamelounge659]

It makes the device a great purchase for $60

[@benpregent]

I tried it and I'll give it more time before being my daily driver. Performance seems there (except dreamcast) but I was having weird issues with scrapping crashing and the emulation station would also often crash and the theme/gui would also often crash and had to reload while browsing game lists. The bootup was also atrocious. I was using a 2 card setup with a large library maybe that had something to do with it?

[@thegamelounge659]

Yes my first boot was slow, the times started after was significantly faster. I found with scraping it’s best to literally put down the device until it’s done. The more I browsed the more it would crash

[@benpregent]

@thegamelounge659 every boot was super slow in my case. Did the same for scrapping. Left it alone but it was crashing all the time. I have a good sd card as well.

[@thegamelounge659]

Interesting, I was using the cheap 64GB card you get with it. Guess that’s why it’s in BETA, peoples experiences seem to be very varied

[@New-Drone]

Great review!

[@thegamelounge659]

Thanks 👍🏻

[@ls-prez6125]

I was disappointed when it didn't work on my rg35xx, to find out you need h or plus model. 😢

[@thegamelounge659]

Yes sadly the chipset is different ☹️

[@nunits]

Of course there is already a version for rg35xx. Koriki/Batocera Lite for RG35XX 1.0.3.1 - 20240105

[@3godzilla3]

Unfortunately, using this CFW causes the device to turn on any time you have the device charging. Even when turning it off while charging, it just turns back on again. Only solution for this is to set it to "Suspend System" and it will stay in Sleep mode while charging. Also, when entering or exiting a game, there's a very annoying and subtle "crack" in the audio. Not the end of the world, but it's far from perfect.

[@thegamelounge659]

That’s interesting, I did notice the ‘charging screen’. Let’s hope these teething issues get sorted quickly. For me the DC performance is the biggest issue

[@EeziPZ]

This was fixed in an update

[@sheldonisnumberone]

I don't see a rewind feature in this OS.

[@okmike87]

Is there a bios pack somewhere specifically for this firmware and the RG35XX H?

[@thegamelounge659]

You can just use the bios folder that comes with the device if you copy that. Although I’m sure if you Google It you can find something

[@okmike87]

@@thegamelounge659 Is that what you did, copy the stock bios?

[@De_BOSS95]

it would be nice to put the link in the description instead of the video and making me type it out, smh

[@thegamelounge659]

Good tip! Thanks for the comment.

[@vincentaldridgesiguin2078]

my ps1 games is not working help me

[@socalrcguy1]

How do you transfer all the games that came pre installed to a new nice micro sd card??

[@thegamelounge659]

So you can take out the current SD card and simply copy the Roma folder onto your desktop. Then take the new SD card and copy the games back over

[@manuelrodriguez9972]

Can we play Saturn?

[@thegamelounge659]

No, this device is not powerful enough I’m afraid.

[@cvltzilla]

saturn plays perfect with the stock os

[@JazPathal]

Can anyone confirm that the HDMI output works ok on this OS, I have tried and it just doesn't connect to the TV? I tried it with the stock OS that the device came with and the output works fine so I believe it's an OS issue but wanted to check if others experienced the same. Thanks

[@thegamelounge659]

I can I can confirm it works fine, actually outputs with the main 16:9 interface and looks really good (You can see in the video with the bezels etc.)

[@elescritorsecreto]

I tried downloading Koriki/Batocera and couldn’t get the WiFi to work (something about only being able to use WPA2 and not WPA3). I couldn’t get my router to use WPA2 so I reverted back to the stock OS. Does this version of Batocera have this WiFi issue? Or is it only the Koriki version?

[@AppleAndPear18]

Another question, can RG35XX H run Pico8 games ?

[@thegamelounge659]

Yes it can. Actually a really nice device for PICO-8.

[@thegamelounge659]

Not to shamelessly self promote. But check out my original review for more of an overview

[@djyoungk]

I don’t see a ps1 emulator onnit

[@thegamelounge659]

PS1 works great on Batocera. Zero issues. Just put your games in the PSX folder

[@kennethfriedl3428]

How come when I downloaded it and flashed it to my sd card it did not have any consoles included above SNES and MEGADRIVE? How come yours has Neo Geo, N64, and Dreamcast? Mine didn’t have those and I downloaded the beta version. I was very disappointed with this build to be honest.

[@thegamelounge659]

So you need to make sure you backup the games on the card that comes with the drive. If you take the card that comes with the device you can copy the Roms folder off of it and then move them onto the new drive. Personally I didn’t do that. I just loaded a number of games straight onto the device. Interesting you were disappointed. What was the main reason.

[@kennethfriedl3428]

@@thegamelounge659 I was disappointed because the way they created this image is not clean. It partitions the sd card into 3 separate drives, which is not necessary. I had one hell of a time locating the roms folder. I couldn’t find it after way too much time looking for it. It’s just frustrating. OnionOS was a way better experience. So easy and straight forward. One partition, and folders are easy to locate. Plus, all the emulators are optimized for each console. It was a seamless journey transitioning over to OnionOS for my Miyoo Mini Plus. In all honesty, I am hating Anbernic right now. This is my first product from them and it’s been a horrible first impression. My RG35XX H came with a corrupt sd card. It won’t even boot up passed the Anbernic logo. I bought a brand new sandisk sd card and I e-mailed Anbernic. They gave me a link to a Google Drive firmware update download. It’s in several different pieces and once I completed downloading all the pieces the dam thing won’t extract into a complete image. I tried removing the extra -XX2.etc that it automatically puts in each file name when you download the whole thing at once (I would have downloaded them one by one but because Anbernic didn’t want to use a GitHub or put a download on their own site they used GoogleDrive and it’s exceeded their quota a long time ago, but anyway I digress) it still didn’t work. Now Koriki has this new Batocera lite. It works, but it’s a rough ride. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why it doesn’t show PS1, Dreamcast (which I heard doesn’t work very well anyway), N64, or any console above 16 bit. Also, I was unable to find where to put the roms in this batocera lite build. Honestly, at this point I’m just done with it. I’m going to shelve the dam thing and hope Garlic for It will come out soon. I’m just going to be happy with my Miyoo Mini Plus. I bought the RG35XX H because I wanted a horizontal with HDMI that could play Dreamcast. What I got was a useless handheld with nice buttons. I’m actually quite pissed off right now about this. $80 USD is not chump change for me. I’m not a wealthy man by any means. I had to save up for a while to be able to buy this. Anbernic sucks! 😡

[@thegamelounge659]

I have to say, your story is not the first like this I have heard. My original RG35XX was faulty, they sent me a replacement board and it didn’t resolve it (which wasn’t exactly a simple process to install. It certainly has made me think about Anbernic products going forward. The Batocera partitioning is quite standard for them. Strange folders didn’t show up though, as long as the folder name is correct this has always been pretty standard. The Miyoo Mini community support and OnionOS is really superb. These stories do make me think about covering Anbernic products going forward to be honest with you.

[@kennethfriedl3428]

@@thegamelounge659 Well, I just have to say Thank You 🙏 for answering my comment. That shows integrity on your part as a serious KZbin channel content provider. It’s more than I can say for other channels that became too big for their own britches. I posted about my experience on TechDweeb and RetroGameCorps but they didn’t even bother to respond. I guess they are just more concerned with selling as many units as possible through their affiliate links then the consumer’s end use case scenario. Oh well. I guess it’s just the world we live In nowadays. Fingers crossed Black Seraph releases Garlic OS Beta for RG35XX H soon. Maybe we should all donate to his Patreon to encourage him to get moving. 😉

[@salvatore.sky77]

I love batocera and immediatly have install it, but i try virtua tennis 1 and 2 (Dreamcast) and I see run wrost then original OS 😢

[@saqqawattuhb7505]

Will ArkOS card from RG351p work on yhis device?

[@thegamelounge659]

No, this is not the same chipset family

[@ndMaikel]

I think i would like this CFW but the boottime of 45 sec. is no option.

[@thegamelounge659]

Interesting, I never measured it. Is it really that long?

[@ndMaikel]

​@@thegamelounge659 Batocera lite needs 45 seconds.. whereas MuOS needs 5 seconds for example.

[@paparansen]

still needs a lot of work, but it will be good some time. btw i told the batocera devs a gazillion times since years, STILL they got the retarded dreamcast image in the theme. n64 running fine? lol ps: whats going on with your volume up and down?

[@thegamelounge659]

Yes there are certainly a number of things to change but I think from PSX below there were no issues for me. N64 I had to switch a few of the settings. It’s not upscaled and I noticed some frame drops here and there. So ‘fine’ I think captures it perfectly. Not great but playable 😂 I think it’s when I start recording a new section. I naturally think I start further away and move in so the volume levels dip. Need to keep head in same position 🤣

[@paparansen]

@@thegamelounge659 not even mario kart is smooth, with none of the 4 cores/emulators. i dont get why the standalones STILL has no option to use default n64 resolution instead of 2x

[@thegamelounge659]

Have you tried tweaking the plugin settings rather than just the cores? Worst case scenario you can use RICE’s video plugin. It’s about 20 years old and far from accurate. Rice was originally a developer of 1964 20 years ago so it was designed for speed on Pentium 4’s etc. that ran with no issues for me. I know what you mean though, nowadays when you play upscaled on a PC with all the quality of life enhancements imperfect N64 emulation just doesn’t feel right. I think the devs can improve things thoigh

[@paparansen]

@@thegamelounge659 i am into this stuff longer than 20 years, my first console was the original pong ^^ the devs are just not reading what ppl are telling them, not even the easiest stuff... that is just stupid.

[@xawierymorgan4611]

How to open emulator menu on n64 games ?

[@xawierymorgan4611]

Save game build in game pokemon fire red gba works? Or only save state ?