How to Make Your PS1 Games Look Better on the Miyoo Mini Plus

[@duckyobrien]

Table of Contents =============== 00:00 - Start 00:48 - 2D Games = Getting the Most Out of RetroArch = 01:10 - Turning on Enhanced Resolution 02:18 - Overclocking the Miyoo 04:27 - Resolution Comparison Photos 05:00 - Loading Games that Won't Work = Installing PCSX ReARMed Standalone = 06:16 - Installing Onion OS 06:52 - Installing PCSX Standalone 07:54 - Moving the App to Emu 08:54 - Overclocking Standalone = Verifying Overclock = 10:31 - FPS Counter 11:15 - Telnet = End = 14:06 - Conclusion 15:26 - Goodbye Friends!

[@duckyobrien]

Resources ========= Onion OS (Github): onionui.github.io/ Rufus: rufus.ie/ guiformat: ridgecrop.co.uk/guiformat.htm Onion Desktop Tools (schmurtzm): github.com/schmurtzm/Onion-Desktop-Tools Installing/Updating Onion OS Guide (duckyobrien): duckyobrien.com/2024/02/15/playing-nintendo-ds-games-on-the-miyoo-mini-plus/ Written Guide on PCSX ReARMed (duckyobrien): duckyobrien.com/2024/04/17/how-to-make-your-ps1-games-look-better-on-the-miyoo-mini-plus/ Audio Format Guide: pinecast.com/listen/9ee5dd72-ad24-4af0-96a4-7c20d85e76be.mp3 Retro Handheld Podcast feed: the-ducky-obrien-show.pinecast.co/ Sources ======= Notes About Overclocking (schmurtzm): github.com/OnionUI/Onion/issues/768#issuecomment-1659968668 Overclock App (Eggs): www.dropbox.com/sh/hqcsr1h1d7f8nr3/AABtSOygIX_e4mio3rkLetWTa?preview=overclock_test.zip Commenter Credit: poethefallen1333

[@regisk]

Great video! Very helpful. Thanks

[@duckyobrien]

Thank you for the comment! Glad it helped!

[@katentu]

Thank you. Great

[@duckyobrien]

Thank you for dropping by!

[@STANI420]

Thanks good guide

[@duckyobrien]

Glad it helped!

[@grimmjonog6851]

I would be interested to know how this affects battery life

[@duckyobrien]

I will test it out and let you know!

[@duckyobrien]

Seems like battery life is not that much different, at least for me. Fully charged my Miyoo Mini Plus, ran Spyro Year of the Dragon on my overclocked standalone app and left it idling for 4 hours. Went from full to 62%. WiFi turned off, brightness at 3, volume at 2, no headphones. Device was slightly warm at the end of the 4 hours. It was pretty cool at 2 hours. If I were actually playing the game it would probably drain at a slightly faster rate but this is inline with my experience with the battery life so far. Hope that helps.

[@raymondtwumasi838]

mmh I dont have GPU Plugin on my Miyoo Mini Plus.. dont know why

[@duckyobrien]

Which version of Onion OS are you using? I'm on 4.3. The earlier versions may not have enhanced 3D option nor the standalone PCSX ReARMed app. Other than that, I have no idea what could cause that.

[@Synthematix]

PS1 games were never 60fps, pal was 25 and ntsc was 30

[@duckyobrien]

Yeah I made a mistake between internal FPS and external when I was writing the script. The Miyoo's display is 60fps but the game will render at whatever version you're running. Edit: I don't know a lot of things so I need to do a better job of making sure my script is correct. I try my best but often times mistakes slip through. Massive respect to outlets like Gamers Nexus that have a really good process and third party validation. I do try and add any corrections to my written guides if I remember to though.

[@Synthematix]

@@duckyobrien People always get frame buffer and frame rate mixed up

[@duckyobrien]

@@Synthematix For sure, for sure. I also learned a bunch of new things once I read up on some games' internal square pixel resolution vs the display's rectangular pixel resolution lol. Too many things to keep track of for retro games.

[@Synthematix]

@@duckyobrien Those little miyoo handhelds have the best picture quality ive ever seen, even beats my sony bravia TV ! the black levels are just perfect too.

[@duckyobrien]

Speaking of picture quality, I am curious about the Retroid Pocket Mini and RP5 since they're supposed to have OLED screens. Probably a bit out of my price range but the handhelds sound nice on paper.

[@rigoon290]

Is the performance in DS games also better?

[@duckyobrien]

Hmmm that is a bit hard to say. In my experience the only thing you can really do is overclock the Miyoo for DS games and then DS games will run just a tiny bit better. The MMP lacks the power to turn on enhanced 3D graphics on Drastic, at least as of now. You can set Drastic to overclock by editing the launch.sh file in SD:\Emu\NDS (make a backup before editing). There's a bit of code: if [ "$CUST_CPUCLOCK" == "1" ]; then cpuclock 1500 fi I changed cpuclock to 1800 for the Miyoo Mini Plus and 1600 for the OG Miyoo Mini.

[@Danieldot2K]

spyro cooks my miniplus and drains the battery

[@duckyobrien]

Thanks for letting me know! How long would you say it lasts on one charge so other people can get an idea of how long they'll be able to play.

[@Danieldot2K]

@@duckyobrien I didn't follow your video, but just on stock Mini plus with onion os, Spyro games would probably last maybe like 15 mins or less.

[@duckyobrien]

@@Danieldot2K Thanks for replying and letting me know. Yooo 15 minutes is abnormally low though! That sounds like a defective battery possibly. Do you get better play times with other games/systems?

[@rigoon290]

@@Danieldot2K your battery must be broken

[@poethefallen1333]

Nice one man, glad you did a video about this 👍🏻. Hey do you know if it's possible to save the game config for each game in the standalone pcsx, every time I save the settings for a game it creates a .cfg file for it, but it won't load that config when you restart the game. Only "Save global config" seems to work.

[@duckyobrien]

Thanks for dropping by again! I'll check the configs out and see if there's a potential fix.

[@duckyobrien]

I took a look and I can't figure it out at first glance. I'll have to do some digging and I'll report back if I find anything.

[@poethefallen1333]

​@@duckyobrien Hey man, apreciate it. I just realized by messing around that the config save only applies to the loaded game when you choose the game file from "Load CD Image" option in the menu, but for some reason it won't work if you choose the game the usual way from the main list when you start the Emu which is what I have been doing untill now. Who knows what is going on, if you figure it out let me know, untill then I will just load the game from the menu options 😅

[@duckyobrien]

@@poethefallen1333 Yo I was just about to write this but yeah, I found that out too. I'm not sure if this is fixable through config/shell files. I'll take a look into the source code to see if I can learn anything about how the game is loaded but this is probably going to be beyond my skill set.

[@V1TOCHIN]

Great content! Thank you!

[@duckyobrien]

Glad it was useful, thank you for leaving a comment!

[@V1TOCHIN]

@@duckyobrien I couldnt get mgs and jackie chan stuntmaster to work, while other roms are working. Is it the rom or something else I could be missing ?

[@duckyobrien]

@@V1TOCHIN For MGS I had to load individual disc images instead of the m3u file after I start the emulator. I don't know why but MGS didn't work normally for me either. It looks like Stuntmaster is a single disc game but you could try loading it from the menu after starting the emulator as well. If that doesn't work, it could be some sort of incompatibility issue, protection scheme, bad rip, or corrupted file. I'll get a rom dump and take a look at it myself and report back.

[@duckyobrien]

@V1TOCHIN Alrighty, I checked out both the American and European versions of Jackie Chan Stuntmaster on the standalone app. They both seemed to run ok but the American version definitely had more slowdowns. They were both in .bin and .cue files tho, not .chd so I don't know if that has anything to do with it. It's possible you could have a bad rom. edit: Or it could just be incompatible with this version of the emulator.

[@V1TOCHIN]

@@duckyobrien Ow nice thank you so much! That spares me trying out a bunch of stuff. I'll check my files and emu