How to move to a new SD Card & Install GarlicOS to quick swap OS's on your Anbernic RG35XX

[@shanecraigtech]

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 *PLEASE KEEP IN MIND WITH THE PACE OF CHANGES ON GARLIC OS THAT SOME OF THIS COULD BE OUT OF DATE AT ANY MOMENT*

[@TrollToll-d8d]

Yo can you help me? I got the an anbernic and I was trying to flash garlic os and I guess something in the partitions got messed up and I only saved the rom files on my pc and the bios, but after putting them back on the sd card, the device won't launch...how do I just redo the entire install fresh? Or if you lose some of the software that comes with the card you can't? I don't understand what I'm missing. I should just be able to flash the software on the card right? It's not working...

[@HipsterBrooo]

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!

[@C_Gao]

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]

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

[@Hellyfish08]

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

[@KimCostello-ug1zu]

Thanks for this video! So helpfull. Fixed my RG355XX switched roms to 2nd card and now gonna setup a 2nd card for Garlic. You are a life saver. I am gonna subscribe and watch your other videos.

[@brianpeterson3733]

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. 👍👍

[@shanecraigtech]

Glad it was helpful!

[@anbernicguy]

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

[@LouTerrell]

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

[@shanecraigtech]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@JasonJackson1284]

Thanks so much for this video. This helped me out along with another video from KZbin creator Play Retro, just kind of cross referencing the info. I was able to replace the stock 64gb card with a 128gb card complete with Dual OS (stock + GarlicOS) It can come off as a little daunting of a task but I really only used the Win32DiskImager and the Mini Partition Wizard. Then just copied everything from The ROMS drive to my desktop (which took six hours overnight) and then dragged all those folders to the new TF card (took little less than an hour) and boom, I was all set and even had all the saved data from the Stock 64 card ported right over. Much obliged.

[@Ztepn]

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!

[@kieranlufs2rock]

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

[@kamalmohamed2392]

The goat of the Rg35xx thanks for the video! By change do you sell sd cards with games that are of the fans choice? You would make a killing on Etsy

[@alekshewitt]

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.

[@shanecraigtech]

❤️

[@alex5098]

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

[@khylaacosta2503]

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?

[@Sheeppo_Kun]

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

[@gigalagaki]

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!!!

[@thewillsfamilyaccount6486]

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

[@Sonofdonald2024]

My 35xx has stopped booting up and when I placed the sd card into my laptop the laptop immediately displays an error message and restarts? I've ordered a mew card but I don't think im going to be able to get anything off the old card ? Did I see some people suggest disconnecting and re connecting the battery on the 35xx because mine is now not coming off black screen

[@raymondbatac3826]

I have an rg35xx. I managed to download and install the firmware (the one where you write the image) on the new sd card. I dont get stuck anymore when booting the device. I placed the stock sd scard in the 2nd slot (external) but i couldn't find the games when i browsing my device.

[@rociolopeznavajas5571]

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 =)

[@DavidHoeyBowie]

dont know if this is the same for anyone else but there isnt a .rar file on that google doc that he uses anymore i went through all steps and couldnt find it

[@TrollToll-d8d]

Yo can you help me? I got the an anbernic and I was trying to flash garlic os and I guess something in the partitions got messed up and I only saved the rom files on my pc and the bios, but after putting them back on the sd card, the device won't launch...how do I just redo the entire install fresh? Or if you lose some of the software that comes with the card you can't? I don't understand what I'm missing. I should just be able to flash the software on the card right? It's not working...

[@Twiztds0ul]

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

[@MynaIT]

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.

[@alexwebo23]

yes it is

[@Ehren1337]

@@alexwebo23 no it isnt. stop wasting their time.

[@samage8961]

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

[@blakestrother5122]

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]

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]

@@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]

@@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]

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

[@MarsOfTheStars0]

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

[@bystry-moment_bo_tak]

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

[@blanchemiguelwalde7957]

Hi! Not sure if you'll see this, but I did everything in your tutorial. Problem is, when the system loads, I can't move or even press the A B Button. Please help. :(

[@Retro90sgamer]

Very helpful! Thanks!

[@leunaum]

Hi, would you know how to do the same thing but with the dual boot rg35xx.

[@BidoTech]

I Love U (no gay). I have been trying to fix that Issue for a friend and found your video and fixed it. Thank you very much and Greetings from The Dominican Republic.😁

[@ATRcams]

Very well explained! Thank you!!

[@austinreed.]

Over a year later how did this work out for you? I just bought a RG406V for my son and I and I wasn't sure how the best way to keep what I paid and get the involved option. Would you still suggest GarlicOS?

[@ash3344]

How do you do this process via your phone? I dont have a pc. I have an android phone and tablet.

[@jdbaker1989]

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]

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

[@nickbrn60]

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?

[@poleris555]

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?

[@IlhamAmanahRangga]

this video is a lifesaver

[@Angelo-sc9of]

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?

[@hazmiraedy2433]

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

[@hollowpoint3188]

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

[@andrewsanpedro374]

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

[@jsenear]

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.

[@djbarela4]

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 ?

[@pyrozero]

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

[@tobizockt4710]

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?

[@KovanNova]

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]

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

[@KovanNova]

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

[@Nope-Nope]

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

[@KovanNova]

@@Nope-Nope yes

[@flukedust22]

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

[@lilspookie954]

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

[@djmocella3852]

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

[@ArtyomBlin7595]

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.

[@dylanchadderton1]

Good morning to you Mr. Shane Craig

[@blacknote4258]

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?

[@zetnikoven]

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

[@ronsonwagner]

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]

@@ronsonwagner thank you

[@lorenzorinaldi7358]

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,

[@Epop84]

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

[@susanox3]

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?

[@shanecraigtech]

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]

@@shanecraigtech thank you.

[@emery6709]

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!

[@BustaDeluxe]

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?

[@trydummyheheheha6314]

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 :)

[@MrSoul2006]

thank you that's very helpful

[@pdfbro5118]

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?

[@lameloser7288]

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

[@PROCOTRDOCTOR123]

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?

[@shanecraigtech]

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

[@nedstarks4142]

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

[@MrBrowza]

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

[@shanecraigtech]

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.

[@Nellis00]

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

[@vboutique2188]

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.

[@shanecraigtech]

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

[@vboutique2188]

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

[@saufimuhammad8147]

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?

[@saiyan_princestudios9790]

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 :(

[@Kampfleber]

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]

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]

@@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??

[@kyliejunyor]

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.

[@Crazies408]

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?

[@shanecraigtech]

The process is what I show in this video

[@haicomeineptone148]

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

[@kingsmithie1712]

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]

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

[@kingsmithie1712]

@@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

[@rhandee08]

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

[@milne8153]

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

[@JWhite60]

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.

[@shanecraigtech]

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

[@gustavobiancalana4778]

Amazing channel!👏👏👏👏

[@butchescobar]

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?

[@gavinhartin]

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

[@shanecraigtech]

I don't believe so yet

[@chacho9729]

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

[@pinklemonade5772]

I have RG35XX plus is it the same thing?

[@kntwing23]

hey where do u get your roms/emulators ?

[@MadDog-tr2eh]

I need help i have a sd card can't have my game save

[@kaka672]

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

[@shanecraigtech]

Glad to help!

[@lokinova2547]

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

[@OwOLink]

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

[@OwOLink]

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

[@LaquitaMS]

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

[@sooperheep]

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

[@shanecraigtech]

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

[@sooperheep]

@@shanecraigtech cool story bro

[@blu_lasky5033]

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]

@@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.

[@SemuthuFernando]

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

[@georged7627]

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]

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

[@glitczh]

@@DerekJeterrl LMAOOOOOO

[@classicalm998]

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

[@ixoycjc5464]

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 ?

[@New-Drone]

Great channel!

[@shanecraigtech]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@TotoKulas]

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

[@Camelrs]

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

[@enriquerosales5487]

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

[@curtislevey7639]

​@@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.

[@MrBrowza]

need help locating that rar file with the win32 disk imager

[@frankwalsh5672]

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

[@hectorcampos6691]

Does it work on the rg35xx plus

[@Daimon12820]

Thank you sir♥️