muOS - Comprehensive Install & Usage Guide - RG35XX Plus/H/SP

[@PhyrexTechs]

New update Beans(v11) has been released - kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKrdmal-pb6inac Pico-8 standalone needs these 2 files with Beans(v11) - pico8_64 (instead of pico8_dyn) - pico8.dat

[@Tetrastructural]

I've been using it the last couple of days. I think this is THE OS for this device. It's lightweight, powerful and customizable. Usually, you only get 2/3. Thanks again for your videos brother.

[@darrylatkins5049]

It won't load Splore for me

[@PhyrexTechs]

Thanks for watching!

[@PhyrexTechs]

What's it doing? Which version of muOS are you using and which files did you add?

[@pewneosoby2108]

Sorry, but the community is NOT helpfull at all. Third of theoretically supported games do not work, other third has no controller scheme. :(

[@daniel-ix]

Glad to see you make this video! I’m part of the discord community as well and a contributor. I just want to add that the MuOS community is very active and always trying to improve the OS. It is so far my favorite OS for this device as well

[@PhyrexTechs]

Thanks for checking it out! Yeah, the muOS community is awesome.

[@slykhajiit2]

Batocera would have been my favorite if it wasn't so buggy. This one is far stabler and more functional as far as I can tell.

[@flaviometal]

WOW! A top-notch guide, and narrated by Saul Goodman! Thanks!

[@PhyrexTechs]

Thanks lol.

[@slykhajiit2]

Lol I really heard it once I read your comment.

[@sonicboomish]

LOL, I didn't realise he sounds like him until i read this, now i can't unhear it 🤣

[@madmommy]

5:53 you have NO idea how helpful the disk management hack was! I have been pulling out my hair trying to figure out what was going on with my card! Also, fantastic tutorial!

[@PhyrexTechs]

Glad it helped!

[@valeryistepanenko7855]

my partition magic dont change letter

[@joelzuniga3292]

I was waiting for someone to make this tutorial for muos for this device for about a week so happy this video is up ❤

[@PhyrexTechs]

Thanks for watching it!

[@Oliver-zw7tw]

The production quality of your videos show a lot of work put into them. You’ve earned a sub for sure and hopefully you’ll get to 10k soon. Take care

[@PhyrexTechs]

Thanks for the sub and the kind words!

[@Syko1985]

Awesome guide, in depth and very clear. Looking forward to future updates.

[@PhyrexTechs]

Thanks for watching!

[@antiKk_00]

Fantastic review mate. Greatly appreciated!

[@PhyrexTechs]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for all your help!

[@kridus]

Thank you so much for creating this video! It was incredibly well-done and it helped me out a lot. I really appreciate the effort you put into making it informative and easy to follow. Keep up the great work!

[@PhyrexTechs]

Thank you!

[@janX9]

Mine arrived in the mail yesterday. Perfect timing.

[@PhyrexTechs]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@gd.tech8]

Bro congrats for your videos, ur really good teaching people, continue with ur good work for retrogaming community s2

[@PhyrexTechs]

Thanks a lot!

[@rickarddidriksson3633]

Fantastic guide. Really appreciate the convert to CHD script. I was really struggling with that part after switching to muOS

[@PhyrexTechs]

Great to hear!

[@Hunter_S_]

Great video! Really appreciated the walkthru at the end about how you can manage and sync files on the device. My SD card reader broke so I am going to give updating it via the virtual file manager a shot. EDIT #3: Discord helped me out. The login is muos and muos.

[@PhyrexTechs]

Thanks! Yeah, looks like the login has been changed. Thanks for letting us know!

[@sxixlxnx]

What an awesome video guide to muOS. Thank You 🙌🏼

[@PhyrexTechs]

Thanks for the nice words!

[@Tetrastructural]

Thanks for this video. I have m new H in the mail, and I’m really looking forward to trying, Muos on it. It looks really good. The fact that it’s using a simple yet new interface built on retro arch is refreshing to me. I like emulation station but sometimes it’s kinda jank with retro arch, and it can be confusing to newbies to know where to adjust your settings. I hope MuOS is better in that way. Cheers!

[@PhyrexTechs]

Awesome! I hope you enjoy your new H. MuOS just came out with v11 so a lot of the issues that they had with 10 should be fixed and there are a lot of improvements.

[@bipbop3121]

Just downloading MuOS Beans for the first time. I just got an H, too, I'm still just checking things out. I know MuOS put in the music player, but I'm wondering if it has ebook, like stock. Not that I plan to read a lot on there, but sometimes a book is the best for certain pick up, put down scenarios and there's a few I like to put on anything.

[@Tetrastructural]

@@bipbop3121 I think you”re on to something there with the e-books. All the reviewers scoff at the idea, but what you described is a perfect scenario. I could see myself reading through LOTR 10-15 minutes at a time on a handheld. It’s better than a phone imo cause you won’t get interrupted by notifications.

[@Tetrastructural]

@@PhyrexTechs sweet, it seems like it’s got a lot of steam behind it so I’m excited to try it and see if it’s one I’ll stick with long term.

[@PhyrexTechs]

As of right now it does not have the ebook or video player yet.

[@gustavo9758]

I love playing around with retroarch/libretro so this looks like a very attractive option.

[@hadouken2123]

Nice video for a nice OS that deserves more attention ! Edit: Syncthing uses port 7070 !! I was already deperate that i could not get it working with 8384

[@PhyrexTechs]

Yeah that is one of those things that I had to go ask about, cause I also tried 8384 and was stumped.

[@ponury420]

Wow thanks so much for your contribution, everything seems clear!

[@PhyrexTechs]

Glad it was helpful!

[@supermario844]

great guide! thank you so much for putting it together

[@Black10710]

Awesome guide, thank you

[@PhyrexTechs]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@peaceasyx]

Hugely helpful. Thank you!

[@714SNF]

thanks for helpin me set this up!

[@PhyrexTechs]

Glad to help!

[@blakerochkind1742]

Great vid, thanks.

[@PhyrexTechs]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.

[@D4C413]

What a great video thank you

[@PhyrexTechs]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@UnleashedUnicorn]

Unfortunately, my standby button does not quite work. It only randomly works every fifth time I press and hold it...

[@Breakbeats92.5]

Brah, I'm up here grinning like a Cheshire cat. I'm looking forward to what this OS has to offer.

[@mikewhite4015]

Thank you.

[@Jo-zq8vt]

Honestly, we don't deserve you. what a legend

[@PhyrexTechs]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@budgetking2591]

Wow i bought RG35XX and didnt expect to get a new 2024 version with the same chipset as the Plus version, and i only paid 34 euro shipped for it!

[@PhyrexTechs]

Wow! That is a great deal. Can't go wrong with a free upgrade.

[@mrpuddingfinger9226]

So i successfully installed muOS onto my rg35xx plus and it appears as though I lost the bluetooth function? I can not find it anywhere in the settings.

[@908ravikumar]

Great step by step video for a newbie like me. My son was still using the RG35XXH native OS it came with. Is there a way to transfer the game progress from the original folders I have saved? Also should I transfer over the bios folder content from the original OS folders also?

[@LeenNL13]

Wow I just found this channel and it comes in extremely helpfull! amazing work providing this in-depth information! thank you very much, liked and subbed. Edit: question: will the mu3 creation process prevent image scraping compatibility?

[@PhyrexTechs]

Glad to help out! Thanks for the like and subscribing! A lot of scrapers should be able to handle m3u files but it might depend on exactly which one you are using.

[@GraphicalRanger]

Would like a video player app like stock - however muOS is looking rather great so far. Thanks for the video guide.

[@PhyrexTechs]

You're welcome! Also the newest version of muOS has a video player now. I show it off some here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHexhIaCoKd1hNU

[@samj82]

Great video! I'm totally bew to all this stuff and wanted to ask if you have or could do a video to install batocera 40 and the "Done Set" roms. Many thanks!

[@PhyrexTechs]

Yeah, I plan on making a video for Batocera some point soon.

[@awanmukti]

Thank you

[@PhyrexTechs]

You're welcome!

[@_rain.edit_]

valid vid

[@PhyrexTechs]

Thanks!

[@alamolvera]

7:22 , from where did you took all the games/roms? Are a copy from the ones in the original SD? - it is a great video, and you made it very easy to follow up. Thank you

[@PhyrexTechs]

I'm using my own ROMs but you can get them from the stock SD card

[@baaf1984]

flawless explication, but i miss how to use ports. Muos is my favorite.

[@PhyrexTechs]

If you have any issues using port I have a video here that might help. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJTSdaR6jpmkibc

[@cs9927]

I added the roms and I turn on the handheld but it stuck on the Mu OS logo screen. What happened?

[@PhyrexTechs]

Any issues on first boot? before you added the ROMs?

[@DumbBunny5328]

Dreamcast games refuse to launch for me. I have the bios files in the right place but every time i try to launch a game, it just closes without even trying to launch.

[@durbeeno]

I followed this guide but with the most recent release of muos, I go to play Heartgold and i cant enable cheats, they stay greyed out?

[@-Airwalk1616-]

@Phyrex Techs for some reason, the pico8 instructions here in this video did not work for me. If you look at the page you had pulled up, it has changed and talks about 32 binaries? Do I need to do something different now?

[@PhyrexTechs]

Yeah with the Beans v11 update it has changed Pico-8 standalone needs these 2 files with Beans(v11) - pico8_64 (instead of pico8_dyn) - pico8.dat

[@-Airwalk1616-]

@PhyrexTechs hey man Thank You for the prompt reply hpmie

[@Riku2005]

26:55 that might be a FFT issue right? I wonder if getting the slow down fix version would alleviate the fps there.

[@PhyrexTechs]

You are correct. Someone else pointed out in a comment that the slow down was built into the game... I just didn't remember that being there. I checked out the slowdown fixed version and it does fix the issues.

[@slykhajiit2]

8:43 When I try to launch a game, it just shows "loading content" at the bottom for a split second but does nothing. If I try again, it then shows "error loading content."

[@PhyrexTechs]

Does this happen for all games? Which system? and which core is being used?

[@slykhajiit2]

@@PhyrexTechs Yes it happens to all games in all systems. I'm on my RG35XX original and got the image file from the Discord server. Edit: The exception being the built-in games. I have all the recommended BIOS files of RG353 from the RG35XX subreddit copied over. Edit 2: I just tried putting games into the pre-made existing folders instead of my own and GBA works.

[@PhyrexTechs]

Is the image file you used for the OG? Just making sure. Are you using a 2 SD card setup? Are any of the SD cards in the ext4 format?

[@roland6911]

Hi guys, how to saving in the portmaster? Saving the progress

[@Nightsowl69]

I download and securely installed the system on my sd card but I can’t add Roms to the Roms section of the folder I keep getting a error when trying to use balena to write the images of the Roms onto an sd card any ideas?

[@PTFWWDB]

is there a way to have a frontend like with scrollable consoles instead of just text like a Launchbox thing where you scroll through consoles

[@Knightfall88]

I am using your multi disc guide, however artwork no longer shows for ps1. do you have a solution? thanks

[@Rr-j4x]

do u have video installing muos using 1 sd card set up?

[@PhyrexTechs]

In this video the install and setup part is for single SD cards. Then I have a separate part in the video for the 2nd SD card that you can skip if you don't plan on using one.

[@bracelet4002]

After putting it to „SP“ my screen goes black after the loading screen. Any help?

[@lookingforwookiecopilot]

Just put this in my 28xx. It never asked me which core to use when I tried my first games in a folder, and pushing the select button (or any button for that matter) did not bring up a list of cores. Anyway, I couldn't get it to run Berzerk, or Galaga in either FBneo, or Mame. In N64, Mario Tennis wouldn't load either, and Mario Golf was all white on the course. The only games that I tried that actually worked were Protector for Vectrex (but I couldn't get to retroarch to remap the controls) and Celeste on Pico8.

[@PhyrexTechs]

Did you use the Refried Beans version for the 28XX? That is the only version that will work correctly for the 28XX. I made this video before they even released the 28XX version. But you should be able to hit the select button when in the game list and it should ask you to select the system then core. If that is not happening double check the version and you might need to reflash it.

[@lookingforwookiecopilot]

@@PhyrexTechs Yeah, its Refried Beans. I did eventually realize that I had to select a system before it'd let me chose a core, so I can run more games now. Only problem now, is I can't figure out how to remap the controls for things like Vectrex, FBneo, Mame, and N64.

[@lookingforwookiecopilot]

@@PhyrexTechs Ok, I figured out how to remap things,...well except for the Dreamcast stand alone emulator, can't figure out how to get the d--pad to take place of the missing stick.

[@danthaman03]

I tried it and liked it but for one big issue. I can't get mame working in it. I think I used 0.375b from 2000.

[@kFr91]

hello, two things. first - I have *cue and *bin files, they refer to one game. how can I connect them so that they do not duplicate in the device, and some have more than one file, for example: x (track 1), x (track 2) and so on. how can they be organized so that they are in one file.

[@PhyrexTechs]

The CHD format is popular for multi-disc games. However, it great for this reason too. If you convert those games into CHD files then all that info gets put into one file. I have a little section on this video about how to do it and a GitHub page with it some tools. But there are also other tutorials out there that might be more in-depth then the info I have.

[@SonicNigma212]

Hey I was wanting to play the Arcade game of Alien Vs Predator but don't know what core to put...and I wasn't able to play it yet. What can I do?

[@superGianism]

Would you still retain your previous progress after installing muOS?

[@hugomachado3348]

great guide mate...how you do the multidisk trick to work with dreamcast roms?.. mine dont open the m3u

[@PhyrexTechs]

Not sure about that. I'll check on my side. Do the games work if you try to launch them just from the CHD file and not the m3u?

[@hugomachado3348]

@@PhyrexTechs thanks for the reply..yes it works when i run them from the chd

[@dalecruz4754]

Do you have a link for the list of roms to download?

[@inANUTSHELLANIMATION]

how do I switch my cores

[@PhyrexTechs]

You will hit select when hovering over a game to re-select your core.

[@inANUTSHELLANIMATION]

@@PhyrexTechs in your opinion what you think the best cores for good pixels

[@PhyrexTechs]

The core should not affect the display of pixels. You will want to choose the one that gives you the best performance. So as long as it is working and not stuttering you can use it. If you notice something wrong with how the pixels look(as in not square) you will want to change the aspect ratio or you can enable a overlay to add scanlines/grids.

[@inANUTSHELLANIMATION]

@@PhyrexTechs you are a knowledgeable man thank you🗿i subbed

[@Lvl99Retro-zr1fi]

How is the dreamcast/n64 performance on muOS compared to stock?

[@PhyrexTechs]

With the latest version v11 having the standalone mupen with rice for N64 I prefer it over stock. Dreamcast is about the same.

[@gustavoaparicio9816]

Every time I try to convert on Rufus it gives me an access denied message any help?

[@Blue_WolfD]

What do we do if the system doest start once the muOS is installed? Its for the correct device but its not turning on

[@PhyrexTechs]

That usually means that the image got corrupted wither during the flash or during the download. You will want to redownload the image and reflash it.

[@miloshstojkovic7374]

Hi, I got a weird issue. I used your m3u creator for both my PS1 and Dreamcast multi disc games. The weird thing now is that my Rg35xxH is running the Dreamcast games with no problems, but not the PS1 games. With my PS1 games when I run the m3u file I just get a short black screen and it goes back to the PS1 games menu. Both of my PS1 and Dreamcast folders are structured the same way, so this is a weird one. EDIT: I figured it out. It was a bios issue. As I did a reinstall of muOS for a 2 SD setup i forgot to put my bios files on my SD1 card. I guess that muOS came with some but not all bios files preinstalled as Dreamcast games were loading, but it turned out that none of my PS1 games were loading. Now it's all good.

[@PhyrexTechs]

Yeah that is an odd one, a few things to check. Are your ps1 games CHD format? While on the ps1 games list screen, hit the X button to refreash the list. Have you tried hitting select and testing a different core?

[@bagusrizkydewantoro5399]

Great Video! where i can find the bluetooth settings?thank you

[@PhyrexTechs]

Thanks! Sadly muOS does not have bluetooth support yet. It is being worked on but no ETA as of yet.

[@clarenzcruz2861]

Hello! I've been trying this, but I seem to encounter an issue with the files after flashing MuOs. Looking at the MUOS folder, there seems to be no files aside from drastic

[@PhyrexTechs]

Is this after you flash and then place the card into the system to finish the install?

[@clarenzcruz2861]

​@@PhyrexTechs Yes, I waited for the installation to finish before removing the sd card. I tried both the REFRIED and BEANS img file but I seem to encounter the same issue.

[@Astrictos]

so ive just installed the os but when im trying to open up portmaster it keep flicking up to the top of the menu does anyone know how to sort this out ?

[@PhyrexTechs]

Have not seen that before. Make sure your internet is connected and if it still doing it you may need to re-flash muOS onto the SD card.

[@Astrictos]

I’ve got it working now, i had to download postmaster separately it wasn’t in the latest version of muOS for me

[@c5vette739]

I installed MUOS on my RG40XXV. Next I inserted the 2nd SD card into my console after copying the Bios and Roms files to it from my stock SD card, but MUOS didn’t read the content. Not sure what I did wrong.

[@PhyrexTechs]

A few things to check here muos.dev/help/sd2issues

[@neilmalkan2303]

Bro I’m not sure about this one even, but maybe muOS has different bios files than the stock version? And that’s why it doesn’t show up maybe, because your OS is mu, but your bios was copied from your stock os card. Just a guess

[@zegerking]

Hey thank you so much for making this video ❤. Btw did you change anything about the background of the console or das it look like this right after installing?

[@doggojotaro7420]

Hey I had a question for tiny best set go do I download the 30 links? Or what do I download?

[@PhyrexTechs]

Tiny Best set has many different links depending how large your SD card is. It should have it explained on the internet archive page even though it might be initially confusing. You start with "tiny best set go games" then can get more expansions so if you had a 64gb card you would get the 64 expansion along with the first one.

[@doggojotaro7420]

@@PhyrexTechs Thank you so much bro you don't know how helpful this is I was so confused doing this last night only issue I have now is my download speed but that's my own problem 😅 thanks again!

[@TheRootko]

Your guide helped me a bunch, thanks. I still have some minor issues though. For instance my Sinclair ZX Spectrum games won't run using explore content. I have to open retroach manually and then choose "load content" with Fuse core. All the games are unzipped and I'm using .z80 format. Any pointers what I could be missing? Thanks.

[@PhyrexTechs]

When using Explore Content, did you hit the select button in the games list and see if the Fuse core was available as an option there?

[@TheRootko]

@@PhyrexTechs yes, it's there. But even when I select it and launch the game, it returns to the list after a few seconds. Perhaps I could try a different file format, like .tap... EDIT: nope, it's not in a file format. Neither .tap, .z80 or .tzx work. Also I have some problems running arcade games and some ports on MUOS, so maybe you could take a look at some MUOS Beans issues in the future videos? :)

[@TheRootko]

@@PhyrexTechs I've joined the muos discord and there's actually a bug that was reported and also a workaround. At mmc/MUOS/info/core/zxspectrum/core.cfg there's "o" missing in the ".so".

[@PhyrexTechs]

Awesome! Thanks for coming back to let us know!

[@joles-gaming]

With the new update, what pico8 folders are needed? the txt file for Splore does not work sadly

[@PhyrexTechs]

New update Beans(v11) has been released - kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKrdmal-pb6inac Pico-8 standalone needs these 2 files with Beans(v11) - pico8_64 (instead of pico8_dyn) - pico8.dat If it's still not working you might need to set the emulator. Hit select when you have splore highlighted and choose Pico 8 (External)

[@joles-gaming]

@@PhyrexTechs I figured it out from Reddit.. I changed the rom file from Pico to Pico-NATIVE and Splore worked 👍

[@PhyrexTechs]

@@joles-gaming Nice, Forgot it was called native and not external. Thanks for the update!

[@exmerion]

Does that multi-disc trick work the same way with batocera?

[@PhyrexTechs]

If Batocera also hides hidden folders it should. I need to try it.

[@WinstonK-cy3fl]

bummer - it doesn't have auto-sleep -- what does idle blank means btw?

[@PhyrexTechs]

Idle blank would be the "fake sleep" where after an amount of time with no input it would turn off the screen and pause any emulation.

[@WinstonK-cy3fl]

@@PhyrexTechs i tested it and set it to 5 mins but it doesn't go to sleep for some reason. same with idle shutdown, it's not doing anything.

[@PhyrexTechs]

Yeah as of right now it does not work on the Plus or H model. Only the original rg35xx. That is something that is being working on.

[@samdavies2069]

I'm an idiot, the sd card reader had a separate micro sd card slot on it, I was just using an adapter. As soon as I noticed and put it in there, it worked no problem, so I guess it didn't like being fed through an adapter it didn't need. So I'll leave this here in case someone else gets similar errors. Just had a new Sandisk SC card trying to get it ready to put MuOS on a 35xx H (that hasn;t arrived yet) but both USbit and Rufus are giving me errors writing to it, usbit says something about closing explorers related to the drive (they are all closed) and i/o error. Rufus is just a vague "error".

[@mr.n476]

hi phyrex, great guides. im using 2 sd card setup. does portmaster games saved to card 1 instead of 2? i want to install the portmaster games to my sd 2 card, but im not sure if i have the options to choose to which sd card its installed to.

[@PhyrexTechs]

Thanks! So if you have a 2nd SD in the device Portmaster will install everything there.

[@budgetking2591]

How to get into emulator options when in nintendo 64 game?

[@PhyrexTechs]

If you are using the latest standalone Mupen-rice emulator on muOS beans(v11). There currently is options for it but it does still have some usable shortcuts that can be found here. muos.dev/emulators/mupen They work but you wont see any visual indicators that anything is happening

[@Riku2005]

I'm still at a lost tho, deciding btwn this and the MMiniPlus. Just been hearing great things about the onion OS but i prefer the RG35XX horizontal orientation more. I'm torn.

[@PhyrexTechs]

Yeah, I understand. It's hard to recommend one over the other because like you said Onion OS is such a good CFW and makes the MMP a great option for something small. But if looking for something more powerful and a horizontal format the XXH is also great.

[@hawkes3992]

Hi, great vid but a bit stuck. I, using the Beans image. Firstly when I flash the image, put in device to boot then back in PC it only gives one ROMS folder with MUOS folder inside it. But this is fine, I created a separate ROM's folder within it and populated all my roms in different folders but when I choose one it just gives the "no cores found" message. It doesnt ask me which system I'd like to use or which core etc. All the cores are on there in the MUOS folders as you said. Any idea what's happened here?

[@PhyrexTechs]

Does it give you any core options if you hit the select button while in the game list menu?

[@hawkes3992]

@@PhyrexTechs thanks for reply. Fraid not. "No cores found" . Strange as I can see them all in thr MUOS folder when thr card is in my PC

[@hawkes3992]

@@PhyrexTechs when I press the "help" button which is just the Function button. Is says "This message has not complete yet. Maybe you could help out?"

[@PhyrexTechs]

Hmm, So I just want to make sure you have the correct folder paths. On the SD card you should have the folders. Archive Backup Muos ports Roms If you dont have all of those or they are in other folders you may want to format the card again. Download the latest muOS update and try again.

[@hawkes3992]

@@PhyrexTechs so when I flash the image the main folder is called ROMS, within this folder is MUOS, ports, back up and archive. So slightly different to what you've said

[@spiralings]

I mostly love muOs, but wonder if anyone knows about a couple things: The achievements triggering isn't very exciting. It's much cooler in the stock firmware, a little box graphic and a sound... in mu it's just a line of text... is there a way to set it to be like the stock firmware? also in GBA games R2 standalone is FF and it's way cool for level grinding. In Sega Master System I have to push the menu AND R2 to FF.... is there a way to make it just R2 alone? thanks!

[@wongbryson]

Wouldn’t you loose your box art once we flash and update MuOS to a newer build one day? Is it not possible to place the box art in the secondary SD card?

[@PhyrexTechs]

With the latest version v11(beans), they added the backup and archive manager that has a built-in script to backup and restore your box art. I go over it just a bit in my v11 video.

[@wongbryson]

@@PhyrexTechsoh! Thank you. 😊

[@Papa.Bear.Z]

Help. I flashed the MuOS on a new SD card but my device is not turning on. When I reinsert the stock SD with the stock OS, it's working fine. I tried both raspberry and rufus to flash. Can someone guide me what I could be doing wrong please?

[@PhyrexTechs]

Double check that you have the right version of muOS image for your device type and redownload the file.

[@iamalittler]

My problem here is that, at least with DraStic saves, they are not saved there, but in /emulator/drastic/backup. And that is balls.

[@PhyrexTechs]

Yeah, it would be convenient to have all the saves, including the stand alone emulators saves, in one place.

[@moonyvilanful]

My RG35XX H doesn't boot up when I insert the SD card freshly flashed with muOS beans for the initial boot. It doesn't have a problem booting up when I go back to the SD card I previously used with batocera. Can anyone please help?

[@PhyrexTechs]

You may need to try to reflash the card with muOS. You may want to redownload the image file as I have seen a couple reports of the file getting corrupted during the download.

[@ItzSeyren]

I downloaded muos the recent one before the new update and when i flashed it to my sd card. When i go into disc manager it says i have 55.72gb unallocated and i don't know how to fix it. And when i go into the muos file i dont have roms and bios folder

[@PhyrexTechs]

You may need to make sure all the partitions on the SD card are deleted. Rufus normally does a good job with this but you can: With your SD Card inserted into your computer, right-click on your Start Menu and click on Disk Management Find the SD card listed there and delete all partitions for it by right clicking on each one and selecting delete volume. Once this is done try to flash muOS again.

[@ItzSeyren]

@PhyrexTechs when I go into disc manager I can't delete all the files on the sd card

[@PhyrexTechs]

Are you using Rufus to flash the SD card with muOS?

[@ItzSeyren]

@@PhyrexTechs yes I am

[@PhyrexTechs]

Are you getting error messages when trying to delete volumes in disk management?

[@fabianmartinez1321]

Does anybody know how to change the default core of a console outside of retroarch?

[@PhyrexTechs]

You should be able to hit the select button when on the game selection screen. Then choose the console and core/emulator.

[@GogtioBlue]

can you show how to fix no sound on this OS. When I reboot the handheld, there is no sound.

[@PhyrexTechs]

For some reason on restart the sound can get set to like -10. You will need to hit volume up button a bunch and it should come back. This has been confirmed to be fixed in the next version update.

[@GogtioBlue]

@@PhyrexTechs can you tell me how to use cheat because I cannot use the cheat for the GBA although I have added the code

[@PhyrexTechs]

@@GogtioBlue I'm not very knowledgeable about cheats. Are you enabling them through RetroArch?

[@GogtioBlue]

@@PhyrexTechs I have enabled them but when I tried pressing the apply change, nothing happend

[@PhyrexTechs]

You can try resetting the game from the RA menu. I'm not sure how the cheats are sourced. If they are getting them from the normal RA list I know some of those are known to not work. If you have other cheat options from the list for that game you may want to try other ones. Or check some other games and see if its just that one game being affected.

[@209cgrant]

Can you explain what image flashing software does, please?

[@PhyrexTechs]

Yeah, so an image file (.img or .iso) is basically like an exact copy of what would be on a disc like a CD, hard drive, or in our case an SD card. So you could use .img/.iso files to make a back up copy of a drive. Image files are also good for installing applications/programs onto drives. Image flashing software like Rufus will first format the drive (delete everything off of it) then it takes the image file you give it and will make the target drive (SD card) a copy of the image.

[@209cgrant]

@PhyrexTechs thank you very much for the help. Got the 35xx h this xmas and its my first dive into roms/emulators. I'll be sure to follow your channel closely!

[@WhaleTank]

Hello, I got my RG35XXH. I got excited and started to play Pokemon Ruby on the stock OS. I was saving my progress using the in game save button. I think this produced a .sav file in the same folder as my ROM. When I move that file to the same location as the ROM on MuOS Beans, it doesn't give me the option to open it. When I save a game in Beans, it creates a .srm file. Am I able to move my save over? Any help is appreciated?

[@PhyrexTechs]

You should be able to just rename the .sav to .srm Then place that file where the .srm muOS made is located I would recommend you make a backup copy of the .sav file just in case you have any issues.

[@WhaleTank]

@@PhyrexTechs It worked! Thank you very much.

[@ChitosVids]

How do you get the rom txt used in the preview?

[@PhyrexTechs]

Do you mean for the game art preview?

[@ChitosVids]

@@PhyrexTechs yeah. Box art i get, preview screen shot i get, just not the text

[@PhyrexTechs]

They are made from the description of games when scraped with something like skraper. On this GitHub page github.com/antiKk/muOS-Artwork there is both a script that you can run to make your own but also on the same GitHub page is a pre-made set for people who use the Tiny Best Set github.com/antiKk/muOS-Artwork/tree/main/Tiny%20Best%20Set/MUOS/info/catalogue

[@ChitosVids]

@@PhyrexTechs the scraper put all the text for all the games into 1 xml file. MuOS wants it as individual romname.txt files inside the catalogue folder. Is there a way to do this? Or am i missing something?

[@PhyrexTechs]

I think the script from that GitHub is supposed to split up the file into multiple files for each game. I have not tested it myself so you may want to reach out to antikk on the muOS discord for more info on it.

[@romvadirb]

My new sd card doesnt show up can any one help? Should I not transfer the stuff on the other two cards thats came with the device to the new card before flashing?

[@PhyrexTechs]

When you flash your card it will delete everything on it. Where is that SD card not showing up?

[@granvanoeli]

Which game at 0:23 ?

[@PhyrexTechs]

The original Diablo. Installed it using Portmaster.

[@marquz90]

Is there a way to turn the device off immediately using the power button? Long pressing does that, but is that good for the device?

[@PhyrexTechs]

It's not necessarily dangerous to the device. However it could increase the possibility of file corruption on the SD card. I'm not really sure how much of an increases this would be. I would assume it would still be very rare. I have never had it happen to me but it is something to take into consideration. The best option as of right now is still to set a game close hotkey and then select shutdown from the main menu :/

[@CathyRVT]

If you've set the options shown in the video, to autosave upon exiting the game and then autoload your state and have it put you right back into the game when you reboot, then holding the power button will cause the state NOT to be saved. On reboot, it'll load the previously saved state. So, in short, it won't save your state if you hold the power button down.

[@PhyrexTechs]

Very true. Thanks for clarifying that point.

[@joelgrebinsilvestri]

muOS 2405 BEANS is new! do u know if installation is the same process-?

[@PhyrexTechs]

Same process! Just make sure to back up anything you don't want to lose from your SD card before you flash it.

[@joelgrebinsilvestri]

@@PhyrexTechs yeah thanks buddy, actually i have 2 SD CARDS 1 for SOTCK OS and 2nd for my ROMs so should I re flash both sd cards? sd 1 that has stock os should I re flash to install MUOS? and for sd 2 do the same? I'm asking because its my first time haha, I have re flashed STOCK Os MANY TIMES but never any other CFW thanks mate! ♥♥

[@PhyrexTechs]

You will have to at least flash the 1st SD card to get the muOS on it. The 2nd card with roms you may be able to use as it. The only thing that is required for the 2nd SD card is that all your rom folders are in a main folder called roms.

[@Amraelgris]

That's a great video here. I have a question, though, I have tried to install Pico 8 the way you said, step by step, but it keeps telling me that "it can't connect to the BBS". I checked and double checked that I was connected to the wifi. I haven't seen anywhere how to fix it and I was wondering if you or anyone can help me.

[@PhyrexTechs]

You may want to reboot the device then go to wifi and completely disconnect then reconnect and give it a minute or two. Then try start up spore. If that does not work. You may want to try deleting the 2 Pico 8 files you pull over into the SD and re-adding them.

[@phycriz9815]

Do you happen to know the pixel W x H for the Skraper box art website. I attempted to add the style you did but it just did load in when i put in the whole screen 640 x 480.

[@dctr321]

can i create 2 partitions? 1 for os and for roms to not install it with games every time?

[@PhyrexTechs]

For a setup like that its better to just use 2 SD cards. One with the OS and one with games. Don't think is possible to do this all on one card.

[@realmisr]

Thank you! May I ask what dimensions you went with the scrapped box art? I'm having issues with the default settings where the image is wayyy too large and it gets cropped in the preview...Did you set max height or maybe just max width?

[@PhyrexTechs]

Most of the box art I have are 240 x 360. I used some of the thing I did in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4DNXqttoK2iqqs

[@codered7070]

How do you create CHD files on Mac?

[@PhyrexTechs]

I wish I had a Mac to try and figure that one out. Sorry I can't help more with that.

[@soupnazi81]

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I've tried it three times. First I installed the Mu OS firmware that came before refried beans for the rg35xx sp on a 64 GB SanDisk card. I followed instructions and Flash the firmware with Rufus. And then in Windows 7 I opened up the SD card after initializing it in the SP device. And Windows management I can see a whole bunch of partitions but there's no ROMS partition just a RAW unformatted partition. This raw partition I can't change the drive letter or format it to FAT32 exfat or NTFS. Then on my second attempt I used a 256 GB sand this micro SD card and then tried it with the newest version of muos refried beans for my SP as well. Then I get the same exact thing I have a big 200 plus gigabyte raw partition at the end of SD card but it can't be assigned a drive letter or formatted

[@PhyrexTechs]

Damn, that's an odd issue. After you flash muOS onto the SD card and if muOS seems to run after the device finishes the install that should mean that the flash and install process worked correctly. So it sounds like an issue with the computer detecting the SD card properly. In disk management, you may want to try to delete all partitions/volumes and make sure that you have just one unformulated partition then start over with rufus to flash the SD card muOS.

[@soupnazi81]

@@PhyrexTechs yeah it's so odd. The SP can see the card and the device works on MUOS, it's just the pc not seeing the last ROM partition which should be in exfat format that the SP should have created. Its a few partitions I can see in disk management and then a large RAW unformatted partition at the end which can't be changed . That's a good idea let me try again Update:I formated as a single partition in Rufus to clear out all partitions as well as disk part in cmd line to clear all partitions. Then did a reflash in Rufus with refried beans and same thing. No roms partition is created in exfat only a large raw partition at the end. The SP even says its "restoring roms partition". In the SP Dingux it looks like there is a ROMS folder in MNT in sd card

[@PhyrexTechs]

After looking into this more it sounds like it might have to do with Windows 7. There are a lot of reports of people having issues with windows 7 not being able to see exFat partitions when there are like 6+ partitions on a drive. If you have access to another computer you may want to give that a try.

[@soupnazi81]

@@PhyrexTechs thanks for the info. I am suspecting this too. Even the latest Rufus doesn't work on Win7 and version 3.2 has to be used.

[@davidmateus9320]

Really appreciate your videos, thank you. I see that you have zx spectrum emulation on it, may you explain how you had proceeded??

[@PhyrexTechs]

I don't remember using zx spectrum in this video. Maybe you can point me to the time and I can explain whats going on.

[@davidmateus9320]

Hi, at 8:52 we can see "Sinclair Zx Spectrum" how you have add emulation for that system??

[@PhyrexTechs]

@@davidmateus9320 I have not tested that system, however if you want to try it out. All you have to do is create a folder in the Roms folder and add your Sinclair games there. Then when in the game browser hit the select button and choose the Sinclair Zx Spectrum core.

[@dd4nt388]

Hey! Thank you so much for the video! So, I used your chd converter and the .m3u generator/organizer, but I ran into some problems. Every time I slot the SD card, all my roms of ps1 gets deleted, only the ps1. I tried to re flash the system, re format the cards thru Rufus and windows, use different cards, 2 sd setup and single. In some of the tests I made the game appears but just flash a black screen and go back to explore content. Do you have any ideas what might be? Thanks in advance!

[@PhyrexTechs]

Are each of your PS1 games in their own folders or are they all in one folder? Were they working before running the CHD converter?