My Personal RG ARC Setup - Retro Arena and Gamma OS Android

A look at my personal setup for my Anbernic RG Arc D. I prefer to use Linux for retro gaming and Android for Android games.
Huge shout out to JohnnyOnFlame for all his hard work! And ChristianHatian for all his help, also GammaSqueeze for Gamma OS!
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[@illustriouschin]

I think you are the only one working on a custom OS for Arc D so thank you! It's a great handheld but Anbernic's pump and dump strategy with buggy software sucks.

[@TechToyTinkerCompany]

yeah, it gets frustrating at times.

[@Wol333]

Thanks for all your dev work!

[@gelvlc]

Llevaba mucho tiempo detrás de la ARC D porque me encantaba su diseño al estilo SEGA. Pero vi que el software era bastante malo. Fue una grata sorpresa encontrar a alguien que esté ofreciendo una opción real a esta gran consola y te doy muchas gracias por todo el esfuerzo y dedicación. ¡Gracias desde muy lejos por algo que nos llega de cerca al corazón! 😍😍😍

[@waeggy123]

😊thank you so much, for that great build. Finally the linux side is usable and now with some amazing features 🥰

[@WMARUoriginal]

Super excited for stable although I’ve encountered no issues with beta 10. I totally forget I can use Android. I guess I should play around with some of those games too. Thanks for all your work!

[@eurosoe]

I settled with Gamma OS and then installed ES-DE on it. It works pretty well and I have my savestates synced with my other Android devices.

[@J0HnDq3]

great video, mate! thanks for this awesome recomendations! another game that vividly supports arc-d controls is horizon chase turbo, and it runs smooth, waiting for another great videos from you about this device! greetings from ukraine!

[@MonkeyBall2453]

Nice work!

[@PaulAlexander-xy3be]

Love the idea of retro arena on this handheld do thanks alot for that. You bringing the stable build out or should i use beta 10? Thanks again for your work.

[@Tomorer]

Really love the UI. I've got GG working beautifully so far with Pico Drive. Its the one that plays the translations. Big win there. And the MD is all good. SS is dubious. I broke Retro Arch messing with the options too much and had to reinstall. DO NOT MESS WITH POLYGON MODE!!! One thing I can say improved things was turning RGA Scaling on in Video settings. I got Soukyugurentai working okay but it wasnt perfect and now its all broken again. Its something to do with Retro Arch. The standalone emulator runs the games smoothly but without the necessary corrections. I wonder if Retro Arch devs can do some customizations???

[@thomashughes5159]

Is there a way to download standalone emulators with the Arc in Linux?

[@Blak22390]

Somehow the saturn games I've tried have run worse on this than on the stock OS, namely Sega Rally and Nights into Dreams; I imagine that's the same for all the other's I would be willing to try.

[@kallerkaller469]

Good job, it looks pretty good to me, I’m really thinking seriously about buying the D model, all my current handhelds aren’t all that comfortable to play, I don’t think it would be a problem with this….anyways, I was wondering if Star Wars knights of the old republic 1&2 would work on it?

[@kallerkaller469]

Also graal classic +?

[@stefanklossek369]

Did anyone try to play Shining Force 3 Scenario 1-3 on the RG Arc with Retro Arena? I have installed Beta 10 and each Shining Force can be played until the first attack sequenz. During the changing from the attack screen to the map screen the emulator crashes down to the RA Menu.

[@filippnurijew4489]

When we get the final Version?

[@likeabarrel]

Do you have google play store on it? How did you get it to work?

[@MonkeyBall2453]

Is the Retro Arena beta available for download somewhere? Didn’t see it on your website.

[@TechToyTinkerCompany]

discord

[@Alientcp]

I have tried the latest version. I love it, but i cant save. Probably faulty sd. Though it works wonders. What I was wondering is that if you can add MSDOS games. I think you can, but not entirely sure how. Just want to play Lakers vs Celtics from MSdos though. If you can help me out with that, I would be super grateful. (Not that im not already with all the work you put). Cheers.

[@TechToyTinkerCompany]

should be a pc or dos folder for those, its set up to use dosbox pure, as for not saving, probably bad write/sd yeah.

[@jfocus24seven40]

Can you add fake08 core to the retro arena for the Rg353m? I can't save state with the pico version that's currently on that firmware.

[@TechToyTinkerCompany]

yeah

[@mallot13]

Has the stable version of Retro Arena been released yet? I am very looking forward to it

[@Darkstorm16_shorts]

I cant even turn my arc S on ive had nothing but issues trying to set it up cant you just get some version of android what a pain

[@ultimaq8730]

I've been really liking my arc-s and I tried out retroarena but its a bit janky with the wifi so retroachievements weren't working which is a big bummer Oh also for some reason retroarch32 for saturn just stopped working all of a sudden during a playthrough of magic night rayearth, it crashed and ever since I could not get any other saturn game to run with the retroarch32 emulator

[@TechToyTinkerCompany]

wifi should work ok?? did you use retroarch or the wifi in options to log in? as for Yabasanshiro 32 bit, it might need you to run the permission fix scrips, or log in over wifi sftp and delete the corrupted save data, you can do that from the file manager too.

[@Pridetoons]

Can we have Standalone DS Emulators like with JELOS? 🤩 Then we'd have touchscreen support on the Linux side too.