RG351P Firmware Comparison: 351ELEC, ArkOS, and Batocera

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My fave retro channel. Can you make a video of your written guide in soldering a wifi dongle to the 351? Thanks

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[@pellewolf]

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Thanks for saying that! I has lots of ideas for the New Year :)

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Insane amount of work went into this. Thank you!

[@RetroGameCorps]

Thank you for saying that! This one really was a labor of love, I’m happy I got it out before Christmas. I’m totally doing a few short videos next, I swear!

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This was ASMR level of quality. You're extremely good at these in depth breakdowns!

[@skorzeny7377]

I cant believe how much Ive learned from this channel in one day. Been out of the emulation game for yrs, so such a great refresher. Just ordered my rg351m and really looking forward to tapping into it’s potential

[@RetroGameCorps]

Thanks for watching!

[@C4ETech]

Detailed AF mate - excellent!!!

[@RetroGameCorps]

Much appreciated!

[@Kaeden88]

I've learned so much in such a short amount of time. Went from total noob to now King Noob thanks to all your very helpful vids. Got 2 devices shipping to me soon and got a whole plan on what to do thanks to you. Very much appreciate your detail and effort you put in, it's very noticeable.

[@RetroGameCorps]

King Noob! That's hilarious. Happy to be of help!

[@Beavernator]

My system is actually being delivered in a few hours... Perfect timing for a vid like this... Gives me time to set it up with prefered method for my daughter before Christmas... 👍

[@RetroGameCorps]

Perfect!

[@Nathan-rr4eq]

I just got mine today!!

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

My RG351p is supposed to arrive tomorrow. I have the written guide pulled up and then you dropped this to help my experience even better!

[@RetroGameCorps]

Happy to be of service!

[@TorrentialPopping]

This channel has been hugely helpful to me as someone relatively new to this emulation handheld scene. More than all of the other channels I've watched, it feels like you put a heavy emphasis on laying out a simplified explanation of the topic you are going over so viewers can be fully aware of all the different variables. I'm looking forward to the content you put out next year!

[@RetroGameCorps]

Thanks for your kind words! Yes, I plan on always making my guides as accessible as possible, because I remember getting so confused when I got my RG350 over this past summer. I'm happy to hear that it was helpful for you!

[@adriel1175]

I was looking for the best way to make sure every time I turned on this system I'd have a nostalgic trip. The ArkOS guide was all I needed and the perfect way to customize the UI. This video alone won my like and subscription. PHENOMENAL.

[@shamstrider7353]

Arkos can run smooth all the psp games??

[@ElroyDesmond]

The amount of effort that went into making these video, it's incredible we're watching it for free. I'm gonna be getting one of these soon. Can't wait!!

[@Thomas.Delacour]

Thank you so much for another brilliant vid. My RG351p is on the way! Happy Christmas to all!

[@johnwolf6337]

Thank you for all the great videos on the rg351p. I just received mine today. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

[@RetroGameCorps]

Thank you -- same to you! Enjoy that new-car-scent RG351P :D

[@SWPLGAMING]

Great explanations, much needed. Wow your channel is growing fast. This community is more than grateful, keep it up 👍🏾

[@RetroGameCorps]

Thank you! Yes I'm very surprised with the amount of growth. Thanks for the support!

[@RKFP]

Your videos really got subtance! Unlike other channels that only does product review cheap talks. I thank you for your hard work and great contrubutions to the retro gamers community. I hope you have many more subscribers. Highly appreciate it.

[@betterqualityuploads5392]

Really excited to see how Batocera develops. Please keep us updated.

[@delmarrali-khan4019]

Wow!!! easily the most comprehensive guide to the other firmware for this system. Amazing content my new favorite retro channel. 👍🏻

[@forry1909]

I recently got an RG351P and the options around firmware a pretty daunting, so much so I've just left it stock (on a new branded card 🙂) at the moment. This video has been a great help and I'm now on the verge of choosing one (probably 351ELEC). Thanks, love the channel.

[@james_tiberius_kirk73]

Just an excellent video and concisely orated and presented. This is the best new Retro Gaming Channel on KZbin. I've been gaming for 45 years. Excellent work good Sir!

[@RetroGameCorps]

Thanks CAPT Kirk!

[@james_tiberius_kirk73]

@@RetroGameCorps Live Long & Prosper :)

[@peterd7009]

This is an awesome video !!! I just ordered an RG 351p and you have greatly assisted me in choosing my firmware choice . Thank you !!!

[@RetroGameCorps]

My pleasure!

[@theinstantnoodle9628]

This info was incredibly helpful. Great vid.

[@Piskosz9999]

Watched it all :D good guide. I'm waiting for my 351p to arrive and it was quite informative. Thank you!

[@michaelphillips1095]

I've had mine for 3 months I really love it 👍

[@RetroGameCorps]

Have fun with your new RG351P when it arrives! :)

[@williamtasker7882]

Now that ArkOS and 351elec have both reached their final release, do you have a preference of one over the other?

[@roggos3668]

I gots to know

[@SicketMog]

+1 I also want to know

[@Ginger445]

351ELEC is being worked on again I think but it's called AmberELEC now

[@SicketMog]

@@Ginger445 I know of this but have so far not tested it. Just tested final ArkOS from a ready image. It's awesome but didn't have all of the new ports so looking to do all of the setup on a clean card for AmberELEC as well. Worth the effort (have still not tried Celeste or Timespinner and both look awesome + it has Space Cadet Pinball... That's a classic)?

[@alvinles77]

Thanks for doing all the deep reviews for the Anbernic devices.! Really enjoy your breakdown of plus and negatives of each device

[@Undefinedmark]

Again, this is really helpful. Thank you so much for taking the time and awesome effort to create and publish these kind of content.

[@RetroGameCorps]

My pleasure!

[@christopherhansen2444]

I'm hoping that one of the future updates of ArkOS includes optimized default screen settings... Fingers crossed! Thanks again for taking the time to make these videos, you are an asset to the community! :)

[@RetroGameCorps]

I hope so too! Thanks for watching!

[@Hoffi310]

dude your channel is killing it !! Thx for the great work 🙏

[@RetroGameCorps]

Thanks for watching!

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Damn you have a video for every question I have.. thanks 👍🏼

[@firefox91firefox]

Best retro games channel. Thanks Russ!

[@RetroGameCorps]

Thanks so much!

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Awesome video Russ! Quality as usual, thanks for all your hard work. Hope you have a nice restful holiday and a happy new year!

[@RetroGameCorps]

Thanks, you too! I'm going to need a restful holiday after spending nine days making this dang video :D

[@sethtoybes9392]

@@RetroGameCorps Thanks! Holy crap! Well the effort shows, it's thorough and quite the long video. Felt like I was watching a full tv episode, but just about retro gaming 😁👍

[@RetroGameCorps]

@@sethtoybes9392 it was almost as long as the Mandalorian season two finale! :D

[@sethtoybes9392]

@@RetroGameCorps hahahaha well played. Your video was less touching and was lacking in fight scenes but still good!

[@ishiwishy9197]

I just received this from my local online store, thanks to your channel. Very much worth it.

[@RetroGameCorps]

Glad you enjoy it! Hope you love your new RG351P as much as I do.

[@divingunder]

This is awesome. Your comparisons are so good

[@RetroGameCorps]

Thank you!

[@TeamPandory]

Awesome!! You've saved us from doing a lot of work. Thanks for the video- greatly appreciated!

[@marvinflores8796]

Yey new video from my man Russ in time for dinner! Will watch this even if I don’t have RG351P right now in preparation for the inevitable RG351M! :)

[@RetroGameCorps]

Haha, that's a solid plan. Did you see the 351M pic that leaked the other day? Looks to have the same screen and buttons as the 351P, I'm hoping they fixed the internal WiFi issue at the very least.

[@marvinflores8796]

@@RetroGameCorps I did indeed! :) Hopefully they maintain the screen aspect ratio of 3:2 (for that perfect GBA scaling) but double the resolution just like the transition from RG350 to RG350M and if they add an internal wifi, that would be even more perfect!

[@anyakylie6898]

Because of this channel I have finally decided to get an emulator hand-held I bought this model mostly because of these videos. I am still nervous about swapping the default for one of these open source because I have never done anything like this before. Nervous and excited at the same time. Finally a way to play my classic games without taking my old systems out of storage. 🤯

[@billyretrogamer]

Dude as always thanks for your work! I’ve really been enjoying my 351p with ArkOS. It’s been so smooth with your guides!! I’ve been working on a 128gb micro sd, but might take the plunge and get a 1tb!

[@RetroGameCorps]

Let me know how that 1TB goes...that's a lot of nice space!

[@billyretrogamer]

@@RetroGameCorps I sure will! Right now I’m using a smaller sd card to do things like chop down my mame set, complete my collections of Roms, and test configurations/games/translations etc, so that once I finally get the 1 tb one next month all I have to do is load and play! A tb easily covers every system that the 351p can play perfectly with room to spare!

[@ungratefulmango]

Dude I've been loving your videos lately. Just discovered your channel and I'm loving the steady flow of quality videos. Your voice is calm, you explain things in a succinct, yet detailed way, and you don't do the whole "like and subscribe" thing. Can't wait to see a few updates for the RG351V.

[@Dusuke17]

you channel deserve more attention, your videos are great, so well made! contragts and keep it up!

[@jimbobby1162]

I already have the RG350M but man! You make me want to buy the RG351M now because of the details you give.

[@malorndebazon1709]

Thanks for the video and very clear. I am using Batocera 5.29 for few days (I got my R351P a week ago) and looks fine at the moment. Will try ArkOS for sure. Great job !!

[@RetroGameCorps]

Thank you!

[@SanchezS]

Great video. Im stick on the ARKOS work really well tnks for the all the information really helpful. Happy gaming.👍

[@RetroGameCorps]

Glad you liked the video!

[@JLMtime]

why are you useing arkOS ? whats best part ?

[@SanchezS]

@@JLMtime the interface is better u can try and see the difference i have the original sd that came with it and use 128sd samsung

[@GrimlyYours]

I've only ever modded my own consoles -- like 5+ years ago lmao -- and I've just gotten back into gaming after a long period where I couldn't, so I really appreciate this video -- and the presentation of the information, especially! Instant sub. Very helpful, thank you ♡♡♡

[@david2themax536]

You run the best retro channel!!!

[@RetroGameCorps]

Thank you!

[@sebastianesilva398]

Have you thought about doing a series of RetroArch, ES etc. tutorials/guides? You're talented at explaining this stuff in a thorough and clear way

[@RetroGameCorps]

I have an RG350 RetroArch video coming out in about 4 hours :)

[@sebastianesilva398]

Nice😂

[@josemarprete]

Excelente!! As for the A and B buttons on Batocera, in settings there is the option to invert them.

[@HighTher3]

I know this is an older video but the pineapple forrest update for 351elec is super nice. Adding roms, saves, and more over samba share is freakishly smooth.

[@VuNguyen-sx4lt]

Truly the best KZbin channel for retro game!

[@Cyko..]

Great presentation. I use ArkOS and was curious as to what the others had to offer. I'll be sticking to ArkOS... 😂

[@sekersizcay4549]

Great job, thanks for all the information!

[@ggwpezpzlemonsqueezy]

nice video as usual dude! already tried all those OS. still arkOS is my favourite one :)

[@Plymouthmusicschool]

Wow! Brilliant work...awesome

[@Belikewaterbud]

I'm so glad I just got one of these

[@rossmclaughlin7158]

I'd like to see this revisited now that final build for these os are out

[@STR82DVD]

Great stuff!! Thanks Russ.

[@RetroGameCorps]

My pleasure!

[@eirin8395]

Wow so many info. Thank you! Hoping to have all good stuff in one OS. 🙏

[@RetroGameCorps]

They are each getting better all the time!

[@respibob]

Enjoying watching your vids while I wait for my 351P

[@RetroGameCorps]

Enjoy!

[@maladictnaio5533]

Love these comparisons so much

[@christmasj2534]

So well organized and very informative! I also am sticking with ArkOS since I get an update almost every day :) I just hope that developper can implement couple more popular themes from ES community.. such as SNES Mini. But overall, I'm really happy with it!

[@drmoze]

351ELEC now has ota updates, and a pretty large and active development community. Better identification of bugs and tweaks, and addition of new features, when you have a group of people working on it instead of 1 developer. v2.0 is coming out soon, and will be Batocera-based. You can also choose to update with the latest stable release or the latest beta (which may be buggy). With all the presets optimized for individual systems/emulators on 351ELEC, I don't see any advantage to staying with ArkOS.

[@EboDylan]

Such a helpful video... Thank you soo much!

[@8-bitsteve500]

Getting one of these and this helped, thanks. I'll be using ArkOS.

[@lanzjasonsilverio9493]

You're awesome man! Your content is very informative

[@RetroGameCorps]

I appreciate that!

[@Thomas.Delacour]

Tip: It seems rg351p now supports ROM drag 'n' drop, even in Windows ( directly onto the SD card if plugged into your PC, not left in the rg351p)

[@magneto420]

My rg351p has arrived in the country! hoping it gets delivered before Christmas 🎄

[@RetroGameCorps]

Fingers crossed! That will be a nice present :)

[@Theo-tx7ox]

We can change the operating system of the RG351P ?! Okay I subscribe ! 😂

[@zockeromi1970]

Another great video!

[@blidosawr]

I think you forgot to add one thing, ArkOS developer (christian_haitian) is often found in the 351ELEC discord and you can talk to him if you have any problems. On the other hand, Fewt, the most active and main developer in 351ELEC, is a really friendly guy, it gives almost a customized support, you can talk to him on discord and if you find any bugs he often fixes it within minutes. He's been uploading code to github everyday, he's a monster! at this point, you'll probably know, I like 351elec best because of the great community it has with a HQ OS.

[@RetroGameCorps]

Yes, the both of them are super helpful and responsive, it's really been awesome for the community.

[@Tom2112Tom]

I'd love to hear Russ' opinions of these three firmwares now! I believe we're all spoiled by how great Knulli, Rocknix, MuOS, MinUI, and OnionOS are. It's good to be spoiled! I recently tried ArkOS (on an R36S) and I hated that so many features that I'm spoiled with on Knulli or Rocknix are either missing or hidden away in ArkOS. I tried EmuElec once, and didn't like it either.

[@erikvinnes]

Great videos! Really impressive work!

[@RetroGameCorps]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@shamanqing4155]

This video was a work of art right here

[@michaelphillips1095]

Fantastic content. Really informative and well explained. For me I want to download new firmware easily and get simple updates as and when as that takes me the most time and optimising my gaming experience I guess is the main point for me using new firmware....

[@RetroGameCorps]

Glad it was helpful!

[@nicolas.adenis-lamarre]

hi. thanks a lot for your videos. it shows several aspects of operating systems. the drawback is that you go maybe a bit quickly in them and didn't notice some points. i know for example batocera and you can choose the partition you want in option (exfat, ext4 and even btrfs). About the big high number of boards available on the batocera website, take a look, and you'll notice that windows/mac/nuc ... images link to the same file. in fact, this is only for x86 64 bits. As a general rules, batocera is a unique system, compiled for many boards, and the work done on one board is available on others. last but not least, i'm involving in the batocera work, and i play with my rg351p, and i have no trouble on it ; my guess is that you used tools like paragon on your sdcard that transform sd card to unstable sd card and make you feel that you system is buggy (this is the only reported crash issues on this board). maybe i'm wrong, but it is generally with such tooling that crashes are known to appear.

[@qbs8462]

thanks I will go with ArkOS looks slick!

[@mohammedhussain3362]

Nice video dude keep up the good work

[@RetroGameCorps]

Thank you!

[@DJDanceClassic]

awesome, as always. thanks!

[@RetroGameCorps]

My pleasure!

[@DirkCleiren]

Very good explanation thanks!

[@zdlanedenny]

Can you make a page and a similar video to this with the RG353P?

[@michaelhoule4827]

Thanks for this very informative video.

[@Matos-zb4hk]

This video is great, thanks for that

[@RetroGameCorps]

Glad you liked it!

[@ugh.idontwanna]

Very infomative as always - Thank you! I like the idea of ArkOS being more of a Linux distro. I would love a SyncThing client for it - Being able to sync saves to my PCs retroarch would be amazing.

[@RetroGameCorps]

Totally agree. I would love to have it wirelessly, like to store the save files/states on a Google Drive folder, and then sync that with my PC RetroArch seamlessly! But I don't think we're there yet.

[@ugh.idontwanna]

@@RetroGameCorps I think I have found my project for the holidays. ArkOS supports terminal/SSH. SyncThing can be installed through the terminal. You then connect to the webpage SyncThing creates on the RG351 to configure what folders you want to sync. It seems like it can be done.

[@ugh.idontwanna]

Update: I did it! i.postimg.cc/htbcgXrC/T430-2020-12-23-15-08-09-Sync-Trayzor.png I feel like a god!

[@ugh.idontwanna]

Another update: Think I might uninstall it. I set my screenshots folder up for sync as well. While testing, Retroarch crashed everything I took a screenshot. So yeah, we might not be there yet 😀

[@d.m.hutchins2nd696]

Awesome video and very informative. I'm camp ArkOS all the way, and can't wait for future apps like media players and photo viewers.

[@RetroGameCorps]

It's amazing how much ArkOS has improved over the past month alone. Excited to see what the next month has in store!

[@lucasbohn5707]

dude, you are awesome!

[@CatyyL]

Hi, it would be great to see an updated comparison video or the several OS systems available

[@MinhaajQureshi]

your big fan brother ! my 351p is coming this week and i will install arkOs

[@RetroGameCorps]

Have fun!

[@MinhaajQureshi]

@@RetroGameCorps Thanks Alot ! 😊

[@kroser1983]

a quick question. so i have a an fba folder with fba games i use on my rp2. i now want to put these games on my rg351m but there is no fba foler. where do these games go?

[@acid2980]

this is really helpfull..thank you so much.

[@RetroGameCorps]

You're very welcome!

[@MrLennon50131]

Man! Is legendary!

[@WEDZGAMING]

I'm leaning towards ArkOS! awesome guide

[@dantaraska9410]

As a note, you can use a USB Ethernet adapter with the USB-C Adapter. I use an Anker USB3.0 LAN Dongle and it works. Super fast transfer speeds. You don't need to enable wifi, just look under Network Settings and it shows connected and the IP. Just an FYI. :)

[@RetroGameCorps]

Good to know! I have one on order to test, happy to hear the confirmation. I got the Anker one too, because I almost always get Anker stuff when I have a choice :)

[@sertiana2512]

Thanks for the video! I will buy rg351p early in January when I have enough fundings to purchase one 😅

[@RetroGameCorps]

Good choice!

[@AdmV0rl0n]

Thanks for this info. For anyone new to the 351 - its really helpful. I could not really find the home of ArkOS on the web, with reference to an old linux OS being shown more than the version for 351 - maybe you could link in description - anyway, much appreciated - very helpful stuff!!

[@abuzerdag]

I was decided to wait for RG352 or 351M to get N64 and PSP emulation but it's really impressive how the community improved this device in a few months. Even God of War is kinda playable.

[@RetroGameCorps]

I was definitely surprised at how well some games performed on the PSP, I had honestly given up on some of them. This new patch is a real game-changer (pun intended).

[@arharros]

Thank you! Nice video) 👍

[@RetroGameCorps]

Thanks for watching!

[@radupetrupetica]

Hi sir and thank you very much for the video, it's amazing, these are really important steps you presented here. I'm new to these devices and I just ordered a 351P. The man from which I ordered it has bought it from Amazon and told me that he has installed ArkOS on it, on a 32 GB card. If you have time please tell me should I change this card with a 100+GB following your tutorials and trying to install everything? I'm mostly interested in classic games like Mario, Alien 3, Contra, TMNT etc., those were my favorite childhood games. I hope I will manage with it. I'm very excited to receive the device. Thanks again for the video! I will subscribe to your channel and try to get more info.

[@suphawit11]

RG351P has Wifi inside?? i have a low budget so which one i choose buy some emulation player or use smartphone and joy stick,grip? [i have Oneplus 7T]

[@presicion25]

Great video! Enjoyed the comparison. Only problem I've had is scraping games. Some don't scrape at all and all the rom sets I have there are some games that didn't scrape for whatever reason. For example GB or GBC games only scrape a few and when trying to scrape it takes forever if there a ton of games to scrape. I'm thinking maybe the roms in the rom sets I have aren't named correctly. I'm running 351Elec. Other than that it works flawlessly. I have been messing with emulation and/or modding handhelds since about 2008 and have had many over the years. In fact I still have some handhelds I need to get rid of like some GB Boy Colors, Game Gear, Gameboys and Gameboy Colors.

[@RetroGameCorps]

Hi Louis, I've also been having issues lately, I think it might be something on the ScreenScraper side. Games that normally get scraped aren't. You could always scrape directly onto the SD card from your PC using the Skraper app, and it'll build the xml file for you and everything. But if it's an issue with ScreenScraper you'll see the same issues on the desktop client.

[@presicion25]

@@RetroGameCorps thank you for the response. I'll give the desktop client a try.

[@Matos-zb4hk]

This video is great

[@wizzel22]

Great Video. ArkOS is the best, because it's a real Operating System and it's Update features make it quite unique.

[@0HHC]

Could you revisit this now with the current versions? For the rgb30? I think a lot are interested in that currently

[@ginyuTV]

im on manjaro so i have no issues acessing my files with batocera and the psp emulation is really amazing , night and day on .29 compared to all other firmware . my only con on batocera is no sleep mode, not perfect, but not "buggy" from what i've exprienced, plays everything pretty well.

[@RetroGameCorps]

I'm glad you aren't seeing the bugs I have...when you try and change the RetroArch menu driver does everything crash? And is your battery indicator accurate? I agree that the PSP emulation is great, but yesterday's updates to ArkOS and 351ELEC now have the same performance, which is awesome!

[@ginyuTV]

​@@RetroGameCorps ohh then ill give ark os a try its true that the battery indication isnt always accurate, i havent had the retro arch crash yet. thanks for the videos though they've been very helpful