That worked ! You MUST delete the partition and create it like THIS or it wont be recognized in RG350M - only formatting with FAT32 is NOT ENOUGH . Thanks mate . An big ICE - tea on you :)
I'm pretty sure that for an RG350 to mount the card, and it's contents, correctly so that the emulators can find games easily the filesystem will need to have an empty name/label. Not just unset, or left as the default, but explicitly empty. Certainly, that's how the scripts in the Linux on the RG350P mount the SD card; based on the filesystem's name/label it gets mounted "on top" of the contents of the supplied boot SD card.
Perfect video, turns out to be what I suspected but didn't know how to get around the no FAT32 option when formatting, and now I do! Thanks, looking forward to playing some games on this and hope it is as powerful as they say cos I loaded up the Sonic and Streets of Rage homebrews last night and they were dropping frames, so it makes me a little nervous about how good this actually is, but let's see how it goes now I can get some retro ROMs on there
Glad you liked it. I need to spend some more time playing with the device too. I want to get another SD card and experiment with some of the later firmware as well. I do wish they'd implement the HDMI on it, though. It's a bit pointless having it on there currently.
Thanks for the video, I was hoping to see the steps in setting up the dir files from the emulators to pinpoint to the roms folders!!!! That could also be helpful for many of us. Thanks again
Glad it was useful. I did think about making video about that but I didn't want to put it here as it would make it too long. There are some good videos out there on stuff like that though. Bottom line is, you can pretty much put the roms in any directory you like. I just put mine in directories names after the console I'm emulating. You can then navigate to that directory to find the games you want to play. The biggest issue (as is always the case) is making sure you have your games in the correct format. I've had some issues with PS1, for instance. It's par for the course with emulation, though. Nothing is ever straightforward.
Just a question I have. I don't have a screwdriver big enough to get the internal SD card out to format. Can I run the operating system with the external SD card?
Dude in all seriousness I learned about the card issue via the description, however the instructions were clear unfortunately your navigation on this how to video was lost. I couldn't make out what you were doing. Make the vids more clear so we can see what you're doing. Thanks
Sorry to hear that you couldn't follow what I was doing. I will attempt to be more clear in future. As a matter of interest, would a coloured mouse pointer have made a difference?
minitool turned my micro sd card into "bad disk" after trying to format to fat32 and now i can't put anything on it or format it to anything else, please help me
What happens if you try to reformat the drive under disk management in Windows? I've honestly never had any issues with minitool but I'll look into it.
@@JoeChip "Windows was unable to complete the format" It's weird because even when I plug it in, it says "please insert a drive" but then it still shows my drive in windows explorer. But it won't let me reformat.
@@JoeChip It's a Sandisk Ultra 128GB card. I bought it a couple years ago, don't remember from where. I was using it in a digital audio player so I had a lot of music on it when I formatted it.
I'm going to ask a question, no one on here has asked yet for some odd reason: Why do I need to install things on my computer and potentially give it a virus just to download/move retro games to the RG350? Why can't it be simpler, like simply dragging the files over to the flash drive?
Because Windows includes only the bare minimum of useful features and applications... just enough to get you started and leave plenty of potential for selling more Microsoft products to you. Linux distributions tend to include lots more stuff, or provide it for download & installation from their own repositories. I expect macOS is simimarly more capable "out of the box".
I was playing Sonic, then I went to save the level in save states! but when I went to save states again to play the recorded phase, to my surprise it went back to the first phase !! I went to test it in another game and it's the same!
There are two ways. You can connect the 350 to your PC and drag them into folders on the SD card like that, or you can remove the external SD card, connect that to the PC and drag them over that way. I was going to make a video on it but I've not had the time.
I can confirm this works! just bought a new 64gb micro sd card 160 mb/s bcs i just realized 32gb is not enough for me to store tons of ps1 games. formatted my new sd card to FAT 32, and set cluster size to 16kb (recommended) and boom! i can transfer and play all my favorite ps1 games with no problems!
@@JoeChip no problem buddy. thanks to you too. anyway, any idea on how to play/install dos games on the dosbox emulator? i have warcraft.bin ready to play, but my unit cant detect it as a playable game, i think i need to install it like it was on PC but i dont know how. any ideas?
Hello i just bought the rg280v with preinstalled games, do you recommend to switch out the cards to better quality cards. And also is it just to drag and drop. I would really appreciate your help thanks.
I got my RG 350 but i didn't get sd card with it. I tried to play games with emulators in it but everything is empty. Is it because i don't have sd card in slot? Sorry, i'm not familiar with this. :P
My rg350 just arrived in my country today but not yet on my doorstep. So can i just connect my rg350 to my pc using the type c cable and will my windows detect my rg350? And can i just delete or add new games by copy pasting my games from my pc to my rg350 sdcard without removing the sd card?
You can connect the RG350 to a windows PC and transfer games across that way, yes. There's a small instruction manual in the box that will help you to do it, as it's a little more complicated than just plugging it in and having windows detect it. Hope that helps.
128GB according to their store on AliExpress. I just formatted a 128GB Sandisk Extreme card fat32 and added PSX games and other system games and it sees it fine.
It could be that they are in the wrong format. That happens a lot with emulation. You'll need to check to see which formats are supported by the particular emulator you are trying to use. What system are you trying to play?
@@JoeChip a sd card got broken whiletransfering roms, suddenly, none works, for snes, ps1, they all worked before, dont know what to do, they are Bin files for ps1 like allways
Hey man, you are fantastic, I from Brazil, awesome video, thanks, but I buy a handheld Powkiddy a19 and takeout external sd card for put more games, but not work, because I formated it, I'm so dumb, please help if possible! Thanks a lot!
nope. in linux point of view, exfat is a valid file system. dingoo or rogue firmware both are build on a distro linux kernel. my TF1 is exfat of 200GB and my external TF is also exfat of 200GB. its readable, i believe its how people are not technically incline that is why they setup rg350 bin files wrongly. the most if it doesnt show on your system, go to terminal and mount that TF card yourself. the mount command is fairly simple. umount /dev/diskpartition /path/you/want afterall, you are in root.
Really good video You have to do the same thing with the 3Ds if you want to use a memory card bigger than 32 gigs But at least on a 2DS and 3DS and new 2DS and new 3DS once you put custom firmware on the game system you can format the memory card with the system and you don't need a computer or computer program I love the rg350 I used to have a gcw zero it's the same software except there's no Wi-Fi card installed on the rg350 or microphone also the new pocket go 2 is the same I just received that in the mail and all the software made for the gcw zero and most of the software made for the rg350 and some of the software made for the dingo A320 Works A PDF viewer bard eBook reader which war read epubs for you and you can select different languages there is a TI 92 graphing calculator emulator I installed 3DO it does run slow but it runs I installed Nintendo DS also runs slow PC FX the shooting game run slow but it's playable SMS sdl which plays game gear & sega master system, Atari 2600 Atari 5200 Atari 7800 ColecoVision, intelivision Vectrex, NES, SNES, Pico Drive, genplus GX which place Pier solar and bigger Prince and legend of Wukong and star Odyssey Atari lynx, watara supervision, snes9x, temper, wonderswan color Neogeo pocket, gameboy Advance, ohboy, gameboy color, playstation came with it, fba, max but don't know how to load and play .dsk games if anyone can help I'd appreciate that
We have Wotsits, which is basically the same thing as Cheetos. Not many shops sell Cheetos here, though there is a local sweet shop that sells American sweets etc and thay sell them there.
Thank you for this! I was freaking out, saved me an anxiety attack.
Really glad I could help you out.
That worked ! You MUST delete the partition and create it like THIS or it wont be recognized in RG350M - only formatting with FAT32 is NOT ENOUGH . Thanks mate . An big ICE - tea on you :)
Really glad I could help you out 👍
I'm pretty sure that for an RG350 to mount the card, and it's contents, correctly so that the emulators can find games easily the filesystem will need to have an empty name/label. Not just unset, or left as the default, but explicitly empty. Certainly, that's how the scripts in the Linux on the RG350P mount the SD card; based on the filesystem's name/label it gets mounted "on top" of the contents of the supplied boot SD card.
I love you. Thank you so much!!! Fixed my problem!
You can also use the erase function on Mac OSX's disk utility, select MS-DOS
Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks a ton, sir. This information worked great!
Nice one. Glad I could help 👍
Perfect video, turns out to be what I suspected but didn't know how to get around the no FAT32 option when formatting, and now I do! Thanks, looking forward to playing some games on this and hope it is as powerful as they say cos I loaded up the Sonic and Streets of Rage homebrews last night and they were dropping frames, so it makes me a little nervous about how good this actually is, but let's see how it goes now I can get some retro ROMs on there
Glad you liked it. I need to spend some more time playing with the device too. I want to get another SD card and experiment with some of the later firmware as well. I do wish they'd implement the HDMI on it, though. It's a bit pointless having it on there currently.
Thanks for the video, I was hoping to see the steps in setting up the dir files from the emulators to pinpoint to the roms folders!!!! That could also be helpful for many of us. Thanks again
Glad it was useful.
I did think about making video about that but I didn't want to put it here as it would make it too long. There are some good videos out there on stuff like that though.
Bottom line is, you can pretty much put the roms in any directory you like. I just put mine in directories names after the console I'm emulating. You can then navigate to that directory to find the games you want to play.
The biggest issue (as is always the case) is making sure you have your games in the correct format. I've had some issues with PS1, for instance. It's par for the course with emulation, though. Nothing is ever straightforward.
Cheers Dude this was a massive help!!
No problem. Glad to help 👍
Life saver, thanks!
Great video, thanks for posting.
No problem. Thanks for letting me know it was useful 👍
Just a question I have. I don't have a screwdriver big enough to get the internal SD card out to format. Can I run the operating system with the external SD card?
Very helpful, thanks!
No problem. Glad to help 👍
Thanks for the video bud :)
No problem. Glad to help 👍
Why it’s my games / rooms not showing in my computer whenever I put the sd cart in ?
Sorry but I’m not sure what you mean.
Can I run rar games on my windows 10? (they are Retro games) and can ı just add a 64gb card to external slot?
My RG300 won't read my sd card
Did you format the card to FAT32?
friend the games of pocktnes, genesis plus gx and picodrive and neo4all does not appear !!!! how do I download and install these games? ???
Does the Anbernic read SDXC cards like the one in the thumbnail? I’ve been trying to find an answer
It should do, yes.
No tools needed. Open elevated CMD -> format y: /fs:fat32
Where y is the drive letter of your choice...
Cool. Thanks for sharing. I’ll check it out.
@@JoeChip this guy knows what he's talking about^
Thanks mate
Any time. Glad I could help 👍
Dude in all seriousness I learned about the card issue via the description, however the instructions were clear unfortunately your navigation on this how to video was lost. I couldn't make out what you were doing. Make the vids more clear so we can see what you're doing. Thanks
Sorry to hear that you couldn't follow what I was doing. I will attempt to be more clear in future. As a matter of interest, would a coloured mouse pointer have made a difference?
Thanks for this! 👍🏻
No problem. Glad to help 👍
minitool turned my micro sd card into "bad disk" after trying to format to fat32 and now i can't put anything on it or format it to anything else, please help me
What happens if you try to reformat the drive under disk management in Windows? I've honestly never had any issues with minitool but I'll look into it.
@@JoeChip "Windows was unable to complete the format"
It's weird because even when I plug it in, it says "please insert a drive" but then it still shows my drive in windows explorer. But it won't let me reformat.
young old guy Where did you get the SD card and what capacity is it?
@@JoeChip It's a Sandisk Ultra 128GB card. I bought it a couple years ago, don't remember from where. I was using it in a digital audio player so I had a lot of music on it when I formatted it.
I'm going to ask a question, no one on here has asked yet for some odd reason: Why do I need to install things on my computer and potentially give it a virus just to download/move retro games to the RG350? Why can't it be simpler, like simply dragging the files over to the flash drive?
Because Windows includes only the bare minimum of useful features and applications... just enough to get you started and leave plenty of potential for selling more Microsoft products to you. Linux distributions tend to include lots more stuff, or provide it for download & installation from their own repositories. I expect macOS is simimarly more capable "out of the box".
I was playing Sonic, then I went to save the level in save states! but when I went to save states again to play the recorded phase, to my surprise it went back to the first phase !! I went to test it in another game and it's the same!
Interesting. I've not played with the RG350 for a while so I'll have to check that out.
Followed the vid and now works perfect. But now how do I put the games on?
There are two ways. You can connect the 350 to your PC and drag them into folders on the SD card like that, or you can remove the external SD card, connect that to the PC and drag them over that way. I was going to make a video on it but I've not had the time.
@@JoeChip ive got aome roms put them on my sd card and nothing seems to work
I can confirm this works! just bought a new 64gb micro sd card 160 mb/s bcs i just realized 32gb is not enough for me to store tons of ps1 games. formatted my new sd card to FAT 32, and set cluster size to 16kb (recommended) and boom! i can transfer and play all my favorite ps1 games with no problems!
Nice one. Thanks for letting me know that it works for you.
@@JoeChip no problem buddy. thanks to you too. anyway, any idea on how to play/install dos games on the dosbox emulator? i have warcraft.bin ready to play, but my unit cant detect it as a playable game, i think i need to install it like it was on PC but i dont know how. any ideas?
Hello i just bought the rg280v with preinstalled games, do you recommend to switch out the cards to better quality cards. And also is it just to drag and drop. I would really appreciate your help thanks.
work this also whit the Game Kiddy 350H. and where i can find the games for it
I honestly don’t know. I don’t currently own the Game Kiddy.
I got my RG 350 but i didn't get sd card with it. I tried to play games with emulators in it but everything is empty. Is it because i don't have sd card in slot? Sorry, i'm not familiar with this. :P
There should be some space for rooms on the internal SD card. I'd still get an external card, though.
Thanks, I had tried to copy my sd card to a larger one and wondered why the games didn't show up on the card.
No problem. Glad I could help you out 👍
My rg350 just arrived in my country today but not yet on my doorstep. So can i just connect my rg350 to my pc using the type c cable and will my windows detect my rg350? And can i just delete or add new games by copy pasting my games from my pc to my rg350 sdcard without removing the sd card?
You can connect the RG350 to a windows PC and transfer games across that way, yes. There's a small instruction manual in the box that will help you to do it, as it's a little more complicated than just plugging it in and having windows detect it.
Hope that helps.
@@JoeChip thanks!
Just wondering what the compatable limit is for the internal and external memory?
I'm currently looking in to that myself.
128GB according to their store on AliExpress. I just formatted a 128GB Sandisk Extreme card fat32 and added PSX games and other system games and it sees it fine.
@@azieser cool thanks for that looks like im buying a bigger sd card
nitrobreed I currently have a 128GB card in my RG350 too. I was looking into making a video about it.
thank you, this worked. Still stupid Windows can't do this!
i can see the games but they dont open
It could be that they are in the wrong format. That happens a lot with emulation. You'll need to check to see which formats are supported by the particular emulator you are trying to use. What system are you trying to play?
@@JoeChip a sd card got broken whiletransfering roms, suddenly, none works, for snes, ps1, they all worked before, dont know what to do, they are Bin files for ps1 like allways
Hey man, you are fantastic, I from Brazil, awesome video, thanks, but I buy a handheld Powkiddy a19 and takeout external sd card for put more games, but not work, because I formated it, I'm so dumb, please help if possible! Thanks a lot!
Thank you! +1 Sub
Glad to help. And cheers for the sub.
nope. in linux point of view, exfat is a valid file system. dingoo or rogue firmware both are build on a distro linux kernel.
my TF1 is exfat of 200GB and my external TF is also exfat of 200GB. its readable, i believe its how people are not technically incline that is why they setup rg350 bin files wrongly.
the most if it doesnt show on your system, go to terminal and mount that TF card yourself. the mount command is fairly simple.
umount /dev/diskpartition /path/you/want
afterall, you are in root.
Does NTFS works?
No, sorry.
@@JoeChip thanks
No problem. Glad to help 👍
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mednafen pce
Desmume a nintendo ds emulater it runs slow
Really good video
You have to do the same thing with the 3Ds if you want to use a memory card bigger than 32 gigs
But at least on a 2DS and 3DS and new 2DS and new 3DS once you put custom firmware on the game system you can format the memory card with the system and you don't need a computer or computer program
I love the rg350 I used to have a gcw zero it's the same software except there's no Wi-Fi card installed on the rg350 or microphone also the new pocket go 2 is the same
I just received that in the mail and all the software made for the gcw zero and most of the software made for the rg350 and some of the software made for the dingo A320
Works
A PDF viewer bard eBook reader which war read epubs for you and you can select different languages there is a TI 92 graphing calculator emulator
I installed 3DO it does run slow but it runs
I installed Nintendo DS also runs slow
PC FX the shooting game run slow but it's playable
SMS sdl which plays game gear & sega master system, Atari 2600 Atari 5200 Atari 7800
ColecoVision, intelivision
Vectrex, NES, SNES, Pico Drive, genplus GX which place Pier solar and bigger Prince and legend of Wukong and star Odyssey
Atari lynx, watara supervision, snes9x, temper, wonderswan color
Neogeo pocket, gameboy Advance, ohboy, gameboy color, playstation came with it, fba, max but don't know how to load and play .dsk games if anyone can help I'd appreciate that
Thanks for the reply. This is interesting stuff. Cheers.
I got a 128 gig cars.
That should be more than big enough.
I installed whatever you told me to install and it almost gave my computer a virus. Thanks alot!
Do you have Cheetos where you live? Because I asked someone from a part of Germany and didn't get Cheetos
We have Wotsits, which is basically the same thing as Cheetos. Not many shops sell Cheetos here, though there is a local sweet shop that sells American sweets etc and thay sell them there.
RIP. I wish I knew about this before putting 70gb of ROMs on my SD card lmao.
Thank you so much nonetheless.
Yeah, quite time consuming. We’ve all done stuff like that, though.
Thanks for the comment 👍
Thanks for the malware (adware) my dude
I didn’t encounter any malware issues. To what software are you referring?
The video starts at 2:45. The rest is a pointless intro.