Altrough I have minimum PC skills, I managed to just copy the cheap SD Anbernic used to the PC harddrive and further to a Sandisk SD. Took some time, but it worked flawlessly, and now I have a branded SD and a security backup on my laptop for the worst case.
I love this thing!!! I have SEGA CD, SEGA Genesis, SegaCD, 32X, Saturn, Dreamcast and all the hundreds of Sega Arcade games. Basically it's my SEGA handheld. I switched to a Samsung 512gb SD card and it's much better. I had a question, how do I get scraped artwork onto this thing? I have thousands of scraped art on my Steam Deck but don't know where the folder for images is on the Arc-D. Thanks!
I have been playing around with the RG ARC-D the last few days and for the life of me been having a hard time getting RetroArchivement settings to properly save and run. Solid system but really hope there be CFW on it.
I can't get any of my box arts to appear. Do they need to be a specific size? I'm using the same ones I used on my 351P with ArkOS, and those worked fine.
Linux is working great for me but I cant say the same for android. It read games no problem on the supplied card but when I copied it to a better card (fat32) it finds all the games but then says 'it seems this cant be found' when I try to run them via the top menu. Any idea what the problem might be?
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds thanks! sorry, I'm pretty stupid. Actually I saw that just by sticking the sd card in it it would generate the folders to dump the bios and roms. but it doesn't make the folders. I formated the sd to exfat as someone told me and still doesn't put the folders. I don't find answers anywere for that.
@@JoeysRetroHandheldswhat about adding more emulators than the device has? I can't seem to think how to add new cores and shaders to Retroarch from the device itself. Plus with the Portmaster crashing, and not being about the scrape artwork automatically, I find the OS extremely basic and underdeveloped at the moment.
Thanks for the great video! Just grabbed three of thee for my kiddos. I have seen others showing as yours games preinstalled. Having followed the better ones on here. All 3 will not recognize the games. All the emulators are there but nothing is registering on either system besides 8 ish games. Any ideas? Thanks in advance from anyone with help or ideas.
Thanks for the video, Joey. I got the unit with only the OS sd card, no ROMs card as I wanted to add them myself but I cant figure out how to properly format the second sd card. The unit sees it in Android side but not in Linux. Any advice please?
I'm adding a new game to the Anbernic RG ARC-D game console, then I'm adding Box Art images with the same name as the game to the images folder, but the Box Art photos never seem to appear next to the names of the games when using the console. What could be the reason? Please help
So I got one of the Linux only ones with only the OS card included. It seems like something is wrong. Retroarch only has gameboy advance, mega drive, mrboom(?), NES, Pc engine and prboom(?). Under emulators I only have sdlpop(?). It seems they partitioned the flash card and one side has the OS and the other has the ROMS folders. I don’t see anyway of adding emulators or a retroarch folder on the flash card. It also doesn’t seem to be seeing my actual ROMS card when it’s inserted. Using the file manager under apps is also no help. Any ideas? It seems like what I got on the card is wrong, but nothing on the anbernic site for firmware etc. at this point this is worthless unless I can figure out how to get it to load more emulators and read my ROMS card
In the future it would be helpful demonstrating how to apply a firmware update. I like to run updates on any new technology I get, except the rare cases it needs to stay outdated.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds Dang. :/ I've discovered there are no instructions from Anbernic to do so, and the updated firmware file on their Google Drive (lol, seriously!?) says it can't be downloaded due to a data limit. Thank you for the video though!
Someone is trying to port mainline Linux, and GammaOS is coming to the RG Arc D. Anbernic has a bad habit of being a dick to devs so JelOS decided to not support their devices onwards, probably similar for ArkOS.
@@glazedbelmont Thanks for the information. Fingers crossed. It's too bad Anbernic doesn't work with the community, especially since their OS/front end is FAR from being optimum.
Im late to the party i also just bought rg arc-d. Mine came with a 128gb game card. Now i tried to back it up using win10 but all it wants to do is format the card. Is there something im missing.? A program or something to read the files? Any help would be awesome. I want to add more saturn games.. since it came only with 4.
Hey, you'll have that problem with any device, Windows doesn't recognize the format. Never format, always ignore that warning. You should still be able to access the drive, but if not, give it a letter in disk management.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds Thank you very much ill give that a crack. Im new to this as you can tell. I cant wait to play games that werent release in Australia.
The Sega Saturn emulator has images for box art. I can load the the roms but there is no box art even if I add the image to the image file in the emulator. Where am I going wrong?
That's the problem, I had to get a custom firmware, the OS sdcard I got was corrupt and the ambernic website is useless and has no download for the original firmware.@@JoeysRetroHandhelds
Everyone says ''its prone to failure'' but have there been any people actually saying that it failed? I'm sure there is a standard of manufacture when making these things.
Does anyone know how to change hotkeys on the RG ARC? The frontend seems to over-ride the ability to save hotkey binds in the retro-arch menus, tried everything and I can't get Rewind to save after exiting out of each game.
I was hoping for an android set up, I cannot figure it out, the roms simply don't show up over there. I own a bunch of these devices and this one is the worst set up. My street Fighter alphas were in CPS1, most of the king of fighters don't work, The default emulator is wrong on a bunch of them. Very disappointed.
I mostly just wanna play old arcade games and Saturn games on this. But the included interface is plain and unappealing, Retro Arena cuts performance drastically on MAME games, and RockNix is about as easy to manage as a bucking bronco. I wish there was a suitable all in one solution. I shouldn't have to swap SD cards just to play Saturn games!
Altrough I have minimum PC skills, I managed to just copy the cheap SD Anbernic used to the PC harddrive and further to a Sandisk SD. Took some time, but it worked flawlessly, and now I have a branded SD and a security backup on my laptop for the worst case.
I appreciate all you do for us man. You’ve gotten me through a few long, almost overwhelming nights. Thank goodness for Joey.
I love this thing!!! I have SEGA CD, SEGA Genesis, SegaCD, 32X, Saturn, Dreamcast and all the hundreds of Sega Arcade games. Basically it's my SEGA handheld.
I switched to a Samsung 512gb SD card and it's much better. I had a question, how do I get scraped artwork onto this thing? I have thousands of scraped art on my Steam Deck but don't know where the folder for images is on the Arc-D.
Thanks!
I have been playing around with the RG ARC-D the last few days and for the life of me been having a hard time getting RetroArchivement settings to properly save and run. Solid system but really hope there be CFW on it.
I can't get any of my box arts to appear. Do they need to be a specific size? I'm using the same ones I used on my 351P with ArkOS, and those worked fine.
Linux is working great for me but I cant say the same for android. It read games no problem on the supplied card but when I copied it to a better card (fat32) it finds all the games but then says 'it seems this cant be found' when I try to run them via the top menu. Any idea what the problem might be?
Hi! i bought an arc D without rom sd but It came just with the os. Not even the emulators. There is a tutorial on how to instal everything from zero?
You uh commented on that tutorial. Emulators only show if there's games, and if you have no games, no emulators will show.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds thanks! sorry, I'm pretty stupid. Actually I saw that just by sticking the sd card in it it would generate the folders to dump the bios and roms. but it doesn't make the folders. I formated the sd to exfat as someone told me and still doesn't put the folders. I don't find answers anywere for that.
@@JoeysRetroHandheldswhat about adding more emulators than the device has?
I can't seem to think how to add new cores and shaders to Retroarch from the device itself. Plus with the Portmaster crashing, and not being about the scrape artwork automatically, I find the OS extremely basic and underdeveloped at the moment.
Thanks for the great video! Just grabbed three of thee for my kiddos. I have seen others showing as yours games preinstalled. Having followed the better ones on here. All 3 will not recognize the games. All the emulators are there but nothing is registering on either system besides 8 ish games. Any ideas? Thanks in advance from anyone with help or ideas.
Thanks for the video, Joey. I got the unit with only the OS sd card, no ROMs card as I wanted to add them myself but I cant figure out how to properly format the second sd card. The unit sees it in Android side but not in Linux. Any advice please?
You'll have to format it in Android, then it'll be seen by both sides.
Thanks man! I'm excited for this device
Please a button mapping tutorial video. any way to set the dpad as analog stick and face buttons as dpad? thank you
I'm adding a new game to the Anbernic RG ARC-D game console, then I'm adding Box Art images with the same name as the game to the images folder, but the Box Art photos never seem to appear next to the names of the games when using the console. What could be the reason? Please help
You figure this out? He said in the video have to add -images at the end of name. Was hoping to find a auto way
My problem is when i connected on 4KTV it's cannot boot any games.
Where does save files go? Which folder on which mcard?
do i need ant special program to add games.
been trying to add games but ot just wont work
So I got one of the Linux only ones with only the OS card included. It seems like something is wrong. Retroarch only has gameboy advance, mega drive, mrboom(?), NES, Pc engine and prboom(?). Under emulators I only have sdlpop(?). It seems they partitioned the flash card and one side has the OS and the other has the ROMS folders. I don’t see anyway of adding emulators or a retroarch folder on the flash card. It also doesn’t seem to be seeing my actual ROMS card when it’s inserted. Using the file manager under apps is also no help. Any ideas? It seems like what I got on the card is wrong, but nothing on the anbernic site for firmware etc. at this point this is worthless unless I can figure out how to get it to load more emulators and read my ROMS card
Hm, I have no clue. The Discord in my description, arc channel could likely help.
@@JoeysRetroHandheldsthanks for the quick reply
Same issue for me…
@@Itme212find any solution?
I figured it out. I entered the sad card after turning it in. So, I turned it off and back on with the sd already in and it looks just like the video
Do you have a guide how to scrap box art?
Do you know how to hide .bin files so there aren't duplicate listings for disc games like PS1?
from emulators no game start on the installed cards, only from retroarch
Games not show slot 2...What can i do?
Would like to use my 6 face buttons, but only to use it like it has 4 face buttons.
In the future it would be helpful demonstrating how to apply a firmware update. I like to run updates on any new technology I get, except the rare cases it needs to stay outdated.
Hey, there wasn't any updates as of the date of the video, so nothing I could show unfortunately.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds Dang. :/ I've discovered there are no instructions from Anbernic to do so, and the updated firmware file on their Google Drive (lol, seriously!?) says it can't be downloaded due to a data limit. Thank you for the video though!
@@dirty-moto Oh, just login to Google to download it. And it'll be a new format of the sd card, you'll have to backup everything and move it over.
Thanks for the video. Have you tried running JelOS or other RK3566 compatible custom firmwares on this device by any chance?
No I haven't, but they're specifically blocking Anbernic devices.
Someone is trying to port mainline Linux, and GammaOS is coming to the RG Arc D.
Anbernic has a bad habit of being a dick to devs so JelOS decided to not support their devices onwards, probably similar for ArkOS.
@@glazedbelmont Thanks for the information. Fingers crossed.
It's too bad Anbernic doesn't work with the community, especially since their OS/front end is FAR from being optimum.
@@orakaa Yeah it's a real shame, Powkiddy is actually pretty chill with devs from what it appears.
Hello, did you try the sound output with headphones ? I read somewhere that the output was crap (background noise) Can you confirm ?
Just tried both my S and D models, no issues on either.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds Ok thanks !
This is going to be my until for Genesis, 32X and SegaCD only. Perfect buttons
Im late to the party i also just bought rg arc-d. Mine came with a 128gb game card. Now i tried to back it up using win10 but all it wants to do is format the card. Is there something im missing.? A program or something to read the files? Any help would be awesome. I want to add more saturn games.. since it came only with 4.
Hey, you'll have that problem with any device, Windows doesn't recognize the format. Never format, always ignore that warning.
You should still be able to access the drive, but if not, give it a letter in disk management.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds Thank you very much ill give that a crack. Im new to this as you can tell. I cant wait to play games that werent release in Australia.
Is there any way to add additional retroarch cores or different emulators?
Is there a way to scrape for boxart and video for your own roms?
Not on the device, you'd have to use skraper on PC.
The Sega Saturn emulator has images for box art. I can load the the roms but there is no box art even if I add the image to the image file in the emulator.
Where am I going wrong?
If there were jelos on it it would be an instant purchase...till then, i'll wait😢
try arc d, linux system only, it's as good as jelos
My main problem is that retroarch expect a 4 button controller, it has no idea there are two extra buttons.
The extra two buttons are mapped in the cores that use them.
I haven't tried all the cores yet. saturn core was easy to setup, but I'm having issues with CPS@@JoeysRetroHandhelds
I didn't have to change anything, the out of the box core setups were all mapped properly.
That's the problem, I had to get a custom firmware, the OS sdcard I got was corrupt and the ambernic website is useless and has no download for the original firmware.@@JoeysRetroHandhelds
Hm, I see it right here: win.anbernic.com/download/
I need help downloading games on the device
Why did you format the 256GB SD card as FAT32 ? Is the console limited to 32GB ? Can't use the whole 256GB available ?
It has to be FAT32, no it's not limited to 32GB and yes you can use the full 256GB.
Alright thank you
Where can I get the roms?
Are you able to map SF5 with the right buttons, I can't seem to map 2 of the buttons.
I think Z and C are mapped to L3 and R3 respectively. You know, those nasty little buttons under the thumbsticks.
Thank you Joey.
Everyone says ''its prone to failure'' but have there been any people actually saying that it failed? I'm sure there is a standard of manufacture when making these things.
I just got mine today and it isn't reading the micro SD card.
The same SD card can be read by my other anbernic device
I’ve been trying to figure out how to add more emulators. I wanna play ps2 roms and Japanese games like beat mania
PS2 is aiming a little high, isn't it? Maybe something undemanding like Bombastic...
@@jessragan6714 how so? I mean it runs a Dreamcast
What's the max sd card size it can use?
Likely a 1TB.
Thanks for this guide
I noticed it has a PS2 folder but no PS2 emulator on it
Not strong enough for PS2.
got this to play saturn games but theres only 4 saturn games on it :/
WTF
Doesn't really have the power for Saturn.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds wait..so a Sega Saturn inspired handheld cant play Sega Saturn ?
Does anyone know how to change hotkeys on the RG ARC? The frontend seems to over-ride the ability to save hotkey binds in the retro-arch menus, tried everything and I can't get Rewind to save after exiting out of each game.
You'll have to save core override via that section instead of save configuration.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds I tried all config & core-override options, nothing works
What game is 3:50?
Street Fighter V on PC
I was hoping for an android set up, I cannot figure it out, the roms simply don't show up over there. I own a bunch of these devices and this one is the worst set up. My street Fighter alphas were in CPS1, most of the king of fighters don't work, The default emulator is wrong on a bunch of them. Very disappointed.
Seeeegggaaaa!!!!
I mostly just wanna play old arcade games and Saturn games on this. But the included interface is plain and unappealing, Retro Arena cuts performance drastically on MAME games, and RockNix is about as easy to manage as a bucking bronco. I wish there was a suitable all in one solution. I shouldn't have to swap SD cards just to play Saturn games!
But..... 😝