Yeah, definitely one of my favorites and I found out about it because of your SimpleMenu theme! You can download it for RetroPie/EmuELEC here: github.com/TMNTturtleguy/es-theme-ComicBook
@@RGGeek also check out this Retrorama theme, I bet it looks great on a TV. I think this will be my next SimpleMenu theme: github.com/lipebello/es-theme-Retrorama
I don't want to sound like I'm shilling, but a perfect box for those looking to play PSX and below through EmuElec would be the Tanix TX3 Max. One of the things I loved most about it was the fact that it would effortlessly boot from sd or usb without needing to press down on the reset button. When I didn't feel like playing retro games, I would boot into android and find that it was a surprisingly capable little gaming device. I was able to play a Quake 1 source port at 1080p/stable 60fps with all sorts of effects enabled. Quake 3 on the other hand was a a little choppy at times but still playable with a mouse and keyboard due to its handy little root switch. The only drawback I can think of would be its non-existent ventilation. It had a tendency of running hot when it was powered on for too long. I would later find- after bricking it, unfortunately, and taking it apart- that its only method of cooling was a thick piece of aluminum bridged to the cpu with a cube of thermal putty - very sloppy. All in all, it was a decent little box with some great features, built in bluetooth, and some very slow download speeds, that could really be improved by some kind of makeshift cooling solution, which I guess would be perfect for those who love to tinker around with their electronics.
I personally think that the A95x max plus is the best to run EmuELEC. Its such a powerful box for running retro games. Super smooth gameplay with every rom that I have tried. So simple and user friendly to set up, WiFi and setting up a bluetooth gamepad is super easy. My PS4 pad connected straight away. Scraping all the game art and videos is also super fast and efficient. Its so good infact that I am thinking about hooking it up to my Arcade1up arcade. #retroinvade
I’m guessing this would work with an Android tablet as well. I haven’t been convinced these retro handhelds are better than my 7” tablet + Telescopic controller but I really like the Emuelec-Emulation Station experience over DIG and Android.
From what I hear DIG and Reset Collection don't have quite as good of a UI as EmuELEC, but they get the job done. If you already have such an Android tablet and controller and are happy with that, that's great! For someone who wants to go Android, but doesn't want a tablet, the Odin is also looking very promising!
Awww, thanks man! Sorry, it's not possible to give away copies of my card, but most of the games can be found on archive.org. I wish I could help you more. :-/ If you have any specific questions about it, I'll help you as best as I can!
I'm a regular guy, born 1980, love my retro games. Can somebody in very simple terms give me a set up that has all the games from yesteryear. I'm OK with adding roms, but what's the best? A mini pc, a box preloaded with roms online, what? Any advice appreciated. Currently have a Super X console, but I've since learnt its bollox. Someone help, I thought this was a good one, and now I realise it ain't
Thanks for the video, between you and ETA PRIME I'm inspired to build one myself. I see you are using a 200G SD card with the HK1, do you happen to know how large of a card it can support?
I believe there's no limit, but I can't be sure about it! At least I've never heard of someone having an SD card too large to work with EmuELEC. Note most Android boxes can't read SD cards over 64 GB, but that's an Android limitation, but while you're on Linux (EmuELEC), you can read them just fine!
As a casual gamer (used to plug and play retro consoles), what would you recommend for someone who doesn't need all the bells and whistles (Android TV box novice): S922X: X88 King , Beelink GT King or, S905X3: HK1 Box (MUB)
If you want to run higher end systems well like N64, PSP, Saturn and Dreamcast, I'd recommend the GT King, although the X88 King is probably fine too. If you don't care about those systems, The HK1 Box should be great for you!
Did you download the graphical bezels? I have enabled it and installed them but what I have are just plain Bezels saying the Bezel project and the name of the console... no nice graphics of the game :(
I used the EmuELEC menu: UPDATES & DOWNLOADS > THE BEZEL PROJECT. Then you can install it for all the platforms you want. Some platforms are just the platform itself and others have individual game bezels. Arcade is by far the coolest in my opinion!
@@RGGeek I did the same and install to all platforms. The odd thing is that I can only see like a default one with the console name but I can't seem to get the one with cool graphics. Been trying to figure it out and driving me nuts. hahaha. Do you know how it pulls the graphics? Is it downloaded upon launch of the rom?
@@madfalc0n Oh, you have to go into game settings and turn on bezels. Either go to EmuELEC Settings > Enable RA Bezels or go to Game Settings > Enable RA Bezels. Not sure if there's a difference between the two of them, but that should do the trick!
Hello, do you have any problem with high temps on the devices? while you were juts browsing the system it reached 70ºc, and i guess it gets even higher than that, dont you have slowdowns or stuttering because of it?
On my S905x3 box, it would overheat when running Saturn, but other than that I haven't had any overheating issues. Since I upgraded to a S922x box, everything has been great!
All the boxes mentioned here in the comments as working have been cloned and I can’t figure out who is selling the real stuff on Amazon. HK1 is cloned, the T95 was cloned, x88 cloned. I have no idea who originally made them. Plus they have hiked prices ONLY on boxes that can support EmuELEC. It’s ridiculous. I have a headache from looking at Amazon for 4 hrs. I have bought 3 and had to cancel all three because of conflicting info on whether EmuELEC works or not. Sigh. Could you just post a few links? Simply saying the name is not enough anymore.
Hello, I have a problem with the controllers ... I connected one via cable and another via Bluetooth ... Both work in the menu and the game selection .. but as soon as I start a SNES game, for example .. !!! comes the message that the controllers are not set .. !! and none of the two controllers suddenly no longer works ... no button works .. and I do not come back to the main menu and have to restart the Android box ... after the restart both controllers work again .. but as soon as I play a game start comes the message again and nothing works ... furthermore i have no sound ... neither in the menu..nor in the game ... can you help me..please
Whoa, that's a lot of issues. I've played with Bluetooth controllers and wired controllers at the same time, so that shouldn't be a problem. Also, sound really should just work. Which Android box (with which chipset) are you running on?
No, Nvidia Shield's chipset isn't supported by EmuELEC. You can set up pretty epic retro gaming on that device just in Android too and it has the advantage of being able to run most GameCube games too. If you want an Android gaming front-end, I've heard Dig is good!
Hi great video, can you help me get Dreamcast working and a few tips? I have the t95max box same as the one in era prime videos. I can’t get Dreamcast to work and a few other things I can’t think of. If you have an email or on discord it would be greatly appreciated
Sure! Discord is probably easiest: amuzulo#1322 Honestly it pretty much worked without any configuration though. The key is to use GDI files, *not* CDI. Also make sure you're running EmuELEC 3.9. I had big issues with Dreamcast in EmuELEC 3.7. Hope this helps!
Hi! Would the Odroid H2+ work with EmuELEC? It doesn't come up as a supported device but I'm not knowledgeable enough to understand why it wouldn't work like the N2+ would?
@@RGGeek ah okay thanks for the response! Big shame as I'm making an arcade cabinet and thought the H2 would be really good for it, but N2 plus isn't a slouch either
@@JDC5656 I mean, the N2+ is currently the most powerful device which can run EmuELEC, so yeah, it's nice... :) I went for the GT-King, because so much is already built-in like WiFi and Bluetooth.
It seems you are doing this in Windows. In this OS you could see only first partition of SD card, on the other partition, you wrongly see as unused space, there is Linux format partition, which Windows cannot see. You can use a software for Windows to access the second partition. Just google one.
@@RGGeek I got it working already! :). I also have that 8bitdo pro controller but can't figure out how to configure it via bluetooth. I got it detected though but can't seem to configure it (it only works when connected via usb). Any tips?
@@RGGeek, thanks. I did try the Start+Y. It gets detected but for some reason I can't get it to map the buttons via bluetooth. I was successful in connecting a PS4 and a Switch Pro controller via bluetooth though. The 8bitdo has no issues connecting on an imac or macbook using openemu. Quite odd.
I don't want to offend so stop reading now if that's a concern, but since it's something that can be changed I thought I should mention lip smacking can be a grating listening experience particularly with headphones
Ah yeah, I think that gets cut out when I used to use professional mics in the studio with a spit guard. Hmm, not sure. Anyway, will try to eliminate in the future, thanks for the feedback!
hello i have bought x88 pro x3 tv box . an Amlogic franklin 4g/32g i flashed a 32 gb Sandisc micro sd with etcher, move the appropriate sm1_s905x3_4g.dtb file to the root of the sd, rename it to dtb.img .however, it failed to boot into emulec so i tried many dtb files like sm1_s905x3_4g_1gbit.dtb ...sm1_s905x2_2g_1gbit.dtb and more ,all with failure and boot into android box menu , however it freezes at the logo or a black screen after the logo any suggestions please thanks
Hey, maybe this is a stupid suggestion, but are you copying the file as "dtb.img" and moving that to the root directory of the Micro SD card? I, at least, missed this step to move the file the first time I set up a box for EmuELEC. That box is running the S905x3 chip, so you've got the right files, so it should work!
@@RGGeek thanks for the suggestion but i have done so. and i have just tried an other dtb>img and it boots and creates partitions then freezes at the emuelec booting menu for ever !!!
Hello, when I put the emuelec on my microSDCX cart much of the capacity from the microSDXC cart is gone? I have a 128gig sandisk micro SDXC cart but when I flash emuelec on the cart I only have a capacity of 511mb, with only 18,6mb available. Is this normal, or is the SD cart damaged in some way? With kind regards,
@@RGGeek I found the answer when I flash emuelec on to my microSD it's in linux format. So when i open it in windows it has some capacity loss. But when I check the SD in Linux File Systems for Windows by Paragon Software I can see it has no capacity loss.
@@RGGeek It does not even do it via libreelec even if I do it internally it remains stationary on the boot with the written tanix and does not move x hours
Man, that ComicBook theme looks incredible on a big TV like that! I've been missing out!
Yeah, definitely one of my favorites and I found out about it because of your SimpleMenu theme! You can download it for RetroPie/EmuELEC here: github.com/TMNTturtleguy/es-theme-ComicBook
@@RGGeek also check out this Retrorama theme, I bet it looks great on a TV. I think this will be my next SimpleMenu theme: github.com/lipebello/es-theme-Retrorama
@@RetroGameCorps Oooh, thanks! Just installed it... I'll check it out later! :)
Tnx for tutorial . How to downlad bezels here
Tnx for tutorial . How to downlad bezels here
I’m now using a RF game pad (no cord, no Bt hassle). It takes a USB port for the dongle but the game pad is always connected and working great.
Nice! Probably less lag that way too I imagine!
I don't want to sound like I'm shilling, but a perfect box for those looking to play PSX and below through EmuElec would be the Tanix TX3 Max. One of the things I loved most about it was the fact that it would effortlessly boot from sd or usb without needing to press down on the reset button. When I didn't feel like playing retro games, I would boot into android and find that it was a surprisingly capable little gaming device. I was able to play a Quake 1 source port at 1080p/stable 60fps with all sorts of effects enabled. Quake 3 on the other hand was a a little choppy at times but still playable with a mouse and keyboard due to its handy little root switch. The only drawback I can think of would be its non-existent ventilation. It had a tendency of running hot when it was powered on for too long. I would later find- after bricking it, unfortunately, and taking it apart- that its only method of cooling was a thick piece of aluminum bridged to the cpu with a cube of thermal putty - very sloppy. All in all, it was a decent little box with some great features, built in bluetooth, and some very slow download speeds, that could really be improved by some kind of makeshift cooling solution, which I guess would be perfect for those who love to tinker around with their electronics.
Amlogic S950x3 boxes good value and spec's for the money, i have 2 of them a T95Max Plus and Q10Max
I personally think that the A95x max plus is the best to run EmuELEC. Its such a powerful box for running retro games. Super smooth gameplay with every rom that I have tried. So simple and user friendly to set up, WiFi and setting up a bluetooth gamepad is super easy. My PS4 pad connected straight away. Scraping all the game art and videos is also super fast and efficient. Its so good infact that I am thinking about hooking it up to my Arcade1up arcade. #retroinvade
Cool, I have had a similar experience with my GT-King... good to have options! :)
what about the temperatures on that device, and could you share a link to buy it?
Thanks for the guide!
Thank you very much
I’m guessing this would work with an Android tablet as well. I haven’t been convinced these retro handhelds are better than my 7” tablet + Telescopic controller but I really like the Emuelec-Emulation Station experience over DIG and Android.
From what I hear DIG and Reset Collection don't have quite as good of a UI as EmuELEC, but they get the job done. If you already have such an Android tablet and controller and are happy with that, that's great! For someone who wants to go Android, but doesn't want a tablet, the Odin is also looking very promising!
Every time that you said "Um" we all over here took a shot. "We aree drunnkk! lol
Ummm, enjoy the booze! Ummm...
Man you Rock. Is it possible to get a copy or your micro sd card, love the setup and i have the same box
Awww, thanks man! Sorry, it's not possible to give away copies of my card, but most of the games can be found on archive.org. I wish I could help you more. :-/ If you have any specific questions about it, I'll help you as best as I can!
How did you get your 8bitdo to pair? I’m running a 3.9 build and can’t get my 8Bitdo SN30 Pro or any Bluetooth controller to work.
I paired it in Switch mode over Bluetooth.
how do you search for a game? I copied like 50GB which is 10000 games and I don't know how to search.
is S922X-J supported?
there is no info anywhere.
would like to install this on UGOOS AM6B Plus
Does someone know if the X96 Max Plus Ultra doues support emuelec? The TV box has 4g+32g and the processor is the amlogic S905x4. Some advise for me?
i was wondering, if a box with s905L, is suported?? ty
I'm a regular guy, born 1980, love my retro games. Can somebody in very simple terms give me a set up that has all the games from yesteryear. I'm OK with adding roms, but what's the best? A mini pc, a box preloaded with roms online, what? Any advice appreciated. Currently have a Super X console, but I've since learnt its bollox. Someone help, I thought this was a good one, and now I realise it ain't
What dtb.img did you use for your hk1 box 905x3?
Does the wechip remote turn the box on and off? or are you using it to just control the box?
can you instal the emulec on a usb drive?
I believe you can. I’m not sure it will perform as fast as having it on a Micro SD card though. 😅
Thanks for the video, between you and ETA PRIME I'm inspired to build one myself. I see you are using a 200G SD card with the HK1, do you happen to know how large of a card it can support?
I believe there's no limit, but I can't be sure about it! At least I've never heard of someone having an SD card too large to work with EmuELEC. Note most Android boxes can't read SD cards over 64 GB, but that's an Android limitation, but while you're on Linux (EmuELEC), you can read them just fine!
@@RGGeek Thanks for the info. I ordered a 200G since I know it worked for you. I'm sure it's going to be way more than I need, anyway.
@@JHaremski Yeah, I think I'm using about 150 GB of my card. :)
I have a 512gb card in mine and runs like a champ.
As a casual gamer (used to plug and play retro consoles), what would you recommend for someone who doesn't need all the bells and whistles (Android TV box novice):
S922X: X88 King
, Beelink GT King or,
S905X3: HK1 Box (MUB)
If you want to run higher end systems well like N64, PSP, Saturn and Dreamcast, I'd recommend the GT King, although the X88 King is probably fine too. If you don't care about those systems, The HK1 Box should be great for you!
Did you download the graphical bezels? I have enabled it and installed them but what I have are just plain Bezels saying the Bezel project and the name of the console... no nice graphics of the game :(
I used the EmuELEC menu: UPDATES & DOWNLOADS > THE BEZEL PROJECT. Then you can install it for all the platforms you want. Some platforms are just the platform itself and others have individual game bezels. Arcade is by far the coolest in my opinion!
@@RGGeek I did the same and install to all platforms. The odd thing is that I can only see like a default one with the console name but I can't seem to get the one with cool graphics. Been trying to figure it out and driving me nuts. hahaha. Do you know how it pulls the graphics? Is it downloaded upon launch of the rom?
@@madfalc0n Oh, you have to go into game settings and turn on bezels. Either go to EmuELEC Settings > Enable RA Bezels or go to Game Settings > Enable RA Bezels. Not sure if there's a difference between the two of them, but that should do the trick!
Hello, do you have any problem with high temps on the devices? while you were juts browsing the system it reached 70ºc, and i guess it gets even higher than that, dont you have slowdowns or stuttering because of it?
On my S905x3 box, it would overheat when running Saturn, but other than that I haven't had any overheating issues. Since I upgraded to a S922x box, everything has been great!
All the boxes mentioned here in the comments as working have been cloned and I can’t figure out who is selling the real stuff on Amazon. HK1 is cloned, the T95 was cloned, x88 cloned. I have no idea who originally made them. Plus they have hiked prices ONLY on boxes that can support EmuELEC. It’s ridiculous. I have a headache from looking at Amazon for 4 hrs. I have bought 3 and had to cancel all three because of conflicting info on whether EmuELEC works or not. Sigh. Could you just post a few links? Simply saying the name is not enough anymore.
Ugh, sorry this is the case now. It was already back enough when I bought mine. I now recommend getting a GT-King.
Hello, I have a problem with the controllers ... I connected one via cable and another via Bluetooth ... Both work in the menu and the game selection .. but as soon as I start a SNES game, for example .. !!! comes the message that the controllers are not set .. !! and none of the two controllers suddenly no longer works ... no button works .. and I do not come back to the main menu and have to restart the Android box ... after the restart both controllers work again .. but as soon as I play a game start comes the message again and nothing works ... furthermore i have no sound ... neither in the menu..nor in the game ... can you help me..please
Whoa, that's a lot of issues. I've played with Bluetooth controllers and wired controllers at the same time, so that shouldn't be a problem. Also, sound really should just work. Which Android box (with which chipset) are you running on?
Out of all the chipsets you listed, which of them is the most powerful?
S922x
@@RGGeek Thanks!
Would this work on an NVidia Shield? I have a RP3 but i assume the shield would have incredible performance
No, Nvidia Shield's chipset isn't supported by EmuELEC. You can set up pretty epic retro gaming on that device just in Android too and it has the advantage of being able to run most GameCube games too. If you want an Android gaming front-end, I've heard Dig is good!
Hi great video, can you help me get Dreamcast working and a few tips? I have the t95max box same as the one in era prime videos. I can’t get Dreamcast to work and a few other things I can’t think of. If you have an email or on discord it would be greatly appreciated
Sure! Discord is probably easiest: amuzulo#1322 Honestly it pretty much worked without any configuration though. The key is to use GDI files, *not* CDI. Also make sure you're running EmuELEC 3.9. I had big issues with Dreamcast in EmuELEC 3.7. Hope this helps!
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Hi! Would the Odroid H2+ work with EmuELEC? It doesn't come up as a supported device but I'm not knowledgeable enough to understand why it wouldn't work like the N2+ would?
No, because the H2+ runs the Intel J4115 processor, which is not an Amlogic chip. It is funny how EmuELEC runs on *very* specific device chipsets.
@@RGGeek ah okay thanks for the response! Big shame as I'm making an arcade cabinet and thought the H2 would be really good for it, but N2 plus isn't a slouch either
@@JDC5656 I mean, the N2+ is currently the most powerful device which can run EmuELEC, so yeah, it's nice... :) I went for the GT-King, because so much is already built-in like WiFi and Bluetooth.
Can you use a ps4 controller with the box and can i use my phone to download and move files for emuelec???
Those should both work, yeah. You might need an FTP client for your phone though!
can i run games stored in the built-in storage of the Android box?
No, it doesn’t recognize Android at all when it’s in EmuELEC.
Has anyone managed to get emuelec to run on a fire cube 2022 version?
I haven't checked the details, but pretty sure that has a chipset incompatible with EmuELEC.
Can you tell me what dtb file did you use for that specific box? I ordered One myself
I think I used sm1_s905x3_4g_gigabit.
Ok thanks!
Gonna try it
s905x4 not supported ?
No.
How can I install emuelec on my RG350M please ? .. I didn’t even think that was possible 😱🙏🏻
Rather not, it is meant for Amlogic. But maybe there are some forks, you shall google...
What about commodore amiga. Does it run good?
I haven't tried it, but that's such a low-powered system, I'd imagine so as long as you can easily keymap the game to a controller.
why when i burn the img on my micro sd gets unlocatted space? How to fix that there is no space for roms..
Format the card in fat32
It seems you are doing this in Windows. In this OS you could see only first partition of SD card, on the other partition, you wrongly see as unused space, there is Linux format partition, which Windows cannot see. You can use a software for Windows to access the second partition. Just google one.
Great Video! which version of EmuELEC did you use? Is it the amlogic arm generic? there's a lot of versions
Thanks! In this video I used the 64-bit test version, but now I'm running the standard 32-bit 3.8 NG stable.
@@RGGeek I got it working already! :). I also have that 8bitdo pro controller but can't figure out how to configure it via bluetooth. I got it detected though but can't seem to configure it (it only works when connected via usb). Any tips?
@@madfalc0n Great you got it working! Connect the controller in Switch mode (Press Start+Y to turn it on and then pair it.)
@@RGGeek, thanks. I did try the Start+Y. It gets detected but for some reason I can't get it to map the buttons via bluetooth. I was successful in connecting a PS4 and a Switch Pro controller via bluetooth though. The 8bitdo has no issues connecting on an imac or macbook using openemu. Quite odd.
I figured it out! All working now! :)
Will it work on a RK3318 chip set?
No
I don't want to offend so stop reading now if that's a concern,
but since it's something that can be changed I thought I should mention
lip smacking can be a grating listening experience particularly with headphones
Ah yeah, I think that gets cut out when I used to use professional mics in the studio with a spit guard. Hmm, not sure. Anyway, will try to eliminate in the future, thanks for the feedback!
Can you pass me the link of your own tv box and your sdcard please?
My TV Box now is the GT-King and the SD card I use is a SanDisk Ultra 256 GB. Happy shopping!
Next time when you make a video , do not smack with a mouth when speakink 😂😂😂
hello
i have bought x88 pro x3 tv box . an Amlogic franklin 4g/32g
i flashed a 32 gb Sandisc micro sd with etcher, move the appropriate sm1_s905x3_4g.dtb file to the root of the sd, rename it to dtb.img .however, it failed to boot into emulec so i tried many dtb files like sm1_s905x3_4g_1gbit.dtb ...sm1_s905x2_2g_1gbit.dtb and more ,all with failure and boot into android box menu
, however it freezes at the logo or a black screen after the logo
any suggestions please
thanks
Hey, maybe this is a stupid suggestion, but are you copying the file as "dtb.img" and moving that to the root directory of the Micro SD card? I, at least, missed this step to move the file the first time I set up a box for EmuELEC. That box is running the S905x3 chip, so you've got the right files, so it should work!
@@RGGeek thanks for the suggestion but i have done so. and i have just tried an other dtb>img and it boots and creates partitions then freezes at the emuelec booting menu for ever !!!
@@abedkader7998 ugh, sorry I can't help you. Maybe try the EmuELEC Reddit or Discord?
@@RGGeek anyway thanks
Do we need to have a rooted Android TV box in order for it to work? :)
No. You just need to be able to boot to the SD card, which I think all Android boxes can do.
@@RGGeek tanix 5 plus 4gb 64gb?
@@RGGeek Which version do you recommend and which file should I rename to dtb. Img?
@@RGGeek The first start how long there?
Hello, when I put the emuelec on my microSDCX cart much of the capacity from the microSDXC cart is gone?
I have a 128gig sandisk micro SDXC cart but when I flash emuelec on the cart I only have a capacity of 511mb, with only 18,6mb available.
Is this normal, or is the SD cart damaged in some way?
With kind regards,
Eeek, I have no idea, but it doesn't sound normal. :(
@@RGGeek I found the answer when I flash emuelec on to my microSD it's in linux format. So when i open it in windows it has some capacity loss. But when I check the SD in Linux File Systems for Windows by Paragon Software I can see it has no capacity loss.
N64 a no go?
It works on boxes that have the S922x chip. The S905x3 can play a few N64 titles if you're willing to tweak the emulator settings.
Is it possible with allwinner h6? Is it any way?
I heard there's an Allwinner fork of EmuELEC, but other than hearing about it, I know nothing else. Good luck!
@@RGGeek thanks for the reply! Anything is always better than nothing, gotta start somewhere
@@IMUQRI Maybe it's worth asking on the EmuELEC subreddit?
A95X Nexbox s905x?
I don't understand. What are you asking?
@@RGGeek Nevermind I was asking if it would work, but I got it working! :D
@@geo1177 Awesome, enjoy EmuELEC!!
Tanix 5 plus 4gb 64gb?
4 GB RAM, 64 GB internal flash storage
@@RGGeek It does not even do it via libreelec even if I do it internally it remains stationary on the boot with the written tanix and does not move x hours
@@RGGeek where did you see the 4gb 64gb? Im needing this for S905x3 and Im lost
And S905x ?
It works - I've tested on my 905x/2G box. Use p212 dtb file for apropriate RAM (1 or 2 GB).