It's refreshing to see a fellow old person sharing their experience. My DOS games were Prince of Persia, Extreme Pinball, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, Lemmings, and a whole bunch of other games I forgot about. Can't wait to play them again thanks to you!
Hey Dude! Here is a "dad from germany". I really apreciate this video. I 100% agree to what you've said: that this stuff blows the mind. Same goes for me. I'm playing currently on my Odin Pro. I LOVE to play these old DOS games, which made my childhood back then (I'm 43 now), as well. If anyone would have told my younger me, that I'm going to play all these fine games on a mobile device, I wouldnt believe him. Thats absolutely amazing - as you said. I'm grateful for all these fine tech today which makes it possible. I finished a complete playtrough of Dune 2 (Westwood) and Monkey Island 2 (LucasArts) a few weeks ago. I'm currently playing Heroes of Might and Magic 1 on the Odin and getting desperate on the final level of the first campaign. These are fine days we live in!
Oh man Dune 2 was such a good game! I should have shown that one in this vid. And I'm so with ya. It's a fantastic time we're living in. In many ways It's even better than the future I could have imagined. Yeah, we don't have flying cars or anything, but every old PC game I could ever want in my pocket!? That's even better than flying cars!
You definitely cover vital information of how to install software such as ports and that's important to me and everyone who is watching this. Just wish more were informative as you. I'm subbed!
Im still practically a baby or not being born yet when it comes to DOS games but I have played my share with Fallout and Fallout 2, being a fan of their franchise I think I'll finally get into playing Doom and Duke Nukem when I got my miyoo mini plus! Thanks for making this
lol, the minute I saw your Scumm guide, I thought of Humongous Games and made a personal note to add them when I can. So I'm glad to see someone else appreciate them. They were *not* educational, but we loved them as kids.
I love old PC games. I grew up with a Commodore 64, then got an Amiga 500 many years later. Eventually I got a PC, and we didn't have internet. We had what they called BBS. I would get on there and ask if anyone wanted to play multiplayer Doom, Quake, or Duke Nukem 3D. I'd call them or they'd call me, and I'd be up to like 4 or 5 in the morning battling it out with others. So much fun, especially with mods for those games. I'll never forget the experience I had when I played Descent for the first time too. It felt like I was on a rollercoaster the way you had the freedom to twist and turn and go wherever you wanted. I guess my top 10 PC games would be: Doom, Doom 2, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Rise of the Triad, Command and Conquer: Red Alert, Wolfenstein 3D, Descent, Diablo, and Half-Life. What would yours be?
I was subscribed to a BBS too! It was a Toronto based BBS called Magic BBS. I mainly used it to look at pictures of The Simpsons to print at my buddy's place because he had a laser printer. I just needed lots of printouts of Simpsons characters for some reason? I like your list. Very many overlaps with mine ;)
Yep 😂 our "teen phone line" was for the 128baud modem to run a BBS with file share.... C64/Amiga User group meetings in the conference room at RGJ in Reno, NV 😂😂😂
I'm so happy at least one retro handheld TH-camr is excited about Dos emulation on portable! I think best dos games to play on these machines are old Apogee platformers, or other action games like Abuse or Crusader. Nothing beats a PC running DOS when playing strategy or RPG games.
Brilliant video!! And very detailed!! I used to play sometimes on my parents Windows 95 computer. I vaguely remember DOS. I do remember I was banned from the machine that ran DOS as I once typed random keys and caused havoc. I wish my parents had more patience and taught me stuff. Ironically, knowing about DOS can help you get to navigate a non GUI interface. Linux Terminal would have been an easy transition coming from DOS.
It does kind of blow my mind that I can play Quake on this tiny handheld... and it looks and plays great! Younger me from the 90's would have lost his mind!
I love going back and looking at some of your previous content, because it just brings back such good memories. One thing for sure that I believe is the case for many of us gaming geeks and dweebs is that we spent A LOT of cash on those retro games. I remember playing Terminal Velocity and deciding that playing it with a mouse just wasn't enough. I ended up buying one of those Microsoft 360 flight controllers that made games like Terminal Velocity and Descent so much fun, well worth it. My friends who weren't into tech or gaming thought I was nuts, but I didn't care, I was having a great time. Another game that I loved playing that was a DOS game was called Crusader No Remorse. It had a very interesting point of view, and was really fun to play. I am going to have to see if I can still locate it to play again.
That story of what you went through to play Doom gave me anxiety. I remember my Dad spending forever on our home computer to get Mech Warrior 2 to play. It was also worth it in my opinion.
This video made me want to experiment with my favorite DOS strategy/RPG games from the 90s. I don't think I can play the action games or timing sensitive games (RTS games) but turn-based games or wargames or RPGs are perfect possibilities. Here are some games I wonder if I could get running: *Castles 2 Siege and Conquest *Heroes of Might and Magic 1 and 2 (I see this works in the video) *Jagged Alliance *Master of Magic *Master of Orion 1+2 *Civilization *Colonization *Panzer General 1 *Scorched Earth (fun multiplayer hot seat gaming) *Fantasy General *Worms *Centurion Defender of Rome *X-COM *L'Empereur, Liberty or Death, Romance of the 3 Kingdoms, etc (KOEI made some complicated strategy games I never understood as a kid but liked to experiment with them) *Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space *Fallout 1 Would the Miyoo Mini be powerful enough? The screen seems to have good enough resolution but small text may be an issue I guess.
HOMM, no problem Turn based strategy games, no problem. Anything with very fine mouse controls or fast paced accurate clicking will probably give you problems. I'm not familiar with all the games on your list (although many are near and dear to my heart), but the Mini is powerful enough to play a lot. And the screen is VERY crisp. If your eyesight is good enough, you'll be fine. I was playing HOMM and could read all the small stuff no prob.
thanks for making this guide! Been wanting to run some SCUMM games but after the headache of trying to get it to work on PSP, I was hesitant to try. Glad to see that it's so easy!
I was looking for a way to run classic DOS games on the SBCGaming subreddit and look who I found! Great to stumble upon your content again. I wish there was a similar tutorial for the RG35XX! By the way, I followed everything, but I still don't know how to start the ScummVM games!
I have a RG35XX on the way! Yeah those freaking scumm games are such a pain to get running. LMK if there's something I didn't explain or whatever, happy to help you out. If you follow the steps you SHOULD see them in the games list (make sure you refresh the games list just like you have to do whenever you add new roms).
@@TechDweeb looking forward to the video on how to place them on RG353 etc... I cannot get the scumm roms working on mine even despite this excellent video...maybe has to do with my using a mac for set up...
This is a very helpful video, any chance you can do a more up to date video for the latest version of onion as the ports file layout has changed massively, tia.
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Great, now I'm even more impatient to receive mine. Managed to get one from the restock on Wednesday finally. :)
I probably played a ton of dos games, most of which came from a demo disc with my PC. But the first dos game I purchased was dark forces for my win95 pc. I saw star wars and was sold. Not neccesarily an unknown game but still cool. Duke, and eapecially quake became staples. Quake in partitcular because of Mplayer. I found Mplayer to be better than just using the QW server browser because it had more social features. My expectations with the miyoo was to enjoy my snes collection, its tiny and comfortable for my hands. I do wish it had saturn emulation, I'd love to play sakura wars on it, but I cant complain, I knew what I was getting and glad I did. 😊
Microsoft Decathlon was the first DOS game I played on my Dad’s computer. I also enjoyed King’s Quest and Digger. I really enjoy your Channel. Just purchased the Miyoo Mini Plus with onion as well as the Anbernic RG405V that you recommend. Looking forward to playing some games of my childhood (DOS, Intellivision, NES, Gameboy, SEGA Genesis, PlayStation 1, SEGA DreamCast). Subscribed to your channel. Having fun going through your past videos. -Matt
Me an 8 or 9 year old living in puerto rico always loved playing the first 20 or so minutes of duke nukem 64 on repeat. I would always get stuck at the movie theater section and not know what to do because I didn’t understand english. The miyuu mini plus has given me the oportunity to play ps1 games like metal gear solid, FFVII, and now some dos games in duke nukem and doom
I remember when my mom worked two jobs and still couldn't afford a computer to play these, so we'd go head to the Virgin Mega Store in San Francisco and I'd play on the demo computers there, or secretly install them at our local library. For these reasons, I'm amazed and excited to as fuck to play all these! I'm currently downloading some roms for Sega CD, but I'm working my way through each system. My favorite thing so far was playing Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland and Dreammaster, which I haven't played since 1990. Now all of this stuff fits in my pocket along with this crazy smart phone. Long live our geek nostalgia for these wonderful gems! Thanks for the videos and tutorials. As someone who was a serious nerd as a kid, but am now a 40 year old 6'6 brick shithouse, I'd publicly flog anybody who tried to steal your lunch money. Cheers! ❤
@@TechDweeb thanks man. You're tutorials and along with Retrobreeze'a have been invaluable. Last night I played Final Fantasy IV for the first time, and Ecco The Dolphin for the first time in 30 years. The last time I played Ecco, I was sitting on the couch, eating pizza from Gumbys in Berkeley California. It was 1989 and life was good.
Thank you. Will install more dos games on my devices. I remember playing kings quest, space quest, qubert.... Some marble game, test drive... The dos game I played most however, is by far "blockout 3d" a great tetris like game Greetings from Switzerland
Funt fact: SCUMM was actually the name that Lucas Film Games (LucasArts) used for the game engine they developed. One of it's programmers was even called the "SCUMM Lord." 😅
Thanks! Duke Nukem, HOMM II, and WarCraft II in my pocket?! Yes, multi-player over dial-up (I just rememberd the AOL bill that next month). You're right -- nobody even mentions these in these retro reviews. Now I just have to decide small in my pocket like this one, medium Odyn 2 or large Steam Deck! At least we have choices!
Oh right! I forgot all about that. There's also that Starcraft N64 port. I actually played a bunch of that one split screen back in the day, I loved it. (not that n64 games run on the mini of course, I'm just reminiscing).
i cant wait to try and play warcraft orcs vs humans and warcraft 2 on this thing, my fav games of all time. Did i miss where you found that? my miyoo is shipping to my house right now :D
Might need to update the tutorial for ScummVM witht he current Onion OS on the Miyoo Mini Plus. I added Beneath a Steel Sky and nothing else, followed all instructions, fired it up and it asks to "import games" then gives me 4 options. I choose and option and it for some odd reason loads up over 30 titles that are not on my SD card. Ignoring that I try to fire up Beneath a Steel Sky and get "Error: Could not opensky.dnr!" Kinda lost as to what to do.
I spent countless hours playing the original Diablo. I always used the female archer as my character. I hated when those skeletons and other creatures got too close. As an archer I could move away and shoot at them from a distance. HA!
Heyyy Tech Dweeb! Great guide and video as always man. I can't wait to get my brand new Miyoo Mini running my childhood DOS favorites - Tyrian, Jazz Jackrabbit, Doom, Descent and Wacky Wheels. I was surprised to see anyone else knew about Terminal Velocity! DOS games are truly fantastic, and my daughter even loves Putt Putt. I haven't been able to get Elder Scrolls Arena working (something about a MSCDEX driver) from GOG version, but other GOG games worked perfect. Any tips? I also played Duke Nukem 3D but don't tell my Mom
I just tried it and it worked (using a version I found online). The performance was very slow once you got into the 3D portion of the game, but it did work perfectly up until then, and there might be some settings you can tweak in the performance section to get it running better.
@@TechDweeb Thanks! I'll try a different version then and see if it works, and fiddle with settings for performance. Never actually played Arena or Daggerfall, so figured why not?
I want some does games on my retroid pocket 🤤, even some Lucas arts games sound good. Under the handheld settings you have a virtual mouse which is freaking awesome.
Yo! Sup Dweeeeeb. Wait waitwaitwait... so you're telling me I can FINALLY play Red Alert on the go? Who knew that such a small thing could give you so much fun? (my ex gf certainly didn't)
When my dad told me we were getting a computer, I assumed he meant an arcade cabinet. Turns out it was an Atari ST and that’s when I learned how to load Monkey Island in DOS.
I love my Mini. But, I think I might never even touch it again after getting my RG353VS. It's so fucking nice. Highly suggest grabbing one to check out.
There's so many good dos games. I could name tens of them. But I'll just throw one quite little known. Crusader: No Remorse. If you want isometric shooter with killer ol' pumping techno track and guys walking in flames screaming and glass shattering it's for you. Oh and of course the good old cheesy fmv's 🙂 Old fart greets 🤝
great video! now if only i can get MechWarrior 2 to run.. the controls on that game are a lil bit more complicated ive heard but there really arent video on getting to work perfectly..
Hey TD! Just curious if you still keep any old hardware for DOS/Windows games? I don't go crazy myself, just a socket 7, slot 1, and socket 478 system that I pull out from time to time. And thanks for the how to on the Mini!
Nope. I don't have any of my old PC stuff. Which really bums me out, I wish I kept everything. I definitely want to get my hands on an old machine to tinker with.
Im really new to the whole retro scene, ive had my eye on the Miyoo Mini Plus a while and eventually pulled the plug the other day. Im assuming that considering this and the Mini are essentially one of the same, would all this still apply? Would love to play Quake and (I believe this was a DOS game) Outlaw, which was like the first western/cowboy game i ever played, man the nostalgia would hit so hard if i could. Im already excited to play Alex Kidd and Action Fighter on the Mastersystem. Great video TechDweeb!
Fond memories of playing the Monkey Island Games, Links, and Facetris (or was it Faces?). Still trying to figure out how to get the controls working on Facetris on the Mini.
@TechDweeb which homm2, diablo and warcraft installs did you use? I have tried both gog and abandonware downloads but they do not seem to work on my rg280v (which kinda uses the same RetroArch and DosBox). Or am I mistaken and there are some pitfalls for that device? Did you manage to get them running there just like on your miyoo mini? Maybe another video with a more detailed guide for dos+rg280v? Thanks in advance. P.S. This guide is awesome.
Now this looks awesome! Do you know if this will work on the Anberic RG35XX? I know Garlic OS is based on Onion OS. I don't have my unit in yet to try.
To some extent. I haven't had the same luck with DOS on GarlicOS, I had a few issues, but I haven't tried it since the latest updates so they might be fixed. In theory it should work basically the same though.
Another interesting video would be what pc ports hold up best for mobile gaming (or games from any platform for that matter). As much as I love quake and decent, they're not not really suited to the controller and form factor. Where as something like HOMAM is perfect for quick pick up and play sessions on the go.
People, please help me. When I'm in this Dosbox pure start menu at 10:13, my cursor always moves by 2 files at a time, not one by one. So, in some cases I just manually can't select desired .exe file. What should I do?
I have this game, it's called ''Bug!'' Was released on Sega Saturn, but I played it on my Windows 95 computer. I want to install the PC rom from this game on my Miyoo Mini Plus, so far no success. Some tips? I don't really know if I am doing it right. I installed Keen 4 the other day, put it in the DOS folder. PS Love the content Dweeb :)
I just got a Miyoo Mini and I absolutely have to try these too. Have already added Pico-8, trying to add DS. The only thing is my Ports does not list all of that shown here, so I dunno yet what's up with that.
I watched your earlier videos and I think your just doing this voice for a 'bit'. Your videos have nice visuals and entertaining enough. I dont think you need to play with your voice, or maybe tone it down a little?
Hey there not sure if this has been asked im getting one for Christmas i love retro games does it have Heretic on it? ocean explorers and Donkey Kong 64, Neverwood, Monkey Island, Commander Keen and Treehouse ? Thanks just wondering most of these are old DOS PC games!!! Thanks so much!!
wow, i finally got homm 1 and homm2 to run. thnx techdweeb! but can you also teach me how to map the mouse control to the dpad? i tried a few times. but i still cant move the cursor..
This was super helpful thank you, as simple as I'd hoped it be, quick question I am confused as I have a folder that says BIOS (in between APP and EMU) but i've read to put BIOS files in the system part of retroarch, so there's two bios folders? Do i need to copy the files from retroarch to the other one?
Hey Dude. Thx for super video!! Keep up the good work :) By any chance do you have your SD card for miyoo mini uploded somewhere were I can download it please :))?
Interesting. I'll consider making my install nice and tidy and uploading it. It'll be over 100gb though... that'll take freaking DAYS to upload on my slow rural internet :.(
@@TechDweeb Man I'm allso huge DOS games fanboy, been growing up in the 90s with Wolfenstein, Duke, Doom, Blood, Shadow Warrior, X-COM, Doom, Quke, Fallout, Syndicate, C&C... and seeing that you can play this games on this small device blow my mind :) If you could upload it it would be super awesome, would really appreciate it. ;) Also i really like your DIY ARCADE machine looking forward to build it someday in the future.
When I created the text document and tried to change it to .scummvm, the file extension didn't change the document and it still showed as a text document. Any idea why that might be?
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It's refreshing to see a fellow old person sharing their experience. My DOS games were Prince of Persia, Extreme Pinball, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, Lemmings, and a whole bunch of other games I forgot about. Can't wait to play them again thanks to you!
Love your commentary on "these shoulder buttons are too clicky" vs "omg i have the power to play these games in my pocket". Great video overall!
Imagine if one day we can get the Sims and its expansions on one of these things.
Hey Dude! Here is a "dad from germany". I really apreciate this video.
I 100% agree to what you've said: that this stuff blows the mind. Same goes for me. I'm playing currently on my Odin Pro. I LOVE to play these old DOS games, which made my childhood back then (I'm 43 now), as well. If anyone would have told my younger me, that I'm going to play all these fine games on a mobile device, I wouldnt believe him. Thats absolutely amazing - as you said. I'm grateful for all these fine tech today which makes it possible.
I finished a complete playtrough of Dune 2 (Westwood) and Monkey Island 2 (LucasArts) a few weeks ago. I'm currently playing Heroes of Might and Magic 1 on the Odin and getting desperate on the final level of the first campaign. These are fine days we live in!
Oh man Dune 2 was such a good game! I should have shown that one in this vid.
And I'm so with ya. It's a fantastic time we're living in. In many ways It's even better than the future I could have imagined. Yeah, we don't have flying cars or anything, but every old PC game I could ever want in my pocket!? That's even better than flying cars!
As a 42 year old, I concur. Can't wait to play my old Apogee games!
Used to love playing Duke Nukem in multiplayer mode over a dialup modem with my mate, it was an awesome time, whether you play COOP or not…
Haha yeah. It always starts as COOP...
@@TechDweeb DAMN!
this is the last game I played with my dad. via IPX (does anyone remember this protocol, lol?)
First dialup multiplayer I played was Modem Wars on the Commodore 64 around 1989. I'm old.
Hi does this come with m s dos games built in?
You definitely cover vital information of how to install software such as ports and that's important to me and everyone who is watching this. Just wish more were informative as you. I'm subbed!
Im still practically a baby or not being born yet when it comes to DOS games
but I have played my share with Fallout and Fallout 2, being a fan of their franchise
I think I'll finally get into playing Doom and Duke Nukem when I got my miyoo mini plus!
Thanks for making this
thanks so much for putting this video together. I loved playing DOS games back in the day and now can play them again.
lol, the minute I saw your Scumm guide, I thought of Humongous Games and made a personal note to add them when I can. So I'm glad to see someone else appreciate them. They were *not* educational, but we loved them as kids.
Definitely! Putt putt is legendary in my past!
I love old PC games. I grew up with a Commodore 64, then got an Amiga 500 many years later. Eventually I got a PC, and we didn't have internet. We had what they called BBS. I would get on there and ask if anyone wanted to play multiplayer Doom, Quake, or Duke Nukem 3D. I'd call them or they'd call me, and I'd be up to like 4 or 5 in the morning battling it out with others. So much fun, especially with mods for those games. I'll never forget the experience I had when I played Descent for the first time too. It felt like I was on a rollercoaster the way you had the freedom to twist and turn and go wherever you wanted.
I guess my top 10 PC games would be: Doom, Doom 2, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Rise of the Triad, Command and Conquer: Red Alert, Wolfenstein 3D, Descent, Diablo, and Half-Life. What would yours be?
I was subscribed to a BBS too! It was a Toronto based BBS called Magic BBS. I mainly used it to look at pictures of The Simpsons to print at my buddy's place because he had a laser printer. I just needed lots of printouts of Simpsons characters for some reason?
I like your list. Very many overlaps with mine ;)
Yep 😂 our "teen phone line" was for the 128baud modem to run a BBS with file share....
C64/Amiga User group meetings in the conference room at RGJ in Reno, NV 😂😂😂
I'm so happy at least one retro handheld TH-camr is excited about Dos emulation on portable! I think best dos games to play on these machines are old Apogee platformers, or other action games like Abuse or Crusader. Nothing beats a PC running DOS when playing strategy or RPG games.
Brilliant video!! And very detailed!!
I used to play sometimes on my parents Windows 95 computer. I vaguely remember DOS. I do remember I was banned from the machine that ran DOS as I once typed random keys and caused havoc. I wish my parents had more patience and taught me stuff. Ironically, knowing about DOS can help you get to navigate a non GUI interface. Linux Terminal would have been an easy transition coming from DOS.
Haha I definitely did my share of breaking things by mashing the keyboard for fun :P
It does kind of blow my mind that I can play Quake on this tiny handheld... and it looks and plays great! Younger me from the 90's would have lost his mind!
Same!
I love going back and looking at some of your previous content, because it just brings back such good memories. One thing for sure that I believe is the case for many of us gaming geeks and dweebs is that we spent A LOT of cash on those retro games. I remember playing Terminal Velocity and deciding that playing it with a mouse just wasn't enough. I ended up buying one of those Microsoft 360 flight controllers that made games like Terminal Velocity and Descent so much fun, well worth it. My friends who weren't into tech or gaming thought I was nuts, but I didn't care, I was having a great time.
Another game that I loved playing that was a DOS game was called Crusader No Remorse. It had a very interesting point of view, and was really fun to play. I am going to have to see if I can still locate it to play again.
That story of what you went through to play Doom gave me anxiety. I remember my Dad spending forever on our home computer to get Mech Warrior 2 to play. It was also worth it in my opinion.
I used to love playing the commander keen series on dos wen I was a teenager
Same!
This video made me want to experiment with my favorite DOS strategy/RPG games from the 90s. I don't think I can play the action games or timing sensitive games (RTS games) but turn-based games or wargames or RPGs are perfect possibilities. Here are some games I wonder if I could get running:
*Castles 2 Siege and Conquest
*Heroes of Might and Magic 1 and 2 (I see this works in the video)
*Jagged Alliance
*Master of Magic
*Master of Orion 1+2
*Civilization
*Colonization
*Panzer General 1
*Scorched Earth (fun multiplayer hot seat gaming)
*Fantasy General
*Worms
*Centurion Defender of Rome
*X-COM
*L'Empereur, Liberty or Death, Romance of the 3 Kingdoms, etc (KOEI made some complicated strategy games I never understood as a kid but liked to experiment with them)
*Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space
*Fallout 1
Would the Miyoo Mini be powerful enough? The screen seems to have good enough resolution but small text may be an issue I guess.
HOMM, no problem
Turn based strategy games, no problem.
Anything with very fine mouse controls or fast paced accurate clicking will probably give you problems.
I'm not familiar with all the games on your list (although many are near and dear to my heart), but the Mini is powerful enough to play a lot. And the screen is VERY crisp. If your eyesight is good enough, you'll be fine. I was playing HOMM and could read all the small stuff no prob.
Day of tentacle and Sam/max were pretty good point and click games for their time. The animation looks great
"For their time"? Can you mention a more recent point n click adventure, better than any of those? :)
Thimbleweed Park is pretty good 😉
@@tomclarkeUK Ohhh that does look good. It's also made by Ron Gilbert
thanks for making this guide! Been wanting to run some SCUMM games but after the headache of trying to get it to work on PSP, I was hesitant to try. Glad to see that it's so easy!
Boy do you wish you had this mini back in the day when we got our original monochrome Gameboy? We really would have been playing with portable power!
I was looking for a way to run classic DOS games on the SBCGaming subreddit and look who I found! Great to stumble upon your content again.
I wish there was a similar tutorial for the RG35XX!
By the way, I followed everything, but I still don't know how to start the ScummVM games!
I have a RG35XX on the way!
Yeah those freaking scumm games are such a pain to get running. LMK if there's something I didn't explain or whatever, happy to help you out. If you follow the steps you SHOULD see them in the games list (make sure you refresh the games list just like you have to do whenever you add new roms).
@@TechDweeb looking forward to the video on how to place them on RG353 etc... I cannot get the scumm roms working on mine even despite this excellent video...maybe has to do with my using a mac for set up...
actually looking forward to any of your videos related to the RG's...!
Now this was pretty cool, started loading up some of the scummvm games like space quest and full throttle to remember my youth.
Can’t wait to play commander keen on my Miyoo. It arrives next week!
Niiiice!
This is a very helpful video, any chance you can do a more up to date video for the latest version of onion as the ports file layout has changed massively, tia.
Great, now I'm even more impatient to receive mine. Managed to get one from the restock on Wednesday finally. :)
I probably played a ton of dos games, most of which came from a demo disc with my PC. But the first dos game I purchased was dark forces for my win95 pc. I saw star wars and was sold. Not neccesarily an unknown game but still cool. Duke, and eapecially quake became staples. Quake in partitcular because of Mplayer. I found Mplayer to be better than just using the QW server browser because it had more social features.
My expectations with the miyoo was to enjoy my snes collection, its tiny and comfortable for my hands. I do wish it had saturn emulation, I'd love to play sakura wars on it, but I cant complain, I knew what I was getting and glad I did. 😊
Microsoft Decathlon was the first DOS game I played on my Dad’s computer. I also enjoyed King’s Quest and Digger.
I really enjoy your Channel. Just purchased the Miyoo Mini Plus with onion as well as the Anbernic RG405V that you recommend. Looking forward to playing some games of my childhood (DOS, Intellivision, NES, Gameboy, SEGA Genesis, PlayStation 1, SEGA DreamCast). Subscribed to your channel. Having fun going through your past videos. -Matt
Me an 8 or 9 year old living in puerto rico always loved playing the first 20 or so minutes of duke nukem 64 on repeat. I would always get stuck at the movie theater section and not know what to do because I didn’t understand english. The miyuu mini plus has given me the oportunity to play ps1 games like metal gear solid, FFVII, and now some dos games in duke nukem and doom
That's awesome! Going back and conquering the games that defeated us as kids is a great feeling 😎
You missed King’s Quest, Police Quest, Stunts, Sopwith, to name a few others!
I remember when my mom worked two jobs and still couldn't afford a computer to play these, so we'd go head to the Virgin Mega Store in San Francisco and I'd play on the demo computers there, or secretly install them at our local library. For these reasons, I'm amazed and excited to as fuck to play all these! I'm currently downloading some roms for Sega CD, but I'm working my way through each system. My favorite thing so far was playing Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland and Dreammaster, which I haven't played since 1990. Now all of this stuff fits in my pocket along with this crazy smart phone. Long live our geek nostalgia for these wonderful gems! Thanks for the videos and tutorials. As someone who was a serious nerd as a kid, but am now a 40 year old 6'6 brick shithouse, I'd publicly flog anybody who tried to steal your lunch money. Cheers! ❤
Niiice. Have fun with your trip down memory lane! Little Nemo Dreammaster was one of my favourites :)
@@TechDweeb thanks man. You're tutorials and along with Retrobreeze'a have been invaluable. Last night I played Final Fantasy IV for the first time, and Ecco The Dolphin for the first time in 30 years. The last time I played Ecco, I was sitting on the couch, eating pizza from Gumbys in Berkeley California. It was 1989 and life was good.
@@TechDweeb I'm gonna dive deep into quite a few titles. The ability to do it is utterly incredible to me.
Looks like the age old dream of HeXen and Blood being played on the go is finally coming true.
Banana and the handmade cat made my day😂😂
Heroes of Might and Magic II on a handheld. A thing of beauty. 💖
Thank you.
Will install more dos games on my devices.
I remember playing kings quest, space quest, qubert....
Some marble game, test drive...
The dos game I played most however, is by far "blockout 3d" a great tetris like game
Greetings from Switzerland
I didnt grow up playing dosbox games but my school did use dosbox for running programs till 2008
Ordered one of these today. Totally going to try Dune 2!
I can't wait. Mine is coming in later today.
Lucky!
Oh the memories of playing SimCity on our HP 286. Wish I would have never gave that PC away to a Thrift Store after wiping it for my parents.
Same man. All that old PC tech I could have kept and still had today. :.(
Funt fact: SCUMM was actually the name that Lucas Film Games (LucasArts) used for the game engine they developed. One of it's programmers was even called the "SCUMM Lord." 😅
Thanks! Duke Nukem, HOMM II, and WarCraft II in my pocket?! Yes, multi-player over dial-up (I just rememberd the AOL bill that next month). You're right -- nobody even mentions these in these retro reviews. Now I just have to decide small in my pocket like this one, medium Odyn 2 or large Steam Deck! At least we have choices!
Man. I just want DOSBOX on my Retroid Pocket 2+
Ain't nothin stoppin ya
@@TechDweeb I gotta look it up, on how to set it up. Good stuff. Good video.
I think there is a DOSBOX Pure core in retroarch
28.8 you where living large! I loved my 14.4!
BTW, for Warcraft 2 fans who are too lazy to do this whole process, there's a PS1 port that is better suited for a controller setup!
Oh right! I forgot all about that. There's also that Starcraft N64 port. I actually played a bunch of that one split screen back in the day, I loved it. (not that n64 games run on the mini of course, I'm just reminiscing).
I managed to run Broken Sword on this. this thing is great
i cant wait to try and play warcraft orcs vs humans and warcraft 2 on this thing, my fav games of all time. Did i miss where you found that? my miyoo is shipping to my house right now :D
PUTT PUTT GOES SO HARD. great video dude.
Might need to update the tutorial for ScummVM witht he current Onion OS on the Miyoo Mini Plus. I added Beneath a Steel Sky and nothing else, followed all instructions, fired it up and it asks to "import games" then gives me 4 options. I choose and option and it for some odd reason loads up over 30 titles that are not on my SD card. Ignoring that I try to fire up Beneath a Steel Sky and get "Error: Could not opensky.dnr!"
Kinda lost as to what to do.
Always wanted to install MDK on my phone.. I think MiYoo Mini could run it just fine!
Murder Death Kill! I used to love that game. I had completely forgotten about it until your comment!
Actually, you can play a amazing Diablo 1 port on this thing, it's freaking amazing.
I spent countless hours playing the original Diablo. I always used the female archer as my character. I hated when those skeletons and other creatures got too close. As an archer I could move away and shoot at them from a distance. HA!
WAIT A MINUTE!! somebody ported sonic mania onto dos.. does that mean that you can play sonic mania on the miyoo mini plus?? THATS AMAZING!!!
Street Rod. They need to finish making 3 or even better make an updated 4.
Great video one of my loved ones was Dune II, Death Rally and speed racer i just recently tried speed Racer and it works just great
Oh Dune 2 was amazing!
Heyyy Tech Dweeb! Great guide and video as always man. I can't wait to get my brand new Miyoo Mini running my childhood DOS favorites - Tyrian, Jazz Jackrabbit, Doom, Descent and Wacky Wheels. I was surprised to see anyone else knew about Terminal Velocity! DOS games are truly fantastic, and my daughter even loves Putt Putt.
I haven't been able to get Elder Scrolls Arena working (something about a MSCDEX driver) from GOG version, but other GOG games worked perfect. Any tips?
I also played Duke Nukem 3D but don't tell my Mom
I just tried it and it worked (using a version I found online). The performance was very slow once you got into the 3D portion of the game, but it did work perfectly up until then, and there might be some settings you can tweak in the performance section to get it running better.
@@TechDweeb Thanks! I'll try a different version then and see if it works, and fiddle with settings for performance. Never actually played Arena or Daggerfall, so figured why not?
I want some does games on my retroid pocket 🤤, even some Lucas arts games sound good. Under the handheld settings you have a virtual mouse which is freaking awesome.
Yo! Sup Dweeeeeb. Wait waitwaitwait... so you're telling me I can FINALLY play Red Alert on the go? Who knew that such a small thing could give you so much fun? (my ex gf certainly didn't)
She obviously didn't have Dosbox installed
@@TechDweeb You know it!
I've got so many handhelds and even with my big hands I find myself playing my MMv2 the most.
Same!
Hello there! Duke Nukem 3D was a magical subversive game when I was a kid and I loved it
love the subtitles, playing doob jajaja! Seriously the writer of the subtitles doesnt even know Doom cmon!👹
My favorite game growing up was Hocus Pocus on Dos
It’s not the same without the need to swap the floppy disk or use the crazy monkey island code wheel that they used before drm lol
When my dad told me we were getting a computer, I assumed he meant an arcade cabinet. Turns out it was an Atari ST and that’s when I learned how to load Monkey Island in DOS.
I love my Mini.
But, I think I might never even touch it again after getting my RG353VS. It's so fucking nice.
Highly suggest grabbing one to check out.
Why is the name so hard to remember
I love nonsense! I demand more of it!
Yes sir!
There's so many good dos games. I could name tens of them. But I'll just throw one quite little known. Crusader: No Remorse. If you want isometric shooter with killer ol' pumping techno track and guys walking in flames screaming and glass shattering it's for you. Oh and of course the good old cheesy fmv's 🙂
Old fart greets 🤝
Can we do the same with the RG35XX?? Have you tried Shadow Warriors and Death Rally?
Im going to get a box of cpt crunch cerial after watching this now :)
I'll reach out to them for an affiliate link
Thampnk you a lot for this life hack with that so switching to onion
great video! now if only i can get MechWarrior 2 to run.. the controls on that game are a lil bit more complicated ive heard but there really arent video on getting to work perfectly..
I wish they would make a port for unreal tournament, if they can port half life, they should be able to port unreal tournament
Hey TD! Just curious if you still keep any old hardware for DOS/Windows games? I don't go crazy myself, just a socket 7, slot 1, and socket 478 system that I pull out from time to time.
And thanks for the how to on the Mini!
Nope. I don't have any of my old PC stuff. Which really bums me out, I wish I kept everything. I definitely want to get my hands on an old machine to tinker with.
I added Fallout a while ago, but I haven’t finished optimizing the controls 😅
OMG, would love to have tie fighter in my pocket and playable anytime. hmmm, must do some research.
My mini should bere here in a week. I've been getting all the files prepped.
You've got some good fun ahead of ya!
Im really new to the whole retro scene, ive had my eye on the Miyoo Mini Plus a while and eventually pulled the plug the other day. Im assuming that considering this and the Mini are essentially one of the same, would all this still apply? Would love to play Quake and (I believe this was a DOS game) Outlaw, which was like the first western/cowboy game i ever played, man the nostalgia would hit so hard if i could. Im already excited to play Alex Kidd and Action Fighter on the Mastersystem. Great video TechDweeb!
Yep. And you know us has changed a little bit but the fundamentals are the same. Good luck!
@@TechDweeb Excellent! Thank you
Miyoo Mini Plus is more ergonomic, get it!! Pull that plug!
Those carrot cake Oreos are no joke
Definitely a buy IF IT HAS CAVE STORY
Fond memories of playing the Monkey Island Games, Links, and Facetris (or was it Faces?). Still trying to figure out how to get the controls working on Facetris on the Mini.
@TechDweeb which homm2, diablo and warcraft installs did you use? I have tried both gog and abandonware downloads but they do not seem to work on my rg280v (which kinda uses the same RetroArch and DosBox). Or am I mistaken and there are some pitfalls for that device? Did you manage to get them running there just like on your miyoo mini? Maybe another video with a more detailed guide for dos+rg280v? Thanks in advance.
P.S. This guide is awesome.
Now this looks awesome! Do you know if this will work on the Anberic RG35XX? I know Garlic OS is based on Onion OS. I don't have my unit in yet to try.
To some extent. I haven't had the same luck with DOS on GarlicOS, I had a few issues, but I haven't tried it since the latest updates so they might be fixed. In theory it should work basically the same though.
Another interesting video would be what pc ports hold up best for mobile gaming (or games from any platform for that matter). As much as I love quake and decent, they're not not really suited to the controller and form factor. Where as something like HOMAM is perfect for quick pick up and play sessions on the go.
People, please help me.
When I'm in this Dosbox pure start menu at 10:13, my cursor always moves by 2 files at a time, not one by one. So, in some cases I just manually can't select desired .exe file.
What should I do?
I'm having problems with getting Heroes of Might and Magic 2 to run at the correct speed. I need Dweeb support! ;P
I have this game, it's called ''Bug!'' Was released on Sega Saturn, but I played it on my Windows 95 computer. I want to install the PC rom from this game on my Miyoo Mini Plus, so far no success. Some tips? I don't really know if I am doing it right. I installed Keen 4 the other day, put it in the DOS folder.
PS Love the content Dweeb :)
I doubt you'll be able to get Bug! to run. Seems a little to graphically intensive for the Mini.
I just got a Miyoo Mini and I absolutely have to try these too. Have already added Pico-8, trying to add DS. The only thing is my Ports does not list all of that shown here, so I dunno yet what's up with that.
+1 for mentioning Hexen.
Great video
worms, simcity, fallout here we come!
I watched your earlier videos and I think your just doing this voice for a 'bit'. Your videos have nice visuals and entertaining enough. I dont think you need to play with your voice, or maybe tone it down a little?
I honestly appreciate your feedback
Are these things sold out everywhere? Can't find one store that has it in stock. Oh well, I guess I'll just stick to my rg280v for now
Yeah they're sold out for now. Although I believe the 280v has dosbox and scummvm as well, no need to wait!
Hey there not sure if this has been asked im getting one for Christmas i love retro games does it have Heretic on it? ocean explorers and Donkey Kong 64, Neverwood, Monkey Island, Commander Keen and Treehouse ? Thanks just wondering most of these are old DOS PC games!!! Thanks so much!!
I want that new abernic v405 I think I know its the v40x series it can play ps2 games its so powerful
wow, i finally got homm 1 and homm2 to run. thnx techdweeb! but can you also teach me how to map the mouse control to the dpad? i tried a few times. but i still cant move the cursor..
i finally have movement , figured it out. But performance is not great. you have any nerdy tips to make homm2 flawless?
How did you get the Heroes and WC2 running without lag? I have Miyoo A30 on Spruce and they lag for me ;c
Do you have them with the music on?
Thanks for believing!
This was super helpful thank you, as simple as I'd hoped it be, quick question I am confused as I have a folder that says BIOS (in between APP and EMU) but i've read to put BIOS files in the system part of retroarch, so there's two bios folders? Do i need to copy the files from retroarch to the other one?
Can we connect mouse for port games ?if yes how ? ..many thanks
Hey Dude. Thx for super video!! Keep up the good work :) By any chance do you have your SD card for miyoo mini uploded somewhere were I can download it please :))?
Interesting. I'll consider making my install nice and tidy and uploading it. It'll be over 100gb though... that'll take freaking DAYS to upload on my slow rural internet :.(
@@TechDweeb Man I'm allso huge DOS games fanboy, been growing up in the 90s with Wolfenstein, Duke, Doom, Blood, Shadow Warrior, X-COM, Doom, Quke, Fallout, Syndicate, C&C... and seeing that you can play this games on this small device blow my mind :) If you could upload it it would be super awesome, would really appreciate it. ;) Also i really like your DIY ARCADE machine looking forward to build it someday in the future.
on the way to 10k and and I just gota xbox on s for $70
Congrats, to both of us!
Also can u still do cheat codes in the DOS games or will they be different? I also wondering if they have any old harry potter and simpsons games?
When I created the text document and tried to change it to .scummvm, the file extension didn't change the document and it still showed as a text document. Any idea why that might be?