Thank you so much for this tutorial! A lot of the other tutorials on here are very overwhelming to those new to this type of stuff so I really appreciated this straight forward method.
I spent 2 hours on this tutorial (it was a long time but because of cloning the sd card and transferring it to the new one), following each step, and it really worked for me from the first try. I was afraid that something would go wrong, but everything is excellent, thank you for making such a well explained video
I was so scared of doing something wrong, but this tutorial is so easy and straightforward it didn't take me long to finish on my RG35XX SP! Thank you so much!
Some background info why this is required: You need to write an .img file to an Anbernic because it contains not just the files, but also the entire system layout, including partition structure, bootloader, and operating system configuration. Simply copying files over to an SD card wouldn’t recreate this structure, which is essential for the device to function properly. Writing the .img ensures that the SD card is set up exactly as required by the handheld.
I bought a Anbernic RG ARC-S and I was concerned about the cheap SD card they used, so I simply copied it to my PC and to a Sandisk 128MB SD. Altrough I have minimum PC skills, it worked flawlessly, and now I have also a security backup on my harddrive for the worst case!
All I can say is thank you, thank you, thank you. This is a great tutorial. I thought just copying the files from a card would work. I didn’t realise it needed these extra steps, so thanks again.
I've just received an r36s, with a single 128 SD card in the TF2. I want to clone it to a Samsung, but nothing seems to be working. Any advice. I tried it on MACOS, but it's nightmare. Not worried about updating the OS. I just want to make sure I can use it without the stock SD dying on me. Any advise. Will this process (above) still work on Windows?
Thank you it worked! But I also had an issue of unallocated partition because the destination drive is larger than the source. Could you please clarify how to maintain the size of destination drive?!
I found out something pretty interesting. I have a 1TB micro SD card I wanted to clone. It still has about 500gb of free space. My PC HDD is 1 TB and still has about 600gb of free space so why the heck would disc image tell me I don’t have enough space? Turns out that if your micro SD card is 1TB the disc image software makes a complete image of the capacity of the card and not just what is saved into it. I wish this knew this from the beginning. I figured it out when I did a disc image of at 32GB micro SD with no issues. So I’m obligated to upgrade my PC HDD if I want to be able to clone 1TB SDs even if they are only using 50GB for example.
@ternocimadh5863 If your computers HDD is not a lot more than the storage you are trying to clone/copy as disc image add more storage capacity to your computer.
Ending up happening to me. I wasted my money. I got to the step where I downloaded the bios and went to 7 zip to extract it. It won’t extract it as an ISO file and I can’t figure how to fix it.
Same here. When i write to the SD Card the diskimager transform my Samsung SD card from a 256 GB card to a 50 GB SD card and there is no space anymore!
@mikolino2761 no, I'm still working on it. I was watching another video about tiny best set. Maybe that would be a better alternative. Just need to find ROMS.
My understanding from a different set of tutorials is that the primary slot is best used for the emulators and directions for the Ambernic while second slot is more ideal for extra games. Though I don't know what happens if you use both slots to the max. Nothing wrong with trying to add all the extras to slot 2 first.if you some how need more, then add to slot 1. Though you'll be stuffed to the brim at that point.
I bought the new version 2024 Rg35xx Plus and incorrectly formatted the included SD card because of a video on TH-cam and everything is deleted, now I can't even turn it on 😢can someone help?
is this just for Anbernic devices, or is this a general guide? I just got a Powkiddy x55 and it has 2 SD cards, one is a 16gb operating system and one is a 128GB games card. I understand I can't copy the OS card using this method but I'm not sure this will work with the type of card I have.
Hello. Just wanted to say thanks for making this video. I used it a few months ago and it worked great. Tried to do it again today and it didn’t. On the first step my drive letter is set to F but when I go to format it’s set to D and it doesn’t let me switch it. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance.
well, what to do if i have a 120 GB SD Card but want all the games to a 256 GB SD Card, when i take the image, then the Partition is only 126 GB and i cant make it larger.... :(
I got two sd cards with the rg35xx plus. One (in slot 1) 64 gb already in place and one external (128 gb) in the packet. Both have slightly different numbers of games. Can you please tell me which card to clone? I have cloned the external one. If I clone the in-built 64 gb card, that came already in the slot, and use the new card, will there be any problem?
Hello Amazing Tuturial, I have a question, where can I load the image from the first SD card of the ANBERNIC RG Cube XX, unfortunately my SD card broke
Will this method work with the Kinhank X2 Pro Super Console?? Kinhanks directions are very confusing, says need use disk genius on account of the 2 partitions on card, I'm basic PC guy, no idea about all this, I just want to put their tf card content onto a SanDisk card of same size & be able just pop new card into my X2 Super Console & play my games...Thanxs for anyone's help.
First, it is not recommended that you copy the provided SD card from an emulation device and blindly copy it to a new SD card. The ROM and BIOS files included with these emulation devices are questionable to say the least, riddled with bad rom dumps that cause problems with performance, gameplay, crashing, data corruption etc... Your best bet will be to obtain a copy of the latest system image\firmware from the manufacturer and follow their steps to create a stable foundation before you copy over your own curated list of known good BIOS and ROM files. The process will involve formatting the SD card, using third party programs to prepare all of the different partitions and write the system image\firmware to the new SD card, and then there may be further modifications needed like editing configuration files, copying data to very specific folders, and finally copying your ROMs and BIOS files to the appropriate directories. These devices are very complex and capable of doing a lot of things, while being manufactured by relatively small companies at rock bottom prices. No, the experience isn't as easy as a plug&play TV console, but there is no realistic way to provide an easy one click solution for everyone's needs. What you decide to do with your handheld will vary from everyone else out there who buys one. There is a LOT that can be configured and changed.
Hello, thanks for the tutorial, everything went perfectly. A QUESTION, if I add a card in the second slot, does it create the ROM directories automatically? and are they also loaded in retroarch?
Hello, i followed every steps but my R36S console does not boot up correctly... It is working with the card that is came with, but one i cloned it to my new SanDisk64GB SD card then it's just show the welcome screen and the boom pitch black. Any idea?
So, when I went to write the created file, (which when I copied it to my laptop, the file was “G”.) the drive that my new sd card was under, was “E”.. I tried re writing it to “G”, and said it couldn’t be found. But when I tried writing it to “E” it started writing everything.. so, is that a problem lol? Because I could’ve swore the original file was “G”… sorry if this is confusing. Just curious as to if I missed something n.. and what it was I missed 🤦🏻♂️
Hi. Can you make video on how to fix rom not detect on stock card. Its there when using retroarch and search manual through folder. And can you show what inside your sd card. I want to what im messing up. Really disappointed when i received my r36s but can play on the go.😔
When i hit read, i get a lock error. It says 'An error has occurred when attempting to lock the volume. Error 5: Access is denied. Do i have a clone R36S? I tried doing arkos install also and that failed
Please help I got sf2000 data frog. I didn't know about disk images writer. I managed to copy all files from there to a folder on my pc. Then the cheap sd card went kaput. Cant read it with a card reader. How do i read the folder on my d drive to write on my sandisk sd card?
How do you expand the partitions on the SD card? After I flashed it, I have limited room for Easy Roms and a lot of room used for nothing. How do you fix it?
I'm not very computer literate but I'm gonna try your method to make a copy into new (better)SD card before start using my new rg35xx. Hope it's gonna work, I'm really bad at this.
Does it work on my Powkiddy V90 with the custom Topo firmware tho , when i add game i see it got 2 separated file like the one with the emu and storage and the one is like booted tho .
Question: can I just drag and drop all the games included on the stock SD card to my new SD card before I throw away the crappy stock card included? Thanks!
Really simple instructions but every time I try using Win32 Disk imager to read the original SD card, The speed starts good until just 2% and then the time just increases instead of going down. It's going below 0.6 MB/s in speed. which is causing it to go up to 10+ hours. Any ideas why this could be and what I can do?
I used a higher capacity card (256gb) when copying the image from a (64gb). Now it says I don’t have that storage capacity? So when copying do you have to use the same size SD or you lose the extra storage capability?
I was too late..... After a week the sim card stopped working. Now I'm left with a SIM card that I can't read from. Is it possible to download ROM and BIOS that I can add on a new sim card?
hi, I have a myoo mini and I would like to clone the SD card onto another better SD card, should I first copy the SD card to the PC? and then clone it into the new SD from the PC? I have a Mac, can you help me?
Great video! Subscribed. I'm really interested in an image file of your exact micrSD card that you are using with your RG35XX in the video. Any help providing me with a cloud source file to download and flash for myself would be much appreciated 🙏 bc it looks awesome 👍
You made it very simple and easy thank you!
Other youtubers made the obvious very complicated for 20 mins or longer
Straight to the point. Very helpful. Might just add that if it asks you to format your original SD card first hit cancel! 😂
Thank you so much for this tutorial! A lot of the other tutorials on here are very overwhelming to those new to this type of stuff so I really appreciated this straight forward method.
I spent 2 hours on this tutorial (it was a long time but because of cloning the sd card and transferring it to the new one), following each step, and it really worked for me from the first try. I was afraid that something would go wrong, but everything is excellent, thank you for making such a well explained video
Been stressing for months on how to do this and this was super easy. Appreciate it very much. Now I have a good card in there with no worries. 🎉
I was so scared of doing something wrong, but this tutorial is so easy and straightforward it didn't take me long to finish on my RG35XX SP! Thank you so much!
Ayo
Some background info why this is required:
You need to write an .img file to an Anbernic because it contains not just the files, but also the entire system layout, including partition structure, bootloader, and operating system configuration. Simply copying files over to an SD card wouldn’t recreate this structure, which is essential for the device to function properly. Writing the .img ensures that the SD card is set up exactly as required by the handheld.
Just did it and worked flawless, thank you so much
Thank you! I dunno where I would be without TH-cam guides. This method works for the new RG35XX SP model! And the SP model is freakin cool
It worked perfect for the micro sd of R36S. Thank you!!!
Any updates ? Is she still running fine?
Have one on the way and cloning the SD is the first thing on my list
you're a legend, simple and easy to do, it worked great and navigating games and menu are way faster
Guys this works and is simple if you follow the steps even the links are safe thank you so much
i did follow the steps its taking 24 hrs
I bought a Anbernic RG ARC-S and I was concerned about the cheap SD card they used, so I simply copied it to my PC and to a Sandisk 128MB SD. Altrough I have minimum PC skills, it worked flawlessly, and now I have also a security backup on my harddrive for the worst case!
All I can say is thank you, thank you, thank you. This is a great tutorial. I thought just copying the files from a card would work. I didn’t realise it needed these extra steps, so thanks again.
I do need a work out. Thank you for pointing it out
wow!!!!! It really works. Thanks guy. This help me out a lot and your method is simple to follow.
Thanks man! your tutorial is so simple and effective
This was easy to follow. Thank you. Any chance you could include a larger SD card? Then show how to expand the games partition.
YES!!! Finally a quick, to the point video that worked for me! I'm so stoked it finally worked. This tutorial is awesome. TY my friend 🤙🏻
Thank you very much. I guess you can do the process again for the 128gb SD card aswell ?
i tried but no - its a cloned copy, so the rest of the new bigger sd card is not used
It worked! I was pulling my hair out looking for a solution! Thank you!
I'm going to give it a try. Thank You for this tutorial.
awesome thank you for making this, straight to the point much appreciate it.
Thank you so much! Straight to the point. Your vid was very useful for me!
Thank you so much! It worked flawlessly.
How different is this process for Mac?
Will this work exactly the same for the Anbernic RG35XX Plus?
I've just received an r36s, with a single 128 SD card in the TF2. I want to clone it to a Samsung, but nothing seems to be working. Any advice. I tried it on MACOS, but it's nightmare. Not worried about updating the OS. I just want to make sure I can use it without the stock SD dying on me. Any advise. Will this process (above) still work on Windows?
Thank you it worked! But I also had an issue of unallocated partition because the destination drive is larger than the source. Could you please clarify how to maintain the size of destination drive?!
I also want to know this.....😅
i dont know you already found it but i found it on Joey's Retro Handheld channel video called "How to: Clone your SD card for Retro Handhelds"
Bro i have a game console rg35s and it says failed to boot check kernal I don't understand a thing please help me out...😢
Thank you so much! I did it and now I can safely use my RG405V.
Did you do it in a 128 GB memory?
@@yencr6011 256GB
I found out something pretty interesting. I have a 1TB micro SD card I wanted to clone. It still has about 500gb of free space. My PC HDD is 1 TB and still has about 600gb of free space so why the heck would disc image tell me I don’t have enough space? Turns out that if your micro SD card is 1TB the disc image software makes a complete image of the capacity of the card and not just what is saved into it. I wish this knew this from the beginning. I figured it out when I did a disc image of at 32GB micro SD with no issues. So I’m obligated to upgrade my PC HDD if I want to be able to clone 1TB SDs even if they are only using 50GB for example.
@ternocimadh5863 If your computers HDD is not a lot more than the storage you are trying to clone/copy as disc image add more storage capacity to your computer.
Ending up happening to me. I wasted my money. I got to the step where I downloaded the bios and went to 7 zip to extract it. It won’t extract it as an ISO file and I can’t figure how to fix it.
I followed your steps. I used a 128 gb sd card. It's like following this step turned my 128 gb into a 60gb sd card.
Same here. When i write to the SD Card the diskimager transform my Samsung SD card from a 256 GB card to a 50 GB SD card and there is no space anymore!
Do you found any solution? The clone is working fine but I dont know how to use and find the 190 GB missing storage space.
@mikolino2761 no, I'm still working on it. I was watching another video about tiny best set. Maybe that would be a better alternative. Just need to find ROMS.
@@dgcheeks Try it wit the MiniTool Partition Wizard Free. With this tool you can add the free space to the partition if its not exFat. :-)
@@mikolino2761try the MiniTool partition wizard?
Awesome video. Very helpful...many thanks!!
Worked perfect. Thankyou 🎉
I bought 2 128gb SD cards. 1 for each slot. I can only use up to 64gb in slot 1 for the OS?
I need tis answer too
My understanding from a different set of tutorials is that the primary slot is best used for the emulators and directions for the Ambernic while second slot is more ideal for extra games. Though I don't know what happens if you use both slots to the max. Nothing wrong with trying to add all the extras to slot 2 first.if you some how need more, then add to slot 1. Though you'll be stuffed to the brim at that point.
I bought the new version 2024 Rg35xx Plus and incorrectly formatted the included SD card because of a video on TH-cam and everything is deleted, now I can't even turn it on 😢can someone help?
is this just for Anbernic devices, or is this a general guide?
I just got a Powkiddy x55 and it has 2 SD cards, one is a 16gb operating system and one is a 128GB games card. I understand I can't copy the OS card using this method but I'm not sure this will work with the type of card I have.
Do we need to format the micro sd to fat32? Or the windisk32 will automatically change the sd card to fat32?
Hello. Just wanted to say thanks for making this video. I used it a few months ago and it worked great. Tried to do it again today and it didn’t. On the first step my drive letter is set to F but when I go to format it’s set to D and it doesn’t let me switch it. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance.
well, what to do if i have a 120 GB SD Card but want all the games to a 256 GB SD Card, when i take the image, then the Partition is only 126 GB and i cant make it larger.... :(
That's my problem too. Anyone knows how to fix this issue?
I got two sd cards with the rg35xx plus. One (in slot 1) 64 gb already in place and one external (128 gb) in the packet. Both have slightly different numbers of games.
Can you please tell me which card to clone? I have cloned the external one. If I clone the in-built 64 gb card, that came already in the slot, and use the new card, will there be any problem?
That was a big help. Thanks!
If I follow this to upgrade to Samsung card the is larger 256gb will I still get the size of the new card or will it only be the same as original 64gb
Will it work if the generic card has 2 partitions ??
Does it matter what side I put the sd card into my r35s?
Hello Amazing Tuturial, I have a question, where can I load the image from the first SD card of the ANBERNIC RG Cube XX, unfortunately my SD card broke
Can this method work with r36s os ???
Does anyone have a backup of this console, my Micro SD is damaged. help
Hi, I have two devices, the easyroms (G) and the r36s-os (F), do I have to copy them both to the same path?
Will this method work with the Kinhank X2 Pro Super Console?? Kinhanks directions are very confusing, says need use disk genius on account of the 2 partitions on card, I'm basic PC guy, no idea about all this, I just want to put their tf card content onto a SanDisk card of same size & be able just pop new card into my X2 Super Console & play my games...Thanxs for anyone's help.
First, it is not recommended that you copy the provided SD card from an emulation device and blindly copy it to a new SD card. The ROM and BIOS files included with these emulation devices are questionable to say the least, riddled with bad rom dumps that cause problems with performance, gameplay, crashing, data corruption etc... Your best bet will be to obtain a copy of the latest system image\firmware from the manufacturer and follow their steps to create a stable foundation before you copy over your own curated list of known good BIOS and ROM files. The process will involve formatting the SD card, using third party programs to prepare all of the different partitions and write the system image\firmware to the new SD card, and then there may be further modifications needed like editing configuration files, copying data to very specific folders, and finally copying your ROMs and BIOS files to the appropriate directories. These devices are very complex and capable of doing a lot of things, while being manufactured by relatively small companies at rock bottom prices. No, the experience isn't as easy as a plug&play TV console, but there is no realistic way to provide an easy one click solution for everyone's needs. What you decide to do with your handheld will vary from everyone else out there who buys one. There is a LOT that can be configured and changed.
I did everything and after I was done the .img wouldn’t fit on the 64g sd card
Hello, thanks for the tutorial, everything went perfectly.
A QUESTION, if I add a card in the second slot, does it create the ROM directories automatically? and are they also loaded in retroarch?
Ez a módszer az összes partíciót is átmásolja az image file ba? szoval így lehet klónozni?
Can you save the disk image directly to an external HD?
Yes.
Hello, i followed every steps but my R36S console does not boot up correctly...
It is working with the card that is came with, but one i cloned it to my new SanDisk64GB SD card then it's just show the welcome screen and the boom pitch black. Any idea?
Thank you so much it worked for me ❤🎉
What format do you need for sd card is it fat 32
Yup that’s the one
Can we do this with both SD cards; the one for the OS and the one for the ROMS?
So, when I went to write the created file, (which when I copied it to my laptop, the file was “G”.) the drive that my new sd card was under, was “E”.. I tried re writing it to “G”, and said it couldn’t be found. But when I tried writing it to “E” it started writing everything.. so, is that a problem lol? Because I could’ve swore the original file was “G”… sorry if this is confusing. Just curious as to if I missed something n.. and what it was I missed 🤦🏻♂️
Hi. Can you make video on how to fix rom not detect on stock card. Its there when using retroarch and search manual through folder. And can you show what inside your sd card. I want to what im messing up. Really disappointed when i received my r36s but can play on the go.😔
Thank you! Muito obrigado! 🇧🇷
my current SD card from my R36s has the BOOT and the ROMs on one card, how should I transfer everything to my new SD card?
Does this work? If I bought a Anbicer SD card can I just use a name brand to copy everything over and it'll work just fine?
Unfortunately win3 is jot working for me. Gives me a volume error
When i hit read, i get a lock error. It says 'An error has occurred when attempting to lock the volume.
Error 5: Access is denied.
Do i have a clone R36S? I tried doing arkos install also and that failed
try to run it as administrator...
Unfortunately this didnt work for me, games list are there, but bo images and then the games dont load
Please help
I got sf2000 data frog. I didn't know about disk images writer.
I managed to copy all files from there to a folder on my pc. Then the cheap sd card went kaput.
Cant read it with a card reader.
How do i read the folder on my d drive to write on my sandisk sd card?
How do you expand the partitions on the SD card? After I flashed it, I have limited room for Easy Roms and a lot of room used for nothing. How do you fix it?
very helpful,thankyou...
shared your link on another vid thats like 20+ min long to do the same thing.
I'm not very computer literate but I'm gonna try your method to make a copy into new (better)SD card before start using my new rg35xx.
Hope it's gonna work, I'm really bad at this.
I want to do it to my RGXX Plus it stays in the boot logo do you know how to fix that?
i think you need to install a fresh copy on it...
Does it work on my Powkiddy V90 with the custom Topo firmware tho , when i add game i see it got 2 separated file like the one with the emu and storage and the one is like booted tho .
What if there's 2 things that pop up with SD card g games and I g for sitam
Does anyone know if this will work on the Rg405V?Mine just came yesterday,and I have a new Lexar 256gb from Best Buy..
what if I need to use a larger sd card, this method does not work with that case
I have an R40s Pro. Will it work with this?
Can I copy to pendrive also instead of any new sd card?
Question: can I just drag and drop all the games included on the stock SD card to my new SD card before I throw away the crappy stock card included? Thanks!
did you try? was wondering the same
It works!!! Thank you!
Also why did we not have to format the new SD card to FAT 32?
I second this
Will this work for the R36S?
When I need use bigger card like 128 GB when source card have 64 GB HOW im next step change size for more space to more games??
i got one but it stays on the logo
Really simple instructions but every time I try using Win32 Disk imager to read the original SD card, The speed starts good until just 2% and then the time just increases instead of going down. It's going below 0.6 MB/s in speed. which is causing it to go up to 10+ hours. Any ideas why this could be and what I can do?
I used a higher capacity card (256gb) when copying the image from a (64gb). Now it says I don’t have that storage capacity? So when copying do you have to use the same size SD or you lose the extra storage capability?
What is the entire storage capacity on your computer?
Yes
Or you can repartition the SD drive
Mine says it takes over 25 hours to complete, anybody knows how to fix it?
I was too late..... After a week the sim card stopped working. Now I'm left with a SIM card that I can't read from. Is it possible to download ROM and BIOS that I can add on a new sim card?
Does this work with an SD card that has a partition in it? Like the OS SD cards?
bro thanks, working at 100% thx
When formatting new sd card what do I set it to for miyoo mini ? Sorry I’m new at this and need some help community
How do you do it on a mac?
Like to know what shader that is at the end of the video - looks nice.
Can I clone it onto any other sd card?
My clone card is not working 😢
hi, I have a myoo mini and I would like to clone the SD card onto another better SD card, should I first copy the SD card to the PC? and then clone it into the new SD from the PC? I have a Mac, can you help me?
sorry...i dont have a mac to test it...
If I’m formatting a 128 micro sd from a 64 micro sd is that possible? Or do I need to get a 64 for a 64?
Great video! Subscribed. I'm really interested in an image file of your exact micrSD card that you are using with your RG35XX in the video. Any help providing me with a cloud source file to download and flash for myself would be much appreciated 🙏 bc it looks awesome 👍
its just the generic sd card image from anbernic..