Anbernic RG35XX: GarlicOS Try #2
Jul. 15th, 2023 03:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckroThe dev updated GarlicOS so I decided to give it another try. I think I’m more comfortable with the hotkeys, especially since this build make it more obvious that holding the menu button brings up the hotkey menu, and you can just keep holding it and press another key. I still think that making single-tapping menu exit the game is dumb; but the screenshot/save state Recents menu is fine when that isn’t what the menu key jumps to. Also, fast forward works for everything even if save states are mildly more confusing/less convenient.
On existing systems I had tested in the stock OS and the previous build of GarlicOS:
• NES cheats now work in the exposed RetroArch menu.
• Genesis/Mega Drive cheats also work correctly.
• SNES cheats still give you the black screen you need to manually reset from. However, unlike the stock OS, SNES saves SRAM properly.
• GBA cheats seem to freeze the game.
• PS1 cheats work, but (similar to the other cheats) need to be loaded as cht files from the Libreto database rather than the txt files that ePSX uses. I also realized this time that the PS1 files are only read if they’re in the main folder, rather than in subfolders like the stock OS reads. (And if you have multiple files in the rip, it shows the titles of both.)
And various new system Retroarch cores:
• Atari 2600 works properly, and with a better menu setup than the emulator on the Q90.
• Atari Lynx works fine.
• Atari Jaguar runs badly, with jerky music, imperfect inputs and severe slowdown.
• Pokemini works fine.
• PC Engine (aka TurboGrafix-16) works fine.
• Game Gear runs correctly, but activating a cheat code boots you to the menu.
• Game & Watch works, though it runs oddly and inputs are weirdly mapped. And you need to hotkey to the Retroarch menu to quit out of it.
• Virtual Boy works, but runs slowly. (30 FPS, it claims?) Fast Forward almost makes it run properly. Overclocking the RG35XX doesn’t seem to change anything. I don’t think I have access to the settings that can fix this—I think it has to come in an update.
• MSX won’t load any games; I’m not sure if that’s the emulator or my roms.
• Pico-8 works, and that’s very exciting to me. (Though it doesn’t run all the games I have—the “picozelda” game won’t boot.)
Overall: Okay, I’ll concede that there are definite advantages here, once I get over the hotkey thing, because it adds (working) cheats to NES, Genesis and PS1; fixes the SNES save issue; and adds a bunch of cores so I can play more systems. I’m going to keep half an eye on the next update because this is getting better.
On existing systems I had tested in the stock OS and the previous build of GarlicOS:
• NES cheats now work in the exposed RetroArch menu.
• Genesis/Mega Drive cheats also work correctly.
• SNES cheats still give you the black screen you need to manually reset from. However, unlike the stock OS, SNES saves SRAM properly.
• GBA cheats seem to freeze the game.
• PS1 cheats work, but (similar to the other cheats) need to be loaded as cht files from the Libreto database rather than the txt files that ePSX uses. I also realized this time that the PS1 files are only read if they’re in the main folder, rather than in subfolders like the stock OS reads. (And if you have multiple files in the rip, it shows the titles of both.)
And various new system Retroarch cores:
• Atari 2600 works properly, and with a better menu setup than the emulator on the Q90.
• Atari Lynx works fine.
• Atari Jaguar runs badly, with jerky music, imperfect inputs and severe slowdown.
• Pokemini works fine.
• PC Engine (aka TurboGrafix-16) works fine.
• Game Gear runs correctly, but activating a cheat code boots you to the menu.
• Game & Watch works, though it runs oddly and inputs are weirdly mapped. And you need to hotkey to the Retroarch menu to quit out of it.
• Virtual Boy works, but runs slowly. (30 FPS, it claims?) Fast Forward almost makes it run properly. Overclocking the RG35XX doesn’t seem to change anything. I don’t think I have access to the settings that can fix this—I think it has to come in an update.
• MSX won’t load any games; I’m not sure if that’s the emulator or my roms.
• Pico-8 works, and that’s very exciting to me. (Though it doesn’t run all the games I have—the “picozelda” game won’t boot.)
Overall: Okay, I’ll concede that there are definite advantages here, once I get over the hotkey thing, because it adds (working) cheats to NES, Genesis and PS1; fixes the SNES save issue; and adds a bunch of cores so I can play more systems. I’m going to keep half an eye on the next update because this is getting better.
