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Just bought an RG35XX, which would be best for me, garlicos or batocera? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by Xperr7@kbin.social to c/retrogaming@kbin.social

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I mostly want to play consoles that I know garlic will run, minus the DS. Only DS games I want to run are Pokemon, so the lack of inputs isn't an issue.

I wanna be able to just put it to sleep mid game, put it in my pocket, then pull it out and resume. I don't want to do any extra steps outside of tapping the power button. Would like it to be quick, which I've heard batocera isn'f the best at.

I want it to be stable, with low risk of the game crashing.

Battery life is whatever as long as I can get a few hours out it.

Also, any manage to get the HDMI to output 240p on this thing for a CRT?

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[–] probably@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Right to the point: don't use batocera because the one guy doing it stopped and said use his other thing koriki. Unfortunately for all cfw for the rg35xx none of the developers have released the code they are legally obligated to release, but what can you do...

I have the rg35xx and use garlic. The fake sleep mode works well. Instant off and then it takes maybe 10ish seconds to turn back on. It definitely is fast enough that I don't mind turning it off even when I know I'll be turning back on in only a few minutes.

I haven't had a game crash on me but the automatic save states have not loaded a couple times so make sure to make your own.

I haven't used koriki because garlic does most everything I want. If anyone releases their source I might test that because I want to do some link cable emulation stuff, but none of that exists currently.

[–] rubikcuber@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have a 35XX and use Garlic OS. I've not tried anything else, including the stock firmware.

GarlicOS is great and I reckon it does exactly what you want. Tap the power button and it saves the state (assuming the core supports it - most/all consoles do, but arcade cores don't). You need to hold the power button to turn it back on. It will go right back to where you were. There is also a "Recent" games menu that shows screenshots of recently played games at the point when you last close them. Pressing A will jump right back in, while pressing START will start the selected game up from a cold start.

[–] Xperr7@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So far it seems GarlicOS is what I want, outside of DS support. Have the dev(s) mentioned anything regarding unlocking the GPU like Batocera?

[–] rubikcuber@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A sorry - I totally blanked on your mention of DS. GarlicOS has overclocking if that's any use. Other than a handful of PS1 games, everything I've tried seems to run at full speed, and I don't think I've had any crashes or poor emulation. You might need to fiddle with Retroarch settings to get the best possible scaling. GBA needs non-integer scale unless you want a tiny image, but the interpolation is pretty good. I notice the odd frame pause now and again, which I attribute to the difference between the refresh rate of the core/console vs the screen. Battery life is good to - mine is a more recent version which I think has a bigger battery than the early ones. All in all I'm enjoying it so much I'm considering cancelling my Analogue Pocket preorder.

Edit: also, i've not tried HDMI out. I've heard that it's quite limited since (I think) it's 480p only.