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##Uppercase function
While inputing the Screenscraper account ID and password I noticed that I cannot input uppercase letters, if I press Y something happens to the keyboard but don't go into uppercase mode.
I tried all the button but I am unable to write in uppercase.

##Start does nothing
Usually it's supposet to work as the OK button.

I updated via WiFi to the latest version and now I can't load the Neo Geo roms using Retroarch, I only get a black screen and it doesn't seem to do anything else. They were working fine before the update.

I tried other roms (CPS1, CPS2...) using the same core (FinalBurn Neo v0.2.97.44 e8106ea65) and they are working as expected, no issues there, only with Neo Geo roms.

Hi, thanks a lot for the amazing work you are doing. I am trying to connect the RG351p to an external screen using a USB-C to HDMI adapter, I was wondering whether this could be supported at some point in the future. Thanks!

Retroarch has several options to separate the games by core into folders, all of which are usually located in the same folder with the name saves.

Here I see that these saves are all in the same folder of the rom, mixing everything and I think it would be better to separate these things.

That is, you would have to create a saves folder and within, by default, activate the storage of them separated by cores, everything would be more organized.

Thank you.

I have changed the fast forward to 8x and 10 and tried each gba port. They seem to top out at 2x fast forward. Any way to be able to increase the speed further?

The download links at the bottom of the wiki don't work. (pretty sure they did previously)

I've installed kodi through terminal, everything seems to installed OK but when I try to run it, it says it could not created GUI
Not sure if it's a bug or a feature request but I'd love to get kodi running. Not for movies but for music and radio. I'm on latest 1.4. I'm not even sure its possible

Describe the Issue (If applicable)

When you go to Main Menu -> Advanced Settings -> Language -> KO , the interface missing Korean font and
can't read them.

What device are you using?

RG351P

What version of ArkOS are you on?

ArkOS 1.4

Anything else you'd like to include that may help to review this issue or feature request?

ArkOS comes with Korean Theme called Dosirak but even this one doesn't show korean. I'd like to know where I could replace
the font to the one I have.

OpenBor is the only emulator missing for the rgp-351 , it's missing in all the distros because neither the dpad nor the analogs work.
The joysource must need some patching to work i guess i've looked in to it but can't figure it out yet

Changing doesn't affect anything.

Is there a possibility of creating a hotkey or button pressed to control brightness levels? Would be nice to adjust on the fly.

Thank you for your hard work. 😊

Is it possible to get ports of either of these games to work on ArkOS/RG351?

I've made sure that I have all the correct files in the doom 2 folder in the ports folder, and yet doom 2 is not listed at all in the ports section of the ArcOS menu. I also have a correct Doom 2 sh file in the ports folder.

Doom 1 and quake are both working perfectly.

I'm running the latest version of ArkOS without any other noticeable problems on a Samsung Evo Select 256gb sd card.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Hi, I only just realized - when setting up a new TF - card that the exFAT partition is no longer listed in or accessible via the Explorer in Windows 10. When I set up my initial card a week ago, that was possible. Not being able to read or write that partition is quite annoying. Is it possible to adapt the formatting/partitioning process so that it is again accessible via WIndows 10?

I updated to the ArkOS and have a few different played gbc games and have come across the games crashing ( screen turns white and stays for a while until I hard reset the device.
This has happened to Pokémon Crystal And Gold so far.
In these games I have set up hot keys, I have used fast forward a couple times. I never used the power button and always turned off the device from the menu.
Hope this helps
Thanks so much for your effort, I'm fairly new to these things and I have enjoyed my device so much bc of this update.

So my USB wifi dongle that perfectly works with the stock 3.7 emuelec firmware as well as 351elec, doesn’t work with ArkOS. The activity LED doesn’t even light up. Tried everything: Restarting, Reflashing, different USB OTG adapters... nothing works. I changed back to the stock firmware and voila, the dongle works there. Please fix.

My dongle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PB1X4CN/

Before submitting your issue or feature request

1. This is not Anbernic Stock Emuelec or 351Elec. ArkOS is a different distribution from those systems and will have differing features. The only somewhat similarity is that they both use EmulationStation as a frontend. Even with that, the versions of EmulationStation that's used in between ArkOS and Anbernic Emuelec/351Elec is different with different capabilities. If there are features you prefer with Anbernic Emuelec/351Elec, just use those distributions instead. The choice is yours.

2. Have you reviewed the Frequently Asked Questions available at https://github.com/christianhaitian/arkos/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions---RG351P ?

3. If your issue is related to being able to run certain emulators or ports, have you reviewed the Emulators and Ports section available at https://github.com/christianhaitian/arkos/wiki/ArkOS-Emulators-and-Ports-information for needed bios files and supported rom extensions?

Describe the Issue (If applicable)

A clear and concise description of what the bug is.

Updated from 1.3 to 1.4 (update via menu), before that scummvm was in the menu (emulationstation), but not after.

How can the issue be reproduced? (If applicable)

Unsure if/how to reproduce. I would assume that update via menu vs re-imaging might.

What device are you using?

RG351P

What version of ArkOS are you on?

• You can find this during the initial boot process right before the Emulationstation loading screen

Ver 1.4 (12012020) (original ver 1.2 (11212020) with wifi updates since)

Anything else you'd like to include that may help to review this issue or feature request?

Tried adding "menu.svm" (blank file) to all scummvm folders I could find on the system...no effect

Please add tic-80 emulator

Retroarch supports Commodore Amiga via the PUAE core, it would be nice to be able to use this.

I am new to emulators, so please forgive me if this is an easy fix, but I have a problem with loading some of the ROMs I downloaded.

I have set up ArkOS on my 351P, and the OS itself is operating just fine. I put the ROMs that I downloaded onto the system. However, I can't play many of the games that I downloaded (as opposed to the ones that came with the system originally). Whenever I want to launch a game it either crashes back to the launch screen or it says "Configuration Override Loaded" and "Content Directory Remap Loaded."

I have all the correct bios files, as I simply copied and pasted them from the SD card that originally came with the device. I think it must be the ROM formats, but I have no idea what the is problem. For most of the ROMs that I downloaded and placed onto the system there is a "._" in front of the name of the game. For example, "Atari Anniversary Advance" is "._Atari Anniversary Advance" on my screen. This does not happen to the games that I transferred from the SD card that came originally with the device. In addition, the games that do not work on my 351P do work on OpenEMU on my laptop.

Any help would be very helpful.

Some further detail that might be relevant. In order to get the ROMs that I put on my device, I simply googled ROM packs for the systems that I was interested in. This might be the cause of my problems, but I have no idea how to fix that. All of the ROM formats are the formats that should be compatible with ArkOS.

Edit: As I have been going through the games library it seems that a significant portion of the games that I have loaded onto my device are simply not compatible, which is why I cannot play many of them. However, I have no idea how to delete the bad files while keeping the good ones. I guess I could go through manually matching up the the names of the files that won't play but I have hundreds of those files, but that would not be feasible. If there is no way to do it in a reasonable fashion, could someone give me some advice on finding compatible ROM packs to load my device.

Hi. I don't know if this is the right section to post this. but I can think of a new functionality that I don't think is very difficult to implement. It is to have in the menu an option to configure a Google Drive account that allows synchronizing the retroarch configuration folders and the saved games of the emulators. This would be necessary in case this information is lost when resetting the console or it breaks. Also if there is a problem in any update and the data is lost. Surely the experts can think of more profits. Greetings and very good job.

I have version 351 without wifi but when I update arkos to version 1.2 I notice a sound even if it is set to the minimum. Before updating I did not notice that noise, is it possible that updating the kernel affects 3.51 versions that came without wifi? thanks for your excellent work

At the moment, the Sega Master System platform does not work by default for Scrapper, because it identifies it as "sms" instead of "mastersystem".

At the moment it is the one I found, that I repaired it manually, but it would be fine for new users.

If I see other things I will add them.

Thank you.

Hello, my PS1 emulation was fine on my RG351P but then when updating to 1.4, there is now graphical stuttering and audio crackling in the games. I have the needed bios folders and all that.

Also, since before I updated, N64 emulation has been running at 5-15 FPS and changing the settings does not improve this. Can these two things be worked on in the future? Thank you so much for the awesome work you’ve done so far!

Hi, I'm finding that a lot of people love the idea of the background music feature but are put off by having to figure out how to configure SSH for this one thing. Is it possible to make the default BGM folder something like EASYROMS/bios/music so users can just drag/drop using the ExFAT partition?

I have a few issues with some roms on some emulators, where I just get black screen and I get kicked back to the main menu of ArkOS. Where are the logs so I can figure out why? One is Tony Hawks pro Skater 2 on PSX, already tried 3 different roms, always same issue :/

Also N64 issues, some games have artefacts/broken graphics. Tried all cores already on that

Not sure if it’s supposed to, or not.
When the update gets to removing the Switch Theme, it stops. Have to reset to go back.
The device shows its updated to 1.2, but I’m not sure how to verify.

Also, do you have a change long for 1.2?

Keep up the great work.

On the keyboard there is no & sign, making it impossible to enter passwords that contain one

Review possibility of adding support for Solarus. https://gitlab.com/solarus-games/solarus/blob/dev/compilation.md#configuring

If it is possible, it would be nice if the Power LED would flash in sleep mode. Or best of all, if the LED slowly darkens and then slowly brightens again. Just like many power LEDs of laptops in sleep mode do. So you can see immediately that the device is in standby and not crashed or something like that.

Hi,

I'm planning on buying a RG351P soon and after watching a few videos about tuning the frontend interface i was asking myself about the tuning of the SoC power properties, like adjusting governors on x86.

I looked in the wiki and it (power/autonomy tuning) doesn't seem to be mentionned in the 3 pages.

Would there be a way to put the CPU in a very low power state if possible, according to the cores that are running ?

For example, when a gameboy or NES core is running the CPU gets the "conservative" governor applied automatically and this way the console gets the best possible autonomy while running the less demanding cores.

In a performance oriented set of mind would it be thinkable to program a kind of CPU pinning for cores/emulators (maybe add a parameter on the core command line) that wouldn't benefit from seeing all the cores of the CPU ?

Ideally parking the "inactive" cores for a greater autonomy could bring the very last drop of autonomy out of the system.

Also the discord link seems to be invalid.

Hi Christian

Thanks for it!

I dont see any plattforms like Commodore Amiga, Atari St or Spectrum. I have entered in retroarch and it is installed. I added roms but it is dont appear. Are these systems compatible with Arkos?

Other question, Caprice, amstrad emulator, show reduced screen in games, can i change it? I like other Amstrad emulator called Fuse but I dont how install it.

Thanks in advance.

Describe the Issue (If applicable)

Emulationstation not show zipped files for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

How can the issue be reproduced? (If applicable)

1. Copy .zip or .7z formatted ZX Spectrum games to ROMs folder.
2. Try to find it in the list of ZX Spectrum games.

What device are you using?

rg351p

What version of ArkOS are you on?

ArkOS 1.3 (11252020)

Anything else you'd like to include that may help to review this issue or feature request?

Simply add ".zip .ZIP .7z .7Z" in "extension" section in /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

<system>
        <name>zxspectrum</name>
        <fullname>ZX Spectrum</fullname>
        <path>/roms/zxspectrum/</path>
        <extension>.sna .SNA .szx .SZX .z80 .Z80 .tap .TAP .tzx .TZX .gz .GZ .udi .UDI .mgt .MGT .img .IMG .trd .TRD .scl .SCL .dsk .DSK .zip .ZIP .7z .7Z</extension>
        <command>sudo perfmax; /usr/local/bin/retroarch -L /home/ark/.config/retroarch/cores/fuse_libretro.so %ROM%; sudo perfnorm</command>
        <platform>zxspectrum</platform>
        <theme>zxspectrum</theme>
</system>

When playing arcade games in TATE (vertical) mode, I need to go in and adjust the Port 1 direction controls so that up is right, and so on. Once direction the controls are adjusted, I typically will save a game remap file (within the Controls menu), and then when loading a different game that requires vertical controls, I can just load that other remap file, and then immediately save it for the game I'm playing too. It creates a new .rmp file for my game without having to actually readjust all of the controls by hand. This method works well on stock and 351ELEC OSs, as well as with the MAME 2003-Plus core in 64-bit RetroArch on ArkOS.

But when using the FBNeo core in 64-bit RetroArch in ArkOS, when I try to load an .rmp file from the Controls menu (Quick Menu > Controls > Load Remap File), RetroArch crashes. I tried looking online to see if this is a known issue with RA, but didn't see anything.

You can recreate this issue by saving a game remap file for one game, then trying to load that game remap file for another game. Thanks for doing what you do!

Hi, recommend adding the folder path for MAME audio samples in your Wiki, which is bios/mame2003-plus/samples for the MAME 2003-Plus romset. Just confirmed that adding the audio samples there works fine.

I assume the same will work for bios/mame2003/samples and bios/mame2010/samples folders as well, but haven't personally tested. Thanks!

I suggest to move all the Options present in the Option "System" into the Options located in the start menu in order to have an unified settings menu.

Issue description

7zipped Dreamcast roms will not boot.

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Copy .7z formatted Dreamcast rom to ROMs folder, ensure you have the needed bios installed.
2. Try to launch it from the list of Dreamcast games.

What's the expected result?

Game should load.

What's the actual result?

Screen attempts to load title and then returns to the previous menu.

Other notes

The same roms will boot if I unzip them (there are cue and bin files in each 7z). The entry on the ArkOS wiki says Dreamcast supports .7z files, so I'd really like to take advantage of the space-saving instead of expanding my entire romset to occupy more space.

I also tried manually opening Retroarch or Retroarch32 and trying to manually launch with each available Dreamcast core, but none of them would load the roms. (I tried with several different roms to be certain).

Hi,
wiki lacks default login information.
Thanks

I just changed my timezone and now ES is hanging during boot at "Arcade - MEME2010" with the loading not happening.
Seems frozen. Problem is I cant escape it because buttons dont work. :/ Very frustrating

Worst is ssh is disabled by default, cant even connect via wifi now. Baaaad I dont want to reflash everyting

edit: hm weird, I resetted the device and then it booted fine again. Maybe test yourself.

the games show in the menu but when i start one it just shows the nintendo screen then goes back to the game select screen

The OFW had a script to scrape the games, was not perfect (not at all) but at least could populate the list and add the games.
Is it possible to implement it or something better?

Hi, the timezone appears to default to UTC. I was able to set the time zone by accessing terminal and using a timedatectl command (https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-set-or-change-timezone-on-ubuntu-18-04/).

Is it possible to add a timezone selector option in the UI settings menu, that can run that timezone command? Having a correct timezone is important for Pokemon and Animal Crossing games. Thanks!

There is a problem in drastic where some times the emulator slowdown not related with the game. It could be in the title screen or in the pause without any hard 3D graphics to emulate. It usually happen when you move the right stick (pen) the speed go down to 50% and if you change from single screen to dual screen (and then back) it fix immediately. I tested it with New Super Mario and Castlevania. This doesn't seem to happen in other OS like 351Emuelec.

I'm in the las ArkOS 1.4 (12/02) with the CPU at max (1.5Ghz)

I noticed that when trying to run a Turbografx game (using the 1.9.0 Beetle PCE Fast Core which is the default) the ability to turn Turbo on and off seems to not work) I go into the core options and turn on the Turbo On/Off toggle, and when I press the buttons to toggle, it says on screen that I've turned turbo function on, but it does not actually work. With other 351 OS's I tried before ArkOS, this function worked fine. Also when trying to save the configuration, I get a message saying that saving the configuration file has failed. Not sure if this is only an issue for this particular core or not.

Not really a bug, more like a transparency request.

Could we have the GitHub's release tab populated instead of using a download link in the Wiki tab?

I mainly ask for this because if we see new updates, we can easily check whether is a major update or a minor update, and then go into the details in the changelog to see what is really changing.

Thanks

Before submitting your issue or feature request

1. This is not Anbernic Stock Emuelec or 351Elec. ArkOS is a different distribution from those systems and will have differing features. The only somewhat similarity is that they both use EmulationStation as a frontend. Even with that, the versions of EmulationStation that's used in between ArkOS and Anbernic Emuelec/351Elec is different with different capabilities. If there are features you prefer with Anbernic Emuelec/351Elec, just use those distributions instead. The choice is yours.

2. Have you reviewed the Frequently Asked Questions available at https://github.com/christianhaitian/arkos/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions---RG351P ?

3. If your issue is related to being able to run certain emulators or ports, have you reviewed the Emulators and Ports section available at https://github.com/christianhaitian/arkos/wiki/ArkOS-Emulators-and-Ports-information for needed bios files and supported rom extensions?

Describe the Issue (If applicable)

Installation hang with v1.3

How can the issue be reproduced? (If applicable)

1. Download the image from MEGA.
2. Uncompress the image with 7zip
3. Burn the img to 128GB TF with the USB Image Tool by Alexander Beug
4. Insert into rg351p and boot
5. Hang with the display of "The partition table has been altered." as attached.
   

What device are you using?

rg351p

What version of ArkOS are you on?

• You can find this during the initial boot process right before the Emulationstation loading screen
  v1.3

Anything else you'd like to include that may help to review this issue or feature request?

I have only one issue with ArkOS. It does not have the option to switch off WiFi. My WiFi is always on despite not connected to a network on my RG351P.

A future update of ArkOS with an option to switch on/off WiFi would be highly appreciated.

I'm referring to other images like 351ELEC or EmuLEC behaviors since I'm new in retro stuff. In ArkOS, I noticed when I plug the USB C to USB 2.0 adapter in the left OTG port then plug my external gamepad USB 2.0 (wireless/wired) , there's no detection.

Setup:

1. RG351P
2. ArkOS v1. 1.7

Steps to reproduced:

1. Use ArkOS_RG351P_v1. 1. 7. img
2. When everything is done and can already proceed at the frontend application like choosing games. Plug the external gamepad in the OTG.
3. Nothing happen and cannot detect the external gamepad.

Expection:

1. When external gamepad is attach, there will be a pop up to configure the controller of exterbal gamepad.

Does it have drivers to run external gamepads?
See screenshots for information in screen for gamepad details under 351ELEC.

There is no fbneo folder. Adding the folder doesn’t add the games.

Putting my MAME-2003 games in the MAME folder results in them not running. It won’t let me change the default core (no core even appears in the setting). Putting them in the MAME-2003 folder works, but there’s no artwork for it in the menu, so it’s just some barely visible black text.

The brightness setting automatically jumps down a notch or two when you implement it. So if you put it at 1% it drops to zero and the screen turns off.

I can’t find any manual way to update the game list. (does it update when restarting only?)

If possible, I would love to see a port of the Raspberry Pi version Steam Link app for ArkOS, similar to how the Raspberry Pi version of Pico-8 can be loaded as a port. This would allow users to stream their Steam library (from Mac or Windows) to the device. In addition to PC games, Steam now allows for any app/game to be imported into your library, so you could essentially stream standalone emulators like Dolphin, Yuzu, or Cemu to the device, or frontend systems like OpenEmu, LaunchBox/BigBox, or even the desktop version of RetroArch.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/353380/discussions/6/2806204039992195182/