How to move to a new SD Card & Install GarlicOS to quick swap OS's on your Anbernic RG35XX 

The save folder in GarlicOS has CHANGED. It is now on the same card or drive as your ROMS. ROMS - Saves - Current Profile. The saves need to be in a folder named the same as the emulator they run on in RetroArch and inside that current profile folder. *PLEASE KEEP IN MIND WITH THE PACE OF CHANGES ON GARLIC OS THAT SOME OF THIS COULD BE OUT OF DATE AT ANY MOMENT*

Thank you for this. I too have no save ability on the default card. I am new to doing this, so this tutorial is a major help. 👍👍

This is quite a nifty gadget! I may have to order one sometime.. looks great! I love it!! Nicely done video..

S U P E R useful guide, thanks so much! Safe to assume that the same process will work for an RG353v? Love your work, keep it up!!!

It says that my disk is too small when i try to read files from old 64 gb micro sd card to move the data to a new 128 gb card is there a fix please help

Literally unable to download the latest firmware from Anbernic because google drive download limitations.

is there any way to play am2r (metroid 2) on anbernic rg35xx?

What should I do when flashing my SD on balenaEtcher fails, I also tried using win32 for writing on my SD also failed. please help :)

I downloaded system +64G rom etc... i used 7zip to extract here and all i got was a file folder. What am i doing wrong. Sorry if its a dumb question

i just to clarify this question. what if i have a 2nd sd card which is new, i formatted it to fat32, do i still need the other folders from the first sd card? or could i just create a new ROMS folder on the newly formatted sd card?

I did not understand why you are not formatting just right click on disk?? (you are using a program)

So i just purchased the rg35xx 2 days ago and it’s on its way, when i receive it, do i purchase a better sd card ? What do I even do after that? I’m not an expert with tech, I just don’t want the device crashing and not turning on, on my first day

This feels very complicated. I just want to move everything from the stock sd card. Is there an easier way?

So, if my sd 1 has garlic os but its already full and i put my sd card 2 , do i need install garlic os or i just need format sd to fat32 and copy the game on it?

Can anyone make a video of how to install garlic OS on a mac?

this is too much, im throwing this shit away lol

My unit won't charge at all. Won't turn on either. Any resources you know of to troubleshoot? I took the unit apart and did unplug and plug back up the battery. Still nothing.

I bought this thing and idont have a computer

Did you know you Can play All this Games on your Phone!

my roms dont show up ;-; i tried renaming them all bc maybe the parentheses were interfering but still nothing, I need help I'm genuinely a noob!

My SD card slot 2 stopped working. Following your guide I managed to turn the slot 2 256GB card into a bootable one, which now lives in slot 1, making it possible to use 1 sd card for both OS and games. Life saver, 🙏 thank you!

Cant get my rg35xx to boot to the stock os on my 256gb micro-sd card. I followed all the steps up until the 7:34 mark. Only thing I could see as being an issue is that the download for the stock os from the Anbernic website was different. Its not the end of the world but its very frustrating lol

new to the handheld emulator community, thanks for explaining this in detail! you made it super simple!

Hi Shane! It seems the links and files are now different from this video. Would you happen to know how to do the same thing with these new files now?

Mine was stuck at boot up. So... yeah, I just bought 2 new SD cards.

I Love U (no gay). I have been trying to fix that Issue for a friend and found your video and fixed it. Thank you very much and Greetings from The Dominican Republic.😁

after 8 months still useful although with ew stock-garlisOS EN, however mines dont have any saves(check both), but i will take it. SUBSCRIBE

Hi, I have a question, recently I bought a RG505, I thought I bought it with the SD card on it, but I don't. So now my trying to make my own, but I don't know how. I could use this system you show to do it? I'm just, quite lost. I don't know if I have to instal some system on the Anbernic, or on the SD. I don't know how can I find it... Thanks for the help =)

I apologize, I don't speak English very well. Is it possible to have an operating system (OS) on each SD card, with one partition dedicated for the ROM, and still be able to access ROMs from both SD cards?

FYI, current Garlic OS files does't fit on stock paritition sizes. Stock size of Misc partition is 9 MB and garlic files are greater. Using Linux partition manager I was able to resize all the paritiions and make it fit after shuffling. Not sure the best solution for general users.

The goat of the Rg35xx thanks for the video! By change do you sell sd cards with games that are of the fans choice? You would make a killing on Etsy

It took me awhile to figure this out but on the stockOS and SD card when you put that in a computer and open the ROMs partition the saves are actually not in the individual console folders. In the main list of console folders there is another folder called saves. Then when you open that there is a list of consoles. and within that are your save files that show up in the 5 saves lots on the stock OS. In the main game directory of folders it is true that there are .sav files that appear next to the Rom in the files list but I dont know what they are. I have some for games I never really played but maybe I just opened them. In the one game I have been playing the .sav file in the main directory for me had a time stamp that just didnt match my most recent save. It wasn't until I found this other folder that I found my save. I also notice it is a .0svs file. So I am crossing my fingers I can carry that over to Garlic OS.

Hi do you know why this error coming up? Error - 1.0 X An error occurred when attempting to write data to handle Error 5: Access is denied

Good day Sir i accidentally click Format on 1 pop-up on my SD card., suddenly i dont have backup...what will i do?

How's ur battery life... I got mine new but it seems like battery drains faster than what they claim it to be like 5hrs.. Mine is like lasts only for 2 hrs... I got the dual boot setup from the box

I got an anbernic and it has a sd with loads of games and everything done but the sd is shit. I want to close it into a new sd card but i cannot. Also even though i got thousands of games the roms folder in the sd card shows only empty folders.

Are you able to access saves from your roms Sd with both OS? I want to test a few OS but they all seem to save games differently

Have one everytime i attempt to play a game as i press the game it flickers and wont open what could be causing this?

i actually want the old anbernic software/games. the koriki software either deleted or hid the games that came with it and i cant' find it anywhere :(

you lost me at 9:53 just sundenly went fast and copying stuff and no clue where you were at.

Can you just do it for me and ill just buy them off you. Its a bit confusing

I figured out how to put it on an SD card using an android. Now I need to turn it into fat32 using my phone 😢

I’m so novice at this I can’t even format to FAT32 🤦🏻‍♂️

Is there any way to get garlic on my so card without the use of a pc? I just have my ipad

For someone that is not good in computer literate, this is so difficult :(

How do I do all this with a MacBook? I can’t figure it out 😭

Followed this guide to the T and it wont power on with the new sd card ._.

i got it to boot and everything works but it wont read my roms

I have RG35XX plus is it the same thing?

it was kind of weird, I didn't need to format the roms drive it just was working at least at a glance.

My Pokémon Game keeps crashing

see but the opposite happened to me the what was supposed to be the 2.9gb unallocated was actually partiioned into something called roms and i have 55gb unallocated how to i proceed from there?

anyone know how to do all this junk on a Mac?

Do I understand correctly: You first install the stock OS on SD card 1, then you overwrite the stock OS via copy & paste so that GarlicOS is installed (SD card 1)? On SD card 2 (is called ROMS in the system) there are only the ROMS, nothing else? Thanks for your help and greetings from Germany!

It is evident you are not trying to instruct novices. Aside from that this is a good teaching video for people experienced in the gaming world/computer world. For those with Mac's, they are going to have to look elsewhere.

For some reason when I followed the guide, the roms wont show up. Before my os card died I switched to a new sd for my roms in slot 2. This worked just fine for a long time. Once my os card died I followed this guide. It now boots up which is great but my save states nor my normal saves show up and my roms on both cards are visable. I can see the roms on garlic os but I dont think my save states work through that os. It sucks because I was part way through a bunch of different games via the stock os save states. Is there something Im doing wrong?

Thank you, Can I have the roms on both? How to be sure that the system can save on the second card? If I understand you correclty, I can just buy a second card, call it ROMs add the CFW folder and it will save all files there?

The same exact thing has been happening to my 35xx since the second day i got it. I recently got the anbernic SP. Ive been eager to transfer my games and saves to the new SP because i prefer the SP system but i dont have all my old saves and i dont have as many games on the SP, but I am scared to do that to have the same thing happen to my new SP. Havent found a video to help me with this yet since im kind of new to using a PC and everything that seems like it should be easy looks too complicated for me lol. But this tutorial seems very helpful and very specific to my same situation, will definitely study this and give it a shot. Thanks!

So if all I'm looking for is a better SD card, all I'd have to do is swap the roms from the old SD card to mine and I'd be good to go?

Dear @Shane Craig, Please help, I don’t know how to fix this. I mainly play ps1 games on my anbernic rg35xx, and I have saved about 15 titles. Now seemingly I cannot save any more games cause the slots are all full. I don’t see the save files anywere when I plug the sd card in the computer and of course I cannot access the memory card content like I would on a ps1 console. Can you help? Regards,

Not able to find my Roms at all..... Garlic OS always creates a new partition, ok. then i have 120 GB left, i create a new volume, ok. then i do it to fat32 as you shows, ok. then i put my ROMS on it, start it, and..... yeah im out of patience now. going to get a beer....

you are amazing dude .. can u please help me ! My RG35xx when i boot it , it just shows the logo of ambernek then the screen be black . what is the problem can you please help me ?

is there a way that i can copy and paste all the roms from the OLD UNBRAND SD card to my new sandisk memory card ? coz i cannot see any roms folder on the previous OLD unbranded sd card

Is it possible to complete these things using an android? It's the disk image and the fat32 I'm struggling with so far.

I don't know how to put it in the machine I'm getting angry because everybody will just talks about something I don't want to know about

I ordered one for my son and one for because of your videos! Thanks for the great content!

Recently I messed up the drastic config and can’t seem to fix it I was going to flash the os back onto tf1 would I follow this process or would I have to do something else since it already has the os on it ?

None of this makes any sense to me

hello guys i need help so basically i got garlic os installed on TF1/sd card 1 and i wanna play my games on the 2nd sd card so i copied all the rom files on the roms folder on the 2nd sd card and the games wont show up . SD CARD 1 with garlic os dont have any roms on it

This is very helpful. However, quota has exceeded for us to download the Firmware :(

Mine arrived today, and just suck on the anbernic logo? Please help

Hey, the stock card I got doesn’t look like yours. It 64 go and says Micro SD XC. Do I still need to do this?

what a G thankyou so much dude my RG35XX was bricked out of the box and making a new sd card sorted it out :D

yeah i tried to install garlic os and it didnt work. it bricked my system, so now i have to use this guide to hopefully restore it to stock os. very annoying

Noob question how we back up the roms from the old sd card to my pc 😮

the google drive link was flagged as a trojan by windows defender just a heads up. For that reason i used only used garlic os, also can you do another video on how to skin garlic os?

You're a live saver man, lost my hope on my dead Anbernic and was going on a long road trip without it, and at the right time your video showed up. Respect!

I don't like wasting technology and material .. so: Can't you configure the underlaying Linux to avoid writes to the 'crappy' included card? Maybe then even run it as 'ro' and redirect all writes lilke savegames, recent lists and savestates to the 2nd sd card. For example by using bind-mounts. I would rather buy one high-endurance 128GByte card instead of two smaller standard sd cards for the same price or even a bit less, which would then be sufficient.. and the of course use a flash friendly filesystem like f2fs or at least exFAT on the 128GByte high-endurance card.

Can you put both cards in at the same time and we did choose between both different operating systems or do you have to switch them out manually?

can i put 2 sd cards w/ different OS at the same time? im planning to buy another sd card to install batocera to play ppsspp but im worried of losing or misplacing it in the future so im planning to just put it in TF2 slot if wont be using it.

do you have a step by step video on how to flash the RG353V OS/ROM to a new card? or how to backup drives/data/ROMS in the Anbernics' card to a new card? I'm brand new to this and just got the RG353V. There are 2 OS files for the RG353V, so was not sure how to add the two files onto one the new card. Thank you!

But this is not dual boot, there is no option at start up to select which OS to run, Is just a boot of each SD. This is what I understand.

8:32 when I put the card in all it shows is a black screen, I can hear the buttons but that’s it

Can the unit's 1st SD slot is only dedicated to the OS and the 2nd SD slot dedicated for ROMS?

If your use case is that you just want to upgrade the SD cards to better ones what can’t I just copy the content of the old SD cards onto my computer. Format the new SD cards to Fat 32, drag the files off my computer onto the new SD card, plug the SD card back into the device and call it a day?

Can I flash both the stock os and garlic into one sd card only?

Psx cue&bin werden nicht erkannt, welche Ordnerstruktur verwendet Garlic OS? Müssen die ISO Dateien ein bestimmtes Format haben? Wo müssen die Dateien rein "PS" oder "PS1" ? Habe die Spiele mit Clonecd eingelesen und habe "bin"+ "cue" und beide in einen Ordner. Kann ich eine zweite SD Karte einfach in fat32 formatieren und psx im Stock OS verwenden?

Is the process similar for mac users?

Ehm I can't seem to extract the 002 file into a folder.... the copypasteontopofstock file..... I have no clue what I am doing.... I just want that damn Garlic OS :) please help

Any suggestions for Mac users? I want to move to a new SD card and add more ROMs to my SD card.

need help locating that rar file with the win32 disk imager

the Roms was already there for me but there was no game files

Any chance you might know why my device boots to the main menu then goes black. The LED shows it is still on but nothing happens. Was working fine for about a week. Tried installing new firmware on new SD card but still same results.

The thing is i never saved the saved files form the stock SD Card :( Please help me with this one :( ive got no games at all :(

hey where do u get your roms/emulators ?

If I want to just get a new sd card can I just highlight and drag to the new sd card and pop it in and it works or is it more difficult than that?

the win32 disk imager is not locating that rar file meanwhile i have it sitting on my desktop im confused

Very helpful! Thanks!

Arcade doesn’t work correctly on garlic os

that was my problem i didnt back anything up i formatted the sd card like a noob now it wont boot up