Miyoo Mini Quick Setup Guide with Onion OS 

You're right, and I wish I had. Honestly I only copied over ROM files and didn't want to show too much of that for fear of angering RU-vid.

Don't worry. You don't *need* the things on the card. It just makes getting things like bios files easier. If you have no card, I recommend searching google for "tiny best set." I can't really say more than that or they will shut me down!

@@MjolnirStone I never came back to this to say but there was a tiny case with an SD card in it and after this process was perfect the rest of the way. Thank you for the breezy setup good sir 🫡

If you download rufus it is pretty straight forward. You just choose the memory card and select Fat32 (instead of NTFS or other options). Windows won't use Fat32 on a card that size, but rufus will.

Thanks, updated!

It isn't an absolute requirement but it is highly recommended. Basically, BIOS files would have been included on the original hardware. The Mini includes them so it is convenient to copy them over. Some emulators will run fine without them, while some run better with the original BIOS (rather than a "faked" one included with the emulator), while some simply will not work at all without them (Sega CD and others). Of course, you could find them online later if you want or need them.

Unfortunately the official store doesn't ship where I am, but many people have used larger SD cards without any issue.

@@MjolnirStone I did order a 64gb game sd card on another non official store. It has many games, more than the original miyoo one. But I was lucky, only a few chinese versions. I think it really depends on the seller, they don't have the same games on the card. :(

So sorry to hear that! Were you able to solve this?

@@MjolnirStone I was not able to solve this. Can anyone help? I am stuck with a dead Miyoo Mini, thanks to this video.

Look for a video of RetroBreez about bricked miyoo

ofc non bootable.

I wish I could but most of mine were actually in Chinese. I think what is included may depend on which marketplace you buy it from.

hahah it does include a card with games, an hopefully you get a good assortment of them! I would still recommend you copy all of them from the card and then put them back on a new one. Some people just report that the included card is not the best quality and may fail.

@@MjolnirStone does it have techmo bowl and resident evil 1?

@@joeme8899 techmo no, re1 yea, but its a microsd, find the CHDs online from an ARCHIVE, drop em into the roms folder on sd, and then just run em, get an alternate card cause theyre chinese and corrupt easily, device itself is solid, ive got a few thousand nes, snes, gba, sega stuff. and a couple hundred psx roms(256gb microsd), shouldnt cause any sdcard issues unless you have a shitty card or mess up transfers a lot and corrupt files, like pausing a ton, cancelling mid transfers, and accidental disconnects all increase the chance to corrupt blocks on the memory card, works like that on all data transferring devices, not just the miyoo lol

Yeah, as far as these types of devices go, this one is about as simple as it gets. Especially when paired with Onion, all the emulators the device supports are pretty much pre-configured and ready to go. You drop in BIOS files and ROMs (or copy them from the card that probably came with the device) and well, that's pretty much it. No tinkering with settings to try to squeeze out on extra 5 frames on PS2 games, or toying with upscaling. It's pretty much set it and forget it.

You messed up my friend you don't know what are you doing

Keep an eye on their official aliexpress store! They do regularly put some up for sale.

OnionOS installs on the SD card. When you remove the card it will still boot up, but if you have SD card in when you boot you will only ever see Onion.

@@MjolnirStone thanks for the reply!

No issues with my dpad but as for sdcard, I know people have used 128GB and I am personally using 64GB.

exfat can take up to 2tb lol, just have to use larger blocks which maes things take up more space, im rollin with a 256 atm and have all games for like most of the list, plus some romhacks and translations and stuff and still have space leftover, 128 is nice but you get limited on psx or and CD based games you try to put, 256 lets ya get them, without upping the capacity to an unstable level (google says for miyoo to use 126 but exfat is stable in general and with that large variance of allowance , staying at 256 or 512 max is the safest, smartest choice

also the difference between V1 and V2 of the mini is the buttons, the v1 has less space on the outside of buttons making it a more snug fit that pushes your buttons against the walls of the molding sadly, the v2 opens those molds up so they arent rubbing the shell of the device , might have a V1 brother, my condolences and in reference to the dpad sucking, it was made for up to PS1 and has no gpu so it cant do n64 ,psp, or similar systems, all of the qualifying consoles only had a standard quadradirectional dpad , i think some of the rg models have an analog stick for any dualshock kinda stuff you wanna play, but miyoo is mainly for ultraportability and extra usability, some stuff was sacrificed in design, and some games were MADE for controls like that, as a good comparison, play dino crisis or resident evil, then play medievil, medievil has a moving cam like sm64, but the movement in the game is just much more fluid , they just started with tank controls at first for a ton of games bc A. easiest to code B. its all they really had, psx was i think the first real gaming venture into 3d so they just picked a poor idea and ran with it , and C. tank controls add to the tenseness of horror games bc of lack of character speed, so it fit the genre and was the most common kinda thing at the time, sorry for all the paragraphs, i ramble when im high

@@TheMeekMingeMaster Yeah I have heard about that tight dpad, it's definitely the v2 it's got plenty of space around the dpad. It's definitely something with the contacts, I get that a lot of rpgs, platformers etc are fine with quad movement but even ps1 all the way back to nes to atari all registered diagonals very reliably. Think yars revenge on Atari, gradius in nes. I can't scroll up cuz I'm already typing and I'm on my phone, did I say shooters? If I did I meant shmups/shoot em ups, a lot of older games with a space ship etc. For example, gradius 3 for snes one of my favorite games of all time, is playable on all of my emulator consoles, perfect on all my PC controllers, unfortunately unplayable on this device. I feel like I can get a diagonal movement to register 25% of the time. Oh well thanks for the replies man, I'm determined to get it working! Added a tiny bit of height to the center post and that helped a tiny bit. I don't see why people don't just copy the ps1 dmg nes or snes dpad 1for1 on handhelds tbh. And your good there i'm a paragrapher too man stream of thought ftw haha

@@TheMeekMingeMaster I'm seeing a new reply in my notifications but not in the comments 🤔 that's weird. so i can only read the beginning maybe it'll show up after some time!

Yes?