RG35XX PLUS BOXART Tutorial On Stock OS

Hello retro games fans, join me as I guide you in how to add beautiful box art to your brand new RG35XX Plus on the Stock OS. Whether you just added some of your own games to the stock SD card, or you didn't use any games from the stock SD card and you want them to look pretty, this is the video for you. Let's show the Stock OS some love.

Figuring this out was really a challenge. I basically had to reverse engineer the box art images on the stock SD card. I stumbled on the correct number by opening a stock box art image in paint and enabling ruler. Then I basically measured the pixels and got the exact measurements of the modification done to the box art. I had to learn how to use ImageMagick and did 8+ tests to try to get it as close as possible. After a lot of trial and error, messing with it, I finally got really close to a perfect match. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy.

You will need to do a small mod to add these on our just get these wrist straps to work OR

** Important Note** this tutorial will only on Original Firmware 20231108
if you happen to have a version after this just flash an SD card with this version.

What you'll need:
- Micro SD card reader
- Micro SD Card loaded with games that need box art
- Computer
- Tinkering Hat (Optional)

Programs we will be using:

Skraper
Just click the download button on top and get the windows version
Use: Get your box art
Note: 4,3,2 image mix take a considerable amount of time up to 4X as long to scrape. I recommend 2D box art with frame. This is lightweight, doesn't take long to scrape, and looks really good. 4,3,2 Img Mix I recommend no frame Or frame transparent. But do whatever your heart desires.

7zip
Download 64-bit Windows x64 version.
Use: Extract Skraper 7z File

ImageMagick
Get the windows binary release

Use: Format images to work for RG35XX Plus OS

**Important**
How to use ImageMagick:
After scraping your box art. Navigate to Imgs Folder where your box art is (Example GB for Gameboy) and holding SHIFT, Right Click to get Open PowerShell window here option.
Click open PowerShell window here and paste Abrenic's Boxart Secret Formula noted below and press enter.
Wait for PowerShell to do it thing. DO NOT CLOSE BEFORE POWERSHELL IS DONE.
When you see it give you message back, its done.

Anbernic's Boxart Secret Formula (AKA ImageMagick Powershell Command Script for you nerds)

(Shhhhhhh its a secret. ;) Don't tell Anbernic we know)

White Frame with Transparent Inside
magick mogrify -resize 230x480 -compose Copy -mattecolor White -frame 6x6+2+2 -extent 640x480-55 -gravity West -background none *

White Frame with Grey Inside
magick mogrify -resize 230x480 -mattecolor White -frame 6x6+2+2 -extent 640x480-55 -gravity West -background none *

Plain No Frame
magick mogrify -resize 230x480 -extent 640x480-55 -gravity West -background none *

Libero Boxart
Use: Download Boxart Individually

For my next project I will be customizing the Stock OS. If anyone knows how to modify Linux files on windows please let me know. I'm trying to create an image we can all use and love that is not ugly. With better icons, better backgrounds, better fonts, maybe better sounds, better shutdown screen, better loading screen, everything. I just need some help from you guys.

Skip the tutorial | 2D Boxart Pre-Scraped

Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
0:25 Results you can expect
2:15 Viewer Shoutout
3:14 Preparation
4:25 Downloading Skraper
4:59 Configuring Skraper
10:20 Selecting Boxart Options
11:35 Correcting Rom Directories
13:05 Scraping Boxart
13:38 Download and Install ImageMagick
14:00 Why 2D Boxart is king
14:42 Anbernic's Secret Boxart Formula Revealed
16:24 Creating Backups for Scraped Imgs Folders
17:50 Using Image Magick
19:34 Doing a correction
21:40 Using ImageMagick for the rest of the systems.
23:36 Checking Results
25:10 Wrapping things up

[rudya.hernandez]

For anyone that doesn't want to use the secret formula, just use the original rg35xx garlic 3-mix template. In media, select 'user provided mix' for the media type and check 'keep image ratio'. works great.

[gvbo]

Thank you for the amazing tutorial, I am so happy my boxart finally looks right! I had started replicating manually what I could see in the boxart supplied by Anbernic, one picture at a time, using photoshop and... it was taking forever. Thank you!

[RodaLisoRetrogames]

Thank you very much for your content, it has helped me a lot, I'm Brazilian and yesterday I did a live showing the rg35xx plus for the first time in Brazil and watching your videos helped me a lot, thank you 🤩👍

[adriandelacruz]

Bro giving us information like we gonna graduate with a Retro Game Degree. Thank you so much man!

[Renzonumbertwo]

This is a crystal clear tutorial! Followed it step by step and it worked perfectly.
I used this method on the previous version, ANBERNIC RG 35 XX (STOCK OS), and worked as well.

[BooksTinn]

Thank you so much for uploading this. I've ordered RG35XX Plus just today and it'll take a month or so to get here because of the lengthy shipping process.


This video will definitely help as I'm myself wishing to stick to Stock OS and not tamper the out of the box feel as I am very new into these consoles.

Thank you so much.

Will upgrade the listings on my console by adding images as shown by you here.

Much love from India 🇮🇳 .

I appreciate your patience... how patiently you showed each step.

[arminjarmin]

Just updated my rg35xx+ to 20231221 and was able to get the square box arts (specifically the pokemon games) to look quite nice with this command! not huge but decent enough to see, in the right position, and the right aspect ratios.

magick mogrify -resize 500x500 -extent 640x480-55 -gravity East -background none *

[MadMonkeyNL]

Here we gooo, nice, thanks for video!

[aevidaudi]

Hi there! Thank you so much for this! I just needed the mogrify stuff to figure out how to mimic the frame/background of the original OS boxart - and this was exactly what I needed!

[BEEDGG]

Can't wait for some custom firmware. Hopefully soon! Thank you for the pre scraped images.

[milkgonebad]

Bruh, can't wait for my new card reader to get here. Was using the cheap one included with the Miyoo Mini+ and it died while I was bumbling around with the rg35xx plus's stock sd card. I don't mind it much, because I can just do all your tutorials in one go! 😄

[AnthonyYouTubes]

That was an awesome tutorial. Respect 👍🏽

[jery]

hello @Javi Play Retro the lates firmware 20240130 reads images in rom folder and made it box art, but some are not. do you happen to know the cause of this?

[johnchatzispiridis]

You are doing amazing job. Please can you show us in a video how to play AMIGA games on Rg35xx plus IN STOCK FIRMWARE. I am in love with the game "sensible soccer 96-97" and I would like to have it in Anbernic. Greetings from GREECE.
Thank you very very much for all (!)

[wizzel]

They changed the way Boxart is displayed with the 231205 Firmware... Good Luck. The Font is smaller, the resolution in frame does not fit anymore. They added Apps and Sega CD as a new System.

[jesskathepokemoncollector]

Thank you so much for your walk through! I found it very easy to follow. Have you tried it on the plus version? It now have N64 games and the skraper works however on the game itself it doesnt come up with any images. Im wondering it may be cause this is a new section? Any thoughts would be great!
Thanks!

[viihhfranco]

Great video
Do you have the "White Frame with Grey Inside" updated to the new stockMOD OS? I tried this one but the imgs got too small

[qeylnox]

Followed the video step by step and I got boxart but its SO TINY!!!

[rtoun]

Haha i saw your last video and was asking myself the same question as that guy

[stylewan]

The boxarts cover the "star" of the favorite games. How to fix this ?