How to install GarlicOS in 2 MINUTES! | RG35XX Tutorial

UPDATE!!!
Since making this guide one step has changed, there are now two files you need to download, they have the extension .001 and .002. Those together will extract the image file.

ALSO
IF YOUR ROM DRIVE ISN'T SHOWING UP AFTER YOU DO THESE STEPS:
That probably means that the partition with the ROMs folder isn't giving assigned a drive letter on your computer. You can manually assign it a drive letter using this method:

Step 1. Right-click This PC and choose Manage - Disk Management.

Step 2. Find your USB drive in the list. Right-click the FAT32 volume on your SD card drive and select Change Drive Letter and Paths.

Step 3. In the window that opens, click Change.

Step 4. Assign a new drive letter to your USB drive and click OK.

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GarlicOS is a great, easy, useful, powerful, beautiful emulation frontend for the RG35xx. I’m going to show you how to install it, and it’s only gonna take 2 freaking minutes if you can believe that!

- LINKS MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO -

- WRITTEN GUIDE -

WHAT YOU’LL NEED: You will need an RG35xx retro gaming handheld console. Obviously. You’ll need a microSD card of whatever size you want, I think a 32gb is fine but get a bigger one if you want lots of PS1 games. (link to the brand I suggest in the description below). You’ll also need to download the GarlicOS microSD card image from the link below. And you’ll need to download and install 3 programs - 7zip, MiniTool partition wizard and Balena etcher, which are also linked in the description below.

1. UNZIP YOUR IMAGE. After you install 7zip, right click on the archive microSD card image you downloaded and select extract to folder.

3. EXPAND PARTITIONS. Now we need to expand the partition. After the flash is done, open MiniTool Partition Wizard and find your SD card in the list of drives. In the area representing your SD card you’ll see several partitions listed, find the one that is formatted as FAT32, right click on it, then select “move/resize”. In here drag the slider all the way to the right to expand the partition to the full size of your SD card. Click okay in this screen, then click apply in the bottom left corner of the program.

4. COPY OVER YOUR STUFF. Now you should be able to see the SD card listed under this PC. You might see several drives listed, or get an unreadable drive error, you can just ignore those. Open your SD card drive and you’ll see 4 folders, BIOS, CFW, ROMS, and SAVES. Copy your rom collections into the rom folders, You can even copy these over from the original SD card that came with your RG35xx. And copy your bios files into the bios folder, which is actually optional I think, I didn’t bother with the bios files and I’ve had no problems.

That’s it! you’re freaking done!

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IF YOUR ROM DRIVE ISN'T SHOWING UP AFTER YOU DO THESE STEPS:
That probably means that the partition with the ROMs folder isn't giving assigned a drive letter on your computer. You can manually assign it a drive letter using this method:

Step 1. Right-click This PC and choose Manage - Disk Management.

Step 2. Find your USB drive in the list. Right-click the FAT32 volume on your SD card drive and select Change Drive Letter and Paths.

Step 3. In the window that opens, click Change.

Step 4. Assign a new drive letter to your USB drive and click OK.

[keresadministratum]

Followed this last night to flash my card in prep of my xx coming in this weekend. Was absolutely simple and straight forward with your video. Took something a bit intimidating to a newbie and made it very approachable. Thank you!

[robhulson]

Getting two of these devices tomorrow, so... four minutes of my life. Whew.

[fgmenth]

Yo sup I believe you are the current record holder for the garlic os installation speedrun. I can’t see this one being broken any time soon.

[ThePlayaJohn]

You’re a lifesaver my unit is coming tomorrow just installed garlic and a bunch of my own roms on my old sd card I used to use in my switch a very easy tutorial and not complicated like others I’ve seen

[darkriverfarmer]

YOU LITERALLY SAVED MY I was trying to install garlicos on the original card which was 64gb, but it kept saying it was too full to work, so I tried expanding the partition and accidentally FORMATTED THE CARD!!! STUPIDLY i didnt save any of the roms, but after watching your video, at least now the damn thing boots! I can replace roms easily, so you saved me having to buy another device just to have a working one!

[thetechievet]

Thank you for a straight to the point and speedy tutorial!

[ItWasAllPartOfMyPlan]

I love how you took the fresh garlic and put it into the XX, gotta remember to stop by the local fruit and Veg store once mine comes in

[BuddhaBytes]

Thanks for this super easy and useful tutorial! I ignored everyone's advice and didn't copy the card that I got from Anbernic, and low and behold my card crashed and couldn't be read after about a month of gaming. I was going for the the Anbernic stock reinstall but I couldnt find the file! So I said fine, I'll go with this GARLIC seasoning and here we are. Thanks for unbricking my RG35xx :)

This was FANTASTIC. Short, fast, funny and educative. Thank you.

[bwedges]

Thanks man. Other tutorials are way too much warnings and steps without any results. This is fast efficient and saves time.

[majinshinsa]

I bought one of these devices after your last video and now you made a perfect video for when I get it. Thanks!

[CrackerJayherber]

I've seen a lot of themes floating around and yours is my favorite! Very good work.

[HugeCoffeeAddict]

Thanks for the video. This combined with the instructions on the Black Seraph's patreon post, and I've now got garlic on my device.

[nightowl]

And it works! Was able to do it on my lunch break. 15 minutes tops.

[youzernejm]

Now that was actually simple, even Normies wouldn't run away through the window!

[ukaszCieciura]

I have a quick question, having garlic installed, have you tried to play games using pad ? via USB OTG connection with the rg35xx

[izzynobre]

This is the video I recommend to RG35XX noobies :D

[epiren]

The BS I had to go through to do this in Mac with the disk utility in the terminal... Whew! But I got it done. Tip: back up everythign from the ROMS and then format that volume to Mac Journaled before trying to expand it to take up the free space. Then format back to FAT32 and copy back in your back-up.

[writerblocks]

Amazing, I love the entertaining angle you have on your videos, you should have hundreds of thousands of subs for the quality of your channel