Retro gaming links and information

retro-game-notes.md

Retro Game Links & Information

• ArkOS - https://github.com/christianhaitian/arkos/wiki
• Install ArkOS - https://droix.net/knowledge-base/article/install-arkos/
• RGB20s New Owners Tutorial - https://www.reddit.com/r/PowKiddy/comments/14j0582/a_guide_for_any_new_rgb20s_owners/

ROM Sets

ROM set with ~2000 games.

• https://archive.org/details/retro-roms-best-set

Cloning SD Cards w/ MacOS

Reference: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-create-disk-image-on-mac-os-x-with-dd-command/

# 1. Get the list of connected devices to identify the source SD card (ej. disk2)
diskutil list

# 2. Unmount the SD card (replace disk2 with the info you get from diskutils. You will get a "Unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful"
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/<disk>
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2

# 3. Create a dd image from the SD card
sudo dd if=/dev/<disk2> of=backup.my.sdcard.img.dd bs=512

# 3. Alternatively, you can create a gziped image using this command...
sudo dd if=/dev/disk2 bs=64K | gzip -c > backup.disk.img.dd.gz

It will take some time on Step 3, and you won’t see any updates on the screen. You can press the ctrl+t (hold control key and press t) to see dd command progress on macOS

# Output example on Ctrl+T
load: 1.87  cmd: dd 42576 uninterruptible 126.32u 679.81s
47270793+0 records in
47270793+0 records out
24202646016 bytes transferred in 9989.241152 secs (2422871 bytes/sec)

To restore the dd image, change the input (IF) and output (OF) files.

diskutil list
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
sudo dd if=backup.my.sdcard.img.dd of=/dev/disk2
### Restores compressed image and write /dev/disk2 ###
sudo sh -c 'gunzip -c backup.disk.img.dd.gz | dd of=/dev/disk2'

Install ArkOS

This instructions are for a Powkiddy RGB20s

1. Download the compressed .xz image from from one of the links at bottom of this page. Use the RG351MP file. RGB20s is basically a clone of RG351MP.
2. Extract the image file from the downloaded .xz file with The Unarchiver
3. Insert the SD card into your SD card reader.
4. Identify your sd-card using diskutil list. The device id should be something like /dev/disk2.
5. Unmount the disk

diskutils list
diskutils unmountDisk /dev/disk2
# Unmount the sd-card using diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk5.

6. Flash using something like sudo dd if=ArkOS_.img of=/dev/rdisk5 bs=4M status=progress.
7. When the restore task has been completed, safely eject the SD card.
8. Insert into your rk3326 or rk3566 device and power on the device.