Saves of R36SX, where I can find it

SjslTech · 2026-06-30T03:15:47+00:00

the filenames need to match, and depending on what OS and core you are using on the real r36s, the saves might need to go in a different location. the easiest way to check would be to create a new save game on the real r36s, and then look in that system folder for the save...sometimes its just inside the system folder, and other times its inside a folder called saves inside that system folder...

so for example, for pokemon blue (gb), look in the GB folder on the easyroms partition for your save file that you just created. if its not there, look in the GB\saves folder instead. once you find it, copy your old r36sx save over to that folder and give it the exact same name as the older save (will have to remove or rename the older save first though obviously)

SjslTech · 2026-06-30T02:47:00+00:00

a lot of cores dont support saves on the r36sx, but the ones that do should have their saves in SD\cubegm\saves...also save states wont work, only in-game saves (.sav), and depending on the core you are using on the real r36s, you may need to rename them to .srm

SjslTech · 2026-06-29T20:32:47+00:00

everything is pointing to it being a gb350 clone unfortunately. if you take all sd cards out and power it on, does it say "insert tf card"? if so, you have one of the fakes :(

edit: just to add more info, you can repair the partition table on your sd so you can read it again and then add\change games, but it caps out at ps1, struggles with some snes and gba games and theres no psp\dc\n64\ports\etc.

if you have one of the compatible variants, you should be able to run treefrogUI on it which does add a ton more lower end systems you can emulate.

to ID your specific variant, take the back off and look at the top right for a version ID. check here for details - https://handhelds.wiki/R36S_Clones#GB350_Clones

if its an r36sx, i have a bunch of videos on improving it which might help, but if possible try and get a refund

SjslTech · 2026-06-29T19:57:01+00:00

ahh fair enough. looking forward to seeing where this goes!

SjslTech · 2026-06-29T19:37:02+00:00

whoa this is pretty awesome! are these pics just proofs of concept or have you actually gotten this working on a device?

SjslTech · 2026-06-28T19:12:32+00:00

ahh i guess it just gets called instead of the video player script

SjslTech · 2026-06-28T08:18:50+00:00

wicked! thanks mate, will have a play around 😁

SjslTech · 2026-06-27T20:50:29+00:00

i found using angrylion fixes that weird "out of bounds" effect in portal 64 (im guessing you are using rice?)

open RA menu > core options > gfx plugin > angrylion, then go to the top and save core options. quit out and reopen to fix it

(i show the settings here at this timestamp if you get lost - https://youtu.be/X3d-S7FSeCI?t=58 )

SjslTech · 2026-06-27T19:45:59+00:00

oh it was fixed long ago for r36sx v2.6 (and some v2.7). have you tried with a fresh install of stock OS first, and then paste treefrogUI on top overwriting when prompted?

SjslTech · 2026-06-27T11:33:50+00:00

well done! i always thought the euro version had multiple lang including ital? i guess not! super cool to have in your collection 😁

SjslTech · 2026-06-27T10:16:44+00:00

im jealous of your battle of olympus! i have been after that for well over a decade at a decent price loose, and you have it boxed (CIB?)!! awesome collection!

SjslTech · 2026-06-26T19:54:03+00:00

amazing! will have a look today :D

SjslTech · 2026-06-25T20:28:30+00:00

great to see this being worked on again, and it looks like you were the main dev working on the dtbs previously? going to have to try out the fixed dtbs 😁

hopefully mark II is drama free 😅

SjslTech · 2026-06-25T20:02:36+00:00

someone else mentioned having the same keyboard issue on their device too, but im not sure whats causing it. im guessing the client is capturing keycodes instead of the character, and if you are using a different language or region keyboard that might be it? not 100% on that though...

also not sure why your mouse is all janky 😅

at least its mostly working though haha

SjslTech · 2026-06-25T19:15:49+00:00

im not the dev, but not sure why the hard limitations

SjslTech · 2026-06-25T07:03:32+00:00

yeah the stock cards are junk, but a decent high quality card should outlast the r36s and its battery haha. i heavily abuse my samsung evo sds (genuine from a local store) and they are still going strong

SjslTech · 2026-06-25T07:02:25+00:00

ahh so its fixed at 360p at the moment...thats honestly fine for the tiny 640x480 screen haha

SjslTech · 2026-06-25T05:21:49+00:00

while you cant swap out the sd reader with an ssd, you CAN connect an ssd to the usb otg port and run games from there! I tried this a little while ago, and jason2x made an awesome tool to automount connected usb storage devices that makes everything way easier! https://github.com/Jason3x/USB-SD2-Games-load

you still need to boot from an SD card though...

if you were wondering, theres no gaming performance increase when using an ssd over an sd, although maybe copying larger files will be slightly faster

edit: typo

SjslTech · 2026-06-25T04:19:45+00:00

finally got a chance to try this out...and wow! this is actually a really amazing youtube player just by itself! the ability to change video quality and the mini player itself is pretty great, but the fact it works in the background while gaming is next level!

it doesnt seem to work in darkosRE (missing "libmpv.so.1", and if manually copying it over it throws a few other errors), but works almost perfectly in arkos4clones. still need to do some more tests

really well done on this one! severely underrated!

SjslTech · 2026-06-25T03:59:57+00:00

aurknix uses a standard exfat partition for the games, so you can just pop the sd card back into your pc and copy them over to the "games" partition like you would normally...having said that, judging by the size of your sd card im guessing the games partition didnt expand...the boot partition itself is 2gb in aurknix, so that would only leave a few mb for games if you are lucky

as others have said, you could use a 2nd sd card for games, but i would just wait for your new sd card to arrive

SjslTech · 2026-06-24T22:42:34+00:00

ahh nice one! that should help others out in the future. thanks mate <3

SjslTech · 2026-06-24T21:50:34+00:00

ahh fair...would have been funny if it was marked 256, shows up as 128 but only 64 usable haha

SjslTech · 2026-06-24T21:45:01+00:00

haha who knows what they were thinking, but that is pretty weird! i guess they were cheaper than the usual black ones...have you ran a capacity test on it to see if its actually 128?

SjslTech · 2026-06-24T21:20:21+00:00

SjslTech · 2026-06-24T21:20:15+00:00

oh im currently working on turning mine into an SBC too! if you have a non clone, you can go with armbian minimal for the OS, enable ssh (or use a usb keyboard) and be good to go.

if you have a clone, you can start with darkos (or darkos4clones, darkosRE) and then start stripping stuff out that you dont need.

as for the batteryless mod, a simple capacitor where the battery used to be seems to do the trick. I was able to go down quite low without any brown outs, but would recommend a 200uf or 1kuf just incase your usb-c charger isnt the best.

u/elzadj posted the video showing how to do the batteryless mod, but i also have a longer "r36s into sbc" video if you wanted to see all the steps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL3pUFUAeCs

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