Note: current recent release is Onion V4.2.0. Also, if you have a newer firmware than mentioned in the video, you don't need to downgrade. Safe to go ahead. HTTP and FTP have moved to Tweaks, Network. Lastly, you may need to format your SD card as FAT32 before doing the firmware upgrade.
same as MrSazimi here, right after the instalation is finished, it gets stucks on the boot miyoo mini screen and nothing happens :( my firmware version was of July but I even tried to downgrade it to the March firmware (the exact version of the video) but it didn't worked.
I'm an old man setting up his very first retro handheld. This video made a scary process into one that's very easy and the result is the machine of my dreams. Thank you very much for this. I really appreciate it.
Thank you so much for the guide! My dad is an old school gamer and I got this for him as an advanced Christmas gift. He was so excited when he found out that he had me set it up today. This is the most excited I've seen him in a while and I felt great seeing him smile. Needless to say Christmas came early for both of us this year.
I just wanted to come back and say thank you so much for this video. I was extremely nervous about doing this since I have almost 0 computer skills and have been putting it off for a few days. I started this morning and took me less than an hour. Thanks for all the hard work you do. Now I have the handheld of my dreams!
@@Cheese_crackers it's definitely not EASY easy, unless you're already familiar with software/hardware terms and behaviors (my case). Totally ok to struggle and have to repeat few of the steps if needed =)
Joey this is my first handheld and i was foolish enough to buy this device without the knowledge of understanding that i would have to install onions on this device and other techy things. I have a new sd card and reader on the way and i am DETERMINED to play a game on this thing. I will be back to update my progress!
Just got mine today, extremely helpful! Wanna put in some notes though. FAT32 works the same as LARGE FAT32. If you plug in the SD card and charger (after adding the firmware file to your card) and you don't see a rocket, just the charging screen, you're good to skip the update part as you can already just put all the Onion stuff on your formatted card (or this worked for me, got mine on 7/27/23)
Its September 2023 and this video still works perfect. I didnt see your update, so I downgraded, but I'm sure its fine. Everything works great and I love this little system! Thanks again for a great video.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds hi, I happened to see this comment and I have a quick question for you. I followed the instructions and unzipped all required folders into the same folder. When I unzipped the tiny best set go games zip folder, it asked if I wanted to replace or skip a bunch of files. There were 1800 or 1900. I skipped them but not sure if I should have. I did the 128 GB set so it said to download the folder I just mentioned plus the 64 and 128 expansions.
Likely didn't hurt. In all honesty, I don't personally use the tiny best set, as I have my own curated roms, but shouldn't be any reason why you'd need to overwrite them, so you should be fine.
Another small update with the more recent versions of Onion, you wont see the FTP and Web necessarily in the apps anymore, however, once its enabled Via Tweaks > Network, you can then navigate to the IP assigned to your unit (check Network again for the IP) and you'll still be able to access the browser the same way. It confused me a bit at first until I realized I toggled the option on and to just try the IP assigned. The more you know :)
I'll be setting up my Miyoo Mini soon and found this video. I've never done anything with emulating or ROMs and was nervous I'll screw something up. But watching your step by step guide makes me feel more confident of being able to get my retro machine running. Thank you.
I'm all messed up here, i think i got most of it but i'm running into an issue with the tiny best set go games. it's missing about half of the folders he showed in the video. let me know if you have success.
All I can say is have the video up and copy moment by moment.(Although I needed to format my SD card before anything) That's how I did it. It took a better part of a day, but I eventually got my Miyoo setup.
thank you for this solid guide. i personally use a retroid pocket but i got a miyoo mini + for my gf's xmas gift and i really wanted it to be ready to go for her. This guide was perfect.
Took me all day to setup (that's definitely on me not because of your vid haha) but looks like I finally got mine setup and I'm ready to dive in. Thanks a ton!
Thanks so much, this is a great tutorial ! I have Onion 4.2.3 and apparently the whole "box art" section is not needed anymore, I already have the game thumbnails.
Thank you for your help, I found all the other videos I’d watched on this to be a bit of a nightmare and being new with emulation/roms/bios you made it very simple and straight forward for me to follow.
I have one of these arriving today, just in time for a 2 hour flight tomorrow. I will most likely leave it stock for this weekends trip but then dig into changing OS/ROMs later on so I'm bookmarking this video.
This is the best guide for sure. For example, Russ from retrogamecore suggests using different software for formatting SD card, but that one doesn't even work on a clean Samsung 128 Gb SD card, lol! Also this guide specifies a way easier ROM/Bios approach.
Super tip at the beginning, " Use a branded SD card AND a branded card reader." Should have bought that card reader a long time ago, but thanks!! Was using the cheap ones with all kinds of read errors. Throw those away and buy a good one.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds way ahead of it’s time, the mini fishing game to this day haven’t seen a better one and while everyone was lusting over playing FFVII I was a BOF purist
Bought one tomorrow, so I am happy to get a miyoo, but awesome this guide, then I can already start searching for games I wanna play on it, and add them tomorrow 😁
Thank you for creating this video. Easy to follow. links all very helpful and the tiny best set and expansions will keep me more then busy on my upcoming vacation.
Amazing tutorial! Only thing that is not working properly for me. Where do the images for the roms go? I added a "Imgs" folder inside of the roms folder for the appropriate system.
Thank you so much, very thorough & clearly explained. I also appreciate the links that you've provided. Look forward to receiving my device & switching over to onionOS!
this video was helpful in allowing me to install onion os to my miyoo mini plus, but I did have to watch it multiple times and redownload files multiples times to actually get it working because I have no previous knowledge of how to do any of this. The only problem I seem to have is that there are no games in my console. Everything seems fine with the device, but it has no games.
I'm extremely new to all of this and will be going through this process tomorrow. Is 7- zip necessary, and should I download it? Ty in advance for the video. It will hopefully save me a huge headache .
Thanks for your useful guide. I followed it with very few problems (all of which were ahem... user error). I did download the box art packs from Tiny Best Set - much less painful than scraping and seem to be very accurate. I also agree that the included card reader is rubbish, it simply didn't work very well and has been consigned to the bin - what a waste of resources! The rom downloads did indeed take some time, but they say patience is a virtue!
Mine came last week with a Lexar branded card. I think maybe they were hearing about failures on the generic cards and opted for higher quality ones for the more recently produced Miyoos.
As a Cybersecurity professional i'm neverous about plugging the OG sd card into my PC to even update the firmware. Is it possible to boot into Onion OS on my own SD card without ever touching the included one?
Hi! Super helpful video, it was easy to follow as well! But I wanted to know why I can't find any PS1 games in my console, don't know if this is because I bought a 32gb SD card?? And do you know any other place that we can get more games and more consoles like N64?? Thanks!!
BEEN FIGHTING AGAINST IT ALL NIGHT, turns out it wouldnt install cause I named the sd MIYOO, and there was some kind of conflict with the folder in the onion package 🙃
Thanks a lot for this video. My dad has been looking for ways to play retro games so I decided to get him one of these and set it up for him for Christmas. On the game images- I'm curious if you can do it through tiny best set go? Is that what the image files are intended to be? If so, how would one do that? Or is it really easier to go and do the scraping through the miyoo itself? Just curious!
Sooo 80% of this was fairly easy to follow and I know this is a couple months old from the time of me seeing it, but several things you come across are not even options now. But when it comes to the ROM and BIOS library, Tiny Best Set is pretty hard to follow for me not being up to speed on all this emulator stuff even though I consider myself technologically advanced to a degree a little more in depth would be great on that aspect. But personally I think the setup my Miyoo Mini + comes installed with is way easier to navigate and much much faster than Onion from a couple seconds to start up to almost 2 minutes to load the one game I transferred from my original card to my new one you recommended. Am I missing something or doing something wrong? I don't know why my save file doesn't transfer to my new card with everything else in with my game files. Again not bashing you this was very detailed an in depth and very helpful for the most part. I just feel like I'm doing something wrong and the speed difference is a huge variable compared to whatever it comes with preinstalled. Just in that aspect alone I don't know if its even worth the effort just because it seems like it is going to slow everything way down compared to what it has already. Thanks for any help in advance.
Hey, appreciate the long message, but yeah, transferring over the old bad roms, to the new card, is the antithesis of you want to do here. You want to follow the video to a T otherwise there's really no point doing it. But a two minute load time is not normal either way.
Yeah I was trying to do it all along with your video with a fresh card but when I went to the Tiny Best Set I guess I'm missing the download "button" cause I didn't see anywhere to get the file for the game libraries from... There was a bunch of hyperlinks but nothing stood out to me for downloads. And I was assuming copy and paste from old to new was my problem with the load time but that was just a test cause I didn't have any games at all. But is there a way to transfer my save file for the new version once I get it downloaded? Cause I'm way far into Zelda A Link To The Past to start over 🤣🤣 Thanks again for the reply 🙏🙏
If you look on the right, if you're on a desktop, you can click zip and individually download the zips for your size card following what the page says or on mobile, it's at the bottom. You'll see HTML, item tile, zip, show all etc. Yep you can continue your actual save, but likely not your save state. Backup your save onto your PC, make a new save in onion and replace that save.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds awesome thanks yeah I must have missed that in the side I'm doin on desktop I'll look again tomorrow. So what's the difference in a save file and the save state? Is that like my actual in game save VS the device save? Is that what the save state is? From the device when I hit the menu button?
Yep, actual save is saving normally in game so think Pokemon, push start, hit save. That's a normal save. Save state is when you do the hotkey for menu R1 or menu to exit etc. Those are saving your states.
Thank you so much for the guide! As some people have said, the set up may seem scary but thanks to this tutorial it is perfectly possible and even easy for people like me with no idea of tech stuff. I have one question! Is it possible to install Nintendo 64 console and games in the Miyoo Mini Plus?
This is an excellent resource for setting these up. Can anyone tell me if I can just duplicate the card after I get it set up the first time? I bought several of these to give as gifts. So I was hoping to create a card on the first device, then just copy it to all of the other cards.
thanks SO much for this. Just got it set up with no trouble -- phew. Is there a reason why we need to have an account with scraper to get the images? What if we don't really care about the images, can we just ignore the scraper section? Thanks again- very helpful for someone who was really intimidated by doing this lol
Hello Joe, I have a question,when you said copy all the BIOS files into the files on your SD card. I noticed that my bios folder in my SD card has some folders inside. Also in the tiny best set go it has as well some folders inside Bios. I should copy all the things that are inside the bios of the set to my BIOS folder of my SD card or should I delete the folders and let only the bios?
Hello i didnt understand the part where tiny best set 😅 can you do it in depth and do the steps i have a 128 gb sd card i dont understand it can you help please
The tiny best set BIOS and Roms folders already come with both normal and zipped folders containing files. In the video, you say there should only be the files so should I remove the folders and take out the files in it or should I just leave it as is?
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds Cheers thanks! This is probably a silly question but is it ok to delete the games I don't want from the tinybestset folders or will that mess with the setup?
Thanks for the in-dept setup guide, highly appreciated. I have a specific question regarding the achievements settings - how can I log off or switch off achievements? Each time I play using without wifi on (to stop draining my battery), I get an annoying retroachievements text... How can I make it stop. I tried switching off the achievements - but it does not seem to work. Thanks in advance!
@@JoeysRetroHandheldsI did that and it’s still not showing up in my package manager or apps, super weird. Thanks for the reply and guide though, got everything else working
You're a great help, thanks. I set this up a month ago for my brother, and now my games have no sound. The device still makes sound in the home page, settings etc, but goes mute when I start a game. Do you know if there is a fix for this? Should I update or reinstall something? Also, the mame games have some sort of copyright menu that keeps popping up everytime I press the A button. I don't know what my brother did, I'm so confused by all of this. Any help would be appreciated.
For a complete newb, how long would it take from start to finish to install onion os, plus finding and adding quality roms? 1 hr? 2hrs? 3hrs? More? Thanks
halo, i wanna ask something about installing onion on mini+ from this video you said that if i wanna install onion on mini+, i must update mini+ firmware to the latest version 03:35 . but i wanna buy mini+ without sdcard, how im supposed to know the firmware bcs there no OS to view it to begin with?
New here. Just a quick question, so I have this option stock os or onion os to purchase. Does the os version come with the SD card ? Or it's like built in to the device? Because I'm planning to buy stock os since it's more affordable and getting separate SD card with onion os installed. Tia
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Note: current recent release is Onion V4.2.0.
Also, if you have a newer firmware than mentioned in the video, you don't need to downgrade. Safe to go ahead.
HTTP and FTP have moved to Tweaks, Network.
Lastly, you may need to format your SD card as FAT32 before doing the firmware upgrade.
just downloaded, and popped the SD card in the mini, its stuck at the main Miyoo splash screen ... help!!
@@MrSkazimidid you format it to fat32?
@@MrSkazimi same here!! heeelp
@@simpy6060 is there any diference between FAT32 and Large FAT32? I'm using a 64gb SD card
same as MrSazimi here, right after the instalation is finished, it gets stucks on the boot miyoo mini screen and nothing happens :( my firmware version was of July but I even tried to downgrade it to the March firmware (the exact version of the video) but it didn't worked.
I'm an old man setting up his very first retro handheld. This video made a scary process into one that's very easy and the result is the machine of my dreams. Thank you very much for this. I really appreciate it.
I'm glad I could help!
I'm an old man too. I have the Miyoo charging out of the box right now. So I got to figure this out.
I'm 31 years old and this is complicated AS FUUUUUUU
34 and I made the guide. Age isn't a crutch.
can you help me i just got my miyoo mini plus today and I'm completely lost
Thank you so much for the guide! My dad is an old school gamer and I got this for him as an advanced Christmas gift. He was so excited when he found out that he had me set it up today. This is the most excited I've seen him in a while and I felt great seeing him smile. Needless to say Christmas came early for both of us this year.
I just wanted to come back and say thank you so much for this video. I was extremely nervous about doing this since I have almost 0 computer skills and have been putting it off for a few days. I started this morning and took me less than an hour. Thanks for all the hard work you do. Now I have the handheld of my dreams!
Got my boyfriend a Miyoo mini plus and this guide allowed me to set the device in 10min. Thank you Joey! Keep up with the great work.
❤
Lol fuuuuhhh how are so many people saying it's easy... this is so complicating for me 😢
@@Cheese_crackers it's definitely not EASY easy, unless you're already familiar with software/hardware terms and behaviors (my case). Totally ok to struggle and have to repeat few of the steps if needed =)
Joey this is my first handheld and i was foolish enough to buy this device without the knowledge of understanding that i would have to install onions on this device and other techy things. I have a new sd card and reader on the way and i am DETERMINED to play a game on this thing. I will be back to update my progress!
Just got mine today, extremely helpful! Wanna put in some notes though. FAT32 works the same as LARGE FAT32. If you plug in the SD card and charger (after adding the firmware file to your card) and you don't see a rocket, just the charging screen, you're good to skip the update part as you can already just put all the Onion stuff on your formatted card (or this worked for me, got mine on 7/27/23)
Its September 2023 and this video still works perfect. I didnt see your update, so I downgraded, but I'm sure its fine. Everything works great and I love this little system! Thanks again for a great video.
You're welcome!
Pro tip tiny best set go (if you know you know) comes with all the roms you need and artwork already scraped.
So downloading just the tiny best set go, i will get artwork included? Seen on the page there is another download for art.
Cheers
Just read the page and follow the instructions and you can download that artwork pack as well, yep!
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds hi, I happened to see this comment and I have a quick question for you. I followed the instructions and unzipped all required folders into the same folder. When I unzipped the tiny best set go games zip folder, it asked if I wanted to replace or skip a bunch of files. There were 1800 or 1900. I skipped them but not sure if I should have. I did the 128 GB set so it said to download the folder I just mentioned plus the 64 and 128 expansions.
Likely didn't hurt. In all honesty, I don't personally use the tiny best set, as I have my own curated roms, but shouldn't be any reason why you'd need to overwrite them, so you should be fine.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds thanks for your help, I appreciate it!
Another small update with the more recent versions of Onion, you wont see the FTP and Web necessarily in the apps anymore, however, once its enabled Via Tweaks > Network, you can then navigate to the IP assigned to your unit (check Network again for the IP) and you'll still be able to access the browser the same way. It confused me a bit at first until I realized I toggled the option on and to just try the IP assigned. The more you know :)
Hands down the best Setup Guide out there. You made my day, thanks man.
For a noob like me, thanks a lot, you make retrogaming more accessible for everyone !
This guid deserves some major awards. THANK YOU
I'll be setting up my Miyoo Mini soon and found this video. I've never done anything with emulating or ROMs and was nervous I'll screw something up. But watching your step by step guide makes me feel more confident of being able to get my retro machine running. Thank you.
I'm all messed up here, i think i got most of it but i'm running into an issue with the tiny best set go games. it's missing about half of the folders he showed in the video. let me know if you have success.
All I can say is have the video up and copy moment by moment.(Although I needed to format my SD card before anything) That's how I did it. It took a better part of a day, but I eventually got my Miyoo setup.
@@nocrot1 i think i got it too!
thank you for this solid guide. i personally use a retroid pocket but i got a miyoo mini + for my gf's xmas gift and i really wanted it to be ready to go for her. This guide was perfect.
Thanks for the guide! Just ordered my Mini+ with a 256gb micro sd card and really looking forward to living my childhood dreams again. Cheers 🍻
I thought it only supported up to 128gb?
@@starmorpheus I'm not sure what the cap is but my 256gb works perfectly.
@@SargentAlebeard Good to know, thanks
Just got a Miyoo for Christmas and this is going to make something that seemed intimidating super easy! Thanks!
my firmware was 2023xxx so i went straight to the sd card reformat and os installion. thanks for this guide!
I love this device, it's so good. And onion just makes it so much better!
Thank you for this guide Im at the scrapping part,Just got my miyoo mini + . Wish more guides were this clean and helpful
Thank you so much, I was struggling with the other videos. So happy you made this video and simplified it. Keep up the great work brother!
Took me all day to setup (that's definitely on me not because of your vid haha) but looks like I finally got mine setup and I'm ready to dive in. Thanks a ton!
Thanks I ordered miyoo mini plus and this guide explains everything, thank u
I got everything downloaded and ready to go. Now I’m just waiting for my miyoo mini plus to be delivered. Thank you.
Thanks so much, this is a great tutorial ! I have Onion 4.2.3 and apparently the whole "box art" section is not needed anymore, I already have the game thumbnails.
Thank you for your help, I found all the other videos I’d watched on this to be a bit of a nightmare and being new with emulation/roms/bios you made it very simple and straight forward for me to follow.
i've added a couple of new games so going to give the scraping a go tonight.
Does anyone else notice any slowdown with Sega CD games or is it me?
I have one of these arriving today, just in time for a 2 hour flight tomorrow. I will most likely leave it stock for this weekends trip but then dig into changing OS/ROMs later on so I'm bookmarking this video.
This is the best guide for sure. For example, Russ from retrogamecore suggests using different software for formatting SD card, but that one doesn't even work on a clean Samsung 128 Gb SD card, lol! Also this guide specifies a way easier ROM/Bios approach.
For connecting the Wi-Fi, the SSID name had to be one word without spaces and no special characters, but it finally worked!
Thanks boss! Your clear instructions were best on youtube
Cheers!🎉
Love the guide, waiting for my miyoo mini plus.
Super tip at the beginning, " Use a branded SD card AND a branded card reader." Should have bought that card reader a long time ago, but thanks!! Was using the cheap ones with all kinds of read errors. Throw those away and buy a good one.
just ordered my mini+ today cant wait to set it up
Thank You! I just got mine today, and this was a Godsend! I loved the pacing and clarity of this video :)
Getting mine tomorrow and I can't wait.
How was the setup? Tried using the "Done Set"?
bro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love BOF3 & BOF4, i thought i was the only person that knew about these awesome rpg games, they are my childhood favorite!!!!
Underrated games, under the radar nowadays.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds way ahead of it’s time, the mini fishing game to this day haven’t seen a better one and while everyone was lusting over playing FFVII I was a BOF purist
Bought one tomorrow, so I am happy to get a miyoo, but awesome this guide, then I can already start searching for games I wanna play on it, and add them tomorrow 😁
I need this video after 20 days of shipping 😂
Thank you for creating this video. Easy to follow. links all very helpful and the tiny best set and expansions will keep me more then busy on my upcoming vacation.
Thumbs-up from a seasoned computer/retroarch tinkerer! 😉
This final game expansion takes so long.. scavenging for other roms I don't see on the list while I wait. Thanks for the help!
Glad to help!
Amazing tutorial! Only thing that is not working properly for me. Where do the images for the roms go? I added a "Imgs" folder inside of the roms folder for the appropriate system.
dude the usb to usbc is a life save for a lot of peopler, you fucking rock
Thank you so much! This was an extremely detailed and helpful guide! :D
I subscribed too! :)
Thank you for the guide, worked like a charm!!
Is there a way to swap function of key A and B. Or even better make Key B to confirm and key Y to go back?
The Web File Browser doesn’t work on mine. No idea what I’m doing wrong 😢
how long does it take to download the tiny best set go zip roms? should i download 1 at a time cause when i do all three it says like 40 days
Amazing Guide, thank you so much ❤
Might be new info but when you order this the company has an option to put onion on for you. And they come with thousands of great roms as well now.
There seems to be games missing on the Tiny Best set that were on the original set of games included on the SD card
Any way to get faster download speeds? On the tiny best set it says I have to wait a whole day for the 64gb download
Thank you so much, very thorough & clearly explained. I also appreciate the links that you've provided. Look forward to receiving my device & switching over to onionOS!
Thank you so much for all the information. Thanks to you and allot of downloading I got mine all set up. So happy.
I have 2 questions. 1 do you necessarily need to use this software & what dose it do exactly? 2 can you just play the system straight out of the box?
this video was helpful in allowing me to install onion os to my miyoo mini plus, but I did have to watch it multiple times and redownload files multiples times to actually get it working because I have no previous knowledge of how to do any of this. The only problem I seem to have is that there are no games in my console. Everything seems fine with the device, but it has no games.
Thank you for this detailed video! Is there a way to do this from a Mac?
I'm extremely new to all of this and will be going through this process tomorrow. Is 7- zip necessary, and should I download it?
Ty in advance for the video. It will hopefully save me a huge headache .
Yes it is
TY VERY MUH GOT One of these off temu and had no sd card and the factory os didnt read roms until i installed this os thank you!!!!
Where do you show later the clock thats built in???
Thanks for your useful guide. I followed it with very few problems (all of which were ahem... user error). I did download the box art packs from Tiny Best Set - much less painful than scraping and seem to be very accurate. I also agree that the included card reader is rubbish, it simply didn't work very well and has been consigned to the bin - what a waste of resources! The rom downloads did indeed take some time, but they say patience is a virtue!
Got it setup thx for the help. What does the expert part of the setup do for the emulators?
Where can you find and download the latest firmware of the Miyoo Mini+?
can you show how to install poke rom hacks next for my miyoo mini plus next?
I just got one yesterday :D and came with Kingston Canvas Select Plus, 64GB :D I'm not throwing it :))
Mine came last week with a Lexar branded card. I think maybe they were hearing about failures on the generic cards and opted for higher quality ones for the more recently produced Miyoos.
As a Cybersecurity professional i'm neverous about plugging the OG sd card into my PC to even update the firmware. Is it possible to boot into Onion OS on my own SD card without ever touching the included one?
On the Rufus website, it says Windows 8 or later is required and I have Windows 7. What other methods are there to get the format on the MicroSC card?
My guy what even is windows 7 we on 11 💀
@@DavyDave1313 💀💀
Hi! Super helpful video, it was easy to follow as well! But I wanted to know why I can't find any PS1 games in my console, don't know if this is because I bought a 32gb SD card?? And do you know any other place that we can get more games and more consoles like N64?? Thanks!!
I’m having the same prob
Thanks mate! One question though. Why not use the sd card that came with the Miyoo? Cheers!
Thank you good sir. Concise, direct and worked perfectly. Very grateful!
I love my Miyoo Mini plus!
Thank you SO MUCH for this video!!
Joey. First, thanks man. The guide is fantastic. I did have one question; when do you think we'll have a Miyoo Flip?
Zero clue!
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds That is such a Canadian response. 😄😉👍. Fair enough man.
BEEN FIGHTING AGAINST IT ALL NIGHT, turns out it wouldnt install cause I named the sd MIYOO, and there was some kind of conflict with the folder in the onion package 🙃
Hey any recommendations on which SD and plug I should buy? I couldn’t find the video where you mentioned it.
Awesome video I got everything down. But it’s not recognizing the cd rom games. I copy n pasted in the bios folder not sure if I missed something.
Thanks a lot for this video. My dad has been looking for ways to play retro games so I decided to get him one of these and set it up for him for Christmas. On the game images- I'm curious if you can do it through tiny best set go? Is that what the image files are intended to be? If so, how would one do that? Or is it really easier to go and do the scraping through the miyoo itself? Just curious!
Yep, just follow the instructions on the tiny best set page, it's all detailed there :)
Thank you so much for this!!!
Sooo 80% of this was fairly easy to follow and I know this is a couple months old from the time of me seeing it, but several things you come across are not even options now.
But when it comes to the ROM and BIOS library, Tiny Best Set is pretty hard to follow for me not being up to speed on all this emulator stuff even though I consider myself technologically advanced to a degree a little more in depth would be great on that aspect.
But personally I think the setup my Miyoo Mini + comes installed with is way easier to navigate and much much faster than Onion from a couple seconds to start up to almost 2 minutes to load the one game I transferred from my original card to my new one you recommended.
Am I missing something or doing something wrong?
I don't know why my save file doesn't transfer to my new card with everything else in with my game files.
Again not bashing you this was very detailed an in depth and very helpful for the most part.
I just feel like I'm doing something wrong and the speed difference is a huge variable compared to whatever it comes with preinstalled.
Just in that aspect alone I don't know if its even worth the effort just because it seems like it is going to slow everything way down compared to what it has already.
Thanks for any help in advance.
Hey, appreciate the long message, but yeah, transferring over the old bad roms, to the new card, is the antithesis of you want to do here. You want to follow the video to a T otherwise there's really no point doing it. But a two minute load time is not normal either way.
Yeah I was trying to do it all along with your video with a fresh card but when I went to the Tiny Best Set I guess I'm missing the download "button" cause I didn't see anywhere to get the file for the game libraries from... There was a bunch of hyperlinks but nothing stood out to me for downloads. And I was assuming copy and paste from old to new was my problem with the load time but that was just a test cause I didn't have any games at all. But is there a way to transfer my save file for the new version once I get it downloaded? Cause I'm way far into Zelda A Link To The Past to start over 🤣🤣
Thanks again for the reply 🙏🙏
If you look on the right, if you're on a desktop, you can click zip and individually download the zips for your size card following what the page says or on mobile, it's at the bottom. You'll see HTML, item tile, zip, show all etc. Yep you can continue your actual save, but likely not your save state. Backup your save onto your PC, make a new save in onion and replace that save.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds awesome thanks yeah I must have missed that in the side I'm doin on desktop I'll look again tomorrow. So what's the difference in a save file and the save state? Is that like my actual in game save VS the device save? Is that what the save state is? From the device when I hit the menu button?
Yep, actual save is saving normally in game so think Pokemon, push start, hit save. That's a normal save. Save state is when you do the hotkey for menu R1 or menu to exit etc. Those are saving your states.
Thank you so much ! im so happpy :)
Thank you so much for the guide! As some people have said, the set up may seem scary but thanks to this tutorial it is perfectly possible and even easy for people like me with no idea of tech stuff. I have one question! Is it possible to install Nintendo 64 console and games in the Miyoo Mini Plus?
And another question I have: Where can we download more games?
Unfortunately it's not powerful enough for N64.
This is an excellent resource for setting these up. Can anyone tell me if I can just duplicate the card after I get it set up the first time? I bought several of these to give as gifts. So I was hoping to create a card on the first device, then just copy it to all of the other cards.
thanks SO much for this. Just got it set up with no trouble -- phew. Is there a reason why we need to have an account with scraper to get the images? What if we don't really care about the images, can we just ignore the scraper section? Thanks again- very helpful for someone who was really intimidated by doing this lol
Yeah you can ignore it. The account is just to get by the daily limit for scraping as a free guest, can't recall the limit.
Hello Joe, I have a question,when you said copy all the BIOS files into the files on your SD card. I noticed that my bios folder in my SD card has some folders inside. Also in the tiny best set go it has as well some folders inside Bios. I should copy all the things that are inside the bios of the set to my BIOS folder of my SD card or should I delete the folders and let only the bios?
Yeah you should have a bios folder from the tiny best set, just merge that with the bios folder on the sd card.
Thanks ❤
Hello i didnt understand the part where tiny best set 😅 can you do it in depth and do the steps i have a 128 gb sd card i dont understand it can you help please
The tiny best set BIOS and Roms folders already come with both normal and zipped folders containing files. In the video, you say there should only be the files so should I remove the folders and take out the files in it or should I just leave it as is?
I couldn't see from your scrolling does it have colecovision and/or MSX?
The bit at 3:20. Is that something you do with the stock card that comes with the machine not the sd card you get yourself?
You can use a new sd card for that, then just reformat it after to use for games. Just format it to Fat32 beforehand.
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds Cheers thanks! This is probably a silly question but is it ok to delete the games I don't want from the tinybestset folders or will that mess with the setup?
Nope you can delete and add whatever you want
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds Thank you!
Awsome it all worked out so well! Finaly got wifi working it only took the update tot onion 4.2.3 :)
My miyoo firmware is 202305052130, does this mean I have to wait for Onion OS to catch up or can I continue with this guide?
You can continue!
@@JoeysRetroHandhelds thank you! Yes it worked, only had my mm+ for a day before moving to onion but it looks much cleaner!
Thanks for the in-dept setup guide, highly appreciated.
I have a specific question regarding the achievements settings - how can I log off or switch off achievements? Each time I play using without wifi on (to stop draining my battery), I get an annoying retroachievements text... How can I make it stop.
I tried switching off the achievements - but it does not seem to work. Thanks in advance!
You can turn off the notification, but then you'll never see it. There's no way to turn it off only when it's offline unfortunately.
I updated to Onion but the FTP app isn’t anywhere in my package manager, is there a way to download that somehow?
Check tweaks, network.
@@JoeysRetroHandheldsI did that and it’s still not showing up in my package manager or apps, super weird. Thanks for the reply and guide though, got everything else working
thank you so much! 🙏
You're very welcome!
I have a mac, I don't have any idea how to get to the first step of creating the non-bootable drive.
Unfortunately I don't have a MAC.
You're a great help, thanks. I set this up a month ago for my brother, and now my games have no sound. The device still makes sound in the home page, settings etc, but goes mute when I start a game. Do you know if there is a fix for this? Should I update or reinstall something? Also, the mame games have some sort of copyright menu that keeps popping up everytime I press the A button. I don't know what my brother did, I'm so confused by all of this. Any help would be appreciated.
3:45 does that mean if my myioo already has onionOS I can skip this?
For a complete newb, how long would it take from start to finish to install onion os, plus finding and adding quality roms? 1 hr? 2hrs? 3hrs? More? Thanks
The length of this video.
halo, i wanna ask something about installing onion on mini+
from this video you said that if i wanna install onion on mini+, i must update mini+ firmware to the latest version 03:35 . but i wanna buy mini+ without sdcard, how im supposed to know the firmware bcs there no OS to view it to begin with?
The OS is in the device.
New here. Just a quick question, so I have this option stock os or onion os to purchase. Does the os version come with the SD card ? Or it's like built in to the device? Because I'm planning to buy stock os since it's more affordable and getting separate SD card with onion os installed. Tia
Thanks for all of the details.👍