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Awesome Steward, thank you very much how is the performance?

Yes, I am using old uboot and kernel but new rootfs.
the first 8MB data in internal sdcard include uboot and kernel, so, you can reverse or copy it to your new sdcard by using dd command.
and your new sdcard must be ext3 in first partition because kernel boot arg is: mmcblk0p1 ext3

good luck !

By the way, you can also load rootfs from external sdcard (GBA slot) at boot stage by modifying boot args:
$ sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=head.img bs=1M count=8
$ sed -i 's/mmcblk0p1/mmcblk1p1/g' head.img
$ sudo dd if=head.img of=/dev/mmcblk0
https://steward-fu.github.io/website/handheld/retrogame/rootfs_from_sdcard1.htm



Best regards
Steward

Is this device as capable as like the GCW Zero or the Revo K101 in terms of hardware?

Also, looking forward to receiving my unit and putting all this custom stuff on there, Steward.

RS-97 is less powerful than the Zero so emulators may not be as good but performance might be like Dingoo A380  with custom firmware?

http://boards.dingoonity.org/dingoo-technology-a380/firmware-v2-0016-with-neo-geo-zip-support/

Quote from: Steward on February 04, 2018, 02:56:58 pm

Hi,
All of emulators are ready for optimization.
For this beta OS, it will include the following emulators:
GMenu2X (Main GUI)
GB, GBC, GBA
FC, SFC, MD
PCE, PS1
FBA, DOSBOX
JinYong, SDLPAL, SDLPAL MHV

Very good work Steward, but no mame?

Seagal is already working on mame and if you take a look at steward's github you will see that mame is there as well

Quote from: Steward on February 05, 2018, 12:54:46 am

Quote from: Steward on February 04, 2018, 09:21:33 am

Yes, I am using old uboot and kernel but new rootfs.
the first 8MB data in internal sdcard include uboot and kernel, so, you can reverse or copy it to your new sdcard by using dd command.
and your new sdcard must be ext3 in first partition because kernel boot arg is: mmcblk0p1 ext3

good luck !

By the way, you can also load rootfs from external sdcard (GBA slot) at boot stage by modifying boot args:

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$ sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=head.img bs=1M count=8
$ sed -i 's/mmcblk0p1/mmcblk1p1/g' head.img
$ sudo dd if=head.img of=/dev/mmcblk0
https://steward-fu.github.io/website/handheld/retrogame/rootfs_from_sdcard1.htm



Best regards
Steward

You can gain access to the uboot console by overwriting the 4mb kernel with e.g 0. Uboot will then fail to boot and default to the console. There you can set the boot delay. Now you can re-write the kernel to the sdcard and have permanent access.

thanks for your information !

Can you tell me on which linux distribution you are working? I can't get buildroot to compile without errors. I would like to bootstrap into another distro.

Any chance of dual booting steward and snes fans os's? Its aleays nice to have options

I would love a .img file because i want to install on the 128gb internal card and write the image with win32disk. I am sure many others would want to change to a bigger card size too.Opening the device is quite easy and hard to break anything simply just remove card and put new written one in your done.Also you could have a firmware flasher file in opk file format that you can flash to the internal memory card.And for updates you can have a pc flashing program which can flash the device. When it has a new update simply just copy to update folder on ext card and flash will write to internal memory hope this is possible as it would save opening the device each time we would want to update the device.Just ideas here but at least we have a few options keep up the great work.

Yes 128gb works