Any Custom Firmware for the Retron Sq?

Jayro · Jun 13, 2022

thatguy0130 said:
I second the above sentiment. Thank you! I am still willing to test anything else you want to try with it if you need anyone to I noticed it runs PS1 games pretty well but mine would crash after about 2 hours of play.

The machine hardly has any RAM, perhaps we need a swap file added to the SD card to prevent crashing.

godreborn · Jun 13, 2022

is that retron also by hyperkin?

Jayro · Jun 13, 2022

godreborn said:
is that retron also by hyperkin?

Yep. But it's actually a good little hardware device.

thatguy0130 · Jun 13, 2022

Jayro said:
The machine hardly has any RAM, perhaps we need a swap file added to the SD card to prevent crashing.

I am not sure what a swap file is but I would be happy to test one out if you wanted I just played around with the PSX version of FFVI for a bit and noticed it would crash after a bit of play time. I also had it running a Saturn game for a minute but it was running very poorly at less than a frame a second. But it was fun to see what the box is capable of with that custom firmware.

shinrukus · Jun 13, 2022

thatguy0130 said:
I second the above sentiment. Thank you! I am still willing to test anything else you want to try with it if you need anyone to I noticed it runs PS1 games pretty well but mine would crash after about 2 hours of play.

I've gotten PS1 games to run a while ago (PCSX-Rearmed) but it wasn't that great though... The coolest thing I've gotten running is CPS3, and thats kinda off to be honest. Really, this thing is really only good as a Rom Dumper that just so happen to play other games...

thatguy0130 · Jun 14, 2022

shinrukus said:
I've gotten PS1 games to run a while ago (PCSX-Rearmed) but it wasn't that great though... The coolest thing I've gotten running is CPS3, and thats kinda off to be honest. Really, this thing is really only good as a Rom Dumper that just so happen to play other games...

Yeah I suppose compared to other retro stuff out there this one isn't that capable but I think it is still a neat little box. I am grateful for your work to get more out of it.

thatguy0130 · Jun 18, 2022

Is there any way to get other controller support for the SQ? I tried taking the files from the buildbot but when I put them in the folder it just broke the functionality of the included retro pad. I'm guessing it takes an extra step somewhere to get that to work

Jayro · Jun 18, 2022

thatguy0130 said:
Is there any way to get other controller support for the SQ? I tried taking the files from the buildbot but when I put them in the folder it just broke the functionality of the included retro pad. I'm guessing it takes an extra step somewhere to get that to work

Somewhere in the files is a config file for controllers, I've come across it before but forget where exactly. It's at the system level, not for RetroArch.

thatguy0130 · Jun 20, 2022

Jayro said:
Somewhere in the files is a config file for controllers, I've come across it before but forget where exactly. It's at the system level, not for RetroArch.

I was looking around for that file and I only see a retroarch.cfg in etc on the 40MB partition and a busybox.config in the root of that partition (which says do not edit). Neither of those seem specific for input controllers. I am thinking that everything in the retroarch folder on the userdata partition is all part of retroarch and not what you were referring to.

Chris8ond · Jul 6, 2022

shinrukus said:
I also almost got saving back to the cartridge working. It writes, but i break the save doing it, but im only working with Super Mario Advance 3 cause thats the only GBA game I am willing to spare a save on lol, I don't wanna lose my Fusion data...

How about og gameboy games

Chris8ond · Jul 6, 2022

shinrukus said:
I also almost got saving back to the cartridge working. It writes, but i break the save doing it, but im only working with Super Mario Advance 3 cause thats the only GBA game I am willing to spare a save on lol, I don't wanna lose my Fusion data...

That would be amazing if you get this working. Looking forward to seeing the future of the retron sq

zeldaman23 · Jan 17, 2023

Bump.

Any idea how to change the core setting for GBA? I don't want that emulator from PSP. I want to use mGBA.

Canard · Apr 22, 2023

shinrukus said:
I also almost got saving back to the cartridge working. It writes, but i break the save doing it, but im only working with Super Mario Advance 3 cause thats the only GBA game I am willing to spare a save on lol, I don't wanna lose my Fusion data...

New to this (hi everyone) but I would be more than happy to help/test in any way I can contribute to getting the Retron sq to write save files back to the cartridge. Apparently Hyperkin didn’t have any issues with this during development, but disabled the feature anyway (if there was minimal risk of data corruption one can’t help but wonder why..?)

Jayro · Apr 22, 2023

zeldaman23 said:
Bump.

Any idea how to change the core setting for GBA? I don't want that emulator from PSP. I want to use mGBA.

You just need a keyboard to hit Escape, and then you can change the core.

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I wanna know why expanding the partition to hold more ROMs extends the boot time. That doesn't make ANY sense to me. Expanding it from 40MB to say... 512MB isn't affecting boot times much, but expanding it to fill a 32GB+ SD card really slows things down, and I don't understand why. Maybe there's a disk check (fsck?) somewhere that could be skipped?

Crazyhouse05 · May 28, 2023

@Jayro How do i get access to the retron sq's files? every time i try to open them it comes up with an error code and tells me to wipe the sd card.

Megadaeth · Sep 27, 2023

shinrukus said:
I took out Cart dumping on that one, I made a new one with Cart Dumping ability -

I am very new to this but when mount the sd card to my pc after flashed the img file i get many usb drives? i cant some

shinrukus said:
Check my latest one out. I still can't get saves converted back (this is due to my lack of know-how) but you can use that 64gb card on Partition 6 which will get mounted as "sdcard" you can stick whatever roms you want in there, without the extra loading time for "userdata"

Very new to this but how do i add games and cores? when i mount my sd card there are 5 usb images? and when i starting Linux File Systems for Windows it dont find any thing? best regards

Shirleyshirley · Mar 21, 2024

Jayro said:
The machine hardly has any RAM, perhaps we need a swap file added to the SD card to prevent crashing.

Mine did not come with the micro as card so I can’t get it to do anything

Jayro · Mar 21, 2024

Crazyhouse05 said:
@Jayro How do i get access to the retron sq's files? every time i try to open them it comes up with an error code and tells me to wipe the sd card.

If you're mounting it under Windows, you're gonna have a bad time. Mount it under Linux, and explore it's contents as Root. Linux Mint has a file explorer with "Open as Root..." as a directory option under it's context menu, when you right-click on a folder. That's been the easiest way for me to manipulate the files.

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