Miyoo Roms
Jamey Saldana
Note that due to demand, availability has been an issue. The cheapest prices will be through the official Miyoo store on AliExpress, but you will need to check periodically to see when the device will be in stock. You can also try third-party vendors like KeepRetro or DroiX, or you can pay a premium price on Amazon to get it more quickly.
To install new firmware, I recommend starting from scratch with a new microSD card. You could use a 16GB card to save on costs and keep your game library trim, or you could fill it up with the works. Personally, I use a 32GB card in mine, with only a few PS1 and Sega CD games taking up the majority of the space. Here are the cards I recommend:
The Miyoo Mini/Plus will come with a cheap SD card reader, but I recommend a nicer one instead. This one from Anker has never done me wrong for $15, and I also love this more fancy version with USB-C and USB-A connections.
One of the great things about a popular device like the Miyoo Mini is that the community comes together to find all sorts of accessories and solutions to every little need. There are plenty of choices when it comes to custom buttons and stickers, 3D-printed grips, and more. The original Miyoo Mini is approximately the same size as a deck of playing cards, so playing card cases are great alternative carriers for this device.
In the BIOS folder, add your BIOS file collection. You can simply copy/paste the files from your stock SD card, or add your own. On the stock SD card, you can find the BIOS files under RetroArch > .retroarch > System
To see a recommended list of BIOS files to add, head over to the Onion wiki page to see their list of emulators and recommended BIOS files for each system. For most systems, BIOS are not required, but can enhance the playing experience (like adding the original boot logo when starting up a game). For systems like PS1, Sega CD, and TurboGrafx-CD, BIOS are a necessary component.
When adding game files for systems that use the same RetroArch core file, you can create subfolders. For example, You could make Sega CD and Sega 32x subfolders inside of your Sega Genesis to clean up your front menu and streamline the navigation experience.
Recent updates from the community now allow for Nintendo DS emulation and the ability to play Pico-8 games (and its trademark Splore menu) natively. See the video above for a demonstration and walkthrough of the experience. Both apps will work fine on the Miyoo Mini and Miyoo Mini Plus, but for the online functionality of Pico-8, you will need a Miyoo Mini Plus connected to the Internet. Note that these apps require you to be running the latest version of OnionOS.
The Onion apps section has the ability to install your own themes, and you can also grab more from this massive themes repository. Moreover, you can adjust the themes to your liking, or create your own.
MiniUI is a lightweight launcher that is focused on simplicity, and works on both the Miyoo Mini and Miyoo Mini Plus. As expected, the installation of MiniUI is simple. Note that the Miyoo Mini firmware upgrade is not required for MiniUI.
Onion OS doesnt load some roms after following this guide.
GBA, FC, and SFC roms bring up a loading text then returns back to the Onion OS rom list. But if I Apps>RetroArch>Load Content>Navigate to ROM folder>Run rom with any core it works. I have verified the naming/path/capitalization is correct.
hi, im new to do this. i just got a miyoo mini v2 but without SD card from a third party. if i can get my own SD card will it be possible to download games onto my miyoo?
can anybody help me out with this?
The device wont take the update. When i plug it in, it skips the update and goes right to the charging symbol for both cards. I tried plugging it into the PC and an old brick. It does everything normally except loading the .img file.
I am following the Miyoo Mini videos since months, hesitated to order a Miyoo Mini because it seems to be too small for me (and has not been available at any second ) and missed the first Keepretro pre-order.
Today, I saw the announcement that KeepRetro has (only white) Miyoo Mini + available, so I ordered! Totally looking forward to this! ?
I was really on the presumption that the issue being a critical bug with the CFW. Because someone previously posted on Reddit about having installed a non-4.2.X version of OnionOS on his Mini Plus, which resulted in him losing charging capability as you did.
Hey Russ. Great guide. I did get stuck at one point and after working through it, thought it might be a good note to add. In my case I was using a flash disk that had a GPT partition table on it instead of the MBR partition table. Because of that, when attempting to use the guiformat tool to format the drive, it kept popping up an error saying the drive was in use. I did some digging, and that is when I came across a note somewhere talking about the partition table type. Then after following the guide below, I was able to convert it to an MBR partition table and then everything worked as it should. Just thought it might be worth adding a note or at minimum adding it to the comments here incase it helps someone else.
-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/change-a-gpt-disk-into-an-mbr-disk
What I did was delete my entire rom collection, downloaded a newer and more complete one (GoodNES 3.14) and then what I did was I got this app called RomCenter which basically reduced the entire rom set to just the essential roms. After that I scanned these roms, and Retroarch seemed to scan them fine.
No, no change in overall behavior, though the databases themselves have undergone changes since then. Regardless, the scanning has no effect on whether or not you can actually run the games, just whether they show up in a playlist.
I imported a folder of GBA Rom's of which several (more than 30) have a #GBA in the file name. These roms are already in LB and they play without issue. The problem is that Metadata does not get pulled reliably if at all. I have gone into a couple and manually changed the title and then the metadata is downloaded without an issue.
This led me to use a mass file renaming utility (Advanced Renamer) which allowed me to get rid of just the #GBA in the file names. The problem is, LB still sees them with the #GBA and the path that LB points to for the actual rom is still the name with #GBA in it.
I just started to re-import all of the GBA ROMS folder (in which the files have been renamed to omit the #GBA) which I am now thinking might have been a mistake as it might double up all of the roms? Is there an easy way to batch change the titles and rom paths after importing originally? Or should I just delete all metadata associated with the GBA Roms and start from scratch?
The best method now that you got all your rom names cleaned up is to remove all the games from the GBA platform in LB and re-import them. It is unfortunate that some rom sets do name their roms with numbers in front of it.
Ok. I just cancelled out of the re-import I was trying and did a CTRL+A inside GBA and deleted everything while in LB. Closed and restarted LB and just began a new import of those ROMs with the better names. Fingers crossed. Thanks for the help! Now I know to check the naming before importing any large quantities of ROMs!!
The advanced renamer is a great tool It is what I had already used. I put the portable version in my dependencies folder on a portable HD with all of my LB files just for this sort of thing. Got it pretty well sorted out now. Thanks again!
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