The third generation<\/a> of ANBERNIC<\/a> handhelds laid host to a variety of firmware. All with similar goals (to provide a better experience over the stock firmware), but achieving that in slightly different ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While firmware such as 351ELEC <\/a>aim to build upon and improve OS that the stock firmware ran on, there are some that supplant the old systems and opt for implementing something different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ArkOS is one such custom firmware. Being based on Ubuntu 19.10 – it grants a greater degree of freedom for developers and enables a number of additional features over EmuELEC, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n ArkOS does not come with optimized defaults or configurations for its emulators. Meaning it will require a little more set up than the stock firmware or 351ELEC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additionally, ArkOS does not come with the BIOS files needed for some emulators to function<\/strong>. You will need to add these yourself before you can play<\/strong>. For a full list of the emulators on ArkOS and the BIOS files needed, see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Download the following files before proceeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The process of installing <\/em>ArkOS is identical to that of installing any other firmware on these devices. So rather than reinvent the wheel, we’ll be re-using the images from other guides where appropriate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First, you’ll need to format the card so that it is cleared of data, and all in one single partition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If your card is already formatted, you can skip this step.<\/strong> If you have purchased a new SD card, it is likely already formatted. Just delete any files on it and you will be good to go.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We’ll be using MiniTool paritition Wizard, but you can use whatever suits you best. You must make sure that the entire card is in one partition, and that this partition is accessible<\/strong> (meaning you can drag\/drop files from it).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now you must actually flash ArkOS onto the RG351.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is done through the imaging tool you may have downloaded earlier. We’ll be using Win32 Disk Imager<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once you open the program, you’ll be met with this screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next two steps can be performed in any particular order:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once you have done these two steps, click the “Write” button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once the card has been flashed, insert it into the device and press the power button<\/strong>. The system will perform some first-boot tasks (setting up the file system, expanding the storage, etc.) that may take a while, so be patience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now that the system has booted up, we highly advise you look through the wonderfully comprehensive ArkOS Wiki<\/a> in order to get started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’re interested in purchasing an RG351P, RG351M, RG351V or GameForce Chi of your own, you can buy them at these links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We hope you’ve found this guide for installing ArkOS on your RG351 device to be of use. If you have any questions, feedback, or otherwise – please feel free to leave a comment below. Until next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Looking to improve your retro gaming handheld? Check our ArkOS for the RG351 family of devices in our handy installation guide!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":859,"featured_media":2701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[60,38,84,57,78,79,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-2665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"tag-anbernic","9":"tag-firmware","10":"tag-gameforce","11":"tag-retro-gaming","12":"tag-rg351m","13":"tag-rg351p","14":"tag-rg351v"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/droix.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}You Will Need:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How to install ArkOS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
1. Format your card<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Wipe your microSD card – Images<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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2. Flash the Image<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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