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| Posted: 10:02am 12 Jun 2025 |
Hi all,
I have just bought the same version as Martin, from a few posts back the R36 Pro, I was interested mainly in seeing what you get for only $/€/£26. (price seems to vary by the second!!)
It took me a while to get ArkOS working on it, so I thought I'd post details for anyone else.
This is the main link for ArkOS GitHub
This is the link if you get a clone like this one, a Pro, there is also a Max and others. for the Pro you want the first install, for a 'K36 and R36S Clones'.
You need to flash this onto a micro SD card, I use Etcher and plug it into the SD card socket on the right of the console.
Turn the console on, and let it go through its initialisation, eventually you will get to a working box. Power it off, put a second micro SD with game roms into the left hand SD card socket and power on again, the system should now find the roms and allow you to play them, you may need to play around with emulator settings for some games. Should you so require I think you can also put games roms onto the original sd card in the right hand socket, in which case you don't need the second SD card.
Using the menus it should now be possible to attach a USB WiFi adapter to the OTG socket and eventually SSH into the operating system, which is Linux. (I haven't yet done this)
Edited 2025-06-12 20:29 by Bleep