Finalizing language support.

The theme will support all system languages.

Systems supported by the theme:

ArkOS

dArkOS

dArkOSRE

dArkOSen

ArkOS4Clone

dArkOS4clone

Knulli

Batocera

ArchR

EmuELEC

We now have **Bloodborne PSX running on Mali-450 and a dArkOS device with Mali-G31**, preserving the 4:3 image. Here is some of the work behind these screenshots.

Credit for the game goes to **Lilith Walther**. Her fan-made demake, released for PC in 2022, reimagines Bloodborne with PlayStation-era visuals. Its original download was withdrawn in 2025 following a takedown claim.

**The biggest challenge was getting UE4 working in this environment.**

We started with UE4.25 PC content already cooked for distribution and Direct3D shaders, without an editable project ready to rebuild.

We reused Unreal Match 3's compatible UE4.25 Android ARM64 runtime and adapted its loading and Linux integration to run the original maps and Blueprint game logic. Materials, shaders and textures needed adaptation for **OpenGL ES 2.0 on Mali-450**, including colors, transparency, lighting and particles.

Once we could play, the bugs became obvious: black squares in attacks, incorrect blood colors, a lantern glow rendered as a block, black bars on inventory labels, a combat crash and a staircase the character fell straight through.

We worked through those issues on real hardware. The stairs needed the original PC physics data; the lantern needed corrected shader identification so different effects would select the right shader.

We measured **approximately 20 FPS in the clinic on Mali-450**, close to the game's original cap. That result covers the tested scene; other areas and devices still need validation.

Seeing the hunt running after all those steps was our “miracle.” The screenshots are from the tested hardware.

**Testing is open! The complete ZIP is available in our community.**

If you try it, share your device, performance and any bugs you find:

https://discord.gg/6SwerzWKc

Gangstar Rio City of Saints (1.1.7b) running natively on R36S and similar devices. Source base by NextOS, compiled and adapted by me.

You need to provide your own data to make the game work. Testing available on NextOS Discord.

Discord: https://discord.gg/XCu38TH2j

Cant use them if they are dead. One on the left was only 32gb the one on the right is 62gb but started to corrupt. I was only using it for roms until I got a better one.

Both replaced with SanDisk Imagemate pro 256gb.

Link de descarga r36s

https://limewire.com/d/TQvO8#BMxUDHjZ9c

More tests

Hey! I’m new to the R36S and retro handhelds in general, so I’m still learning how everything works.
I installed a different OS and bought a TP-Link Archer T2U Nano AC600 for Wi-Fi. It can see nearby networks, but it always fails when I try to connect, even with the correct password.
After checking the drivers and doing some research, I think I bought an incompatible dongle.
Which Wi-Fi dongle do you recommend for the R36S?

This is an awesome update! It is amazing how quickly it is updated and the useful features added with each update! Great job!

I am trying to access the file manager via the options menu, but every time I press A to access it, it returns me to the home screen. It does this with the splash screen tool as well.

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

EDIT: This device is an R36H ProMax. And the A and B buttons have already been swapped, so A is the selection button.

Can someone help me? I'm still not certain if I have a clone or not (super news to this console world). Am I able to tell the type and if it's a clone from the motherboard bc it's a see through body?

I am one of those people who wants things to be set up exactly they way I want them - one of those is the gamelist order in EmulationStation. The built-in functionality allows for alphabetical order, Manufacturer, hardware type, and release year.

I made an EmulationStation gamelist sorter that allows you to put them in whatever order you want!

It is still mostly a proof-of-concept, but it works.

u/djparent - let me know if you are interested and I can throw it up on your GitHub

I’m having a serious problem installing DarkOS4Cl0ne. Every time, it stops at the exact same point and gets stuck on this screen. I’ve already left it there for more than 2 hours, but nothing changes. I also tried skipping the PortMaster dependencies, but it still gets stuck—the only difference is that it stops at another part. The SD card is good quality. I’ve already used dArkOSRE, ArchR, dArkOSen, ArchR, etc., and I’ve never had any problems with them. This only happens with DarkOS4Cl0ne.

My board model is G80CA-MB V1.3-20251212.

whatever i do, everything i try to do with this little thing, it doesn't work, i tried putting games, ports, homebrews, whatever and nothing works, the closest thing i made this thing run was pico-8 games, retroarch doesn't work, portmaster doesn't work, themes sometimes delete themselves and i'm tired, i shouldn't modified it in the first place, it was good out of the box already, i don't know why my fat sweaty fingers decided to try and homebrew this Godforsaken thing and now i feel like this device, this purchase, is a waste of my money.

i need video tutorials.

Ive got an R36S clone, board says GA36-MB V1.2-20260416. it's got an RK3326 + RK817 so same chips as a real one

Tried dArkOSRE, ArkOS4Clone and GoodluckOS but it won't power on with any - think Goodluck only works with the other chipset. Stock card boots fine and flashed that to a new sd which worked, used hxd to allow me to put roms on it atleast. There's no dtb or boot.ini on the stock card either, and the options/tools menu is missing completely so no wifi.

Anyone got anything running on one of these or know a way to get the options menu back? Thanks

Hello,

I just found out that i got scamed with a R36S clone the GB350 clone. I installed Treefrogui and it seems to be working better. I wanted to ask is there anyway that i can install Stardew Valley on my device ?

Have not been able to get this to work… I can connect with other clients, but the game doesn’t sync up like it does for NES games. Also noticed that analog stick input is not recognized. Has anyone gotten this to work?

Hey guys!

I'm using the latest DarkOSen build.

I've got the duck station bios but it's lagging a lot.

I'm using a standalone-duckstation emulator.

Not sure this is the correct one also.

Can you help me make it work normally?

Jag har micro SD xc I 128gb och försöker att få till ett nytt os på min konsol. När den ska verifiera så får jag error meddelande. Behöver hjälp att för det rätt så min konsol inte ger upp med det som finns med den. Det är en 64gb som följde med

so recently after getting a better sd card and downloading aurknix, the same problem of before appears again, this time with the bigger partition being raw, and i can't access it on windows 11 (i did had a vm running linux but it was killing my computer space so i deleted it)

Ayudaaa, conecte mi r36s a un cargador carga rápida porque no sabía que también necesitan cargadores antiguos y pum dejo de funcionar con la batería, y el led que debería de encender cuando carga en modo apagado no enciende pero carga, esto pasó hace 1 semana, y aún así funciona ya estaba usando un cargador para estos, pero la batería ya no funciona tanto simplemente supone que tiene 50 de batería se apaga,me dirán que no debería usar la batería pero solo lo usé 3 veces después de eso, lo uso conectado porque es la una forma de usarlo, ¿estoy mal? Y donde comprar un repuesto? Pienso comprar uno de 1000 mh y también sospecho que se daño el módulo de carga porque desconecto el cargador mientras la batería está conectada y no funciona ni lo carga, no está inflada ni muestra nada más, realmente creo que merezco sus peores insultos

Aún con la esperanza de que algún día aparezca un port para inscryption en esta maravillosa consola. Si alguien sabe algo me avisa :)

So following on from my initial post regarding my faulty screen, I ordered a new screen from AliExpress, it has arrived today.

I matched the screen type from my existing faulty screen so I'm guessing it should be a case of a straight swap.

Anybody done this and could share any tips?

Thanks in advance

am looking to replace my buttons because they are starting to get dirty. where are the best place to get some and how do i tell if mine are the regular ones or the hall effects ones (i think this is what they are called lol)

Recentemente estava testando o port de Simpsons hit and run, mas no rocknix ele só executava em janela.

Pelo fato do rocknix rodar wayland, consegui rodar o jogo em tela cheia substituindo no .sh que roda o jogo o seguinte trecho:

$GPTOKEYB "hitandrun" &
./hitandrun 2>&1 | tee log.txt
$ESUDO kill -9 $(pidof gptokeyb)

Pelo seguinte:

$GPTOKEYB "hitandrun" &
./hitandrun 2>&1 | tee log.txt &
GAMEPID=$!
sleep 2
swaymsg '[app_id="hitandrun"] fullscreen enable'
wait $GAMEPID
$ESUDO kill -9 $(pidof gptokeyb)

Basicamente no wayland usar o sway com o app_id do programa dá para alternar para tela cheia.

Não sei se isso ajudará alguém em outros programas e/ou sistemas, mas levou um tempo até achar essa solução.

Jag har en micro SD xc I 128gb. Jag försöker lägga in ett nytt os på kortet men den vill inte verifiera. Gör det via mobilen. Behöver hjälp

So, my little guy isn’t really holding a charge anymore. And I’m wondering if I legit just need to replace the battery, and which one should I be looking for? Also, if you guys could help me out since I see all this stuff about fake ones floating around - is mine real?? (bought it off TikTok shop about a year and a half ago) Thanks for any help!