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plorpOS v1.2 - TrimUI Brick + GKD 350H Ultra

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plorpOS is a fork of TortOS that grew into its own project. It does everything TortOS does, with some extra stuff on top.

Device Download Guide
TrimUI Brick / Brick Hammer plorpOS-brick-v1.2.zip Installing on the Brick
GKD 350H Ultra plorpOS-gkd-v1.2.zip Installing on the GKD

The Brick Pro is not supported yet.

New in v1.2

The Brick catches up with the GKD: every console plorpOS supports now plays on both.

  • Arcade and Neo Geo on the Brick (FBNeo), with the games' real titles on the shelf.
  • PlayStation on the Brick, multi-disc games included: in-game MENU > Disc picks the disc.
  • PICO-8 on the Brick, with fake-08 or the native PICO-8 (bring your own pico8_64). In native PICO-8, MENU quits back to the shelf.
  • Sega CD and PC Engine CD confirmed on the Brick.
  • Longer rewind on the Brick - about 30 seconds on most consoles, less on PlayStation - and the Rewind Speed setting under in-game MENU > Hotkeys.
  • A Saves folder per console on the Brick, as on the GKD, so two games with the same name on two consoles no longer share a save. See Updating below.
  • Fixed (both devices): starting an arcade game with missing ROM files right after another arcade game could crash the emulator.

Shaders on the Brick are planned for v1.3.

Highlights

See the README for everything, but in short:

  • Music + Audiobooks with background playback and screen-off / button lock behavior (extended from TortOS).
  • Rewind, fast-forward, quick save/load, screenshots and configurable hotkeys.
  • Sleep + Suspend support.
  • Scraping (inherited from TortOS) plus an optional gamelist.xml offline metadata importer.
  • On the GKD: shaders, Pixel Transparency included.

Fresh install

Download the zip for your device below and follow INSTALL.md inside it.

  • Brick: copy everything inside the zip to the root of an exFAT card.
  • GKD: put the service hooks on the GKD once, then copy everything inside copy_to_sd/ to the root of an exFAT card. The guide walks through both.

Updating from an earlier build

Your settings, save states, favorites, play time and achievements are kept: they live in .userdata/, which the zip doesn't touch.

Brick (from plorpOS v1.1 or TortOS):

  1. Turn the Brick off and put its card in your computer.
  2. Copy everything inside plorpOS-brick-v1.2.zip over the card, replacing what's there.
  3. Move your battery saves. Older builds kept .srm files loose in Saves/; v1.2 looks for them in a folder per console, named like the console's Roms/ folder - Saves/Game Boy Advance/, Saves/SNES/ and so on. Move each .srm into its console's folder, creating the folder if it isn't there. A game started before its save is moved begins without it.
  4. Eject the card, put it back in the Brick and turn it on. MENU > About shows 1.2.

GKD (from plorpOS v1.0 or v1.1):

  1. Turn the GKD off and put its card in your computer.
  2. Copy everything inside copy_to_sd/ over the card, replacing what's there. The service hooks on the GKD itself haven't changed, so there is nothing else to redo.
  3. Eject the card, put it back in the GKD and turn it on. MENU > About shows 1.2.
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