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plorpOS v1.4 - TrimUI Brick / Brick Pro + 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 / Brick Pro plorpOS-brick-v1.4.zip Installing on the Brick
GKD 350H Ultra plorpOS-gkd-v1.4.zip Installing on the GKD

New in v1.4

  • Brick Pro support. The Brick and the Brick Pro use the same zip, and one card works in both: set it up once and move it between them, saves and all. plorpOS tells the two apart when it starts. On the Pro, the left stick is a second d-pad in menus and games, and FN1/FN2 set the brightness.
  • Brick Pro hotkeys on the sticks. Either stick click can be the hotkey modifier, and the right stick's four directions can be hotkeys, with the modifier held or alone.
  • Fixed (Brick Pro): freezes and reboots a few seconds after waking from sleep, with Bluetooth headphones connected.
  • Fixed (Brick and Brick Pro): PICO-8 Splore couldn't download carts. The BBS list loaded, but every download failed.
  • Changed (Brick and Brick Pro): Wi-Fi now starts before Bluetooth, at power-on and after sleep. The two share one radio chip, and on the Brick Pro starting them together could freeze the device. Bluetooth headphones wait until Wi-Fi has connected, or has given up after 15 seconds, so they take longer to come back after sleep. If you don't need Wi-Fi, turn it off under MENU > Wi-Fi Services, and your headphones reconnect sooner.
  • The GKD build is unchanged apart from the version number.

plorpOS Highlights

See the README for everything, but in short:

  • More Systems compared with upstream TortOS. plorpOS adds Arcade + NeoGeo (FBNeo), PlayStation, PICO-8 (Native and fake-08), Sega CD and PC Engine CD
  • Music + Audiobooks with background playback extended to all additional systems.
  • Rewind, fast-forward, quick save/load, screenshots and configurable hotkeys.
  • Shaders on both devices, 15 in total.
  • Sleep + Suspend support.
  • Scraping (inherited from TortOS) plus an optional gamelist.xml offline metadata importer.

Fresh install

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

  • Brick / Brick Pro: 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 / Brick Pro:

  1. Turn the device off and put its card in your computer.
  2. Copy everything inside plorpOS-brick-v1.4.zip over the card, replacing what's there.
  3. Coming from plorpOS v1.1 or TortOS? Move your battery saves. Those builds kept .srm files loose in Saves/; since v1.2 they live 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. Coming from v1.2 or later, skip this.
  4. Eject the card, put it in the Brick or the Brick Pro and turn it on. MENU > About shows 1.4.

GKD (from plorpOS v1.0 or later):

  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 1.4.
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