Powkiddy A12/A13 Batocera Firmware Upgrade

Powkiddy A12/A13 Batocera Firmware Upgrade - Instructions

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Жыл бұрын

Hi!!! this is how you upgrade your Powkiddy A12/A13 firmware to Batocera!!! hope it help!!!

Пікірлер: 35

@fab-p2pinvestissements Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video! Can you tell me where did you buy your wifi USB key or what is the Brand name ? Because mine doesn't work on my powkiddy. Thanks by advance

@jq8166 26 күн бұрын

My A13 exits the game when pressing the back button. There appears to be no hotkey to open retoarch while in a game. Can you help with this please?

@NZdjsphericaL Жыл бұрын

Hello friend , Great Video thank you, I wanted to see if possibe can you upload the Original SDCard contents for me , I snapped my Original 32gb SDCard and just needed a Backup, I have put Batocera and it runs great but I really want the Original A13 SdCard if you could please share your Backup Id be saved. Thanks for any help mate.

@salvatore.sky77 7 ай бұрын

I have 2 powkiddy A12s one for me and one for my son, when I put a micro SD with Batocera on my son's it doesn't appear centered and the resolution is wrong. Can you help me change the screen resolution?

@Arcade-Gyro 3 ай бұрын

Hi love the vid. I am hoping someone can help me though. I have installed batacero on my a12 and added rom however nothing displays properly right from boot up the screen us stretch and in game the screen is stretched so I do not see the full image tried every different res and aspect ratio and does not solve the problem please help

@sjc192 Жыл бұрын

I couldn’t get a WiFi dongle to work either :-/ To make life (much) easier I suggest you replace the annoying (effectively) Read-Only EXT4 partition with an easier to handle Fat32 partition. Here are the instructions / notes I have put together on how I did this using my Chromebook (after the image had been successfully opened and run on the A13): - insert SD into Chromebook - Copy the SHARE partition’s bios, roms, system folders to Chromebook’s temp folder - Right click on SD card’s SHARE partition (don’t touch the other partition on the SD card!!!) - select Format Device (label as SHARE and format to FAT32) … selecting Erase and Format - Safely eject, remove, reinsert SD to see reformatted SHARE partition - Copy bios, roms, system folders back onto SD card’s now empty SHARE partition - Copy library of bios files into bios folder - Copy library of ROM files into relevant ROM folders - Safely eject and remove SD from Chromebook and reinsert into A13 NB Batocera is on version 35 now, I haven’t tried HDMI but it seems to not have any obvious issues with e.g. headphone out (so I didn’t venture into GitHub)

@rockhard90s Жыл бұрын

this works!!!! now i can even copy my files faster!

@sjc192 Жыл бұрын

@@rockhard90s you’re welcome ☺️

@rockhard90s Жыл бұрын

@@sjc192 btw do you manage to get second controller plugged in to work?

@sjc192 Жыл бұрын

@@rockhard90s … I’ve not tried I’m afraid … when I get back from my holiday I’ll have a try. Also I subsequently found out that the headphone jack doesn’t work with the firmware upgrade 😣 … but I still don’t regret the upgrade 😁

@rockhard90s Жыл бұрын

@@sjc192 now you mentioned about the headphone jack, i tried it and it works on mine, but the weird things that happening the sound came out from both speaker and headphone while on emulation. I am happy with the new batocera and no regrets at all!

@stannlytan5329 Жыл бұрын

Can help ah boss? I from Malaysia, kat KL now

@rudygonzaga1865 Жыл бұрын

I didn't like this Batocera version, you can't use the USB controls I used in the Team Rouka (LVB) version, so far I've found the best of all, apart from that in Batocera there are several different games, but that don't work, that is, I found the Powkiddy A12's Batocera beautiful, but ordinary, in my Powkiddy A12 it can barely run the Neo Geo roms, Art Of Fighting 2 for example, with sound all full of bugs. Anyway, I ended up going back to the Team Rouka LVB version of 64gb, for me it's still the best for Powkiddy A12.

@ParanoidThalyyMVS Жыл бұрын

Where can I download Team Ruka firmware to use on Powkiddy A12?

@sjc192 Жыл бұрын

@@ParanoidThalyyMVS I might be wrong but I believe the alternative firmware has now been deprecated … this is because newer versions of the A12/13 won’t allow the firmware to update via a USB cable link. Suggest you stick with Batocera version 35 👍🏼 I think it’s great 😊

@ParanoidThalyyMVS Жыл бұрын

@@sjc192 I would rather have it start directly on RetroArch honestly... I have no use for the Batocera Frontend or, any other features exclusive to it.

@sjc192 Жыл бұрын

@@ParanoidThalyyMVS … I kinda like the ambient music and dark / neon styling of the front-end in v35, not sure if there’s a way to bypass it … I’ll have to have another look when I get a mo.

@ParanoidThalyyMVS Жыл бұрын

@@sjc192 Unfortunately there isn't afaik :/ I wish I had the skills to replace the board on the Powkiddy for a Raspberry Pi 4

@Wileo Жыл бұрын

WiFi dongle model?

@humanbeingfromearth Жыл бұрын

Take ur screen protectors off

@Salvolama Жыл бұрын

Wifi key name please ?

@eladgez2754 Жыл бұрын

hey, i have a problem connecting to wifi after connecting the tp link dongle, do you know what can be causing it?? thank for the help!

@mikenaisbitt Жыл бұрын

Did you manage to get the wifi dongle working? Im having same issue. Is it the bottom USB port that it needs to go in?

@eladgez2754 Жыл бұрын

@@mikenaisbitt sadly no, i'm pretty much lost hope on it. No wi-fi in the area pops up and even connecting manually dosent work.. But yea the dongle should go to the bottom port.

@sjc192 Жыл бұрын

@@mikenaisbitt I couldn’t get a WiFi dongle to work either :-/ To make life (much) easier I suggest you replace the annoying (effectively) Read-Only EXT4 partition with an easier to handle Fat32 partition. Here are the instructions / notes I have put together on how I did this using my Chromebook (after the image had been successfully opened and run on the A13): - insert SD into Chromebook - Copy the SHARE partition’s bios, roms, system folders to Chromebook’s temp folder - Right click on SD card’s SHARE partition (don’t touch the other partition on the SD card!!!) - select Format Device (label as SHARE and format to FAT32) … selecting Erase and Format - Safely eject, remove, reinsert SD to see reformatted SHARE partition - Copy bios, roms, system folders back onto SD card’s now empty SHARE partition - Copy library of bios files into bios folder - Copy library of ROM files into relevant ROM folders - Safely eject and remove SD from Chromebook and reinsert into A13 NB Batocera is on version 35 now, I haven’t tried HDMI but it seems to not have any obvious issues with e.g. headphone out (so I didn’t venture into GitHub)