
r/R36S

Tricky but rewarding repairs
I have very little experience in electronics, but I was able to fix my R36S.
Probably easier to buy a new one, but less interesting! I'd recommend giving it a go if you have £3, and some patience.
Help me decide Colour
Mann Both colours look awesome can't decide which one to take. What colours yall prefer?
Ports are great but old gems are to be respected
While enjoying what all the team here is porting I cannot still stop playing Sensible world of soccer for Amiga 🍻
Owning an Ayn Thor made me appreciate the r36s and it's simplicity.
Don't get me wrong I love my Thor.. but man it's a bit of a hassle to setup and gives no options to backup config whereas with the r36s it's just simple and easy to backup or replicate:
More of a linux vs android thing I suppose but anyway that's my ted talk.
I PORTED SKATE 3 TO MOBILE (ANDROID NOW PLAYABLE!!!! / IOS SOON)
60 fps! FULLY NATIVE RENDERING! GAMEPLAY IN THE COMMENTS
PLEASE DOWNLOAD LATEST APK! HAS AN UPDATE BUTTON and BUG REPORTS! FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS WILL BE SHIPPED THROUGH THERE! WATCH OUT FOR EXTERNAL LINKS! I SEE PEOPLE PUTTING IT ON DIFFERENT SERVERS FOR THEIR OWN GAIN, THIS PROJECT WILL FOREVER BE FREE AND OPEN SOURCE. FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME.
OVER 1500 DOWNLOADS IN THE FIRST 24hr! THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT. LOVE U GUYS
No Xbox 360 emulation. This is an experimental ARM64 recomp with Vulkan rendering, controller support and medium end handheld optimizations. Its fully playable, the sound is a little rough but im working on that.
Custom Characters are also already possible, i threw in the Seiyu Paradise penguin as a playable character so you can use that to make your own custom character mods, those should work with win/linux/macOS recomp as well
Heres the code, download and try it please, you need a version of skate 3 xbox 360 files! the instructions are on the github its relatively simple.
OPEN SOURCE: https://github.com/Buku313/Skate3-Android
DOWNLOAD / BUG REPORTS AND UPDATES AT: https://buku313.github.io/Skate3-Mobile/
video is me playing on a local flight yesterday on my anbernic rg406v!
guys is it possible to change r36s cpu?
im very interested to change r36s cpu bc it's lags and plays bad at psp games and unlike optimising by using settings to make console gameplay faster to get 30 fps, is it possible to change r36's cpu to add better/faster cpu to plays better on psp emulator? is it possible?
R36S family in 2026 — what are ALL the models, and which one is actually the best upgrade from the original R36S?
Hey everyone,
I'm trying to understand the whole R36S family, because there seem to be a ridiculous number of models now and the naming is extremely confusing.
I know about:
- R36S
- R36H
- R36XX
- R36 Plus
- R36 Max
- R36 Ultra
- R36 Ultra X
- R36 Max 2
- R36H ProMax / R45H
- R36 Pro
- R36S Ultra
Are there any other models/variants that I'm missing?
What I'm particularly interested in is which ones are actually hardware upgrades from the original R36S, rather than just having a different shell or a bigger screen.
I'm especially confused about RK3326 vs RK3566.
From what I've found, the original R36S/R36H/R36XX generation uses RK3326 + 1GB RAM, while some R36 Max/Ultra versions apparently use RK3566 + 2GB, which would actually be a significant performance upgrade rather than just a cosmetic change.
But I've also seen people saying that some newer R36 Ultra/Ultra X models still use RK3326 + 1GB, so I'm not sure which listings are accurate.
Did I do good for £30?
Is this a new board? I’ve not seen any V30 boards while lurking in this sub.
I messed up
Another update, now even worse..
I have this EmuELEC clone with EMMS that (for some reason) won't run any single OS from the TF-1 slot. I tried over 20 different OS-es and different dtbs, nothing worked. I even found the correct dtb file for the device, still nothing.
So, i wanted to see if i could wipe EmuElec from the EMMC somehow.
I clicked on the "Reset EmuELEC scripts and binaries", the device shut down, and now this happens.
What do i do??
What did i get
Hi guys. I Just got my R36S. It has no SD card so i cant extract the dtb file. What version of DarkosRE should i use?
What is the best Port for R36S?
Hey guys, the R36S is a laptop that the community has ported games that we would never imagine running on, for example Max Payne, Bully, GTA SAN, GTA 3, GTA Vice City among others, but I want to know your opinion, what was the best and most impressive port that the R36S has ever received?
Is this legit.
Hi expertise... a noob here !! Has anyone bought this, dual ram original r36s that they ads. I just bought it with 64gb ram, I don't know about the board but they mention v30 on their ads. (shipping to ind) waiting.
Wifi & Bluetooth manager problems
So, I'm on the latest dArkOSen on an R36s V22, and I've got a RTL8723BU wifi/bt chip installed
Even before, when I was on darkosre, I've always had a problem with BT manager where after a scan, the device list would not get visualized; I used GPT to correct the script after having it visualize the error log.
This looks to be the culprit for BT manager:
Can't make new window at (2,-1), size (15,58).
This is what GPT said when I told it to copy the visualize method of wifi-manager (which worked until then):
>The log shows that the scan finds devices; the crash happens because the menu uses the MAC address as a tag, so the dialog expands anyway up to size (15,58). I copied the Wi-Fi Manager pattern:
- list with short tags 1, 2, 3;
- MAC address kept internally in
mac_lookup; menu --menu "" 14 40 8;- no
--extra-button, because on this TTY it forces weird dimensions.
I don't have access to the full log at the moment, nor to the scripts, because after the last update even wifi manager has the same problem and I can't connect to a network to access the console's root (Wifi chip breaking the OTG port is the worst).
Also I have finished GPT tokens lol.
I'll just put a fixed copy of wifi manager on the SD when I have time so I can patch it up, but I guessed I could put this up for attention. I didn't bring it up earlier because, since literally no one else is having the same problem on this sub and the one time I brought it up I was told to reflow my chip, I figured it was something on my end.
I've been doing endurance testing on microSD cards for the last 3 years. Here's what I've learned.
(I posted this to r/DataHoarder; someone in the comments said I should repost it here.)
Hello everyone!
I've been running a long-term project doing endurance testing on microSD -- and today is the third anniversary of when I started this project -- so I figured it was time to give you an update on my microSD testing project.
Before I dig in, a shameless plug for my Patreon.
Next, some quick stats:
- I have a total of 351 microSD cards in my collection -- spanning 111 models across 52 different brands. Of those:
- I've tested 177 of them to the point of failure.*
- I have 107 of them in testing right now.
- The remaining 67 are sitting on the shelf, waiting for one of my card readers to free up.
- These cards have endured over 133 petabytes written.
- I've completed over 4.6 million program-verify-erase cycles on these cards.
- Breakdown by brand status:
- Name brand: 163
- Off-brand: 91
- Knockoffs: 30
- Breakdown by authentic flash (a.k.a. not fake flash) vs. fake flash:
- Authentic flash: 246
- Fake flash: 35
- Unknown: 3
- Breakdown by size (authentic cards only):
- 128MB: 3
- 4GB: 6
- 8GB: 23
- 16GB: 15
- 32GB: 96
- 64GB: 68
- 128GB: 36
- 256GB: 4
* A card is considered "failed" when either (a) it stops working completely, (b) it makes itself read-only, or (c) at least 50% of the sectors on the card have experienced verification failures.
Ok -- so who makes the most durable cards?
Because of the variety of cards that I have, it's hard to come up with a system that produces a definite answer here. Some of how I ranked these brands is going to be based on vibes. But...to try to narrow things down, I've grouped my cards into three groups:
- Industrial-grade: Cards that are specifically labelled as "industrial" or have "industrial" in their name. These cards typically come with a datasheet that includes an endurance claim.
- High endurance: Cards that are labelled as "high endurance" (or some similar wording). Manufacturers don't always put out datasheets for these cards, but they generally still make an endurance claim on the packaging.
- Consumer-grade: Basically everything else.
Consumer-grade cards:
The average consumer-grade card has lasted about 10,000 program/verify/erase cycles (so far).
- PNY. I have 10 of their consumer-grade cards: 3 PRO Elite Prime 64GB's, 3 Premier-X 128GB's, 3 Elite-X 64GB's, and one Elite 32GB. (I have 4 more of the Elite 32GB's that are waiting to be tested.) They've gone for an average of 643 days and 15,700 program/verify/erase cycles. I've written about 11.5PB to them in total. And with the exception of the one Elite 32GB -- they're all still going strong. On top of that, the PRO Elite Prime boasts some impressive performance -- every measurement I took was in the top 10% of all cards I've tested so far.
- Kingston. I have 12 of their cards in this category -- 6 Canvas Go! Plus 64GB's (3 of the SDCG3's and 3 of the SDCG4's) and 6 Canvas Select Plus 32GB's. They've been going for an average of 694 days and about 23,500 program/verify/erase cycles. I've written about 11.6PB to them in total. The three Canvas Go! Plus 64GB (the SDCG3's) have all failed -- but the others are still going strong. The Canvas Select Plus's in particular have been troopers -- they're among the oldest cards in my collection, and they've been going for the better part of the last 3 years now (with no signs of letting up). Additionally, the Canvas Go! Plus 64GB's (the SDCG4's in particular) boast some impressive performance as well -- every measurement I took was in the top 7% of all cards I've tested so far.
- Delkin Devices. I feel bad ranking Delkin so low on this list, because they've endured more data written to them per card, on average, than any other brand in my collection (in the consumer-grade category). The only reason I didn't rank them higher is because I only have one model -- the HYPERSPEED 128GB (of which I have 3). But they've done pretty well: they've lasted an average of 662 days and about 13,500 program/verify/erase cycles. I've written about 5.1PB to them in total. As a side note, these cards also got the highest random write speeds of any card I've tested.
- Lexar. 3 cards dead, 5 still going. I have 3 Professional 1000x 64GB's (2 made by Micron, 1 made by Phison), 3 Blue 633x 32GB's (made by Longsys), and 2 E-Series 64GB's (with 3 more waiting to be tested). For those not in the know, the Lexar brand was sold to Longsys in 2017 -- and surprisingly, the Longsys-made cards are holding up better than the Micron-made cards. Overall, the Lexar cards have survived an average of 684 days and about 15,800 program/verify/erase cycles. I've written about 5.8PB to them in total.
- Samsung. 3 cards dead, 7 still going. I have 3 EVO Plus 32GB's, 3 EVO Plus 64GB's, 3 PRO Plus 128GB's, and 1 P9 Express 256GB (with 2 more waiting to be tested). Of those, the three EVO Plus 32GB's and one of the PRO Endurance 32GB's are dead -- the rest are still going strong. Samsung's cards have lasted an average of 553 days and about 11,100 program/verify/erase cycles so far, and I've written about 7.2PB to their cards in total.
- Honorable Mention: Amazon Basics. I have four of the Amazon Basics 64GB's -- and they're all still going. They've been going for an average of 788 days and about 16,600 program/verify/erase cycles. I've written about 4.2PB to them in total. I honestly didn't expect Amazon Basics to be one of the top performers when I bought them...and yet, here we are.
High endurance cards:
Keep in mind, I've got less data here -- I had 237 cards that fell into the "consumer-grade" category, but only 30 that fell into the "high endurance" category. But here's the thing: they haven't really proven themselves to be significantly better for endurance than a lot of the cards I listed above -- in fact, in a lot of cases, they've been less reliable (and generally worse for performance as well). So keep that in mind as you read through the list below:
The average high-endurance card has lasted about 14,000 program/verify/erase cycles (so far).
- TEAMGROUP. I don't feel great about putting TEAMGROUP at the top of the list for a couple of reasons. First, I only have two of them in testing at the moment -- someone sent me a 5-pack of the TEAMGROUP High Endurance 64GB's, so I have 3 more of them waiting to be tested. Second, one of them started having issues with bad sectors right out of the gate, and has continued to do so ever since. (Those bad sectors only make up less than 0.001% of the total sectors on the card right now...but I still don't like it when a card starts to have issues like that as soon as you start using it.) But the data doesn't lie -- they've survived, on average, 404 days and about 17,300 program/verify/erase cycles, and they're still chugging along. I've written about 2.2PB to these cards in total.
- Transcend. I have 3 of the 350V 64GB's -- and they're all still going strong. They've survived an average of 760 days and about 17,000 program/verify/erase cycles so far. I've written about 3.2PB in total to them (mostly due to their mediocre write speeds).
- SanDisk. I have my issues with SanDisk...but again, the data doesn't lie. I have 7 SanDisk cards in this category: 3 High Endurance 64GB's, and 4 MAX ENDURANCE 32GB's. As of right now, all 3 of the High Endurance 64GB's and all but one of the MAX ENDURANCE 32GB's have failed. They lasted an average of 452 days and about 16,200 program/verify/erase cycles before failing (with the MAX ENDURANCE 32GB's lasting about twice as long as the High Endurance 64GB's). I've written about 4.7PB to these cards in total.
- Samsung. Samsung's position at the bottom of this list has less to do with how reliable their cards are and more to do with how poorly their high endurance cards perform, particularly on sequential write speeds (relatively speaking). I have 3 of the PRO Endurance 32GB's -- one has failed, the other two are still chugging along. They've lasted an average of 822 days and about 18,800 program/verify/erase cycles so far. I've written about 1.8PB of data to them in total.
Industrial-grade cards:
Keep in mind, I have even less data here. Industrial cards are expensive, so they make up a much smaller portion of the cards I've tested: just 15 in total (so far). But on the upside -- there is sufficient evidence here to say "in general, industrial-grade cards do last longer than consumer-grade cards (and, by extension, high endurance cards)".
The average industrial grade card has lasted about 122,000 program/verify/erase cycles (so far).
- Kingston. I have 3 Kingston Industrial 8GB's; of those 3, only one is still going. But they've been troopers: they've lasted an average of 779 days and about 141,600 program/verify/erase cycles. I've written about 3.4PB to these cards in total. (Only one consumer-grade card has come close to this number: I have one Hiksemi NEO 8GB that has lasted for about 143,800 program/verify/erase cycles so far. No idea how.) These guys do pretty well on performance too, especially write performance: their sequential write speeds are in the top 9% of all cards I've tested.
Who makes the worst cards?
There are a bunch of no-name brands out there. They're not hard to find. I'm not going to talk about them here -- I'm going to focus on brands you're likely to have come across.
Consumer-grade cards:
- onn. I picked up four of their 32GB cards at my local Walmart -- and they were terrible for endurance. They only lasted an average of 40 days and 1,400 program/verify/erase cycles (or about 40TBW), with the best one of the four not even making it to 1,900 cycles. On top of that, every performance measurement I took came in the bottom half of all measurements I took.
- ADATA. I picked up 3 of the Premier 32GB's; they only lasted an average of 236 days and about 2,350 program/verify/erase cycles (or about 74TBW) before they quit working.
- Gigastone. I have not been impressed with Gigastone. I have 11 of their cards -- 6 Full HD Video 32GB's, and 5 4K Camera Pro 32GB's. They lasted an average of just 114 days and 4,845 program/verify/erase cycles (or about 133TBW) before they quit working.
- Micro Center. I purchased 5 of their 64GB cards; they only lasted an average of 116 days and 3,421 program/verify/erase cycles (or about 214TBW) before they stopped working.
- Silicon Power (a.k.a. SP). I purchased 9 of their cards -- 3 Elite 32GB's, 3 Superior 128GB's, and 3 Superior Pro 128GB's. Not a one of them made it to 4,000 program/verify/erase cycles before failing -- they came in at an average of 159 days and about 2,350 program/verify/erase cycles (or about 252TBW) before failing.
- (Dis)honorable mention: SanDisk. SanDisk represents the single biggest brand in my collection: I have 28 of their cards in this category (with 4 more on the shelf waiting to be tested). It's telling that of those 28, only 5 are still going (and one of them is in its death throes) -- especially when cards from so many other brands have far outlasted them. Many of them have died under circumstances any other card would have handled just fine -- a problem I've written about on my blog before. They've lasted an average of 384 days and 9,404 program/verify/erase cycles (or about 566TBW) so far.
High endurance cards:
- Integral. I bought 3 of the Security 32GB's; the only managed to last an average of 100 days and about 5,600 program/verify/erase cycles (or about 173TBW) before failing. To be fair to them, the package did make an endurance claim that works out to about 2,850 program/verify/erase cycles -- and they did manage to almost double that. However, they didn't hold a candle to many of the other high endurance cards that I tested.
- Kingston. This one was truly a surprise -- I bought 3 of the High Endurance 32GB's, and they only lasted an average of 143 days and about 8,300 program/verify/erase cycles (or about 258TBW) before failing. The product packaging didn't make an endurance claim; I had to hunt around on Kingston's website to find it. Their claim works out to about 5,100 program/verify/erase cycles, which they did manage to beat. But again, so many other cards managed to last so much longer -- hell, so many other Kingston cards managed to do so much better -- that I was surprised and disappointed when these failed so early.
Industrial-grade cards:
- SanDisk. I bought 3 of the Industrial 8GB's. They only lasted an average of 234 days and about 20,000 program/verify/erase cycles (or about 160TBW) before failing -- and the only reason they lasted that long was because I let my program trudge through an nearly-unending string of I/O errors for months on end -- before they finally just gave up the ghost.
So yeah...that's all I have for now. Feel free to ask questions (although I'm at work at the time I'm posting this, so I may not have time to respond)! Otherwise...look for another update from me next year!
Pictures attached:
- Part of my setup: a Beelink Mini-S and five TRIGKEY Green G4 mini PC's. The Beelink has an Intel N95 with 8GB of RAM and a 500GB SSD, while the TRIGKEY's all have Intel N100's with 16GB of RAM and a 500GB SSD. There's also (in the lower-right corner, behind the monitor) an MSI GE62VR-7RF (with an Intel i7-7700HQ, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD), a Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 (with an Intel i7-3630QM, 8GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD), and an ASUS Strix GL504GM (with an Intel i7-8750H, 32GB of RAM, and a 500GB SSD)
- Another part of my setup: a TRIGKEY K-N100 and an AOOSTAR N1 PRO. The TRIGKEY has an Intel N100 with 16GB of RAM and a 500GB SSD. The AOOSTAR has an Intel N150 with 12GB of RAM and a 500GB SSD.
- Dog tax.
R36s v20
I’m confused I’m reading that v20 is a clone and not good? I paid 40$ for this from BOYAM or whatever you spell it store , and now I’m hearing it’s not legit and it’s bad ?🤣🤣im soo confused
Looking for a first R36S
Hey everyone, I'm wanting to buy my first R36S but I'm not too confident on where to get a genuine one in Australia. Does anyone have a lead or a seller that sells genuine?
Does it matter if I bought a clone even though to play .gba games?
So I bought a device from Aliexpress and I may have bought a clone, but I only plan to play .gba pokemon hack roms. Should I buy a brand new SD (as Gemini recommended) and make a backup just in case the internal SD fails?