Manual
The nibOS manual
Installing nibOS on the RG DS+, the game shelf, controls, games and saves, the radios, power, updates and what to do when something goes wrong.
This manual is for people who use nibOS on an Anbernic RG DS+: installing it, playing on it, and getting out of trouble. It describes the first alpha, 0.1.0-alpha1.
nibOS comes in two editions, written from the same sources:
- The DSlot edition starts into DSlot, a game shelf on both screens, with emulators for the DS, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy and Game Boy Color, and through nibcase a dozen more systems. Most of this manual is about it.
- The base edition starts into a Linux console on the top screen, with a touch keyboard on the bottom one. It is described in The console and the base edition.
What a word means here:
| Word | Means |
|---|---|
| TF1, TF2 | The DS+’s two microSD slots. TF1 (marked TF1/INT) is the one the device starts from. |
| The shelf | DSlot’s main screen: your games as carts, boxes or a list. |
| NIBOS-DATA | The card’s games partition: games, BIOS files, saves. It is what a computer shows when the card is in its reader. |
| NIBOS | A small partition on the card with the licences, a README and, if you want SSH, the settings file provision.toml. |
| Back, Menu | Two of the DS+’s buttons, named as on the device. In a game, Back opens the game’s menu and Menu saves and goes back to the shelf. |
Where you want more detail, this manual links to the projects’ own documentation rather than repeating it.
- InstallingDownload an image, check it, write it to a microSD card and start the DS+; and, for SSH, provision.toml.
- First startWhat the first start does, how long it takes, and putting your first games on the card.
- The DSlot shelfPages and tabs, the system picker, system cards, resume points, carts and boxes, the menu and its settings.
- ControlsEvery button: on the shelf, in a game's menu, in each emulator, the power button, the console keyboard.
- Games, BIOS and savesWhich folder each system's games go in, the files each takes, the BIOS files some need, where saves are kept, and using a second card or a slot CFW card.
- Wi-Fi and BluetoothTurning the radios on, joining networks, pairing headphones and controllers.
- PortMasterGetting PortMaster, installing ports, playing and quitting them.
- Sleep, charging and the batterySleep and wake, the power menu, charging while off, the LEDs, battery protect and brightness.
- UpdatesUpdating from DSlot or the console, what an update keeps, going back to the previous version, and writing a new image instead.
- The console and the base editionThe Linux console on the DS+: the touch keyboard, SSH, copying files, nib, installing software, and the base edition.
- What to do if…When it doesn't start, freezes, or a game won't play: the safe mode, holding A at power-on, the logs, and reporting a bug.
- Known issuesWhat is unfinished in the alpha, what doesn't work yet, and what to expect.