FAQ

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TRIMUI Model S supports Original Games and Retro Games.

• Original Games: Trimui Model S has built in 3 games. Please keep focus on www.trimui.com for more original games. We will release new original game every several weeks.
• Retro Games: Trimui Model S can run 10 types of Emulators, you can try running your own roms in retro platform emulators. We suggest no-intro serial romset.

Retro Emulator Platform List:

• ARCADE: Mame
• NEO: SNK NeoGeo MVS
• FC: Nintendo Famicom
• SFC: Nintendo Super Famicom
• MD: SEGA MegaDrive
• SMS/GG: SEGA SystemMaster/GameGear
• PCE: NEC PC Engine
• GB/GBC: Nintendo Gameboy/Gameboy Color
• GBA: Nintendo Gameboy Advance
• PS: Sony Playstation (PSX Gen1)

If you have got a good generated SD for TRIMUI, just plug into TRIMUI Model S, refresh roms and run. However, if you have just an empty SD card, there are 2 way for you to make a runnable SD card:

1. You can burn any standard RetroArch base SD card image into your SD card, the folder struct like this:

Example SD burning images download Links (Shared from Internet)

RetroArch for RG350:

https://boards.dingoonity.org/retro-game-350rg-350/rg-350-v1-6-upgrade/msg191038/

RetroArch for RG350 link2:

https://boards.dingoonity.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=b0ng5sdc2c01hqci7bg82tqsi3

RetroPie for Raspberry Pi:

https://www.arcadepunks.com/16gb-retropie-image-complete-roms-level1online/

2. You can try the trimui SD card dump from other user (thanks to hkzcplayer).

https://www.arcadepunks.com/500mb-trimui-models-test-sd.img/

Every Retro platforms use specified file extensions

• ARCADE: file format: zip, using romset mame 0.126 / FBA 0.2.96.86
• NEO: file format: zip, using romset gngeo
• FC: file format: nes, fds, unf, unif
• SFC: file format: smc, sfc, gd3, gd7, dx2, bsx, swc, fig
• MD: file format: gen, md, smd, bin
• SMS/GG: file format: sms, gg, rom, sg
• PCE: file format: pce
• GB/GBC: file format: gb, gbc, bin
• GBA: file format: gba, agb, gbz
• PS: file format: pbp, iso, cue+bin, ccd

TRIMUI Model S had built in 128MiB SLC Flash for TRIMUI Operating System. The System Just contains base launcher, 3 builtin Games and system updater. If you want to install more games and applications, you have to use external SD card.

The first time you want install a new empty SD card, please follow these steps:

1. Check your SD card, backup your SD card.
2. Format the SD card in FAT32
3. Plug SD card into the TRIMUI Model S device , wait for the on-screen loading complete. Then you can remove SD card and check it with USB SD card Reader in PC.
4. The machine will generate some folders in SD card.

   
- You can put roms and preview-pictures in these folders. Roms put in“Roms”, pictures put in Imgs. In this two folders, there are folders named by emulator platform.

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1. Example: I want to play FC game “ABCD”, get your rom“ABCD.nes”, copy into SD card folder: “/Roms/FC/ABCD.nes”.If you want to show preview picture, copy picture file to “/Imgs/FC/ABCD.png”.
2. Safety eject you USB card reader, remount the SD card to TRIMUI Model S device and browse to SETTINGS, select refresh roms.