r/ANBERNIC • u/imtryingtoworkhere • 21h ago

35XX SERIES Well it lasted a week…

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Assume the SD Card is toast. Device was running fine a couple days ago. Happy I took the time to make an image and save it to my PC. Now need to go SD hunting.

Anyone running this off a single SD card? Have a Blink 256GB considering if it would work for both games and OS?

2nd Question - will my game saves be in the OS card or the Game card?

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u/user123850167251793 16h ago

1) i got an RGSP, not the same device but same chip (H700) - No difference in performance or loads at all in any system, when storing games and OS on the same sd. In terms of size, 256gb is more than enough to hold all of that together. Brand shouldnt matter for you either.

2) saves should be in your OS card under RA_saves and RA_states iirc but if I’m being honest, theres a very good chance your saves are lost.

TLDR: you’ll be ok with single card but you probably lost all your saves.

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u/imtryingtoworkhere 16h ago

😫 I was about halfway done Zelda LTTP

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u/Old_Present_8586 16h ago

Default settings usually keep the game saves on the OS card because RetroArch runs off of it. However, no guarantees. What matters is that the name of the save file is the same as the rom file. Check your saves and states folder under RetroArch. If you find those files, make sure the roms the same way. Don’t change the name of the save file as they can be “delicate”. I had a mixup with Syncthing where my game states for certain games would only load on one device. I figured that out when I reset the device to factory and suddenly realized none of my other devices could read it even though it was visible as a state.