How Does Onion OS Improve The Miyoo Mini Plus ?

Onion is an enhanced operating system for your Miyoo Mini, featuring fine-tuned emulation with 100+ built-in emulators, auto-save and resume, a wealth of customization options, and much more. Performant, reliable, and straightforward retro gaming right in your pocket.

This version of Onion is based on Onion 4.2.0 RC It includes some of the most important fixes that will be included in the 4.2.0 final like the Easy Netplay updates and updated Scraper.

Romset :

The romset is a very qualitative one which should satisfy most exigent players. It is a combination of 4 different romsets :
● Platform Explorer ROMs Pack
● Tiny Best Set: GO!
● Stock Miyoo romset
● Some special additions :
   ○ all theOnion Ports configured
   ○ exclusive Ninja Turtles Pack based on "tmnt cowabunga collection"
   ○ Some NDS roms
   ○ Some very good rom hacks
   ○ exclusive romset selection for Final Burn Neo

How has been made the romset :

The selection of the best ROMS from "Platform Explorer ROMs Pack" and "Tiny Best Set: GO!" have been merged to offer a list of ROMS of exceptional quality in the main list of each console. We kept the Miyoo romset collection to complete this collection with a lot of additional games (only the duplicates have been removed).

Main platforms has been scraped again using Skraper and the settings from3-Images Mix to get a uniform preview of the image box

Roms browsing structure :

The best games are in the main list and generally in "Miyoo Collection" you should find all the other games.
Then there are special subfolders :
● "Miyoo collection" will contains all the other games from the stock SD card
● "Hacks" will contain a selection of very good rom hacks (like "New Super Mario Land" on SNES)
● "Translations" will contain exceptional translated roms (generally from japonese to english)
● "Modern" are recent homebrew, new home-made games made for this platform (like Stepper, a music sequencer for GBA)

Ports :

Full port collection up to date, base on Onion ports 1.0.9 (Mario 64, Zelda Picross, Diablo, Doom 1 & 2 + mod packs, blood, duke nukem, quake + extensions, cave story, OpenTyrian, Shadow Warrior … )

Emulators :

On the emulator part, the release is based on Onion RC 4.2.0 with some additions :
● Drastic added for NDS emulation , specially configured for Onion with new icon
● GB/GBC and NGP configured withawesome Jeltron overlays
● some expert emulators are installed in expert section as they are specially good :
   ○ ScummVM Standalone (faster than the retroarch core version)
   ○ PCSX Standalone (faster than the retroarch core version)
   ○ gpSP (often faster then mGBA, good to play GBA with fast forward)    
   ○ fbneo with its dedicated selection of best roms + overclock for good framerate (similar to Drastic)
● Some new exceptional cores added for advanced users like duckstation

App : 

Installed by default :
● video player
● pdf and epub readers
● random game picker (to launch a game randomly)
● search (to easily find a game)
● video recorder "screencap" added !

Themes :

A selection of 60 best themes has been made from theOnion Theme repository. (Decompressed for fast loading of the Theme Switcher).

Bios :

Globally Miyoo stock with some useless stuffs removed, some additions like PSXONPSP660.bin

Happy Retrogaming Everyone!