Buy the Miyoo Flip here: https://joeysrh.link/ALI_MFLIP
Recommended Accessories
- MicroSD Card: 128GB or 256GB (with the platforms this plays, you would be safe with either of these options)
- MicroSD Card Reader: UGREEN SD Card Reader
- Charger: UGREEN 65W Charger (use the USB-A port for charging)
Stock Setup Guide
This setup guide assumes you want to start from scratch, with a brand new branded SD card and you will be providing your own ROMs & BIOS files.
Connect your SD card to your PC.
Now, connect your branded SD card to your PC, I have a recommendation above. Download Rufus if you don’t have it already.
Open Rufus, and we’re going to format the SD card. Change boot selection to non bootable and you can rename the volume label if you’d like. Make sure File System is FAT32 or Large FAT32. Then click start and okay to any warnings.
When that’s done, leave it connected, we’ll come back to it.
Head here: https://github.com/spruceUI/spruceOS/releases/tag/flip0.0 and grab the Miyoo.Flip.Stock.Card.Contents.zip file.
Right click the zip > Extract All. Head inside of the extract folder, and you want to copy the contents to the root of your SD card.
That’s it for setting up the SD card!
Updating Firmware
Head to the Miyoo firmware website here: https://www.lomiyoo.com/en/gujianxiazai.html.
Download the firmware for the Flip, it will usually say Miyoo Flip, of course.
Extract the zip file. Copy the miyoo355 folder and the miyoo355_fw.img to the root of the SD card, overwriting anything it asks.
Eject your SD card, insert it into the device and power it on. It should do the update automatically on screen, you’ll see a rocket ship and it’ll say system upgrade.
If you want to add ROMs and BIOS files, move to that section.
Adding ROMs & BIOS files
Connect your SD card to the PC.
Head inside the Roms folder, and you should see a bunch of folders for all of the systems that the device supports.
It should be pretty self explanatory at this point, but you want to move your ROMs for each system into the corresponding system folder.
For BIOS, head to the RetroArch folder, then .retroarch, and then system. Inside of this folder is where you would put your BIOS files.
I just got my Miyoo Flip today, and there are no nintendo consoles like gameboy, nes/fc, gba, n64. There were no roms for any of them on the SD card either. Even with those roms added to the SD card in the proper folders, the consoles still won’t appear in the games section.
Furthermore, even if I try to run an n64 rom on retroarch manually with parallel 64, it just exits back out and doesn’t play anything.
This is all tested before and after updating the firmware with the same results. Specifically no Nintendo consoles are possible to be used.
followed exactly twice, not registering sd card
device has been rebooted with no sd card slotted and still showing the miyoo launcher front end.
card is sandisk extreme 512gb A2
device shows sd card unmounted
device is fresh out of the box
when inserting original 64 gb (crappy black card) things run fine.
Anyone played around with updating PPSSPP on Miyoo Flip? It comes loaded with v1.17.1 but there are some specific improvements in 1.18 that I’d like to have on my Flip. I cannot see any way of naturally updating the emulator. Thanks!
Hey Chad,
I did this a few days ago. I took an image of Knulli and copied and pasted all of the PPSSPP emu files to the PPSSPP system folder on the Flip and I was able to get the version 1.18.1. I actually got the idea from a reddit post who had the same question. Have not experienced any issues and works as of writing this. Hope this helps. Thanks!
Amazing! Thanks for the reply – super helpfull!
I know the other big question out there is re: Port32 and Portmaster in general. Are we all waiting for a Stock OS update to be able to play the ports in the Port32 folder and/or add our own Ports? I saw a video of someone playing Iconoclasts or “Rebellious Mechanic” on a Flip so I’m guessing someone figured it out.
Would really love a guide on this too. Been trying everything, but can’t set any of my Portmaster games up and running, yet the dodgy preinstalled ones are fine!
How do you get a 2nd sd card to load games?