Trimui Smart Pro Update

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Stock Setup Guide (without cloning)

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.

The first thing you need to is grab the latest firmware, and you can get that from here. The file that you want is the one that starts with trimui_tg5040.

Next, we need to setup the SD card, so you want to get those files from here and you want to choose the base_package option.

Extract both zip files using 7-Zip.

Now you want to format your brand new card as FAT32. We can use a program called Rufus to do so. Download the portable version.

Connect your SD card to your PC using a branded SD card reader (recommendations above), and open Rufus. Make sure that device is your SD card, should match the same size. Change Boot selection to Non bootable. Make sure that File system is FAT32 or Large FAT32. Click START.

When it’s done, you’ll have a blank FAT32 formatted SD card.

Copy the contents of the base_package zip you extracted to the root of the SD card – so the RetroArch, Emus etc. folders and then copy the .awimg file from the firmware zip to the root of the blank SD card we just formatted.

Eject and insert the SD card into your TrimUI Smart Pro.

Press and hold VOLUME MINUS + POWER at the same time and after some seconds, you’ll see a green loading bar. Release the POWER and then VOLUME MINUS buttons when you do.

The device will install the firmware, then automatically restart and you’ll be in the operating system.

Adding ROMs & BIOS

Connect your SD card to your 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.

Don’t forget, that when you add or remove ROM files, they may not always show up and you might need to refresh the ROM list. Head to the Game tab in the operating system, then push the Menu button on the device bottom left and select Refresh Roms.

FN Mode

On the bottom of the device, there’s an FN button. You want to have this to the right (so moved to the side opposite of FN).

Then, in the operating system, head to App, Fnkey setting, and enable CPU Performance Mode.

Box Art

There is no built in way to get box art on the device, so you will need to use Screenscraper.fr and Skraper.net to do so.

Connect your SD card to your PC.

Make an account on screenscraper, and save those credentials.

Download Skraper from the top right of the Skraper.net website for your operating system.

Extract the .7z file that it downloads in using 7-Zip.org.

Open SkraperUI.exe and login with your Screenscraper credentials then click Validate. Then next.

Let it download resources, this will take a very long time.

Select Generic Emulation and then next.

Now it wants to know where your Roms are, so click the folder and navigate to your SD card and the Roms folder. You should see most if not all of the systems populate, some might be missing and that’s fine for now. Click next. Then next again.

We’re now on the main Skraper screen, if you look on the left, that is all of the system folders that it found, regardless of whether there’s roms inside or not. It’s possible there’s some systems missing here and if that’s the case, click the Plus icon under the list next to Wizard.

Find the system icon for what’s missing and click the icon, then click okay.

Now, you have to tell Skraper where that system is located, so click the folder icon next to Games/Roms folder and navigate to the folder for that system.

Do these same steps for any missing systems.

Head to the left, click All Systems, go to the Game List tab on the right and change to no backup, just update existing. Head to the Media tab, and you can choose what you want scraped. I don’t need the manual, so going to remove that by selecting it and clicking the minus icon on the left.

For Media type, internal mix, you can choose what you want. I’m just going to leave it on 4 images mix.

Now for output folder, change it to: %ROMROOTFOLDER%\Imgs\. This tells it to save all of the box art into the Roms folder, then the system folder (so, like GBA), then Imgs folder.

This is going to take a very, very, very long time to scrape. Once set, click the play button bottom right. Then click OK and it’s going to run. This is going to take a very long time, a very very long time. I would suggest doing one system at a time, by clicking the system on the left then clicking play, but it doesn’t really matter, you can just click the X to stop it and then play again later and it’ll skip already scraped games.

Once it’s done scraping, we aren’t done yet. The issue with the TrimUI Smart Pro is that the images actually need to be in the Imgs folder at the top level of the SD card. So, it’ll be Imgs/systemname/ and inside of that is all of your images. Thankfully, that folder already exists.

Head into each of your Rom system folders, and then each of the Imgs folders, and cut and paste the images into the Imgs/systemname/ folder.

So, for N64, you would go to Roms/N64/Imgs, select all and cut. Then go to Imgs/N64/ and paste them there.

Do that for every system and when you’re done, put your SD card back into your device, turn it on and enjoy your box art.

Updating stock firmware and files

The first thing you need to is grab the latest firmware, and you can get that from here. The file that you want is the one that starts with trimui_tg5040.

Next, we need the SD card files which updates apps, RetroArch and more, so you want to get those files from here and you want to choose the base_package option.

Extract both zip files using 7-Zip.

Connect your SD card to your PC using a branded SD card reader (recommendation above). Copy the contents of the base_package zip you extracted to the root of the SD card – so the RetroArch, Emus etc. folders and then copy the .awimg file from the firmware zip to the root of your SD card.

Eject and insert the SD card into your TrimUI Smart Pro.

Press and hold VOLUME MINUS + POWER at the same time and after some seconds, you’ll see a green loading bar. Release the POWER and then VOLUME MINUS buttons when you do.

The device will install the firmware, then automatically restart and you’ll be in the operating system.

Turn off Shaders/Overlays

If you’re like me and you hate the shaders and overlays that come pre-installed for most systems, let me show you how to remove them. Jump into a game with them applied and push the menu button bottom left. Head to Advanced Menu. Now, scroll down to On-Screen Overlay and uncheck Display Overlay. Head back and scroll down to Shaders, uncheck Video Shaders. Head back and go to Overrides, and now Save Core Overrides.

Calibrate Joysticks

Head to Setting at the top, then System, then Calibrate Joystick. Press A, then select the left joystick first and follow the instructions, just rotate the stick. Go ahead and do the right stick after. Trust me, don’t skip this, you want to calibrate these.

Tweaks

  • To change the core or emulator being used for a specific game, highlight the game in the game list and push X. You’ll get a list that you can choose from.

Adding Pico-8

To add Pico-8, there’s a few steps you need to do.

First, you’re going to download this 7zip file that has all of the Pico-8 files that you need to run the games.

Extract the 7zip file using 7-Zip.

Copy the Apps folder to the root of your SD card, merging with the existing Apps folder that’s already there.

Then, you need to add the following files to the Apps/pico/bin folder.

  • pico8_64
  • pico8.dat

You can obtain these by legally purchasing Pico-8 from https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php. You will need the Raspberry Pi version.

Games go into the Apps/pico/.lexaloffle/pico-8/bbs/carts folder. This might be hidden by default depending on your operating system, so if you don’t see it, make sure to enable the ability to see hidden files and folders.

If you want a curated list of Pico-8 games, you can find a romset here: https://www.reddit.com/r/pico8/comments/1c2we6o/picowesome_v15_apr122024.

Custom Firmware Options

Custom firmware is a replacement for the stock firmware that we setup above. If you would like to try out any custom firmware, I would recommend using a separate brand new SD card and keep your stock one just in case you want to switch back.

NextUI

You can find the full setup guide for NextUI here: NextUI Setup Guide.

KNULLI

You can find the full setup guide for KNULLI here: KNULLI Setup Guide.

CrossMix-OS

MinUI

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