I made a custom firmware from the stock v.04, but the size is a little big, should I upload it?

GameShell Firmware and Apps
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I made a custom firmware from the stock v0.4 image with standalone emulators:
NES, SNES, GB, GBA and PS1.
I have tested that all the emulators work fine, you just need to copy rom to cpi/games folders and can play immediately.

I also “cleaned” the home screen menu a little bit.
The catch is this image is a little big in size - about 6.5GB. Probably because I made it from my 16GB card.

So, if anyone interested in this custom firmware I will upload for you.
If I do upload I will also write some details instructions so you can set everything up and get playing in no time.
Cheers!

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Would be very sweet !!! I can help with the hosting if needed !

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Had the same issue when creating my custom image, had to use a 8GB sd card to solve this.

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Perhaps it can be shrunk using Gparted?

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before made your dump try fill all unused space with zero
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/zerofree.8.html

( other possibility > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/44725/clear-unused-space-with-zeros-btrfs

on a second time you could use conv=sparse option when use dd or just directly compress on the fly

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Thank you for the offer, I will try to make the size smaller and upload the image today to Mega!

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I’m interested ! can you upload, please.

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here’s the link to the topic: Custom GameShell image v0.4 with working standalone emulators

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thank you for the inspiration, I uploaded my version here: Custom GameShell image v0.4 with working standalone emulators

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here you are: Custom GameShell image v0.4 with working standalone emulators

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Here is the topic: Custom GameShell image v0.4 with working standalone emulators

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Awesome!!! As soon as I have my replacement mainboard I will start using it !! If I have any improvement I’ll let you know! Thanks so much for this!

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