The Powkiddy X55 is fairly underrated if you look at the price. In my opinion it has the best ergonomics and screen for it’s price point. With JelOS it becomes a really great system with the ability to play some PSP games and all your other retro games. Below is a quick companion to my video:

  • Integer scaling works very well on this screen, try it out on some systems
  • When you set filters remember to go to QUICK MENU > OVERRIDES > SAVE CONTENT DIRECTORY OVERRIDES
  • Jelos installation –
  • Unzip the image file and burn the image file to your 16GB card using Balena Etcher
  • Now insert the 16GB card to your device and start it up
  • In the main menu press select and shut down the system
  • Now insert the second larger SD card into TF2 and restart the device and shut it down again
  • You can now add your roms to the relevant folders
  • Also remember to add your BIOS files to the BIOS folder
  • Check this table for compatible roms and BIOS files: https://github.com/JustEnoughLinuxOS/distribution/wiki/JELOS-emulators-and-game-engines
  • Once that’s all set up we can move onto the fun stuff…
  • General setup guide for Jelos – see the video for details on this:
    • Wifi – first get your wifi connected
    • Create a retro-achievements account here https://retroachievements.org/ and log into retro achievements on your device
    • UI settings – RA theme – XMB
    • UI setting – list transition style to FADE
    • UI settings – game launch transition – FADE
    • UI settings – Show favs on top ENABLED
    • UI settings – show savestate icon – ENABLED
    • Game collection settings – automatic game collections – ENABLE retroachievments
    • Scraper – create an account on www.screenscraper.fr – then enter those credentials into your device and select the setting you want and start the scraping process.