/vr/ - Retro Games

I got my Pocket 2S yesterday, time for a mini-review now that I've spent some time with it. I purchased the transparent green version on 25th July right after it became available. It was probably a good decision because the exchange rate of my local currency to dollar dipped around that time. I probably would have to pay more if I wanted to order it now and it wouldn't come with a free screen protector. There were obviously some shipping delays, but after Retroid finally shipped it, it took only 8 days to get to me (even though I chose the 4PX shipping option that's supposed to be "slower").

Looks-wise, it's not terrible, though I would definitely get the transparent black model instead of transparent green if I could choose again. The render looked so much better than what we got in the end. The shade of green is wrong, it was supposed to be this lush tropical green and not spearmint. The rainbow-colored buttons are also a disappointment, for two reasons. The green button is too close to the shell in color and the "B" on the yellow button is actually darker than the button itself, which irks me.

Setup took some time and I pretty much gave up halfway through and decided that I will launch emulators manually instead of using a frontend. The performance is okay. Most PS2 games will not run at full speed with safe settings, but the one I really wanted to play was Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc, which runs pretty well. There are still slowdowns, but they're quite rare and the game is completely playable. I used the NTSC version, there should be even less slowdowns on PAL but I think I prefer 60FPS most of the time. I haven't really tested other systems thoroughly (too little time), but I believe that anything up to 5th gen and Dreamcast should play perfect outside of some weird edge cases.

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