/vr/ - Retro Games

If I had money to burn I would have a collection of these things. But I know I would never play them, my Vita is still going strong and it has a couple important things that these consoles don't. RetroArch for one, I know there's an official OpenDingux port but there's no buildbot for it yet and I'm not going to fuck around trying to compile it myself. The other thing is sleep mode, the Vita is beyond legendary, you can press the lock button while playing a game and pick it back up a month later and continue right where you left off, with maybe 10% battery drain. These chink devices don't have any sort of sleep mode at all, so any time you put it down you have to save your progress and turn it off, then go through the whole boot up when you go back to it. Also the resolution isn't so good on even the best of them.

>>6667423
Why do they only have 1 analog? How am I supposed to play Medal of Honor with these?

>>6667423
Not retro but get a PSP+Memory Stick and dump it with emulators. GBC/A works very nicely on it

>>6669273
These things used to be an okay option but are dated. Stop anytime with the suggestion.

Nor are new jewtendo shits the best option.

>>6669082
Normalfag game.

That aside the ps1 didn't have a fuckton of buttons nor did n64. These were designed for games that had just one of either d-pad or analog stick in use.

>>6667423
The far right is the cheapest for how powerful it is but has no shoulder buttons of which would wreck gameplay. Cheapest worth bothering about is that dead center, but is weak.

Powkiddy has lots of stuff. Retroid and or pandora is a powkiddy. I doubt they last long and people bitch about changing firware but one of the powkiddies I'd get or just make a rasperry pi type machine work instead.

My list is sporadically in this image related that I am considering with my neet dollars to buy. Then again, i have no neetbux, so by that I mean b-day and kikemas money.

The pocketgo is famous of the list and of the cheapest but will be sold out by now. It can't do n64 though, so retroid is the same tier price on the far right of your image op and can they say, but I don't own either.

I'd figure the x15 has shoulder buttons, that might be the best bet. Sort of psp shaped, has real usb ports rather than the tiny kind, more powerful than the retroid due to having more ram, then there's other powkiddy's and such. Then rg3xxx thingies are probably their competitor if no androids are wanted and instead weird android consoles.

The New 2DS XL (or if you're too poor, Old G 3DS/2DS) is a pretty nice emulation machine if you homebrew it.
It runs Retroarch pretty well, and can emulate Nintendo consoles up to SNES painlessly, along with basic N64 support, as well as Genesis and a bit of PSX.
It also runs pretty much every single Nintendo handheld before Switch, and the 3DS itself has a bunch of ports from older consoles too

>>6669314
>These things used to be an okay option but are dated.
Just like retro games in general

>>6669273
>>6669314
PSPs are great if you wanna do pretty much everything besides SNES. For some reason there still isn't a passable SNES emulator even though the Genesis/SCD works fine

>>6669369
As a rule if something can't even do snes or gba perfectly and also cannot do n64 then it's shit for retro gaming. If it can't do snes then gba will glitch something tells me, and obviously no n64. What is it then? A psx emulator with nes, gb/gbc.

>>6669345
fuck off

>>6669369
>tfw you can run n64 on psp better than snes

RG350m is far and away the best option currently.

>>6669768
i honest to god will never understand how it's always recommended. the thing is ok at best.
the build quality is good and the community support is also good but the resolution is absolute garbage, the screen size is less than a psp. nothing beyond the ps1 like the n64 or ds even. why not get a psp/go which is better at litterally everything?

>>6667423
the RG350P is probably the best choice among the prefabricated ones, especially for the price you're paying

>>6670058
price and a lot less work to get set up is why, like the only real bit of work I had to do was disassemble mine to access the internal Micro SD Card(cause I had gotten the original model) and even that didn't take very long at all once I found the right sized screwdriver needed to get it open

>>6669335
Old 3ds and 2ds can't run Retroarch worth a shit, so no one should buy one of those with Retroarch in mind. If you want Retroarch on 3DS get New models.

>>6669369
Why is that?

>>6669273
>>6669369
PSP is literally worse than the New 3DS in every regard except PSX compatibility and the screen.

>>6670058
>why not get a PSP which is better at everything?
Because that's a lie. Every single system apart from PS1 is better on RG350

>>6670058
>the resolution is absolute garbage
>psp/go which is better at litterally everything
The PSP/Go can't even run SNES without frameskip and its oddball resolution being 480x272 leads to proper scaling being fucking impossible to achieve. The 350m/p having a 640x480 screen is absolutely leaps and bounds above the PSP if not just due to being more friendly for scaling

>>6670058
It's the most advertised is why anon. The most currently advertised, the most newfangled. It's a literal fad. Do you not normalfag? Do you not capitalism? Fashion?

Come on now.

>>6670403
Yesterday's most advertised. Yesterday's fashion.

Got an rk2020 recently. At last, I can play PSP games on the go!

>>6671963
for about 45 minutes

https://obscurehandhelds.com/
this is a great resource for news on weird emu handhelds
I still use my 2ds but I'd love a smaller device with just one screen someday.

>>6672305
https://obscurehandhelds.com/2020/03/how-to-build-a-zpg-z-pocket-game-handheld/
This thing is pretty interesting. Uses salvaged phone hardware.
Considering how powerful yet cheap old phone hardware can be, maybe more designers should attempt this approach.
My LG V30 goes for $150 used and it has a SD835, I'm sure the mainboards can be found for less.

>>6672052
>hurrr tiny screen use lots of wattage DURRR

>>6669335
>New 2DS XL
Why not N3DSXL?

>>6674185
They probably find it comfier. I haven't used a 2DS XL so I wouldn't know.

>>6674185
It's more expensive, the 3D doesn't really add that much (I've only played like 2 3DS games with worthwhile 3D, and most emulators don't even support the feature), and the placement of the SD Card slot on the N3DS XL is much more uncomfortable, making you pretty much take apart the whole back plate before you can take the card.
Also, the N2DS XL just looks cooler

>>6675579
The hinges on the N2DSXL is weaker though.

this one has been on the back of my mind for months, thing is there's a waiting line on top of shipping restrictions and the skills, tools and price needed are all off-putting. Still te pros seem to outweigh the cons, but I'll wait till next year, maybe the guy'll make a landscape one with better d-pad placement

>>6677257
What skills and tools?

>>6677268
trimming your spare wii board, soldering tiny pads, trying not to fuck up. Like shank mods said in the video good tools are a must, I plan on getting those first and doing other simpler projects before thinking of attempting that one

>>6677284
forty whys

>>6677291
see>>6677257
that's a better library than any stinky chinky plasticky PoS you can buy right now. Besides, DIY is fun (when you know how to ofc)

>>6677309
OK but you're left with what appears to be a single USB port.
Are all controls coming through that?

>>6670827
While I too heavily prefer the N3DS, I can understand why some people might still prefer a PSP over N3DS. It comes down to what games you prefer having access to. If you really want PS1 and PSP games but don't care about SNES, DS, and 3DS, the PSP is the way to go. If you don't care about PS1 or PSP games, the N3DS is the way to go.

How would you design one of these things?
>nice screen
>powerful hardware
>swappable inputs
or what?

>>6677518
inb4 kotaku just posting it for images
https://kotaku.com/alienware-is-definitely-not-ripping-off-the-nintendo-sw-1840860112