/vr/ - Retro Games

We’ve had this thread enough times. Go away.

>>7793269
i bought a retroid pocket 2 off of a recommendation from 4chan and it's a useless piece of trash. Get a modded GBA instead. There are good ones on etsy.

>>7793315
>Paying $200+ for a modded GBA and flash cart
>So you can play GBA games and poorly emulated GB/GBC games
>Opposed to spending $100 and emulating a fuckton more systems
Nah, fag. I don’t think so.

>>7793321
Fine, waste your money on a shitty cheap clunky handheld that is no better then just emulating your games on pc. I tried to warn you.

>>7793269
Those aren't retro handhelds kiddo. Those are modern emulation devices.

>>7793321
>So you can play GBA games and poorly emulated GB/GBC games
GB/GBC flash carts work on a GBA as well, so no emulation is needed.

>>7793330
I can’t fit my PC in my pocket, lad.

>>7793337
Just adds to the cost while increasing its footprint in your pocket. If you’re a fan of the Game Boy line of handhelds it’s fine, but I need C64, MD and PS1 minimum.

>>7793361
>I can’t fit my PC in my pocket, lad.
You can't fit a retroid in your pocket either, unless you're rocking a fanny pack like some kind of queer. The popup joysticks would prevent you from putting it in your pants pocket without risking the device. And for someone who's concern is "shitty emulation" you sure seem eager to deal with using bad emulators on an android device.

Retroid interests me, but I hate that the analog is the primary input and the ZL/ZR buttons should have been analog triggers. Why the fuck would you make analog the primary, when N64 & Dreamcast are the only ones that'll take advantage of it. And don't claim they did it for PS1, cause if they did, they wouldn't have gimped the 2nd stick. Yellow and jungle green are tight color choices. Also how'd they fuck up the dpad, when they could have simply replicated the SNES molding... here's to hoping 3 gets it right.

I have an rg351v and its garbage. And apparently thats one of the better ones, so if thats their mark of quality then fuck Chinese handhelds

>>7793631
This is still what I use. SNES is a little rough but that doesn't bother me. It's plenty fine otherwise.

>>7793631
Why would you buy a PSP over Vita in 2021?

>>7793649
How are they garbage by the way? Not that I doubt it at all but is it that they feel cheap and break easily or does the emulation suck as well?

>>7793652
I guess now you may as well get a vita. I still use a psp because when I got it the vita didn't exist and I never bothered to upgrade. If I was going to hack a newer device it would probably be a 3ds.

>>7793653
Emulation is low quality. I mean you'll get fullspeed but I can't at all seem to get perfect frame pacing or audio on most things. The interface is terrible amd cumbersome. It crashes a lot (half the time on boot in will lock up and the rumble gets stuck on). The buttons aren't terrible but have that distinct, cheap third party controller feel. And the resolution isn't high enough to make adequate use of interpolation shaders so you still get scrolling shimmer/have to blur the fuck out of it when not playing at integer scale

Just kind of shitty all around

>>7793659
You get what you pay for

>>7793659
It's my first emulation device ever but I have to disagree on some things. The buttons and dead feel solid to me. I haven't had my console crash once and the menu navigation isn't that complicated.
Are you using the flash card that came with the console or something? I'm using an sansdisk ultra plus which might help out the performance a bit.

>>7793269
Don't waste your time with these cheap chinese pieces of shit. Nothing about them is good.

>>7793831
I'm using my own sd card and running elec351

>>7793848
Maybe I'm just lucky or playing easier to emulate games.

>>7793269
3ds+ds flashcart is the cheapest
i have one softmodded and one stock for pokemon bank

both are konami limited edition shells
systems:
GB, GBC, GBA, DS, DSi, 3DS
nes, snes, sega genesis, game gear, turbographx

screen is small but comfy
i pocket it at work in my jacket liner

>>7793919
3DS Chad here.
My console is also softmodded and my Nintendo handheld emulation machine. Sometimes I wish I could get a new 3DS for better emulation but at the same time this console has lasted me over 8 years.

>>7793919
Where can I get covers like that?

>>7793919
My problem is its kind of shit for DS and GBA games, you either blow them up and they're blurred to fuck and back, or you integer scale them and they're awkwardly small

The xl solves the awkwardly small problem but I just don't find the xl very comfortable to use in bed which is where I do like 90٪ of my portable gaming

>>7793315
you're a fucking moron for falling for these obvious shills peddling chinese shit.

I have the RG351V as well, it's great. My first emulation device since Pi3 and CRT. Never bothered with handhelds before, but this one was too good to pass up for 100 bucks.

Except for very minor squeeking in my dpad and stick, the hardware is solid. MicroSDs are supposed to be cheap as fuck, but I'll wait till they croak.

Emuelec is garbage, install 351Elec or other firmware.
RGA shader is good, but "2x-prescale-sharp-bilinear" shader is supposedly better and I would tend to agree.

Personally I also prefer to grab the games off the second MicroSD and only install a couple at the time, so you don't burn out choosing.

>>7794107
Yep, and now I'm spreading the word, warning others not to buy any of this shit.

>>7793951
i knew the years would move quickly
but never quite as fast as this

>>7794092
pictured: monaka love plus & nene love plus konami special edition systems
japan only, lunamod makes it region free
originally i swapped motherboards from an american 3ds (not recommended)

>>7794104
the blurring is not noticeable on the small launch 3ds, i had the xl dsi and 3ds ended up returning them both
ds runs full speed off r4 gold
gba i tend to choose eshop titles and fanmade cia files of translation patches
other acceptable portables = psp-2000/3000
some of the emulation ran slightly slow but it was all pretty much playable

>>7793403
you're a massive sperg

>>7794257
>monaka love plus & nene love plus konami special edition

Very nice. Wish there more custom designed covers for the 3DS.

>>7793631

Based. My PSP got some serious mileage and I finally have let her rest after the stick went bad and some dark spots popped up on the screen. I have the parts to fix it I'm just too dumb and lazy

>>7794353
clear case & photo paper prints is the best i can recommend for cheap

prices are as low as they are gonna get for limited editions

i used to use a psp (almost 20 years ago now .. damn) i remember using an exploit in GTA liberty city stories. i than moved onto a 3ds for emulating but the bottom screen broke so i gave up on that.. about a year ago i got the RG350 and RG300 (gifts from two different people) both of them satisfy the itch. i think i slightly prefer the 300 because it looks more like a gameboy, but the 350 is a bit stronger (better for PS1 games). i think there are newer models available from anbernic. this is just my experience, but id recommend them.

>>7794413
PSP is 15 years old

>>7793269
Nice stealth advertising thread, chang.

>>7794440
Dumb weeb

>>7794413
yeah that sounds about right, i remember getting it in 2005

>>7793403
You’re either a manlet or wear jeans two sizes too small.
>bad emulators on an Android device
The emulators on it are lightyears ahead of the shit you’ll find on GBA which serve more as a proof of concept than something you’d actually use.

Is there any solution to fixing stuttering on snes9x on a retroid? Fucking thing can barely run mario all stars and its lagging in last bible too. Or should I just run everything through RA?

>>7794838
I had that years ago with the gpd xd, had much better luck with RA for snes emulation

>>7794796
What's wrong about nes advance, Huh nigger?

which gba backlight mod is the best these days? had an afterburner kit back in the day, but it looks like they're out of production

>>7795835
Make your own

>researching which handheld to buy
>look at videos and articles
>see there is literally nothing in the way of benchmarking or objective measurements of performance other than basic spec listings

I couldn't even find videos of guys playing through games with the FPS counter turned on.

>>7793315
>android
Do you have to have a google account to use that thing?
I don't use smart phones.

>>7795887
Okay grandpa, it's time for bed

Seriously, I can't find any discussion re:

>input lag
>screen color accuracy in terms of being measured by a colorimeter
>screen brightness in terms of nits
>screen response time

do handheld players not care about these things?

>>7795880
>I couldn't even find videos of guys playing through games with the FPS counter turned on.
wtf every video I've seen has the FPS visible, what retards are you watching? try looking at some of Taki Udon's videos

>>7795917
input lag is the only one anybody cares about, and that is only affected by the OS, and this isn't a damn TV so screen response time doesn't matter, it's always going to be as fast as the OS can go. the other shit is subjective so nobody cares.

>>7795959
>this isn't a damn TV so screen response time doesn't matter, it's always going to be as fast as the OS can go
The OS has nothing to do with it. Response time is going to determine how much blur the screen has, particularly on scrolling games.
If the handheld supports a web browser you can go here and see if the test works to get a really rough idea of motion blur.

https://www.testufo.com/

Or you could try playing back the same test video at the same time on two different devices as an easy way to see which had better performance.

>>7795959
>and that is only affected by the OS
This is incorrect. Different emulators have different amounts of lag. If could get run-ahead going on a handheld it would help just as much as it would anywhere else. I don't know if anything out right now short of maybe a Nvidia Shield or a Switch has the juice to do even NES run-ahead.

>>7795994
>I don't know if anything out right now short of maybe a Nvidia Shield or a Switch has the juice to do even NES run-ahead.
I think some of the newer phones should be able to do it.

>>7793269
If I can beat every PSP Armored Core game on a bluetooth controller synched to an Android phone, bluetooth/android/various other imaginary sources of lag must not be enough of a problem that you need a separate device for it. Don't waste money on garbage that you won't even have pocket space for, cargo pants aren't cool.

Phone emulation was only a joke when Dalvik was the Android runtime, which is like ordinary Java and slowly interpreted with delay (ie compiled live during run). All modern Android phones are using ART, which precompiles it like non-Java software, so the meme's been dead for years and nobody told you guys.

>>7795917

>>7793269
Playstation Vita.

>>7796289
>Armored Core
I tried playing Kirby Super Star on a phone with a PS4 controller, the was like 1 second delay on every button push it was a mess.
Though phone emulation is fine if you play games that don't need a gamepad like turn based games, and those kind of games are acually good to play on the go and no need for a bluetooth gamepad.

>>7796289
I haven't played a lot of the later games but I don't recall Armored Core being much of a lag sensitive game.

>>7793652
Looking at the price that Vitas go for these days, absolutely

Waiting for a good deal on those expensive handheld PCs that can emulate 7th gen

>>7795112
I originally bought one start of pandemic but it got refunded. Since then ive been using my DSi/R4, 3DS/CFW and now a retroid. The RA core works fine but I want to use the standalone app instead.

>>7796438
Of course a PSP would be cheaper but a vita is still within acceptable price range compared with a retro handheld.

I think if I were to get one I'd get the PiBoy DMG even if it's a little expensive.
But I think I will wait until they come out with something like that taking inspiration from the Game Gear and Nomad, but with a 5" screen.

Retroid Pocket 2 hate is misplaced. It's difficult to configure simply because it uses Retroarch. If you hate Retroarch, you'll hate this thing. If you aren't a fucking retard and know how to configure Retroarch, it's a spectacular machine that can hold a 512GB card. Mine has all of the Sega CD games, and a shit ton of PSP and PSX games, runs em all great, except those that Retroarch has issues with...

>>7795887
No, you can sideload anything you want, and most emulators are preinstalled anyway. Or just set up an account, it doesn't take any time at all.

>>7796289
It's just one guy in these threads banging on about Android lag and he doesn't even know what it means.

>>7796438
honestly, it's hard to go back to a regular PSP after using a handheld that supports standby mode. I'd rather use a New 3DS even.

>>7796775
>Retroid Pocket 2 hate is misplaced
Not misplaced. Manufactured. 90% of these handheld threads are either shilling or anti-shilling.
The RP2 is more of a curate's egg, if anything.

>>7796775
How is CPS2 and Neo Geo emulation on it? Is there much input lag?

>>7794476
That language is Chinese, guailo.

>>7795914
What? Is it 2:00PM already?

>>7796775
The buttons suck

>>7797120
The buttons are fine, what are you on about?

>>7796792
PSP always had sleep/standby. Unless you're talking about something different

>>7795880
I looked some more and found a few videos with the FPS counters.

>>7797072
What ls Chinese language?

>>7796641
now post the price of a new one

>>7798458
>system is out of production but you want it new.
Of course its gonna be expensive retard.

>>7796817
Lag's fine, the form factor kinda sucks... My hands cramp. Get a rubber sleeve for it or something with hand grips.

>>7793269
I'm curious about these handhelds but I just can't justify buying something that my android phone already does better.
>>7795887
>I don't use smart phones
you a sex offender?

>>7800329
Probably

https://youtu.be/NdvSwJ0RZpY

>>7800329
Phones don't have buttons therfore they suck

>>7794112
easy to setup

>>7793269
Was the Go as good as the original series?

seems like the smaller screen would ruin playing some games like colony wars or unholy war?

>>7800513

>>7800513
It's way to tiny unless you have baby hands and the battery will constantly break.
Other than that it's great

>>7800329
>>7800415
I'd just get a controller but modern phones are too big

>>7796792
Wut? The PSP has a proper sleep mode.

>>7793919
>+ds flashcart
This is now optional, since Twilight++ exists.
>>7794104
See above. There's widescreen patches and filters to solve the problem, and I believe GBA can be run at 1:1 by holding some button.

>>7800887
I think they were talking about the vita anon

>>7801923
The PSP has a standby mode though. Thing is, it might consume more battery due to using older technology.
t. phat owner

>>7802004
My Go gets a good few days on standby mode. I never turn my Vita off, though. You may as well be turning it off when you put it in standby mode, because the battery drain is so slight.

>>7802109
Same for my O3DSXL. It's been on standby for about a week and half.

>>7802124
Based. How’s emulation on the O3DS these days?

>>7802156
The best we can get. DS games run natively using TwilightMenu++, as does GBA by using Luma menu to start it directly from kernel. Everything else runs pretty well on Retroarch, from what I've heard, and if you have a N3DS you can even play Playstation.
I've recently updated mine from a9lh+emunand to b9s sysnand and currently playing Pokémon Soul Silver with widescreen patch (doesn't stretch, it shows more of the map) and cheats to cut/make some animations faster.

>>7793269
I just use my phone and a controller. Though i was tempted by the retroid Pocket, the rg350m, and Rg351m

>>7798561
so the price is not actually comparable to a retro handheld then.

>>7793269
i had a dingoo a320 a long time ago
bought it for like $40
emulated better than it had any right to

was kind of a cheap feeling piece of shit, but it got the job done and was really easy to take with me in my pocket
worked for like 5 or so years, then it got wet and it was ogre
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