/vr/ - Retro Games

I smashed my zodiac screen years ago after dropping it, it's a shame, it was a cool device. The thumbstick menuing was neat.

anyone who played the neo geo pocket knows this is the perfect design. someone needs to make it again!

>>9950847

>Designed to play games made with 4 by 3 aspect ratio
>Screen is 16 by 9

>>9950745
The cousin to the gizmondo, I say that beca The zodiac shoulder buttons are made of the same material as the gizmondo shell. Only difference is it completely destroyed the shoulder buttons. They literally disintegrate l.

>>9950865

>>9950745
Solitaire is actually really comfy to play with the stylus or your finger. Very sleek aesthetic, but you definitely need a case because just sticking it in your pocket will fuck up the rotary stick and buttons and screen

>>9950865
>>9950872
Yeah, such a shame when the rest of the case is just a really nice piece of aluminium.

>>9950889
Palm OS was pretty great. I used to play the shit out of Bike or Die.

Nearly all the Chinese KTR1s have shipped and the international orders start shipping next week. The mad bastard actually did it.
It is still unknown why he includes a screwdriver.

>>9951070
Looks like you get one of those phone key things as well (micro sd in a tray?).

Any d-pad and button impressions yet?

>>9951070
>Chinese KTR1s

Can you elaborate further I get no hits on google with it and it doesn't show up on western chinese marketplaces.

>>9951082
Not from the finished units, only the preview ones, which just used Anbernic membranes.

>>9951085
This is an old preview but it's probably the best rundown: https://youtu.be/QlGiTWOQ8Ss

>>9951091

I've becomed a boomer, can't emulate ps2 titles on my pc with better specs than that handheld.

Must be the most expensive version that's worth playing ps2/gc tier tittles.

The rest must have a perfomance issues with anything higher than psx games.

>>9950745
For me, it's the Dingoo A320.

>>9951096
I've become fed-up with the Android development scene after what happened with AetherSX2, so I just use my Deck for portable emulation now. Getting to play Xbox and certain PS3 games is nice too.

>>9951070
Thanks for beta testing for me, looking forward to a half dozen QC issues that (you) and redditors will seethepost about which will then get hammered out by the 2nd or 3rd version

>>9951267
Get back to work, Max.

>>9950847
Anon is right with the screen comment, but they absolutely killed it with the stick and aesthetics.

>>9951070
I can't fucking believe it. Nil you absolute mad lad.

>>9951298
>tfw max ragequit nil's qq group a few days ago
he was probably more aware of how close to shipping nil was than the rest of us.

>>9951239
remember this one from the Ashens review
it aged better than that guy's channel did

>>9951423
Who would have thought the guy was like Samson.

Some pretty great KTR1 comparison photos from a few months ago. There were 3 really good ones from this same photographer that had 405m, KTR1, and RP3 all lined up displaying 4:3/3:2/16:9, but they don't seem to included in this set unfortunately.
https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv22094164

Any of you tried the RK2023?
I was going to buy a RG35XX because I intended to play mostly 2D stuff but I remember finding the GBA more comfortable than the Pocket and this thing seems to have pretty good d-pad and buttons and noticeably better sound.

>>9951586
I have one and yeah it kicks ass ngl. I wish the chip was strong enough for DC and Saturn, although this is supposedly the best performing of all the rk3566 devices according to the JELOS and ArkOS devs. Otherwise the shape is perfect, love the d-pad and face buttons, and the screen + speakers are absurd at this price point.

>>9951239
Why don't we have anything this simple and elegant anymore?
Everything is exactly where it should be, it fits in literally any pocket, and a modern version would run anything those controls could utilize with ease.

>>9951610
Well, that was pretty much the review conclusion, way better than expected.
How about battery life?

>>9951731
It's fine. I'm not shitting my pants in excitement over the battery life, but it's certainly not bad either. I think 3.5 - 7 hours is probably the min/max range you should expect on a full charge depending on what you're playing. It has a 3500mAh battery, so the same as the RG353 line.

>>9950745
I have another Famiclone coming in the mail. First gray then hopefully yellow

>>9951768
Anon I think you should stop.

>>9951768
Looks neat, have a link to it?

>>9950745
Is it worth getting a Zodiac to play Palm OS games? They're expensive compared to just getting a PDA

>>9952280
Hell no. Palm itself isn't that interesting, it was fun 20 years ago, but it's a relic now.

The very early palm/handheld PC stuff that runs on batteries has potential use cases in the modern day, but the lack of easy backup options on most devices and the fact they save everything into RAM limits them quite a bit.

>>9951780
They are easy to find on Amazon or eBay if you just search "handheld game", they're like fifteen dollars now, maybe less depending on the seller. Usually they have Adventure Island, Turtles, Mitsume Ga Tooru, and a bunch of older NES games

to answer OPs question, I think the only thing that would get me onto one of these handhelds is being able to play at minimum PS2 RPGs and other slow games with at least 10+ hours of battery life, plus easily exchangeable batteries and easy repair. I don't know if there are devices that can do the PS2 part, but I seriously doubt that these random ass china miracles are reliable for anything beyond becoming landfill fodder in 3 years or less. Tried several different GPD handhelds in the mid-late 2010s, and while I imagine power has come along, I can't imagine that build quality, reliability, or parts access has made any headway.

Th only reason i mention ps2 is because it has some games that interest me, but I pretty much only play RPGs on handhelds since they are difficult for me to get into if I'm not just sitting somewhere waiting to kill time.

I'm going to answer to OP as well.
I don't even need much power, if it runs PS1 I'm fine.
I do want good build quality, good battery life and excellent buttons and d-pad, and the only way to be sure of this last requirement is to test them myself, and there's so many of them for me to make a truly confident decision.
Right now the RK2023 seems the best contender for my needs.

>>9952359
>I want good build quality
>RK2023 is the best contender for my needs

>>9952367
I am convinced some, not all, of these powkiddy fans are trolling.

>>9952280
Yes it's rotary analog stick, button layout, shoulder buttons and screen orientation make it the way to go.

>>9952367
While build quality is important button quality is top priority.
If you have any suggestions please let me know.

>>9952373
I'm no fan of anyone anon, I'm just watching reviews and almost everyone seems like a shill.

>>9952384
yeah, it's hard to trust anybody making video reviews, since I don't think anyone in their right mind would bother buying every piece of garbage themselves to test and review it, and then anyone doing a review based on a sample is like a magazine journalist only worse; They don't have any paycheck beyond what they get from views, and so maintaining cushy relations with the crap manufacturers might be the only thing keeping them fed. I'd trust a YouTube reviewer doing hardware like this even less than most for this sort of subject. It simply reeks of paid advertisement.

>>9950847
>non serviceable/replaceable battery
>cant open the unit without destroying the nice rubber
>shit tier processor

im obsessed with neogeo and have all their shit, but i sold this immediately
it SHOULD have been great

also the shoulder buttons are ass and shouldnt have been there at all for mvs shiet

>>9950745
daily reminder that vita runs vita games and psp/ps1 titles perfectly

underage posters and shills seethe anytime original hardware is posted here
pottery

>>9952407
I appreciate the guides they make but its all slimey for sure. Russ is just a door to door salesmen of chinese electronics except he can do everything from his hammock in hawaii.

>>9952425
Russ doesn’t play games, he shouldn’t be trusted

>>9952428
>>9952425
youtube: "playable lol"
>actual fps = 19 with audio glitches/drops

fuck all chink devices

>>9952449
also PAL rom, skipping 6 frames, CPU speed 50%, 7 graphics hacks on

“Personally I could play it like this, but I could see why for some folks it might be a problem”

>>9952420
>Luv chinkshit
>Luv offical
>Luv mobile
Simple as. Also, some people have input delay with psp on vita for some reason. I don't, but I'm testing out why this happens.

>>9952420
yeah, is nice. I use 3ds for everything else and get things well sorted. At least I can rely somewhat on economy of scale with these as opposed to whatever gets pooped out of a Shenzhen factory line for all of 3 months before they close down and shuffle assets.

>>9952497
Only problem is they arent getting made anymore, neither Sony or Nintendo are going to make a proper handheld again. The price of these will inflate into oblivion sadly.

>>9952497
Trust me. Wait four months. Powkiddy and a certain newcomer have something INTRESTHANG cooking up

I'm retarded.

I only had to change a joystick and I damaged the board....does it have a solution?

>>9952505
I think I may be even more retarded because I'm not seeing where the board damage is. Is this a 1k?

>>9952420
shieeeet, I totally forgot that game was playable on Vita. I aught to go back and try to clear it.

>>9952557
He lifted the whole fucking ribbon cable connector off the board, dude. If you're good at microsoldering you could put it back on, but we both know that's never going to happen so his best bet is just getting a donor replacement circuit board for the right side buttons.

>>9952574
Oh fuck he did. kek anon how the heck did you do that

I had a Zire 31 as a kid under the logic of "it's a combination GBA and iPod that can do anything a PC can"

That was not a good idea. Astraware's titles, Bike or Die, The Quest and Space Trader are your lot in terms of games worth playing for it, and most of them were later ported elsewhere.

>>9952505
>>9952574
Yeah just order a new daughterboard off of ali or something.

>>9952492
don't understand all the technical details the gist is:
>adrenaline adds input lag because it emulates the entire psp os while running the game
>different drivers between psp and vita, the cfw drivers work better on psp. they recommend sony's official one on vita

https://gbatemp.net/threads/adrenaline-bubble-manager-reduces-input-lag-over-using-adrenaline.605839/

so bubble or ark-4 instead of running regular adrenaline

>>9952586
Huh, they're still pretty cheap. I remember I had to buy a new mainboard back in the day because I bought a cheap Vita but it was a FW you couldn't hack yet, so I paid about 30 bucks for a new one from china with an old FW on it.

>>9952412
>shouldnt have been there at all for mvs shiet
They're useful for multi-button inputs a lot of the fighters have.

Anbernic seems to be the gold standard for these devices.

>>9952751
Anbernig is highly overrated.

>>9950745
Is the torrent still alive? 2 days and the download hasn't even started

>>9952751
Retroid*

>>9952880
Probably faster just to get the whole set from the official torrents and set it up yourself

>>9952751
It’s retroid pocket chief, yes the start select button placement is ass but they don’t have screens fucking falling out.

>flop

You get what you deserve thinking that chinesium shit wasn’t going to meltdown in a week.

Are KT Warriors winning yet?

>>9951716
These days it's cheaper and easier to just make a glorified Android phone than anything bespoke.

Currently going through the Gen 1 Armored Cores on my RG351MP because I wanna play the pre-7th gen games before 6 hits. Have some reservations with how they handle but they aged surprisingly well.
Fuck the top half of the Phantasma arena ladder though. Even moreso since the reward you get is nerfed to uselessness in MoA.

>>9951716
Because now that the chips have enough power to run N64 and Dreamcast, even if they can't run them competently, they just feel compelled to stick analog sticks on the device and ruin the simplicity. They want to make sure they cover every base they can with a device and push them as far as the chip allows. No one wants to make a deliberate and clean device that knows exactly what its capable of.

I would love a device that has no more power than a Miyoo Mini but no sticks, no L2/R2 so that I can actually have full size L and R instead of all four being tiny and cramped and feeling like shit. It's good for SNES and below and GBA and below and can run them all full speed and that's it. I don't care that it doesn't have all the buttons for PS1, the device shouldn't have to push for everything.

>>9952993
No, not until we see a few months of usage KTShill, let’s see how resilient they are

>>9952420
game?

>>9953072
>fisrt look
You love to see it

>>9952579
I have a ADHD
And the retard in the tutorial video literally told me to pry up with Screwdriver.
>>9952586
Well... now it's time to wait 2 months to order a new board...At least I can play psp games with it.

AHHHHHHHH there's too many devices to chose from

>>9953301
Vita is a great choice. It stands on its own as plus PS1/psp compatibility. Then you get to homebrew. Lots of emulators and some great ports. It's got a working version of fo2 ce that works well with the touch support. It's also got scummvm games which are awesome using the touch screen or the analog stick.

when do we get a solid horizontal ps2 emulator thats cheap bros? do we have to wait a few decades or what?

>>9953301
>Linux
Rk2023
>Android
Retroid pocket 3 plus
>Offical
Vita or n3ds
>Small
RS97
>Clamshell
Lmao
>Phone
Kishi v2, gamesir x2 or the backbone
>Nostalgia
Leapfrog

>>9953125
neogeo shmup
"neogeo heroes"
specificially KoF sky stage (included as a bonus)

>>9953224
>i have adhd
no you dont
there is no such thing
your parents should have beat your ass when you were a child instead of sacrificing you to the medical industrial complex and the pill pushing quack doctors

also git fuckin gud
phones and nearly all small electronics have the ribbon connectors bud
live and learn i guess

i suggest stop living your leftist lifestyle and remove your nose that is deeply pressed into the shit

read.

>>9953341
>>Linux
>Rk2023

I think this model is the one that fits most of my needs. Major complains I heard were "boring and generic looks" which I personally don't give a flying fuck.

>>9953356
This board is fucking based.

>>9953371
that dpad seems bad
>>9953341
>phone
no mention of normal fucking controllers again
i will never understand the autism
>i MUST attach the controller hurr durr
fucking kek
the only benefit of using a more expensive tablet or phone is the customizeable wireless (or usb) controllers

i even use a full size astro city arcade stick sometimes (obv not on mobile but at home its great)

>>9953374
That was my impression when I saw it but all the review I've watched said the d-pad is actually pretty good.

>want to buy chink handhelds
>start watching reviews
>literally all of them have "minor issues" aka major ones
>end up not buying anything

This is the 6th time this happens.

>>9953395
>youtube reviews
literally cannot be trusted anon
>>9953498
tablet and your controller of choice bud

>>9953374
>on the train
>busts out 14" tablet in padded case
>busts out metal astro city arcade stick
no point in using headphones as everyone by now is well aware

might as well get one of those msi gaming "laptops" with the full fucking mechanical keyboard cooked in kek

this is the fuckin HANDHELD GENERAL anon

>>9953512
(YOU)
tablets are portable
dont @ me you dumb bitch

I just saw the Evercade Duke Nukem edition. Looks cool, but tell me why the fuck should I pay for a glorified chink console and go back to spend money on cartridges when I can easily emulate.

>>9953518
my problem with evercade other than the button mapping annoyances is the fact that they are already becoming "RARE LOL"

the whole point was to have modern carts for cheap and readily available - the fags are probably scalping their own inventory on ebay for a markup

>>9953512
pic related

>>9950745
Is that a remake of the Genesis/Megadrive port of DN3d?

>>9951434
>>9951423
Explain, is he bald now?

>>9953356
>your parents should have beat your ass when you were a child
HOLY FUCKING KEK

>>9953568
As a cue ball.

>>9952492
>absolutely-_disgusting.png
>>9952654
samsho used alot of those types of inputs
>>9952420
>daily reminder that vita runs vita games
oh thank god i had nearly forgotten
>>9952589
this is true however ps1 games ran at shitty framerates anyways, so even with the latency you likely are still outperforming the OG system
what a time to be alive honestly
>>9953356
OOF
>>9951239
they were simple times
i do remember it struggling with certain titles though i only read printed reviews about the thing

>>9953601
the good:
you already know
the bad:
screen runs hot after about 50 mins at max brightness
the L\R are kinda small
but i still shredded the shitty gba mariokart with golds on everything at 150cc
for rpg\simple shmups its wonderful
my current favorites are neogeo and pcenginecd

some cores are still undercooked and dont support save-states yet but most of them are getting there

i bought the pocket for cart support and ONLY this, so anything else imo is just a bonus
(cps1\2, neogeo, arcade ports, genesis, snes, etc)
thanks for reading my blog

>>9950847
i was so sad when i found out the battery was glued in anon ;_;
i could live with the slightly off emulation
the slightly off sound of the neogeo bootup jingle

but the fact that you have to literally destroy it to remove the leaking\inflated battery is a dealbreaker

i resold for more than i paid and i dont regret it

>All orders will be shipped out within 48 hours.
Why the fuck you lyin'?

>>9953301
choose them all
one at a time
enjoy life
PRAY

>>9952420
>implying there are any vita games worth running
>implying there are more than like 5 PSP games worth running
>implying you can't get perfect PS1 performance out of sub-100 dollar devices
lol
lmao

>underage posters and shills seethe
Imagine calling someone underage or a shill while you're defending the PLAYSTATION VITA.
I bet you have a TikTok account.

>>9953614
it me
>>9953618
absolutely BASED AF
>>9953601
>ps1 games ran at shitty framerates anyways
it seems fine to me but i leave the fps counter off and only get autistic about audio glitches
a dropped frame or two goes unnoticed for me

>>9953623
>>implying there are any vita games worth running
"There are currently 1743 games across the lists of PlayStation Vita games. For a chronological list, click the sort button in any of the available region's columns." - wikipedia


you sir are an absolute faggot
why do you hate videogames?

Just got my RG35xx in the mail. Putting on the screen protector was a pain in the ass. On the plus side, I bought the cheapest one I could find, and the ali store said it was a 2100mah model, but it's a 2600 one, so that's nice.

>>9953842

>>9953597
>He finally got assimilated by Mentski

>>9953356
Chesse dude, kek relax i was kidding.

But i have ASD desu not kidding.

so this is the power of anbernig marketing... whoa...

>>9953868
Yaniga Kawagi

I still feel a little sad Gizmodo emulation is nonexistant. It's only going to get harder to preserve.

Going on vacation, can't decide if I should bring

>just miyoo mini +
>miyoo mini + and steam deck
>miyoo mini + and switch (for totk)
>only switch (for totk)

thoughts? Is the miyoo mini + going to melt and fall apart if i'm playing it poolside?

>>9954243
>reddit of the kingdom
YIKES! OOF!

>>9953374
Dpad is fine

>>9952502
for others it will be a problem. for me I will be okay. by the time mine for I won't care anymore.

>>9952503
why should I care about these no-name companies? do you have any proof that they've given a shit about repairability or easy gimmes like battery replacement in the past? Not interested in things that kill themselves in a few years due to shoddy construction.

>>9953623
>Reverse niggit spacing
>Sneedplying KINO phone goymes arent the only thing worth playing on the pashitdroid chinkhelds
>Keklying retroid isn't the only chinkheld not shilled on chinktok (Sneedyoo, ambernig, powchaddy, and the frog are guilty of this)

>>9953224
ADHD not relevant here, probably. You used too much force on the wrong place and/or that board may have been shit built in the first place if you were able to snap all the joints like that. Then again, beginners will clumsily destroy their share before getting good, and mistakes will happen occasionally. You need to be gentle, would be my best advice.

>>9953356
Always one of you on a given board waiting to have your spergout based on everything commercial news trained you on in 1997. Still angry about getting misprescribed Ritalin to fix your mental issues and spiraling out of control, anon? Perhaps your parents should have spared you the beatings after all, lest your brain never fully recover.

So all these chink handhelds are just crap, right? Here are my experiences over a couple of hours with an RG35XX and Onion OS.
>defaults to hideous blurry scaling that looks awful because the resolution is too low. Turning it off leads to most systems using a tiny area of the screen, which is especially funny in tate games, which look like postage stamps.
>the menu button is beyond intermittent. I guess you need to tap it to get it to actually be a menu button because they don't want you accidentally hitting it, but sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and it always takes about 3 seconds to work if it does because it has to make save states or something. I've lost count of the number of times I've tried hitting menu+X only to be kicked out of the game instead of opening retroarch, so the detection is awful.
>for some reason the volume keys also count as menu buttons, so if you want to just change the volume a bit while you play, you'll wind up adjusting fucking save state slots instead of volume.

I guess they make for cute shelf ornaments.

>>9954243
all three is the obvious answer

>>9954620
Anbernig's design decisions have been ass lately. 35xx hotkeys and buttons feel worse than the rg300 in every way.

When buying from aliexpress do you go for trusted (as trust able as chinks can be) or cheapest?

>>9952582
That’s a really rare one anon. I’ve never seen one in real life or even knew anybody who had one back in the day. Crazy

>>9954691
Always cheapest. I very rarely get fucked over, and every time I do getting a refund is trivial after taking a couple of pictures.

The reality is that some chinks just have fuller warehouses and are willing to ship things for slightly lower profit margins than other ones. My cheap handheld from a dodgy store with only 1 other order came in 17 days, well worth the 10 bucks I saved over going with a bigger store with 15 day delivery.

>>9954620
Can anyone confirm this?

Mogs your cheap Chink handheld

>>9954769
>clip on controls
>doesn't even have a d-pad
>but if it did, it'd be in the wrong location
>also generally too big and heavy
>dogshit emulation capability and software environment
>it's made by shitendo so you know it's gay
yikes yikes YIKES!! better off using phone + clip-on at that point...

>>9954769
Movogs your hackheld (Switch lite hack never)
>>9954778
Kektendo is a meme, but the hori gba and original BRICK-ds were fine.

>>9950851
4x3 and 16x9 are the same thing.

>>9954867
Explain yourself. Now. Because it sounds like you've come down with a case of terminal retardation.

>>9954778
The "dpad" is literally just wasd keys.
Also, dogshit emulation? Literally full speed everything up to Dreamcast, DS and psp. AND Linux and Android.

>>9955015
Android on swick isnt even that good. You at least get better emu options.

>>9954620
I threw mine out, rp3+ is all I have but I spend way more time just playing on a batocera box now

>>9954243
just bring deck or switch

>>9950975
i miss the pda days. i remember before i got a pilot i had a few different like boy tech style simple dayplanner calculator things (pic rel)

>>9950745
any idea where to buy a psp 3001 replacement battery without being chinked? Mine failed.

>>9954620
>>9954662
>>9954714
The menu problem is easy to fix.
Go to RetroArch > Settings > Input > Hotkeys > now change "Quit (Controller Combo)" to NONE
After that save. This will stop you leaving the game when you press the menu button and can now use the "Menu + X" hotkey or others "Menu + " hotkeys without problem. You can also do the same for the volume buttons just look for the hotkeys buttons.
You can blame the GarlicOS dev who left this hotkey as default.
https://wiki.rg35xx.com/images/1/1b/Shortcuts.png
>>defaults to hideous blurry scaling that looks awful because the resolution is too low. Turning it off leads to most systems using a tiny area of the screen, which is especially funny in tate games, which look like postage stamps.
Now that you learned how to access the RetroArch menu you can go to the video menu and configure the scaling and other video options. Good lucky anon, I believe you can do it.

>>9954662
God I miss the RG300. I wish they would make a refresh of it except with a better chip and a 480p screen. It would blow the fuck out of the 35XX and the Miyoo Mini/Mini+.

>>9955353
They already did and it's called RG351V

>>9954778
i customized and reshelled a joycon to have a dpad
not the best solution
but the idea thats its worse than the china stuff is laughable

>>9955437
The 351V is Brick Gameboy sized and also has terrible shoulder buttons.

>>9953512
Anon you got to understand that for some of our heftier, less socially inclined visitors mobile means stuff you can carry from the bedroom to the kitchen and play gamessmsny

>>9950865
>>9950745
I have a Zodiac and have always wanted a Gizmondo, that GTA clone/cancelled lawn mowing game and Sticky Balls have intrigued me for years. The Zodiac really is just a PDA that tried to ride N-Gage hype

>>9955347
If I disable the quit (combo), how do I quit games? It says "menu+4" should be quit, but what the hell is the 4 button? I couldn't see it assigned to anything in the menu. I guess I could just remap it to hat up/down, who needs mute or a fucking screenshot button.

And I can't find any setting that stops the volume keys being recognized as menu buttons. I still want to use them to adjust volume, although it's crazy they don't show an on-screen indication of volume level when you hit them, and I don't know why the audio setting is -30dB.

Video settings are kind of a pain to adjust, I wound up running crt-sony on most cores just because it looked alright and I didn't want to spend 10 hours trying to look through the rest of the overlays, but the innate problem of a lot of games just looking like shit because the screen isn't big enough to integer scale them is still there. Most PCE games play fine, but then you start R-type which has a non-standard resolution and it's a tiny postage stamp because it's too wide. Ideally I'd want to play the game integer scaled with the left and right cut off, but all I can do is smudge it if I want it any larger, which leads to hideous artifacting when you move up and down the screen thanks to the hell of non-integer scaling.

>>9953315
What game is this?

This case doubles as a grip. I can't tell if this idea is stupid or genius. Anybody have one?

>>9955637
Looks retarded and uncomfortable to hold. I just glued a switch joycon grip to my handheld, who cares about portability?

>>9954210
Some things aren't worth preserving.

>If I disable the quit (combo), how do I quit games?
Just press "Menu + X" in a game which will go to the RetroArch Quick Menu, press B and there you can quit the game. That's how I do, but you can assign for other hotkey if you want.
>And I can't find any setting that stops the volume keys being recognized as menu buttons. I still want to use them to adjust volume, although it's crazy they don't show an on-screen indication of volume level when you hit them, and I don't know why the audio setting is -30dB.
That's probably the controls for the emulator not configured correctly. Load a game for the system that you are having this problem, access the RetroArch Menu "Menu + X", after that go to Controls, Port 1 Controls. See if you can find the volume button that is conflicting with the menu button. Press B, go to Manage Remap Files and Save Core Remap File.
In my case on the NES emulator the Menu button when I was pressing it was configured to use the A+B buttons together.
>Video settings are kind of a pain to adjust
I'm using a old version of GarlicOS so I don't know if the dev fixed in the newer version, but in my version there's a problem where everytime you load a game from any menu the image gets really blurry and dim. When this happens the way I fix the issue is I load the game and in game I press the power button to go in sleep mode and press power again to go back, after that the issue is gone. This doesn't annoys me because I just play one game at the time and don't keep changing systems, but if you are one of those guys that only plays a game for 10 minutes and keep changing games and systems that is probably going to annoy you.
So if are having this issue on GarlicOS I recommend you try other OS like MinUI and Batocera
https://github.com/shauninman/union-minui
https://wiki.rg35xx.com/index.php?title=MinUI
https://rg35xx-cfw.github.io/

>>9955769
>>9955579

>>9955769
Vol up/down are 10/11 respectively, and I can't see them anywhere but in the hotkey menu assigned to volume control. And it's an issue on every core, so maybe it's a new "feature" added to a newer version than you're using.

And that was how I was quitting, it's a shame there isn't a more convenient option, like pressing the menu key when you're in the quick menu just auto-closes it or something.

The other FWs seem like they don't offer as much control, as much hassle as it is to set overlays and scaling on a per-game basis, at least I don't have to pull out the SD card and do it all through ini files.

About to pull the trigger on the RG353PS for 90 bucks including a 128GB card.
Anything I should be a ware of?
After watching some reviews I went from the RG35XX to the RK2023 and now this, which I think is the best value.

How is GBA emulation on the DSi? Do RPGs run without issues?

>>9955902
It's complete trash, just like the DS in general.

>>9951070
>It is still unknown why he includes a screwdriver.

I have feeling you'll find out soon enough.

>>9955902
It's not emulation, but has a way to force GBA games to run on the ARM7 processor present in the DSi.

Compatibility is all over the place.
https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/GBARunner2#3DS_and_DSi_Compatibility_List

It's similar to how 3DS can play DS games from the SD card.

Daily reminder, Russ is a no games playing fag and you are too if you listen to him

recommend me the most piece of shit handheld that could run atari 2600 and 5200. I only want to play Stargunner and Defender.

>>9956181
Alright thank you Anon.

When will "mine still works"-anon make his fateful post

>>9956282
careful, I got a 3 day ban for criticizing the Retro Game Uncle

>>9956535
>forget to add pic
maybe I deserved it

>>9956536
Uhhhhhh flopsisters? Our response?

I finally ordered my white whale. It's nothing special but I have been excited to have one of these things for over two years now. I've never been able to find a legitimate one, all the internet ever had listed for me were shitty Famiclones that looked like it, but with the current Aliexpress sale Anbernic is having, they threw 200 of the clear black units (the colour I wanted, too) on sale for $40 CAD, so I got the full package + two week shipping for $45 Canadian. I cannot wait for it to arrive, it's going to be my main device for GameBoy games.

I already have an RG35XX but I mostly use it for PS1, Arcade, and PC titles. Was gonna wait to save up for a machine that can do N64, Saturn, PSP, and DreamCast games but I'm just using a bluetooth controller with my phone for now.

>>9956617
Looks decent for GB, GBC, GBC, though it looks pretty tiny.

>>9955441
Truly spoken out of your ass like a complete ignoramus. Many of these chink handhelds from the past couple of years have better build qualities than any of the DS, 3DS, or Switch models. Using Joycons feels like a cheap joke compared to these things.

>>9956620
It's between the size of a Miyoo Mini + and a Miyoo Mini, I think it was the first mini retro emulation handheld on the market back in the day.

>>9954914
4x3 means four pixels wide for every three pixels wide. 16 = 4x4, 9 = 3x3, they are scaling properly in both directions, duh

These aren't even all the handhelds I've ever owned, my mother did this thing where if I wanted a new one I had to give my current one to my brother, who would then literally break them apart out of boredom within a month of getting them. He fucked my original atomic purple GBC, bros!

>>9955637
What on God's green Earth am I looking at here.

>>9956794
>buy ergonomically retarded device that HECKIN portable
>shove a bunch of addons to make it ergonomic (it is no longer able to fit in your pocket)

Shockingly typical

>>9956794
anon with solutions looking for problems

>>9952280
Lol I had a palm treo and I loved it to bits (still my no 1 smart phone of all time and it didn't even have WiFi or data) but not for gaming. I installed an emulator on it and played NES games.

>>9950745
>what features or benchmarks are you waiting for
At least GBA and ps2 capable, under £100, good battery (6 hours +), common replaceable battery.

Might be already something out there since I only check once in a while. I already have a vita which does all this, but one day the battery's gonna go or something else fucks up, so would be nice to know alternatives.

Also any ds or 3ds hardware emulators worth checking out?

>>9956282
>when reddit game uncle switches to the analog to play arcade games
I understand that us burgerfats grew up with arcade cabs that had those horrible 360 long-throw bat-top sticks, but ffs he should know better by now.

>>9957019
Yeah because he doesn’t play games, the only game he plays today is how fast can I shill e-waste before moving on to the next one

>>9956626
shill detected

>muh chink device with the mishapen dpad in the wrong spot is WAY better than nintendo!


please leave this fucking board

>>9957083
Nah he's right, fuck off tendie worshipper.

>>9957083
>switchcel trying to say anything else has d-pad in the wrong spot
m8 not only does your piece of shit have it in the wrong spot, the vanilla shitch doesn't even have a d-pad at all.

>>9955806
honestly I'd argue the regular RG353P is the better choice even if it is more expensive

>>9957083
>reddit spacing

>>9956181
It's funny how GBA games run fully natively on the 3DS but not on the DSi

>>9957091
>>9957092
>>9957139
samefag says wut


the switch is going to be the top selling console of all time within 24 months
not liking things because they are popular doesnt make you interesting anon

please work on yourself


also learn to fucking read
i said i BUILT a custom joycon with dpad

>>9956536
>>9956612
KEK!

>>9957092
looks like its in the fucking middle aka nes-style to me you absolute DUMBASS

>>9957191
>muh sales
I'm sorry, who is the shill here again? Dumbfuck tendie fanboy.

>>9957191
>reddit spacing
you have to go back

>>9957198
>acknowledging the success of the wii means you are a shill for the wii
you sound retarded


lets try to get back on topic
do you guys play every day?
i have several handhelds and try to make time on my lunchbreak at work but find myself actually playing less than 1-3 times per week even with an hour to spare.

i blame my cringey smartphone, i doomscroll instead

>>9955550
so my crt+battery+modded psclassic is now a handheld kek

>>9957203
>Calls out nigget spacing
>While nogget spacing on his own post.
>>9957083
To be fair, anbernig had pretty good dpads pre rg351. Fuckers became too big thanks to jewtubers for their own good. That said, only one chinkheld maker has better hinges than tendo and that was gpd. (Xd sequel when? Fuck the xp)

>>9957138
Why?

>>9957239
>anbernig had pretty good dpads pre rg351
This. I hate the whole "Anbernig has the best d-pads in the business" line because their d-pads were fucking downgraded not improved. RG300 had an amazing d-pad that felt smooth. Current Anbernigs are stiff and apparently have issues with diagonals sometimes like the 35XX. But let's dogpile on Powkiddy instead for that same problem and not Anbernic because dogging on Powkiddy is easy and acceptable ;)

>>9957214
its TECHNICALLY portable though anon

>>9957214
>>9957252
could you boring cunts PLEASE take a picture with something other than fucking pokemon playing?

>>9957083
I'm >>9956680
I'm held and owned every single "official" handheld ever made except for the Neogeos.
You're a Nintendo fanboy blinded by corporate boot-licking.

any metal ktwarriors in here? really glad I'm a plastichad right about now.

>>9957191
>sales
>in a discussion of quality
I hate that. Stop. Bing wahoo console doesn't have a Dpad and no amount of sales can counter that

>>9957303
every reddit board about these stupid handhelds is at least 60% pictures of fat hands holding a chinkheld running pokemon.
Of all the games that benefit from a dedicated device with buttons and shit, they play pokemon

>>9957303
no.

>>9957326
see >>9957196

>>9957315
>You're a Nintendo fanboy blinded by corporate boot-licking
ok i literally kekked
either you lack self-awareness or really are a shill

chinklets = bad ergonomics, bad build quality, shit screens, shit resolution, extra buttons
its landfill fodder fuck you im never buying that trash

>>9957303
>boring
fan translation of pokemon the trading card game part two, previously a japan-exclusive

anon its a deepcut and the OST slaps

All these handhelds coming out of China are complete garbage.

>>9957324
I never really understood the point of paying $50 extra to have a colder, heavier handheld with terrible wifi reception.

>>9957405
I don't WANT you buying them, the best ones become hard to purchase quickly due to Redditors and scalpers, so the less faggots in the game who won't appreciate them, the better.

>>9957453
>Switch stops reading SDcard due to loose connection, have to unscrew the entire thing to fix it
>Still an issue with OLED models
>So are every other problem

>>9957463
if production stopped and they were never made again literally no one would care
any phone or tablet is a better choice, objectively

>>9957453
kek

>>9957465
>scratch test
yes, because people scratch their devices on fucking purpose like tards
i have never had a problem with this
even in the dmg era i was a literal child and understood why i had a velcro case

please stop being retarded

>>9957468
This is demonstrably not true, as with the Miyoo Mini. Can you please just stop talking out of your ass?

>>9957472
This is from inserting it in and out of the dock several times.
>hurrr mine's fine
I remember when tendies unironically bay'd and baw'd this exact sentiment with the DSlite hinge situation, lmfao. You fuckers never learn.

>yes, because people scratch their devices on fucking purpose like tards
>i have never had a problem with this
>even in the dmg era i was a literal child and understood why i had a velcro case
>
>please stop being retarded

>>9957474
>muh miyoo
anon pls
it does NOT outperform any flagship phone or tablet
please dont mislead people
the specs are mid at best

>>9957472
>i have never had a problem with this
>therefore it's not real to me, so poof, vamoose, sunofabitch
T to the izz-E, N to the izz-Die

>>9957481
i still have my all my ds
none of them are broken
they all still hold a charge
they all still work perfectly
no chink device will survive that long kek

try taking better care of your stuff

>>9957493
And neither does the Switch? What's your fucking point, lmfao
We buy these things because we want to hold a handheld with buttons. Weird that a tendie is suddenly caring about performance when Nintendo has been laughably under-performing specs-wise for generations.

>>9957497
>>9957489
>>9957481
the seething is truly delightful
anyways, the analogue pocket plays carts
which china knockoff device does that again? none?

>i still have my all my ds
>none of them are broken
>they all still hold a charge
>they all still work perfectly
>no chink device will survive that long kek
>
>try taking better care of your stuff

>>9957503
The Analogue is fine, it's nintendo hardware that sucks.

>>9957481
My 3ds hinge is breaking, as much as I love clamshell designs they ain't worth risk of bad hinges.
>>9957503
Why would you wanna play off a cart, what advantage does it have over a rom?
>>9957504
Isn't wojack posting banned?

>>9957502
i will never understand why
why do they CLIP shit to the device?
it literally makes zero sense to choose shittier controller option
you can use a real first-party controller and be wireless

i just laugh out loud while using my 14" tablet\carmount

>>9957498
>try taking better care of your stuff
Straight out of 2006's GaneFaqs discussions om the topic, holy shit

>>9957503
There are dozens, retard. It takes seconds to Google some and they aren't overprice Commiefornie shit by hedgefund brats.

Have fun tryinf to use the "Analogue" Pocket and thr cartridge moves even a fraction of a millimetre, lmfao

>>9957512
>why would you want to play your gaems?
>y-y-you could just pretend to have the games, like us!

maybe im just autistic honestly
i like being able to pop the cart from my childhood out and continue on gamecube\snes

>>9957512
Clamshells work as long as there isn't a screen on the top half. Needing to feed the cable through the hinge creates weak points. Clamshell electronics without a top screen can survive being stomped on.

>>9957519
>y-y-you could just pretend to have the games, like us!
>implying the goal is to own a piece of plastic instead of play a game

>>9957516
>youtube echo-chamber said the thing
>it must be true
anon you arent wiggling\moving the cart while you are playing its a non-issue

>>9957526
>anon you arent wiggling\moving the cart while you are playing
speak for yourself m8 that's the only way I game.

>>9957513
dont game and drive faggot

>>9957513
I use my PS4 controller when at home and an 8bitdo bluetooth controller when on the go, but I do prefer just holding a gameboy-like handheld and playing up to N64/DreamCast without issues.

Vita emulation sucks for anything but Vita, PSP, and PS1 games.

>>9957530
the only thing i wiggle while gaming is your girlfriends tiddies

>>9957526
>Zoomie so wet behind the ears that he thinks GameFAQs is a Youtube channel
Aaaaahahahahahahahaaa can't make thia shit up!!

>>9957519
Why the spastic response then reasonable response, you're a trying a litter hard here anon, this /vr/ so just chill.

>>9957525
you will own nothing and you will be happy

>>9957536
>Leapfrog
>Gf tiddies
Ok podesta, calm down

>>9957542
See>>9957545

>>9957538
calling me a zoomie while willfully admitting to lurking\posting on fuckin gamefags
you made me smile anon

>>9957541
the handheld general is always a spicy thread
the truth is i dont care about how other people game, but lying to seem like your choice is superior is the definition of redditor cringe-posting

>>9957552
GameFAQs isn't part of Facebook, Youtube, Twitch, Tiktok, Google, or Instagram, how the fuck would you zoomers even know what it is, you roleplaying faggot?

>>9957552
>calling me a zoomie while willfully admitting to lurking\posting on fuckin gamefags
Everyone on gamefaqs is old as shit now anon. They did another age poll of the day a while back and the most common choice was pushing 40.

>>9957552
>the handheld general is always a spicy thread
This only became true in the past few days as American high schoolers supposedly got on summer vacation, it wasn't this way even a week ago.

>>9957536
>Leapster
Basedo. These things tend to better than the retromini
>>9957497
>calling others tendies when the only chinkheld makers who dont ape from kektendo is retroid and gpd.
>>9957503
>Nigalong pocket
>Chinksect chill mixed with sweedish fish. Suprise.

>>9957567
Why does everyone hate gamefaqs all of a sudden??? Did I miss something

>>9957552
>t. zoomie trying really, REALLY hard to fit in the vinyl section of the thrift store

>>9957567
It shows up pretty regularly in Google searches...

>>9957575
Who the fuck said anything on the quality of GameFAQs, you illiterate idiot? All I said was it wasn't part of the main six websites the average person thinks consists of "the internet".

>>9957578
yeah probably because you're (unintentionally) searching for old man video game shit you goober. That or jewgle knows you're a boomer and tailored the results accordingly.

>>9957552
>heh, another millenial called me a zoomie again. got 'em

>>9957580
You dont think it is good enough to be one of the top six websites on the internet...... that's a comment on its quality, it is not good enough according to you!!

>>9957567
>Boomer pretending he's a xoomer acts like he doesnt know what google is
>When people search for help in games now more than ever.
Sneed-lmao. Checkit Punkit dumbphone even.
>>9957585
>Millenial response
>Implying that's not a xoomer

>>9957591
Common Core in action, everybody.

>>9957596
>retard who never played math players cant count
Imagine my shock.

>>9957593
Now that's just willful levels of illiteracy that can only come about when a child's trying too hard.

>>9957591
gamefagsisters... is this the end?

>>9957602
>Everyone that shitposts... is leh child.
Ambernig? Still losing. Powkiddy? Will win. Retroid? Will fail. Data frog? Potential!

>>9957513
It makes sense if you already have a first party controller, since they btfo anything made for a phone.
Just don't expect to play it outside of your home. But you shouldn't be playing with your toys in public anyway.

>>9957552
>>9957591
>>9957593
>>9957601
>>9957605
So this is what it looks like when an AI shitposts.

>>9957571
>it wasn't this way even a week ago
anon lurk moar
the cycle = innocent thread gets started, a few anon share their objective criticisms, shills flood and attack OG hardware posters and phone\tablet users, bump limit reached
repeat

>>9957526
Having adult-sized hands means your fingers have to go somewhere when you hold the thing. If you happen to rest them on the shoulder buttons, or just a bit too high on the back, you're going to inevitably touch the cartridge and cause it to disconnect.
Only a faggot uses cartridges anyway, since the AP can load ROMs now. Making the only real argument to own one moot.

>>9957531
>>9957606
im alone usually on my lunch
i dont usually use the car speakers for game-audio but always laugh out loud when i do

my female passengers all loved the idea of a gaymen dashboard
+the 256gb microsd has about 200gb of music with album art
no faggy loading times, no faggy notifications to go off and ruin the song, no internet needed

its great
the dual magnet mounds were like $20

>>9957615
>since the AP can load ROMs now. Making the only real argument to own one moot.
ok but if you like the screenfilters and other shiet you still dont have ALL the options yet
the openfpga stuff is still a work in progress
many of the cores dont support save-state functionality

another nitpick = the screenshots are fucking comically small despite running the games in high-resolution what the fuck is that kek

>>9957620
sauce = pc engine cd yuna
before any coomer posters start asking

>>9957605
BASED BASED BASED

>>9957620
>256x240
that's the actual resolution of most PCE games innit?

>>9957632
>ironic shitposting is still shitposting- mootykins
>>9957642
the screen on the pocket is high res though
i believe it is upscaling during gameplay
however i could be wrong about the other cores
but gameboy\gbc\etc are def upscaled

I remember how for a solid decade, both the internet and gamers alike were against mobile phones, seeing gaming and internet browsing on the things to be a fucking joke. From 2007 to 2016, everyone who was online via smart phone or tablet was seen as a fucking joke. But then after November 2016, the sudden fucking influx of mobile users DOUBLED desktop users in a year. Everything is now designed to cater to this crowd, the first generation of children raised on smart phones and babysat virtually by Markiplier and Pewdiepie are now "adults" who gawk at you slack-jawed if you don't just casually do everything on your phone, let alone have a reason not to. It just confuses them so much. This fucking generation that thinks all software is "an app" and if it doesn't have an app for their phone, they're baffled on how it fucking works.

>>9957650
>i believe it is upscaling during gameplay
Yeah, I guess I'm just saying that it sorta makes sense it would cap the game itself before the upscaling.

>>9957658
its intentional
remove admin privileges
put everything behind a subscription\paywall
the dumbing down of the general populace is a direct\intentional thing
they are poisoning the food\water
worker drones only in about 100 years

>>9957552
>the handheld general is always a spicy thread
Do remember shitposting only attracts more shit.

>>9957662
Makes perfect sense that zoomers aren't considered tech savvy in the workplace. I can't imagine how tech illiterate I'd be if I grew up on ipads.

>>9957658
Android was genuinely awful for gaming before Android 7 or so. I forget exactly what changed, but before that there was serious input delay that was inherent in the OS, which made doing anything time sensitive a real pain the ass.
Once that went away, Android was fine for ARM-based games and emulation. But some people still shit their pants over it because they either had a bad experience 10 years ago and assume nothing's changed, or repeat things they hear other people say like some autistic parrot.

>>9957705
i dont know what version of android that psp slider phone had but it seemed to run somewhat ok for rpg and shit like that


i would argue that there still is a shit-tier market niche that has bad lcd panels w "modern" android
you get what you pay for no matter what the current year

it seems like its only ios fanboys that hate android though
why wouldnt you want both?

>>9957705
I genuinely can't stand touch screen controls, and clip on controllers of any type make the phone too hilariously bulky. An android-based emulation handheld designed like a fucking game handheld, with buttons and analog sticks, just works. And just like with how past Android operating systems lagged harder than java based ones but now they've improved, so have the chink emulation handhelds. They've been great for two or three years now and are only getting better as the companies are all directly competing with one another instead of them all just reprinting the same thing.

>>9957715
>and clip on controllers of any type
why is this compulsory?
bluetooth exists, wifi exists, usb-c exists
it makes zero sense to do this
do you clip controllers to your gaming monitor? to your tablet? to your fucking crt?

of course not
why would you do this then?
WHY?

>>9957724
Aw ya, resting my phone on my knees or flat on a table and bending over with my bluetooth controller wirelessly is so much fucking better
I want a fucking game handheld, why is that so impossible for you to process?

>>9957726
>i want to use the shittiest 3rd party controllers while complaining that mobile phones\tablets suck for gaming

everything about using a good phone or tablet is better than nearly every device posted here (sans steamdeck\og hardware for cartridge reasons)


higher resolution
better screen
faster pixel response time
larger screen (usually)
better cooling
better in literally every way anon

why do you shill chinkshit?

>>9956337
You could probably play those on a pager.

>>9957726
2.4ghz wireless controllers in 2023
i use them even on my OG hardware
what a fucking time to be alive anonkun

we are WIRELESS now
imagine telling that to your childhood self
you wouldnt fuckin believe it

>>9956337
the quick-paced twitchy gameplay (analog video) is not going to translate well
i only use 1ms gaming monitors for that or actual crt

good luck brother
defender is a wonderful title

protip no such device exists sans portable pc monitors and toaster pc

I bought a Miyoo Mini Plus a month and a half ago as my first third party emulation portable. Here's a few bullet points.

Pros:
>surprisingly high quality design and build quality for a chinese device
>in spite of small size, the face buttons and shoulder buttons feel intelligently designed
>giant screen with no drawbacks to the device's overall design
>virtually no software issues on onion os
>strong battery life
>user interface and process of adding games is very simple
>can play playstation games at full speed, which really impressed me
Cons:
>the battery readout was handled in a strange way (the current voltage the device is using is what displays as the battery life indicator, so you can fully charge the battery, then start up and play a playstation game only for the battery icon to show something like 70%, then when switching to an nes game jumps the battery back up to 99% because nes games take nothing to run)
>the audio when using headphones is a little low
>the fighting game genre is just not realistic to play on such a small device comfortably

All in all not bad. I just beat Snatcher on this thing.

>>9957746
tell them to make one without the faggy L2\R2
pick a lane and stick to it
or make two devices one that does 3d\ps1 era
and one strictly for vintage systems

i honestly dont see the point in emulating with a bad low-res screen
ppi? pixel response time? ghosting?
im GOOD

>0.000045$ has been deposited into your account

>>9957735
>>9957741
You phone faggots real distressed over me gaming on a gaming handheld, lmao

>>9957746
>Miyoo
>good build quality
You'll change your mind when you drop it once

>>9957753
projection
the seething is always from fags with buyers remorse when they notice there is a potato-cpu in their disposable product
>7 months later
yay a slightly better one with worse button placement is out, time to replace lol

CONSOOOOOOM!!!

>>9957753>>9957761
point being, your retired flagship phone is free
you already paid it off, instead of trading it in for a marginal upgrade
keep that mf - remove sim, factory reset
you have a godtier gaming device
objectively

>>9957761
Holy shit, so this is entirely just a poorfag issue, lmao
You're upset that you can't use anything to play games on BUT your fucking phone, lmfao

>>9957741
>Wireless on a platform that gives sneedpit lag through usb
Pashitdroid users everyone. Watch any video using a chinktooth controller on android with a racing or action game and laugh.
>>9957761
>Sneedplying phonefags sont upgrade every 4-6 months. (Espeaially pashitdroid users)
At least shill a platform that gives zero sneedput lag with the slightest twitch to its kernel. (KINOios)

>>9957748
>kishi shill seething this hard

>>9957795
Side loading on iOS is a bitch and that EU lawsuit they lost isn’t going to apply to anerifat phones which is where I’m at.

>it's another "phonefags cripplefighting in the handheld thread" episode

>>9957816
>Not knowing about trollstore
>Not knowing the alt appstores will effect APEmurican as well as SNEEDyurpians .

>>9957819
Pigs are so cute, they remind me of tendies moms

>>9957761
not buying your shitty controllers retard

>>9957761
I don't understand why're you're shilling phonefaggotry and dunking on handhelds when you're posting screenshots taken on your Analogue Pocket.

>>9957825
How would you know, console warrior baby brain?
You are acting like a fucking brand loyalist, no different from the nintendunces, but for either SnOY or PC purists.

This DESTROYS the GAYHELD

>>9957841
enjoy your pigmom bro.

>>9957841
Lmao I just jumped into the thread, what are you crying about? Hurt sneedings over spilt milk? It’s a joke you autistic faggot, Major Company (tm) will never ever know you exist, you will never work for them, and you absolutely will never be Japanese

>>9957842
reminds me of when this fat bong retard was stretching PSP out on his LG Wing handheld kek
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qqUJwLgwscw

>>9957850
>Implying being japanese has anything to do with this.
>Poster clearly just hates keksole wars in the chinkheld thread and assumed you were no different
>>9957842
Pajeetdroid user trying to fit in

>>9957850
>you absolutely will never be Japanese
there are some things you just don't say anon...

>>9957858
>Keklying that user doesnt want to be chinese to have direct shillings from ambernig and not based powchaddy

>>9957858
There is something else you will also never be, but that’s forbidden around these parts with certain individuals who do it for free monitoring

>>9957868
>everyone I dont like is a troon
Apespicupianlardpian education. And with maybe thirdsneedworlder on the side.

>>9957874
But I don’t dislike that anon at all

>>9957878
Love makes ya feel baaaaaaaaaaaaad! Anon. Hate!? SNIIIIiiiiiiiiiiifffffssss.... Woooooohh... Makes ya feel gouuuuuuuud.

>>9957874
>>everyone I dont like is a troon

>>9957503
I could not give a fuck less about carts. I sold all my carts for a premium on ebay and then downloaded them all back. There are zero pros to hoarding plastic when I can have it digitally, much less getting an overpriced handheld specifically to support this

>>9957890
>Winnie the poo in the loo
>Not tigger the thigger artist hating chad.

>>9957895
Would Winnie the poo be a chinkheld or a phone user

>>9957846
How is my mom a pig, dear fuckwad Phonefagtron? As you you've even met anyone on either side of my family, dr. dripshit.
>>9957795
>He thinks only Pajeets, SE Asians, and Hues prefer Android.
WRONG! Also, your use of "sneed" and related terms in your wording do not grant you victory in an argument, snarky shitbag.
>>9957823
Yeah, sure thing. Go and enjoy the pain in the ass that is jailbreaking the latest iphones and iPads.
>>9957850
>implying I'm even crying rn
You guessed wrong, sneed fanatic.
>You will never work for a major company
How would you know that such a thing will never happen. Sneedtard?
>You absolutely will never be Japanese
Where did I even Imply such a thing, nog.
>>9957884
>Love makes you feel baaaaaaaaaaad! But Hate makes you feel gooooooooooooud.
I'm calling bullshit on this. Why must love make you feel bad, but hatred make you feel good and thats it? Yeah, NOPE! Love is not a problem in and of itself, shitpiece. The Same goes for hate. BOTH are innate and part of what makes a human a human. Enjoy being Consumed by your wrath and meeting a grisly demise, iturd.
>>9957890
>>>Everyone I don't like is a troon in one way or another
Memes aren't arguments, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome retard. In fact, images by themselves aren't arguments AT ALL, not even the Yes Chad or pepe acting smug.

>>9957927
holy sneedcopessay, talk a walk before your heart gives out from supporting your 600lbs

i bought a phone controller instead of the ayn odin but now i realized i don't really wanna play games at all
like i play for five minutes at most before switching to do something else

>>9955617
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

>>9957930
>hOlY sNeEDcOpEsSaY
I do actually take walks from time to time. I also have indoor mats for certain types of indoor exercise, fyi.
Also, nice assumption you blew out your ass without any proof.
What's with you and bashing handheld gaming devices, Mr. sociopathic Seedention whore? There are other boards where such circlejerking kektardation is welcome, such as >>>/bant/
>>>/b/
>>>/v/
>>>/s4s/

>>9957947
I’m gonna wager most people in this thread play 2-4 hours a week if that, and spend 10-20 hours a week arguing in this thread and burning money on handhelds or phone accessories

>>9957524
Why are laptops fine? They are clamshells too.

>>9957975
Size difference, you idiot. Laptops are large enough for the hinges to contain cables and still be stable.

>>9957947
I don't remember posting in this thread. That's why I came here.
I got a Samsung S22 with the Gamesir.
It can play 1080p gamecube/ps2 flawlessly.
I do not play either despite all my roms taking up over 100GB on my 256GB phone.
I even bring an Xbox controller with me to plug into a USB-C hub so that I have a portable super console.
All retro handhelds ergonomics are shit if they have flat sides.
Anything that's ergonomic isn't portable.
And I keep making up these hypotheticals where I'm playing old vidya when, sitting at my extremely comfy PC setup, I do not play these old games.
Why

>>9957996
Tbh I just got so tired of new games and the people who play/defend them that I got rid of everything except 1 handheld, 1 used eBay pc turned into a batocera box, and I play old ass pc games on an APU mini pc, and completely shut out the larger world, and that’s been about as good as it’s been for me. Playing through amiga shmups currently. I found the total sensory overload from all the constant news, “new new new look new thing,” corporate shilling, etc ruined my ability to enjoy a lot of stuff. When I shut all that out I started enjoying and getting lost in all sorts of stuff again, including games.

>>9957705
>>9957795
lol

>>9958008
Shame.
I'm having a good time playing Tears of the Kingdom, Chained Echoes (currently playing right now), and just picked up Spacebourne 2 for solo-dev jankkino.
I've already played most of the good old games, getting hard to find retro games that aren't being shilled just to be a unique snowflake.

>>9950745
I hope this is the right thread to ask but I have a Retroid Pocket with LineageOS, is there a way to revert it back to RetroidOS, pretty much back to the way it was? pic unrelated

>>9958098
Retroid Pocket 2*

>>9957890
Ah, premier Xi. Come to inspect the latest batch of spyware devices personally? You honour us.

>>9957989
Wrong, this isn't universally the case youngster.
There are many of the laptops I have repaired that contain thin ribbon cables and they still have more longevity and generally better build quality. The clamshell design is already a proven concept.. Your complaint is more a QC issue.

>>9958054
Not that anon, but while good games still exist they are a rarity. Sometimes I feel that I matured but video games didn't, which makes sense since most are aimed at zoomers and soon gen alpha.
I mostly my use phone for emulation and steam link for pc games.

>>9958098
They have the stock firmware images on their Drive.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pSDVxLSOLqMirmPENWf2sdxrDKfOLd6z

>>9958054
>Shame
Why? It's true, I feel very similar. Many people are getting tired of the oversaturated consumer market. I'm sure tears of the kingdom is a good game, I'm not gonna play it the whole banjo kazooie nutz n boltz schtick turned me off hard. Space Bourne 2 does look pretty interesting though, I'll give you that. It's just I'd rather play older games and as I get older I find it's nice to discuss games almost as much as I like playing them.

>>9957957
Of course. I'm a grown man, playing games has limited appeal. But I like the nostalgia aspect and I like setting up optimised gear and buying new stuff. Which I mostly resell for about 70% of what I paid for it, making it quite reasonable in cost as a hobby.

>>9950745
I'm waiting for them to be as close to plug and play as legit handhelds. Sling your epithets but it feels gross to have to set these things up and there isn't a game out there I care enough about to bother with the process. Glad you guys like em though.

>>9958370
Nintendo brainrot
many such cases

>>9958370
I guess you could buy the evercade thing then. Though most sensible here are just going to buy what's currently available and do the installation of games themselves.
Same concept as emulators and ROMs on PC. Unless you'd rather just buy ROMs again.

>>9958398
These old games are just a novelty to me now. I went through the nostalgia phase 5 years ago and got it out of my system. Most of them where designed for children and the few that still hold my interest where PC games and don't require much in the way of emulation. These chink bricks are pretty nifty and not difficult to figure out. But it's very alien to how I'm accustom to enjoying my vidja.
>>9958389
I know right? Fuck that guy, what a retard.

>>9958431
>old games are a novelty to me now
What're you doing here then?

>>9958437
Discussing a novelty with other man-children. Try to keep up anon.

>>9958285
nice but noe the problem is flashing it back to stock os i'm not sure what to do because the guides only go over how to upgrade in to lineage but not how to go back and from what i can tell one wrong click just softbricks the whole thing anyone have any experience in restoring it?

I've seen a couple of guys doing reviews of ambernic handhelds and saying they run N64 fine except those "more demanding titles".
What N64 are known to be harder to emulate?

How the fuck do you get Windows to recognize a partition of roms and shit on an SD card!? I spent literally all day today reading and watching guides trying to assign the stupid partition a drive letter and nothing works. I continuously get an error about it being out of date. I updated all the drivers and nothing. Same error. I literally uninstalled my usb and sd card drives and deleted any unkown drives. Same error.
I even tried using command prompts and 5 or 6 different partition apps to edit the drive letter and nothing works. Only the first partition shows up in the command list and on my computer drives. Some of the partition wizards say they successfully added a drive letter, even though it didn't, one made a bunch of useless icons for each drive I tried, and one said wondows will only recognize the first partition on a removable drive.

All the guides just show one click, assign letter and done.

Please help.

Anyone heard of this thing called "PocketPlay"? Is it any good?

https://pocketplay.shop/products/pocketplay-handheld-game-console?variant=44163808297273

>>9958548
Took me like 2 seconds because I'm not a retard, sorry buddy. Used minitool partition wizard.

You sure your SD card or reader isn't dogshit?

>>9958548
Windows 11 moment

>>9958569
>Used minitool partition wizard.
That was literally the first one I tried. Didn't work. I tried like 5 others too.
>You sure your SD card or reader isn't dogshit?
They're SanDisk. I installed Onion OS, no problem. The files are on there. Windows just won't let me access them unless I explore using a partition app and it won't let me assign a drive letter no matter what. It's definitely a windows problem.
>>9958584
Windows 7 actually lol

>>9958604
You can't assign a letter with minitool? Worked fine for me, I expanded it to fill the whole card then added a letter.

>>9958606
No. It lets me choose one and says it was a success after I save, but it doesn't actually add the letter and windows won't recognize it as a drive.
Other apps do the same thing or have an error.

>>9958552
just looks like a resold, marked up Powkiddy RGB20S

>>9958604
>Onion OS
he fell for the miyoo meme

how do u do fellow kids?

Why is every cheap chink handheld so cramp-inducing when you're holding a button down to run?
This happens with phone controllers as well.

>>9958827
Shit design. It's not limited to chink handhelds, most gameboys feel like shit if you're holding down a button too.

Ergonomics are important. The only solution is to buy or make a grip.

>>9958827
>>9958838
Old nintendo handhelds were made for children with small hands and flawless joints
New chink handhelds just copy it
The first adult handheld was the PSP

>>9950745
What's stronger than a Pocket 3+ in that price bracket and do we have any news for upcoming handled from Retroid or Anbernic?

>>9958995
>What's stronger than a Pocket 3+
KTR1 is stronger than a RP3+ but weaker than an Odin Lite.

>>9958472
It's an Android device. Flashing the stock image would be the same as flashing Lineage.

the ultimate crossover.

>>9958610
Assign it a letter through the windows application Disk Management. I also could never get minitool to do jack shit.

Does anyone have an Odin or know a decent amount about it? I’m looking to play some lower end PS2 games and my Retroid Pocket 3+ isn’t cutting it.

>>9958439
Kek

>>9959150
I see next to no odin posting on here, guess they don't pay their shills enough

>>9959101
>0 views
Let's keep it that way

>>9959150
In my experience it (specifically the Lite) was pretty good for lower end PS2.

new ktkino just dropped.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1e8411o7pA/

So has anybody in this thread tried to explain how the Tapwave Zodiac revolutionised the homebrew scene and was much more important than the PSP?

>>9953498
Switch Lite + Picofly + official flip case.
>Fits in your pocket.
>Coldboot CFW.
>Can boot a bunch of Linux distros and Android 11.
>Buttons, sticks, and screen protected.
>Shitload of plug-ins, themes, and homebrew available.
>Can actually emulate stuff like GBA full speed.
Vitalets absolutely seething.

>>9959204
>Can actually emulate stuff like GBA full speed
bro I can do that on my PSP, and by extension a Vita

>like the game boy looks of the RG35XX
>RG353PS has two analogs
>both emulate what I want to play just fine

>>9959192
Kek. I remember that thread.

>>9959212
When in doubt, cheap out

About to order another one of these soon myself. This time, yellow or black

>>9959204
>>9959210
>>>/v/

>>9958752
What is this and where do I get one?

>>9959210
>Fullspeed GBA on PSP
LMAO. Good shit anon. No. No you can't.
>Bu-but Vita!
Now play Sonic Advance. LMAO.

>>9959212
Famiclone + Data Frog will give you the feeling of having both

If you're like me the less powerful hardware won't bother you once you realize you can still just play games and have fun on them

>>9959248
>Data Frog
What's that?

Should one or should one not use CRT shaders on a handheld (in my case, the RP3+)? Obviously only for games that would have originally been played on a TV or arcade cabinet. If yes, which shader is the best in your experience?

>>9959248
I want something to play NES, SNES, Genesis, GB/GBC/GBA and MAME games that is comfortable, has decent battery life and buttons.
Power is not really an issue.
On top of that if "it just works" then that would be perfect. I spend all day working on a computer so I have zero will to tinker shit shit afterwards.

>>9959280
SNES usually isn't perfect with these, but the rest should run just fine for the most part. MAME likely means whatever CPS-1/Neo Geo stuff it comes with since it always seems impossible to tell which romset it uses. People like Taki hate screen tearing and dropped frames but forget these devices are like $30 compared to to Anbernic or the higher and PowKiddy stuff.

>>9959301
>screen tearing
That's a deal breaker for me.

>>9959263
If it looks good to you, then use it. Fretting over shader etiquette is counterproductive. I think many handheld games look great with a crt shader on a big screen. If your playing on a small screen, results may vary. Something something pixel density.

>>9959240
Sonic advanced hasn't been a problem for years. Only handheld with problems with that game in the year 2023 is the v90. Also, release the switch lite hack. I know you have it.

>>9959303
That's unfortunate, personally I never notice things like this, I feel like it's the kind of thing nobody would care about if not for YouTubers pointing it out on these budget models. I can see it being a problem on a $120 handheld, but for a fourth of that price it feels trivial to me

>>9957975
>>9957989
Most laptops use metal hinges

>>9959263
Straight pixels look hideous. Even a basic overlay is better than stock, my shitty RG35XX can't run a proper shader but on a small screen even some basic fake scanlines help to break up the jaggies and look fine. Totally fucks with the brightness though, going back to the menu always hurts my eyes because you need close to max brightness with scanlines, but the menu doesn't have them.

>>9959329
I do agree with you that I don't expect anything stellar at that price but I'm not going to put up with that kind of issue to save a few bucks because I won't enjoy playing on that device.

>>9959321
I like how you didn't even bother pretending PSP actually does run GBA full speed anymore. Lmao. Seriously though, the Vita's shitty little 400Mhz quad-core A9 CPU does in fact have slowdown in a handful of games.

>>9959451
Different poster dude. Playing heavy romhacks, I know how firsthand how the vita underperforms. Now leak the switch-lite hack. The next console is right around the corner.

>>9959451
>reading comprehension

Hmm, I was gonna buy yellow Famiclone, but just remembered I found this super cute Pichu plush for five buckos that I wanted to buy last time. Maybe I'll get another Famiclone later...

>>9959467
>>9959451
>Keksole fags at it again
Reminder
>Switch lite hack
>Implying hackers are good enough
Rolfies. Current keksoles have better secruity than even mobile phoned these days. Including the switch. You aren't getting any hacks even in 10 years time.

>>9959467
I mean you literally said it wasn't a problem anymore. (Also just get a picofly installed in your Lite like I did.)
>>9959481
See above.