Retro Handheld Gaming

[Anonymous No.7128847]

What do you have and what do you play?

I'm thinking of getting an Anbernic RG351P.

[Anonymous No.7128859]

If you're not using a phone, you're losing.
Paired with a nice bluetooth controller this Korean gem rips your chinkshit assholes open.

[Anonymous No.7128871]

>>7128847
looks half decent for it's controls

[Anonymous No.7128886]

>>7128847
What OS is this using??? Is it just android or somethng else?

[Anonymous No.7128901]

>>7128859
This. Use the new SNES Xbox Controller from 8bito if on Android. Best DPad.

[Anonymous No.7128934]

>>7128847
>not using a Nokia N-Gage

[Anonymous No.7128942]

>>7128901
>>7128859
ok you guys are fags that shit runs andoid OP's does not go with OP

[Anonymous No.7129037]

>>7128934
You could play n-gage games on any similar Nokia phone.

[Anonymous No.7129053]

>>7128886
It runs on EmuELEC (Linux) and there are 3rd party firmwares runnnng different frontends, distros, and a Lineage OS port.

>>7128859
>>7128901
Isn't it cumbersome having a seperate controller?

[Anonymous No.7129182]

>>7128942
Learn English before posting on an English speaking board.

[Anonymous No.7129202]

>>7129182
if u spend seconds correcting typos u are a fuckin fag

[Anonymous No.7129206]

Theres any reason to buy a 70-120USD chinese handheld over an used 3DS/Vita?
which ones have better emulation?

[Anonymous No.7129219]

>>7129202
t. middle schooler
You must be 18 to post here.

[Anonymous No.7129230]

>>7128859
The thing that keeps me from doing much gaming at all on my phone is having to worry about the battery life when I'm out and about. Just having the screen on with most phones is enough to sap your energy within the hour.

[Anonymous No.7129231]

>>7128847
>What do you have and what do you play?
I have a PSP 3000, a DSi XL and a New 3DSXL
I mostly use the 3DS to play King of Fighters during my daily conmute, though.

[Anonymous No.7129238]

>>7129219
your neet ass is not worth a comma

[Anonymous No.7129259]

>>7129238
t. retard

[Anonymous No.7129264]

>>7129206
Not really. But they're lighter and more comfortable to hold imo.
Apparently the newer android-based ones can do N64 and even dreamcast better than a N3DS or Vita.

[Anonymous No.7129310]

You can't imagine when you have to beat FF7 with this.

[Anonymous No.7129338]

>>7129259

[Anonymous No.7129351]

>>7129310
Jesus
what do your fat diabetes hands have to do with anything
you're like those ebay auctions where they fucking hold the item in the photo so we're sure an extraterrestrial isn't trying to sell earthly goods

[Anonymous No.7129364]

>>7129053
>Isn't it cumbersome having a seperate controller?

No. I don't understand where this comes from unless you are a cancer patient and can't hold something heavier than dead air.
My Moto Z4 clipped to an XboxOne controller is godlike. It adjusts so I can hold it in a much more natural resting position than a normal handheld. And you're not really carrying anything extra.
Phone+handheld is the same as phone+controller.

[Anonymous No.7129431]

>>7128847
I'm not completely retarded so I bought an android's bluetooth controller and clip so I can do that that way.

However my father wants to play on the crt he has and hates the emulator ideas of mine so I've got him, as I'm neet, the 30 (though price gouged to twice that) usd pocketgo original for him. It is in the mail. Of all I've researched that's probably the cheapest that's worth getting. One would buy a 5 usd (also price gouged) pi zero or similar but they're not only price gouged but by the time you buy that and put it together you've spent 15 on the chip, 40 on the cheapest hat they have (screen, buttons, etc), and still have no battery nor sd card at the end of that day, and it will use hdmi and not crt composit, and of course will take XD to get it to even use the hdmi in the first place.

So yeah. 60ish ugly vs 60ish less ugly and more practical, but weirder os. I wonder which to pick?

>pic the most expensive!

So many flavors to choose from in that case.

Bitboy would be cheaper a bit though, the people that made the composit using thing have another thing. Anyway, it's shit so it's not my research image. The image I'm posting shows the second pocketgo version also. The pocketgo I might have to change the firmware of, people do that to get rid of faggy glitches I've read, so you need some partition software to even do it. I hate that gay shit. I have a zero I've never used because lakka required such fuckery to put the psx bios in, yet lakka doesn't let zero even attempt that in the first place, and the snes was so bad that even though it was fast layers were missing, and then gba was super slow, yet my hacked ps2 is okay with it in comparison on both accounts. It's sooo tiring, but so is my father buying atgames shit. The pocketgo will fool his brain into licking it as it uses the crt tvs he loves and is a similar shape to the flashbacks he owns of atari and sega. He wanted a mini jewtendo and I decided to get this for him for nes and snes.

[Anonymous No.7129437]

>>7129431
So just buy a fucking Vita, got it.

[Anonymous No.7129438]

>>7128847
i got an rg350 this summer (the one with switch style thumbstick layout) for 85$.
its great up to ps1 which is fine because i dont play newer shit than that anyway.

[Anonymous No.7129439]

>>7129351
Fat diabetes hands created the software you use faggot.

>but have discipline!
You mean be a c u c k .

[Anonymous No.7129442]

>>7129438
why doent you play DC

[Anonymous No.7129445]

>>7129437
>0.xx has been deposited into your account

Fuck the psp, it's not 2005 anymore.

I had a phat one back around then but that was when they were relevant and even then I really wished I had a gp2x.

[Anonymous No.7129451]

>>7129445
PSP was pretty awesome, there were programs that allowed it to function as any kind of USB device. You could use it as a PC gamepad, as a USB computer monitor with keyboard shortcuts, obv. as a regular keyboard/mouse.

It was the most incredible programmable device.

[Anonymous No.7129452]

>>7129442
i used to. dc and saturn used to be my favorite consoles. had them since they debuted. but i recently gave them to my little brother. now i think NES is my favorite. people change, son

[Anonymous No.7129454]

>>7129259
btw notice how i used commas for him
>>7129451
that's because im not replying to an insect

[Anonymous No.7129460]

>>7129445
>Fuck the psp, it's not 2005 anymore.
It not being 2005 anymore doesn't make the psp suck any less.
It just makes everything made after it a horrible attempt at making a better emulation system.
The Vita can play everything under the N64, about 200 of the best indie games 2012 had to offer and the Vita at least still has active development. Shit comes out constantly, you can even use it like a switch and dock it now.

[Anonymous No.7129468]

>>7129454
t. double retard

[Anonymous No.7129469]

pearl pink 3ds

[Anonymous No.7129472]

>>7129468
>NO YOU'RE STUPID
Can anyone fluent in faggot tell me if this looks right?

[Anonymous No.7129493]

>>7129468
the futue belongs to run on sentences and youre the retard if you havent figured that out in literally 2020

[Anonymous No.7129517]

>>7128847
I've got one of these - it's great. Lighter then a phone / pad combo, more convenient in size and shape too. Only downside is no wifi but thats not a problem for me.

[Anonymous No.7129518]

>>7129472
>>7129493
4 hit combo on retardation, keep it going friends

[Anonymous No.7129526]

>>7129518
try a dick

[Anonymous No.7129543]

>>7129451
I indeed had tons of applications for it, pre-(((cell))) days was such a hopeful time.

>>7129460
It does actually make it suck less. I/you mean more. Learn to talkerino.

>the vita
Should have came out in 2007 or so for me to care. As it is I DO NOT cater to consoles. They are OBSOLETE now that super computers are in EVERY POCKET AND HOME

Most money goes into a video game organization's pocket via games anyway. Why give them petty cash so you can copyright infringe games? It feels dirty at this point.

[Anonymous No.7129545]

>>7129526
5 hit combo.

[Anonymous No.7129556]

>>7129545
you obv. want a dick in your ass or you wouldnt be here

[Anonymous No.7129558]

>>7129556
I guess you do as well, since you're also here.
Try it, you might like it. Orgasm is better, too.
6 hit.

[Anonymous No.7129564]

>>7128847
Why do these handhelds always do this? With the sticks straight down rather than angled? Just make the handheld bigger or better yet, just eliminate the dpad. Last truly great handheld was GBA because it was the last actually proper one that understood what handheld games should be.

[Anonymous No.7129565]

I have never used a Chinese handheld emulator that wasn't garbage. They all suffer from either poor scaling, shit ergonomics, poor emulation, shit screens or all of the above.

Buy a used older flagship phone with a last gen cpu and oled screen along with one of those vice controllers and it'll blow any of them away. Or get a 3DS

[Anonymous No.7129569]

>>7129565

if you are buying chinese consoles is because you are on a budget
also these are so cheap that the fact they can run at least 7-8 emulators at 60fps is just worth the purchase for 30 dollars

[Anonymous No.7129631]

>>7129569
If you can't managed 80 bucks for a used 3ds then I don't know anon. I'd save up another month before blowing 30-40 bucks on a shit tier chinese handheld

[Anonymous No.7129690]

Doing research, what do you think of these 4 options?
SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive Mini (42 games, $50, target.com, $60 wallmart)
Neo Geo Mini (40 built in games, $60 wallmart
go-retro-portable-game-player (260 games, capcom games, $40 target.com
My Arcade Go Gamer Portable - Handheld Gaming System - 220 Retro Style Games - 16 Bit High Resolution - Battery Powered - Full Color Display - Volume Buttons - Headphone Jack - Blue, red, black (220 games, $25, toysrus)

The first isn't handheld, but I think its the best retro console deal with built-in games. Ideally I would like something with a bunch of JRPG already built into it. I just want a game system where I don't have to hassle with emulators but doesn't require an internet subscription to play.

[Anonymous No.7129696]

>>7129690

[Anonymous No.7129704]

>>7129439
I don't have to see it to use the software
holy shit crop it out next time man Im going to throw up jeez

[Anonymous No.7129707]

>>7129690
I'd say just save up a little longer for either the RG350P or the RG351P and deal with the hassle of setting it all up, of the things you listed the Genesis Mini is the only one that isn't shit

[Anonymous No.7129725]

>>7129696
fucking sold out everywhere

[Anonymous No.7129730]

>>7129569
>implying you can get it for 30ish usd
It'll be 60.
>>7129631
>implying 3ds/vita/psp/etc will be better at emulation than some weird (linux) or (android)) console
It won't.

[Anonymous No.7129739]

>>7129730
>implying 3ds/vita/psp/etc will be better at emulation than some weird (linux) or (android)) console
hell I have enough trouble emulating through linux, through wine on linux, or some antiquatied WinXP build that can't access the internet anymore. How the fuck do people emulate through Andriod?

[Anonymous No.7129767]

>>7129730

[Anonymous No.7129913]

>>7129739
The only issue with androids are that you have to have the Internet disconnected to avoid ads.

Also, does winxp really not work? A couple years ago it did. I have a near dead laptop made in like 05 and it worked.

Would you like a recommended apk list? My backed up list is:

@voice aloud reader
androirc
apk extractor
easy unrar
epsxe
firefox
john gba lite
john nes lite
john snes lite
libretorrent etc
midsequer
mupen64plus
my oldboy
nostalgia.gba lite
notepad++
open camera
orbot
orfox
paintastic
quickpic
readera
retroarch
textnow
tic-80
vlc
wordweb
x-plore


Though I've been meaning to add a partition wizard of sorts, I wonder what APK's I should have that I'm missing....

Anyway, the point is that you can use android as a 'computer' if you know what you're doing. Plenty of people install the terminal thing and dosbox and such and do 'advanced' stuff. Me I'm fun just clowning around.

Nostaligia gba will get past the minish cap reset glitch. It's why I included it into my list. John's doesn't, nor do others I've tried.

[Anonymous No.7129916]

>>7129767
the neet-parents pay me in amazon gift cards and nothing else

But good to know.

It's like the cheapest little computer evar, baring shit androids that are also 30ish usd but soulless spy machines.

I have a pocketgo in the mail but it's for my father. If I like it a lot I'll get one for myself eventually, but only if it can read books and stuff. I like to have 'all in one' computers. I was sad when I hacked my ps2 that it could not open large txt files.

[Anonymous No.7129919]

>>7129739
retroarch and redream is what I use
its not rocket surgery

[Anonymous No.7130746]

I just ordered an RG350P with a RG350M screen (separately) a couple of days ago. I did it since I heard a lot of people complaining about the weight of the RG350M, and the last time I bought something because everyone recommended it, I ended up regretting it because the weight (my phone).

After looking for solutions, I stumbled across the one I quoted before, both items are slightly more expensive than ordering just an RG350M, but I think it will be worth it because it's lighter and after I swap the screen, I'll have everything the other console offers, minus the aluminium body.

Anyone here got an RG350P/M? Any experiences so far?

[Anonymous No.7132357]

>>7129431
I think I'll stick with a Vita

[Anonymous No.7132674]

>>7128847
came here to post this thread

[Anonymous No.7132705]

Why do these shitty frankenstein off the shelf piles of portable garbage become popular every few years? Shit is throwing your money away.

[Anonymous No.7133880]

>>7132705
cheaper than 2ds/3ds and you don't have to deal with the second screen which (for emulation) you will never use, and generally speaking they are easier to tweak to get running emulation better than the aforementioned.

>>7130746
I don't have a great track record with any anbernic products, but it's perfectly serviceable, definetly feels better built than my rk2020.

[Anonymous No.7135226]

>>7133880
Which Anbernic products do you have? Also how's your experience with the RK2020? I've heard is more powerful than the RK2020.

[Anonymous No.7135630]

Refurbished pocket of mine with ez flash jr

[Anonymous No.7135640]

>>7135630
Also my modded gbc

[Anonymous No.7135656]

>>7128847

Got one of these myself, really is different than the handhelds released in years previous. Performs up to PS1 flawlessly, scales GBA games perfectly at 2x, can use shaders from Retroarch, lower-res screen looks more natural with pixelated games, and many PSP and Dreamcast games run full-speed with more and more working well with each update. Order from Amazon or eBay so it's easy to get another one if you're really afraid of Chinese shit.

I recommend ArkOS or 351Elec OS if you pick one up, the stock OS isn't bad but isn't as optimized by the online community.

Was formerly a phoneplayer but got tired of giant black bars on my 2:1 display, and the weight of my phone in the gamepad, not to mention battery life.

Playing Game Gear, Neo Geo Pocket, and GB/A is especially wonderful.

[Anonymous No.7135670]

if i wanted to emulate gamecube games on an android phone what would yall recommend?

[Anonymous No.7135675]

>>7128847

Thinking of buying one of these for christmas, heard the screen is a beast for GBA because its basically pixel doubled so it looks great and is pretty much a perfect solution for emulating GBA but im wondering how its going to work for playstation games, odd resolution and aspect ratio.

There are like 50 playstation games i wanted to finish and im worried they might look like dogshit, i think because they are 3d rendered maybe the scaling will be fine on a weird non 4:3 screen but who knows.

[Anonymous No.7135679]

>>7135675
honestly id just wait for experimental pi to make a handheld that isnt vertical

[Anonymous No.7135681]

>>7135675
or look at the lcl gba

[Anonymous No.7135691]

>>7135675

Hey, I'm the guy a few posts up that bought one. I've been enjoying PS1 on this thing, though all I've really played for an extended period is Soul Blade.

I'm cooler with stretching 4:3 to 3:2 than I am with bars on the side, and unless you're really OCD about it, it fades from the mind after a play session or two - it's not ungodly like stretching to 16:9 or 16:10, but I understand this is personal taste. Out of the box, the scaling may seem bad because it's set to nearest neighbor by default. It's easy to open up Retroarch settings and switch on RGPA scaling or a lightweight interpolation shader like pixelate or quilez and then it looks great.

Will there be better handhelds out within the next year or two? Probably. But they'll cost 1.5x to 2x as much as this thing costs for a good while, and personally I only wanted it for retro vidya, I have a competent rig and a big screen to upscale newer generations.

[Anonymous No.7135692]

honestly you want to wait until we can do ps2 , dreamcast and saturn with full accuracy

[Anonymous No.7135693]

>>7135656

how is it for PS1, i specifically want to play to completion, RE1,2,3, FF6,7,8,9, Chrono Trigger/Cross, Parasite Eve 1, 2, (3 - if it can handle it on PSP) Vagrant Story, SOTN, MGS, Blood Omen and Soul Reaver, TR1,2,3,4, Silent Hill + about 25 other games.

[Anonymous No.7135698]

>>7135679

Well its a over christmas thing, i was going to pick one up around the 10th of dec as im going to have a good solid 19 days with literally nothing to do just after that. Its my backup plan if Cyberpunk 2077 doesnt hold me over for a few weeks.

[Anonymous No.7135717]

>>7135691

The bars wont bother me too much so long as the text is readable and the games are not rendered too weird, some PS1 games have widescreen switch in the menu right, im just worried it will look like shit. Literally dont care about it being able to emulate anything else but GBA/PS1

A bonus would be playable GB/C mainly for Pokemon Yellow, Warioland 2, Six Golden Coins etc, SNES for Super Metroid, Mariokart and Chrono Trigger, 1 game on PSP (PE Third Birthday) those are all non essential though. Its mainly so i can plough through shit i never finished back in the day like FF8/9, PE 1/2, SOTN, the GBA Castlevanias, Advance Wars.

[Anonymous No.7135720]

>>7135692

Handheld would be sweet but that might take a while, its only just looking like an afordable system can do that in the devmode unlocked xbox series s for $299.

[Anonymous No.7135728]

>>7135693

PS1 has been 60fps solid for me.

You only get into iffy territory if you want to play Dreamcast, N64 or PSP. I'd say DC and PSP have about a 20% fullspeed rate at current (with ArkOS at least, haven't tested 351Elec), and about 40-50% with frameskipping set to 1. If it's a 2D Dreamcast or PSP game, it'll probably run full speed. Everything else is a gamble that will err more in your favor the longer it's out. The N64 emulation just hasn't been optimized - some stuff runs perfectly fine, some stuff is choppy as hell. At this point, expect Mario Kart 64, but not Perfect Dark

Everything else below DC and PSP, I've had 0 issues with no matter what I've thrown at it.

>>7135717

You can stretch wide or do bars as you please, the only important thing to remember is that it has no scaling on by default so you might think you got duped until you turn it on lol.

PS1 and GBA emulation are pretty much perfect. GBA doesn't even need interpolation turned on because this screen is a perfect 2x scale of the GBA screen. On GBA I use a shader that changes the colors to the GBA screen colors and it's a real treat.

[Anonymous No.7135764]

>>7135728

Just gonna do a full rundown for the curious

Anbernic RG351P Pros and Cons

Pros:
>Emulates everything up to PS1 fullspeed and accurately
>N64, PSP and DC emulation improving with every software update
>Good control setup, especially for those that prefer d-pad above stick
>Perfect screen for GBA emulation, it really does look nice
>4-5 hours of battery at max performance
>personal thing, but it has an old-school volume wheel and I really like that

Cons:
>Needs a wifi dongle to have wifi capabilities. If you order from any of the Anbernic stores across eBay, Amazon or even AliExpress, they will include one for free.
>No scaling turned on by default, so games that aren't GBA may look unevenly-scaled until you turn on RGPA scaling or an interpolation shader in settings. For non 3:2 content, your options are scaling it wider or black bars for perfect pixels.
>Has similar flaw to Switch where fast-charging adapters can damage the system. Use included adapter or an older cell charger


All in all I'm really pleased with it, but make sure to look up a starter guide and decide on an OS to replace the stock one with, unless you just want to rock the default OS, which works but doesn't have as many performance optimizations as 351elec and ArkOS.

I'd say the only thing that could compete in the price range is the Retroid Pocket 2, but I don't like Android emulation, the main screen is Android instead of an immersive gaming OS, and it has the stick above the d-pad, which I don't like for retro emulation.

[Anonymous No.7135787]

>>7135764

Can you play it with a usb c plugged in if the battery is flat? and charge as you play? take care to use a 10watt/2a charger max and not a fast one?

Im going to pick one of these up sometime next week now, i can at least make a start on some of those older games i never quite finished as a kid.

[Anonymous No.7135791]

>>7135728

Gonna pick one up next week.

[Anonymous No.7136009]

>>7135787

Honestly, I don't think it charges quickly enough to be viable from flat. The battery has a good life when fully charged but definitely isn't high-end, so I don't know if I'd want to stress it by playing it plugged in a lot either. I'll play it until it's down to about 15-20% (~4 hours playing GBA, Neo Geo Pocket and PS1 for me), and then charge it when I'm doing chores or sleeping. Mine gets its charge back in an hour or two depending on how low I take it.

On the charger, I've read to use 1.3a if you can, nothing above 2a. Some people have said not to use 2a either, sadly I don't have much personal experience on this. On the back of the console itself it says this:

>Rating: 5V — 6.5W
>Battery: LiPo 3.8V 3500mAh
>Adapter Input: 5V = > 1.3a

[Anonymous No.7136035]

>>7129913
>Internet disconnected to avoid ads.
The fuck are you talking about. ads in what?

[Anonymous No.7136040]

>>7136035

probably talking about how many free standalone emulator apps on android have banner ads unless you go into airplane mode

[Anonymous No.7136138]

BTW is there no one had hacked the GameGear Mini powered by F1c100s?

[Anonymous No.7136148]

>>7129351
The screen is the same size as Gameboy Micro.