Why EditionScreen Utility - https://shauninman.com/utils/screens/Handheld Comparison - https://retrocatalog.com/Google chart - https://tinyurl com (slash) AllHandheldshas anyone asked my question before? - https://4search.neocities.org/vrCompare handheld sizes - https://retrosizer.com/Handy Handheld info - https://handhelds.wikilast thread>>12449838
Im gonna set up syncthing with my PC and Im gonna eradicate all my save files somehow.
/hhg/ - Hardcore Homo General
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What's your vision for the ideal handheld?You can describe it as something "like [handheld X] but with ____ instead of ____" if it helps getting the point across
>ram crisis so bad russ has to do non-review filler videosoh no
>>12461694
>>12461708The form factor of the RG35XXSP with two screens and a better chip, for 2x integer scale NDS emulation.
>>12461713>RG35XXSP with two screenshuh? how would that even work?
>>12461720it is bigger, and keeps the form factor 1:1 ratio. instead of a brick rectangle, it is an IceCream Sammich.
>>12461709>here are my top 100 genesis games>here's Sonic, maybe you've heard of this one. I didn't get a chance to play it as a kid, but I've been emulating it. In Sonic you can jump and go fast and I find it very enjoyable
Isn't that just the RG DS with gammaOS?
>>12461709id rather have that than shilling junk products he was paid to like techdweeb
>>12461720
wouldnt it be an interesting concept for there to be something like this but the controller is on the exterior and sliding would reveal the screen?
>>12461758no because it would still be an ergonomic disaster and a stupid gimmick on top of that
Best games to play on the Thor?
>>12461749techdweeb is at his worst when he's reviewing anything, because he refuses to say anything negativeif he gets sent something, he glazes it
>>12461769I beat MGS 3D a couple days ago and now I'm playing Link Between Worlds. It's nice to play 3DS games and actually use the second screen.
>>12461682Why the early bake? Threads take a day to fall off this board.
>>12461752LEL, noThe second screen goes below, like the NDS, it is a square NDS, screens might be a bit compacter than the OG one, but with higher pixel density for 3x integer ratio. The lower screen is a bit smaller
>>12461813don't want any anons getting anxious
>>12461769Russian roulette.
Is there something like lossless scaling but for android?I wanna try some things
Wtf I just beat one of my favorite saturn games on the rg35xx h, I had no idea it could even handle some saturn. While loading some games on the sd card I just threw it in for the hell for it just to see how slow it would run if at all with zero hope of actually playing it but turns out that aside from a few graphical glitches and some muffled sounds effects it was totally playable. Neat
>>12461993game?
>>12462001Dark Savior
>>12461708PSPGo form factor with 2 sticks
>>12462023this >>12461758?
I like the Magicx One 35, but being forced to use Dawn launcher to get the best out of it is it's achilles heel.
>>12461708A block that houses the screen and main components besides the controls. Then there are two shells. One block that houses controls for a vertical layout. A 2nd one is a flip shell that has a 2nd screen. Now I don't have to choose between two different devices if I want to go vertical or horizontal.
>>12462028that is 3x the size of the pspgo
This Chinese cheapo has been the best $40 i have spent in a long time
>>12461708nintendo ds form factor, can play up to ps2, hdmi out, and also it’s 100% linux and if someone even mentions android emulation near it then a small arm with a gun comes out and shoots that person in the head and then sticks the gun in their hand to make itnlook like suicideoh and it also has no hinge issues and doesn’t cost 3x as much as it would in a non faggotized world
>>12462163good fucking luck playing diablo on that tiny screen
>>12462179exactly my thoughts, beat me to it the RG280V is too small for comfort, I dont like wearing glasses
>>12462179>>12462185It's really not bad when you are holding it. The screen is 2.8". The original gba was 2.9"
>>12462191Oh I love my RG280V for most stuff, but PSX starts to get hard to read with small fonts, I am in my 30s. For GBA, SFC, MD, PCE, PCECD, etc... it is perfect. Even some arcade games become impossible to read, because of TATE orientation and small fonts.
>>12462105The Brick would only be a very slight upgrade to the 35xx. An expensive $100 upgrade for such a small difference.
>>12462191yeah and diablos UI wasnt designed for a GBA screen dude
>>12462197You can find the Brick for half that price if you aren't retarded.
>>12462195Im in my 40s and it doesn't bother me too much. Obviously I wouldn't want to play for hours but in small bursts, it's fine.>>12462201You do you, boo.
why do some people hate android? I dont get it
i have a steam deck, n3ds xl, ambernic rg34xx, and a modded gb dmgthinking about getting bricked up with the trimui brick or whatever but not sure what I'd use it for differently than the ambernic rg34xx
>>12462271is there any particular reason you are even thinking about that in the first place? just the urge to consoom?
>>12462284the form factor, like it looks comfortable to hold and the metal casing makes it seem high quality however i don't think it can do anything that my rg34xx can't do so yeah a bit of CONSOOM urgei think I'm just gonna chill out for like 5 years until ps2/gc is playable for 100 burgers in a pocketable device with 5 hr battery life
>>12462259Some people love hating
>>12462259-Input lag-Fragmented tablet UI-Paid emulators using stolen code-Paid frontends-Cancerous thirdie userbase-Google trying their hardest to kill sideloading and anonymity which will kill emulators
>>12462310>Paid emulators using stolen code>Paid frontendsOnly retards who can't pirate care about this.
>>12462259They just spew shit they heard from other retards, unable or unwilling to try it, because they can't handle being wrong.Like this monkey here >>12462310Don't engage with them, it's like trying to reason with a pigeon or a rat, I don't recommend it.
>>12462310>>12462325>-Paid emulators using stolen code>-Paid frontendsqrd? i'm new to this android stuff. ross didn't mention this.
>>12462353>ross
I brought my handheld with me in public, saw a guy with his girlfriend prob laughing at me, never doing that again. it was the gdk pixel 2. So what are you guys playing?
>>12462259its a walled garden designed by and for brown people that retards try to emulate on as if they are using a smartphone to play super mario 1 on their toilet break. it uses more resources to do the same thing, wasteful web app garbage. only absolute morons who haven’t actually tried linux and android think android is acceptablealso the play store is becoming more and more aggressive in banning anything emu related, even reddit accepts this is true. only jeets remain in denial.t. literal former android developer with commits in the core android repository circa 2020
>>12462375Tetris ds is great on my rg ds and the puzzle mode is really fun I only have 5 levels left
I played with my handheld literally all day today so I had to stop 3 times to charge it. Felt like I was abusing the poor thing.
>>12462380well what's the alternative for these chinkhelds? until valve invests heavily in arm on linux it's going to be second rate
>>12461993don't listen to the retarded ACKyn shills who spout lies here constantly, the h700 handles saturn and n64 perfectly, the only "issues" (which are all minor graphical shit, which doesn't affect gameplay aka the only thing that matters in a videogame) are from the emulators themselves, not the chip or the devicedreamcast and naomi does have one issue though, it makes the chip overheat quite badly when you play them upscaled for long periods, which is bad because the chip sits right on top of the battery
Does the OS you use affect game performance? How to figure out which one is best?
>>12462023Ayaneo pocket play is almost that. But it uses Xperia play style sliders.>>12462434The h700 is isn't even much better than the a133p at n64 and Saturn. Perfect my ass. They're both playable but not close to perfect. For a Linux handheld, you could at least shill the smart pro s
>>12462451you don't know shit, and thanks for examplifying my point, fuck off
>>12462502What point h700tard? I didn't even mention nor do I own an ayn product. You only proved to have lower standards than chinkheld buyers in 2015.
>>12462515>muh arbitrary standards false headcanoncool goalpost moving, fuck off
>>12462563>dont attack muh precious zhou. He's a good boy.Keep coping.
>>12462438I tried a few out on my RG34XX SP before settling on MuOS. I didn't notice any performance differences between stock/knulli/MuOS but I wasn't really looking, I've heard emulationstation uses a fair bit of ram but eh.Just try them out is my advice
>>12462259They Stole from Saint Jobs, and then later killed him to secure their place in the market. True believers would never touch an android.
>>12462259>>12455991These threads are full of contrarian faggots that for some reason think they sound super smart and informed if they shit on everything everyone says or wants 100% of the time every single time. They never actually answer any questions or tell you what they have, they just lose their shit on you whenever you mention anything you like or own.
>>12462259>Emulators are typically ported to the platform so they tend to have significantly outdated standalones. Retroarch is what is heavily relied on due to the core system and even that's not always the most up to date.This is very prevalent with PS2 emulation where it's years out of date at this point.>As DS and 3DS emulation has shown through the Thor and NG DS you have significant input lag when using Android instead of Linux.This isn't as big of an issue for other systems. This video was posted here a few years back when this topic came up:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiAJKMkXYC0This is more of an issue for DS, 3DS, and Wii U emulation currently and maybe Wii? Not sure on Wii.>Smartphone overhead eating up resources that aren't eaten up in Linux so you generally get worse performance on Android that is being bruteforced by the chips more than anything.>Getting stuff onto and off of the platform requires extra steps Linux doesn't to the point that you can just go to your "Network" tab on Windows and directly connect to most Linux devices with CFW since it's a built-in feature most of the time.I know for a fact Knulli does this, I believe Batocera does this, and I want to say Rocknix also does this but I'm not 100% sure on that one. You can also just directly plug into the device on some CFWs and not have to worry like with the TrimUI CFWs.>Smartphone menus just suck, they really really suck and are constantly nested or not as responsive as you hope they'd be.>File structure on Android can sometimes be pure cancer and stuff you put onto the device sometimes isn't noticed or ends up being redirected to a completely different folder.If you watch Wulff Den's reviews of random emulation handhelds this is brought up constantly. I think he had one recently where he said he threw all his roms on the device and none of the emulators would point to where he put them or reset where they were being directed even though he set it up properly.
>>12462567>t. ACKyn shillsorry, still not gonna buy a thor
>>12462706I don't have a Thor, loser. Ayn lives rent free in your head all because you're doing the retarded "playable" meme. Chinkheld consumers were somehow less stupid in the jxd days. We need powkiddy back.
>>12462724they're all fully playable, no scare quotes, you trying to make mountains out of the molehills that are minor texture issues that come down to the emulators themselves and not the chip doesn't change that fact, ACKynigger
>>12462725>They're all fully playable>On a chip that plays Saturn worse than 3566. Which is barely playable.Aynshills overshill their garbage. H700 shills straight up lie to shill their garbage while thinking anyone who doesn't like their sub rockchip slop must like ayn. Max zhou is getting better at which of his agents he sends here.
>>12461869has there ever been a wagie/school solution to these?normally they shat themselves to death after 8 hours of neglect but you couldnt take them with you because they would screech all the time with no way of turning the volume down.
ok I set up syncthing.this changes everything.
>>12462729>reeeeeeeee muh minor textural issues which are literally only because of the emulator itself! le "unplayable"!nope, literally 100% playable, and at full speed too, seethe cope and dilate ACKyn shill
Anyone here using muOS? How is it?
>>12462927Both of you are mentally ill freaks.
>>12462959I'm using it on my TSP and it's great. but I use retroarch directly, not any of the stupid frontend shit. which is why I use muos, it boots fast and lets me open retroarch without any bs.
>>12462808There's retards on all sides, arguing "my handheld could beat up your handheld," and this nigga out here asking the hardhitting tamagachi questions.
>>12462808The fake ones with 168 in 1 characters ("bunny rom") aren't like the real tamagotchis. They don't have deaths, they don't evolve, and they go into a power saving mode after a few minutes and don't do anything until you press a button to wake them up again. The character selection is also a bit surreal: https://bunnyrom.neocities.org/characters
After the Thor which device has the best battery?
>>12462927I still don't have a single ayn product. I don't know wtf your problem is.
>>12462724It's powCHADDY. Retroondittor >>12462725>Cant even post proof>Uses my ACKyn meme without context like the dirty retroondittor he isGEG! Kek-lmao even! I may have been gone but nothing can contain my retardation and hatred against shitty chink companies. Annernig's been slackin lately. They're no replacement for the BEAST
>>12462380>>12462681Well fuck me. I bought a Retroid Pocket 6 specifically thinking I'd be using android. Is it really that bad? I guess I should start looking up the Linux options...
>>12463091>ThorWait I meant Odin.After the Odin which device has the best battery?
>>12463103you're the one with the problem, spouting blatant falsehoods, ACKyn shill
>>12463112Oh great, it's you.>>12463164Proof?
>>12463136You're fine. The PS2 solution is years old and doesn't run as well as modern PCSX2 does but it's serviceable. Everything else is more or less fine since things like the RP6 can just bruteforce a lot of the performance problems away. You'll just have to get used to the Android filesystem and moving stuff within it.
>>12463038its important.
>>12463054for me, it has to be boat3.
>>12463164>Tinkertroon this defensive over his slopNot even gonna read the reply chain. But I can tell anberniggers degenerated to retroondittors levels.>>12463176>Squirting anal liquid against the one real nigga in the thread. The one who reironiclly works with powkiddy's engineers. The one who'll make sure everyone in this thread owns at least one overlordkid device by the end of the year.Grim. >>12463187Except him, he's cool
You faggots are mentally ill.
9 more days til I get my retroid pocket 5, hate that I have to wait.
>>12463179Ah ok. I see now that the version of PCSX2 in NetherSX2 is older. Checked out Ross's video on Rocknix and it seems like Android is the better option for now if you want no hassle.
>>12463215If you don't know the first game you'll play on that thing, I recommend way of the samurai 2
>>12463227>way of the samurai 2yea but i'm installing rocknix on it so ps2 will probably not work right? I don't wanna deal with android file system.
>>12463234I dunno which version of Android the 5 is on, but I remember most devices just needing the generic files app by Google to access their folders properly.
>>12463254i had an rg556 and I absolutely hated it, my roms never got added properly to the correct systems, I had dreamcast saying nintendo roms were for the dreamcast, so on and so forth. I am not dealing with that mess again.
>>12463038It's better than YOUR handheld!
>>12463149Fuck off ayn shill, no one cares.
>ackshully the ayn thor plays switch games just fineliterally how? my fold 6 can't and it doesn't even thermal throttle with switch emulators, only from desktop java mc + shaderpacks
>>12463267>literally asking about alternatives to the ayn devices if im interested in big battery life>ayn shilltake your meds moron
>try to find more info on a handheld>it's always eta primeit's so fucking tiresome......
>>12463267>Still using my meme incorrectlyReverse psychology ACKyn retroondittors are not sending their best...>>12463269My razer edge plays bitch better than th3 retroid 5. Which version of eden are you using? >>12463276It's chris from retroid.
I'm starting to think you guys go insane when a new handheld doesn't get announced for too long...
>>12463283Aside from being ai, he gets the job done. Sure, ya don't acutally learn anything, but it could be worse.
>>12463269What games have you tested?I've played through half of BOTW on my thor pro and it runs at a solid 30fps even in cities during the rain. I've had crashes though, but that's probably ram related.
>>12463285>My razer edge plays bitch better than th3 retroid 5uh yeah the retroid 5 is a sd865, of course the edge is better>which version of edenwhatever was available in december or very early january, haven't tried in a bit. also tried sudachi and the ryujinx port (dogshit broken ui but it performed noticeably better) also from december/early january>>12463294mk8d (far from 60 fps), ssbu (actually ran alright but it did crash a few times), gup dtmdx (unplayable), the good hyrule warriors (frequent dips below 60 and stutters), acnh (<30 fps)i also tried all of these on a sd8g2 phone with 12gb of ram aka the same exact specs as the thor and it didn't fare all that much worse than the fold with the same drivers i tried (ironically the qualcomm ones performed noticeably better than the community ones) so idk what's going on here
>>12462375Good Lord, she is incredibly hot.
>>12463339You’re fucking disgusting.
>>12463353I wasn't talking about me, I was talking about her. She is gorgeous, amazing poise, and full of Élan. Do not be jealous Tranny. Women are the single most beautiful thing on earth.
>>12463390he means you're disgusting cuase thats a 14 year old, pedophile.
I can't for the life of me make my thor connect mario kart ds to the internet.
>>12463339Mid at bestDon't get em wrongShe may be a keeper, but you can't see the personality through a picture.
Is a Thor Lite worth it? I'm not really interested in playing much switch or later stuff on the thing anyway.
>>12463458>Ayn Shill is backFucking Christ FUCK OFF already! NO.ONE. is even kind of convinced this is actual engagement from some curious anon looking for info faggot. Kill yourself.
>>12463447You cant call an Olympian champion, with the discipline of Sisyphus, one that walks the path of the Hero and becomes enshrined in the Olympic Glory. She might be below you (I hope you are a Brad Pitt) by looks alone, but 80% of her attraction comes from realisation, from fulfilment, the joy of the struggle, embellished with the beauty of blossoming youth. She is an absolute 10. Top genetics, but also someone who carries herself with grace and still captures some dork, geeky Élan that comes with her love for Anime and Retro Vidya... The Retro Handheld is just the cherry on top.> Performative Retro LoveI mean, she is a performer, and is performing a pose for a photoshoot, it is the definition of performative in that regard. But the choice is hers, her identity is not some plain passé iceskating leotard, but the carefree leisure geekness she forfeited to fulfil her roll of Super Woman. She is a Hero to me. I had no idea she is 14, her genetical mother must be a tall athletic Nord, or Slav.
>>12463458your current phone probably mogs the shit out of it so no
>>12463458
>>12463462I said don't get me wrong >Still gets me wrongGoing loco ain't good for you
>>12463478I actually got you, and liked your sobriety. I just took the chance to finish my general response to being called out on admiring her with want. I am performative like that. xDDDMy bad.
it's about time the filter gained a new tripfaggo back to gamefaqs, you don't belong here
>>12463458I don't know why those niggas got triggered, but no, get the base at least, more processing power means less resources used during long gaming sessions, longer useful life and less thermal throttling are some of the perks.
I spent hours gaming with my thor yesterday, until I noticed some numbing on my right pinky, tried the grip too, and the same thing happened.Has this happened to anyone else? or am I just malformed?
>>12463562I thought it was due to how tiny the RG280V was, but it happens with it and Miyoo Mini + and RG34XXSP, and the least with RG35XX. I understand why some Anons swear by horizontals, but the comfort I get from the Fetiche Device in part comes from a specific form-factor head-canon which is vertical. Note: this also happens to me with mobile phones, I almost never use them, I rather use a laptop with the same apps. But I still rather get the base of my pinky finger numbed every half hour. Dont recall the OG hardware being any more ergonomic. It is its idiosyncrasy.
>>12463572> But I still rather get the base of my pinky finger numbed every half hour > >> IF IT IS WITH A RETRO HANDHELD <<
>>12463417>>12463462She's 20, btw.
>>12463461>>12463474>Posts soiboi>Goypark reaction picThe jokes write themselves.>>12463551>I don't know why those niggas got triggeredBecause if not the thor, it'd be pic related. The touch screen somehow always makes the average hhg first worldkek shit their pants
>>12463572Thanks, it was weird, maybe if I try with a different grip that would stop.
>>12463583not the same girl retard, look at the fucking hair
>>12463730not the same face either
>>12462056How's the dpad?
>>12463562Were you lying on your back with your elbows resting on something? That just sounds like you were pressing on the ulnar nerve for a while. Happens to me when I play in bed for a long time.
>>12463798I was doing exactly that yes
what did you play on your 'held today?
>>12463838tetris, 200 lines seem impossible, but maybe I'm just getting old
>>12463838Almost done with Link Between Worlds. I have only one heart piece left and it's locked behind a bullshit baseball minigame.
>>12463841Gameboy version? That fucker speeds up like crazy at 200.
>>12463850DS by line 100 it's gets very fast
are you fucking kidding me?
>>12463867https://myrient.org
>4.5">4:3>perfectionplease don't be overpriced please don't be overpriced please don't be overpriced
>>12463909>another shitty steamdeck cloneinto the trash it goes
>steam deck clone>not x86>doesn't run linuxi think anon doesn't even know what a steam deck is.
>>12463929it aint gonna run windows, so wtf do you mean? are you retarded?
Oh boy 1%!!!
>>124639091440x1080 is a really nice resolution too. It might just be the GOAT for 4:3 chads.
>>12433596Posted in the old thread by mistake. Lets try again.> Bought an ambernic RG35XX two years ago> Still too busy to set it upLook, what's the lowest effort custom firmware I can use to just start playing shit on this. Should I just stick with the Ambernic firmware?
>>12463916I didn't realize the steam deck was 4:3
>>12463982ok its another anbernic, idk wtf you want me to say, i was basing it off the button layout, but now im realizing the button layout is the same as here>>12463980so wtf is the point?
>>12463980The default OS is fine. The only problem is being stuck with 8-directional snapping on the analog sticks, but those sticks suck for 3D games anyway.
>>12463985Bro, if Anbernic had an affordable 4+ inch 4:3 handheld without dumb gimmicks like metal frames or glass fronts I would have already bought it.
>>12463990>if anbernic and and affordabe 4+ inch 4:3>literally the ANBERNIC RG40XX HBro are you serious?
>>12463994Oh I ALSO forgot about the FUCKING CUBElike are you serious right now?
Is there a dual screen handheld that supports a proper linux dekstop installation, with something like a soft keyboard for input?
>>12463994Nah, that one is shit. Worse button layout than the 35XXH, unnecessary stick LEDs, sticks protruding too much, 4" being barely bigger than 3.5", doesn't fix the stiff buttons, etc.
>>12464006BROTHER THE BUTTON LAYOUT IS THE SAME AS WHAT YOU LINKED Literally the only difference is the start select and the M button, but honestly I feel like start and select belong on the bottom.
>>12464014The 40XX start/select are located underneath the right stick. The MagicX uses the superior 35XX layout with them being next to the main buttons. Start/select being on the bottom was fine on Nintendo handhelds because nothing got in the way. It doesn't work with modern handhelds because there's sticks there.
>>12464028i mean this device is fine, the start and select being on opisite sides of each other is good, but the circle pads on the magicX devices arej ust so shitty. I hate circle pads with a passion.
I kind of want to get a cheap device ($100 or less) that I can actually take outside and not feel too bad if it gets stolen or whatever. What should I get? trimui smart pro s and magmi air x seem like the best ones in that price range.
I overall love my 35XXH, but I do have several complaints:>3.5" is too small>buttons are too stiff>menu button location sucks>directional snapping on the sticks>turning it on takes too longThat's why I'm hoping the MagicX Two Dream will be my savior. MagicX and Anbernic are the only companies bothering with 4:3 handhelds, and the latter is obsessed with stupid gimmicks that ruin the product.
>>12464048R36S or one of its clones if you want 'who gives a fuck' disposability. Otherwise Powkiddy v90S if you want a disposable cheap clamshell
>>12463867Is this really that big of a deal? People were sharing roms before this site existed, right?
>>12463551For some reason the Thor is the one that the freaks picked out that they have to be contrarian fags about so they can sound smart and informed.
>>12463965Doesn't that thing kind of suck though?
>>12463909If they swapped the buttons between trims, they'd be perfect. The purple Pro w/black buttons would be hot.
>>12463909The real endgame handheld
Has anyone gotten DK64 to run on an Android handheld with RetroArch without glitchy animations/camera resetting/crashing? I tried to edit the core options for MupenPlus GLES2 and GLES3 but I fucked it up somehow because now only ParaLLEI runs without crashing the app and for some reason no core options are available anymore if I try to run the GLES cores without a rom. Even after deleting the app, manually downloading the latest release and updating everything. I am running out of ideas
>>12464186I just use standalone m64p fz. Everything I've tested with the retroarch cores has had some kind of glitch on android.
>>12464186N64 on Android Retroarch has just been broken for years.https://github.com/libretro/mupen64plus-libretro-nx/issues/364https://github.com/libretro/mupen64plus-libretro-nx/issues/554
>>12464186>Load Core > Choose Core you want to delete > Information > Core Information > Delete CoreThis should automatically delete your configs, I think there's also an option just for reset config there. >>12464192Don't think Mupen supports cheevos, but you're right.
>>12464192I'll look into it>>12464193Honestly I am tired of dealing with the RetroArch UI anyway.>>12464195I'll see if this does anything, thanks everyone.
>>12464195>cheevofagyou deserve all your suffering.
retroid did not in fact manage to ship all unfulfilled orders by the end of this weekend
>>12464231>reading comprehension
>>12463458No. Thor Max or bust.
>>12464061running a custom firmware has no cardinal snapping, so they say
>>12464035same, if the 35xxh had a circle pad then i wouldn't have gotten it, anyone who makes circle pads should be shot in the face
>>12464035magic x has never released a handheld with circle pads, what the fuck are you talking about
>>12461708Vita Slim with more powerful hardware and a modern OLED screen. That's it.
what’s the point of small handhelds bigger screens are always better?it sounds nice until you realize it’s still as big as a phone nowadays with much less screen real estate
>>12464547more pocketable, and some systems like GB/GBA look a bit silly on bigger screens
>>12462375I don't play my flop 2 in public because I feel too self-conscious, logically I know nobody really gives a shit what other people are doing but I just can't get over it. A coworker told me she liked my "DS" and I felt a deep shameI wonder why playing smartphone games in public is totally normal but I feel so gay for playing a handheld. I guess my only option to use an emulator on my phone and git gud at the touchscreen emulated controller
>>12464547Comfort. Nobody wants to hold up giant tablets. If the screen doesn't strain your eyes, then it's big enough.
>>12464306nevermind I woke up to the label being made so I forgive them as long as it ships today
>>12464443>>12463909wtf are these then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFKysF9tL4E
>>12463909>>4:3>>perfectionuhhh... No.
>>12464807video came out yesterday and honestly the price went from 65 to 85 because of it. Also the fucking bezels look nasty.
>>12463462You’re fucking disgusting.
>>12464802They seem to just be heavily insert sticks with flat caps. Think the Gpd xd or powkiddy x18. The retroid flip 1 or rgplus have obvious sliders.
>>12464547>>12464810I despise widescreen gaming. I spent most of my life playing on CRTs and every game I like was built for 4:3. Any old game that says it has 16:9 "support" just stretches everything and it looks awful. Widescreen only became a popular thing during the PS3 era, and I don't really remember that console that that fondly. A smaller, squarer screen lets you naturally focus on all the details in the center without dislocating your eyes from each other like a frog or setting the FOV to QUAKE. It's simply comfy, and at the end of the day you just don't look at anything that is on the outside (plus it is an uneven ratio meaning the top and bottom are cropped). Eyes don't work that way, that shit on the sides is just noise for me. And as for handhelds you get an inherently much more space efficient package, with games that aren't stretched but almost square and well-proportioned, with a tiny bit of extra wide space of course for the HUD. Plus your hands aren't far apart meaning it actually feels comfortable to use and doesn't tire out your arms if you are holding it above you.Square screens are quite literally perfect and didn't need to be changed. Why do I want extra space on the sides while usually keeping the same measured space from top to bottom? Who asked for this? Movie watchers, but I don't want to watch movies, I want to play video games. Widescreen is literally wasted space. Try phoneposting for me and tell me if you can you read the URL and the keyboard while you look at the post box or is it just blurry noise on the top and bottom? The farther the distance from the center, the less your eyes are capable of actually watching. You can try moving further away, but then that comes at the sacrifice of everything being less in-your-face and immersive in general. I don't like widescreen for gaming, and will never prefer widescreen for gaming, no matter how hard corporations try to standardize it. It is the most heavily overrated thing out there.
>>12461708SP but wider than an SP but not as wide as a DS. Still a single screen clamshell. Maybe it exists but I don't know about it.
>>12464979yea those are circle pads
>>12463838>what did you play on your 'held today?started playing Hourai High Gakuen no Bouken! (snes) a couple of days ago on my r36s plus. Its great so far, i was worried it was going to be reddit tier quirky from the setting but it plays like dragon quest with a ff5 style job system. Its fun.
>>12465020Flat cap sticks feel nothing like circle pads. When sticks are insert that deep in the shell, they actually have less movement range than sliders. It's not too bad on the xd but awful on the trimui smart pro.
>>12465008So an RG35XX-SP.
>>12461708I still want a polished SP reproduction. It could be 4:3 like the 35xx but things like button feel and heat generation should be addressed
>>12464598She likes you, she was flirting with you, you FUCK
Bros...? AYN Lmao contacted me and said they supposedly found a shipping channel for my Thor Max 4 days ago... I checked and now it's on the HK airport. Is this the one?
my rg34xx is perfect for throwing in my work bag. i have an external monitor on my desk and two ps4 controllers and play third strike and marvel 2 with my coworkers on breaks
>>12465251post your feet
>>12465496show bob's and vagene
>>12465496damn, you want them for free?
>>12465549redeem the foots
>>12464006
handhelds are magical. they brough back the videogame magic I had not felt in almost a decade
You guys lied to me about Ayaneo, this is the perfect handheld.
>>12465892why does it look less ergonomic than the fucking dingoo?
>>12465906It's actually plenty comfortable with the rounded corners, a lot more so than something like the Brick. It's just big enough that I like using it around the house, but just small enough that it actually fits in a pocket without being ridiculous.
>>12465892how bout you take a picture with your hands around it for comparisson, this doesn't show the actual size.
>>12465892I just can't get over the weird placements Ayaneo chooses for start and select.
>>12465935How about objects for scale instead?
>>12464993It's much simpler than that. Retro games are 4:3, so retro handhelds should be 4:3. Widescreen hacks are hacks and don't work on 2D games. The handhelds already need extra space on the sides for buttons, so wasting even more space on unused widescreen just makes it unwieldy.
Does 8GB to 12GB of RAM really a make a huge difference? I'm trying to decide between the AYN Thor Base or Pro models and I'm not sure the $80 difference is really worth it. I dont really plan to play any really intensive games on it.
>>12465997I bought the Base and just said "fuck it, whatever doesn't run doesn't run. I already have more than enough to play on it" I'm not going to lose sleep over a couple of Switch and Gamehub stuff.
>>12465970yea fuck that, thats small as fuck
is there any disadvantages to chd. files? seems like a nobrainer that all games should be converted to chd
>>12466378I prefer them for CD games since it's one file instead of two
Autism question: if I want to install rocknix, can I do so without logging into google at any point on the android device or does it force you to log in on first boot?
>>12462179Thanks, I will :)
>>12463205And yet, here (you) are.
>>12463985Point of what?
>>12466530No need to login ever.
>>12466573Thank you, that confirms the purchase for me
I wish I had remained ignorant to the android input lag. Sidescrollers feel so shit compared to on Rocknix, but the dual boot had bricked me out of android entirely on my Thor. Russ was full of shit when he said there is no damage risk in his written guide
>>12466668Use 120fps mode and/or runahead and Retroarch then.
>>12466378if you're converting your own PSP files to .chd it can cause issues if you don't use createdvd, but that's about it
>>12466668i warned you about the lagdroid input latency broi told you dawg
>>12466789Runahead breaks certain games like Road Rash 3
>>12465892Too expensive and big. I already have a retroid mini V2 and mini zero 28
>>12466378the emulator having to decompress the image technically has higher cpu usage, but it's not enough to matter anymorethe storage space you save more than makes up for it
>>12466668did you not make a backup? that was part of the process
>>12461708A snes form factor with a USBc output that I can plug into my work monitor on break or TV at a firends house. Coupled with a detachable 4:3 screen for use as a regular handheld and bluetooth available for 2 player support
Why did I never think of using scrcpy for setting up android, am I stupid?Why isn't this well known practice, are we all stupid?
>>12467156>using lagdroid everyes, you are just stupid, as is anyone who ever uses lagdroid for emulationQED
>>12467263thats why i got rid of my rg556 cause it was stuck on android.
So I've gotten ahold of a bunch of evercade cartridge dumps. How the fuck do I use them? Just put on a 1gb sd card and play on actual hardware?
Thorbros is a grip necessary for long play sessions?
>>12466378Not really? It's the perfect format for multidisc games
>>12467319>1gb sd cardGood luck finding one.
>>12467335Is there info I'm not aware of, like 1gb microsd being faulty or something?
>>12467346I think he means that 1gb sd cards are considered old and hard to find, meanwhile 8 and 16gb ones are the smallest you can find with ease
>>12467348It looks like some specialty electronics stores still sell them online.My understanding with evercade is that the unaltered firmware doesn't read above 1gb. Maybe I can just trick it with a partition.
>>12467156Didn't know this was a thing. Doubt it would've made a difference for setup, but it could be useful for something.
>turn on brand new rg406hAAAAAAHHHHHHH
>>12467398CHINKEDHINKED
>>12467398Ever wonder if it actually bothers Chinese people that their products are almost entirely barely functioning half-assed crap made to closely imitate some better product?
>>12467486chinks are addicted to scamming and conning people so it doesnt even cross their minds
Looking for a handheld I could keep in my wallet at all times and I think my best bet is the trimui model sI know the Rg nano and funkey S are smaller and could work as a keychain but I fear that form factor will be borderline unplayable and they are relatively thick.Are there any other ultra small ultra thin handhelds besides this one?
>Brick battery was working fine as long as I didn't let it lapse to 50%.>Go to charge it yesterday as I played a couple hours and it needed it.>Reset mid-charge.>Now taking the battery out, waiting, discharging the capacitors, and plugging it back in doesn't work anymore.>Can only play tethered to a charger where it says it's 0%, 100%, 7%, and 46% charge.>Leaving it to charge does nothing, it never goes past any of the percentages I said.>Leaving it overnight charging also did nothing.Awesome. No one even sells RYJ 755060s with 3 pin connectors at all. Now I actually have to get a brand new Brick to fix this.
>>12467534I guess it literally is just a brick now
>>12467398Faulty SD card?
>>12467524This is why I don't understand how people can keep using places like Temu and Aliexpress. 90% of everything there is a scam, a knockoff, or a stupidly obvious AI pic bait and switch. The level of very organized dishonestly is fucking depressing after a while. Like the entire Chinese business model is firmly based on scamming your customer in any way you can even if it was totally unnecessary in the first place. Scam the fuck out of them any damn way even if it takes more money and effort to do it. it's like a literal mustache twirling villain land out of a cartoon.
>>12467525I can't think of anything as thin apart from some famiclones which suck. Miyoo mini flip is small but definitely thicker than what you're after
>>12467398yeah you got chinked
>>12467635>This is why I don't understand how people can keep using places like Temu and Aliexpress.Because if you know how to use it properly the sites are fine. Things like buttons, pins, thumbstick caps, knockoff plushies, certain knockoff figures, random themed playing card decks where they don't care about using copyright (Like Balatro decks), stuff you would have previously gone to Radio Shack for, really niche things for niche subjects like specific electronic parts, flashcarts, very specific batteries or parts for things, and home grown Chinese items are all reasonable to buy from these stores.Sure, you're gonna occasionally get some sort of poor quality control; I got a game card case for my Switch that doesn't have the foam inserts properly cut out so like four games fall out when I open it. I've also had my share of issues with both an RG35XX-SP and this current Trimui Brick Hammer (The former had its screw posts disintegrate as soon as I turned two of the screws and the latter has battery issues). But if you're careful with the storefronts you buy from, don't spend more than like $100-200 on any one purchase, avoid name brand items, and know what you're gonna get ripped off with and what you aren't you'll be fine.There are legitimate sellers there, and if you are able to understand what is and isn't a scam you'll be fine. Hell, I've bought screen protectors from no-name shops that arrived in Styrofoam and it worked perfectly fine. There's like a price level you have to hover around to not get scammed. Too high and you're like 80% going to get scammed. Very low and it's only a scam if it's brand-name or trying to pass itself off as something else. Many of these stores are direct-from-factory sellers.Just avoid anything that you could use for practicality like spoons, chairs, stuff like that, and you're mostly fine. Never buy anything you could reasonably buy in your home country from these sites, use them for specifics like you would Etsy.
>>12467595It's an android device and first boot was without the SD card inserted.
>>12467635Temu has really leaned into using AI pics for all their products. People pretty much wait and see if someone makes a review with pics of their own before buying things these days.
>>12467635Because pointing that out makes you a racist. How DARE YOU point out their long standing traditional culture and heritage...of scamming everyone they can for any penny they can make you toxic racist CHUD!
>>12467525rg nano is unobtanium now, no place anywhere has them for sale, just like steam deck
>>12467635Don't worry, a White dropshipper can sell you the same chinkshit at 150% markup.
>>12467729Ehhh.....more like some Indian dropshipper's wife running a kiosk or small chink imports shop next to a grocery store.
>>12467708How are we supposed to play Pokemon Crystal without it?
>>12463873what does this mean?
>>12467807by grabbing your favorite snack and drink and strapping in
>>12467398if i recall, they Just Do That™ sometimes
>>12467525trimui smart (not pro).thicker than model s but still small and pocketable.comfier to use and more powerful, you can play up to ps1 with little to no issues.
Tempted to go for an RG Arc-S simply to have something to play a lot of games on as a dedicated device, but then I'm also looking into stuff good for PSP and those are pretty steep jumps. Maybe I'm better off just getting a damn phone controller.
>>12468286normally I wouldn't recommend a phone controller but if you're mainly after PSP why not. Otherwise if you can find the RG505 for cheap that's not bad
>>12468298At the very least my Moto G Stylus 2023 seems to run PSP pretty fine, so if I really had to it wouldn't be too big a deal. Been using a bluetooth controller and it's some blatant latency. So getting the most out of this stuff is going to require one solution or another for an all-in. I could just refurbish my PSP and hack it for like $60 but last thing I need is to put that much money into something I put right back down.
>>12462179Nigga, I've played PSX D1 on my 28xx (2.8" screen as well), it's not that hard.I still quit playing it though since D1's kinda ass, speaking as someone who was alive for and lived through Diablo 1 and 2 back in the day. I was super jealous of my cousin owning Hellfire at the time.Gotta remember that Diablo 1 and its port was still made in the age of 480p/i so it's not like the game had tiny fonts or any minute details you need to squint at.
>>12462294Honestly if you're lucky you can get an RP4p/RP5 for $100-120 burgerbux used, and both can play a majority of PS2/GC and get... up to 5 hours.Even the 406h shows up on Aliexpress for $120-140 new sometimes, and that can play about half of PS2/GC full speed, I put like 50 hours into KH2FM+ on my old 406h and it only had minor slowdowns in the regular performance mode and no slowdowns in the high-spec setting. Worked fine.
>>12461708>3:2, 4.5" screen>wide (minimal bezels) clamshell>linux>can run up to ps2will never ever happen
>>12463867That's such old news that not only has everyone known that was happening, but enough time has passed that one group already archived their entire website's contents, and loads more have archived important relevant bits.>>12464061>Anbernic puts the screen size in the NAME of the device>Anon still buys it despite not liking 3.5" screenslol, lmao
>>12467525
>>12467367Gamechanger for Gamehub and the sort. Great for Obtainium as well.
>>12467635The thing is that Temu has pretty generous refund policy and sellers very often just don't give a shit about whereabouts of single items so if you're sneaky faggot you can just buy shit, claim refund and still keep your item.t. My sister basically decorated her entire apartment with assorted chink shit by doing it. From lamps and pillows to silly rabbit figurines.
>>12467525Arduoboy, I guess? The smaller one is unusable meme, but the larger is close in size and thickness to credit card.
1 week left til i get my rp5, days are taking forever lately, yet people always saying "the days are going by so fast" bullllshit they are.
>>12468890On a whim I ordered the rp6 and I'm curious how bad the wait is going to be. I've seen people report 2 weeks to months.
It’s been almost a year since its release, has anybody had any hinge/buttons issues with RG-34XXSP? Skipped both Miyoo Flip and RG-35XXSP because of those
>>12469192I bought a 12gb black rp6 on february 19th, and it's currently at the hong kong airport. from what I've seen, it's usually about 9 days to get it after it actually ships. mine took just over a month to actually get moving
>>12469238Mine's fine, daily use since August. I did tape the buttons though to be on the safe side
>>12469238Anbernic has the least issues with the hinges but if you're buying a RG34XXSP now you're getting one with less ram thanks to the shortage.
>>12469317I was hoping to avoid taking it apart, did you tape both the face buttons and the dpad?>>12469319I’m okay with that, only want it for GBA/SNES so 1GB should be fine (although I’ve seen some redditors claim theirs came with even less than that, is that just a stock FW bug or actual RAM defects?)
>>12468606name?
>>12461708RP2S with a modern chip like 8G2 to do everything up to GameCube.
>>12462195Weak, I'm 45 and have no problems reading PS1 games on GKD Pixel 2.
>>12462325Millennials are the last pirate generation, zoomers just pay for digital shit.
>>12469192rp6 was out of my price range so i did the rp5 but yea i couldn't imagine waiting for that, rp5 is taking long enough as it is.
>>12465970Xbawks heug for a GBM clone.
What are the odin 2 portal competitors?no handheld pcs
>>12461708RP5 but without the glas front, 3:2 screen and the spare space is used to rearrange the sticks and buttons to be diagonally opposed.
>>12469417Any snapdragon 8 gen 2 tablet or handheld or phone since it's the same soc. You can look it up on GSMArena or ask Google.The portal is probably the best for the money until they discontinue it.
>>12469349>did you tape both the face buttons and the dpad?yeah, the buttons were too loud to my taste, so completely optional. It did raise the dpad so that it sometimes marks the screen protector but eh
>order a handheld and a mod kit at the same time>handheld coming from CA>mod kit from overseas>mod kit arrived 2 days ago>still waiting for handheldI fucking hate America.
>>12469475Blame the DEI filled postal service. your stuff is probably in a ditch somewhere.
Love the mini controllers matching the chinkhelds(dude has all five for sale)
didn't realize the RP5 was smaller then a switch oled, but at least the RP5 is 1080P
>>12469542I have five myself, two of them being the little Famicom/NES miniature Bluetooth controllers from AliExpress. Fucking adore them, and wonder if the 3DS analog nub would be viable as analog "sticks" for such small controllers.
>>12469553i can't imagine using that, shits smaller then a NES controller and my hands can't even use NES controllers anymore.
>>12463909I haven't bought any handhelds since my RG28XX and MagicX Mini 28 Zero, butI might buy this one if it does like, GameCube and PS2 competently
>>12469559It's super neat, especially for one-handed games/RPGs. You just gotta curl your hands as if playing volleyball if playing anything that needs both thumbs.
>>12469542Won't the the Bluetooth drain battery like crazy
>>12468594Are those archives publicly available? (After the site shuts down)
>>12466020>>12469410The duality of man
Is MelonDS actually better than Drastic or is it just for the retroachievements? Because I don't really care about those at all, that's one of the perks of retro games, not having stupid cheevos.
>>12470001Drastic is ancient, yeah.
>>12470001It's "more accurate" apparently, never had a problem with Drastic myself
>>12461708That would be ideally something like the rg slide but actually slim, if nothing comes out like that this year i might just get a redmagic 11 pro with the m-con slim and 3dprint the backplate so it's all nice and cohesive in a single unit <spoiler>so i can play warframe on my job's parking lot with a better framerate than my switch lite</spoiler>
Will I regret getting a RG35XXSP?
>>12469553would be cool if they used that one design from the chinese dude where he used sticks inserted in a hole and the ABXY / DPAD buttones were around the sticks themselves
DS Lite chads...did I do it right?
I got a mangmi air X mainly to play translations of games I never played before or like saturn versions of games I played on ps1. I'm seeing a lot of launchers people recommend, is es-de one people tend to use the most?also I can't recall but do I need japanese bios files too for the translations or do the emulators only really care that any bios is present? haven't played a japanese translation of a disc based game since tales of phantasia ps1 got released by that cless group
>>12470047yes, technic wise it looks pristine; taste wise you effed up by changing the black buttons imo
>>12470031I've heard you need to open it up and add washers to the dpad, but that's about the only negative
>>12470047Where do you get new screens from? Those look brand new. Need to change my LL ones.
>>12470059Fuck, you're right.Anyway, it's easy to change. I was very nervous at the moment and didn't see that detail on SFC controller>>12470075They are the same screens.The top screen glass came with the new Extremerate shell kitThe digitizer was purchased on Aliexpress; the original was severely damaged by the previous owner. https://a.aliexpress.com/_m02s0aVI'm not sure if it's OEM, it feels like glass but it's definitely plastic, a very good quality one. I've seen a lot of people complaining on Reddit, but it's not that bad.
Playing on my DSi makes me realize there's not much of a point to it. If a DS game was good, it got PC ports. That means the only remaining exclusives are very niche (and shit). It's mostly gimmicky JRPGs.
>>12470303>DSinot retro>>>/v/>that opinionwrong>>>/trash/
>>12470305The DS released over 22 years ago. It's retro.
>>12470312go make a ds thread and see how that goes>>>/v/
>>12470303trauma center doesn't have a pc port therefore you're wrong
>>12470351I recently got to try out Trauma Center 2, and it's awful. The series has a neat gimmick, but the games themselves are not very good. That's probably why it died.
>>12470360i can't even imagine getting filtered by trauma center>sales == qualitypffft lmao
I preferred the jankiness of LifeSigns: Surgical Unit, personally
>>12468594>>Anbernic puts the screen size in the NAME of the device>>Anon still buys it despite not liking 3.5" screensI didn't know it was too small until I got it. Nintendo handhelds have smaller screens than that, but I'm older now and need larger screens.
Shame there isn't a more powerful SP style clamshell
>>12470506Most powerful would be the Retroid Flip 2, I think, but that's probably too big for what you're thinking of.>>12469582Pretty sure, though I don't have any links right now because I haven't needed to get more roms in at least a month.
>>12470312retro is not a function of age, zoomoid
>>12470698you're old and dying, unc
>>12470769you still haven't made that retro ds threadyou're not afraid of a ban or something, are you?
>>12470769you're vaxxed and dying of aids myocarditis and cancer, broccolimop faggot
>>12470698DS doesn't even have analogue sticks, it has ancient controls.
>>12471339still doesn't make it retro
Guys i really want to buy a handheld, but i cant decide which one. Retroid pocket G2 is the one i want, but too expensive rn.I managed to gather a few ones:RG cube XXRG 40XHRG 4xxHRG 406HRG 505RG 476HBetween these ones, which is the best overall?
>>12471442The G2 got hello canceled a week ago, if it's still available to you, just buy it. None of these will measure up.
>>12471451G2 is too expensive, I want to get one of the RG, but i cant decide which one
>>12471458The closest thing would be the 476H but the chip will struggle with GC/PS2 which I find unacceptable for its price, you'll be disappointed and buy again.
>>12471461I dont mind not playing GC/Ps2 games. I want a device that can run till ps1
>>12471464Then why did you want a G2?
>>12471464Then you'll be fine.
>>12471468Its the preferable one, but it's too expensive. So I want a cheaper one
>>12471442>RG 40XH>RG 4xxHneither of these two exist, so...
>>12471464all xx line of devices do this while also not being lagdroid and thus no lagdroid input latency, so just pick whichever form factor/price point xx device you want
>>12471464Ignore the schizo, cheap shit can't do Duckstation well at all, PCSX ReARMed is dire.
cuckstation is shit
>>12471442TrimUI smart pro.
My caveman brain fucked up. I purchased an evercade EXP-R and didn't realize that this model hasn't been jail broken yet. I figured I could make due by just ripping the evercade roms to an SD card but the damn thing doesn't recognize them. Honestly, I don't even know for sure if the dumped roms are in the correct format or if I'm even more retarded. Picrel is NeoGeo arcade 1.>Launched legit cart to test the exp-r>Formatted SDcard to 1gb fat32>Placed .img file in sdcard>no cart detected Should I kill myself?
>>12471676 (me)Figured it out. I am indeed retard. I forgot what flashing a drive meant. Flashed the sd with a cart img and it worked no problem.
new thread>>12472101>>12472101>>12472101
>>12472102We haven't even hit the bump limit yet
>>12472105wait I thought it was 310? hence why we were on page 4 or something. im sorry :X
>>12465892why the hell are you using battleships with Max
>>12472647It's a campaign map and you start with one.
>>12474052This thread was on page 8 you stupid cunt. You should have let it die since everyone moved to the new one. Now have a to deal with a duplicate clogging the catalog and split discussion for much longer
>>12474059The stupid cunt is whoever started a new thread when the old one was still live.
>>12474071the stupider cunts are the retards who posted in that thread without sageing
>>12469553It's cool to see more people using tablets, I have a pretty similar keyboard for mine also. Have you ever considered a telescopic controller for it, anon?
>>12474071New one is better, fuck off and die already.
>>12475038>/vr/ - "new GOOD, old BAD" general
>>12475038I didn’t even realize there was another thread because it uses an image of some unknown asshole instead of a handheld. Why would you do that?
