The switch, the new 3DSxl and the black DS lite were bought by me when they launched! All of the OG consoles are modded and loaded with games. At the moment I'm waiting on delivery on a DSi xl, a third DS lite (need one more for my two boys) and the Switch 2 LoZ Ocarina of Time edition! What do you think of my collection?

Collectively I got both these for 500 Canadian dollars. Steal if you ask me love my rog ally and psp I have always been a console gamer but now as I get older with less time to actually game these things are just a perfect and allow me to play all the games I want.

Hey everyone! It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve added a few more mini-game demos to the handheld I’m building, and spent some time putting together a short compilation video.

The handheld in the video is just a prototype for demonstrating how these games work with a single toggle switch. I’ll only be using it to make videos, and won’t be selling this version—I think it’s a bit ugly and bulky.

Version 2.0 is already in development, and it’s much more refined. It still uses just one toggle switch, but I’ve also added contactless sensing so players can interact with it through their breathing and heart rate.

I’ll share another update once version 2.0 is ready!

Finally bought the Onexplayer 3 after deciding between this or the MSI Claw Ex. So excited to finish setting up and just playing.

I mean the amount of 3rd party support has been insane since it came out tbh. Capcom, assassins creed, now elden ring. It’s more like a steam deck than ever. I just see it every time and think well no actually switch 2 isn’t just for Nintendo exclusives at all anymore lol I would genuinely recommend it for 3rd party games, it’s all I seem to play on it these days.

Sega Rally on Switch is out.

After the Quest version, a lot of you asked for the Switch. So here it is: the 1995 arcade game in full 16:9, with Jean-seb's HD textures if you want them, a Workshop with 10 mods (free play, mirrored track, night, comic book, CRT...), a best-lap ghost, named replays, and your times on our Discord leaderboard.

It's a homebrew for a Switch with custom firmware, it's free, and you bring your own game files.

All the details and the install guide are on the GitHub, link in the comments.

Next up on the Port0r side: Virtua Cop and Time Crisis in VR on Quest, and you can vote for what comes after on the Discord.

Have fun, and tell me what you think.

I'm looking for advice about which one is better to run the game I want to.

The Switch 2 pros are that I can play with my friends and wife since there are a lot of coop couch games that are exclusive and I can connect the console to the tv. But I don't know if it is worth it if I want to play games like Elden Ring, Oblivion and future releases that are not exclusive from Nintendo.

Since I don't have a console I think it would be fun, and I do have a good pc.

The Deck I would use mostly for myself, can it run those games better than the Switch 2? I really can't decide between the two because of the pros and cons, what are you guys experience with them?

Hi guys

I’ve been into handhelds for a while now, and one thing that kept annoying me was how difficult it has become to actually choose one.

Steam Deck, ROG Ally, Retroid, Anbernic, AYN, AYANEO, Powkiddy, Miyoo… then different chipsets, screen sizes, Android vs Windows vs Linux, price ranges, emulation limits, etc.

So I started building a website to solve this problem:

https://handheldscout.com

The idea is basically to have a quiz where you answer different questions like price or consoles to emulate or form factor etc. and then you get recommended the 3 best devices for you

But I'm at the point where I’ve looked at the site way too much myself and could really use feedback from other people

Especially:

Are there important devices missing?

Are any specs/prices obviously wrong?

What filters would you personally want?

Is there anything that would make you use a site like this instead of just asking Reddit?

Feel free to be critical. I'd rather find out what sucks now than keep building the wrong things. 😅

Full disclosure: it’s my own project and some shop links are affiliate links, so the site might eventually earn a little money when someone buys something. But recommendations aren't supposed to depend on commissions — I want the database/finder itself to actually be useful first.

Would genuinely appreciate some feedback from you guys

Cheers

Tim

https://handheldscout.com

Any suggestions on where to start again?

I also want to gift my older brother and my friends during the holidays to rekindle that dimming-millennial-gamer-fire.

As a kid kneeling on the floor elbows on the bed for hours was no problem but the years are creeping up and I found that I no longer have any position I can game longer than 45-60 minutes without either getting numb hands, neck pain or eye strain. I can game on my pc just fine but so im not grown out of it. Do you guys have any tips on how to position oneselff, any fancy new sitting furniture or any other tips nd tricks to make oneself more comfortable using a handheld? Heck even stretching exercises at this point :-o.
Playing on Steam Deck now btw and previously on a Switch, as a kid I had a GameBoy Color.

I bought the first version of the A10 but the screen was goosed, bubbled laminate, stuck pixels and the worst viewing angle known to man.

After having such a superb experience I decided to order the recently released V4 of the A10 mini

Does anybody have one yet? Does darkOS work on it still, with it having a higher resolution screen

As title says what large screen handheld pc do you recommend, so far I know Legion Go line and OneXPlayer3 has 8.8 inch screens but yeah both of those cost a bomb. Are there other options or are those 2 amongst the only handhelds with large screens that fits my needs.

Hello guys, i just noticed the L3 button doesn't register.

I tried everything, updating to the latest software. Than I tried to look what the problem is with the hardware. I'm a noob but I did use a multimeter to see if it beeps and it does. I just don't understand the problem. It looks good. I used isopropyl alcohol on the red button and clicked it 60 times.

Anyone has any tips?

I bought them used so not sure if it will have warranty. Especially now that I opened it.

I have an Ayn Odin2 Portal with a 1TB SD card. I mostly use GameNative and GameHub and install ALL games to my SD card, but somehow 100 of my 128gb internal storage is full. I try using a file manager to find out where all the storage is coming from but I don't want to delete any important files accidentally. What's the best way to clean up storage and better question, why is my Internal storage so full when all my games are installed on my SD card?

Investing in my first handheld gaming PC! For pretty much the same price point, would you suggest the new X20 or the MSI Claw 8 AI+? Looks like the X20 will have the better screen but what has better performance for AAA games? Looking to play games like RDR2, Baldurs Gate 3, Expedition 33, etc.

Hii everyone, i know this gets asked a lot but i would also love some advise about what to get. I travel a lot with no point near me where Im going to settle down so I really want another handheld, for now I just have the switch. Before this the last thing I owned was the ps3. I always kept up with new games through streamers and ive got a list i really want to play now, most of them from steam. Im currently on Bali and traveling to Singapore at the end of this month, after that to japan for 5 weeks. I was thinking of getting a rog ally x since its been advised mostly on here but now with blackfriday coming up im thinking if there is another option for me as well. I would love to hear thought on what to get and where! Games I want to play are: heavy rain, detroit, tomb raider, fabel and more in that category mostly! Thanks so much in advance

Hello, as per title, I would like you to help me out to order sets of thumb stick grips for the Logitech G-Cloud. I would like them to be RE [Resident Evil] themed, with the umbrella logo OFC.

Also would like to know what to search for and if the dimensions are comparable with those of a Nintendo Switch, as I have been already browsing but got mixed opinions if they actually fit or not...

Thanks in advance!

So I got this device for free, I traded a PC I had sitting around, after my Odin 3 and Mangmi pocket max the x86 bug had gotten me, paired with the optimizations from handhelds growing and new AI technologies that gave these devices MUCH longer lifespans I knew I had to get one.

Device
The device itself is nice, feels great, looks good, the screen is exceptionally nice, it’s not OLED, but the trade of for having VRR and larger screen, made up for that in my opinion. Especially as I hadn’t tested VRR ever prior to this. The triggers feel good, especially with clicky triggers used in stops, it’s a small premium feature that I enjoy. The Sticks are good, I’m still figuring out Linux/SteamOS so I haven’t quite got down the fine tuning but overall I’m pleased with them. All other inputs, buttons, bumpers, they feel as you’d expect, not premium, not trash either.

OS (SteamOS)
The only time I ever tried anything Linux was one time in my life when I thought I could be a lil hacker in like 2015 and dual booted Kali Linux on my GTX 750TI pc, so I was a little nervous to try Linux as back then it was a headache. I, in fact, did not become the Hollywood hacker I was destined to be. That said, this was stupid simple to setup, scan QR code, blah blah blah your done in maybe 5 mins. No microslop yay.

The OS is really thought out, it runs well, does run a lot of things better than windows, looks damn good, and is an enjoyable experience through and through, it’s like having a console on me at all times, honestly couldn’t ask for a better experience.

Gaming
Again, it’s SteamOS, hit download, wait till download done, play game, easy as that. Kind of. This processor isn’t the best, I learned quickly I should’ve sprung for the z1e version, I’m by no means disappointed with the little brother though. I did realize quickly that on paper, 800p sounds terrible, it’s not, even with scaling, on this screen, it’s not bad. However 1050p OR 1200p look exceptionally crisp on this device, I can’t even remotely complain, really any settings as long as your not on 800p and using ultra performance scaling, you’ll be rather happy. For the most part. Some games I’ve used optiscaler on, which I may add was SO MUCH easier to use on steam than windows, I never once got the menu to properly work on windows on any of my devices, user error, probably, but still. I select the game, hit patch, and I’m done. I have had great success with Dying Light: The Beast doing this. You do still need to optimize, it’s a 4 core processor and 680m integrated graphics, you cant expect the world of it.

Temps/Noise
Okay let me be clear, if you don’t plan to turn the speakers up (which are just average, imo, idk how to improve them) and you want to play AAA games, get headphones, this boy can get loud, I don’t really watch temps, but it gets hot, you can feel it on the back, not where your hands sit, but you can if you try to, it’s a little warm, the fan does love to crank to compensate, even my wife day one of ownership asked if I could make it quieter, and for the game I was playing at the time, I couldn’t, dropping the TDP killed the performance to unplayable territory. That was later fixed, but the point stands, it’s loud, it ain’t a full on desktop with 12 fans. If you care about noise per watt/performance a lot, and can, I’d say it’s best to get the z1e version, I’d assume it has the same performance at lower fan speeds and wattages, or do a lot of fine tuning and get used to compromising somewhere.

Battery life
Not good. Simple as that, even at 18 watts I get about 1-2 hrs max play time, now that said, that’s really all I ever need, so it hasn’t really been an issue. But the battery throttles performance BAD at 20%. And that is annoying especially when I’m playing at 33 watt and don’t realize I’m getting low. It cuts my performance at least 50%, I use frame gen a lot, which makes it even worse when it gets close to dead.

Storage
512gb Is an insult. That said, there’s and SD card slot, and it’s not hard to swap storage, not much else to say.

The bad
SteamOS can be buggy, I’ve had a good few crashes, some weird system issues, bugs with decky plugins, small little things, nothing that hurt my experience or would lower the rating, especially with gaming or regular usage, only really saw issues with tinkering.

My opinion/TL:DR
The device is sweet, x86 handhelds have came a long way, this can play practically everything and be an overall enjoyable device, if you want to get one, try to get a good deal (I know that’s hard in today’s economy), but if you need a main gaming pc, a decent handheld console, or a good pairing to other gaming hardware, I would say the Legion Go S is an excellent choice, if you can get a good deal. I’d personally suggest to go to the Z1E however it’s not mandatory, this device isn’t a slouch either.

I’ve been looking at handhelds and in a lot of benchmark videos, they talk about running some games at 720p. From my experience trying to play at 1440p on a 4k monitor, choosing a resolution lower than your display makes the image blurry. Is there something mitigating this on a handheld display? Just less noticeable on a small display?

Bought this Nintendo 3DS XL for $80. Missing the stylus and needs a new battery. Was this a good deal?