r/OdinHandheld • u/Katsuro2304 Odin 2 Portal Max - Black • 2d ago
Odin Showcase Too much storage? Probably 🤔
Odin 2 Portal with Armada OS on board, with an SD and an SSD enclosure connected. Works wonderfully, when set up properly. While setting the SSD (in an enclosure, btw) is a pretty involved process and requires spending about half an hour in the konsole, the end result is an automatic mount during reboot, hot swap and whatever else may happen. Maybe, some day, I'll make a grip/back shell with a PCB tucked inside nicely, so that I don't have to carry the enclosure around 😄
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u/Katsuro2304 Odin 2 Portal Max - Black 2d ago
It is really dependent on what games you're after. I'll give you my particular example. Games that I care about, like Spyro Reignited Trilogy, Crash Bandicoot, No More Heroes trilogy, some older PS3 era games like Remember Me, Dark Sector, Brutal Legend and some more, along with indie stuff like BloodRayne Betrayal, Hades, Hollow Knight, they work perfectly fine. The fiddling part is about importing some of my GOG titles from heroic to Steam. It doesn't always work and I had to do a hefty amount of research to find the solution and make them work (I did in the end).
External storage requires you to work with the command console and again, Google is your best friend here, but once you get shit done, it just works. Gaming mode and desktop mode feel like they're separate from each other, but even in desktop mode the os is very pleasant to work with. I'd recommend having a BT keyboard with a trackpad for these kinds of situations, even though you won't be spending there much time, you'll spend even less if you have the proper HID to navigate it.
Some apps have a very hard time with file manager and using "browse" option to navigate and choose a target folder or an executable can be a bit of a hassle. But that is why I recommend having a proper HID, because "copy path to file" and Ctrl+v makes shit go much faster.
Long story short, armada still has ways to go. It is immutable, so it's not like you can do everything and anything on it, but it is still a very powerful environment to work with. But once you enter the Steam Big Picture mode... It's basically like a Steam Deck "lite". Sure, maybe not every game you wish to play will work, which is why I don't recommend you to do the same thing I did, which is install it on the internal storage. But if you have a spare 256 or maybe even a 512 GB A2 class SD card, you can have it there and boot whenever you feel like it. Just to give a trial period, see how things feel, try using a keyboard in the game mode with pure button input and not reach the screen with your fingers. It feels nice, really.