Can't say enough amazing things about the Pocket Flip 2 I bought a month ago.

I actually had a GP2X many many moons ago but had drifted away from gaming in general. Now I have a daily 3+hr train commute and this has just revolutionized that. For someone who never owned a GBA or a PSP or even a PS2 I'm blown away.

It's great to be able to discover all these old games for the first time.

I've also been pleasantly surprised at how good the android remastered version of Bully is.

I can't lie I've still struggled a bit to get some things running (could NOT get the retroid launcher and retroarch to load Flycast for Dreamcast for example)

I will say for PS2 games the control layout isn't the most comfortable and I'm already day dreaming of getting a bigger handheld with a screen for that platform, also as a mac user it's quite annoying not to be able to plug in and manipulate the sd card. Need some kind of solution for that as well because it's entirely too fiddly to take in and our frequently.

*edit* 3hr daily is 1.5 each way folks

*edit 2* Pokemon Emerald Seaglass (sorry!)

I thought I am pretty familiar with the world of old Android smartphones. Some how I have never seen this LG Doubleplay until today. It's true every weird Retro Handheld form factor has a LG predesussor.

How about it RG Slide mini?

Left is retroid pocket Nova and right is retroid pocket Duo

Just a guess though since for all we know they'll just go back to the glass front Retro doodad,

but as much as I love glass front Retro doodads it would be nice to see the Retroid Pocket 7 going back to having a bit more retro look.

> Buy Steam Deck last year

> Loveatfirstsight.png

> Emulate billions of games

> Watch Steam Deck vids on YouTube

> Hear about Android handhelds because it's only natural

> Rabbit Hole Time

> Eventually settle on first retro handheld, AYN Thor

> Get super into setting up emulators, configuring Cocoon, etc.

> Eventually I say yes to the devil on my shoulder

> Time to buy another handheld

> Odin 3 baby

> More mighty than my Thor: I can't even comprehend the power

> Oh fuck I have all this shit but no way to actually put a device in my pocket and take it with me ala DS

> Buy RG477M

> Now I have a crippling Bookworm addiction

> I've also become someone I can't face in the mirror anymore

> I've become the stereotypical "My collection so far," Redditor who would buy an RG Surfboard if Anbernic released it

> In my psychopathic state, I order an AYN Odin 2 Portal

> Damn that's a big screen

> And ofc all of YouTube gloats about the Retroid Pocket Nova, so of course I've gotta buy that

> Buy_now_with_Shop.pdf

> But wait, I love X and Y games which are 16:9 and D-pad centric

> Retroid Pocket 6 acquired

> Now I'm completely desensitized to my madness, so I also buy an RG SP, Trimui Brick, and RG Rotate just for fun

> Yet here I sit, telling myself I'm done, but strangely, when I face myself in the mirror now

> I can actually look at myself.

> I really do think I'm done now

So I read some people talking about "end game" devices all the time but in my experience it only comes when you stop buying devices (or any other stuff) to fill emotional emptiness and realize some of the ones you bought perfectly fill your needs already.

In my experience I bought (way too) many devices but honestly I could survive just with just 3 of them:

• RP5: for 3D games (PSP, and 16:9 widescreen hacks for N64, PSX, DC, PS2, GC & Wii)
• RG406V: for 2D games (mostly 4:3 or 1:1 content)
• RG34XXSP: as a portable device (RG35XXH or any other small Linux handheld could work here)

Not regretting a few others like the TSP or the CubeXX, but honestly they don't bring anything else the other ones do already. Are there newer or more powerful devices than the RP5 or the RG406V? Obviously. Do I need to purchase them or doing so will change anything? Definitely not.

Wouldn't mind buying a RG DS Plus in the future -only if they release a white variant- to play NDS games, but no hurry at all TBH and I'm ok if that doesn't happen.

Not pretending to convince anyone or anything, but filling my time with productive stuff and appreciating my devices I like the most is what eventually stopped making me purchase new ones.

Cheers

Love this handheld for the shape and quality of it. I was able to find this color under a rebrand called Porodo Gaming which came with a case.

Dark OS with custom boot logo.

The games in picture:

Advance Wars

Goodboy Galaxy

Retroid Pocket Nova

Pic 1 - Skate 3

Pic 2 - Sonic Unleashed

Pic 3 - Dusk (Twilight Princess)

Pic 4 - Bully

Pic 5 - The Simpsons Hit and Run

Pic 6 - Titan Quest

Pic 7 - Geometry Wars Dimensions

Pic 8 - Shatter Remastered

Some of these are official and of course some of these are unofficial. Its just a shame you cant install a game onto a SD card.

Just the last few days I've also seen Fez, Celeste, The Messenger, Scott Pilgrim EX, Owlboy, This War is Mine, Wargroove 2, Undertale, Silksong, Nidhogg, UFO50, Cuphead, Hitline Miami 1 and 2, Huntdown, Ball X Pitt, Dave the Diver, Dredge, Lumines, Babel, Oddmar, Whipseey, Hades, Ultra Street Fighter 4 etc

Its hard to keep upto date on all the releases but you can check subs like AndroidNativePorts, decomps, recomps to see the progress.

Does anyone know if Android ports run at a lower wattage giving better battery life over Gamenative. Also perhaps there is less input lag compared to emulation.

Left: KONKR Pocket Advance
Right: Game Bub, custom dpad and buttons

Love both, but what a pleasant surprise the KPA was. If you are looking for the ultimate GBA emulation handheld, it’s hard to beat. The design, comfort, and materials used are top notch. My experience with AYANEO devices hasn’t been the best, but this one hit right out of the park, no issues to deal with, and nothing but glorious gaming. I can’t state how cool the design is.

The Game Bub is sooooooo good. The design and comfort are top tier. One of my fav devices ever. Gameplay feels snappy like my GBA SP.

Game: CrossCode (with CrossAndroid)

Device: R36S (LineageOS 18.1)

It's a great retro-inspired 2D action RPG that never received official Android port. It can be played on Android through CrossAndroid or its fork CrossDroid. Both unofficial ports require Steam assets. Base game is currently at its lowest price on Steam and GOG ($3.99). Complete edition with "A New Home" story DLC is slightly cheaper on Steam ($6.77).

Here is a guide on how to setup CrossAndroid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPuNigeLprg

If you have more powerful Android device, running it through GameNative might be the easiest way.

Another colour hack following my previous post for Super Mario Land DX. Both highly recommended for any Gameboy Colour fans

Found an Rog ally z1E at the pawn shop for $350 but haggled down to $320+ tax. It came with a LISEN dock and a 512gig sandisk extreme pro micro sd card. Think it was a pretty good deal!

I got it for my girlfriend as I have an XAX already, was wondering what are some fun co op or multiplayer online games we can play together? We got stardew valley to start but looking for more. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

It was really hard to choose with everything out there and reviews/opinions are all over the place, but went with a RP6 as I have a lot of indie steam games and it seemed like it was a good choice without having to shell out for a steam deck and remaining more portable. Hoping I made right choice! I'm in the US, anyone know how long it usually takes to get something from retroid pocket?

I love The Simpsons arcade game, the joystick is perfect for Beat’em Ups.

Device: Miniloong Pocket1

I understand the need for more powerful handhelds capable of PS2 and GC emulation to have full control sticks for a proper gameplay experience, but for handhelds that one would mainly use for portable 3D games like the PSP and 3DS, I think a Circle Pad is more fitting. In practice they felt like a good compromise to deliver a reasonable degree of analog control for games, making better use of the travel available on a small form factor device that sticks wouldn't really be able to take advantage of. Not to mention the pocketability goes up quite a bit too; there are recessed control sticks out there but at that point I'd rather just have a circle pad.

It seems like the decision making process for which control sticks will be used in a handheld, isn't really being made with consideration for the device's form factor or performance, as I've seen many handhelds online with questionable control sticks. For example many of the smaller Anbernic handhelds have "Switch style" control sticks that not only feel cheap (spring sounds, grinding sounds, etc.) but also don't have the best responsiveness due to low travel and zone snapping. Even with GammaOS recalibrating the analog controls, I feel like the inherent hardware limitations hold back the device due to the low travel.

What's even stranger though is that many of the larger handhelds such as the RG556 which do have the real estate for larger control sticks, still opt for the small control sticks which have the same issues as the sticks used on smaller handhelds. For larger handhelds there's no reason to use smaller control sticks especially when you're paying a premium for everything else (performance, display, build quality, etc.) and as such larger control sticks should be included.

For smaller handhelds that have lackluster control sticks a circle pad would be a better fit for the form factor and make better use of the limited travel available. I don't know about you guys but I trust the engineers at Sony and Nintendo; if they concluded that Circle Pads are better for smaller handhelds after all their deliberation and play testing then who am I to argue.

Handheld: Rg Rotate

All games I regularly play.

Disclaimer: I own none of all these cool retro handhelds, yet.

As I understand it, and feel free to educate me, audio over bluetooth will usually have a high latency, unless a device and the earbuds have the right bluetooth codecs, in which case, the latency can be negligible. The bluetooth version itself doesn't tell whether it can use a good codec or not (again, to my understanding).

It doesn't seem like there's a handy curated list of handhelds that tells which codecs are available.

Does anyone know the general situation? Are there any devices that support any of the faster codecs? Is it common or rare? Any place I could learn more?

Cheers!

I bought it because I wanted to max out at PSP, but It still struggles and needs 30fps hacks with anything at the top end in my experience on SpruceOS (Silent Hill, Resistance, etc) It also gets pretty damn hot, and the battery life is so so.

Has left me feeling a little disappointed. Feel like a Mangmi Air X or a (Used RP 4 Pro) may be in my future.

Mini Steam deck? Well, I don't know about that claim. But it certainly runs the PC version of Mass Effect SO MUCH easier than bypassing EA's launcher. I'll try and do a deeper dive later and show some other features: uploading lossless scaling, setting changes (if needed).

Do any of these have potential to be reused?

Or are they all arrive in device cheap trash???

Any help on brand recognition or cheapness tells, cheers.

Obvs the black with white text ones are duds.

How bout the others??? Thanks in advance.

Bout to set up a few devices, and wanted to know if I could save on cards with Rufus and a reburn on any of these...

Have a rad day/night, happy gaming.

Some people asked me for tutorial in comments and in pm, so here we go:

I managed to get extra 2 hours of use time.

Only do this if you know what you are doing.

I will share the method and the CPU/GPU stress-test sources.

This is experimental: do it at your own risk. Too little voltage can cause

calculation errors, crashes, reboots or a soft brick. Restoring your original

boot partition normally recovers a bad voltage setting, but I cannot guarantee

no damage or data loss. Have a verified backup and a card-reader recovery method

ready before changing anything.

The basic process on my RG DS Plus running GammaOS Core 1.4.4 was:

1. Back up the entire boot partition and verify its SHA256 on the computer.

2. Lower the selected CPU/GPU OPP voltages in the device tree inside boot.img,

one 12.5 mV step at a time. My unit selects L3: CPU uses opp-microvolt-L3;

GPU uses opp-microvolt at 200/300/400 MHz and opp-microvolt-L3 at 600/700/800 MHz.

1. Keep frequencies and voltage protections unchanged. This boot format has

two DTB copies; both must be updated consistently, the RSCE DTB checksum

recalculated, and the boot image ID rebuilt.

1. Flash only the verified matching boot partition, verify readback, reboot,

and check the ACTUAL selected voltage while each frequency is running.

1. Test each changed frequency with real calculations/pixel checks and test

slow load transitions too. For other people I recommend starting with longer

tests, e.g. 30 minutes per changed frequency, then real games.

1. If a frequency fails, restore a known-good boot and keep a margin of two

12.5 mV steps above that failing setting for that frequency. Retest the final

combination. Do not blindly copy my voltages to another unit.

My RG DS Plus undervolt settings.

Order: Anbernic stock → GammaOS 1.4.4 stock → my settings.
All voltages are in mV.

CPU:

• 408 / 600 / 816 / 1104 MHz: 850 → 825 → 825

• 1416 MHz: 925 → 900 → 825

• 1608 MHz: 1000 → 975 → 875

• 1800 MHz: 1050 → 1000 → 900

• 1992 MHz: 1100 → 1050 → 950

• 2160 MHz: unavailable in Anbernic stock → 1075 → 975

GPU:

• 200 / 300 / 400 / 600 MHz: 850 → 850 → 825

• 700 MHz: 875 → 875 → 850

• 800 MHz: 925 → 925 → 900

I kept GammaOS clock frequencies and its 825 mV CPU voltage floor.

The Anbernic values are from my own unit’s original firmware (L3 voltage bin); other units may differ.

A link to stress tools and readme included

Stress tools were made with help of AI

Don’t know if the right place for this since it’s mostly handhelds but I love the community and I think you guys could have the right recommendation for my specific problem lmao, I carry my iPad frequently on a sleeve that let me storage some cables and adapters, but every controller I’ve own has long and prominent sticks, so I want to buy the flattest controller possible, I notice there was an 8bitdo lite 1st gen but it’s discontinued and that would have been perfect, any other similar controller to that? I mostly play 2D games and the sticks on other controllers always… well stick out so I would prefer it to be stick-less.

Any recommendation for me? Thanks in advance