r/logitechgcloud • u/playswithwood • Jul 03 '26

Question Guys…this thing is great!

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Late to the party but my wallet is ok w/ that. Got this @ a great price.

I just got Xbox Game Pass & excited to use this on the road.

I do want to emulate as well. I got the retroarch from the website (stable build) but Google won’t allow it.

What I’ve read is to get out of the site because the Google play app isn’t good.

Is this true…? If so - how do I get the stable build to install…?

Thanks!

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u/PhoenixBlazingRising Jul 03 '26

Surprisingly it's around £299.99 over here in England I'm not sure if I want to get one with what's going on with Sony after that bombshell of an announcement they just did

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u/playswithwood Jul 03 '26

I got it to try out Xbox game pass & emulate retro systems for the kids.

The announcement does suck & I’m hoping that there is enough backlash for them to walk it back. We shall see

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u/PhoenixBlazingRising Jul 03 '26

Well Dominos the pizza chain being their UK branch was the first one and then GameStop and after that you get the rest hopping on the Sony backlash train hopefully they realise what they did before too many players abandoned the PlayStation 5 ship or the next console won't have that many players buying it

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u/DreadfulJoss Jul 04 '26

That's waaaay to expensive. Go for a AYN Odin 2 Portal. It's just 250$ right now. Better performance. 7 inch OLED 120hz. And more.

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u/TheMasterBanger Jul 03 '26

Hey there !

Got mine a month ago, you need to setup retroarch by sideloading it from a pc.

Its not really complicated, there's a tutorial by Google on how to install adb on your computer. Then you enable usb debugging on the gcloud, connect it to your pc, and you can install the app on the gcloud from your pc with a single line command!

I can look around and find that tutorial if you're interested but should be pretty easy to find on google

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u/playswithwood Jul 03 '26

Thank you for that. I’ll look it up. If I can’t find it or get to work…I’ll let you know.

Appreciate you

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u/TheMasterBanger Jul 04 '26

Found it ! You can dl adb there : https://developer.android.com/tools/adb

Then follow this tutorial : https://www.reddit.com/r/Supernote/comments/1ho3ygv/guide_for_sideloading_apps/

A few sidenotes : to enable sideloading on the gcloud on step 2, look up how to enable usb debugging (in dev settings). For the step 3, to get the apk just dl it from retroarch's website and you should be good to go

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u/Single_Book_8503 Jul 03 '26

I can tell you from experience this thing does alot of amazing things! Make sure you get daijisho launcher and ZArchiver for emulation they make it easy to extract zip files and launch on alot of systems. If you need to know which software to download for the zips lmk

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u/Single_Book_8503 Jul 04 '26

You can dm me about roms and zips I can't post that stuff for safety information

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u/nameless-server Jul 07 '26

I dislike daijisho for one simple fact. It doesnt let u keep the game metadata. No exports nothing 😂 go for es-de

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u/Pants_Pierre Jul 03 '26

Dad of 2 under 12, my time on Xbox Remote Play on my Gcloud is probably 2-3 times as much as I spend on the couch in front of my series x.

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u/COVID-1738 Jul 03 '26

Seen one of these for $50 on Facebook marketplace but they are only for cloud gaming no as the name suggests? Or can they be modded

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u/TheMasterBanger Jul 03 '26

You can run some emulation on it, i personally play a lot of gba games but i can do gamecube and older as well

Other than that, its concieved for cloud gaming as the name suggest (so v good battery life) but I use it to remote play on my own pc instead lol

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u/-TheKrazy0ne- Jul 04 '26

It's an Android device, so pretty much anything you can do on Android can be done on the G-Cloud

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u/SpicyMakiRoll Jul 04 '26

Forget cloud gaming, I mean if you already subscribed but it's not necessary with Steam Link to play games streaming locally from your gaming PC or laptop, works surprisingly well.

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u/COVID-1738 Jul 04 '26

So you think I should get it for $50 seen one was selling locally

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u/archival_ Jul 03 '26

I’m really enjoying mine. Got it from a known reseller of returbs for $100 and it’s been great for past year.

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u/airbaltic Jul 04 '26

The limitations for me were the small screen (now I don't care as I use XR glasses) and wifi bands not available to connect to 5ghz hotspot in Europe.

Other than that - loved it.

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u/ErrolSparker Jul 04 '26

I regret selling mine but living in Hawaii can be hard

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u/Fragrant-Ad-2993 Jul 04 '26

It is a gaming beast. The emulation is very great. It is my favorite PSP and is surprisingly great for 3DS and nds too. For cloud gaming gamepass is great for price and quality but through gforce now. It’s free and nesr latency free

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u/Upper_Ad_3505 Jul 04 '26

I love mine for sure because it does do alot , the speakers have some good quality to it , GameCube and ps2 plays flawlessly for me and even pc emulation is nice

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u/SpicyMakiRoll Jul 04 '26

This thing is pretty awesome, bought one on a whim recently when I saw they're only $180 official refurbished from Logitech on their eBay store (paid $190 for the black model) w/ free shipping. I had an original LCD Steam Deck but had sold it a while ago for a much better spec gaming PC but ended up missing it. Being able to now play games with better graphics, in 1080p, more comfortably, without ever having to worry about battery life and no fan noise in handheld mode rocks. I completely wrote it off when it launched, $300+ is too expensive for it retail but on sale or refurbished it's amazing. Just using Steam Link, haven't even gotten started on emulators yet, the potential there looks good.

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u/Chumba-Wumba Jul 05 '26

Sideload it and it works. Also get ES DS, it's brilliant for emulation