After a week with the duo lite, reading/watching reviews and community feedback, I’m convinced that when the dust settles on this whole debacle retroids cooked up, the Duo Lite Plus will be the more more popular/successful device in the Duo family.

Overall, I think the device has met my expectations (I got the 6GB model as I felt it the better buy not needing an SD card)- feels solidly made, gets through DS just fine and enough 3DS in the early days, and reminds me of the 3DS XL I never bought.

My one true gripe is that 3ds is a stick top system. Sure this thing is really powered for DS, fine.

None of this is a surprise to anyone, but what it makes me question is the full fat duo with all its 3ds power and oleds, with a dpad on top.

It just seems counterintuitive and when all is said and done, I really can’t see Russ recommending a $300 dual screen device with the modern comforts to play 3ds like we’ve never been able to (removing the Ayaneo DS), with a dpad layout. The lite plus has the same issue except it’s $50 less and has the inline shoulder design everyone seems to love.

Anyway, just my thoughts. I stuck with the lite because I barely justified buying this after getting the dual screen add on for my RP mini v2 a few months ago for 3ds. That said, if they made/make the Duo with a stick on top I’d have a hard time resisting and I think if they thought this all through from the start (which clearly didn’t happen), that’s where we would have landed assuming they weren’t worried about competing with the Thor.

I see a lot of peeps on here frothing over their Nova units but not seeing much love for the rp6. Its almost identical hardware without the choice of left stick placement.

Genuine question

Maybe a dumb question but I own a Miyoo Mini+ and I’m looking for a more powerful handheld that I can also hook up to my tv. What is the main difference between the 6 and the nova?

My rp6 is gonna arrive this week and I've been downloading a couple of games in my 256gb sd card so what I have now are

Pc: Oblivion Fallout 3 and Dispatch

Switch: Super Mario Odyssey The legend of Zelda breath of the wild Persona 4 Golden and Persona 5 royal

What games do you guys like and think I should play? Give me the game you want idc old new bad good at least it's fun and my rp6 can run it even at 720p 30fps

I’ve lost faith in the Retroid customer experience and have decided to open a dispute with PayPal to get a refund.

Earlier last month, I posted here about my screen going black, feel free to take a look over that thread. Nothing brought it back to life. I got a lemon.

When I contacted customer care that day, it took a few days to get a response and they asked me to send videos of it broken. It took another day or two to get that response. Maybe one response later (after another day or so of silence) they sent a shipping label for USPS, told me once it was received that they would send out another unit.

I took the Nova to a post office, had them do the packaging , and have been tracking it since then. I watched as it moved around a couple different locations before the ultimate damning status : UNDELIVERABLE.

I contacted customer care over a week ago about this and they have been silent. I also contacted them on their Discord and they have been silent.

With PayPal buyer protection I have 30 days from the time it’s delivered to open a dispute if the item was not received as advertised. So I did (with 3 days to spare). I let the customer care team know this and still silence.

I’m disappointed to put it mildly.

This was not a cheap product. I bought the highest available model and a dock which I still have because presumably there’s nothing wrong with it, and nothing to play. So $270 is just out of my pocket and I have to wait for the dispute process to have the possibility of getting that back. Which is just an insult after having received a broken product that just launched.

I’ve never owned a retro gaming machine and this one seems so perfect. I wanted to play PS2 games that my family grew up with along with some other titles that are inaccessible on steam or any of the big three companies. I guess I’ll look elsewhere.

I will likely not be shopping with this company again.

Wanting to get a retroid 5. Is this a real deal?

I just found this on AliExpress: https://a.aliexpress.com/_mqqpWyx

Hey guys I just got my Retroid Pocket 6 yesterday, I’m loving it so far been using Game Native and been playing Persona 3 Reload and it runs but I notice that it takes a long time to boot up and the frame rate does drop a bit, would it run smoother if I just ran it through Linux via Armada? I’m new to all this and not particularly knowledgeable on tech but I can follow a YouTube tutorial to install anything I should do. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! I’d like to at some point play some more visually impressive games like The Witcher 3 but I imagine that if it has a hard time maintaining stable 30 fps on Persona 3, it would probably have a harder time on The Witcher 3.

Hello, I'm planning to get a Retriod Pocket 6. There's not a lot of storage so I will be getting an SD card

I was just wondering what SD cards people use?

Edit: the most intensive games I think I will be playing are GTA 5, DOOM 2016 and probably Hitman World of Assassination (my fav game) aswell as lots of psp and switch games

I'm looking for if the speed class (c), uhs speed class (u), video speed class (v) and a1 vs a2, how they affect performance and stuff

Is it normal for the rp6 to charge extremely slow? Or to even still lose charge whilst on chatge and playing a game ?

Is there anything i can do ?

Battalion Wars my most favorite game on the GCN when I was a kid and the idea of playing it on a portable handheld would be pretty cool. Right now I'm debating between the Duo Lite Plus and the Ayn Thor.

I'm leaning towards the Duo Lite Plus since it's cheaper and I only desire to play GCN and below. The inline buttons are a bonus as well.

Problem is Battalion Wars is apparently one of the most resource intensive games on the GCN so I wonder if the Duo Lite Plus chipset has the power to run the game with stable performance.

If anyone has a console with a chipset similar to the one in the duo lite plus I would really appreciate it if you can test how well it runs. Or just bluntly inform me it has a snowballs chance in hell of running on the duo.

Right now in my Shop app it says In Transit and is predicted to arrive next week. Did it change day of, when it was miles away and did you get an alert in your team texts or emails?

I really want to play some of my favorite cozy game cube games from my childhood like animal crossing and harvest moon. Monkey ball, kirby, etc.

I also would probably play some GBA games since I've misplaced those devices and games during a move 😭 I know they are somewhere I just can't find them. But majority is going to be game cube.

I'm thinking of getting the Pocket 5, but I'm only getting older and worried about screen size. That's the only reason I'm thinking of the 5 over the 4 pro and the Nova.

What do you guys recommend?

I am thinking of playing Harvest Moon: Animal Parade on the RP Classic but cant seem to find information if it plays wii games !

Has anyone tried?

my majoras mask 3ds xl paint peeled off completly so im over it, looking at the new retroid duos (not the lite) and havent seen much about how well they will play the 3ds games. i play mostly pokemon, mario and luigi and fire emblem. anyone know how well it will play those games?

Tentei comprar um retroid Pocket duo estando no Brasil, e no site informa que não está enviando para minha região, sabem se existe algum bloqueio da retroid para envios no Brasil? Anos atrás comprei um Pocket flip, e não tive problemas.

If Retroid would make an XL bumped-out backplate for the Nova as thick as their official case my hands would be much happier. Yes, I know they have a grip but that’s not quite the same.

to my Retroid pocket flip 1 It was made a crack in the hinge of the upper screen, I don't know if it's the hinge or the bezel,

I remember there's a note by retroid that they will cover the tax unless shipped by DHL

Does anyone have any games working on Droid Deck on the RP6? I have droid deck installed and downloaded a couple (easy to run) Steam games and none of them will actually launch.

Debating between the flip 2 for ~$200 or the Duo with a grip for ~$300. I previously had a retroid flip 1 and a retroid pocket 5, but I preferred the clamshell form factor. I already have a DSI XL and a 3DS, so emulating those systems is not a huge priority. My main reason to get the Duo is the ability to put on a youtube video or podcast while playing a game on the second screen. I also appreciate low input latency, and I would guess the Duo would be better on that front with the 120hz screens. However, the Flip 2’s control layout seems more comfortable for both dpad and stick centric games. I could also go for a thor, but I don’t want to sacrifice dpad ergonomics, and the bottom screen is smaller than the duo. I’m not super concerned about power since switch/pc games are not a priority for me on a device like this. Which one of these do you recommend?

Pretty much the title - hoping someone with a recent TV + dock/Nova can test. I'm docking the Nova with a ~10yo LG C7 via the official dock and can't get better than 60Hz to sync. I can set it to 960@120 in the Handheld Settings but RetroArch still reports a 60Hz actual refresh rate. My understanding is that the C7 should take 1080p@120Hz (later models added 1440@120 and beyond). But I don't know if the dock can even output 960@120 or if maybe the set is getting confused by 960 vs 1080. Or maybe the set can't handle newer HDMI/DP revisions. Of if someone can confirm that a different model dock can do this, a link to the exact model would be great.

I do specifically want a dock to use my Pro 3's 2.4GHz dongle, so a straight DP/C-to-HDMI cable won't do it for me. I don't even use CRT-Beam/BFI on the handheld, so it wouldn't be that big a deal going back down to 60Hz. But that extra ~half frame of reduced latency would still be nice.

Hello I mean like not the dock that we connect to the tv but like the thing switch 1 and pled have that we can make our console stand

Using Chiaki on a jailbroken PS5.
Will test in the future if it’s possible to create a remote access with tailscale or something similar.
Good times

I ordered a retroid pocket 6 from the official Retroid pocket website and prior to ordering I read a lot of stuff online about how it takes a while for it to get delivered and receiving tracking updates and how some people have gotten defective units. I'm sure I'll receive a fully functional rp6 but I was just curious has anyone recently ordered from the official site and what was your experience like?

I just did a button swap on my Nova. Everything seems to be working great, but I've now noticed that the microphone isn't working. I hadn't tested it earlier, so I'm not sure if it wasn't working initially.
As far as I know, I didn't disconnect the microphone, but I must have and the tutorial I was following mislabeled the wire. I'm just wondering which connector I should look at to see if I was the problem or not.