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Thinking about adding the RGB30 for some Pico 8 and schmup sction and the plus of having a horizontal handheld. Can anyone provide their experiences? Ive watched some vids but it feels like some tubers tend to glorify these devices so I overlook a con or two.
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Those SP clam shells are gonna do bonkers biz during the holidays. The right kind of nostalgia gaming.
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May 12, 2024 07:09
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Green Gloves posted:Thinking about adding the RGB30 for some Pico 8 and schmup sction and the plus of having a horizontal handheld. I have an RGB30, and am running the latest ArkOS, also this is the only third party handheld that I own. I mainly use it for GB/C, Pico 8, and GBA. The screen is amazing for GB/C and Pico 8, and pretty nice for everything else. I found the stock D-pad a pain for playing Picross and Zelda, as I found it hard to keep a straight direction and often hit unexpected diagonals. I opened it up to add some tape and it's been great ever since. Expect that I find the edges sharp enough that after about 30 minutes of play I start to notice. Other buttons are fine, though the shoulders are load and clicky. The quirks with the battery, charging, and powering on and off are real and a pain. Once I ran my battery down completely and it wouldn't charge until I opened it up and fiddled with the battery a bit. But I put up with them as this is all I have and the screen is rad for Pico 8. ArkOS give an option for quick power off that will make a save state for retroarch cores, but nothing else. That can cause an issue for Pico 8 loading into to Fake 8 sometimes.
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May 12, 2024 08:16
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Green Gloves posted:Thinking about adding the RGB30 for some Pico 8 and schmup sction and the plus of having a horizontal handheld. I dig mine a lot. Haven't experienced any QC issues, but it does behave curiously sometimes. The screen is so good. I play mostly shmups and PSX games on it. Here's Cho Ren Sha 68k running at 1:1  Suggest holding off until Anbernic has released their 1:1 device. If the price is right, and screen's as good as the RGB30, then go for it. The RGB30 suffers from its particular chipset, which has some inherent flaws that limit performance and reliability. beer gas canister fucked around with this message at 08:41 on May 12, 2024 |
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May 12, 2024 08:37
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MediumWellDone posted:Expect that I find the edges sharp enough that after about 30 minutes of play I start to notice. Other buttons are fine, though the shoulders are load and clicky. It’s a far more involved process, but getting hold of a spare 353M dpad and membrane from Anbernic and swapping those in makes it far more comfortable and fixes the false diagonals in one go. Thirding the praise for this screen, it’s really fantastic and flexible for so many systems beyond the obvious square-like ones. Other than the quirky charging I’ve had no major problems with mine across 2 devices. I’ve basically learned not to sleep it while in a game as it’ll run the battery down, but sleeping in the ES menus doesn’t. My 2nd (sold the first for a different colour) has a single dead pixel but it’s right in the top corner so I can ignore it for anything that doesn’t completely fill the screen. As above, Anbernic have been teasing their version with a faster chipset, more rounded design and stacked shoulder buttons, which’ll probably be out soon. PowKiddy have also just released the RGB20SX which is the same screen/chipset as the RGB30 in a portrait style.
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May 12, 2024 09:12
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Silly Burrito posted:gimme dat price I bet they are waiting for the Miyoo SP price and sell it $5 cheaper.
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May 12, 2024 10:44
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Froist posted:It’s a far more involved process, but getting hold of a spare 353M dpad and membrane from Anbernic and swapping those in makes it far more comfortable and fixes the false diagonals in one go. Thanks all for the feedback on the RGB30. Besides the screen and form factor it sounds like the RGB30 has a bit of annoyances. Ill just wait for the anbernic 1:1 to come out.
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May 12, 2024 16:36
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I just want to encourage everyone to play PICO8 games because I guarantee you will find at least one game that you will spend hours playing.
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May 12, 2024 17:02
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There is another square screen device getting release, runs on G99 with the same 720p screen. But it's made by a small boutique shop, run on the kickstarter model, so people outside of China won't be able to get it easily. It's called unicorn or something. So just wait for the Anbernic cube review first before you decide which one to buy.
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May 12, 2024 17:36
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:I just want to encourage everyone to play PICO8 games because I guarantee you will find at least one game that you will spend hours playing. Do you know if it works on the retroid stuff yet? Last I read it wasn't playing nice.
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May 12, 2024 17:53
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Azubah posted:Do you know if it works on the retroid stuff yet? Last I read it wasn't playing nice. There’s no Android-native version of Pico8, no. You can either use the Fake08 core for RetroArch (which is reasonably accurate but not 100% - I can particularly hear the difference in Celeste’s music), or you can use the Windows version of the real Pico8 in Winlator. I’ve not used Winlator for anything else, but I was really surprised how smoothly/quickly you can launch into Splore through that without it looking like you’re jumping through layers of emulation/VMs. AFAIK you can’t integrate that with an Android front end to launch straight into a specific game though. (My experience is from an Odin 2 but I imagine Retroid would be similar)
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May 12, 2024 20:28
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Green Gloves posted:Thanks all for the feedback on the RGB30. Besides the screen and form factor it sounds like the RGB30 has a bit of annoyances. Ill just wait for the anbernic 1:1 to come out. AFAICT, the other 1:1 devices will all be running android, and as was just pointed out, won't be able to run Pico 8 natively.
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May 13, 2024 04:29
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What are like the top 3 "killer app" pico8 games if I wanted to peek at this stuff
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May 13, 2024 04:43
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MediumWellDone posted:AFAICT, the other 1:1 devices will all be running android, and as was just pointed out, won't be able to run Pico 8 natively. If that is the case it sounds like really useless devices coming out. But I guess thats how these Chinese handheld companies work seeing how they pump these out faster than a stay at home mom.
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May 13, 2024 04:51
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Hadlock posted:What are like the top 3 "killer app" pico8 games if I wanted to peek at this stuff
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May 13, 2024 05:00
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Green Gloves posted:If that is the case it sounds like really useless devices coming out. But I guess thats how these Chinese handheld companies work seeing how they pump these out faster than a stay at home mom. How would a stay at home mom design and manufacture a third party retro handheld and where could I buy a Motherboy?
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May 13, 2024 05:08
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MediumWellDone posted:AFAICT, the other 1:1 devices will all be running android, and as was just pointed out, won't be able to run Pico 8 natively. I hadn’t even thought of that, but yeah that’s a massive own goal if they don’t dual-boot Linux. Even splitting things over a dual boot I’ve found a pain before and just stuck to one side. Hadlock posted:What are like the top 3 "killer app" pico8 games if I wanted to peek at this stuff Putting aside Celeste which is basically the default suggestion for Pico8, for me:
There are also tons of great demakes, taking the mechanics from full games and distilling them down to this.
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May 13, 2024 07:36
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The real joy of Pico8 is that the games are tiny in size so you can just load up about 10-20 of them and just spend an hour going through them.
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May 13, 2024 11:18
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Hadlock posted:What are like the top 3 "killer app" pico8 games if I wanted to peek at this stuff MediumWellDone posted:I have been enjoying these puzzle games. Also Cab Ride is Densha De Pico8
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May 13, 2024 11:44
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For the Anbernic Arc-D, is there a way to make the HDMI output not look like rear end on Android? If I leave the screen in portrait mode I get a picture that's sideways on my monitor (because apparently like the Steam Deck the screen is apparently a phone/tablet screen rotated 90°), and if I force landscape mode, Daijisho looks fine but Retroarch is squished into this little box that takes up like 1/4 of the screen. I assume the Linux side could probably handle it because it can handle the Steam Deck's screen bring a rotated tablet screen, but I've heard that the Linux frontend provided on the SD card that comes with the device is less than ideal. Is there a better Linux option for the Arc-D?
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May 13, 2024 12:23
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Commander Keene posted:Is there a better Linux option for the Arc-D? It's still in beta but the most recent release seems fine. No other options at the moment though Also are you running GammaOS on the Android side?
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May 13, 2024 13:30
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MediumWellDone posted:Also Cab Ride is Densha De Pico8 That is loving adorable and how have I been playing it for half an hour already
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May 13, 2024 15:15
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Oh man oh man https://x.com/carygolomb/status/1790057416584757269?s=46&t=DvvqeOcggle6VW8Wu5D9WA I’ll take it. https://x.com/carygolomb/status/1790059226221412573?s=46&t=DvvqeOcggle6VW8Wu5D9WA
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May 13, 2024 17:40
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Whoever sells that Nintendo sticker on Etzy is going to do mad business.
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May 13, 2024 17:51
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Is that a 4:3 or 3:2 screen?
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May 13, 2024 18:07
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Man that form factor being effectively a 1:1 match for the GBA SP makes for a compelling shut-up-and-take-my-money argument.
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May 13, 2024 18:09
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that's pretty sick
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May 13, 2024 18:10
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Just put an order page up already Anbernic!
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May 13, 2024 18:21
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If the sleep function is half decent then I’m getting the silver one hands down.shyduck posted:Is that a 4:3 or 3:2 screen? I think it’s 4:3 and some of the videos where it looks 3:2 is them using a GBA border.
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May 13, 2024 18:22
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I'm sure this has come up countless times before but I was really surprised how identical this was compared to the OG SP and if it would trigger a lawsuit I guess this sort of thing is defined by a "design patent" and the SP design patent would have expired in 2017 or 18 in most countries particularly the US and Japan. I'm not a patent lawyer though Of note, Japan trademarked the image of an DMG-01 but that was to license things like keychains apparently
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May 13, 2024 19:07
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i don't think the chinese vendors shipping these things preloaded with a bajillion ROMs particularly care, even if it were actionable it would only matter for overseas resellers
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May 13, 2024 19:13
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As a great t-shirt once said, China Don't Care.
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May 13, 2024 19:19
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I had a Miyoo Mini + delivered this weekend and after setting it up with Onion OS and getting it running this is pretty fun. Holy poo poo it’s much nicer to just play old runs on this tiny lightweight thing over the Steam Deck. That being said, one thing I didn’t realize until it arrived… no RTC? Really? At least now I got the sleep settings to not shut down and the clock syncing from WiFi it’s not so terrible but that’s still kinda annoying. The one thing I’ll give the deck is that when using fast forward (on older titles) the Deck REALLY zooms through emulation. The Miyoo goes 2x at best on gba titles. Maybe 3 on SNES? Kinda hard to tell. Fast enough to make it useful but not super duper fast.
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May 13, 2024 19:22
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The Anbernic boss started his career 15, 20 years ago with a hardware portable NES handheld. And then he made a couple more GBA hardware handhelds.
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May 13, 2024 19:37
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something new coming from AYN 
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May 13, 2024 20:21
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That's a lot of nits.
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May 13, 2024 20:33
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Rinkles posted:something new coming from AYN Tentatively excited, the Loki is definitely one of the nicest 6800u handhelds out there and the Odin's the best Android one. And I'm a sucker for the Vita design...
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May 13, 2024 20:38
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Mega64 posted:That's a lot of nits. I entirely read this as from Kung Pow, "That's a lot of nuts!" Do I presume correctly that was the intent?
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May 13, 2024 20:44
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Not really, but if you want to pretend it was my intention I won't say anything,
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Rinkles posted:something new coming from AYN Gotta be oled and hdr then
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