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the rg351p has been cool. i wish n64 emulation wasn't a shitshow but i can at least play banjo kazooie. and certainly there's plenty of other systems that run fine so i'll just stick to what works best on it
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beer gas canister posted:
anyway. i know the joke about homebrewers is they load a bunch of roms on their device and then never use it, but i've already beaten 4 games on mine (OFF, Nebs n Debs, The Lost Night, Celeste Classic 2) and I'm going to actually play/beat some JRPGs on it. having FFWD for ps1 emulation makes a big difference in me playing through something like Persona 2. and being able to play Adventure Game Studios games on it is kind of counterintuitive but neat at the same time, so I might use it for whatever Wadjet Eye's next game is
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I've had a blast with the 351p for the last couple of months, it's great. I see why people have more than one though, a larger screen for SotN and other home consoles would be nice. Hopefully the Steam Deck pushes these companies to keep innovating
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i ultimately went with the rg351p because the RP2+ seemed like it was gonna take a while to ship. like the website still says 'preorder' and that deliveries will take 35 days before even starting to ship. the anbernic got to me within just 4 days
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is it smart to keep upping the display/res on the same underpowered chip? i'm not sure what's going to be able to take advantage of that larger screen and widescreen ratio, especially if PSP is still a struggle for it (i guess the Shovel Knight port would look good). still, the vita OLED was cool
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kirbysuperstar posted:Well..that isn't.
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zzMisc posted:Because as we all know the most successful companies are those who work the hardest against their own interests. I mean it's not like it's the reviewer whose job it literally is to be objective or anything.
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njsykora posted:Heh I didn't even see that old chestnut of reviewers need to be objective in that wall of text meltdown. i like the RG351 but i have no brand loyalty, if they stink as a company or AYN stinks or whatever, i'll just go wherever my interests take me (which currently is the Steam Deck, but since mine is being replaced right now, I'm back on the 351 for now). making accusations of agenda or bias in such a niche area of gaming like this is really silly -- but even so, reviewers are allowed to have preferences!!
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a 1GHZ Celeron?? is it a packard bell computer from 2003
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CodfishCartographer posted:Anyone know of a way to run RPG Maker games on an RP2+? I imagine it's powerful enough to run them. There's quite a few I wouldn't mind trying out, and it seems like the perfect platform for them
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flavor.flv posted:GPD appears to have closed all its official online storefronts and its indiegogo account, so that's interesting
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yeah i'll probably be emulating on the deck in the future. at the very least ps2, gamecube and wii games
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i ordered an indigo Flip off of amazon. if the hinge cracks, like everyone on reddit claims happens to every single device... i will just ignore it until the screen falls off completely and would have to return it, as is the way i am with all electronics/computers
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the flip is here and it is good. although i haven't fully set it up yet, i still have to go through each emulator and program those two buttons so i can actually back out of a game without having to force close lol (besides retroarch i mean) but naturally after i got most of my stuff on there... i installed and played octopath champions of the continent instead. which runs! it runs and works fine on the flip! except that the touch controls were designed in a brilliantly cruel way to prevent an easy button mapping solution (we're talkin menus appearing at various places on the screen, movement via swipe gestures, etc) i did play a bit of Final Fantasy Chronicles: My Life as a King, which does work, and it's amazing that a small lil retro handheld can run a Wii game at near full speed. though the framerate does dip a little bit whenever a building is being constructed. still!
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njsykora posted:HTC didn't go out of business, they just fell deep into the trend chasing hole after everyone caught up to them and flailed themselves into irrelevance. Last I heard they were doing crypto phones and VR headsets with zero awareness of what the rest of the market is doing.
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otter posted:They have a tendency to multiply. when they're so relatively cheap you can talk yourself into all sorts of handheld purchases for niche uses
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anbernic's got a sale happening starting tomorrow RG405M - $145 RG405V - $120 RG505 - $120 RG353M - $118 RG353P - $103 RG503 - $94 RG353V - $91 RG353PS - $72 RG Nano - $46 RG35XX - $45 and so is retroid Retroid Pocket 2S - $99 (4+128GB) Retroid Pocket 3+ - $135 Retroid Pocket Flip - $145
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i dont like the bezel on it imo
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mem posted:I picked up both of the evercade super pockets for my son and myself along with a couple of carts that had games I'm interested in. I think the 2.8" screen is pushing it for my old man eyes. It's a nice looking ips screen but it's just too damned small. Might have the wife get me an evercade exp for Christmas.
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Rinkles posted:Well the 2S would’ve been almost twice as much via Amazon. it just comes down to whether you're willing to pay that extra amount to get it shipped to you faster (and easier returns)
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the screen mapping on the flip is useful for android games but it's pointless if you're only using the handheld to play emulators i might put genshin impact (or honkai star rail) on it at some point and so the screen mapping would be useful for that i imagine
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i keep having to stop myself from getting an x55 or 503 just because the ergonomics look way better than any other device from PK or Anbernic, but they're obviously underpowered compared to my Flip. i wish PK and Anbernic had more devices that weren't slabs. i like the Flip as something pocketable and that i can easily plug into the TV, but i'd love a grippy handheld for bed gaming like my Steam Deck and Switch w/ Hori Pro
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEr_Pjsb_iQ Taki Udon also posted a video coming away impressed and felt the stock OS was actually much improved and currently better than the day 1 GarlicOS release main difference is the added wifi & bluetooth, better d-pad, and support for some N64, Dreamcast and PSP titles (Taki compared it to the RK3566 chip performance) The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Nov 28, 2023 |
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the grey 353ps rules, aesthetically the frankenstein approach of snes controller shell and GB DMG bezel and button colors is the best. i hope they do a 355 or 356
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Russ' retro handheld recap for 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWrPCeFXv1s Of course the Odin 2, Retroid Flip, RP2S, and RG Arc come out on top. Russ still likes the X55 as the top sub-$100 option.
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njsykora posted:Retroid are teasing the Pocket 4 on Facebook to be out around Christmas.
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they should make another weirdly bulky one like the 503 but with a good chip, but still having those back curves instead of the straight slab
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsCjvo-jIU0 russ still really likes it, but would only recommend buying it at $200. currently the cheapest it is, is $270 on amazon for a refurbished model - great combination of ergonomics, screen size and resolution - gamecube emulation has improved a bit, GC/PS2 performance is better than T618 (Retroid 3+/Flip/RG405M) but worse than the Odin Lite. you'd be running PAL roms and settings tweaks/hacks on this at 1x resolution for full speed, 55-60% compatibility - key mapping and video out are available for the device now - still uses fat32 for the SD slot so you can't put 4+GB files on a card, which of course impacts PS2/GC - PSP @ 4X pretty much perfect, some exceptions like GOW:CoO which runs full speed @ 2X. PSP (in his opinion) is the ideal system to play on this - 12 hours of battery life, based on switching back and forth between cloud gaming and heavy duty emulation that it still costs $300 by default just isn't in parity with devices like the Odin Lite and Retroid Pocket 4 which are $150-200. $300 can get you the base Odin 2 which is basically A+ emulation for everything currently available on Android, and also has the great battery life it's still really tempting to me though just because it has those great grips and it's 33% lighter than the Steam Deck. but i'm not in any hurry to get one unless it drops to $200 or below
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yeah i've seen they have open box models on ebay. i'm still going to wait on amazon because of the ease of shipping/returns but also because I still have the Retroid Flip and I should really get my money's worth out of that first or else I'm just contributing to the eWaste problem
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mystes posted:I feel like also, the cheaper/smaller devices fill a niche, but once you get up to the size/cost of something like that there probably is less reason for it to exist compared to the steam deck
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Most important thing for me is ergonomics. SD would be perfect if not for the weight. Odin has appealed to me but seems like it would not fully fit the hands like the 7” devices do. In Russ’ review of the 1 and Lite for example I think he mentioned his pinkies hanging off the device. I also lost my job last week so I am not in a hurry until my income is stable again.
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Froist posted:I guess it all depends on hand size. For me the Odin is chef-kiss perfect and the Deck is “power through anything the others can’t” as I don’t have a capable gaming PC. It’s been weeks since I touched the Deck (bounced off Cyberpunk when it was last on sale) while I’ve used the Odin daily. e: looking at retrosizer it just seems kinda small to me, like it's the size of a switch lite.. and i usually use my regular switch with hori split pad pro for hand comfort The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Dec 16, 2023 |
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flavor.flv posted:There's only so much room in the market for steam deck competitors
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hatty posted:The Wii U tablet was great
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i don't think there is android wii u emulation currently. it's a known absence from even the Odin 2
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they should just make a Xenoblade Chronicles X emulator like how there's the PrimeHack fork of dolphin
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i keep waffling between getting the x55 or the G Cloud or the Odin 2, except that i don't buy anything because i'm unemployed lol. maybe by the time i'm employed the g cloud will see another informal price drop on amazon. ergonomics trump anything else for me, with the Steam Deck constantly reminding me of how heavy it is whenever I play it in bed. my elbows hate me right now
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MarcusSA posted:Russ didn’t really sell me on it.
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