You know the ones. Ambernic, Retroid, Miyoo, and the like. I swear they come out with a new handheld every 5 minutes. You can’t even research the damn things before 3 more latest and greatest come out.

Anyways. I bought a Miyoo Mini. Love it. Hands hate it. Thought "This would be way better if it were bigger. Duuuuh, I’m an idiot right? Well 5 minutes after I bought the damn thing, they release the Miyoo Mini Plus. Which is just a Miyoo Mini, but bigger. So apperently I’m not alone.

Then I started playing my DS Lite with a flash cart, and loved THAT form factor.

Then they came out with Retroid Pocket 5. And I was in love. I had my hand on the buy button. And remembered how the Miyoo Mini played out.

So I said “If I still love it in 6 months, I’ll buy it.” Literally 1 month later after I saw that, they announce the Retroid Pocket Flip 2. Which is just the Retroid Pocket 5, in a DS style case, but only 1 screen. Which is fine by me. I never cared about the dual screen gimmick.

So I said “Ok, if I still love THIS in 6 months, I’ll buy it.”

Welp. 6 months passed, and last week I got my Flip 2. Now I’m in the process of setting it all up. And hooboy do I have all the questions.

I watched Retro Game Corps guide on setting it up, and thats great, but I also want discussion, and advice, and to share what I learn over time.

But if there is a community for these things, I’m unaware. This is the closest thing to an active community that I know of.

So. Who wants to talk shop?

  • funkajunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Nothing really seemed to fit for me, there were always compromises. But it turns out that I already owned the perfect device, and I carry it in my pocket everywhere.

    I have a pretty good phone (S24+) and I paired it with an amazing controller (Gamesir G8 USB-C Edition)

    It has hall effect thumbsticks and triggers, and connects directly to my phone via USB-C, so no latency.

    I even setup Tasker to recognize when the controller is connected, so it locks in landscape mode, changes the keyboard to LeanKeyboard (controller friendly), and launches into my frontend, which was Daijisho but is now ES-DE. Then reverts to regular phone mode once the controller disconnects.

    I loosely followed this guide from TechDweeb to setup ES-DE, if you’re interested.

    With this setup I can play everything up to and including Switch games, not to mention native Android games, as well as streaming games from Sunshine on my PC.

    Seriously, with a little bit of configuration and this ~$100 controller, I have no desire to get a steamdeck or anything similar.