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?

  • macniel@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Yeah it’s ridiculous how fast they pump out new devices (looking at you anbernic) without changing much. The capabilities are expanding at a snails pace (we are that the some PS2, semi good GameCube stage for how long?)

    I have an RG Cube and a RG H something XX and they are quite comfortable.

    And I loooove retroachievements, spicing up the game :)

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      That’s the other thing. WHO is coming up with these names???

      Playstation has a reasonable naming scheme. Nintendo usually has a fun naming scheme, switch 2 aside. Xbox is just all over the road.

      But Xbox seems real easy to learn compared to the Ambernic X5842R. Hooooo boy, that’s a catchy name!

      • macniel@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I guess Nvidia, Intel and AMD do also come up with those names. Those names are purely specification. Either Techdweeb or Russ from Retro Game Corp explained the schema. It’s a mix of the CPU generation, the screen size and when it’s Linux based the name is suffixed with XX.