• Druid@lemmy.zip
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    11 days ago

    Emulation up to N64 and Dreamcast is craaaazy for such a small size. 90€ is a pretty good-ish price. Compared to new releases, it knocks everything out of the park and offers thousands of hours of gameplay across multiple generations of console - home and portable. Pretty insane if you think about it.

    Just wondering how good the screen is and the buttons feel. I think a just “ok” screen would be fine, but the gameplay would still have to be smooth and the buttons should support the gameplay

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    Gonna catch some heat with this but I feel like this is just future e-waste. I think it’s better to take advantage of old but good hardware to run stuff, like hacked Vitas or 3DSes. Even switches should be usable for retro stuff down the line.

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      I have vita and n3ds (both modded) and they have been collecting dust since I got the rg35xx-h. The form factor and most importantly portmaster makes it way better in my opinion.

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    Assuming the scale is the same or similar to the GBA SP back in the day, this looks horrendously un-ergogenomic…even as a kid the location of the buttons was sometimes awkward to hold for longer sessions, also the lower down place of those thumb sticks would make it 10 times worse!

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    I had the ambernick SP and it was my worst purchase this year. The hinge snapped in the first month and the os was crap.

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      I own Anbernic RG35XX, which runs the same default os. My tip with this one: don’t bother with the default. There are way better operating systems for it and installing takes like 5 minutes. Although if the hinge snapped it might be a bit too late for this advice

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        I’ve got a 353p and I love the form factor, but I’d like to use it more as a console attached to the TV. The default OS keeps forgetting the mapping on the Bluetooth controllers I’ve got, though, so I need to remap them for every game. Have you got a recommendation for a better setup, such that I could leave the thing plugged into the TV and not have to manually reconfigure it every time I start a new game?

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        I had mu os banana on it the last 2 weeks, was fun until the hinge snapped. Ambernick support said it was user error and then ignored me…

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    I’m waiting for v2 probably around mid next year. The hinge kinda concerns me. The price isn’t bad at all.

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    They’ve been teasing this thing forever it feels, but it does look great. The world needs more clamshell handhelds.

    Edit: That D-pad though… That doesn’t look comfortable.