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
You know, a used Vita is definitely a vibe too. Sadly, they're a lot more expensive, I'd wager, for similar reasons. Can it go even higher in terms of emulation?
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.
3DS doesnt have portmaster or moonlight which is pretty cool about these devices. But yeah i do understand the ewaste sentiment especially since the people who buy these (me) have multiple devices that run the same games
Miyoo also doesn't have portmaster. Not sure about Moonlight.
The most "future-proof" sort of SBC game device would probably be an Android based one like the Odin, since Android software at least pretends to be consistent.
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.
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!
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
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?