>phone shitter >caring about res
Yes, like I said you don't own things or play games.
For almost the entire year after I got mine from the first bunch it was most of what I played.
And it was about half of what I played last year and probably 30% of what I've played this year. But of course I actually own and like and therefore play my GB through A games regularly. The only exception was while I was waiting for them to be made - I paused replaying any of them to see what they were like on these next time I played to make sure I was able to put my old hardware away.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
moron, my phone is better and is worth more. Chink shit
>Galaxy S23 Ultra
Too bad, pay $1000 in a phone with a battery of 3 years and Samsung never sell genuine batteries
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Got a S21 Ultra that's still keeping a great charge. I'll eventually get a S24 or S25, but migrating data is a headache.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Used Phones
I hate the "'enter the Last Known Gmail account of this phone" because sellers never unlock his phones.
And Samsung did add more glue to their batteries, most repair shops refuse work with Samsung phones
I know 3DS doesn't have arm7 cpu to run gba natively like DS and DS Lite but VC injects run much better than gbarunner. The principle is the same, using a hypervisor to run the arm9 cpu in GBA mode but VC is strictly better at that. Gbarunner 2, gbarunner 3 and VC are all a bit different and have their own quirks.
3ds had arm11 and arm9
show me source saying 3ds has arm7 inside
you people don't understand what native means
it's running a hypervisor
the instruction set is shared to a degree but the uarch isn't, it's not 1:1 gba hardware
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>show me source saying 3ds has arm7 inside
https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/nintendo-3ds/ >An ARM7TDMI from the Game Boy Advance days. It’s a relatively ignored CPU, unless a DS or DSi game is being played, in which case it acts as a co-processor. However, on the special occasion when a Game Boy Advanced game is running, the main execution falls into this CPU.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
You're fricking moronic Dunning-Kruger homosexual. have a nice day.
I have one, bought it as soon as I could (not first drop, second drop). I have a good amount of GB/GBC/GBA games I kind of wanted to play, and I replayed them. The screen looks fantastic, and it's generally pretty well built.
It's not a much better experience than a budget chink handheld though, only slightly better, in spite of costing 2 to 4 times the price.
>The screen looks fantastic, and it's generally pretty well built.
The screen and internals are great, but I disagree about the build, I will only get one when they fix it to be better
Me
I don't like playing gba or classic games on pc but touch controls are fricking garbage on mobile
I owned one that look like gameboy and support so many games
I have seen this thing shilled for years and I had no idea it played cartridges until now.
I don't really understand the appeal of this and I have a pretty decent collection of working GameBoy and GBA games,
If I ever want to play games from that era it's just so much easier and more convenient to emulate them rather than slotting in a 30 year old GameBoy cartridge like Tetris.
This thing is over $200 dollars right? And that's just the handheld, if you get the dock and adapters that's like $400 - $500 bucks just to play old cartridges on modern hardware.
There are so many better options for less than $200 bucks.
You have to be a sunk cost collector to buy this thing, if you've already spend hundreds or thousands on israelited up price retro games what is a few hundred more? All my games I've had since I was kid.
The only real point of this is that it has a nice screen. The rest of the chinkhelds have fricking atrocious screens, only morons who have never used the original consoles think they're even vaguely passable with their crappy 480p LCDs.
This isn't even that much better. You're still missing basic features like a 75hz mode for wonderswan, and a BFI mode for decent motion response on console games.
I keep seeing threads about chink handhelds from time to time, and sometimes I try to ask a question but nobody seems suited to answer it since replies never come. The older handhelds like GB and GBA had such dim screens with different colour gamuts that the developers had to compensate by using brighter colours in their graphics, but they of course look fine on og hardware and like hot washed out/oversaturated garbage with the raw video output displayed on modern screens. So do these emulation/repro handhelds actually take this into account and have any display modes or shaders or whatever to look like the og hardware, or is it really just barebones emulation on a cheap (or in the case of Analogue, fancy) chink modern lcd?
Most chinkhelds output color as the game supplies it without any real adjustment of the gamut
The analogue has a few display options that try to emulate (mostly) accurately how the old GBA and SP-101 look and a saturation slider. Fun fact, the display in the analogue pocket is the same part used in the Valve Index. So if you ever need to replace the display in one, that's where you get it.
I think analogue pocket actually has a palette for OG GBA.
https://twitter.com/dark1x/status/1654815580405284864
Most of the chinkhelds use mGBA as the retroarch core, which has a color correction option in the menu that works well for GBA, I haven't tried it on GBC but it has an option for it that probably works fine too. The main issues with chinkhelds are poor scaling options due to the low resolution.
Huh, that is a pretty useful comparison for once, thanks. Still not really sold on spending hundreds of eurobucks on a chinkheld, but at least I now know that some of them are making an attempt.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
mGBA color correct is much the same thing, and you can get that on a 50 dollar chinkheld.
Am I the only one that likes raw GBA colors? I was a GBA kid, but when I try the retroarch color correction options for GBA, everything just looks too dull and washed out. And stuff like the DS Lite played raw GBA output, and people actually preferred it, enough to convert them into GBA Macros when the top screen broke.
Last I checked, VBA has a lot of compatibility issues when it comes to ROMhacks
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
vba-m is not officially out on lagdroid. the retrogay core is out of date as it can't deal with the PMD games (vba-m's PC version saves without a fuss though).
Raw colors on stuff like Pokemon and MMZ is obnoxious. Read below.
Huh, that is a pretty useful comparison for once, thanks. Still not really sold on spending hundreds of eurobucks on a chinkheld, but at least I now know that some of them are making an attempt.
Scaling is a non-issue for anything that can run shaders (not RG35XX and Mini):
So what's the best version of these chinkhelds? I'm looking for something with a nice screen runs smoothly and not too many emulation issues. I don't mind having to program it but if there are any that come ready right out the box and don't cost an arm and a leg I don't mind paying a little extra. Some bells and whistles like CRT filters and such would be nice too
RP2S at $90 is pretty nice. CRT shaders can be hard to run with the cores, I guess you'd be better with RP4 Pro due to its juice to run PS2 and GC, though personally I don't find PS2 and GC emulation on ARM worth it.
mGBA color correct is much the same thing, and you can get that on a 50 dollar chinkheld.
It's better to just apply shaders, emulation implementation is sourced from ancient stuff, there's better color correction now and there were times RA limited colors while doing it from the core's side.
I like Daijisho better
I'd prefer it too because of its easy access to Android stuff, but it can't handle folders. You get a big rom collection and suddenly you're fricked, it reads all sub-folders and spits everything together in one blob. ES-DE preserves the hierarchy.
r36s has a color correction option in the default retroarch GB core (start + X button to access during a game) that fixes this well, it dims the hyper saturated colors and color corrects the tones of some.
what i dont get is, if you own physical copies of your games, surely, you must also own a working handheld, right? and even if yours spontaneously combusts, which doesnt happen, getting a replacement is still cheaper than buying shit like this, even with the crazy inflated retro market.
Why does the Playdate make people seethe so much?
I've been interested in getting one considering the games that are on it now, feels like a unique hobbyist device where the people buying are also the ones making the games.
same, especially since they're immediately available now. it seems like the most concentrated indie machine ever built. its like a toy. not really a gaming platform.
you are free to do whatever you want with your money
also people are free to call you a moron for wasting your money on an expensive pretentious gimmick machine that you will frick around with for 1 week, then put it on a shelf for show and only touch it again every 8-10 months until it forever becomes room decoration
Speaking personally, I have one solely because I didn't feel like buying and modding a brand new gameboy to replace mine when the motherboard failed. I wouldn't ever recommend this thing unless you have a bin worth of cartridges and no way to play them anymore.
What a piece of shit. I will never buy this garbage because of this webm and I will redirect it to all my friends and all gaming groups followed by the name of the product and the phrase "don't buy this garbage".
Have you read this, OP shill?
It actually does with the first few batches, but they revised the cart clips to be tighter in later revisions, so only early adopters have that particular issue
These Anal-log systems cost 10x the amount of original hardware and they're less accurate than emulators from the 90s, Super NT can't even run fricking Pocky & Rocky so if you're a normie moron who only plays Mario and Zelda it's perfect
>An original gba sp: 70 to 150 $$$
Yeah more like >100 $ for the base console >50 $ for screen and battery replacement >60 $ for one (1) game which you will play for a couple of hours at best only to get bored after a couple of hours
And thats only for one game on a single conslole
Now imagine doing this for all the other games and consloles you might wanna play
Da fuq? It's 75 to 150 for a refurbished/rebuilt one. A broken one is even less. Also, the OP is also a cartridge machine, so it doesn't hold the advantage there either. Might as well get a 30 dollar handheld emulator instead of either.
I know this is a common bait pic but I have been working on 100%ing fricking WarioWare Twisted and I haven't had the cartridge slot give me any trouble whatsoever, even when I'm rough with it. I'm very impressed with the strength of the grip but it's not so tight that it legitimately worries me like an older Retron. My "loosest" cart is the Game Boy Camera which has some wobble due to being so top heavy, but even that lets me turn the camera around 180° as long as I'm gentle with it.
But firmly tapping a cart causing the game to crash would be due to a loose connection between the pins and the console, yes? I'm telling you that I don't experience this behavior at all. Not with standard GB carts. Not with weird bulky ones.
3DS actually runs GBA natively. I think the only time it got used was for the "ambassador program" thing where you got 10 free GBA and NES games if you had an early 3DS.
Actually it's because the GBA hardware put into the DS for backwards compatibility purposes was actually accessible to DS games, and a vast majority of games took advantage of the extra hardware. It essentially means that a lot of DS games also need a GBA CPU to run, so Nintendo was forced to keep including the GBA CPU in anything meant to play DS games unless they wanted to start advertising a big fat incompatibility list with the DSi and 3DS.
>runs GBA Natively >Cant buy any GBA games from the e-shop unless you fork out the extra 50 bucks for the New 3ds upgrade
Why is Nintendo this moronic?
Huh? You could never buy GBA games for 3DS. You either got them as an ambassador (read: early adoption sucker). You're confusing them with SNES games being exclusive to the N3DS.
And the reason for that is probably the VC emulator is ass and can't run well on the original 3DS CPU
Nothing to lol about, he's right, there's no need to add extra steps to using the ds/3ds's native gba hardware especially when it fricks things up sometimes
VC is better for a more integrated experience with the DS homescreen, so it feels like an actual game sold for the 3DS instead of some janky homebrew hack.
It's not remotely the same as virtual console. I know the name might be deceptive but it is not remotely based on the actual AGB_FIRM used for VC injects.
gbarunner is getting an update soon that supposedly fixes a lot of bugs and issues.
I hope it becomes a viable alternative to a GBA one day, the DSi's screen and hardware are perfect for those types of games.
Well that's just BS
people buy flash carts with no problem
They just want to play with an emulator as close to OG hardware as possible
Is that really such a bad thing?
>zoomers are afraid of piracy and by extension emulation >everyone I know had a jailbroken iphone that they played gba games on >Most people in high school just played project64 and epsxe on school computers instead of actually working >all of my friends from work are talking about how great it is that Apple has allowed Delta to exist on iphones
Nah, I'm calling bullshit on that one just from personal experience.
it's mostly boomers obsessed with muh "console accuracy" as if emulators haven't been 99.99% accurate and superior to the original consoles for the last decade
for handhelds especially, a big part is the feel of the device in your hands and even the shitty screen.
the original GBA with no backlight is the reason why GBA games were so colorful. and the insane ghosting of it, as well as the backlit GBA SP screens enabled some crafty developers to create a transparency effect that the GBA wasnt actually capable of. that gets lost on screens that dont have ghosting.
>Why is emulation a bad thing here?
2020 introduced a new wave of redditor morons even more obscenely stupid than 2016 before it. Remember how when you were 12, larping as an adult and being mature was literally the most important thing ever? That's these dipshit zoomers and retro games.
No no, PLAYING a retro game isn't good enough, you can only play it in a way I deem acceptable and on hardware I deem worthy. If you emulate it on your switch, that's OK because Nintendo charged you $20 a month to put a ROM on their console. If you buy a much cheaper handheld like in the OP you're a zoomer wannabe dipshit despite the fact it has way better price value than the Switch if you only want to play old games.
Once you realize this is the mentality, of the 12 year old constantly trying to act mature, these threads where people b***h, whine, and seethe about emulation make tons of sense.
Also they literally don’t know how to use a file directory or where their downloads even went, then copying files from one system to another they probably get vertigo just thinking about it
I recall Vita has some weirdness where PSP emulators tend to run better than actual Vita developed emulators. Regardless yeah the Vita actually blows chunks for a lot of things.
That's because some consoles map better to the MIPS instruction set than ARM. N64 specifically, is MIPS itself, so aside from some nonsense when dealing with pointers the code mostly runs as-is.
GBA-wise, the issue is more than mGBA (the one that's available) is accuracy focused and doesn't have any concept of the fact that it's running on a processor that's ARM like the GBA, so it recompiles code anyways. Theoretically you could make something like GBARunner2 or open_agb_firm for the Vita.
how much for an used Vita nowadays?
isit worth getting one just for the crazy shit you can do if you mod it?
The biggest reason is the analog sticks probably die over time and replacing them or the battery sounds like a pain in the ass
Do i have to worry about taht sort of stuff or is the qualiity actually good?
The Vita 1K sticks will never die because they're hall effect sticks. The 2K is the one that will have problems with sticks in the future, it has standard potentiometer sticks.
It's a gamble if you're gonna get a super scratched and full of gunk device or not.
Besides that I haven't heard of prevalent hardware issues. Replacing the battery is easy, just a few screws.
You gotta ask yourself if you really need one though apart from nostalgia. For the price they're going for you can get a brand new emulation handheld that's gonna support way more games.
>brand new emulation handheld
for example?
i thought of buying on of those game boy clones but it seems that i still have to own all the games that i want to play and considering how expansive some GBA games are and that this machine only plays GB games i dont think its worth it
But ever since the Steam Conslole there are hundreds of similiar systems that are cheaper where i can emulata on
If an Anon can name me one for max 100 bucks i consider getting onme if it emulates everything from nes to atleast the ps1
I mean, you can get something like the RG35XX for 50 bucks that plays everything up to the PS1.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>buy a product from china
Pass.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
all electronics are made in china (or taiwan/korea) you doofus
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
You ever try to get something produced in the US or a Western country, like PCBs? Everything comes from China.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>he doesn't produce his own PCBs using copper plates, a laser printer and a vat of ferric chloride
cringe
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
RG35XX H looks kinda cool
Its only 70 bucks and does all i want from a Handheld
Im having mine journeyman examination in a Month and if everything works out well i might treat myself to one
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>70 bucks
Might as well get a RP2S at that price, lot better.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
RPS2 is a hundred dollars and RPS4 150
If i get one i might aswell get the newest one
Is the difference in quality bettween RPS2 and RG35XX H really that noticable that it warrants teh higher pricve pouint?
Whats the difference?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Well no, RP2S is 4:3, 4 is 16:9. Runs DC and N64 (and PSP) with ease, unlike the weaker ones that advertise it but don't go fullspeed or have proper coverage, really nice d-pad whereas the H is stuck with the original 35XX's d-pad which is mediocre, stacked shoulder buttons which are so much better than in-line ones, hall effect sticks. With Android you don't have to worry about out of the box, shit just works including sleep mode which Linux is notoriously bad at. To add to that, H700 based anbernic chinkhelds (H and Plus) are still in their early days with crappy stock OS and limited by anbernic's refusal to break NDA and open up the chip's software to the community fixing up their mess like they would before. Will it work for you? Yeah, probably, albeit with issues. Will this be worth using on the long run? For all you know the do-it-for-freers could abandon it tomorrow. If you're not getting taxes on the RP2S, $20 more for something twice as fast and much more premium is a no-brainer.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Doesn't the RP2S support upstream Linux? I vaguely recall them merging dtbs into the tree for it. I think you could probably install Gentoo on it, lmao.
RP4 not so much. It has a shitty mediatek chipset.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Yeah, I remember hearing someone was trying to get Linux on RP3+, but that went nowhere.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Okay you sould me
should i use the default for RPS2 or is there an Anon out there that developed his own custiom OS for that thiong like with the RG35XX?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
There is no other OS, it's just their stock Android.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Batocera on 35XX looked fine
I saw a video on it on yt and it had a nice UI and everything was easy enough to navigate with just a D-Pad
is the native one on the RPS similar?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
It can be. Android takes a little more effort to setup and there are more frontend options, though what you're seeing on Batocera, EmulationStation, has a paid version on Android you get from Patreon. I got this from a direct link someone posted before they took it down, it's a few versions behind but it works:
Other than that, you can just look up videos on setting up Android handhelds, though the setup wizard already does some lifting for you.
Maybe you could have saved a little on Ali like the guy said, but on the upside you get support.
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Aaannnddd its done
Last minute changes added a screen protector and got the cheaper version and shipping to save money
it cost me aroubnd 120 euros which was pretty afordablöe overall
big thx for all the support
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thx Anons will be getting a 256 gb micro sd this weekend and download all the games i can find
I will let all of you know what i think of it once it arrives
You're welcome, I'm doing this because it took me 3 other chinkhelds to find something I really liked and without crippling flaws. Youtube reviewer shills lie about virtually everything, you never find negative feedback unless you dig deep on sewers like r*ddit and d*scord.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I like Daijisho better
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Well no, RP2S is 4:3, 4 is 16:9. Runs DC and N64 (and PSP) with ease, unlike the weaker ones that advertise it but don't go fullspeed or have proper coverage, really nice d-pad whereas the H is stuck with the original 35XX's d-pad which is mediocre, stacked shoulder buttons which are so much better than in-line ones, hall effect sticks. With Android you don't have to worry about out of the box, shit just works including sleep mode which Linux is notoriously bad at. To add to that, H700 based anbernic chinkhelds (H and Plus) are still in their early days with crappy stock OS and limited by anbernic's refusal to break NDA and open up the chip's software to the community fixing up their mess like they would before. Will it work for you? Yeah, probably, albeit with issues. Will this be worth using on the long run? For all you know the do-it-for-freers could abandon it tomorrow. If you're not getting taxes on the RP2S, $20 more for something twice as fast and much more premium is a no-brainer.
frick it life is to short to save a missely 100 bucks only for it to lose all worth by the end of the wek due to inflation
I bought one i make sure to post one it once it arrive here and make you guys know what i thibg of it
My last question what shipping option
is 4PX any good?
I dont wanna risk it and make sure my handheld arrives as a broken mess due to some wagie at the packing station handling it like a caveman
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Why would you not just buy it on aliexpress? They're like 130 bucks there, shipped.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>aliexpress
Also the price is identical the only reason its highe on the offical site is because of the higher shipping option 4PX would save me 16 bucks and the 128 gb version which again is 10 bcks more expesnsive
If i would subtractt hose two the price would end up the same as on Aliexpress
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Is the difference in quality bettween RPS2 and RG35XX H really that noticable that it warrants teh higher pricve pouint?
Yes but if you don't care about DC and better emulation for systems below it then don't bother
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
RPS2 is a hundred dollars and RPS4 150
If i get one i might aswell get the newest one
Is the difference in quality bettween RPS2 and RG35XX H really that noticable that it warrants teh higher pricve pouint?
Whats the difference?
Well no, RP2S is 4:3, 4 is 16:9. Runs DC and N64 (and PSP) with ease, unlike the weaker ones that advertise it but don't go fullspeed or have proper coverage, really nice d-pad whereas the H is stuck with the original 35XX's d-pad which is mediocre, stacked shoulder buttons which are so much better than in-line ones, hall effect sticks. With Android you don't have to worry about out of the box, shit just works including sleep mode which Linux is notoriously bad at. To add to that, H700 based anbernic chinkhelds (H and Plus) are still in their early days with crappy stock OS and limited by anbernic's refusal to break NDA and open up the chip's software to the community fixing up their mess like they would before. Will it work for you? Yeah, probably, albeit with issues. Will this be worth using on the long run? For all you know the do-it-for-freers could abandon it tomorrow. If you're not getting taxes on the RP2S, $20 more for something twice as fast and much more premium is a no-brainer.
There is no other OS, it's just their stock Android.
Aaannnddd its done
Last minute changes added a screen protector and got the cheaper version and shipping to save money
it cost me aroubnd 120 euros which was pretty afordablöe overall
big thx for all the support
Internet Archive, cdromance, and vimm
myrient is all you will ever need and dont let any homosexual say otherwise
thx Anons will be getting a 256 gb micro sd this weekend and download all the games i can find
I will let all of you know what i think of it once it arrives
It's honestly only chink handhelds up to the Steam Deck price point.
The pros are that they all run linux so you'll get native up to date emulators.
Emulation on Vita is way more sketchy since the community is way smaller and the people developing for it are few.
how much for an used Vita nowadays?
isit worth getting one just for the crazy shit you can do if you mod it?
The biggest reason is the analog sticks probably die over time and replacing them or the battery sounds like a pain in the ass
Do i have to worry about taht sort of stuff or is the qualiity actually good?
I'd say it's worthwhile if you enjoy vita games and PSP games, and enjoy emulation of stuff from 5th gen and before. It does do these things with a good amount of competence, so long as you get a respectable buyer.
the fun stops at snes and ps1 (the latter runs perfectly fine but you won't be playing games that have analog input because retroarch has no way to bind l3/r3 to the touchscreen)
Will always make me mad that we switch would've been king if it had the same setup as wii & wiiu virtual console. Instead we got shitty emulation subscription
Weird how N64 have a catalog of 260 games but Nintendo only put 10. I have a modded Switch and I play BattleTanx, Tetrisphere, Nintama Rantaro 64 Game Gallery and WonderProject J2
idk which one i'm gonna get. that ambernic that looks like a smaller steam deck looks good. i just wanna do snes genesis saturn ps1 n64 nes.... ps2 and gamecoob might be cool too
The access light blinks when any data goes to the gamecard slot. That includes your adapter that is probably in there at all times, so it's basically a SD access light.
hello there fellow gamers wonderful day for gaming we have today isnt it
All this discussion about retro videogames has made me want to play my favorite retro videogames of old relesead all the way back on the original Nindendo consoloes unfortunatly i simply cannont play them unless i buy myself the Wonderful Nintendo Switch™ and buy subscribe to Nintendos excellent online service
Luckily there are Rom sites galore where i can simply download my favorite game and play it without even having to pay for them
If any of my fellow gamers out there could redirect me to one of these Rom sites i would be very thankfull
Okay but in all seriusness where to i get my roms?
i have been out of the whole retro videgame scene for a while and would like to get back into ti can any one name a few got rom sites?
I have a new 3ds with an r4 that has just about everything from ds and beforehand on it and an sd card loaded with most of the good 3ds games already running
i have so many games to play that ive been using it more than my switch this last year
O.o o.O
you have aids
delete that shit right now
lay down and pick a random gba game
enjoy the rest of your day
im telling you to do this now
if someone doesn't tell you that you have to do it then you wont do it
don't even reply to me
go and play a random gba game
close your eyes and just pick anything if you dont see anything you feel like playing
do not fricking reply to me and do it now homosexual
contrary to what some autistic retrogay tells you, gba/3ds games are usually pretty shit nowadays and lack a lot of modern qol so you skip tedious shit that just wastes your time
contrary to what some autistic retrogay tells you, gba/3ds games are usually pretty shit nowadays and lack a lot of modern qol so you skip tedious shit that just wastes your time
dont listen to that anon
play more gacha
coom more too
This is who you share the board with now. These are the people pre-ordering deluxe editions of triple A battle pass games. These are also most likely the people sales/count posting all day. These are also likely the people who are porn and off topic posting. Remember that when you wonder why it’s harder to talk about anything other than FOTM or gacha.
Frick software emulation and frick Analogue. With the new DE-10 clone from China and MiSTeX FPGA emulation will be more accessible than ever. So people can stop chimping out over the price of MiSTer and enjoy quality.
QRD on china clone, I’ve been waiting for mister to come down as software emulation is fine especially if you’ve got extra power for cycle accurate emulators or lots of run ahead. Is it functionally identical to the DE10?
Mister is very niche and probably not worth for most people, but it's one of the best investments I've made these last few years. I hope these clones aren't garbage so more people can get on board. No pun intended.
That it runs on the hardware directly instead of going through the software equivalent of a filter. Technically, "hardware emulation" is not emulation at all, just running the sofware on the proper hardware it is intended for.
>Technically, "hardware emulation" is not emulation at all, just running the sofware on the proper hardware it is intended for.
Don’t trust anyone that ever spews something like this; I love my MiSTER and Analogue Pocket, but hardware emulation still isn’t a 100% complete replica of the platform it is mimicking, at the end of the day it is just a different kind of emulation, superior to software emulation absolutely, but there’s always one game or two with tiny emulation inaccuracies, audio not being completely accurate in some obscure TurboGrafix for example.
it's literally that, they emulate the chips that those console had, with real chips, so, it should be more closer to playing on a real console.
But only homosexuals care at that point vs emulation.
FPGAs attempt to replicate hardware behavior at the logic gate level instead of at the instruction level
In theory this allows for perfect accuracy without any actual overhead like on PC with a cycle-level emulator (or sub-cycle level.)
In practice, this is entirely dependent on what lengths the person writing the verilog/vhdl goes to to ensure this accuracy. Like, the NES cores involved actually decapping and painstakingly replicating the original CPU, iirc, but others like the N64 and PSX cores are no more accurate than a software emulator on a PC and are at best an approximation
Accuracy is a meme after a certain point. I respect the preservation effort, but as far as actually playing I'll be damned if I notice any difference when playing the psx/N64 cores.
So what's the best version of these chinkhelds? I'm looking for something with a nice screen runs smoothly and not too many emulation issues. I don't mind having to program it but if there are any that come ready right out the box and don't cost an arm and a leg I don't mind paying a little extra. Some bells and whistles like CRT filters and such would be nice too
highest quality would be retroid whose top model can even do nearly all PS2 and some wii, but at the same time the emulator scene is kinda jank because it's android
there isn't really a best option for everyone, they all have caveats, so you'd need to be more specific about form factor, physical size, desired systems etc
>Just ordered my RPS2 today >Even opted to use the cheaper shipping version to save a few bucks
Anons is this shit a common problem i dont want to be ripped off by some chink
I hate how they 26 editions of the same device with bizarre names. Just sell me a Retroid enough powerful for God of War, Peace Walker, Ape Escape and Japanese VNs
I wish gamecube action replay discs/sd media launchers weren't a nightmare to get now because using an SD media launcher on gamecube to boot up gameboy interface is the most comfy experience for me
Made obsolete by the Funny Playing GBC FPGA kit, which is a much closer rendition of the original hardware, and also 100% FPGA at a fraction of the price.
No idea who this nonsense is even for
It's novelty items that you play with for couple hours and then ends up in closet
Fricking this
>No, I don't like owning games or even like games, how could you tell?
Anon, I have a Galaxy S23 Ultra. I would have no use for this when my phone can play PS2 and Gamecube easily above 1080p
>phone shitter
>caring about res
Yes, like I said you don't own things or play games.
For almost the entire year after I got mine from the first bunch it was most of what I played.
And it was about half of what I played last year and probably 30% of what I've played this year. But of course I actually own and like and therefore play my GB through A games regularly. The only exception was while I was waiting for them to be made - I paused replaying any of them to see what they were like on these next time I played to make sure I was able to put my old hardware away.
moron, my phone is better and is worth more. Chink shit
>Galaxy S23 Ultra
Too bad, pay $1000 in a phone with a battery of 3 years and Samsung never sell genuine batteries
Got a S21 Ultra that's still keeping a great charge. I'll eventually get a S24 or S25, but migrating data is a headache.
>Used Phones
I hate the "'enter the Last Known Gmail account of this phone" because sellers never unlock his phones.
And Samsung did add more glue to their batteries, most repair shops refuse work with Samsung phones
muh ethical retro ownership
No it's not
It's to run games at exact timings and low input lag while still working with official carts
because it works with a GBA capable chip, there is no need for it to emulate
I know 3DS doesn't have arm7 cpu to run gba natively like DS and DS Lite but VC injects run much better than gbarunner. The principle is the same, using a hypervisor to run the arm9 cpu in GBA mode but VC is strictly better at that. Gbarunner 2, gbarunner 3 and VC are all a bit different and have their own quirks.
>I know 3DS doesn't have arm7 cpu
What? Of course it does. It has all ds and gba hardware in it to run them natively.
3ds had arm11 and arm9
show me source saying 3ds has arm7 inside
you people don't understand what native means
it's running a hypervisor
the instruction set is shared to a degree but the uarch isn't, it's not 1:1 gba hardware
>show me source saying 3ds has arm7 inside
https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/nintendo-3ds/
>An ARM7TDMI from the Game Boy Advance days. It’s a relatively ignored CPU, unless a DS or DSi game is being played, in which case it acts as a co-processor. However, on the special occasion when a Game Boy Advanced game is running, the main execution falls into this CPU.
You're fricking moronic Dunning-Kruger homosexual. have a nice day.
the same crowd that buys reproduction cartridges
I have one, bought it as soon as I could (not first drop, second drop). I have a good amount of GB/GBC/GBA games I kind of wanted to play, and I replayed them. The screen looks fantastic, and it's generally pretty well built.
It's not a much better experience than a budget chink handheld though, only slightly better, in spite of costing 2 to 4 times the price.
>The screen looks fantastic, and it's generally pretty well built.
The screen and internals are great, but I disagree about the build, I will only get one when they fix it to be better
what's bad about it?
Shape, cart slot, buttons the raised glass on the screen and also the huge bezel
Someone with a sizable retro collection who's original hardware just died after 30 years of use.
Me.
That could happen in real systems too moron and I have never had this happen despite playing mine for nearly a thousand hours.
Projection.
>That could happen in real systems too moron
I think the point is it's barely a nudge anon, it is a design flaw
Real systems had nearly the whole of the cartridge protected. It's a design flaw. Kys shill. Buy an ad.
Me
I don't like playing gba or classic games on pc but touch controls are fricking garbage on mobile
I owned one that look like gameboy and support so many games
I have seen this thing shilled for years and I had no idea it played cartridges until now.
I don't really understand the appeal of this and I have a pretty decent collection of working GameBoy and GBA games,
If I ever want to play games from that era it's just so much easier and more convenient to emulate them rather than slotting in a 30 year old GameBoy cartridge like Tetris.
This thing is over $200 dollars right? And that's just the handheld, if you get the dock and adapters that's like $400 - $500 bucks just to play old cartridges on modern hardware.
There are so many better options for less than $200 bucks.
You have to be a sunk cost collector to buy this thing, if you've already spend hundreds or thousands on israelited up price retro games what is a few hundred more? All my games I've had since I was kid.
The only real point of this is that it has a nice screen. The rest of the chinkhelds have fricking atrocious screens, only morons who have never used the original consoles think they're even vaguely passable with their crappy 480p LCDs.
This isn't even that much better. You're still missing basic features like a 75hz mode for wonderswan, and a BFI mode for decent motion response on console games.
I keep seeing threads about chink handhelds from time to time, and sometimes I try to ask a question but nobody seems suited to answer it since replies never come. The older handhelds like GB and GBA had such dim screens with different colour gamuts that the developers had to compensate by using brighter colours in their graphics, but they of course look fine on og hardware and like hot washed out/oversaturated garbage with the raw video output displayed on modern screens. So do these emulation/repro handhelds actually take this into account and have any display modes or shaders or whatever to look like the og hardware, or is it really just barebones emulation on a cheap (or in the case of Analogue, fancy) chink modern lcd?
Most chinkhelds output color as the game supplies it without any real adjustment of the gamut
The analogue has a few display options that try to emulate (mostly) accurately how the old GBA and SP-101 look and a saturation slider.
Fun fact, the display in the analogue pocket is the same part used in the Valve Index. So if you ever need to replace the display in one, that's where you get it.
I think analogue pocket actually has a palette for OG GBA.
https://twitter.com/dark1x/status/1654815580405284864
Most of the chinkhelds use mGBA as the retroarch core, which has a color correction option in the menu that works well for GBA, I haven't tried it on GBC but it has an option for it that probably works fine too. The main issues with chinkhelds are poor scaling options due to the low resolution.
Huh, that is a pretty useful comparison for once, thanks. Still not really sold on spending hundreds of eurobucks on a chinkheld, but at least I now know that some of them are making an attempt.
mGBA color correct is much the same thing, and you can get that on a 50 dollar chinkheld.
Am I the only one that likes raw GBA colors? I was a GBA kid, but when I try the retroarch color correction options for GBA, everything just looks too dull and washed out. And stuff like the DS Lite played raw GBA output, and people actually preferred it, enough to convert them into GBA Macros when the top screen broke.
>retroarch
use VBA-M
Last I checked, VBA has a lot of compatibility issues when it comes to ROMhacks
vba-m is not officially out on lagdroid. the retrogay core is out of date as it can't deal with the PMD games (vba-m's PC version saves without a fuss though).
Raw colors on stuff like Pokemon and MMZ is obnoxious. Read below.
Scaling is a non-issue for anything that can run shaders (not RG35XX and Mini):
https://github.com/Woohyun-Kang/Sharp-Shimmerless-Shader
RP2S at $90 is pretty nice. CRT shaders can be hard to run with the cores, I guess you'd be better with RP4 Pro due to its juice to run PS2 and GC, though personally I don't find PS2 and GC emulation on ARM worth it.
It's better to just apply shaders, emulation implementation is sourced from ancient stuff, there's better color correction now and there were times RA limited colors while doing it from the core's side.
I'd prefer it too because of its easy access to Android stuff, but it can't handle folders. You get a big rom collection and suddenly you're fricked, it reads all sub-folders and spits everything together in one blob. ES-DE preserves the hierarchy.
it depends, m&l superstar saga looks alright most of the time but there's also a lot of purple that would be blue with color correction
r36s has a color correction option in the default retroarch GB core (start + X button to access during a game) that fixes this well, it dims the hyper saturated colors and color corrects the tones of some.
what i dont get is, if you own physical copies of your games, surely, you must also own a working handheld, right? and even if yours spontaneously combusts, which doesnt happen, getting a replacement is still cheaper than buying shit like this, even with the crazy inflated retro market.
hipster homosexuals who also bought The Playdate
Why does the Playdate make people seethe so much?
I've been interested in getting one considering the games that are on it now, feels like a unique hobbyist device where the people buying are also the ones making the games.
the crank, it's the crank
same, especially since they're immediately available now. it seems like the most concentrated indie machine ever built. its like a toy. not really a gaming platform.
you are free to do whatever you want with your money
also people are free to call you a moron for wasting your money on an expensive pretentious gimmick machine that you will frick around with for 1 week, then put it on a shelf for show and only touch it again every 8-10 months until it forever becomes room decoration
Speaking personally, I have one solely because I didn't feel like buying and modding a brand new gameboy to replace mine when the motherboard failed. I wouldn't ever recommend this thing unless you have a bin worth of cartridges and no way to play them anymore.
A good consoomer knows the more expensive a product is, the higher the quality. So these MUST be the best emulators in the world.
fool and money are easily parted
Its for avoid lawsuits for using the Gameboy BIOS. The hardware run games using a propietary BIOS
you are unintelligent
>actually it's not emulation, it's shit simulation
What a piece of shit. I will never buy this garbage because of this webm and I will redirect it to all my friends and all gaming groups followed by the name of the product and the phrase "don't buy this garbage".
Have you read this, OP shill?
okay, I don't think they'll care, they're constantly sold out
it doesnt actually do that
source: i have one
It actually does with the first few batches, but they revised the cart clips to be tighter in later revisions, so only early adopters have that particular issue
I have two from the first batch and have used them for hundreds of hours. That has not happened once yet.
And, again, this can and does happen in real ones because it's wear and tear or faulty construction.
These Anal-log systems cost 10x the amount of original hardware and they're less accurate than emulators from the 90s, Super NT can't even run fricking Pocky & Rocky so if you're a normie moron who only plays Mario and Zelda it's perfect
The only issue I have seen across dozens of games is the track flickering in Mickey's Speedway USA.
Still plays fine regardless thopugh. Also may have been fixed for all I know. Haven't played it since like 3 updates ago.
isn't flickering because of better screen refresh?
I'm pretty sure there are filter options to mitigate these effects or reproduce them properly
i mean an ags-101 gba sp that's not beat up to shit will easily fetch 150-200 bucks these days
This thing: 250 to 300 $$$
An original gba sp: 70 to 150 $$$
>An original gba sp: 70 to 150 $$$
Yeah more like
>100 $ for the base console
>50 $ for screen and battery replacement
>60 $ for one (1) game which you will play for a couple of hours at best only to get bored after a couple of hours
And thats only for one game on a single conslole
Now imagine doing this for all the other games and consloles you might wanna play
Da fuq? It's 75 to 150 for a refurbished/rebuilt one. A broken one is even less. Also, the OP is also a cartridge machine, so it doesn't hold the advantage there either. Might as well get a 30 dollar handheld emulator instead of either.
>they're less accurate than emulators from the 90s
Factually inaccurate, and it can do more systems than the original hardware.
It's not just the moon landing technology we have lost...
>the finger wag
i raff every time
>if I tilt the cart then it glitches
then gee I dunno, don't tilt the cart?
He didn't tilt it, dumbass. He touched the back, barely.
I know this is a common bait pic but I have been working on 100%ing fricking WarioWare Twisted and I haven't had the cartridge slot give me any trouble whatsoever, even when I'm rough with it. I'm very impressed with the strength of the grip but it's not so tight that it legitimately worries me like an older Retron. My "loosest" cart is the Game Boy Camera which has some wobble due to being so top heavy, but even that lets me turn the camera around 180° as long as I'm gentle with it.
It's not looseness of the cartridge. He touched it straight on in the middle.
But firmly tapping a cart causing the game to crash would be due to a loose connection between the pins and the console, yes? I'm telling you that I don't experience this behavior at all. Not with standard GB carts. Not with weird bulky ones.
>actually it's not emulation, it's a hypervisor
3DS actually runs GBA natively. I think the only time it got used was for the "ambassador program" thing where you got 10 free GBA and NES games if you had an early 3DS.
Actually it's because the GBA hardware put into the DS for backwards compatibility purposes was actually accessible to DS games, and a vast majority of games took advantage of the extra hardware. It essentially means that a lot of DS games also need a GBA CPU to run, so Nintendo was forced to keep including the GBA CPU in anything meant to play DS games unless they wanted to start advertising a big fat incompatibility list with the DSi and 3DS.
>runs GBA Natively
>Cant buy any GBA games from the e-shop unless you fork out the extra 50 bucks for the New 3ds upgrade
Why is Nintendo this moronic?
Huh? You could never buy GBA games for 3DS. You either got them as an ambassador (read: early adoption sucker). You're confusing them with SNES games being exclusive to the N3DS.
And the reason for that is probably the VC emulator is ass and can't run well on the original 3DS CPU
am i going insane here i could have sworn i played metroid zero misison or some shit on my new 3ds
Maybe? I can promise you GBA games were ambassador only and SNES games were locked behind the mid-gen refresh
gbarunner is horrible, use virtual console
>gbarunner is horrible, use virtual console
lol
Nothing to lol about, he's right, there's no need to add extra steps to using the ds/3ds's native gba hardware especially when it fricks things up sometimes
use open_agb_firm, don't listen to this moron
openg agb firm is truly the best.
VC is better for a more integrated experience with the DS homescreen, so it feels like an actual game sold for the 3DS instead of some janky homebrew hack.
open agb firm is not the same as gbarunner you moronic neanderthal
it's almost the same as virtual console but with extra steps
It's not remotely the same as virtual console. I know the name might be deceptive but it is not remotely based on the actual AGB_FIRM used for VC injects.
gbarunner is getting an update soon that supposedly fixes a lot of bugs and issues.
I hope it becomes a viable alternative to a GBA one day, the DSi's screen and hardware are perfect for those types of games.
im sure running Retroarch with the Gpsp core is more than enough to run any GBA game at full speed on a NXds system.
maybe for the regular Xds systems its needed, but i really dont see it.
you should better use this : https://github.com/profi200/open_agb_firm
Are there people who unironically buy these single purpose emulators
Aren't they able to be reprogrammed into another system?
there are plugins for most 8-16bit systems of the time
Not really since they use FPGA chips IIRC.
An FPGA is basically a bunch of programmable logo gates that use something called a Hardware Descriptor Language.
Yes because they don't know you could just hack a 3ds easily or just get a steamdeck.
>actually it's not emulation, it's... oh wait, yes it is
How is PSP emulation on this thing? Is it good? I'm still not 100% sure if i'd get it because piracy is illegal
good enough to upscale it and play at full speed without any issues
Pocket 4 Pro can do Gamecube/PS2 reliably, PSP would only struggle with more demanding shit like God of War games on a RP2S, P4P is a dream
Think of it working like this gif as opposed to software emulation
goddamn old tech always baffles me as to how someone thought it was a good idea
It's literally the best they could do with what they had. The first demonstration of a working transistor only happened in 1947.
Why is emulation a bad thing here?
GB/GBA emulation is like almost perfectly accurate
Zoomies are terrifed of piracy, and emulation is usually conflated with it.
Yes, I'm aware that emulation =/ piracy.
Well that's just BS
people buy flash carts with no problem
They just want to play with an emulator as close to OG hardware as possible
Is that really such a bad thing?
>zoomers are afraid of piracy and by extension emulation
>everyone I know had a jailbroken iphone that they played gba games on
>Most people in high school just played project64 and epsxe on school computers instead of actually working
>all of my friends from work are talking about how great it is that Apple has allowed Delta to exist on iphones
Nah, I'm calling bullshit on that one just from personal experience.
"zoomers bad" is a Ganker drone's cruise control for cool
When I was a kid I didn't know downloading music was a "bad" thing. I search song, it appear, I download.
it's mostly boomers obsessed with muh "console accuracy" as if emulators haven't been 99.99% accurate and superior to the original consoles for the last decade
for handhelds especially, a big part is the feel of the device in your hands and even the shitty screen.
the original GBA with no backlight is the reason why GBA games were so colorful. and the insane ghosting of it, as well as the backlit GBA SP screens enabled some crafty developers to create a transparency effect that the GBA wasnt actually capable of. that gets lost on screens that dont have ghosting.
>Why is emulation a bad thing here?
2020 introduced a new wave of redditor morons even more obscenely stupid than 2016 before it. Remember how when you were 12, larping as an adult and being mature was literally the most important thing ever? That's these dipshit zoomers and retro games.
No no, PLAYING a retro game isn't good enough, you can only play it in a way I deem acceptable and on hardware I deem worthy. If you emulate it on your switch, that's OK because Nintendo charged you $20 a month to put a ROM on their console. If you buy a much cheaper handheld like in the OP you're a zoomer wannabe dipshit despite the fact it has way better price value than the Switch if you only want to play old games.
Once you realize this is the mentality, of the 12 year old constantly trying to act mature, these threads where people b***h, whine, and seethe about emulation make tons of sense.
Posts on here in general start making a lot more sense once you realize you're talking to children.
Also they literally don’t know how to use a file directory or where their downloads even went, then copying files from one system to another they probably get vertigo just thinking about it
>modded completely mogs all of this e-waste
so true anon, society yearns for the 3ds
shitty screen resolution and performance, the dual screen is the only saving grace (for playing DS/3DS games)
>shitty screen resolution for emulation
>240p
(you)
my cheap ass monitor from 2000 was 800x640 you stupid Black person
Retro vidya is 240p dumbass
only 2D consoles
>inba ps1 isn't retro despite being 20 year old
PS1 is 240p
it's up to 480
Black person
480i is 240p alternating image and even then majority of 480i in PS1 games were in menus
it is still very much a 240p console
>floppy hinge
>uncomfortable to hold
>made by asiatics
no thanks!
>made by asiatics
Where do you suppose all of these are made?
You used the wrong pic, but don't worry, i'm here
is shit for SNES and GBA emulation. People claim its great, yet I cant play Wario Land 4 or DK Country without frameskip.
I recall Vita has some weirdness where PSP emulators tend to run better than actual Vita developed emulators. Regardless yeah the Vita actually blows chunks for a lot of things.
That's because some consoles map better to the MIPS instruction set than ARM. N64 specifically, is MIPS itself, so aside from some nonsense when dealing with pointers the code mostly runs as-is.
GBA-wise, the issue is more than mGBA (the one that's available) is accuracy focused and doesn't have any concept of the fact that it's running on a processor that's ARM like the GBA, so it recompiles code anyways. Theoretically you could make something like GBARunner2 or open_agb_firm for the Vita.
Retroarch already has you covered with dedicated SNES and GBA cores. Far better than the standalones.
>troonyarch
how much for an used Vita nowadays?
isit worth getting one just for the crazy shit you can do if you mod it?
The biggest reason is the analog sticks probably die over time and replacing them or the battery sounds like a pain in the ass
Do i have to worry about taht sort of stuff or is the qualiity actually good?
The Vita 1K sticks will never die because they're hall effect sticks. The 2K is the one that will have problems with sticks in the future, it has standard potentiometer sticks.
> The Vita 1K sticks will never die because they're hall effect sticks
My 1K has noticeable stick drift, so I know that can’t be true
Maybe eat less doritos while playing Vita games, then. The 1K sticks are most definitely hall effect-based.
Well they were drifting the moment I bought it secondhand a few weeks ago, so whoever was eating the Doritos, it wasn’t me
It's a gamble if you're gonna get a super scratched and full of gunk device or not.
Besides that I haven't heard of prevalent hardware issues. Replacing the battery is easy, just a few screws.
You gotta ask yourself if you really need one though apart from nostalgia. For the price they're going for you can get a brand new emulation handheld that's gonna support way more games.
>brand new emulation handheld
for example?
i thought of buying on of those game boy clones but it seems that i still have to own all the games that i want to play and considering how expansive some GBA games are and that this machine only plays GB games i dont think its worth it
But ever since the Steam Conslole there are hundreds of similiar systems that are cheaper where i can emulata on
If an Anon can name me one for max 100 bucks i consider getting onme if it emulates everything from nes to atleast the ps1
I mean, you can get something like the RG35XX for 50 bucks that plays everything up to the PS1.
>buy a product from china
Pass.
all electronics are made in china (or taiwan/korea) you doofus
You ever try to get something produced in the US or a Western country, like PCBs? Everything comes from China.
>he doesn't produce his own PCBs using copper plates, a laser printer and a vat of ferric chloride
cringe
RG35XX H looks kinda cool
Its only 70 bucks and does all i want from a Handheld
Im having mine journeyman examination in a Month and if everything works out well i might treat myself to one
>70 bucks
Might as well get a RP2S at that price, lot better.
RPS2 is a hundred dollars and RPS4 150
If i get one i might aswell get the newest one
Is the difference in quality bettween RPS2 and RG35XX H really that noticable that it warrants teh higher pricve pouint?
Whats the difference?
Well no, RP2S is 4:3, 4 is 16:9. Runs DC and N64 (and PSP) with ease, unlike the weaker ones that advertise it but don't go fullspeed or have proper coverage, really nice d-pad whereas the H is stuck with the original 35XX's d-pad which is mediocre, stacked shoulder buttons which are so much better than in-line ones, hall effect sticks. With Android you don't have to worry about out of the box, shit just works including sleep mode which Linux is notoriously bad at. To add to that, H700 based anbernic chinkhelds (H and Plus) are still in their early days with crappy stock OS and limited by anbernic's refusal to break NDA and open up the chip's software to the community fixing up their mess like they would before. Will it work for you? Yeah, probably, albeit with issues. Will this be worth using on the long run? For all you know the do-it-for-freers could abandon it tomorrow. If you're not getting taxes on the RP2S, $20 more for something twice as fast and much more premium is a no-brainer.
Doesn't the RP2S support upstream Linux? I vaguely recall them merging dtbs into the tree for it. I think you could probably install Gentoo on it, lmao.
RP4 not so much. It has a shitty mediatek chipset.
Yeah, I remember hearing someone was trying to get Linux on RP3+, but that went nowhere.
Okay you sould me
should i use the default for RPS2 or is there an Anon out there that developed his own custiom OS for that thiong like with the RG35XX?
There is no other OS, it's just their stock Android.
Batocera on 35XX looked fine
I saw a video on it on yt and it had a nice UI and everything was easy enough to navigate with just a D-Pad
is the native one on the RPS similar?
It can be. Android takes a little more effort to setup and there are more frontend options, though what you're seeing on Batocera, EmulationStation, has a paid version on Android you get from Patreon. I got this from a direct link someone posted before they took it down, it's a few versions behind but it works:
ES-DE 3.0.0-15
https://litter.catbox.moe/613zqx.7z
And then someone posted this as a mirror, no idea if it's safe but if you wanna try:
ES-DE 3.0.1-19.7z
https://litter.catbox.moe/wpzain.7z
Links die in 12h.
Other than that, you can just look up videos on setting up Android handhelds, though the setup wizard already does some lifting for you.
Maybe you could have saved a little on Ali like the guy said, but on the upside you get support.
You're welcome, I'm doing this because it took me 3 other chinkhelds to find something I really liked and without crippling flaws. Youtube reviewer shills lie about virtually everything, you never find negative feedback unless you dig deep on sewers like r*ddit and d*scord.
I like Daijisho better
frick it life is to short to save a missely 100 bucks only for it to lose all worth by the end of the wek due to inflation
I bought one i make sure to post one it once it arrive here and make you guys know what i thibg of it
My last question what shipping option
is 4PX any good?
I dont wanna risk it and make sure my handheld arrives as a broken mess due to some wagie at the packing station handling it like a caveman
Why would you not just buy it on aliexpress? They're like 130 bucks there, shipped.
>aliexpress
Also the price is identical the only reason its highe on the offical site is because of the higher shipping option 4PX would save me 16 bucks and the 128 gb version which again is 10 bcks more expesnsive
If i would subtractt hose two the price would end up the same as on Aliexpress
>Is the difference in quality bettween RPS2 and RG35XX H really that noticable that it warrants teh higher pricve pouint?
Yes but if you don't care about DC and better emulation for systems below it then don't bother
Aaannnddd its done
Last minute changes added a screen protector and got the cheaper version and shipping to save money
it cost me aroubnd 120 euros which was pretty afordablöe overall
big thx for all the support
thx Anons will be getting a 256 gb micro sd this weekend and download all the games i can find
I will let all of you know what i think of it once it arrives
It's honestly only chink handhelds up to the Steam Deck price point.
The pros are that they all run linux so you'll get native up to date emulators.
Emulation on Vita is way more sketchy since the community is way smaller and the people developing for it are few.
I'd say it's worthwhile if you enjoy vita games and PSP games, and enjoy emulation of stuff from 5th gen and before. It does do these things with a good amount of competence, so long as you get a respectable buyer.
the fun stops at snes and ps1 (the latter runs perfectly fine but you won't be playing games that have analog input because retroarch has no way to bind l3/r3 to the touchscreen)
ENTER
EmuDeck is for morons. Then again, I'm clearly biased since I'm not running SteamOS on my deck.
>its not emulation but its overall accuracy is comparable to really shitty inaccurate emulators
well that is just false
I have the original white one and I never use it at all.
I also have a shitty Miyoo Mini and I use that one all the time.
Why tho? AP's screen is reason alone to use it over everything else.
Actually it's not emulation, it's worse
But it's okay when Nintendo does it
Will always make me mad that we switch would've been king if it had the same setup as wii & wiiu virtual console. Instead we got shitty emulation subscription
Weird how N64 have a catalog of 260 games but Nintendo only put 10. I have a modded Switch and I play BattleTanx, Tetrisphere, Nintama Rantaro 64 Game Gallery and WonderProject J2
idk which one i'm gonna get. that ambernic that looks like a smaller steam deck looks good. i just wanna do snes genesis saturn ps1 n64 nes.... ps2 and gamecoob might be cool too
Well Ganker? what's your favourite game?
It's SnowSeve for me.
Based chinks taking advantage of an empty niche
I like that its multicolor, too.
Analogue is not chinese, they’re American
American building their shit in Europe.
Most of these people are coping poorgays who had to sell all of their games and obviously also can't afford this.
Why the morone OG Gameboy shape?
I get tahts its for Nostalgia but GBA is the objectiv superior choice since its 10 times more ergoniomic
it's not meant to be played with, just fondled occasionally and show off on their socials
The screen and shader effects look better than anything else out there
It’s just a shame the build is like GB pocket
Been playing advance wars on my crt with my MiSTer. Pretty comfy.
Am I the only one who drilled a hole in his PS Vita's gamecard slot so that the access light was visible even when the slot is closed?
People used the Vita gamecard slot?
The access light blinks when any data goes to the gamecard slot. That includes your adapter that is probably in there at all times, so it's basically a SD access light.
hello there fellow gamers wonderful day for gaming we have today isnt it
All this discussion about retro videogames has made me want to play my favorite retro videogames of old relesead all the way back on the original Nindendo consoloes unfortunatly i simply cannont play them unless i buy myself the Wonderful Nintendo Switch™ and buy subscribe to Nintendos excellent online service
Luckily there are Rom sites galore where i can simply download my favorite game and play it without even having to pay for them
If any of my fellow gamers out there could redirect me to one of these Rom sites i would be very thankfull
Okay but in all seriusness where to i get my roms?
i have been out of the whole retro videgame scene for a while and would like to get back into ti can any one name a few got rom sites?
Very Interesting My Man. Use a net when you catch with that there bait your asking for glow boy hehehe...
Internet Archive, cdromance, and vimm
myrient is all you will ever need and dont let any homosexual say otherwise
>maybe shes born with it
>maybe its maybelline
yeah, FPGAs are tech illiterate trap
I wish other portables used the screen tho, it seems to be nice
I bet my left nut people who buy this shit, like the steam deck, play for a month and forget about it
They are cool and all but not for that price.
emulation = playing console game on my pc
whatever that pic is is clearly not my pc
moron
>androids are pc
frick up moron
Phones aren't gaming devices zoomie.
he said PC, meaning personal computer you fricking dunce
It's hardware emulation. Also some of it is software emulation, depending on the core.
It's actually extremely clever how some cores get around the logic element limitations by offloading to a RV32 soft core.
I have a new 3ds with an r4 that has just about everything from ds and beforehand on it and an sd card loaded with most of the good 3ds games already running
i have so many games to play that ive been using it more than my switch this last year
O.o o.O
>hack my 3ds years ago to play GBA games
>never play them
>only ever play the latest flavor of the month battlepass/gacha/skin cancer crap
help
you have aids
delete that shit right now
lay down and pick a random gba game
enjoy the rest of your day
im telling you to do this now
if someone doesn't tell you that you have to do it then you wont do it
don't even reply to me
go and play a random gba game
close your eyes and just pick anything if you dont see anything you feel like playing
do not fricking reply to me and do it now homosexual
nta but im going to do this right now
ill probably play a zelda or pokemon game
sorry for replying!
contrary to what some autistic retrogay tells you, gba/3ds games are usually pretty shit nowadays and lack a lot of modern qol so you skip tedious shit that just wastes your time
dont listen to that anon
play more gacha
coom more too
This is who you share the board with now. These are the people pre-ordering deluxe editions of triple A battle pass games. These are also most likely the people sales/count posting all day. These are also likely the people who are porn and off topic posting. Remember that when you wonder why it’s harder to talk about anything other than FOTM or gacha.
Frick software emulation and frick Analogue. With the new DE-10 clone from China and MiSTeX FPGA emulation will be more accessible than ever. So people can stop chimping out over the price of MiSTer and enjoy quality.
I have a MiSTer and Analog Pocket. None of the Analog consoles though, those are moronic.
bro just get a raspberry pi for a fraction of the price and it does the same
ARM emulation is the worst of software emulation.
>Can you go up to 4k resolutions?
No
>Fast forward?
>Save states?
>Cheats?
Depends on the core but all the console/handhelds have cheats.
raspberry pies are not available anywhere last I checked. Scalpers had bought them all.
Can you go up to 4k resolutions?
Fast forward?
Save states?
Cheats?
...
I'm an old game collector but emulation with a good pc beats anything.
QRD on china clone, I’ve been waiting for mister to come down as software emulation is fine especially if you’ve got extra power for cycle accurate emulators or lots of run ahead. Is it functionally identical to the DE10?
Apparently it's coming at the end of May and should be functionally the same.
>we got clones before MARS vaporware
Jej
There are some YouTubers who already have it, you could watch a video on it. I haven't been too interested as I already have a DE-10 Nano.
Mister is very niche and probably not worth for most people, but it's one of the best investments I've made these last few years. I hope these clones aren't garbage so more people can get on board. No pun intended.
>emulation is le bad because ackshually it is prohibited so yeah stop doing that NOW
>le
>ackshually
stinky
I'm actually a sucker for hardware. I still own an SP and bought a fat PS2 to hack. I don't like when people tax the frick out of the nostalgia
anybody who says an fpga isn't emulation is moronic and doesn't understand what an fpga is
Why does this thing cost twice as much as a GBA SP???
Can someone explain to me what "hardware based emulation" is and why people on /vr/ pay such a premium for it?
That it runs on the hardware directly instead of going through the software equivalent of a filter. Technically, "hardware emulation" is not emulation at all, just running the sofware on the proper hardware it is intended for.
>Technically, "hardware emulation" is not emulation at all, just running the sofware on the proper hardware it is intended for.
Don’t trust anyone that ever spews something like this; I love my MiSTER and Analogue Pocket, but hardware emulation still isn’t a 100% complete replica of the platform it is mimicking, at the end of the day it is just a different kind of emulation, superior to software emulation absolutely, but there’s always one game or two with tiny emulation inaccuracies, audio not being completely accurate in some obscure TurboGrafix for example.
it's literally that, they emulate the chips that those console had, with real chips, so, it should be more closer to playing on a real console.
But only homosexuals care at that point vs emulation.
FPGAs attempt to replicate hardware behavior at the logic gate level instead of at the instruction level
In theory this allows for perfect accuracy without any actual overhead like on PC with a cycle-level emulator (or sub-cycle level.)
In practice, this is entirely dependent on what lengths the person writing the verilog/vhdl goes to to ensure this accuracy. Like, the NES cores involved actually decapping and painstakingly replicating the original CPU, iirc, but others like the N64 and PSX cores are no more accurate than a software emulator on a PC and are at best an approximation
Accuracy is a meme after a certain point. I respect the preservation effort, but as far as actually playing I'll be damned if I notice any difference when playing the psx/N64 cores.
There are still games that don't even run on PS1 emulators, perfect accuracy is the final destination of emulation so to speak
It's a nice piece of kit but their attempts to push "ITS NOT EMULATION" are pathetic
>loses to VBA in some tests
>nanoboyadvance wins test made by the same troony who made the shitty emulator nobody ever heard of
Would
>anashit can't even pass every BIOS test
gba suite was made by the mGBA dev
https://github.com/mgba-emu/suite
I see "Mireille" as one of the contributors and some other obvious troony. I'll stick to FPGA made by trve white evropeans thank you.
So what's the best version of these chinkhelds? I'm looking for something with a nice screen runs smoothly and not too many emulation issues. I don't mind having to program it but if there are any that come ready right out the box and don't cost an arm and a leg I don't mind paying a little extra. Some bells and whistles like CRT filters and such would be nice too
highest quality would be retroid whose top model can even do nearly all PS2 and some wii, but at the same time the emulator scene is kinda jank because it's android
there isn't really a best option for everyone, they all have caveats, so you'd need to be more specific about form factor, physical size, desired systems etc
For me, it's this little homie
>ordered clear black version from retroid on 25th
>still not shipped
>need it by 15th
did I frick up bros
Don't worry bro, ur gonna make it
>Just ordered my RPS2 today
>Even opted to use the cheaper shipping version to save a few bucks
Anons is this shit a common problem i dont want to be ripped off by some chink
retroid usually does take up to a week to ship out, then two weeks or less to receival IF you live in the US
hoe long does it usually take for them to ship to Central Europe?
I hate how they 26 editions of the same device with bizarre names. Just sell me a Retroid enough powerful for God of War, Peace Walker, Ape Escape and Japanese VNs
4 Pro, alternatively get a LCDeck for full VN coverage. Though I imagine VNs must not be great on a screen that small.
I like it, I wish they would do even more, like a 3S, that would be the breasts
Actually, it's hardware emulation.
I wish gamecube action replay discs/sd media launchers weren't a nightmare to get now because using an SD media launcher on gamecube to boot up gameboy interface is the most comfy experience for me
Made obsolete by the Funny Playing GBC FPGA kit, which is a much closer rendition of the original hardware, and also 100% FPGA at a fraction of the price.
How come there is no left handed handhelds?