Picking up a retroid for emulation (hexbear.net)

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Anyone used one of these before? I've heard really good things. Mostly looking to emulate PS1, dreamcast, n64, and PS2 and from what I've read the retroid 4 does a solid job with all of them.

My main question is: how easy is it to get up and going with emulation on a dedicated handheld? I've done some really light emulation in the past, but only on pc and that was years ago.

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[-] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

Not a Retroid specifically, but I do have a little experience with other SBC devices. Easiest way to set it up imo is through pre-made images downloaded from this site: https://www.arcadepunks.com/

I don't see anything specifically made for Retroid, but you can really just find any image that looks good and transfer the roms over. Also once you get the roms set up, there are some other useful sites like screenscraper.fr (to automatically scrape info, covers, etc.) and then retroachievements.org to add achievements to emulated games.

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