YESSSSS IVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR WEEKS.

Got this, and a laptop with a 3080TI in it before I got sacked, and guess what has been sitting in a corner since?

Got a 512gb card in mine thats almost fully loaded up. Playing the ps2 Hot Pursuit game at the bar as I type this.

RETROID GANG RETROID GANG RETROID GANG

Usually I'd use my vita but I'm always worried about damaging it and they're not exactly in production so I wanted something more disposable with L2 and R2 buttons.

This, right here, is my biggest pet peeve about closed consoles. For the love of god release something so we can repair the old systems!

I think it was for this device but I believe retro game corps (on youtube) had a video on tweaks/hacks to get PS2/GC emulation running to a passable level. Worth a shot

Before I forget, here's a repo of every game ever made(not really but it's a ton): https://r-roms.github.io/

I have 2 other repos somewhere with more currated collections for up to N64 iirc but I'd have to find them. I just have the above bookmarked.

Also LPT: replace the stock sd card that these things come with if you can. They tend to crap out all the time.

No reason to limit yourself to just PS1, since most 50+ dollar devices can do that- while GC and PS2 support is hacky at best, you should be able to do Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn, Dreamcast and PSP with upscaling.

I love mine. The only thing I don't like is how clicky the buttons are. But that can be fixed if I cared enough.

I'm just biding my time until I decide to surge on a high end emulation machine or Steam Deck.

I can just sell a couple of my old video games and/or Magic cards for either purchase. (Edit: Any Hexbears wanna do a trade? 😀)

Hoping to have some GC capability so that I don't throw $60 at Nintendo in a few months to play Paper Mario: TTYD for the first time

Stuck in analysis paralaysis.

This handheld is so good!

My only Retroid handheld is the second model, and it sucks big time ☠️

Aside from the games I missed out on as a kid, I've also been playing Morrowind with OpenMW and loaded it up with some wacky ports. It's a good time.

Yeah you need a Snapdragon 845 at minimum to emulate PS2 with Aethersx2. And I'd recommend looking at a Snapdragon 865 or above, so you can play at higher resolutions and framerates, or with better rendering accuracy. At unisoc tiger processor with two average big cores, combined with six poorly performing little cores and a Mali GPU (the processor in the retriod pocket 3+) is never going to emulate a PS2. Mali GPUs have pretty poor performance in the PS2 and GameCube emulation space as well, basically forcing you to use Snapdragon processors with Adreno GPUs.

With Aethersx2, it's basically a port of PCSX2 to Android, done by guy that made Duckstation. All the translation layers seem to be closed source, yeah. Also I'd recommend downloading one of the apks before they decided to abandon development due to harrassment, I think apkmirror may be helpful there.

It can run PS2 and GameCube, just not every game. I have a whole load of games on my Flip that run at full speed.

Got to one of the final screens on Abe's Exodus 20ish years ago and got stuck and walked away from the game. Definitely loved what I played of it though and heard in a Retronauts podcast that Odyssey is even better.