Just got this bad boy yesterday and I’m like a kid at Christmas! 😄 The delight I felt firing up my old love, Desert Strike… Goosebumps! Seriously impressed with this bit of kit, and I’m enjoying exploring the options as much as the many many games! The effort put in by the community with GarlicOS and the ROM packs is simply magnificent.

  • Redhotkurt@kbin.social
    9·
    1 year ago

    I’m so out of the loop, this is blowing my mind. I’m looking at the site @FriendOfFalcons linked (https://anbernic.com/products/rg35xx), wow. Specs look pretty good, this emulator should easily run any PS1, GBA, Neo Geo game. Hahah what, Neo Geo? There’s a blast from the past.

    I can’t find any info on what Linux distro it ships with, does this thing work out of the box or do you have to install the OS? I presume you supply the ROMs? Holy crap, and they have beefier handhelds that support later-gen platforms. This is awesome.

    • id_kai@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      You can play it directly out of the box, but there are custom OS’s out there that run things even better and add more features. You do supply the ROMs, but there are plenty of ROM packs out there too to make your life easier. I honestly recommend looking into RetroGameCorps on Youtube, he has some great content around these types of devices.

      If you get the RG35XX specifically, I’d recommend this guide.

      • Redhotkurt@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        Ah ok, I should’ve figured there’d be custom OS’s involved, that’s awesome. Thx, I’ll check out RetroGameCorps. And thanks for the starter guide link, looks super helpful.

      • Ggtfmhy@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’m sorry if this goes against some instance/community rule and if so please just tell me - but where does one find reliable ROM packs? I only ever used EmuParadise back in the day (as I still do - but don’t tell anyone!)

  • Dave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I got the Miyoo Mini Plus a few months ago, and I really love it. They’re really lovely devices for just whipping out for a quick game of Tetris, especially with the convenience of the game switcher and save states. I’ve been surprised by how usable it is, despite the small size.

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    How does this stack up in terms of processing power, versus other, similar handhelds like the AYANEO 2021 Pro?

    I know it’s a far more expensive unit, but I’m wondering what the delta looks like… Does it even perform half as well? I’d love to pick something like this up, but I don’t want to regret the choice later, when it doesn’t play a handful of games I’d like to play.

    • bodiesofeverest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Like not even close. This is like 5th generation consoles and no PC. Aya will emulate Switch and probably lots of PS3, and of course play PC games. Also it lacks a 3D joystick so there’s that.

      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        What generation of games would this play? SNES? PS1? gamecube?

        My metric right now is for something that can basically play all the Zelda games short of the Switch versions. If I can get anywhere close to that, then I’m probably going to be happy with it. I just kinda want to relive the days of LTTP and titles like FF6, possibly even ocarina of time and majora’a mask… pretty much all zelda titles short of Breath of the Wild.

        being able to save some money with something like this would be nice too.

        • bodiesofeverest@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I highly doubt it can do GameCube, Wii, and possibly not even DS. N64 and possibly some Dreamcast but again you’re missing the 3D stick.

          • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Thank you for this.

            Just one follow up question: is it possible to connect an external controller to the unit? Perhaps one with a joystick? I have several that work on Bluetooth.

  • nugget359@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    The RG35XX is pretty great, nice color choice too! Looks like I need to update my GarlicOS, my games list is still centered with boxart in the background.

    • agvirthesilent@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      In order to do that you’ll need to first change your /CFW/skin/settings.json to have "text-alignment": "left" and "text-margin": 300 to shift your games list to the right. Next you’ll want to use a tool like Skraper to generate your images so it is transparency on the right where your games list is and put what you want to display on the left. You can use the image mixes provided from ebzero on Github or the 2 image mix with only the gameplay screenshot and box art that I’ve modified below and place the xml into the Mixes subdirectory of Skraper:

      <ImageComposition xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="https://www.skraper.net/ImageComposition.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <Information ShortName="RG35XX 2 Image Mix" LongName="RG35XX 2 Image Mix" Description="2DBox + Screenshot" Author="Author" />
  <Viewport Color="#00FFFFFF" Width="1280" Height="960" />
  <Drawings>
    <Item Type="Screenshot">
      <Display X="23%" Y="64%" Antialiasing="None" Width="45%" Height="45%" Anchor="BottomHCenter" />
      <Fallback Type="ScreenshotTitle">
        <Fallback Type="SystemWallPaper">
          <Children Reference="Parent">
            <Item Type="Text" Text="No Screenshot!" TextColor="#FFFFFFFF" FontFamilly="Arial" FontStyle="Bold Italic" />
          </Children>
        </Fallback>
      </Fallback>
    </Item>
    <Item Type="Box2DFront">
      <Display X="44%" Y="57.5%" Antialiasing="None" Transparency="0.9" Width="22%" Height="32%" Anchor="VCenterRight" />
    </Item>
  </Drawings>
</ImageComposition>

      When you’ve decided what you want to use, find the Media Type option under the Media tab in Skraper and choose User Provided Mix and then you can select the custom xml file you want to use when running Skraper.

  • missingno@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been thinking about getting one of these mini handhelds, but I kinda want to hold out for something that could eventually run SteamOS. Deck is nice but I want something that fits in my pocket.

  • ottk3English
    51·
    1 year ago

    You might also want to check out the RockChipConsoles community (even if it is still pretty quiet over there).

    !rockchipconsoles@discuss.tchncs.de

    A community for consoles based around the rockchip processors like Anbernic, Powkiddy or Odroid.

  • FriendOfFalcons@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    I have an RG353V and I freaking love this thing.

    The past few years I barely played games at all. It’s only when I got my little device that I noticed how much I liked playing anywhere: On my couch, on my seat, in my bed or during travel.

    It really reignited my love of games.

    • VanillaGorilla@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Oh hi Sarah Silverman, get out of my head…

      On the bed, on the floor
      On a towel by the door
      In the tub, in the car
      Up against the mini-bar

      • FriendOfFalcons@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Sure, a lot of retro games, especially from the SNES: Super Metroid, LoZ AlttP, the Mario All Stas Collection.

        But also like GBA games like Pokémon RomHacks or Mario vs Donkey Kong.

        But I also really enjoy playing some Portmaster games. I actually spent most of my time now playing Shovel Knight lol. But I also have fun that Sonic fan games are easily installed. I played a bit the Sonic fan game Sonic Robo Blast 2

  • RetroHitch@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    Yup, great device. Got one myself and promptly persueded a bunch of mates to do the same as I kept ranting about it. Was never really a handheld guy despite being a retro guy but I adore this and its used daily. GarlicOS just makes it even better.

    Gratz dude.