It seems like the screen on my Miyoo Flip V2 is busted, so I have been having an email conversation with them about how to figure this out. The good news is that I can get a replacement screen pretty cheap at least. Also I now know how to disassemble my Flip, ha.
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Last week a dev ported Lossless Scaling to Android so I’ve been playing 30 FPS 3DS games at 60 fps on my AYN Thor. Just Pokemon Ultra Sun and Etrian Odyssey V though, RPGs that don’t need that much precise input.
Even then, it doesn’t really work that well because frame generation is pretty taxing so it feels like a smeary dream half the time. Pokemon is fine on the world map but in battle there’s some smeary hitching and the life bars shrink in very stilted weird way. It works pretty well in Etrian though, making the map movement and inbattle enemy movement very smooth. It does desaturate the screen though which is weird? It’s awful for menus though, making them feel laggy and smearing into each other, so I turn it off when reading the story text or doing menu things.
I hear it runs great for DS emulation though? I also need to try it out on PSP and see if I can get Monster Hunter running at 60 though, that’d be nice.
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is there a trusted place to get an ayn thor in the uk?
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in my panic over not being able to get a Steam Deck before the Big Jump, I started looking to see what my Retroid Pocket 5 could do with Winlator… which looked confusing
which led me to GameHub and GameNative, two different apps that allow you to play some of your Steam/Epic/other PC game libraries on Android.
it’s spotty what works and what doesn’t, and what works but kind of slowly (Sephonie runs at 75% speed seemingly, Toki Tori is 100% playable but with weird stutter every 2 seconds, Enough Plumbers runs at 2fps) but I’m currently playing Derelict Star and a couple other 2D indie games that work perfectly, and it’s making me love this thing all the more.
had me briefly tempted to upgrade, but I’ll wait at least one more generation for a new Retroid, probably, presuming the RAM and other component crunches don’t completely kill this market and these companies
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If you have a PC capable of it, I hear game streaming is also great on Retroid! I’ve never done it myself before though
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I’ve done a little of that streaming! And it works well, but it requires me to leave my PC on, which I don’t often do. PS5 streaming is shockingly good, too, though very few PS5 games are things I want to hold on such a small screen.
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i got an rg ds, and for some reason, i can’t copy screenshots from it to my pc, so i have to email them to myself.
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So what’s the move for these devices when you want to access the play store to download and install stuff? Just use your main google account? Create an alternate account? I want to install Duckstation on a Mangmi Pocket Max, but the version I snagged from apkmirror refuses to install. I’m ready to throw in the towel and connect this thing to the internet and grab it off the play store.
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I wouldn’t trust it, I’d make a junk account, its free.
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Have you tried the Aurora Store? That seems to be the go-to alternative store, at least on handhelds running the de-Googled versions of Gamma OS.
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Since they canceled one of their models and stuff, I was wondering if Retroid was going to get pushed out of this market, but they just announced another handheld, the 4:3 Nova
(I know Anbernic has been relentless in its new releases, I’ve developed a weird sort of loyalty to Retroid, partly because their Android machines all feel much better to me than the Linux-based machines I’ve tried from companies like Anbernic)
I hate that I’m tempted to buy this. My RP5 is doing great for me right now.
It looks like this is largely the same inside as a Retroid Pocket 6, with the main difference being a 4:3 screen and a slightly smaller battery. I don’t really care about having a squarish screen, though? I mostly play 4:3 games on my 16:9 RP5, and the pillarboxing is just fine.
8GB and 12GB configurations, ranging from $229 to $274 (see-through cases are $5 more), vs. starting at $244 for the RP6.
I’d definitely be more tempted if there was an exciting or unique color option. I kinda hate see-through plastic electronics. I’ve already got an indigo NGC-colored RP5. And black and SFC colors are kinda boring.
I’m holding out hope for an RP7 later this year or next year that will justify an upgrade and still be under $300. Mainly, I’d like something that runs a little more current Android and will be overall a bit faster than the RP6, which hasn’t felt worth upgrading to from the 5.
Anyway, I just wanted to write this out because even though I barely care about my own thoughts on this, they won’t stop rattling around in my brain and we have a thread here for it.
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this is such a vibe. when your own special interests don’t even interest you
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Thank you for writing about this, I was similarly gonna bring it up but ya pretty much nailed my thoughts on this.
I guess it does seem nice paired with the dual screen add-on. It’d be tempting for that if there wasn’t the inherent input lag, or all those posts I’ve seen about those screens messing up.
Or, y’know, the Thor Lite, if you really need dual screens around $250.
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Is it feasible to put any kind of e-reader software on one of these? I assume it’s possible I just wonder if any of you have done it and how the experience is.
I do all my reading on my phone these days which is definitely the worst way to read a book, but I don’t know if I necessarily want to get a tablet or a dedicated e-reader.
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I got a dedicated e reader and it is worth every penny
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The best ereader tip I got was that you can get a Boost Mobile-locked TCL NXTPaper 50 XL phone from Walmart for $50/60 and it has a great faux ereader matte paper screen + BW or ereader color mode + a 120hz screen (though I don’t use it so I can keep the ereader-like low-refresh feel). I never turned on any of the phone features and deleted all the bloatware off it so the only thing it has is Kindle, einkbro (a dedicated ereader web browser with features to optimize colors and reading for ereaders), and retroarch for the novelty of sometimes playing GBC on an ereader-like screen.
I was using a Boox Go Color 7 for a while but wanted something more phone-sized for taking on the go, and this was totally worth it. Would recommend over the very limited xteink that ereader fans are going nuts over or the locked down environments of Kindle/other ereaders. Plus at that price, I don’t care if I damage it or lose it.
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I guess Amazon is out of these now (you can order them from AliExpress, but you gotta be careful, as certain Chinese ones don’t allow custom firmware), but I’ve got one of these and it rules.
Flashing the good custom firmware just involves going to a website, plugging it in, and hitting a button. You can pretty easily use a web interface to transfer books and convert them to a smaller screen format.
I love it.
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I mainly read webnovels and kindle books so this little guy not having a browser or kindle support made it not appealing to me, though it is nice how cheap and tiny it is