Btw, I saw on the Retroid subreddit last week that people who had ordered the same model (indigo) as me on the same date (8/28) or later were reporting receiving their shipping notifications. I sent a message with that info through their web-based support chat and they apologized and promised they’d get mine out Monday, which was probably their next real open business day, and they did! So if you’re waiting on shipping and ordered late August/early September, it might be worth giving them a little, polite poke.
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I got my shipping notification today
I have been playing Zero Mission on this thing. The buttons and dpad are maybe just stiff enough to be a problem. But also it is lighter than my vita had frankly has less hoops than my psp.
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Gotta get Dolphin Blue on this things so my speakers explode.
The orca in SA shatters them.
There are apparently settings to make n64 work better.
Maybe I should get in the hobby of designing emulator menus because everyone is bad at it.
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The more I use the d-pad the less I like it. The stiffness is not my preference, especially coming from a PSP Go which has a nice d-pad for what it is.
I think I 51% regret my purchase of this thing having played it for a few dozen hours. The d-pad, the interface, the emulators — every aspect of using it more or less works but could be described as “faintly annoying”
But 49% of me adores being able to play Super Mario World and Ranger-X and whatevers on a nice little screen (certainly better than the one on my 3ds) so I’m not gonna toss it in da bin anytime soon
Especially since my PSP Go is still lost somewhere in my parent’s house several hours away from me
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When did you order?
I ordered mine on the 21st of last month and still haven’t gotten a notification.
8/31
I’d message them. Since they gave me a shipping notifcation and then didn’t send it.
I played through Zero Mission. Working my way through janky Sonic Adventure but debating restarting with Retroarch.
And then I finally booted up a PS1 title and it plays perfectly and wow. All the dang hoops you have to do to do PS1 on PSP/Vita. Like it is far off but I am ready to buy another one of these in two years when Dreamcast works this well. I am excited to do PS1 shit on this thing.
The buttons and dpad are a little stiff in the end. The left analog is a switch joycon analog so how much do you like that?
Guess I am going to try rhythm tengoku purely from a lag testing perspective because the handheld controls are recognized as a PS3 pad?
I do believe I am going to get my 100 (after case and shipping) out of this.
Oh yeah can you get sleep mode to actually work? Maybe I don’t know how but if I turn off the screen I can still hear the emulation sound continuing.
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There have been a smattering of videos showing how to set things up and tweak them to get this thing to run better. Half of them involve using Retroid OS, though, which…ah no thanks!
I’m still curious to see if the eventual Android updates help this thing out some. Otherwise, honestly, I’ve just been messing with a RG280M. No, it won’t run every PSX game full speed like this thing does. But it feels nice and is easier to use, so ┐(‘～`;)┌
Curious to see what the RG351P brings to this slate of newer emulation handhelds. It’s not running Android yet, but should be pretty dang good once that’s settled.
I gotta imagine anyone reading this thread and tugging their collar at all these mixed impressions and would do OK with the RG350P? Dual analogs, nice big screen, main caveat of that old ass chip, though. Amazon’s got 'em for like $100.
I’m not being paid by Anbernic I’m just a man who makes poor decisions and aims to inform the people based on his follies.
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Do these other have a sleep mode? That may be the biggest draw back going to older handhelds is they don’t have sleep mode.
So here’s the thing - I think, with the right firmware (they call it the “Rogue” firmware with all the OpenDingux handhelds), they do! Like, I can “close” my PocketGo V2 and resume it later without issue.
But that firmware doesn’t exist for the RG280M, so it’s actually worse than either of them? I just gotta save my state, shutdown, then reboot and reload for those. Not, uh, ideal!
But yeah, I’m curious to see what the long run is gonna be with the Retroid. The OpenDingux system is old as hell, but has had a lot of people throwing their weight and effort at it, which I think is a big part of why the RG350 is still sort of the gold standard even with all these new models hitting.
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My understanding is that internally it’s basically the same as the
RK2020
Powkiddy RGB10
ODROID-GO Advance
So performance wise you can just look how those ones do.
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i was watching videos of the rk2020 doing dreamcast/naomi/atomiswave at full speed the other day, and it’s like $15 cheaper than the retroid pocket 2 too
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The only bad thing about the RK2020 is that the build quality on it is apparently abysmal. Lotta folks saying theirs have crapped out pretty quick. (For what it’s worth, the OGA is apparently not the sturdiest piece of hardware, plus you gotta put it all together yourself!)
The RG351P should run better than it does, but apparently since Anbernic isn’t lifting the OGA’s firmware wholesale like the rest, it’s struggling with a lot of Dreamcast, PSP, and N64 stuff that it should be breezing through.
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I’m just going to dump my general impressions of these random emulator handhelds from having now watched way too many videos about them, there are plenty of others but here are the good ones in three price categories.
Absolutely none of what follows is from hands-on experience with any of these
On the cheap end of the spectrum:
PocketGo V2 and Powkiddy V90 are both small and cheap.
about the same price,
PocketGo has better battery life. V90 is a little more compact.
They play:
Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, Sega Genesis
Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance and original Nintendo.
Spotty: other things of the same vintage, like Wonderswan and SNES
Mid-range
Retroid Pocket 2 seems like the best option if you are willing to futz around with it.
Powkiddy RGB10 seems like the best option if you aren’t willing to futz around with it,
though with the RGB10 the build quality is not great.
With either you get up to PS1 working great,
Spotty: N64, Dreamcast, and Atomiswave
These have different internals, so expect different performance on the hard stuff.
The RG351P is a better built more expensive version of the RGB10.
The eventual RG351M will be better built again, and more expensive again.
If you’re willing to go up in cost and down in performance for a better build then the RGB10 without the tweaking required for the Retroid Pocket 2, you could get an RG280M or RG350M.
Expensive
If you want an absolute powerhouse, and are willing to pay for it, and willing to put up with pretty big sacrifices in areas outside of performance (Start-up time, battery life, form factor) you could get a Piboy DMG or something in the GPD line of portables.
These things play up to Dreamcast/Atomiswave well.
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I think I’ll upgrade from my RG350 when one of these cheap things comes out that can emulate PS2 well. I realize that’s probably 5 to 10 years out!
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One of the Taki videos showed that for ~$600 you could buy a PS2 shoved and rewired into a Vita case with DualShock2 buttons and sticks off of Aliexpress. I don’t really have that kind of money to throw around but due to Portabilized Accessible Nostalgia I was kind of tempted but finally put off of the idea since the build quality doesn’t look good at all and they seem to be individually hand-made.
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Mine shipped today - I ordered Sept 4th.
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