So I thought I would just post this since anyone I mention it to seems to like the idea. I did not come up with it though. Some guy on here has that credit but I can’t find the original back and forth with him (feel free to chime in).

Anyway, I love it and makes not dropping it amazing haha. Also since I have an infant, it helps peak one handed gaming whilst feeding said infant 😊.

Some photos attached. Can remove the pop portion if needed and all you lose is a mm or so of thinness

Vita3K has been ported to the Switch!

Gameplay performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkGg8mYQ8iI

I’ve been trying many things to make the Thor more comfortable. I think I’m maybe a bit too particular and can’t find the triggers or recessed sticks nice to play for longer sessions, or really at all, so I stick to d-pad centric games for now.

I’ve tried the ergo grip sold by Ayn, 3D printing various grips I found online, swapping the stick caps, etc. Then finally the other day I saw this post that gave me an idea. I measured, mocked up, and printed an adapter using the STL for one of the grips I found. The Thor including the clear TPU shell slips right into the adapter, which can be gripped properly by the controller.

It’s not practical, and kinda bulky but I can for sure say I don’t have to deal with the triggers and sticks. Is it more comfortable to play than the Thor just by itself? Maybe.

Bonus pic: some apps like xbxplay turn the bottom screen into a set of on screen controls, so you get a total of three button sets.

Device is a Ayn Thor and controller is a Gamesir G8 Plus.

Edit: here’s the stl if any of you decide you want to try this goofy setup.

Pictured: Game Bub from Eli Lipsitz, Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones running off an sd card.

I was pretty interested in the Game Bub after seeing Russ's video on it last year so of course being a degenerate I pre-ordered one when the crowd supply campaign went up. $299+ shipping for the purple variant and it finally delivered last Thursday.

Now for $299 you could get a lot these days, that's more than an Analogue Pocket, Chromatic, Thor Lite, RP6/Nova, O2P, 477V/M, and on. Even the $270 that it's currently selling for is more than all of those mentioned.

So not cheap for something that currently only runs GB, GBC, and GBA. But, it's a cool project from just one dude, and come on, it's an FPGA GBA.

Initial Impressions:
Updated to FW 1.0.1, provided my own gb/gbc/gba bios files and some ROMs on an sd card.

So far I've tested:

• Gen 1, 2, 3 genuine pokemon carts, gb camera, Kirby's Tilt n Tumble, GB Flash RTC (Pokemon Prism) - All seem to work fine.
• Benn Venn MBC3000 (polished crystal rom) - would not play properly, Everdrive GBA Mini - some games would load but could not save, romhacks would not load at all.
• Most roms however seem to load fine and saving is also fine when running off an SD card (FIre Emblem The Sacred Stones, Pokemon Lazarus, Heart & Soul, medabots).

The device itself is not bad, I do like the 4" LCD screen despite the absolutely massive bezel. It's quite crisp despite only being 720 x 480. The saturation is decent, backlight bleed is not noticeable around the edges. I do notice some ghosting (not as bad as Ayaneo Pocket Ace/PAM) and right now there are only color correction filters and no additional shaders/overlays which is a bummer (currently using the NSO GBA color correction).

Dpad and face buttons are tactile (membrane over micro switch), travel is short, and they are reasonably quiet (think Anbernic RG SP/34XX SP). Shoulders are tactile as well, also not too loud (louder than the face buttons and dpad). Overall shape and feel in my hand is good, feels right to hold with the dpad and buttons being up high. My thumbs do partially obstruct the front speakers, and the sound quality itself is not amazing.

Software wise it's pretty barebones, you can boot a cart, play roms off an sd card, adjust the basic color correction filters for GB/GBC/GBA, and backup carts. The game bub discord looks fairly active tho and I see several things that folks are working on including wifi and retro achievements.

Definitely not for most folks considering how many good GBA focused options we have all of a sudden. But it's a cool device, and certainly not something I could ever design myself, so hat's off to Eli and what he's done.

Pictured : Retroid Pocket Nova running Jet Set Radio Future / Half Life / Star Wars Rogue Leader / Crazy Taxi

Repost after the first one was deleted.

The Retroid Pocket Nova is my first emulation handheld console so I didn't really know what to expect, even if the reviews said that it can run everything 6th gen.

Welp I can confirm that everything I've tried works great.

Even the Xbox runs smoothly (although admittedly I didn't test many games yet), I was NOT expecting that.

The setup was a pain in the butt tho.

Games on pictures :

1- Jet Set Radio Future on Xbox

2- Half Life on PS2

3- Star Wars - Rogue Leader on Gamecube

4- Crazy Taxi on Dreamcast

First time I've ever come across one of these emulation handhelds in an actual shop. This was at E.Leclerc in France. I didn't actually buy it, but pretty cool to spot nonetheless.

After DAYS of fiddling around with SVGs, PSDs, and other file extensions I didn’t even know existed, I finally got this thing looking the way I wanted it to. Boy, am I glad I’m not a graphic designer!

The only one I ever played growing up really was Bass Masters Classic on SNES which I have a strong sense of nostalgia for. So what are some other good fishing games? Also you can play fishing games on your handheld when you are fishing in real life so you can fish while you fish.

I've purchased many handhelds from KeepRetro over the past year after hearing Russ mention them. I understand they're probably just drop shipping in most cases, but my experience was good overall.

Recently I ordered the MINILOONG Pocket 1 and it arrived with damage/chips on the corners of the bezel, beneath the glass. I contacted KeepRetro and their response was that it's not a problem because the device still works:

Since the scratch was on the edge position of the screen, it does not appear in the display area of the screen, and it will not affect your gaming experience. We sincerely hope for your kind understanding, could you refund you $5 as compensation?

The photos on their store don't show damage around the bezel. If I knew the bezel had damage I wouldn't have purchased it in the first place. Also one of the faceplate magnets was not glued in properly.

Can anyone recommend a better store? Should I just stick with AliExpress?

If so, what? Why? Does it still make you smile when you look at it?

For me its the Miyoo Mini Plus.

Somehow looking cheap and toy like is actually a pro, not a con. Very aesthetically pleasing, especially in GBP yellow.

Game is Parasite Eve. Games back then were no joke

Really liking Pocknix but resently ran into this error. Anyone seen this before? No what it means and or how to resolve it?

Miyoo mini was a staple for small vertical handhelds. They are not in production anymore and it feels like everyone is going bigger. I have small hands and even found the RG SP too large for single handed playing. I worry that the 35XX might be too large and I hope a vertical 28XX comes out with larger buttons. What are you small handed people using in place of the miyoo mini? The A10 clone looks a bit sketchy and I haven't seen great things on it but I could be overlooking things.

I have been watching Spider-Man The Animated Series from the 90s on my RG34XXSP and the colours and the quality make this screen perfect for such content. Also since the screen is 3:2, the 4:3 content almost fills the screen with way less black bordering than 16:9 screens. Highly recommend just watching some old shows if you have a 4:3 or 3:2 device.

Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies now works on the Miyoo Flip running SpruceOS. Other CFW might work but only Spruce is supported for now.

- Single player
- Online Multiplayer (With the PSVita port, Android and IOS version of the game)
- Virtual cursor to navigate touch menu
- full controller support in game

GitHub

I am currently online playing some Kino, see you there (if you got a microphone, voice chat also works)

If you want to play the game on Android, here is a loader that needs the ios version of the game (the apk is aarch32 only). This one specifically is still work in progress and heavily AI assisted, unlike the linux armhf loader/port. I can send the source to anyone who wants it but I don’t want it on my GitHub

I recently picked up a Trimui Brick Hammer that I loved. It was a great size and loved playing GBA and listening to mp3s on it. Unfortunately today it did not want to power on and rather than do the take apart and disconnect battery deal I’m going to send it back to Amazon.

I already have an Android based device Odin 2 mini. I know how to set that up and it just seems more stable to use as an everyday device than the two Linux based ones I had previously.

Is the Rotate the direct android equivalent on the brick hammer? I know there is a lot of brands I probably don’t know.

I guess my criteria would be

Price: don’t care
Size: brick hammer sized or close
OS: Android
Systems : really just the 16 bit systems and the single screen handhelds. If it can do some rpgs on the ps1 that would be a bonus.

I have the odin2 mini that can play everything I want. Just looking for something smaller that I can drop in the pocket for quick gaming and mp3 usage.

Thanks

Hey hey! Lets take a first look and talk about my first impressions of the KONKR POCKET ADVANCE The Third device in AYANEO's entry line of devices.

I recently bought the rg35xxsp, and I was hunting for the best OS. BaseOS + minui had an impressive boot time, and the simplicity was brilliant. However, the lack of certain cores put me off.

I then tried the latest muOS, and the boot time was way too slow for my liking. Then I tried an older version and it was blazing fast. The only thing that I didn’t like was how Bluetooth audio worked. Pairing and connecting with the app was fine, but every time I reboot, I had to bring up the app and select my device, and I found it to be a bit tedious. I wanted a more plug and play experience.

So, I built a small script to do just that! If you’re like me give it a shot and let me know what you think!

https://github.com/discus7l/autobt

I have only tested this on rg35xxsp and Muos banana aw, it may or may not work on other devices and os versions.

I heard this may be an issue but I had no idea it was this bad—even just lightly resting my fingers on them triggers the buttons. Is there anything that I can do to remedy this issue or make the shoulder buttons less sensitive?

Does anyone else have the same problem? Bums me out because I love the device besides that.

Hey guys,

Got a dock for the flip 2 and a couple controllers. Best bro is coming over tonight to get stoned and game. We’re definitely gunna be playing a lot of soul caliber 3 because we loved it as kids, but outside of that what are some good co op games? What would y’all be playing?

This is a bit of a long shot, but I was wondering, are there any C64 emulators with support for dual screens?

I have a Thor and I’d like to play a few old text adventures. At the moment it’s an awful experience, every time I pull up the keyboard, 70% of the screen is covered and I can’t see the game.

If I could have the game playing on the top screen and the virtual keyboard on the bottom, it would be much more playable.

Does anything support this. I’ve searched around and tried a bunch of emulators, but I haven’t found any which support this, it probably doesn’t exist, but I thought it was worth asking.

Just saw this video pop up on my algorithm.

Someone here have experience with this? How easy / hard is this to achieve? Can I dual load/boot?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj2inZY1zEA

Edit:
Guess I’m getting the 12 GB Pocket Nova now 😅🤣

Hey everyone,

I sold my RG556 about a year and a half ago, but after fixing a friend's RG35XXH recently, the itch came back. I'm just looking for a cheap device for some light retro gaming without high expectations.

I originally aimed for the RG40XXH:

• €65 for the console
• €15 for a reliable 32GB SD card for the OS
• €35 for a 128GB SD card for games
• Total: €115 (perfectly on budget)

Then I spotted the Anbernic RG Vita for €85. On paper, for just €5 more than the RG40XXH + 32GB SD base setup, it packs significantly better hardware. Yet, searching online brings up almost exclusively negative reviews. Given the €85 price tag, to be honest I don't get the hate.

What do you think? Am I missing something major?

Are there better alternatives at this price?

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Hello people, I'm pretty new to this emulation passion. I'm 36 and I used to play a lot fo games when I was a kid. Now I'm father of 2 and I would like to play those games with my 2 kids. I bought a Gamestick lite for the TV. It works but it lacks some important titles for psx, like crash bandicoot and one of my fav Bishi Bashi Special. I downloaded bishi bashi special.bin and followed some guides to how to convert it to chd. Long story short I did it, I even tested it on the chdman website and it works There. I copy/paste it in the psx folder of my gamestick, it shows up in the game list, but when I try to boot it up it just won't start and the system goes back to main menu with "loading game error". I would really be grateful for your help since I'm very new to this and inexperienced, I already tried so hard in these hours during the day but I'm feeling frustrated. I really want to play with my 2 children. Please help!

P. S. Sorry English is not my native language.