In the pic: Anbernic RG35XX-H playing Castlevania: Dracula X

I’ve been thinking about buying one of these for a while but finally bit the bullet now that companies have started raising prices due to the RAM/chip shortage…

And it turned out to be the best purchase I’ve made in a while! It’s a ton of fun gaming on this little thing. I flashed a custom operating system on it and am now playing Castlevania & Secrets of Mana with RetroAchievements support (which adds achievements and progress tracking to retro games).

I’m also playing a lot of random PICO-8 games since it runs on the device and I can easily browse and play free games on it. Low-key wish I had bought it sooner with how neat it is.

Anybody else have a retro handheld here?

  • RmDebArc_5@feddit.orgEnglish
    11·
    17 天前

    Have had the Anbernic RG35XX for a while now. It is the pseudo predecessor to yours, meaning it has no Wi-Fi, which is kinda nice. Nowadays it’s rare to have a device that just does it’s thing, no internet, no subscriptions, no updates, no tracking

    • popcar2@programming.devOPEnglish
      12·
      17 天前

      Normally I would agree, but Wi-fi on this thing adds a lot to it. It allows you to scrape box art and a short video that gets shown when you hover on each game you have, and it lets you connect to retroachievements as well as easily transfer files from your PC wirelessly with FTP.

      It’s definitely not needed but it makes things a bit more convenient for me IMO.

      • RmDebArc_5@feddit.orgEnglish
        4·
        17 天前

        Most of that is a one time process, which you can do with the RG35XX when you connect it to a PC. But I have to agree retro achievements is quite nice

        • ferrule@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          10 天前

          There are so many games I would do speed runs of, not on purpose put out of muscle memory. It really is nice to have Retro Achievements to force me to play them more fully.