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I finally joined the retro gaming handheld club!
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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?
I have an Anbernic RG556. Does pretty good with PS2 (not perfect, but good enough for funk with most games ive tried), and does fantastic with the older gens of pretty much everything. Ive done some Steam Link stuff, but I dont love it and it can be finnicky with that -- but it's pretty cool to be able to play Borderlands 4 on a device i got for less than $200.
My advice to anybody on the fence is buy the best one you can afford even if you dont think you'll want to play games that need those specs.
I need to look into it more, but if a Steam Deck can emulate, i might be looking at getting one of those someday and retiring my Anbernic.
Rg556 10/10 for value 7/10 for performance 3/10 for steam linking
I got the original STEAM Deck, and it has been a godsend for emulation.
It handles Switch titles with upscaling, and even PS3 games. It struggles with Skate 3 on PS3 though, which is the main one I'd like to play.