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Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld (beehaw.org)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by sleepybisexual@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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Have you ever held a switch? Its long, flat and the controllers suck. Awful dpad and bad sticks.

Its almost comical, for a small stick the 3ds stick is better than any joycon stick.

And also, internal storage being only 32 GB, and cart games being downloaded in full to the system.

The switch is a mess. At least the games emulate well.

That's not even going into the online ransom shit.

And the dock sucks too. Would it have killed Nintendo to add like 2 more USB ports and an Ethernet port.

And not related but powera can eat shit

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[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 months ago

I'd go even farther back - make another GBA

[-] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 7 points 6 months ago

I want both a new GBA and a new 3ds.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 months ago

I think maybe I just want a GBA

Which is probably currently available if I look around

[-] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago

I want a GBA, but the money to get one is not worth it.

A GBA is not worth 100 euros to me.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 months ago

That's true, especially since I don't have any of the old physical games.

I might get one of those "retro handhelds" (rg351p, PowKiddy, etc) one day. Those at least seem much more reasonable, and probably sport more open architecture

[-] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

I'm big into those, you want some recommendations?

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

Hell yes!! I would love that. I'm definitely looking for something lofi - like even playing SNES games would probably be overkill. Bonus points if it can play contemporary retro games, like for PICO-8

[-] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

OK, so yih looking for something that can do SNES well, that would be low power, unless you wanna have newer systems,

So I need answers for these 4 questions

What shape you want?

What budget?

How much power do you want!

What os do you want?

For SNES the cheaper end will work

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

  1. Smaller the better, not wide like a Switch or Stream Deck.

  2. Under 200 CAD, but flexible for the right device

  3. Limited 3D but no more. Like FX chip level

  4. Linux? Hopefully I understood the question

Thanks for taking this time!

[-] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 4 points 6 months ago

OK, I have some ideas.

For all of SNES and some other stuff as a bonus the ambernic rg35xxh seems like it'd be a good fit. Tho it is horizontal. About 80-90 USD I think

The rg35xx is similar but vertical with no sticks

For something that's like 40 USD ish there's the powkiddy v90.

Tho for 200 cad that's like mid range tier. But most powerful ones are landscape.

A good yt channel is retro game corps.

My personal machine is the retroid pocket 4 pro. An android handheld that is very powerful, can emulate up to some switch

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago

Oh the different retroid pockets look really cool. Thanks, you've given me a lot to dig in to!

[-] sleepybisexual@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

Didn't think you'd like a retroid cos they run android but they are extremely good.

The 4 pro is good, it runs a lot well, up to 2d switch games.

I heard horror stories about the 3 and flip tho.

Also powkiddy stuff is bad at mid range, only consider them for very cheap,

[-] Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That would be really interesting. Heck I would even just take people making more games with the gba's restrictions. I've always thought it's super interesting. As developers get used to working with a console or system, we end up rolling into the next generation. So they don't really get to flex their skill as much as I think they probably could.

I sometimes wonder what we would see if older consoles had another 7 years of life added to them. I try not to think about it too hard or I get kinda sad about the games we'll never see lol

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