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Sadly I must report that when the fucking thing actually works and has a screen that isn't smashed, the Retroid Pocket 2S is a really top shelf handheld. Sticks and triggers are good (and hall effect), d-pad is a clone of the PS Vita's so it feels like sex, membrane buttons on ABXY are great, and all emulators are set up for you out of the box.

Convoluted PCB on the inside, though, two cables run along the back of the screen and the battery rests on top of them, and the screen is essentially fused to the front shell so Retroid has to sell or replace screens as a full front shell swap. The right side PCB half (controls d-pad, L buttons and left stick) bumps into the shell's retention clips if you try to take it out, it's a tight fit. Mysteriously, fixing the screen actually did fix the HDMI output.

I beat Dragon Warrior 1!

I took a break from playing Dragon Quest 5 and many other games during finals season because i needed something I could burn through to de-stress and pick up and put down whenever i had a few free minutes. I'm very happy that i picked this game up because not only is it fun, I could grind as a form of catharsis.

I took me a solid couple weeks and a lot of it was grinding. Because i was playing this for fun more than anything I did use save states, and played it on my beloved Retroid Pocket 2S (love that thing). I looked at some maps and stuff too, but I didn't follow any guides (I didn't need to because I've beaten other versions of this game before).

This game isn't hard, it's just really grindy but I Love Grinding so I was quite pleased with this.

The story still holds up to this day tbh, there isnt a huge plot but i think it's good especially for 1986/1990. I had a lot of fun playing this game, and now I'm sort of slowly playing Dragon Warrior 2 (my favourite of the Erdrick Trilogy), but for now I'm back to Dragon Quest 5.

I had so much fun playing this game and I absolutely would again, especially during finals season lol.

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I love looking at ROM compatibility lists because now I know 1) there's a game called Stuart Little 3 - Big Photo Adventure and 2) it runs perfectly on the Retroid Pocket 3+.

Retroid Pocket 2S unboxing and review!

I am now the proud owner of a Retroid Pocket 3 Plus (transparent blue) and after a week of playing this thing pretty much nonstop, here are my impressions.

[tl;dr: kind of a grind to set up, but works pretty great once you do!]

If you decide to get yourself one of these devices, I cannot recommend Retro Game Corps' starter guides highly enough. Here's one specific to the Retroid Pocket 2+/3/3+/Flip. Here's one that goes into more detail on RetroArch. And just for giggles, here's a general Android emulation starter guide. Oh, and you might be cool with Retroid's frontend but you'll probably like Daijisho a lot more, so here's a guide for that (sadly only in video form).

Initial setup and copying of ROMs and whatnot was a slog. Mostly because pretty much all the emulators on my PC work fine with ROMs in unzipped .zip files while (according to the wiki and I'm going to cry if I spent all that time unzipping .zips for nothing) most of the RetroArch cores other than MAME want the ROMs unzipped and hand-fed to them. Also, you'll probably need to reconfigure some controls and other settings. HOWEVER! Once you've got all your shit where it needs to go, and once you've got all your emulators set up and Daijisho in and pointed to all the right paths, that's the hard part done and over with. From there on out It Just Works. You can even set Daijisho such that you never even have to see the Android behind the curtain. Battery life is pretty decent. It feels fairly comfortable in my tiny hands, I wish there were grippy-bumps or whatnot on the back but now apparently Retroid is making a grippy case add-on? The buttons feel good, though apparently future stick drift is a possibility. One that can be fixed for about $25 with a pair of Gulikit hall sensor sticks, so I'm not too worried about that right now. The screen is nice and bright and apparently can be software-tweaked to be better but I didn't bother, this is fine. Audio is... okay but that's why God made earbuds and whatnot. Also, one caveat: playing heftier stuff on this system will make it hot. Never alarmingly "oh shit turn it off now" hot and it barely gets lukewarm on older-system stuff, but it's definitely noticeable with PS2 and graphics-heavy games like NieR: Reincarnation.

Now, as for what it can play:

The RP3+ can, in my personal experience so far, reliably play pretty much everything up to PS1/PSP/Sega Saturn tier with no or minimal tweaking, with a couple of exceptions (I had to twiddle some settings for N64 and MAME, and Duckstation and AetherSX2 have to be hand-fed a BIOS in initial setup).

My current values of "everything" are:

Atari 2600

Game Boy

GBC

GBA

Arcade (MAME)

NES

SNES

N64 (mixed results; Mario Kart runs like a champ but Pokemon Snap crashes)

Genesis

Saturn

PS1

PSP

As for systems beyond: I've had mixed results that skew "definitely playable" with PS2 and had to change some stuff in the AetherSX2 setup wizard to get that. I haven't played a lot of PS2 stuff on it yet but Final Fantasy XII seems to run pretty great so far. Fatal Frame runs pretty well (though apparently there's something I need to tweak in the per-game settings to make anomalies and whatnot show up). Magic Pengel, of all things, ran like hot garbage but that was before I RTFM and reran the setup wizard with changes so it might do better now. Sadly my PC's DVD drive has shat the bed so I can't rip anything else until the replacement comes in. There's a community spreadsheet linked in the RP3 setup guide up there that will tell you what per-game tweaks you might need to make.

I haven't tried Gamecube or Dreamcast yet, but word is it's the same deal as PS2. It can run DS/3DS/Wii emulators, but honestly I can't stomach the idea of playing DS/3DS on a single screen (and besides that is what I have a hacked 3DS for but never mind that) and the WiiWare I've tried runs okay but Wii with touchscreen-instead-of-wiimote just feels weird (and that is what I have a hacked Wii for but never mind that)

And of course, being an Android device, it can of course run Android games. NieR: Reincarnation ran like refried ass on my phone, but it runs great on the RP3+. It does have micro HDMI out, and you can pair it with an Android-compatible controller, though I haven't tried that yet. And of course you can install your streaming apps of choice on it if you want.

Anyway, it's definitely a lot of handheld for not a whole lot of money and I'm digging it!

Retroid Pocket 3

So, I’ve been pretty heavy on the programming push lately, but it’s not all I’ve been up to. So, back around the start of the pandemic, I started work making a PiGrrl handheld emulator device. PiGrrl is basically a Game Boy Clone that runs with a Raspberry Pi at it’s core. I ordered a bunch of parts and a case, I already had a Pi (I have several), and then the Pandemic caused my parts to take…

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I have been really enjoying Breath of Fire 4 recently it was such a great game and i love the Breath of Fire series generally 🥰 I have a slight addiction to handheld gaming and emulation devices. I also collect a lot of games and game systems as well :)

Retroid Pocket 2S プレリリース開始！のりこむのか？のりこまないのか？足が重いぞ

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Retroid Pocket 3 Plus | Handheld Game | Retro Game

The one boy to rule them all, the ultimate boy, the Retroid Pocket 4 Pro.

meant to post this last night but after probably 2 fucking weeks of trying so fucking hard to beat the magimaster at the top for the cultists tower in ffvi i FINALLY fucking did it last night... literally The Worst Battle of all time bc not only was he nigh on impossible to damage (i had to fling super balls at him to attack) i had to be super mindful of his health and make sure life3 was casted on some of the party so they could win but jesus christ this was an awful awful fight and im so fucking glad i finished it... my strategy was to use relfect on him and then bounce life3 and cures off him and constantly scan and throw super balls which FINALLY worked...

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My Retroid Pocket 3+ got here, and I customized its colors!!! Look!!

It was originally all black, but I ordered spare parts from other colors to make it pop with this white and rainbow look, plus a grip

And I got a custom dock for it!

And look! It can do the coolest fucking thing ever and act as a console for my TV!!!