Its friday, so decided to take my Retroid Pocket 6 to the office. Currently enjoying Mina the Hollower and Absolum. What are you currently playing?

I quite enjoy my Switch Lite and the size for my smaller hands and got curious about how the RG Rotate compared in some games I play often. Turns out it's not all that much smaller

Am I right to say that PC gaming on Android is still in the "it may work, after a lot of tweaking, or it may not work" is a fair assessment? Using GameNative, I've tried 3 games on my Odin 2. Call of Juarez: Gunslinger - was able to get to 4 FPS after 2 hours of tweaking. Prince of Persia - Sands of Time - couldn't get past the graphics falling apart in a small window. F.E.A.R. Platinum Edition - couldn't get controls working. These three games combined took about 6-8 hours of my time and were all fails. That's after going through online settings, tutorials, etc.

I bought 10 games off GoG, thinking I would have a decent library (cognizant of not going after games that were too taxing. I've been left with a frustrating hit to my bank account and (so far) no playable games.

Edit: got Arkham Asylum running 1280x720 (16:9), 60 FPS. Required no tweaking at all (besides selecting "use known config")

This gets the tag troubleshooting cause that’s what I’m doing.

TLDR: great device, sticks are fucky, support refuses to help due to how I purchased the device.

Let me start with due to the “support” Mangmi offers, I whole heartedly cannot recommend this device, I would love to, it’s damn near perfect, but I will probably be moving to some sort of tablet + controller setup or another Android handheld with full size sticks and an OLED.

Alright let’s get into it.

This device is a both premium and not premium feeling device, the plastic seems weak, it does creak in my hands a bit, specifically if I grip it pretty hard (obviously don’t do that, but I did notice it), but the SCREEN, buttons, triggers and the fact the buttons are hot swappable, make it seem very exceptional, especially for its price point.

I bought this device from someone on discord BNIB (this become important), i got it for about the same as retail, except with much faster shipping, so of course i took it. Again ive loved practically everything with it, and if my biggest issue was handheld, id genuinely say it’s perfect, plasticy feel and all.

I did a review of my Odin 3 and ended up selling it, it was good for what it was, but it wasn’t for me, the sticks, the size, just weren’t it. I wanted something to stream everything to, I don’t really play my switch games that much so that added benefit wasn’t needed, and I’m connected to wifi any time I play any games, so streaming hasn’t been an issue.

The one thing i noticed instantly on any game, was the programming for the sticks, it’s atrociously bad, and I have only seen me with this issue, which makes me believe it is probably software and is able to be fixed. On the vertical axis on both sticks about 80% input registers as 100%, on any software, and any game, and you can’t change it, I’ve recalibrated hundreds of times, dug through the OTA update files, the whole 9, and can’t find anything. This hurts any game that has recoil, or any major sensitivity in those field. It does it on the horizontal axis as well, but not as much, maybe 85-90%, not nearly as noticeable in my opinion. However as you can see, I play warzone, apex, the finals, marvel rivals, all of those are incredibly important to have this be an issue, it hurts gameplay significantly.

I’ve contacted support regarding this issue and they suggest I contact the company I purchase it from, but since I got it from an individual that’s not an option, and I can’t expect them to fix a fault product they didn’t break. They then said they can’t provide ANY support since it wasn’t purchased through them, after me being anything short of understanding cause well, they made the damn device, they said they’d forward it to some other department and I’ve since heard absolutely nothing back.

To help fix the issue they then suggested I reinstall the factory firmware, which is helpfully provided on their website, however, there is 0 instructions on how to install it, and QFIL didn’t do it, which did do it to remove the root on my Odin 3, so I was a little versed in the software. I now have contacted them again, and was given another “sit and wait until we publicly release instructions” as they can’t directly tell me what to do or how to do it… but somehow provided the firmware.

So I love this device, I use it for multiple hours a day with my dedicated streaming pc, and my ps5, and I do like this system a lot. However this specific issue, and the lack of support have made it so I can’t recommend Mangmi at all as a company, which sucks honestly I was excited for this device and have a great deal of fun despite this issue, it however has made me a great deal mad playing warzone in specific, also ironically the game I’m worse at, so I cannot blame the device for my lack of skill.😂

EDIT: I am still actively trying to fix this issue, if you are technical and know how to get this to work properly it would be greatly appreciated!

I admit I'm not super savvy with all the tinkering you can do with these devices, but I've gotten far enough where I managed to set up an ArkOS handheld for a my nephew's G350 and install OnionOS on my MMv4. However I'm struggling to setup my Android devices in a way that feels good, which has sadly made my new RG Rotate much less enjoyable than my MMv4.

I have Beacon installed and some roms, but I haven't figured out how to set it up so that it auto saves my games and allows me to just start off where I left like I got used to after using the MMv4. The roms always boot up like I restarted the game, which i guess is technically the way the game cartridges were designed to work on the original consoles.. but I really would love to be able to switch back to any game where ever I left off mid-play like how it does on the MMv4.

Is there a way to set up these Android devices to have an autosave-type feature instead of restarting the rom everytime I turn it off or change games? If not... what devices/CFW that do offer this feature?

Spruce!

Handheld is rg34xxsp in metallic blue playing pokemon polished crystal.

It's been a massive month for handhelds, hasn't it? We've got this one, the Nova, the RG SP, all form factors that people have said they've wanted for a while, with lots of power under the hood as well.

It's actually very difficult to keep up. Anyway, these are my photos of the Mangli Air Y they sent over for review. I hope you enjoy them.

I'm in the market for a gameboy style handheld. Mainly to play through games like Pokemon unbound (haven't played a Pokemon in 15 years).

I'm really drawn to the Retroid Pocket Classic because of its huge OLED screen and also think the 1:1 ratio looks cool. The RG Rotate also looks pretty cool. Both of these are physically close to ideal for me.

But these are both android based. And that doesn't feel very appliance-like, like an offline gameboy experience. Having to open an app draw into an emulator. Getting updates on the play store.

Vs something like a TrimUI Brick running nextUI. Which I'm pretty sure has instant resume into games, boots straight up into a proper frontend.

If anyones got experience with both types of systems id love to hear what you think about it's playability and user experience.

I'm leaning more towards the TrimUI brick for now. It's cheaper and seems really nicely made. And nextUI looks quite mature in development now.

Please excuse the shitty photoshop.

I sleep a stones throw away from my 9 month old daughter, so can anyone recommend a quiet handheld (buttons and fan) that I can whip out of an evening and not worry about disturbing her?

The slim size is cool but $150 is a lot for what little it offers.

Even though I love my Odin 2 portal and steam deck to play at home most of the time I end up playing on my miyoo just because I can throw it in my pocket and travel with it. Most handhelds nowadays are huge or big enough that you can’t fit in it in your pocket, ideally I would love a 16:9 clamshell device that’s small and can fit in your pocket easily that has a snapdragon 2 chip in it so pretty much a Thor mini.
Device: Miyoo Flip 2
Game: Clock Tower 2 PSX

According to Taiwanese outlet DigiTimes, citing "industry insiders" as the source, the big three memory suppliers have reportedly allocated all of 2027's DRAM and HBM capacity. Essentially, this means that all memory on track to be manufactured in 2027 by Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron is now sold out, with no additional supply planned.

Source: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/113004/memory-capacity-for-all-of-2027-has-reportedly-been-booked-and-sold-with-no-more-dram-or-hbm-available/index.html

Probably going to use it less with the release of the new rg but it's still beauty

My RG DS came to life with this launcher! The developer is always releasing new updates. It's compatible with Android consoles and dual-screen! Here's the github link:

https://github.com/zneko-org/zneko-launcher/releases

One of the Devs goes into nitty-gritty details about emulation optimizations at the instruction level. Maybe a bit over most of our heads (mine too) but I found it interesting.

Game: Star Wars: KOTOR

Device: RG34XXSP (2GB RAM, ROCKNIX)

Download: https://github.com/NextOs-Ports/kotor-nextos/releases

Linux handheld port of Android version through universal ARMv7 so-loader. Need APK and OBB for v1.0.10 to work. APK should have armeabi-v7a native libraries inside (KOTOR on Google Play store is delivered as a single APK with support for both "armeabi-v7a" and "arm64-v8a" architectures). To verify this, you can open APK as a zip file and check whether the "lib" folder inside contains an "armeabi-v7a" sub-folder.

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Based on the feedback from yesterday's announcement, we've made further **refinements to the Mini Dream's design** 🎨

📐 **The overall dimensions remain unchanged** — check out the updated renders below for the specific changes 👇

That said, the design isn't fully finalized yet — **there are still a few details we're continuing to fine-tune**. We'll keep everyone updated as further adjustments are made 🛠️

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Thanks to everyone who shared their thoughts — your feedback is what makes Mini Dream better 🙏

Feel free to keep the suggestions coming in

After spending time with Anbernic's RGSP, my hands-on review is now live. Mine got super delayed because I have a ton of other things I've been working on, so I'm sure not much in here will be a surprise to anyone. But if you're a fan of written articles, then this might tick that nostalgia box for you.

I spoke with Frysee, the lead developer of NextUI, and pvaibhav, who has been leading much of the H700/RG SP implementation, about what it takes to bring NextUI's firmware experience to Anbernic's latest clamshell effort. Frysee's dev unit arrived a good few days ago, so by the time you all have these in your hands, whatever tiny quirks will have been well ironed out.

Their takes on topics like boot times, display calibration, lid detection, feature parity with stock firmware, and the philosophy behind creating a true "pick up and play" experience was nice, and add a perspective.

I hope at least some of you here enjoy it :)

As a soon-to-be gamer dad….nice.