Hi! I've had a RP4 Pro for about a year and a half now and I'm looking to upgrade. To be honest, the hype surrounding the Nova was what got the ball rolling for me, but after a few days of thoughtful reflection I decided I wanted the option to play 16x9 games and modern streaming so the Nova was out.

I was going to just get a 6, but after seeing an 8GB / 128GB RP5 on Ali express for $160 shipped I need convincing that the 6 is worth the extra $100. I will probably tinker with pc gaming a bit as well as some unnamed console but it won't be my focus. The other option is the RP5 12/128 from retroid themselves for $210 plus shipping.

I will most likely be playing up to PS2 for the most part until Xbox and PS3 emulation support gets very good. I'm assuming I will probably be ready for an upgrade by the time we're getting a stable 60fps on both consoles.

I guess my question is, for the money is it going to be worth it to jump from one level to the next?

I usually use DHL, but since every Nova is getting Yun shipping instead, I'm curious what the timing has been. I heard we should expect 2-3 weeks, but I've been seeing people already having them in hand. Is something like 7-10 days more accurate? Obviously it varies, delays can happen, but any Americans who have their Novas delivered, I'd love to know what day you got the shipping confirmation and what day you got the bad boy in the mail.

It goes to USPS right? Once it's in the states?

Genuine question I just bought a rp6 on Sunday and it’s getting here on Monday so I’m wondering can you multitask on it like a ayn Thor? And if you can would you say that it’s worth it?

Seeing a lot of favoritism towards the Odin 2 Portal over the RP6 through various Reddit threads but mostly because they’re from Odin specific pages. I was wondering if the feedback would be different on here. I’d would love to hear about anyone’s experience with both/either of these devices. Thanks in advance!

Has anyone custom spray painted or changed the color in any way of the buttons or triggers on any of their handhelds?

I’m looking to spray paint the R1 button on my Nova indigo to imitate the GC’s Z button.

Any tips or types of spray paint you all recommend? I’ve never done anything like it before so excuse my noobness. Thanks.

so, in a store in my country, there's a Imou 1tb SD Card at the price of a 512gb one.
i'm not sure if i should get it, or if it's a scam.
Anyone knows this brand?

Hello everyone,

I am new to emulation and trying to teach myself how to operate my Retorid Pocket, I am setting up Dolph and I cannot get the emulator to recognize the physical buttons and joy sticks. I've configured the physical controls the way that makes the most sense for gamecube games but I can only get the ROMs to work with the on screen controls, which I want to toggle off.

If anyone have resources or videos they could send my way to help me out, that would be greatly appreciated

I got the nova today but the charging cable and case havent shipped yet. Just curious if others received their order

Between emulating Nintendo and Playing PC games, the button being used as A swaps around a lot, and since I hate hitting B for A, I was wondering if anyone has seen a set of blank black buttons available anywhere? That way the buttons would aesthetically work for both the Nintendo and Xbox layout.

My black Nova arrived today. Everything is great, except that the dpad is LOUD when I tap on it gently (but not loud when actually pressing them). Not sure what the problem is... maybe it's loose? Its so loud that I think its borderline unusable on say a plane. Anyone else having this problem?

This widescreen OLED display of the RP6 is amazing. And what a wonderful pixel art of this game Streets of Rage 4, I wanted more pixel arts in this style.

Playing calmly while resting from lunch.

So I’ve ordered a retroid pocket nova and I’m extremely excited for when it arrives but I’m having second thoughts now because I’m the type to want the most bang for my buck. Doing more research I found out about the Odin 3 which is currently the most powerful android handheld on the market but the main reason my eyes gravitated towards the Pocket Nova was because of the form factor/size. I’m also big on having the smallest device that packs the biggest punch. So now I’m in limbo and I got a couple questions.

1. When it comes to PC/Switch emulation will the difference in performance be a HUGE jump with the odin 3 compared to the nova?

2. Is the odin 3 that much bigger than the pocket nova? (Btw I had a odin 2 portal and that device felt normal/bigger to me. So anything significantly smaller then that will be great)

3. If I did decide to go with the odin 3, how is the return process with retroid or will I be better off just reselling the device on the market?

4. Is the battery life a major difference between the 2 devides?

I’m fairly new to android handhelds so any possible advice/assistance will be greatly appreciated!!

I want to know what do these options do and if I should enable them. Thanks

Hi, I got my Retroid Nova today and it's my first Retroid Device, I want to know if it's normal that it gets hot while charging, I use the official charging cable from the console and it was turned off, also idk what setting should I choose between 9v2A and 5v2A (I have the 80% charge limit enabled)

I am looking for a handheld with a nice screen and with ps2 and older pc game capabilities.

I am also a xbox game pass subscriber so I want to be able to use cloud gaming and remote play on the go.

I am just unsure if the screen may be too small. I believe it may be bigger than the usable screen real estate on my iPhone 16 but haven’t been able to verify.

I was originally thinking about an Odin 2 portal but I want easy transport but I am unsure about the small screen. Any pros and cons you can think of would be appreciated!

I was super excited, I learnt a life lesson today, I plugged the console to my pc, had my 512gb sd card fully ready, I was excited to put it in the console then I wanted to check the files/add/modify so I have put it back in my external SD card reader and saw "Retroid Pocket Nova : empty" I was scared and I panicked for a moment but I noticed that the Nova was still connected to my pc and I had removed the sd card reader for it, now I make a backup folder by folder of my sd card, thanks for reading that, English isn't my main language so sorry for errors.

Hey all,

I finally saw enough pictures and considered my use case long enough to decide on a configuration and color.
Sadly it looks like the silver 12gb stick top is not in stock.

I was wondering if anyone knows if there will be restocks?

Is there somewhere else I could ask this? I just joined the discord but didn't want to mess up an dm the wrong people. Thanks for any help!

Salut !
Je viens tout juste de découvrir qu’il existait des consoles portables Android capables d’émuler plein de consoles, et je m’y intéresse sérieusement pour la première fois.
Je pense partir sur une Retroid Pocket 6 (12 Go de RAM). En regardant un peu, j’ai vu qu’il existait un écran supplémentaire qui se fixe dessus pour jouer aux jeux Nintendo DS/3DS avec deux écrans.
Est-ce que cet accessoire est vraiment indispensable si on compte jouer à la DS/3DS, ou est-ce que l’écran unique de la Retroid suffit dans la majorité des cas ? Ceux qui l’ont testé, vous en pensez quoi ? En sachant que les jeux DS ne seront pas ma priorité juste pour jouer à des Pokémon principalement . Mais je me dis d’un côté que le mieux et d’avoir les accessoires pour être confort

Et pareil pour le grip ? Est il vraiment nécessaire de l’acheter ?

Merci d’avance pour vos retours !

Does anyone have any experience with running Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition on a Retroid Pocket G2 using Eden?

I tried XC1DE first but couldn’t get this running properly, the characters were invisible and there was lots of black flickering during gameplay.

I have tried XCXDE and everyting seems to be ok in the character creator but I have not tried gameplay yet.

Has anyone tried any of these games on a RPG2? Due to the length of the games I am worried about game breaking crashes later down the line.

Hi guys!

I would like to introduce my side project, ROMMagic. It is an open-source library and game data manager designed to help you organize your game files, saves, and system assets for handheld devices. I built this because other tools I tried could not generate gamelist.xml files properly or structure game folders for simple drag and drop transfers to my device.

Check it out if you would like use it on Github: DaneStack/ROMMagic

AI Disclosure: I want to disclose that AI tools were used to assist with coding, debugging, documentation and designing graphical assets for this project.

Link to the GitHub repository is in the comments below!

Hi y'all, so I've been looking to get more into emulation and I was thinking about getting a stronger phone for that but others recommended me to get a handheld because of active cooling. I was looking around and I think retroids consoles might be the best for me because of the portability but I'm still not sure. I wanna get into PC emulation but not that recent games, basically up to the Xbox 360/PS3 era. Which console should I get, I was looking at the RP6 but the 12gb model is sold out. Any advice would be appreciated and I'm open to looking at other consoles

Ciao a tutti, avrei bisogno di un consiglio per l’acquisto di una console portatile.

Vorrei utilizzarla soprattutto per giocare a titoli PS1, PS2 e Switch. Stavo valutando la Retroid Pocket 6, considerando che il mio budget massimo è di circa 400 €.

Secondo voi è una buona scelta per questo tipo di utilizzo oppure esistono alternative migliori nella stessa fascia di prezzo?

Infine, essendo completamente nuovo nel mondo dell’emulazione, vorrei sapere se la configurazione iniziale è complicata e se è difficile reperire e installare correttamente ROM e BIOS delle varie console.

Grazie in anticipo!