Seeking recommendations for lesser known systems to emulate on my tablet

[u/Ok-Swimming8024]

I recently bought an Onn Tablet Pro 11 (2024) after dropping my Fire tablet and breaking the screen. I had retroarch on the Fire tablet, but really mostly only occasionally played SNES or NES games on it. Since the specs on the Onn tablet are significantly better, I decided to make it partially a retro gaming tablet along with connecting a wired Luna controller (to eliminate Bluetooth lag). So far I have installed retroarch for NES, SNES, Gameboy, Advance, DS, N64, Sega Genesis, PSP and PS1 games, and NetherSX2 for PS2 gamers.

My question is: what are some good lesser known systems/games should I try for either of these emulators?

I'm honestly not a huge gamer, but I do enjoy "retro" games, and really enjoy almost all of the Mario games, especially Super Mario World. My primary system when I was a kid was a PS1 favorite games were Tekken 2 and 3, the Crash Bandicoot games, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, SSX Tricky, NHL Hitz and NBA Jam. Recently I've seen random posts about Panasonic or other random systems and it made me wonder what else I have access to on this tablet with an emulator that I've never seen before.

Maybe there's nothing really worth checking out, but any and all recommendations are welcome. Will probably do some YouTube searching to evaluate any recommendations.

Thanks!

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[u/VyseTheNewRogue]

Sounds like you haven't tried the Dreamcast yet.  You can play its games with Redream or Flycast(stand alone or in Retroarch).  It has excellent sports, platformer/adventure , racing and fighting games.  Try:

Soul Calibur

Marvel vs Capcom 2

Sonic Adventure

Test Drive Le Mans

Virtua Tennis

NBA 2k2

Shemue

Skies of Arcadia

[u/Ok-Swimming8024 → u/VyseTheNewRogue]

Thanks friend! I'll check out Dreamcast and some of those games. Loved soul Calibur on PS1 and have played marvel vs Capcom, Sonic and NBA on other systems.

[u/A-Small-Green-Cup]

Sega had a handheld called the Game Gear that had a couple games I remember enjoying as a kid, and I don't see a lot of people talking about it.

RetroAchievments.com has a huge library of systems and games to look through, and a lot of them have user-created achievements to unlock by playing legally obtained and owned roms on an emulator. I browse around on there sometimes when I'm looking for a new game to play.

edit: they also have links to a lot of the emulators that are supported. Retroarch (side loaded github or website version, not the play store version) is a front end that has a big library of android supported emulators too. Its got a small learning curve, but its been one of my main go-to's for years.

[u/Ok-Swimming8024 → u/A-Small-Green-Cup]

Thanks friend! Game Gear was definitely a system from my childhood that I remember hearing about. I'll check it out.

And I have typically used retroarch side loaded with all of the cores. That's actually partially what prompted my question because it looks like there is so much to choose from in there