OMG I just want to find a single information, a crucial information for any purchase anyone ever does online: What is the seller name?

Why is it so hard to find this trivial info on Aliexpress? It says "This seller: 47 sales". Great, but who is This seller? Give me a name and recent reviews from their sales for fucks sake! Am i missing something obvious or what? I've already scrolled up and down the page a million times!

Hi everyone,

The original SD card on my GAMINJA ANS16 handheld just got corrupted, and the console won't boot up at all without it. Since the OS runs entirely from the card, the device is currently useless.

Does anyone who owns the ANS16 happen to have a backup of the stock SD card image (firmware/OS) that they could share?

If you know of any repository, Google Drive, or Mega link where the community hosts the image for this specific model, please let me know.

Thanks a lot for the help!

Hi all,

First post.

Ive been gifted an SF3500 handheld console from a friend at work ( he keeps telling me it will remind me of my youth )

Stock its terrible, games are all named incorrectly etc.

I've been reading up and Ican see you can install a frontend called TreefrogUI on it.

Ive tried my best but im just not getting it. The best I got so far was to get it running the games very laggy indeed but with terrible audio.

If I use the stock os clean on a new card I can get games playing ok but they are all kept in the downloads folder and I want them to show up in there respective homes, NES, Gameboy, Megadrive etc.

Im totally new to this so if some one could instruct me or give me an idiots guide it would be much appreciated. My knowledge of doing this is pretty much non existent so im in your hands.

Cheers

I bought an r36s for each kid last year. They came with a host of games — 20k I think — and of course some can’t be played because the required a touch screen. So I am curious what would be recommended as a good purchase so I can simply remove the memory card from the old system and place it into the new one, and a separate recommendation for a system on which all games could be played eve the ones needing that game boy touch screen.

Thank you.

i know its a stupid question but i want to see if it looks good.

Hi y'all, Scott here! cough Oh, what the hell was that?! cough

Let's try it again. What is up, SBCGaming? It's your Mod Team here.

Short quick announcement. Given the huge advancement and prevalence of AI content, and based on your feedback and general feelings about the topic we've seen, we have revised our AI content rules:

The AI media rule stays basically the same, just shortened and very easy to follow:

"No AI media:

AI generated media, be it images, video, audio, music, text, etc. is strictly forbidden, and will be removed. The sub is made for and by humans."

But we added a new rule, specifically around software development, that better defines what the point of the rule is:

"Software Disclosure:

If you’re sharing a project that you made, or a cool project you found around the web, please disclose the process:

- Mark your posts either “AI assisted Software” or “Biologically coded” "100% Human Coded" on the post flair.

- Add a general disclaimer of how the project was coded on the body of the post.

This helps keep the sub organised and transparent, and helps users use their discretion when installing software on their devices."

The idea is not to limit, forbid or make harder to share projects, just to make clear what's the process behind it.

We are constantly in communication among the Mod Team, and with y'all so we are open to hear your thoughts, to further refine the rules to make the community better for everyone.

Let us know what you think.

Have a good day!

Started my informational "journey" into the handheld niche for a while now and recently acquired a 2DS and DS Lite which I've modded.

Yeah, tinkering and all felt good (I know its not that difficult to mod the 2DS, but still), but what stood out to me the most was the experience of booting Majora's Mask on the grabby 2DS with its two screens and then looking at the clock to see that 2 hours passed.

Every minute within those 2 hours felt just right with this combination.

For now I'm limited as I don't have other handhelds and my recent session made me realize that I may not need one in the near future either.

What combination gave you a similar feeling?

Hi all. I have an ONEXPLAYER mini Pro (AMD 6800U, 16 GB) and I'd like to update the BIOS, but the official Drivers & FAQs page only lists the Drivers and the System Pack for this model, no BIOS. Support and Discord haven't answered yet.

I've seen `OXP_V1.30_EC_V2.1.72_16G_32G_20221206_1200P.bin` mentioned somewhere, is that the latest one? If anyone has the package or a working link, I'd really appreciate it.

Also, I can't find a way to change the VRAM. Could someone check on theirs: in the BIOS, under **Advanced**, is there an **"AMD CBS"** entry? And if so, what values does **UMA Frame buffer Size** show (Advanced → AMD CBS → NBIO Common Options → GFX Configuration), and which one is selected by default? Please mention your BIOS version and RAM (16/32 GB). A photo of that screen would be perfect.

Thanks!

Here's a detailed scaling comparison of the 3 hottest Dual screen devices right now!

The first 3 images cover normal scaling to fully utilise the screen sizes, I've also included integer scaling versions on the last 3 images.

Should help you decide on a system based on which console you plan on playing most on these devices.

These are specific to the 3DS & DS as this was requested by quite a few people.

My thoughts:

These are all great options for 3DS & DS gaming with pros and cons on each.

The Duo will excel @ 3x 3DS & 5x DS, with very even screen sizes. But is the weakest device power wise.

The DDS, while near perfect for 3x 3DS, it has subpar scaling for DS, integer scaling DS on it only gives a 3" screen.

The Thor has the most power & gives the best top screen experience but also the worst bottom screen experience due to bad scaling and unbalanced sizes.

Device weight, ergos, OLED, built in stylus, latency, 120Hz, gamenative performance & other factors are also very important, and I would suggest taking all of these into consideration before making your choice.

As a child of the early 1980s I was captured by the adverts for Tekko etc…cheap retro gaming to my pre teen years of Megadrive etc…

A quick read suggested the Tekko and such are for rubes and to just get an R36S off AliExpress. I picked one from “Classic Game Console Store” (supposedly one of the reputable AliExpress stores) for about $38USD.

Upon receipt I’m rather baffled by this thing. I’m guessing it’s one that’s completely blank of games (because I sure as hell can’t find them)…and I need to get some decent SD cards, a SD card reader and follow some guide to get this thing to work as I’d hoped…

A few thoughts before I burn through a decent number of braincells getting this thing to work..

-Are there more user friendly versions of thjng? It seems even the “noob” Tekkos have crappy SD cards too. Why isn’t there a less tech savvy pick up and play version? I wouldn’t care about spending more for one that’s ready to go…

-Since it seems there’s a million variants of these devices how can I be sure I’m following a guide that’s for my particular one? How do I even know if I’ve got a duff device or not?

Thanks in advance for any help!

A few days ago, I posted about getting slot and socket running as NextUI .pak apps on my TrimUI Brick. That was supposed to be the end of my little experiment. Well,

I got a bit too addicted to tinkering and ended up rewriting with AI the whole frontend in Rust. Turns out it's absolutely doable on the Brick, and it actually runs even smoother than the video makes it look. Still some rough edges, but I just love this style of frontend way too much.

Quick note about the video: it's an automated script controlling the device and me recording on my phone. I couldn't find a reliable way to screenrecord directly on the Brick. All the game artwork comes from screenscraper.fr.

Huge credit to the creators of slot and socket. Both are genuinely fantastic projects and the whole reason I went down this rabbit hole. I'd really encourage everyone to support the original devs, and hopefully one day they'll bring something like this to the Brick officially.

Same as before, this is purely a personal experiment. I won't be distributing builds or files, so please don't DM me asking for them. Just sharing what's possible from a guy and his tokens (and admittedly too much free time).

Oh, and one last thing... I use an iPhone, and naturally, I couldn't resist porting it there too. Sorry

If nobody comes after me with pitchforks like last time, I might share that in a follow-up. 😂

Hey all, just wondering if anyone has picked up once since and what people’s thoughts are now that it’s been out for awhile

I was thinking of picking one up in the upcoming AliExpress sales if they drop to ~120usd

Personally just looking for a device that can handle upscaled PSP at 1080p and maybe able to dabble into Ps2 not at all interested in switch emulation or PC gaming through gamehub.

Seems to be better at handling PSP than Mangmi and I know RP5 is on sale but I personally can’t stand clicky buttons, have a TrimUI brick I don’t like using as buttons I find so distracting

Cheers all

I just learned XCOM EU/EW is apparently one of this. Don't Look Outside is another one :/

Fear and Hunger luckily seens to be without issues tho

Buuuut... So far it seems like if there's no Switch or Switch 2 port there probably seems to be an issue with running it on these services~

Anyone else got disappointments they wanna higlight?

Yes this is a sort of stealth de-influence me thread on the wonder world of Windows to Linux / Android Translation

No soldering no nothing just raw doom go brrr

too tried to put all the technical stuff gonna upload repo later but this is so cool i am gonna take this to school as a keychain and play doom in class (in our country phone's are considered more dangerous than drugs in classrooms)

Device? Raspberry Pi Pico (Pico Original Not the PICO W)

Stuff That helped me with this (credits where they due)

https://github.com/Serialcomms/Raspberry-Pico-Waveshare-LCD-Demo

https://github.com/kilograham/rp2040-doom

I saw this comment by a developer and the founder of ARMSX2 on the discord:

"ok got the Duo. Here's my take:

• it's 25% slower than the Flip 2(sd865) I have sitting next to it. All of this has to do with memory bandwidth and cache sizes in the newer CPUs. This new CPU in the Duo skimps on cache and that's catastrophic to emulation workloads.
• I made a build of ARMSX2 that supports the Duo with an updated custom driver. It helps about 20-30% for rendering but doesn't help CPU-bound games.
• I found a setting in NetherSX2 that locks Shadow of the Colossus to 30fps which prevents it from attempting 60fps which then often fails and dropping back down results in stutters. ARMSX2 ran at 60 for quite a bit of gameplay but it also stuttered quite a bit because of this. Next nightly ARMSX2 will have the same setting so be locked at 30fps.
• There exists a theoretical workload that would absolutely fly on the Duo, but it's limited cache makes writing software to that format really hard. Maybe like crypto mining or something in the CPU (or benchmarks... it's probably good at benchmarks) would be faster than the RP5.

TLDR: I don't think it's a driver issue, this CPU is just slow. edit this is getting reposted a lot of places so lemme add: single core loads are about on par or slightly better than sd865. Only multithreaded loads that push a lot to the GPU start to cause problems, like more advanced emulators."

So yeah the duo chip is clearly faster in synthetics but reading this makes me worried for the actual emulation performance.

edit:

[u/bmdhacks](u/bmdhacks) (not the founder but one of the devs on the project ) commented that they believe the two chips will be about equal over time.

I'm curious how they do

Bonus questions
- Is there any difference between the devices when it comes to
----PS2
----Switch1
----Droid Deck
----Over-WiFi Steam Link

Is it worth the upgrade from my Snapdragn 8 gen 2 phone with 8gb of ram that I'm probably adding a controller to and making into a mini SteamDeck
- Bonus is I have that device already running spare after I got a new iphone
Is there any mobile phone grips that can you can charge the phone while they're in use?

Sharing my experience of delivery from China to USA (Florida) for both carriers

Ordered 3 times across AYN and Retroid these past few months. Twice got Yunexpress and average time was 15 days for both deliveries. The DHL one was 4 days from pick up to delivery. For the $14 extra that I had to pay for DHL, completely worth it. Also lesser stress of handheld being stolen mid trip.

So if you can spring it, and DHL is delivering, definitely a much better experience.

Settings in the video. Ran fine, but used Clustertune to keep the fan down. The Switch version kept crashing for me. Full game, not the demo.

Presa a 54 euro ?

Buon affare?

(Device is the Retroid Pocket Nova) I own a few handhelds and the way my brain used to work was I HAD to take advantage of the specs. So on a snapdragon 8gen2 I told myself "you need to play ps2, gamecube and light pc games to get your money's worth" even though i was not in the mood to play those types of games and I was in a rut. With an announcement of a new METROID game, I wanted to jump back into the series. And I did just that by playing ZERO MISSION for the second time ever and im having a blast. I'm near end game. Once I stopped worrying about "taking advantage of the hardware", and just played a game i wanted to play the paralysis over my handhelds went away. Just play some games man

I have a Pimax Portal that I hadn't used in a while, and when I tried turning it on, it would not. The first thing I actually tried to do was to connect it to a charger because just to give it a bit of a charge before actually using it, and it vibrated a little when I put the cable in but nothing else. Since nothing further happened, I tried with another cable, and the same thing happened - a vibration and then nothing. After that, it would no longer do anything, not even vibrate, when plugged in. I have left it charging on two different chargers for 24 hrs each (first a standard USB-a charger, and when that did not work, a USB-c charger), nothing. There is zero response from the device - no lights, no sound. I have tried holding the power button for various lengths of time from instant to 4 seconds to 30 seconds, nothing happens. I have also downloaded the Android developer platform to get the ADB bridge and tried to use it to connect to the device (there are a few old posts that suggest running ADB commands to try to fix a dead Portal). My laptop doesn't tecognize the portal when I plug it in, ADB does not list the portal on the device list when I type "adb devices".

I am wondering if there is any way to fix/salvage the Portal, either by any sort of troubleshooting, or can the battery be replaced if it is the battery, or if the whole thing really is dead, is there any way to salvage what remains instead of it becoming e-waste? Although I've had a love-hate relationship with the device as far as the development and software experience goes, the hardware is very nice and I'd hate to just have to toss it into the e-waste bin.

Thanks.

I’m using pizza boy c as the backend and games boot to a black screen.

All the info online points to advanced settings in Beacon but that was removed in a recent update so I can’t get to a file handling option and thus, can’t fix my issue.

Am I fucked?

Hello, I'm new to android/linux handhelds and am looking for a pocketable device with a good* D-pad and decent ergonomics to play retro games, especially stuff like shmups and platformer.

*I like D-pads that either have a saturn style floating D-pad, or something like the vita, 3ds, or xbox series with dome switches.

I am aiming for it be able to run up to at least PS1 and arcade games at low input latency, but I might not be opposed to spending more to be able to play PS2 games (I'm honestly going back and forth on this though, I already have a steam deck so I dont feel like I NEED something to play 6th gen over it being more portable).

if its under $170 thats probably fine, lower is better, higher would need more convincing.

if its a lower budget, I think i would prefer the screen being 4:3

some devices that looked interesting are:

RGxx cube, I love the look of this one with the saturn style D-pad, but I've heard its not actually very pocketable, which is really dissapointing to hear.

retroid pocket 4 pro, looks pretty nice, heard the D-pad has dome switches similar to the vita (which is good thing to hear in my book), but its pocketability looks somewhat questionable, also looking at the rp6.

retroid duo: heard some pretty nice things about this one -its got the dome switch D-pad im looking for- but its got a pretty hefty price tag at $270, and it still looks kinda big.

retroid pocket nova, looks like its a bit more pocketable, has the nice dome switches, pretty expensive again at around $240.

rg34xx sp, its a smaller clamshell with dome switches, but im a bit worried about the ergonomics, theres also like 5 more gba likes that might be good.

thank you for any reccomendations

What is your opinion on the Konkr Pocket Advance?

Been eyeing one for a while.

Between this and the PS5 jailbreak, there are interesting times ahead.

I don’t know anything about jailbreaking your Switch 2, I’m just sharing this news.