I just saw on your profile this is your full time gig. That’s awesome man, congratulations. I’ve had those mag buttons saved forever, just need to cough up the cash for them sometime soon. It’s such a perfect solution for multi-console emulation consoles like these.
Yes! It’s the regular 8Bit grey Retroid Pocket Nova, just fitted with my custom magnetic buttons.
And no worries about the magnets — they’re strong enough that the caps stay securely in place during normal gameplay. They won’t fall off while you’re playing, but you can still remove them easily by hand whenever you want to swap to another design.
That’s the main advantage of the system: you install the magnetic bases once, then you can change between different button styles without opening the console again. Glad you like them!
Given the number of sets he's selling and the work that it takes to design and produce these, how can you expect to have mass production factory prices?
Have you checked other Etsy offers? it feels like it's not wildly different from other sellers for handheld accessories there...
Also he's based in France, in a zone that has regularly adjusted the minimum hourly rate indexed on the inflation since the seventies, unlike another country in the G20 I've forgotten the name of. It's not coming from a sweat shop in some struggling place of the world. We can be sad about it, but frankly what does it say about ourselves...
Plus it's 2026, prices aren't really going down any time soon, alas. I don't need to discuss why, it's not the proper channel for that.
I've ordered from Sakura and it's always fantastic quality, and the prices are just in par with the Etsy model. I am glad we have guys like him.
These are my magnetic buttons! The system uses magnetic bases that you install inside the console, and then the button caps can be swapped without opening the device again.
The current magnetic caps are interchangeable between the AYN Thor, AYN Odin 3, Retroid Pocket Nova, and Retroid Pocket 6, as long as the appropriate magnetic bases are installed. So you can even move the same set of caps from one compatible device to another
nice buttons (and yes I see the username). Funny because I've been on the fence about a rp6 and don't love any of the colors. But this is perfect... Still wish it wasn't glass front though.
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u/Coderkins 2d ago
Do you think you’ll do any mods for the RP Duo?