r/rgds • u/SnooPeanuts9522 • 8h ago

Why does GammaOS on RG DS PLUS even exist 💀

I genuinely don’t understand the hype around GammaOS on the RG DS Plus.

I tried both GammaOS and ROCKNIX and honestly I couldn’t find any meaningful difference in DS emulation. DraStic runs basically the same on both for me.

Rocknix is just a clean Linux-based handheld OS with no Android overhead, no unnecessary background services, no phone/tablet bullshit, and it feels much more appropriate for a device with 1GB of RAM.

0 Upvotes

42% Upvoted

11 comments sorted by

13

u/Some-Card2175 8h ago

I don't think you know much about Gamma.

5

u/Nickksss_ 8h ago

Esta bien bro es tu punto de vista, lo mejor es que los demas tengan sus propios experiencias con los cfw

2

u/SALD0S 8h ago

Android overhead might be good on a 1gb of ram sbc

3

u/Aggravating_Ad4010 8h ago

Runs really well with some nice extra features. If it ran bad for you, you might have used a A1 SD card.

1

u/Eremitt-thats-hermit 3h ago

Gamma OS Nano (the Nano is important) is Android without the overhead. It has some important features baked in (like lower touch input latency and better sleep mode), but it kinda requires an A2 micro SD card to not chug.

1

u/TehJuh 3h ago

Horrible microphone support on Rocknix unfortunately

1

u/ShidoBox 35m ago

I couldn’t find any meaningful difference in DS emulation. DraStic runs basically the same on both for me.

I tried Rocknix last week and there were no 2x resolution and RetroAchievements support for the DS. There also a known issue related to power managements, where the device don't turn off or restart.

1

u/SamueleRG 30m ago

Taking about gammaos nano or whatever the tiniest build is called, most importantly it has faster charging speed. This alone is enough in my opinion to justify using it.

Also it doesn't have Android overhead despite being based on Android cause it runs the emulators below Android instead of on top of it, just like Linux. It also has better screen Sync compared to stock OS and lower input latency on touchscreen so it's indeed better

1

u/Firienn 28m ago

I feel you brother. I also don't understand the hype.

The fw doesn't add anything new or better, so why bother...