You know the ones. Ambernic, Retroid, Miyoo, and the like. I swear they come out with a new handheld every 5 minutes. You can’t even research the damn things before 3 more latest and greatest come out.

Anyways. I bought a Miyoo Mini. Love it. Hands hate it. Thought "This would be way better if it were bigger. Duuuuh, I’m an idiot right? Well 5 minutes after I bought the damn thing, they release the Miyoo Mini Plus. Which is just a Miyoo Mini, but bigger. So apperently I’m not alone.

Then I started playing my DS Lite with a flash cart, and loved THAT form factor.

Then they came out with Retroid Pocket 5. And I was in love. I had my hand on the buy button. And remembered how the Miyoo Mini played out.

So I said “If I still love it in 6 months, I’ll buy it.” Literally 1 month later after I saw that, they announce the Retroid Pocket Flip 2. Which is just the Retroid Pocket 5, in a DS style case, but only 1 screen. Which is fine by me. I never cared about the dual screen gimmick.

So I said “Ok, if I still love THIS in 6 months, I’ll buy it.”

Welp. 6 months passed, and last week I got my Flip 2. Now I’m in the process of setting it all up. And hooboy do I have all the questions.

I watched Retro Game Corps guide on setting it up, and thats great, but I also want discussion, and advice, and to share what I learn over time.

But if there is a community for these things, I’m unaware. This is the closest thing to an active community that I know of.

So. Who wants to talk shop?

  • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
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    5 months ago

    This is an awesome community here. But if you are looking for the fanatical people, I would recommend this discord: https://discord.gg/retro-game-handhelds-529983248114122762

    Its well maintained and has a number of communities for the different handhelds. Like some of the onion OS and app developers are over there answering questions and being friendly. Just dont ask about where to get R O M S please. Its a rule on the server so it doesn’t get shut down.

    I try to get some of them over here too. Because you know, discord can and will eventually enshitify. There used to be a matrix room if I recall too, but drama(?) and matrix making it hard to find killed the room.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
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    6 months ago

    To the extent that a retro handheld community exists on Lemmy, this is it.

    I’ve bought a lot of these things. RG35XXSP, Miyoo Mini Plus, Retroid Pocket 3+, Retroid Pocket 5, DataFrog SF2000. Some random $5 bullshits off AliExpress for a toddler to destroy.

    I’ve given out a few Miyoo Mini Plusses as gifts. They’re really the perfect balance of comfort and portability. They’re performant enough to do everything you’d want to do in that form factor, but cheap enough that I don’t mind keeping it in my backpack 24/7. The stock firmware is fine, and Onion is excellent.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Discord won’t let me log in because my account is tied to hotmail, and hotmail sent me a security verification 2 years ago to log into my yahoo account, and since I never log into yahoo, they sent me a security verification which is linked to…my hotmail account.

      I want something on Lemmy. I do appriciate the info though.