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I finally joined the retro gaming handheld club! (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by popcar2@programming.dev to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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In the pic: Anbernic RG35XX-H playing Castlevania: Dracula X

I’ve been thinking about buying one of these for a while but finally bit the bullet now that companies have started raising prices due to the RAM/chip shortage…

And it turned out to be the best purchase I’ve made in a while! It’s a ton of fun gaming on this little thing. I flashed a custom operating system on it and am now playing Castlevania & Secrets of Mana with RetroAchievements support (which adds achievements and progress tracking to retro games).

I’m also playing a lot of random PICO-8 games since it runs on the device and I can easily browse and play free games on it. Low-key wish I had bought it sooner with how neat it is.

Anybody else have a retro handheld here?

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[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 3 points 2 months ago

Steam does emulation quite well, but new ones aren't sold anymore, and x86 handheld prices are going through the roof. A popular ones just rose it's price by almost 50% and is $2000 now.