Anyone used one of these before? I’ve heard really good things. Mostly looking to emulate PS1, dreamcast, n64, and PS2 and from what I’ve read the retroid 4 does a solid job with all of them.
My main question is: how easy is it to get up and going with emulation on a dedicated handheld? I’ve done some really light emulation in the past, but only on pc and that was years ago.
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Russ from Retro Game Corps has been an absolute gem for this community. I totally second looking up his stuff. He probably has a very detailed setup guide for whatever handheld you get
I have a Retroid Pocket 2. It was a great purchase (about 100 USD or so). But it took a bit of effort to get it running, and I’m sure I still haven’t used it to its fullest potential.
I’d still highly recommend it, but if you’re hoping for a Game Boy style “play it right out of the box” experience, you might be let down. I had to do a bit of research.
I have a retroid pocket 5. Getting emulators set up is not hard, dreamcast I know you need some bios/system files for but just searching for them + archive.org yields good results. Controls will probably be set up by default. I don’t know how well ps2 runs on the pocket 4 (I just literally don’t know). I know it works well on the 5 though.
I got the Anbernic GBA SP style handheld and it worked straight out of the box. I put a different OS on another SD card and just moved the game library across and that worked fine too.
They generally just work but may require tinkering for more intricate things or systems that might require BIOS files. The updated OS on mine has Portmaster, which runs ports of a bunch of games instead of emulating them. The tinkering is generally copying Steam directory files across from your computer to your SD card. It’s a great way to get more out of your handheld because you don’t have the overhead of emulation involved. Like you could play Vice City through Portmaster instead of needing a handheld powerful enough to run PS2 emulation in a stable state.
Worth noting that portmaster specificly does not run on the 4 afaik, only the 5. If you want pc games on the 4 gamehub or winlator are probably options though.
Retroarch even has cores for some portmaster games. Like you can run quake and doom mods through both
Not a Retroid specifically, but I do have a little experience with other SBC devices. Easiest way to set it up imo is through pre-made images downloaded from this site: https://www.arcadepunks.com/
I don’t see anything specifically made for Retroid, but you can really just find any image that looks good and transfer the roms over. Also once you get the roms set up, there are some other useful sites like screenscraper.fr (to automatically scrape info, covers, etc.) and then retroachievements.org to add achievements to emulated games.
I got the Anbernic RG40XX H.
It’s my first emulator. It can play PS1 and others but I haven’t experimented with the N64, etc. yet. It works really well for what it is and especially for the price. It came with a cheapo SD card with a bunch of roms, for which I’m really grateful, but I’m planning on getting a couple of others to switch OS and upload a collection I found. Anyway, so far it’s fun and I’d recommend checking them out for their higher tier stuff.
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