Just got this bad boy yesterday and I’m like a kid at Christmas! 😄 The delight I felt firing up my old love, Desert Strike… Goosebumps! Seriously impressed with this bit of kit, and I’m enjoying exploring the options as much as the many many games! The effort put in by the community with GarlicOS and the ROM packs is simply magnificent.
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We still need to migrate the RG35XX subreddit to Lemmy!
Speaking of which, I’d love to have a version of r/SBCgaming in here. The incoming RK3588 devices will be incredible.
What games does it come with?
Can you load your on ISO files on to it?
I love it!
Hundreds, if not thousands, across all kinds of retro consoles! Atari all the way through Gameboys, NES up to PS1. The default OS seems ok, but I only tried it briefly before switching over to GarlicOS which everyone seemed to be keen on. This guide was super helpful in getting me started.
Congrats! What’s the name of the hardware?
Ambernic model RG35XX
Pretty sure it’s the RG35XX? Right?
Yeah, managed to not see that in the title 🫠
Yep, looks like it
Seems pretty cheap, and the top seller I see in Google is temu which just gives me sus vibes
It’s a well-known device/brand in the retro gaming community. You can also buy it direct from anbernic
That’s great to hear, it looks really nice, so I was expecting £200 not £50!
It’s a well-known device/brand in the retro gaming community. You can also buy it direct from anbernic
Get it from Amazon if you are going to buy one. Anbernic is in China so their customer support on a $70-80 device is barebones to non existent.
How does this stack up in terms of processing power, versus other, similar handhelds like the AYANEO 2021 Pro?
I know it’s a far more expensive unit, but I’m wondering what the delta looks like… Does it even perform half as well? I’d love to pick something like this up, but I don’t want to regret the choice later, when it doesn’t play a handful of games I’d like to play.
Like not even close. This is like 5th generation consoles and no PC. Aya will emulate Switch and probably lots of PS3, and of course play PC games. Also it lacks a 3D joystick so there’s that.
What generation of games would this play? SNES? PS1? gamecube?
My metric right now is for something that can basically play all the Zelda games short of the Switch versions. If I can get anywhere close to that, then I’m probably going to be happy with it. I just kinda want to relive the days of LTTP and titles like FF6, possibly even ocarina of time and majora’a mask… pretty much all zelda titles short of Breath of the Wild.
being able to save some money with something like this would be nice too.
PS1 and the 16 bit and earlier would be a good experience
I highly doubt it can do GameCube, Wii, and possibly not even DS. N64 and possibly some Dreamcast but again you’re missing the 3D stick.
Thank you for this.
Just one follow up question: is it possible to connect an external controller to the unit? Perhaps one with a joystick? I have several that work on Bluetooth.
Hot damn that looks so clean!
What games does it come with? I love it
RG351M for me. I love the metal touch, the format, and up to PS1 is amazing. some Dreamcast and N64 too. wow for the price <3
Does it work with LSDJ or nanoloop? Midi support? I’ve been wanting an Analogue Pocket but this is so much cheaper.
I don’t know if it has midi support but it does work with LSDJ! That’s exactly one of the reasons why I got it myself :D
nice! does it save your progress? theres super cheap ones on temu and amazon but they dont save progress but im guessing this one does for the price?
Both the RG35XX and the Miyoo mini are amazing devices for the price range, I greatly recomend watiching retro games corp video on them, basically they can run up to PS1 flawless and supports saves and save states, it’s the kinda of handheld you keep on yourself all the time to play when you’re bored or on a queue, not very comfortable for long play sessions. The RG os built like a tank and has real time clock for Pokémon games with a worse d pad, Miyoo don’t has the clock but has wifi for net play, OTA updates, better screen and dpad but tends to have some build quality issues.
You might also want to check out the RockChipConsoles community (even if it is still pretty quiet over there).
!rockchipconsoles@discuss.tchncs.de
A community for consoles based around the rockchip processors like Anbernic, Powkiddy or Odroid.
I can only see one post there?
Welcome to Lemmy
Fair
Hot damn that looks so clean!
I got the Miyoo Mini Plus a few months ago, and I really love it. They’re really lovely devices for just whipping out for a quick game of Tetris, especially with the convenience of the game switcher and save states. I’ve been surprised by how usable it is, despite the small size.
That screen looks sexy
The screen is indeed very nice.
The RG35XX is pretty great, nice color choice too! Looks like I need to update my GarlicOS, my games list is still centered with boxart in the background.
In order to do that you’ll need to first change your
/CFW/skin/settings.jsonto have"text-alignment": "left"and"text-margin": 300to shift your games list to the right. Next you’ll want to use a tool like Skraper to generate your images so it is transparency on the right where your games list is and put what you want to display on the left. You can use the image mixes provided from ebzero on Github or the 2 image mix with only the gameplay screenshot and box art that I’ve modified below and place the xml into the Mixes subdirectory of Skraper:<ImageComposition xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="https://www.skraper.net/ImageComposition.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <Information ShortName="RG35XX 2 Image Mix" LongName="RG35XX 2 Image Mix" Description="2DBox + Screenshot" Author="Author" /> <Viewport Color="#00FFFFFF" Width="1280" Height="960" /> <Drawings> <Item Type="Screenshot"> <Display X="23%" Y="64%" Antialiasing="None" Width="45%" Height="45%" Anchor="BottomHCenter" /> <Fallback Type="ScreenshotTitle"> <Fallback Type="SystemWallPaper"> <Children Reference="Parent"> <Item Type="Text" Text="No Screenshot!" TextColor="#FFFFFFFF" FontFamilly="Arial" FontStyle="Bold Italic" /> </Children> </Fallback> </Fallback> </Item> <Item Type="Box2DFront"> <Display X="44%" Y="57.5%" Antialiasing="None" Transparency="0.9" Width="22%" Height="32%" Anchor="VCenterRight" /> </Item> </Drawings> </ImageComposition>When you’ve decided what you want to use, find the Media Type option under the Media tab in Skraper and choose User Provided Mix and then you can select the custom xml file you want to use when running Skraper.
How’s the size? I have the Miyoo mini and the size hurts my hands if I p play for too long.
Side by side pic here. I was quite surprised at just how small this thing is, and if the Miyoo is even smaller, I’m glad I opted for this!
Honestly I might pick this one up just for the size upgrade. Seems a bit nicer for longer sessions. Battery life okay?
