Ah, but would an absolute dipshit say something like this, on the occasion of winning a US military contact?
For Luckey, the contract transition is his own watershed moment. In his blog on Tuesday, he wrote that the announcement is “deeply personal.”
“Everything I’ve done in my career — building Oculus out of a camper trailer, shipping VR to millions of consumers, getting run out of Silicon Valley by backstabbing snakes, betting that Anduril could tear people out of the bigtech megacorp matrix and put them to work on our nation’s most important problems — has led to this moment,” he wrote.
I don’t have this exact device but one of their many other H700 devices. I flashed Knulli on it and have the romm app Grout installed. It worjs great. Not sure id Grout can br installed on the anbernic OS but it will definitely work with a custom OS.
Spoiler text explains how to acquire everything you need to run MAME. But that won’t answer your question because you’ll note Rayman 3 was added to the NOT Working section :P
You’d use Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator, to play Rayman 3 I think.
Use the merged torrents, even if you only download a partial torrent for a few games and their requires BIOS or whatever you want to do. Best for updating via torrent full sets. Checking an existing directory in a torrent client vs following the annoying update torrents.
Linux:
I have to explain something first: MAME is in probably most distro repositories, certainly Arch/CachyOS. However, I don’t actually like using it that way because you have to match the ROM/CHD sets to the same version as the emulator version or you get will get incompatibility errors if you have the full sets. Or may depending on the game and if the files weren’t touched, or even just rearranged between releases. This is uniquely dumb (thanks to the way MAME handles ROMS differently from everyone else) because every time you update your system then MAME gets updated but your files don’t and are then incompatible. Undesirable. So I grab a full set and then compile from source and then I don’t update anything unless something in the change logs catches my eye that I want to try.
However I have a very handy compilation website for many various AppImages including emulators like MAME: https://pkgforge-dev.github.io/Anylinux-AppImages/ so this is what I’d use if manually compiling from source isn’t in your interest.
Windows:
You can just grab the Windows MAME executable from mamedev.org as linked in OP. It already has a decent GUI built in. I also liked using the 3rd party QMC2 front end, also available on Linux. It’s outdated, but that doesn’t matter very much the front end doesn’t need to be the same version as MAME itself in this case: https://github.com/qmc2/qmc2-mame-fe
Thank you for this article because I would have had no idea. I would have seen that console and not know who tf Palmer Lucky is. But, I do know what Anduril is. There’s just too many war crimes CEOs for me to know/remember them all.
You reminded me I used to have (possibly still do) a copy of Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Chess Wars for DOS. There were so many ports and clones of Battle Chess.
Pretty sure Chessmaster 2000 was on Atari too (and everything else, including the Super Nintendo).
I loved Battlezone, it really captured my imagination with its secret cold war space race setting and the battles taking place on real planets in the Solar System. The gameplay was fun too, and incredibly advanced for its time (stealing vehicles in 3d before GTA 3!). Redux is the original game with remade textures and modern system compatibility fixes. They’re very faithful to the original style, though I do wish there was a way to load the original textures. Somebody’s probably hacked them in, I haven’t checked.
I did manage to see some of the gambling ads a few years ago, but I guess I figured they’d eventually maybe try a patreon model to fund itself or something, just never anticipated it would be shut down, as it was such a pillar for so long.
Looks like XTC Abandonware is still up, but worryingly they also seem to have gone down the path of gambling ads, listing them as affiliates and having a huge space dedicated to them in the testimonials section on the front page… Ech.
Home of the underdogs is still up too, and it looks like they went the Patreon route, thankfully! Though last update was 3 years ago.
Overall the abandonware space seems to be a bit of a shadow of its former self, unfortunately :(
Battlezone is one of my all time favourites, one of the first games I paid cash for (having played the shareware version) and spent countless hours exploring and finding all the hidden secrets (first map has a lunar lander with a ridiculous techno-playing directed energy weapon on it).
Battlezone 98 Redux is basically the same game with improved graphics. All the fun of sniping enemies and stealing their ships all over again.
I have two of these and they work wonderfully. It comes with a pairing guide for specific controllers, and a full list can be found here.
You should use wLaunchELF_ISR over uLaunchELF for better compatibility and functionality.
From the AliExpress page under NOTICES:
The power supply of some old PS1/PS2 console controller interfaces may not be normal due to some reasons, causing the Mini PS1/PS2 Blueretro converter to not work. In this case, you can use the micro USB port to power the Mini PS1/PS2 Blueretro.
I actually didn’t know that’s a thing because the adapters work on both my fat models and my slim.
There are versions of uLaunchElf (maybe the fork wLaunchElf) that have drivers for more controllers like DualShock 3. The drivers are optional because space is tight on a “Memory Card(TM) (8MB) for PlayStation(R) 2”.
And he’s not much of a gamer himself so I figure something is better than nothing
this might make it worthwhile.
i was speaking from experience earlier when i told you that they might not appreciate the expense on effort and other resources. i did something similar for my nephews many years ago – dropping lots of time and hardware on it – and they didn’t bother to with it because it wasn’t the latest and greatest shiney new console from sony or nintendo.
Blue Max - biwing ww1 airplane, isomorphic bombing and shooting through the country side.
Pharoh’s Curse - Dungeon delver with traps, walking dead enemies, and infuriating bird
Pitfall
digdug
Archon - Battle Chess ! (playing solo isn’t great or hard. Two Player is a blast)
Pole Position
Chopperlifter
I spent a lot of time playing Miner 2049er, which was a pretty fun platformer of the time.
I also remember some interesting twists on classics, like K-razy kritters was similar to space invaders. There was also a space shooter called K-star patrol
We also had a homemade cartridge with a game called Spark Bugs. It was a challenging one
I never played it, but want to recommend “Alley Cat (Synapse Software 1983)” for Atari 800, as you are a cat too.^^ It looks interesting and seems to be a “Hidden Gem” (oh boy its been a long time since I used this forbidden word).
I was lucky enough to grow up on this system and there are some absolute bangers out there:
Mission: Shark (or Misja on the European continent): arguably one of the best games on the systems. Silky smooth animation, great gameplay loop, fantastic music. Janusz Pelc at his best.
Rescue on Fractalus: fantastic foray into faux-3D. You’ll never forget the first time you picked up your first “pilot”…
H.E.R.O: finely balanced, a great time killer.
Encounter: far beyond it’s years, the precursor to open world games
Fred: another J Pelc masterpiece. Great platformer.
Star Raiders II: beautiful shooter. The space shoot em’ ups of today can trace their combat gameplay directly back here.
Lode Runner: one of the best and smoothest implementations of this game, along with…
Chuckie Egg: the original and best.
Zybex: a competent shooter with some of the best chiptunes you’ll ever hear.
Blinky’s Scary School: bastard hard, but full of British humour.
Fort Apocalypse: fantastic shooter, with stunning graphics and a blue doppelganger helicopter that will give you nightmares.
Rally Speedway: takes the top down racer formula, tightens the controls, makes it prettier, and gives you a level editor too. Brilliant.
River Rescue: River Raid but better, and if you disagree then you’re entitled to your wrong opinion.
Super Breakout was my favorite paddle controller game due to the sound randomization, and Imagic’s Demon Attack did some groundbreaking graphics on the platform. As far as ports of arcade games, Phoenix was pretty good. Adventure is iconic.
i built my friend a retropie out of an old desktop pc laying around. plays to about gamecube with little issue.
think i had to just install regular ubuntu, then run some retropie scripts. this was maybe two years ago. mostly works fine but do some maintenence about once a year.
Definitely valid. Luckily I think she’s still young enough that pretty much anything with some buttons she can push to make something happen on the screen is going to keep her entertained
And he’s not much of a gamer himself so I figure something is better than nothing
i suspect that a pc is going to give you more mileage, but at the same time, kids like the newest shiny thing so it’s possible that they might not appreciate your efforts or dedicating needful hardware to it.
What a coincidence! Just 2 days ago (Saturday) I was on a flea market and saw this grey one. Almost purchased it for the memories, but it was in a really rough state. These were actually “real” games with a LCD display; a huge step up from the Game & Watch clones.
Another one on my pile of shame. I had the Zomb’s Lair version on my hard disk for so long that it’s probably moldy. I remember a kid at my school being a big fan of it but nobody else had ever played it.
I have an RG35XXSP on MUOS and I do like it. Im on holiday at the moment and whittled down my backpack consoles to that console and my modded switch lite. I left my ROG Ally and more powerful android kit at home.
I had one of these in the late 90s, although mine was smaller, and folded up like an old clamshell flip-phone. It was surprisingly good for what it was. I used to fantasize about just how complex of a game one could make with it, especially if the centers and outlines of the individual blocks could be controlled independently.
If you still sometimes look into the /r/sbcgaming, the purple shell is slightly redder than the marketing images. Of course, camera settings and all that as grain of salt, but a lot of people are disappointed and changed their orders to other colors.
I too hope the purple goes hard. It’s one of my favorite colors.
At most I would want to spend US$ 100. And of course waiting for aliexpress sales.
There’s plenty there but I have shortlisted
the two anbernic SPs (always pros and cons that I can’t between the 3.5” 4:3 lower res screen of the 35sp, and the 3.4” 3:2 higher res screen), and now there’s the RG SP as well coming out soon…
the cubexx like you mentioned because it’s just so cute cube,
the trimui brick because that seems neat as a music player as well, the RG rotate because it’s gimmicky (but the 3.5” square screen is a big trade off for playing anything other than GB and pico8),
maybe the PAM but that has risen in price above $100
magicx one35 because it’s also gimmicky able to turn 90° and play TATE and somehow NDS as well with both screens the same size
I really should just go with either of the SP for now, and if I don’t play much of it I didn’t lose too much money.
That’s my thought as well. And that’s how I always go when entering a new hobby. Buy cheap that has great impressions, and judge from there.
After some sorting my mind, I think I would want to start just with ps1 and GBA. That is my childhood gaming systems after all. My parents didn’t get any of the Nintendo systems prior to the ps1 as far as I can remember.
So since I’ve always wanted a GBA SP back then but never really saved the money and getting denied by my parents lol, maybe the RG35XXSP or 34XXSP. The former would be more versatile playing ps1 and others, but the latter would be perfect fit for GBA. Decisions, decisions. And yes, I saw that anbernic also has announced the RG SP, which is a stickless 34XXSP.
and then there’s the magicx one35 my nerdery senses is killing me
As a happy owner of both a big powerful versatile machine (Steam Deck) that can play anything from the late 70’ up to modern AAA PC games, and small pocketable-ish but underpowered console (RGCubeXX) that’s good up to the PSX, I’d say go for the most powerful your budget allows. The Deck is my main gaming machine but for anything up to the mid-90’s, the RG is great EDC. I feel this one, provided there is an open source OS released for it, could be an excellent compromise.
It looks like the device is d-pad centric + the 4:3 screen makes it focused on more retro emulation. Also, Russ (from Retro Game Corps) pointed out that the back is pretty flat OOTB, and this means it’s more comfortable to shift your hands down. The ergonomic back is also going to ship with the retail units if you want to swap that in (requires screwdriver though, no fancy magnets or anything)
Great interview as always, I’m glad this device is living up to the insane hype from when it got announced. Everyone looked at this thing and immediately decided it’s the best 4:3 handheld ever. And it seems to be just that. The fact that it can perfectly emulate PS2 at 2x resolution on low power settings is wild. I would’ve been frothing at the mouth to get this if I were younger.
Side note: I’ve never been a fan of transparent shells (kind of heresy in this hobby, I know), but I’m really liking the look of these frosted transparent ones. Clear purple looks like it could go hard.
What a great review. I’ve been curious about ‘Snatcher’ for ages…this video essay makes me think it’s worth spinning up.
PS: dunno if emulated or og hardware but that triangular filter is something Reshade does quite well. I was using it in conjunction with PCSX2 to play SoTC and Just Cause 1 some time back and it makes low rez mush look really good
I’ve been buying these since the GP32. I grew up with a Gamegear>GB Pocket>GBA.
There’s always a faster, more capable unit pushing what you’re capable of doing. I’d get whatever the current more affordable, pocketable darling is with the form factor you like (Eg TrimUI Brick) and if you love it and find yourself lusting after higher end emulation and PC game translation gaming after sinking time into your little one, then you’ll know it’s worth it and what you’re looking for.
I have just as much fun with the cute cheaper ones as the more powerful ones once I find a game that gets me hooked. I do like to tinker though.
I’ll give it a read over tea later. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Been wanting a reto handheld for quote some time ever since the miyoo mini v1 days years ago. Never have bought one before. Idk if I want a big capable versatile machine or small easy to pocket little doodad.
I used to have a GBA as a kid and a NSDL as a college kid.
Dunno where I’m going with this comment, I’m just rambling now lol
I love the filter they used for the game itself, seems to be the Retrotink 5X ($325, yikes) with the consumer-1 filter.
(something like this like this is in software is sometimes called ‘triangular filter’, not always available though. Similarly, for me Lottes filter is triangular in one software and a more standard grid with worse settings in another software)
Genuinely surprising, considering the OG -> 360 “backwards compatibility” was ahead-of-time recompilation. Not a proper decomp - more like Dolphin’s shader cache. The hard part of that is ensuring you’ve hit every code-path the game could possibly run.
If they’ve already done that work for a significant chunk of the library, it seems weird to build a proper emulator… and then still lie by calling it “backwards compatibility” that’s “compatible” with four fucking games.
It’s running android, however with PC it’s also the emulator that handles save states. Every emulator I’ve used on android has a save state function, so you should be fine 👍🏾
Oh yeah, I heard they were doing this and adding achievements. Not surprised they’re using emulators, though. I bet it’s a modified version of something fan made, as they tend to do things like that.
The thread I was reading was more about how uninteresting and forced official achievements are though (especially with 1000 pts per game rule making no fucking sense lol). I’m still stuck waiting for an OG Xbox emulator to support RetroAchevements.
Asked a friend to check since he subscribes to Gamepass. Though he was busy, he could at least do a quick check, and while he saw no ISO or xISO files, he did see some suspicious files in the data folder of one of the games. Without further findings, another conjecture is that it’s some sort of decompilation, like some other ports to PC such as the most recent release of Gunbird 1 & 2, the Mega Man Collection, and No More Heroes 1 & 2.
I also don’t know the answer, but adding to the list of educated guesses:
Unless the xbox was doing dynamic shader compilation I would think some level of emulation needs to be done for the graphics?
For example even though the switch 1 and 2 are using basically the same OS and CPU architecture (and both systems use Nvidia SOCs), the switch 2 needs to do GPU shader emulation to get games for the original switch running (which leads to some games not working perfectly)
It kinda still is. It’s just that people who could afford a 486/Pentium beige box in 1996 were a very specific type of person. Even among that bunch Duke being #1 and Quake at #4 shows that a Pentium was out of reach for many. A barrier to entry was lowered substantially since then with everything that brings.
RetroFed
I know this is an old post but camera support is awesome. Could you imagine emulating psvr?
How to get ahead
Ah, but would an absolute dipshit say something like this, on the occasion of winning a US military contact?
You are technically correct, but good luck with being technically correct in the public sphere.
All of those are owned by thiele
I don’t have this exact device but one of their many other H700 devices. I flashed Knulli on it and have the romm app Grout installed. It worjs great. Not sure id Grout can br installed on the anbernic OS but it will definitely work with a custom OS.
Can these people please stop using names from LOTR and stop ruining the things I love?
I messed about with MAME ages ago, but can´t remember what I played on it. I think Rayman 3 was probably PS2 for me.
Oh sorry I misread you :S
Have you tried any 3D consoles in MAME before? I haven’t touched anything outside of the arcade cabinets and only the early 3D stuff like Rush.
Yes, I did see Rayman 3 on not working, my comment was wistfully hopeful. Thanks for the links!
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Spoiler text explains how to acquire everything you need to run MAME. But that won’t answer your question because you’ll note Rayman 3 was added to the NOT Working section :P
You’d use Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator, to play Rayman 3 I think.
https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Rayman_3:_Hoodlum_Havoc
Linux, I don’t recommend Flatpaks. Sandbox causes problems, so:
https://pkgforge-dev.github.io/Anylinux-AppImages/ or https://github.com/pkgforge-dev/Dolphin-emu-AppImage
Windows and Mac:
https://dolphin-emu.org/download/
Games are here: https://r-roms.github.io/Nintendo/nintendo-gamecube
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Firstly, games and BIOS, disc images, media for front ends, etc…the full sets are found here: https://pleasuredome.github.io/pleasuredome/mame/index.html
Use the merged torrents, even if you only download a partial torrent for a few games and their requires BIOS or whatever you want to do. Best for updating via torrent full sets. Checking an existing directory in a torrent client vs following the annoying update torrents.
Linux:
I have to explain something first: MAME is in probably most distro repositories, certainly Arch/CachyOS. However, I don’t actually like using it that way because you have to match the ROM/CHD sets to the same version as the emulator version or you get will get incompatibility errors if you have the full sets. Or may depending on the game and if the files weren’t touched, or even just rearranged between releases. This is uniquely dumb (thanks to the way MAME handles ROMS differently from everyone else) because every time you update your system then MAME gets updated but your files don’t and are then incompatible. Undesirable. So I grab a full set and then compile from source and then I don’t update anything unless something in the change logs catches my eye that I want to try.
However I have a very handy compilation website for many various AppImages including emulators like MAME: https://pkgforge-dev.github.io/Anylinux-AppImages/ so this is what I’d use if manually compiling from source isn’t in your interest.
Windows:
You can just grab the Windows MAME executable from mamedev.org as linked in OP. It already has a decent GUI built in. I also liked using the 3rd party QMC2 front end, also available on Linux. It’s outdated, but that doesn’t matter very much the front end doesn’t need to be the same version as MAME itself in this case: https://github.com/qmc2/qmc2-mame-fe
Mac: https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/SDL_Supported_Platforms
idk, but it’s supported.
He also looks like an absolute dipshit. Lol.
Out of curiosity, what is the distribution of downloads among the three OSs?
Someday I hope to play Rayman 3 again.
He’s selling you an n64 and selling the department of war weapons.
Thank you for this article because I would have had no idea. I would have seen that console and not know who tf Palmer Lucky is. But, I do know what Anduril is. There’s just too many war crimes CEOs for me to know/remember them all.
Side note, related. Stop supporting Mark Roper/CrunchLabs too. He loves Anduril and frequently features them.
Wow, that is awesome. Its like a clone.
I wish something like this existed for ps2 or Dreamcast so I dont have to worry about when mine die…
Looks neat, I just setup Romm on my server so curious since its Linux based if it would support one of the romm applications
Aw man! Now I want to play “Pacman Galaxian” and “Donkey Kong Moon Patrol”.
How has it been?
I am curious about what kind of games run well on it through GameNative?
I am not really interested in trying out triple A games but rather jRPGs like Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster.
But some of the more modern ones would be nice like Octopath Traveler.
That looks amazing.
Microsurgeon.
Wait… That was Intellivision. 🤔
Uh… E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
You reminded me I used to have (possibly still do) a copy of Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Chess Wars for DOS. There were so many ports and clones of Battle Chess.
Pretty sure Chessmaster 2000 was on Atari too (and everything else, including the Super Nintendo).
I think redux is basically the same game.
I’ve sunk so many hours into BZCC. It’s a great version of BZ2 and worth checking out.
Pretty sure both games have a pretty solid community behind them as well and there’s a bunch of mods to check out.
I didn’t know about that lunar lander! I’ll have to see if I can find it whenever I play it again. Very nostalgic game for me.
I loved Battlezone, it really captured my imagination with its secret cold war space race setting and the battles taking place on real planets in the Solar System. The gameplay was fun too, and incredibly advanced for its time (stealing vehicles in 3d before GTA 3!). Redux is the original game with remade textures and modern system compatibility fixes. They’re very faithful to the original style, though I do wish there was a way to load the original textures. Somebody’s probably hacked them in, I haven’t checked.
I did manage to see some of the gambling ads a few years ago, but I guess I figured they’d eventually maybe try a patreon model to fund itself or something, just never anticipated it would be shut down, as it was such a pillar for so long.
Looks like XTC Abandonware is still up, but worryingly they also seem to have gone down the path of gambling ads, listing them as affiliates and having a huge space dedicated to them in the testimonials section on the front page… Ech.
Home of the underdogs is still up too, and it looks like they went the Patreon route, thankfully! Though last update was 3 years ago.
Overall the abandonware space seems to be a bit of a shadow of its former self, unfortunately :(
Yeah, was an active contributer there and even had some discussions with the main admin Tom Henrick. Part of my childhood is just gone
Apparently it’s been dead longer than actually it’s posted death as it was sold and gambling ads were rampant shortly before the actual demise
Battlezone is one of my all time favourites, one of the first games I paid cash for (having played the shareware version) and spent countless hours exploring and finding all the hidden secrets (first map has a lunar lander with a ridiculous techno-playing directed energy weapon on it).
Battlezone 98 Redux is basically the same game with improved graphics. All the fun of sniping enemies and stealing their ships all over again.
Woah, I had no idea it shut down… That’s an awful shame :(
Battle Chess, I haven’t tried it on Atari but it’s on so many platforms and it’s a lot of fun.
This is the only Batttlezone I know:
RIP Abandonia….
I had a similar one as a kid, and I’m feeling weirdly nostalgic about it.
Wonder if someone has an emulator somewhere of them…
I have two of these and they work wonderfully. It comes with a pairing guide for specific controllers, and a full list can be found here.
You should use wLaunchELF_ISR over uLaunchELF for better compatibility and functionality.
From the AliExpress page under NOTICES:
I actually didn’t know that’s a thing because the adapters work on both my fat models and my slim.
Her Riana Rouge video is even more unhinged.
This one? Thank you btw
Computer was the key word. The 2600 was an 8-bit machine, too, but it wasn’t a general purpose computer.
Choplifter.
Fort Apocalypse
The Tail of Beta Lyrae Mercenary Rescue on Fractalus Ballblazer The Eidolon
Alternate Reality: The City was revolutionary for its time, but I don’t think it’s stood the test of time.
There was a leaked beta of a The Last Starfighter game which was great. It was later released as Star Raiders II, but I liked the beta version.
There are versions of uLaunchElf (maybe the fork wLaunchElf) that have drivers for more controllers like DualShock 3. The drivers are optional because space is tight on a “Memory Card(TM) (8MB) for PlayStation(R) 2”.
Astounding!
I managed to completely miss the 8-bit line, or it was minimally promoted in Australia.
Thanks for filling in the gap from 2600/7800 until the ST.
this might make it worthwhile.
i was speaking from experience earlier when i told you that they might not appreciate the expense on effort and other resources. i did something similar for my nephews many years ago – dropping lots of time and hardware on it – and they didn’t bother to with it because it wasn’t the latest and greatest shiney new console from sony or nintendo.
Blue Max - biwing ww1 airplane, isomorphic bombing and shooting through the country side.
Pharoh’s Curse - Dungeon delver with traps, walking dead enemies, and infuriating bird
Pitfall
digdug
Archon - Battle Chess ! (playing solo isn’t great or hard. Two Player is a blast)
Pole Position
Chopperlifter
I spent a lot of time playing Miner 2049er, which was a pretty fun platformer of the time.
I also remember some interesting twists on classics, like K-razy kritters was similar to space invaders. There was also a space shooter called K-star patrol
We also had a homemade cartridge with a game called Spark Bugs. It was a challenging one
I never played it, but want to recommend “Alley Cat (Synapse Software 1983)” for Atari 800, as you are a cat too.^^ It looks interesting and seems to be a “Hidden Gem” (oh boy its been a long time since I used this forbidden word).
That’s the Atari 2600, but the poster asks about the computer systems with a keyboard, similar to Commodore 64: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_computers
Dragster has the best split-second gameplay of any 2600 game.
Barnstorming: fly a plane through barns.
M.U.L.E. is great
I already played lode runner and HERO actually HERO is one of my favorite 2600 games so i had to check the Atari 8 bit version
I was lucky enough to grow up on this system and there are some absolute bangers out there:
Mission: Shark (or Misja on the European continent): arguably one of the best games on the systems. Silky smooth animation, great gameplay loop, fantastic music. Janusz Pelc at his best.
Rescue on Fractalus: fantastic foray into faux-3D. You’ll never forget the first time you picked up your first “pilot”…
H.E.R.O: finely balanced, a great time killer.
Encounter: far beyond it’s years, the precursor to open world games
Fred: another J Pelc masterpiece. Great platformer.
Star Raiders II: beautiful shooter. The space shoot em’ ups of today can trace their combat gameplay directly back here.
Lode Runner: one of the best and smoothest implementations of this game, along with…
Chuckie Egg: the original and best.
Zybex: a competent shooter with some of the best chiptunes you’ll ever hear.
Blinky’s Scary School: bastard hard, but full of British humour.
Fort Apocalypse: fantastic shooter, with stunning graphics and a blue doppelganger helicopter that will give you nightmares.
Rally Speedway: takes the top down racer formula, tightens the controls, makes it prettier, and gives you a level editor too. Brilliant.
River Rescue: River Raid but better, and if you disagree then you’re entitled to your wrong opinion.
Have fun!
Berzerk and Wizard of Wor are both fantastic fun.
There’s also a homebrew port of Bosconian, which gets my vote for one of the most underrated arcade games of all time.
Joust, Jumpman, Lode Runner, and Prince of Persia were good on at least some 65xx machines of that time.
Super Breakout was my favorite paddle controller game due to the sound randomization, and Imagic’s Demon Attack did some groundbreaking graphics on the platform. As far as ports of arcade games, Phoenix was pretty good. Adventure is iconic.
The Zaxxon port is quite good, and I also have fond memories of F-15 Strike Eagle.
i built my friend a retropie out of an old desktop pc laying around. plays to about gamecube with little issue.
think i had to just install regular ubuntu, then run some retropie scripts. this was maybe two years ago. mostly works fine but do some maintenence about once a year.
also great to recycle old hardware
Definitely valid. Luckily I think she’s still young enough that pretty much anything with some buttons she can push to make something happen on the screen is going to keep her entertained
And he’s not much of a gamer himself so I figure something is better than nothing
i suspect that a pc is going to give you more mileage, but at the same time, kids like the newest shiny thing so it’s possible that they might not appreciate your efforts or dedicating needful hardware to it.
What a coincidence! Just 2 days ago (Saturday) I was on a flea market and saw this grey one. Almost purchased it for the memories, but it was in a really rough state. These were actually “real” games with a LCD display; a huge step up from the Game & Watch clones.
I LOVE earlybird!
I had one. Still remember the startup jingle it had.
One of the games was Tetris, but with square blocks only. That was enough challenge for my four year old brain.
There’s another version of the newer game that has square tiles. I got one and it’s brilliant.
I had one of these circa 2003 or 2004. It had the form factor of a giant SNES controller and th screen flipped up out of the middle.
I want to say that mine only claimed 99 games.
Another one on my pile of shame. I had the Zomb’s Lair version on my hard disk for so long that it’s probably moldy. I remember a kid at my school being a big fan of it but nobody else had ever played it.
I have an RG35XXSP on MUOS and I do like it. Im on holiday at the moment and whittled down my backpack consoles to that console and my modded switch lite. I left my ROG Ally and more powerful android kit at home.
Great read. 10/10 experience.
I had one of these in the late 90s, although mine was smaller, and folded up like an old clamshell flip-phone. It was surprisingly good for what it was. I used to fantasize about just how complex of a game one could make with it, especially if the centers and outlines of the individual blocks could be controlled independently.
Same! Got it on World Savings Day as a gift for depositing money in my savings account.
My first ever video game machine was a version of this piece of crap!
If you still sometimes look into the /r/sbcgaming, the purple shell is slightly redder than the marketing images. Of course, camera settings and all that as grain of salt, but a lot of people are disappointed and changed their orders to other colors.
I too hope the purple goes hard. It’s one of my favorite colors.
At most I would want to spend US$ 100. And of course waiting for aliexpress sales.
There’s plenty there but I have shortlisted
cutecube,I really should just go with either of the SP for now, and if I don’t play much of it I didn’t lose too much money.
That’s my thought as well. And that’s how I always go when entering a new hobby. Buy cheap that has great impressions, and judge from there.
After some sorting my mind, I think I would want to start just with ps1 and GBA. That is my childhood gaming systems after all. My parents didn’t get any of the Nintendo systems prior to the ps1 as far as I can remember.
So since I’ve always wanted a GBA SP back then but never really saved the money and getting denied by my parents lol, maybe the RG35XXSP or 34XXSP. The former would be more versatile playing ps1 and others, but the latter would be perfect fit for GBA. Decisions, decisions. And yes, I saw that anbernic also has announced the RG SP, which is a stickless 34XXSP.
and then there’s the magicx one35 my nerdery senses is killing meI got to the main plot twist and stopped. That was too much for me. I never played the game again.
My only problem is that most of her videos are games on my pile of shame, so I can’t watch that much of her.
100% correct. I’m watching her Tender Loving Care video now and it’s just a wild ride.
Earlybird deserves more attention, her channel is a gem.
As a happy owner of both a big powerful versatile machine (Steam Deck) that can play anything from the late 70’ up to modern AAA PC games, and small pocketable-ish but underpowered console (RGCubeXX) that’s good up to the PSX, I’d say go for the most powerful your budget allows. The Deck is my main gaming machine but for anything up to the mid-90’s, the RG is great EDC. I feel this one, provided there is an open source OS released for it, could be an excellent compromise.
It looks like the device is d-pad centric + the 4:3 screen makes it focused on more retro emulation. Also, Russ (from Retro Game Corps) pointed out that the back is pretty flat OOTB, and this means it’s more comfortable to shift your hands down. The ergonomic back is also going to ship with the retail units if you want to swap that in (requires screwdriver though, no fancy magnets or anything)
Great interview as always, I’m glad this device is living up to the insane hype from when it got announced. Everyone looked at this thing and immediately decided it’s the best 4:3 handheld ever. And it seems to be just that. The fact that it can perfectly emulate PS2 at 2x resolution on low power settings is wild. I would’ve been frothing at the mouth to get this if I were younger.
Side note: I’ve never been a fan of transparent shells (kind of heresy in this hobby, I know), but I’m really liking the look of these frosted transparent ones. Clear purple looks like it could go hard.
What a great review. I’ve been curious about ‘Snatcher’ for ages…this video essay makes me think it’s worth spinning up.
PS: dunno if emulated or og hardware but that triangular filter is something Reshade does quite well. I was using it in conjunction with PCSX2 to play SoTC and Just Cause 1 some time back and it makes low rez mush look really good
I’ve been buying these since the GP32. I grew up with a Gamegear>GB Pocket>GBA.
There’s always a faster, more capable unit pushing what you’re capable of doing. I’d get whatever the current more affordable, pocketable darling is with the form factor you like (Eg TrimUI Brick) and if you love it and find yourself lusting after higher end emulation and PC game translation gaming after sinking time into your little one, then you’ll know it’s worth it and what you’re looking for.
I have just as much fun with the cute cheaper ones as the more powerful ones once I find a game that gets me hooked. I do like to tinker though.
Those thumb sticks look painfully low
I’ll give it a read over tea later. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Been wanting a reto handheld for quote some time ever since the miyoo mini v1 days years ago. Never have bought one before. Idk if I want a big capable versatile machine or small easy to pocket little doodad.
I used to have a GBA as a kid and a NSDL as a college kid.
Dunno where I’m going with this comment, I’m just rambling now lol
I love the filter they used for the game itself, seems to be the Retrotink 5X ($325, yikes) with the consumer-1 filter.
(something like this like this is in software is sometimes called ‘triangular filter’, not always available though. Similarly, for me Lottes filter is triangular in one software and a more standard grid with worse settings in another software)
Genuinely surprising, considering the OG -> 360 “backwards compatibility” was ahead-of-time recompilation. Not a proper decomp - more like Dolphin’s shader cache. The hard part of that is ensuring you’ve hit every code-path the game could possibly run.
If they’ve already done that work for a significant chunk of the library, it seems weird to build a proper emulator… and then still lie by calling it “backwards compatibility” that’s “compatible” with four fucking games.
Man played retro games for 6 months and this is what happened to his brain.
It’s on like Donkey Kong
I can’t wait for the Fitgirl repacks.
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Thank you!
It’s running android, however with PC it’s also the emulator that handles save states. Every emulator I’ve used on android has a save state function, so you should be fine 👍🏾
Probably a port of Xenon Fusion I’d imagine so similiar if not identical compatibility would be my assumption:
Community made a compatbility list: https://consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox_360:Original_Xbox_Games_Compatibility_List
XEMU fares much better: https://xemu.app/#compatibility
“Not surprised they’re using emulators, though.”
Reminds me of this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLWY7fCXUwE
Glad it’s picking up to the point even Microslop is using across platforms. =D
Oh yeah, I heard they were doing this and adding achievements. Not surprised they’re using emulators, though. I bet it’s a modified version of something fan made, as they tend to do things like that.
The thread I was reading was more about how uninteresting and forced official achievements are though (especially with 1000 pts per game rule making no fucking sense lol). I’m still stuck waiting for an OG Xbox emulator to support RetroAchevements.
Where’s Sneak King?
Asked a friend to check since he subscribes to Gamepass. Though he was busy, he could at least do a quick check, and while he saw no ISO or xISO files, he did see some suspicious files in the data folder of one of the games. Without further findings, another conjecture is that it’s some sort of decompilation, like some other ports to PC such as the most recent release of Gunbird 1 & 2, the Mega Man Collection, and No More Heroes 1 & 2.
I also don’t know the answer, but adding to the list of educated guesses:
Unless the xbox was doing dynamic shader compilation I would think some level of emulation needs to be done for the graphics?
For example even though the switch 1 and 2 are using basically the same OS and CPU architecture (and both systems use Nvidia SOCs), the switch 2 needs to do GPU shader emulation to get games for the original switch running (which leads to some games not working perfectly)
It kinda still is. It’s just that people who could afford a 486/Pentium beige box in 1996 were a very specific type of person. Even among that bunch Duke being #1 and Quake at #4 shows that a Pentium was out of reach for many. A barrier to entry was lowered substantially since then with everything that brings.
Elite list, played them all except the fight sim as that wasn’t something that interested me when I was younger