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@Arcadia_Official they just inserted it into the top like you would a regular cartridge into a regular game boy?

It looks like a nice step up from the exp which is all I wanted. Been playing Blood Omen and honestly just having a bigger screen will do me nicely. I'll play a banjo and a doom on it sure why not.

@axelhander buy the ai slop monitor you coward

Please put "he's not dead" in the title because this article gave me a brief flash of fear before I read it haha

Guessing it's Atari cause they're actively licensing out all their stuff now. Someone figured out that making money off your old licenses is a good use for them.

@YouPitchforkWaver I'm sorry that you have to suffer in your persecuted minority. It truly must be difficult being someone who keeps getting told that huffing paint isn't good, actually.

I love my GBA micro purely for the form factor. Make handhelds small again.

It would take time and effort to clear out that many games. Someone knew what they were doing, what they were taking, and knew enough about their schedule to time it. Pretty suss.

Bless his heart for being open but I'll not be playing it. At least he's not being sneaky like so many are.

@YouPitchforkWaver I too will drink diesel to prove a very important point

I think it's gonna be a scart to rca box from AliExpress.

You gotta admit, that'd be a surprising product release.

Been downsizing the physical collection recently because, even after cutting it by half, I still have more games than I could finish in my lifetime. Been really digging into switch, DS, 3DS and Vita carts because I frankly don't expect them to live forever. Plus, most of these don't come with manuals or anything and are available either in digital store or sailing the seas.

With that said, I've taken the opportunity to grab a couple old mega drive and Saturn titles. It's funny because I have about twenty ways of playing the games on the original consoles without even using the original media (flashcards and ODEs and software and fpga emulation) but I kind of just like the process of grabbing a disc or a cart and playing it. I liken it to putting on a record instead of streaming. It's a purposeful process, sitting down to play a game.

Oh this is actually kind of cool. I can't speak to the quality of the game but I have a soft spot for this particular era of games. It's cool that people are out there trying to preserve these things.

Ngl I got a nice price on a steam deck oled recently and I think there's basically no need for these handhelds for me any more.

I get that the market for these things isn't niche as such, but it really does feel like combing through the AliExpress famiclone section and saying "this one will release with flame stickers" and expecting people to care given the relative lack of difference between any of these devices.

Like, most of them run android now. The screens can vary from quite good to quite bad. There's like three form factors. How much more can one really say?

Excited for an evercade with just a slightly bigger, better screen tbh

I love it when someone adapts old "junk" hardware like this as a project. Much more fun than a raspberry pi.

Kind of understand Ruka on his point though. There was a time when all the hardware modders were cutting up those portable psone screens for the lcd panels and now they're quite thin on the ground. Are there other things you can use to play ps1 games on the go? Yes, but those screens were a cool product of the time.

There'll be thirteen new android devices to preorder next week, and then another 16 the week after. What's the harm in missing out this time? Running out of things to leave in your drawers?

Yesssss mate. I'm used to the standard menu by now but this looks like something my kids could actually navigate

Any of you ever play Astro Boy on the GBA? It's a really good Treasure title. Not relevant but this comment section could use a bit of fun.

Nintendo, hire this man!

Looks like more future e-waste that'll be forgotten by this time next year

I mean this with kindness but a lot of people in dev communities have severe communication issues and it really shows when they post insane screeds and then get worked up when people take offense.

@axelhander "the ethical issues are bunk"

Oh damn, really? Thanks for sorting that out champ.

I bought a retroid pocket something or other and it's fine but it's not as good as a modded vita. Sure, that can't play ps2 or GameCube or dreamcast, but it can sure play the games it can play super well

Kind of wild that of all the old iD guys it's John Romero who has ended up as the most likeable one

The whole market for these handheld android devices is ridiculous

You know, I don't actually hate it. Not enough to buy it, but I like it enough to have considered it.

@Mikethemaster learn Japanese lmao

Why would anyone want to use an AI translated script as a basis for proper translation? My knowledge of Japanese is moderate - I can play most games given time and effort - but if I was going to do a translation I'd start with the original text and work from there. It's like suggesting learning to draw by taking a bad photocopy of a good picture and saying "yeah just trace over that."

If it's the tools that are the problem, why can't the people making these find a translator and work with them directly? It's all about the need to be "first" even if the result is substandard.

@KommissarNance settle down mate

Clear or not I'd love a replacement shell for my new 3ds. Was lucky enough to buy it new when they were cheap but the colour layer got damp and sloughed off like a snake skin so that always bugs me

The people demand a rerelease of the Oliver Twins cart. The world cannot know peace until we can all play several ports of Dizzy games on official licensed carts.

@chucksneed ah yes, just trawl through a mess of broken, undocumented spaghetti code and do the job that a competent dev would have done from the beginning until you reach a point where you just rewrite the whole thing from scratch.

Just because you can construct a shed from shreds of metal and old tree branches in your garden, you shouldn't be saying you've fixed the housing crisis.

@pomegran yeah that's a great shout actually. Got a couple units kicking around but I'd kill for some game reprints. Not a huge library of games but there's some real classics.

Wonderswan. Neo geo pocket.

CD32!!!?????

Good to see another lower cost alternative tbh. I'm still using an ossc and (gasp) a crt but I'd like something I can just plug things into on the main TV and see them work without taking out another mortgage. I respect the retrotink a lot but I simply cannot justify that kind of outlay.

I don't give a hoot about discord or being banned from a discord lmao. Let alone bringing that drama up elsewhere

I bought b&w and colour versions of the neo geo pocket and wonderswan a few years back in Japan, when that was still cheap, and I love the little machines. The niche of "portable" gaming was very unique and has been unfortunately killed by the mobile game gacha market. I'll say that the playdate does a pretty good job meeting that niche, but the games on there often stray a little too far into pretentious indie nonsense.

I sat on the fence about buying a Playdate until a few months back. Love the little machine. Something really nice about it as a pure toy, just a fun little device that knows what it does and does it well.

This was an excellent article. I appreciate that you're discussing the background behind these companies and products and for anyone who wants to whine about it my advice: don't read it, and stop being so precious.

I've used the Saturn core enough to say that if it isn't 100% accurate it's still the best way to play Saturn games outside of an actual Saturn, and a lot more convenient.

As much as a more capable fpga would be good, the mister project is perhaps just a once in a lifetime wonder. That the platform works as well as it does really feels like the work of a dedicated community of individuals that I don't ever see being replicated again.

Sometimes I miss when people would make insane handheld versions of classic consoles by ripping them up and putting them in plastic shells, but I guess there isn't that much appeal when almost everything can be emulated now. Still, always fun to see a hobbyist do something mad.

A bigger screen and sticks is enough to get my preorder. Have been really enjoying playing Blood Omen, Tomb Raider and arcade games on my exp - and while I know I could get an android handheld I just enjoy the carts and general "plug and play" feeling of the system. It's niche, but they fill that niche quite well.

@Imadethistolaughatu what other side lmao.

"Nah u" - that's what you said

There's a distinction between vibe-coding and using Claude. Some people use it to help them write boilerplate, but still perform the bulk of the work themselves.

Of course, the long term issue is that such code appears to provide longer term maintenance issues and can be a net negative to the open source community as it's providing greater levels of tech debt and garbage contributions to projects.

Of course none of this is relevant because all you numpties are arguing about "ai being the future" because you have rotted your brains and haven't bothered to actually learn the things you argue about

They should just make a controller that looks like the original controller but with high quality parts.

Never had an n64 when they were new but like half the fun is using that silly controller. All the games were built around it.

Fanboys will hate it but Mario 64 is a lot less fun when played on a modern controller because the game and the controller were influenced by each other.

@h3s i think this is purely a you problem that you've invented and fixed

@h3s why do any of this? Absolutely bizarre behavior

@metaphysician unhinged writing mate. Go read a book