I have an RG351P and it's one of my favourite devices, it's perfect for playing GBA games, but the screen makes it less desirable for the other types of systems it's capable of emulating. That unusual 480x320 resolution means home console and arcade games will have some scaling filters applied, which I find unpleasant to look at.
There's a sister device called the RG351V which has a classic DMG Game Boy design, and sports a 640x480 screen. It's absolutely perfect for home console games, Game Boy games, and more. GBA games take a small hit as you need to scale them, but they scale better than you'd expect.
It's nice to see Nintendo Life covering Anbernic's more recent devices though! They really are excellent little devices.
@sanderev That's what I saw after looking it up, yeah. Though one has a 1.2Ghz processor and the other has a 1.5Ghz processor, that by itself is no indication of performance capabilities.
This device looks like it is very, very similar to the RG351P.
There's a chance that it is using the same processor and general firmware, especially since they seem to share a 480x320 IPS screen.
With that in mind, you guys should check if you can flash a custom firmware to the microSD card.
The stock firmware for the RG351P is terrible, if you flash a custom one such as 351Elec the experience is greatly improved: Default shaders and scaling on a per-system basis are better, and can still be fixed up.
The main draw of the 480x320 resolution screen is that Game Boy / Color / Advance games will look perfect on it! That's why I got an RG351P.
The drawback however, is that most other systems you'll need RGA scaling to get them to look decent.
Edit: Looked up the processors for these devices and they aren't the same, I'm not sure which one has superior specs.
This is very much geared at the total enthusiasts that really wanna deck out their homes and already spend hundreds on individual NEO GEO games.
Whilst the selection of games is nice, no doubt people will look into modding this thing to load in even more games. But hopefully this thing actually has good software emulation.
Question about the 8Bitdo M30's latency. Do these tests run the M30 2.4G using the latest Firmware v2.0? This purportedly resolves connectivity and latency issues.
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Re: Hands On: Retro Handheld Face-Off - Anbernic R351 Vs Retroid Pocket 2
I have an RG351P and it's one of my favourite devices, it's perfect for playing GBA games, but the screen makes it less desirable for the other types of systems it's capable of emulating.
That unusual 480x320 resolution means home console and arcade games will have some scaling filters applied, which I find unpleasant to look at.
There's a sister device called the RG351V which has a classic DMG Game Boy design, and sports a 640x480 screen. It's absolutely perfect for home console games, Game Boy games, and more. GBA games take a small hit as you need to scale them, but they scale better than you'd expect.
It's nice to see Nintendo Life covering Anbernic's more recent devices though! They really are excellent little devices.
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@sanderev
That's what I saw after looking it up, yeah.
Though one has a 1.2Ghz processor and the other has a 1.5Ghz processor, that by itself is no indication of performance capabilities.
Re: The PocketGo S30 Is Basically A SNES Pad That Plays Retro Games
This device looks like it is very, very similar to the RG351P.
There's a chance that it is using the same processor and general firmware, especially since they seem to share a 480x320 IPS screen.
With that in mind, you guys should check if you can flash a custom firmware to the microSD card.
The stock firmware for the RG351P is terrible, if you flash a custom one such as 351Elec the experience is greatly improved: Default shaders and scaling on a per-system basis are better, and can still be fixed up.
The main draw of the 480x320 resolution screen is that Game Boy / Color / Advance games will look perfect on it! That's why I got an RG351P.
The drawback however, is that most other systems you'll need RGA scaling to get them to look decent.
Edit: Looked up the processors for these devices and they aren't the same, I'm not sure which one has superior specs.
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I think I might've known that by proxy, because I recall knowing that about Perfect Dark, but not Goldeneye.
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This is very much geared at the total enthusiasts that really wanna deck out their homes and already spend hundreds on individual NEO GEO games.
Whilst the selection of games is nice, no doubt people will look into modding this thing to load in even more games.
But hopefully this thing actually has good software emulation.
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I'm not sure who this is for. Enthusiasts with SNES or Mega Drive cartridges (or flash carts) are going to want a nicer system than this.
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Question about the 8Bitdo M30's latency.
Do these tests run the M30 2.4G using the latest Firmware v2.0? This purportedly resolves connectivity and latency issues.
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These photos with their low level neon lighting are difficult to view.
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My brother recently got one of these and it's quite a treat.
The fact that it functions as an optical-drive emulator is quite remarkable.
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I know that everyone's been thinking about AVGN on this subject matter, but has anyone stopped to think about Steven Spielberg?