Question - Retro Handhelds
Edit: What a great thread. I love you Lemmy nerds!
I’ve been seeing these new devices coming out that come preloaded with something like 20,000 roms across every console released from the 70’s to the 2010’s, and I have to admit, I’m tempted.
I’m wondering if anyone out there has purchased one of these and what was your experience with it?
i got an r36s a few months ago, and replaced the microsd card immediately because they’re dogshit and fail really quickly. sourced my own roms
like 2 weeks ago i upgraded to an anbernic rgsp, and it was a massive upgrade. replaced the microsd card on that one as well and sourced my own roms
i liked the r36s but i definitely recommend getting a higher quality device immediately to avoid e-waste (also, it’s almost certain if you order a “r36s” right now, it will be a clone with poor performance and issues with custom firmware), because it’s very likely that you’ll want to upgrade because retro handhelds are cool and r36s devices are bottom shelf compared to pretty much everything except for the generic stuff. anything from anbernic for example is a lot better
flashing custom firmware to a microsd card is easy and sourcing roms is very easy too. having 20 000 random roms on a card (which 99.9% you don’t give a shit about) that will fail in a few days or weeks is not preferable to a durable sd card with the games that you want to actually play