In the pic: Anbernic RG35XX-H playing Castlevania: Dracula X

I’ve been thinking about buying one of these for a while but finally bit the bullet now that companies have started raising prices due to the RAM/chip shortage…

And it turned out to be the best purchase I’ve made in a while! It’s a ton of fun gaming on this little thing. I flashed a custom operating system on it and am now playing Castlevania & Secrets of Mana with RetroAchievements support (which adds achievements and progress tracking to retro games).

I’m also playing a lot of random PICO-8 games since it runs on the device and I can easily browse and play free games on it. Low-key wish I had bought it sooner with how neat it is.

Anybody else have a retro handheld here?

  • HeartyOfGlass@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    4 days ago

    I’ve been rocking an RG35XX+. I think it’s the same chipset as what you have?

    Love it. Got it hooked up to RetroAchievements and Syncthing. Wish it could handle N64, but ah well. It’s still the über-Gameboy I dreamed of as a wee child.

    • popcar2@programming.devOPEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Yup, your handheld has the exact same internals as mine, I think the only difference is that it’s bigger and vertical. Good choice.

      • HeartyOfGlass@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        I’ve been tempted to pick up the RG35XXSP for that clam shell form, but can’t justify it when the XX+ has been such a champ.

        • popcar2@programming.devOPEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          Oooh yeah, I actually considered the SP at first but it wasn’t in stock where I live. That might’ve been a good thing though, because the H is very comfortable to hold whereas clamshells generally aren’t. But yeah, it’s really hard to justify buying more than one of these.