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?

  • 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.