Yeah, maybe I've put a bit too mugh early hopes in the Fex Proton stack.

It was "even the Thor" as in: Even the Thor has trouble with heavy Titles newer than the xbox 360 era.

The Thor and the Duo have plenty of horsepower, no doubt.

The issue is that PC games are built to run on x86 CPUs, talking to first-party DirectX drivers and Windows APIs.

So there’s a lot of overhead and lost optimizations when you translate them to run on ARM CPUs, talking to Turnip DirectX drivers, and emulated Windows APIs.

Performance will continue to improve, for sure, and eventually we’ll start to see native ARM Linux builds for some titles.

But it’s the wild West out there right now. Hard crashes are common, configs are brittle, and some games are more obstinant than others. Take any Steam success as a bonus rather than the main goal of the device.

Also: Just making sure… You said “even the Thor”, but my understanding is that the Thor is more powerful than the Duo.

According to Retro Game Corps, even the Thor can handle stuff from up until Xbox 360 era. I'm happy if it manages the Witcher 2 and hopefully, some indie titles.

There's the one from game native and one from emuready

https://gamenative.app/compatibility/

https://www.emuready.com/pc-listings

https://www.emuready.com/

Try filtering by similar-spec devices/socs. That can give you a rough idea of compatibility and what to tweak.

In general though… don’t expect much. You’ll get some very basic titles running with okay performance and stability, but that’s about it. It’s early days, and a mid-tier SoC.

Maybe some of you got one and care to share some data. (:

AI is such a meaningless term. Sounds more accurate to say it has voice activated commands.

Loom was great. I was gifted the CD without internet or instructions. I had to just raw dog the whole world until it clicked.

I still remember the opening scene by the great loom because I kept restarting when I couldn’t figure out what to do.

You have heard the findings of this council dame Hetchel, have you anything to say in your own defense?

My elders my actions speak for themselves

This reckless defiance is intolerable! Any secret you share with Cigna’s son might be turned against us!

He talent is awakening and the power is very strong in him. We dare not desert him now.

Stubborn old fool, who are you to decide such things?

Enough Lakesis. Hetchel, I am grieved to see your many years of service end in such disgrace.

My destiny is yours to weave.

Hetchel, the fabric of your life has been woven by your own choices.

Gaze once more upon the great loom of you would know your ultimate destiny, for that destiny is now upon you!

I've never liked FIFA soccer games. They're really bad. Even their brand new ones. Players feel like they're sliding on a soapy ground, not running. It does have better controls than PES and it doesn't hold your hands like PES does, but the engine is absolute shit and I prefer PES's mechanics all day everyday.

Genuinely shocked it lasted this long. Getting ROMs is still much easier than setting up the damn OS.

The fact the industry is going digital only with licenses that allow purches to disappear with no reimbursement I don't ever see them filling the hole retro gamers are looking for. Personally I have no justification to buy a AAA system. They don't make anything I want. Maybe that is what they should focus on.

They are always the ones who mess it up. It becomes popular because its "easy."

Oh god, the tech illiterate ignoramuses will ruin piracy for us all

Assuming it's at least $399 for the base, it's a no-brainer over the Odin 3 unless it's just too big for you. I don't need the power so I'm happy with the Odin 2 Portal. I got it when it was $249 but even at its current $259 it's still a great deal.

I feel the same, but apparently there's a quite a few people buying handhelds off of Tiktok and Amazon who get super pissed when they get something that requires set up and ROM loading, which encourages manufacturers to pre-load.

I’d prefer if they removed the preloaded ROMs to keep regulatory eyes off of the hobby altogether. In any case, half the fun is building your collections and figuring out how to navigate the internet.

That would be awesome.

I wish someone would make the 3d screen

Your move, Retroid.

It handheld alright but it freaking wide as hell. That be a best to play as handheld. Cool project though.

Do a GameCube next.

I mad at myself, that I didn't think of that.

There's an app you can run that cracks the firmware for you, but it doesn't permanently change anything, so there's no chance it'll brick your PSP. It's super easy to turn the crack on and off, too. With the firmware cracked, you can just plug in an SD card and run any native game, any PS1 (as an eboot), and homebrew software which includes games and emulators for GB, GBA, NES, GG, SMS, Genesis, SNES, TG-16, etc. etc. Just a mindbogglingly huge library.

I don't remember the name of it right now, but do a web search for PSP CFWs (Cracked FirmWare) and you should be able to find something.

Freedom Unite my beloved.

A friend hacked his PSP and let me borrow it for a week to try out "this new Monster Hunter game he found" when I was and it single-handedly made me go out and buy a used PSP to do the same. I put so many hundreds of hours into that game, even soloed the guild double-Tigrex mission (scaled for a party of players).

There's a few emulators for older systems that can run on PSP hardware, too -- it's how I first played the NES Castlevania and Megaman games. Looks like it can do up to about the SNES/Genesis era fairly well?

OP asked about handhelds, not attracting cats.