From what I've seen for the past 2-3 years without owning any of these new Chinese handhelds, sounds physically impossible.

I have to disclaim that, and that my last handheld of any kind I still have is the NDSL.

Being pants pocketable seems to always be a compromise on ergonomics to be in a certain size and form factor.

Also if you did not already know, you can browse retrocatalog.com for specs and size comparisons. E.g. size comparison between the miniloong pocket 1 and magicx one 35.

Then I use both https://shauninman.com/utils/screens/ and https://a9udn9u.github.io/blackbars/ forfurther screen size and asp3ct ratio comparisons. The former has an option to show interger scaling and both can unptu custom screen size and resolution if the handheld you want to look at isn't in their site.

Such as?

Yeah, I play a lot of PS2, Vita, GameCube games on it using both.

Which dual analog games have you played on it?

Look at the recent DS likes? The Thor suits me just fine given your parameters.

Oh I see. Well at least it might simplify some things anyway. RetroArch seems to default to Nintendo layout for instance.

You can invert the controls in the settings

Hard disagree, most people play Nintendo games on retro handhelds.

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Was that a typo, or are you saying you modified your Steam Deck to have the Nintendo layout?

I played only with Nintendo layout... My steamdeck has Nintendo layout, I'm doomed

Someone disagrees with you so they are unhinged. Great come back, gonna call me a doodoo head next like the 4 year old you are?

Judging by your unhinged comment, it sounds like you are very much your own problem.

You are. I thought that was obvious

Uh, the fuck is wrong with you?

Retro having is about recreating the feeling of a different era. Who in the ever loving fuck are you to decide your personal opinion should be enforced on millions of people.

You are an asshole for this opinion to make everyone do what YOU want.

Do you like being like Donald Trump and the rest of the Epstein class/fundamental religious assholes, even just in this extremely minor way? Do you? Well just because you hold an opinions doesn't mean you get to enforce it on everyone else.

Go away

Ooh, awesome. I already use muOS on my... whatever number it is

Just like Sony uses? Circle being enter/accept and X being cancel/back was the original intention, but that got mixed up in the US almost immediately and it wasn't long before X became equivalent to A in most games in all regions even on the original ps1. For the vast majority of games, the Sony layout is effectively the same as the Xbox layout, just with idiosyncratic glyphs.

For people that have only played N64 and GameCube, the A button has to be in the south/center, and then the B button somewhere to the left/below.

Nintendo messed up their own user base with the change they made for the classic gamepad in Wii. They definitely pushed me away as a user.

On MuOS, it's as simple as toggling "button swap" in the general settings.

I personally LOVE the "BAXY" ( right down left up ) layout because I think it is the most logical button layout. As much as I'm not a fan of microsoft, they perfected button layout, IMO.

My 406s let me just toggle layout in the drop-down bar. How difficult is it on the Linux models?

Meanwhile I opened my RGCubeXX to swap AB/XY. Which means I had to swap the buttons at the OS level. Which means I regularly have to swap back buttons in game.

Still worth it tho.

I keep my steam deck on Nintendo layout

i have to have a note on my tv everytime i play a game with the sega / xbox etc layout lol

This right here. Nintendo is Japanese, It's the Japanese layout, just like Sony uses.