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I finally joined the retro gaming handheld club! (programming.dev)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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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?

Anbernic RG35XX-H playing Castlevania: Dracula X
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[–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months 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.

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