Gaming Handhelds

Wanted to give my cousin (11) a handheld since he's never had a game console.

He saw my stepsister's PSP and was interested in it but she wanted to keep it.

Would like the system to be as simple as possible since he's not very tech savvy but also be able to play some PSP games since that's what piqued his interest.

Budget under $100 just in case he doesn't like retro games

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16089267

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Dave said that the Ally (not Ally x) was too cheap, maybe. Maybe Asus didn't include the cost of customer help in it. Hence the warranty issues.

I'm not convinced. Asus is a big firm. If they mistakenly made the Ally too cheap, they could eat the cost of customer help. It's just right to provide 👍 warranty service. And the Ally is their 1st handheld. They wanted to build a 👍 reputation. Also, other Asus items had warranty issues. They must fix their internal process.

I got the new Retroid Pocket 2S in clear black. It worked out about 105 quid delivered, and took just over a week to arrive.

It's a lovely little device, with some really nice sticks and triggers. But it really hammered home how easy it is to set up a Miyoo Mini Plus (which was largely just a case of copying over the ROMs). This one comes pretty much barebones, and it's up to you to install all the emus and a decent front end. So you end up with a weird combination of Retroarch and stand alone emus, and a confusing set of different configs. Retroarch alone is an absolute beast to understand and get right...it seems to have a slippery complexity that is very difficult to hold in your brain.

That said, once it's set up, it is lovely. I'm using Daijisho as a front end, and it pretty much hides all the underlying complications. 4:3 systems look great on the tiny screen, and it runs up to Dreamcast really well, with some GC games running nicely. The only downside is that the PSP's 16:9 screen looks a little titchy letter-boxed on the screen, but it's a small price to pay for portable Outrun 2.

Overall, very impressed... though concerned that this is my second retro handheld and I'm already thinking about things that would make me pick up a third. These things are compelling, eh?

Miyoo Mini Plus here, where I’m currently playing through GBA Advance Wars, which I’ve somehow never played before. It’s absolutely perfect for a half-hour pickup.

So, what are you playing? Let me see those handhelds!

So I bought this handheld device, and so far it's been able to run almost everything up to the PSX (struggles a bit with most N64 games sadly.

It came preloaded with EmuELEC and a bunch of ROMs (I doubt that was legal..) and I wasn't fan of the preloaded OS so I took the time to search for an alternative.

From my research, I found it to basically be a clone of the ODroid Go Super in terms of hardware, so I took the chance to search for alternative OS for it and I wanted something as close as possible to the RetroArch system, and Lakka offers an image for the ODroid Go Super.

So I flashed that on the MicroSD card and it worked out of the box.

I just looked on their store and sadly the device doesn't seem listed anymore, not sure why..

On my Odroid Go: Simpsons Itchy & Scratchy Miniature Golf (GB) Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle (GB) Tetris Plus (GB)

On my Odroid Go Advance: Mega Man Battle Network (GBA) Klonoa: Door to Phantomile (PS1)