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What are you guys using for your RP2 setups if not Retroid OS? Retroarch seems decent, but should I use individual apps instead of cores?
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Tim Whatley posted:What are you guys using for your RP2 setups if not Retroid OS? Retroarch seems decent, but should I use individual apps instead of cores? So far retroarch for everything except n64, I use n64oid because mupen sucked for everything regardless of the settings I used. EDIT: I also use PPPPPPPSSSSSSPPPPPP or whatever for PSP and drastic for NDS. I haven't tried any GBA or dreamcast, but I hear flycast is good for the latter and there are a few options for the former. Slimy Hog fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Sep 25, 2020 |
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Sep 25, 2020 03:04
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Can I get away with Pokémon black/white on a single screen and no touch? I assume I can rig a trigger to flash the screens back and forth?
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Sep 28, 2020 00:34
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Rolo posted:Can I get away with Pokémon black/white on a single screen and no touch? I assume I can rig a trigger to flash the screens back and forth? Yeah, people recommend drastic and mapping that to a trigger. I'm not sure about that specific game, but you can find lists online of ds games that are okay to play with one screen.
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Sep 28, 2020 00:36
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Slimy Hog posted:Yeah, people recommend drastic and mapping that to a trigger. I'm not sure about that specific game, but you can find lists online of ds games that are okay to play with one screen. Thanks for the heads up. Got Drastic for 5 bucks off the play store and it works right out of the box with the roms I have. Lots of screen and control customization options.
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Sep 28, 2020 01:35
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What was y'alls turnaround time using DHL for the RP2? I'm at 16 days without any indication of progress besides the original confirmation emails.
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Sep 28, 2020 20:58
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Bogart posted:What was y'alls turnaround time using DHL for the RP2? I'm at 16 days without any indication of progress besides the original confirmation emails. I got nothing until DHL sent me a shipping notification via text. I got my order 2 days later. Then a week after that I got a message from Retroid saying it had shipped. So yeah their update system great. The time between ordering and shipping was roughly 3 weeks.
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Sep 28, 2020 21:06
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Looks like the RP2 batch two new colors (RMS, RS1, RS2, 8bit, 16bit US) aren't shipping out until after the national holiday  so it'll be a bit yet.9/2 order, 16bit US colorway... the 9/25 supposed batch two shipping start date was clearly not met for the new colors.
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Sep 30, 2020 14:16
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I’d probably buy another if they’d make an atomic clear purple. Also, is there a simple program for cloning an image of mine? Now that I have the settings and rom lists perfect I’d like to hide a backup somewhere just in case I ever need to replace it (or I break the OS again.)
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Sep 30, 2020 15:03
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They're making atomic translucent colorways for most of the other N64 color variants, except smoke and purple. They will be making a purple variant but it's more of a grape, not a carbon copy of the N64 color.
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Sep 30, 2020 15:06
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Got any pics or links?
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Sep 30, 2020 15:10
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I wound up buying and modifying a ps vita instead of buying one of these for $120. I’m not sure I made the right choice but I’m happy for now.
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Sep 30, 2020 15:27
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Rolo posted:I’d probably buy another if they’d make an atomic clear purple. Tell them you want it. The last batch of new colors they said were in response to customer requests.
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Oct 1, 2020 17:58
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Rolo posted:Got any pics or links?  This is from Taki, one of the youtubers whose Retroid videos blew the gently caress up and drove a bunch of traffic to the product. Sounds like he's tight with the development team. No official timeline yet on when these will be available for pre-order on the website, but I would not be surprised to see them there shortly after the national holiday is done next week.
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Oct 1, 2020 18:42
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drat that’s cool looking.
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Oct 1, 2020 18:44
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Given the popularity and nostalgia people have for Atomic Purple I’m super surprised they’re not headlining with that.
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Oct 1, 2020 20:36
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Hey, I'm not getting anywhere near the performance people on youtube are getting for Dreamcast and PSP. I was getting something like 25% on Tactics Ogre. I shut down all other programs and the frameskip is still horrible. Any help?
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Oct 10, 2020 02:19
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Been having fun with this so far. SNES stuff works fine on the snes9x 2002 (or whatever it is) core. Except Mario World, which feels... off? Idk, any time I have ever emulated SMW it never felt like a cart. Everything else always works fine. And I finally got to play Castlevania Circle of the Moon which is cool. It controls rather stiff but I think that's just the game rather than the emulator
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Oct 11, 2020 23:14
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:Been having fun with this so far. SNES stuff works fine on the snes9x 2002 (or whatever it is) core. Except Mario World, which feels... off? Idk, any time I have ever emulated SMW it never felt like a cart. Everything else always works fine. And I finally got to play Castlevania Circle of the Moon which is cool. It controls rather stiff but I think that's just the game rather than the emulator Whatever of Sorrow is another good GBA CV game.
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Oct 11, 2020 23:28
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Rolo posted:Whatever of Sorrow is another good GBA CV game. That and Harmony of Dissonance are on the list. Growing up I was always more on the Metroid side of Metroidvanias. Symphony was the only Castlevania I've ever played. Endymion FRS MK1 fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Oct 12, 2020 |
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Oct 11, 2020 23:51
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Symphony is so so good and the PSX core with Retroarch on these things runs it really well so far. Absolutely play that, anyone that hasn’t, it’s up there with Super Metroid.
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Oct 11, 2020 23:56
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:That and Harmony of Dissonance are on the list. Growing up I was always more on the Metroid side of Metroidvanias. Symphony was the only Castlevania I've ever played a this man was killed halfway through posting. too upset that he never finished the castlevanias. one like = one prayer
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Oct 12, 2020 09:25
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News from Retroid: -there is a delay with some of the new shell colors from batch two - 16bit US, RS1, RS2 orders haven't had a single unit ship yet. They've also delayed the Funtastic colors for a bit. -Huawei done goofed on their chip supply, and seemingly aren't providing the allocation that was expected. Sounds like Retroid is trying to line up alternate suppliers to help fill the gap. So if you ordered one in late August or the first two weeks of September and haven't gotten a ship notification yet, you might be waiting a while... they're currently sending out an Oprah-esque response of "you get two weeks! You get two weeks! Everybody gets two weeks!" To all inquiries right now.
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Oct 12, 2020 13:01
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The Science Goy posted:News from Retroid: Maaaaaaaan. Thank you for the update. I'm coming up a month after buying mine with no communication.
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Oct 13, 2020 01:39
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Slight correction- Huawei isn't the supplier. Because of US heavy regulations, Huawei have to use LCD controller IC chips from another company in their devices - the same company who provides the chips for many companies including Retroid. Huawei is releasing a new phone in ten days or something, and because they're basically Chinese Apple they have immense bargaining power over other supply chain manufacturers, so they're basically monopolizing that chip maker to manufacture this new device for the next ten days or something. And if there was any stockpile of the needed part, it's been picked over. Source: Taki, the dude whose youtube video blew the gently caress up for the RP2. Nothing official from the company, but they let this dude into their warehouse/assembly building so gets his ear on a lot of things. TL:DR can't get a component because industry giants can monopolize the supply chain when they have a new product coming out.
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Oct 13, 2020 05:00
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The Science Goy posted:Slight correction- Huawei isn't the supplier. Because of US heavy regulations, Huawei have to use LCD controller IC chips from another company in their devices - the same company who provides the chips for many companies including Retroid. Huawei is releasing a new phone in ten days or something, and because they're basically Chinese Apple they have immense bargaining power over other supply chain manufacturers, so they're basically monopolizing that chip maker to manufacture this new device for the next ten days or something. And if there was any stockpile of the needed part, it's been picked over. Yeah this has been happening with a lot of stuff since the COVID shutdowns. There are tons of people who paid up front for production that was promised to be first in line when the factories opened up. Then big companies paid out the nose to skip the line which they gladly took. Everyone that got bumped got big discounts but that doesn’t help having delays upon delays for people.
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Oct 28, 2020 09:10
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I have got a an RG350 which I like, it came with Quake 2 and runs it well, I haven't tried anything above PS1 but it's legit nice I have set up Filezilla to ftp stuff to it which is a nice touch I thought I also have a Retron 5  I am mixed on this, it works well enough, you put original carts in it and it dumps the roms then plays it. You can also load roms from an sd card by making sure you have a cart inserted from the platform you want to run and then loading the rom as a cheat from the sd card The unit feels cheap as hell, weighs nothing and the controllers are absolutely shockingly poo poo Luckily you can plug original joypads in as it has ports for them So in some ways it feels really well thought out and in other ways it feels like a dodgy knockoff, which I guess it is really. I also has a Raspberry Pi running Retropi and a scart port adapter It works really well  Here is the pic I get from the CRT  Also, the original Wii is awesome, but limited by the RAM it has I find
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Oct 30, 2020 16:48
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I got hyped to buy either a 351P or a RetroidPocket2 last night, but now in the sober daylight I’m wondering if I should keep waiting for something to mature. I’m mostly interested in 16bit consoles, PS1 and GBA. I don’t want to endlessly tweak Android and it seems like there’s a lot of that on the RP2. Reports of input lag, even on SNES SMW have me worried too. The 351P seems like a botched release that might get revised soon. I’d like a 4:3 screen and double-dongles for wifi is lame. At first I thought wifi wouldn’t matter after initial setup, but idk, chasing Retro Achievements could be cool. Am I expecting too much out of a $100 device?
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Nov 11, 2020 18:30
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I’ve had 0 input lag and have been enjoying lots of SNES, GBA and PSX on my RP2.
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Nov 11, 2020 20:38
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Has anyone jumped on the RG351P yet? I’m happy with my RP2 but there have been some cool OS updates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBYMKrf775o&feature=youtu.be
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Nov 16, 2020 00:27
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Yeah I bought one in the recent sales, not sure when it will get here
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Nov 16, 2020 05:05
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bowmore posted:Yeah I bought one in the recent sales, not sure when it will get here  mine should come by the end of the month
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Nov 16, 2020 06:16
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My Retroid 2 is coming on the 17th and I’m not sure what will hurt more, the anticipation after months of waiting or the disappointment when I discover that it’s fine.
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Nov 16, 2020 06:52
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I got my RG351P this weekend, though it's my first "decent" one of these handhelds so I don't have much to compare against (I have a PowKiddy V90 but that was cheap enough to think of as a toy). The build quality is really great, if it didn't have the Anbernic logo below the screen you could easily believe it to be a first-party Nintendo device. GBA games look predictably amazing, with the screen resolution/aspect ratio being perfect for it. Genesis and SNES era consoles look good with the RGA scaling, but there's the slight lack of perfect sharpness you'd get with integer scaling. PSX runs well for the games I've played, N64 and Dreamcast are really hit and miss in some unexpected ways. E.g. Pilotwings 64, all the menus are stuttery but the gameplay is fine. It seems like a hive of activity right now with multiple custom OS images in development, a bit hard to keep track of. Spending more time setting the thing up than playing with it right now. Overall I'm really happy with it, would just like to get past the OCD curation stage and onto playing games.
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Nov 16, 2020 11:52
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I've had my RP2 for about two weeks now, it was exactly two months from order to delivery. It does what I hoped, for the most part - n64 can be a little stuttery, but ps1 runs great on third party emulators, and most ps1 works well in Retroarch. I'm having big nostalgia waves from playing games that we played as kids at the holidays, and playing some titles that I never got to play as a kid.
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Nov 16, 2020 13:43
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Bogart posted:My Retroid 2 is coming on the 17th and I’m not sure what will hurt more, the anticipation after months of waiting or the disappointment when I discover that it’s fine. It's pretty good. However, I must be missing something very obvious since I haven't seen anyone so much as mention it as an issue: how do I charge this thing? e: I am stupid! 
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Nov 17, 2020 20:50
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Bogart posted:how do I charge this thing? Isn't there a USB port of some sort?
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Nov 17, 2020 20:52
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USB-C right on top. It comes with a cable that has USB-A on the other end, which will work with your desktop usb ports or the majority of typical device charging bricks that accumulate like mismatched socks.
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Nov 17, 2020 20:56
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rg351 seems cool, except that mine came with a busted power button, so the only way to turn it on is unscrewing the back cover. The Aliexpress vendor wants me to pay for return shipping, so I’d probably pay the extra $10 to buy on Amazon next time.
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Nov 19, 2020 02:00
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eddiewalker posted:rg351 seems cool, except that mine came with a busted power button, so the only way to turn it on is unscrewing the back cover. Are you “nnt” on Discord, or the second person I’ve seen today with a bust power button?
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Nov 19, 2020 02:07
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