I’ve been interested in the retro handhelds I’ve been seeing by companies like miyoo and AYN for a while. I’m curious to see this community’s thoughts on the available options. I’m thinking of asking my girlfriend to get me something like the Miyoo Flip V2 for Christmas. Basically what I want is a small handheld that is easy to bring with me everywhere and take out and play with for a few minutes while I have breaks at work. My budget would be around $100, but I’d be happy to hear thoughts on the more expensive options like the AYN Thor.
I do already have a steam deck for home, but I’m hoping for something a little more portable for playing around with older games.
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It all depends on what you want. For $100, Mangmi makes a good option. If want a flip device around that price, miyoo flip and Anbernic rg35xx sp are good devices at that price. Again, it all depends on what you want, vertical or horizontal, flip, Linux or android, wifi/bt, are achievements important to you, up to what system you’d like to play.
I don’t really care about achievements. The most important thing would be a wide range of supported systems. I think I want a flip form factor and would prefer Linux, but android is fine too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZumXT_LTdjw here’s a good video going over some of the latest flips in that price range
For a little more (ebay showed between 100-150) you could get a used “new 3ds” which is quite good. Easily plays 3DS games, as well as all the older games using the TWiLight Menu app.
I have a Flip v2 and think it’s great. Very nice to use and carry around but the thumbsticks are average quality. It’s probably my favourite to take out with me.
So far I’ve tried a couple different firmware, MinUI and Knulli, and everything up to PS1 emulation is good but stuff like N64/DC/PSP can be problematic.
I bought a second hand gameboy micro and just looking at it makes me happy. Ez flash omega came with it!
I can recommend Rocknix, so any device compatible with that, which fits inside your budget.
I can’t recommend it.
if you have 300+ hours to configure it and have your entire ROM library ordered in the exact way it likes, go for it.
otherwise, I’d skip it.
I really really wanted to like it, but I just don’t have the time or attention span for it.
Not sure what you mean. You just put the roms in the right folders and it shows alphabetically per system type.
that part works “ok”, but if you try to import any of the boxart or other metadata they have to be named in a specific way in order to be “found”.
out of a library in the tens of thousands of roms I barely have 500 with boxart or metadata.
the alternative is to go to each game and select the game. by hand. no thanks.
I get it, it’s far easier to have required set parameters to start with, but there’s a better way to achieve the same goal with fuzzy logic and simple prompts.
That doesn’t really sound like an essential part. I don’t really care about the box art and I have a looot of stuff loaded on there. It’s the first and only distro where I didn’t have to tinker with too many things just to get a good experience, it just works.
