Thread 718129975

i got my first chink device. i went with this one after a good amount of research. i have to set it up though. anything you guys recommend?

I recommend you throw it away because despite all your "research" you couldn't research any games to play on it.

>>718130059
i was referring to stuff like retroarch or frontends you dumb nigger

>>718129975 (OP)
Hijacking your thread

Is a RP5 still a good idea in August 2025? Or should I wait for a possible 6 announcement? I live in Canada so I'm thinking a refurbished RP5 will cost me around 250ish maple bucks.

>>718129975 (OP)
>4:3 screen
DOA

>>718130641
the GOAT for classics thanks

>>718130180
anything more powerful than the RP5 is specifically for switch games, wii u games and window PC game emulation. Everything else runs smoothly right now but if you value those three platforms the most, then you should wait until they announce a snapdragon 8 gen 3 device in the future.

>>718130180
why not just get a switch 2?
is it about needing a smaller device

>>718130885
I honestly don't really need Switch emulation. Just up to PS2 and Gamecube would be nice (Xbox would be a bonus)
>>718130913
It is EXACTLY about size I can't fucking stand large screens on a portable. I want to be able to carry it around in my pocket and I need something Vita sized or not too much bigger.

>>718131048
then just get the RP5/flip2/mini then. PS2 and gamecube runs perfect and Xbox emulation does not exist.

>>718131087
I'd get a Flip 2 if it actually had 2 screens. The way it is now it's like an oversize GBA SP and not in a good way.

But do you recommend I wait for the next RP model? Do you think the 6 will be announced by the end of the year?

>>718131165
You already said you dont care for switch emulation so why wait for the RP6? it'll do nothing for you.

>>718131165
Just buy one now. I'm a Canadian and Retroid sells quickly on Facebook marketplace. If you want RP6, sell your RP5.

>>718131208
Couple things. The controller layout for one, I really don't like the way it is now because the sticks aren't diagonal to the D-pad/face buttons but instead directly below them which will probably make me touch the camera stick during A/X buttons or D-pad up while I'm moving down on the control stick. Just that layout is very obstructive I feel but if you have experience with it I could have my mind changed.

>>718131259
>If you want RP6, sell your RP5.
Not a bad idea. For how much did you get the RP5 off the marketplace?

>>718131346
*dpad down while im moving control stick up
tired

>>718131346
then get the rp flip which has the sticks above the dpad.

>>718131452
layout looks nice but im just not a fan of the clamshell without a second screen to justify it desu

>>718131048
>I want to be able to carry it around
well if the switch 2 is out... and you need portability... wouldn't something with a phone be ideal?

i bet you anything that a top end phone with a top end physical controller attachment feels better and plays better than these purpose-built devices.

>>718131595
i will never ever buy a shitch 2, 7.9 inch screen is probably the least of its problems for me

i dont wanna use phones anymore because they burn the fuck out of my hand and controller attachments are too annoying for me to carry around, i exclusively want to carry around a simple widescreen chinkheld as a "phone" and listen to music and watch youtube and all that shit on it along with gaming, honestly im sick of cupping my hand carrying those burning hot boxes

>>718131425
I never got the RP5, but for previous consoles I took around 30 dollars off the purchase price and I got tons of bites and eventually a sale.

>>718131976
I'm thinking of using FBM. I don't have a Facebook anymore but I guess I'll make one to pick up an RP5 if the price has a good chunk knocked off. Do you think I should wait for the refurbished models to come back in stock?

>>718131778
oh. yeah i haven't done the phoneslop shit myself so i didn't know it got that hot.
on paper it seems like a good way to do it

>>718132132
I don't know why they all get so hot after a while of using them. They're unbearable for me. I'm thinking the plastic controller shell will completely shield my hands away from it. Idk if anyone here has an RP5 and can let me know if the thing gets hot but I'm speculating that the heat probably centers on the very center back of the device and nowhere near the controllers since that's where the all the vents and fan are housed.

>>718132250
well i don't have the RP5 (i've never even heard of it), but i do have a steam deck and a switch. those get hot, especially the deck, but they get hot in places you're not touching.
since it's chinkware, i assume you can't return the RP5 if you don't like it? since heat matters, it might be worth it to go through a store where you can return it even if you have to pay a premium.

>bottom sticks
It's shit.

RP5 has a fan and it runs cool even after hours of emulation at full speed. Source: I own one.

>>718130641
Majority of these types of devices are for retro games up to the Wii

>>718129975 (OP)
>anything you guys recommend?
You're going to spend like an hour downloading games and spend about 10 minutes playing them and never touch the device again.

>>718132395
Yeah I'm definitely gonna pick it up either way. I'm just hoping to get the lowest price for it.

I hope you enjoy your deck bro. I do have a switch and honestly even when it gets hot it's never bothered me the way phones do so idk.

>>718132685
this entire time i've just been renaming my roms using the “No-Intro” naming convention and i installed ES-DE frontend. i'm just choosing my favorite roms/isos i already have downloaded on my pc while also effectively clearing out the shit i actually won't play or replay again. waiting for KH2FM to download just so i can see what its like to play on this small little chink thing. if this is as good as people say then this will be my end game device for retro shit unless i get something more powerful but apparently this thing can handle up to Wii which is all that matters.

>>718132525
Why. Bottom sticks give you more RoM with your thumbs

>>718130180
RP5 is worth it and really good for emulating both 16:9 and 4:3 because the oled screen hides the bezel really well

>>718133219
I'm guessing it doesn't have motion controls?

>>718133632
Yeah that display looks beautiful. Glad you enjoy it anon :) excited to get mine

>>718133748
idk i don't think so. i guess i'll test it out with sonic and the black knight. that'll be the last game i put on it and ill go and install the emulators and see how everything is

is Nethersx2 still the only good choice for ps2 emulation on android?

>>718133958
someone's working on a new PS2 android emulator but it'll be a year or two before it gets good.

>>718133824
In any case it seems easy to get around.
I found a guide to setting up the controls including motion and pointing. Pretty simple.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ffgV6_whsZY&t=269s&pp=2AGNApACAQ%3D%3D

>>718132723
yeah i've more than gotten my money's worth by now. i don't play as many games on it as when i bought it, but i still pick it up from time to time. recently i played this game called monster hunter and it was pretty good.

i mostly use it when i feel really lazy and wanna do some gaming in bed. so the size isn't a factor. but there's no way i'm putting that in my pocket. honestly, even the RP5 looks too big for pockets. It would probably fit, but i bet i'd break the thing sitting down, i'm not the careful sort.

>>718132047
Yeah, I'd wait. The support was very good when I had it use it.

>>718130180
I've bought the RP5 a few months ago and unlike most retro fags I actually play games on it
>the D-Pad is amazing because it's basically the Vita D-Pad and it's in the right place
>makes playing platformers on this thing pure sex
>the rest of the buttons are also very good
>playing games that make heavy use of the sticks (like Armored Core with dual analog mod) requires you to grip it in a way that makes using L2 and R2 difficult
>the official grip case thing however makes a massive difference and completely eliminates the issue
>the OLED display is as good as they say and the resolution is high enough you don't need integer scaling most of the time and it's not just *an* OLED, it's a pretty good panel
>the fan is very quiet even when playing PS2 games at 2-3x res
>all the retro consoles on it are a breeze through retroarch, you can use proper accurate emulators like bsnes and beetle psx and saturn instead of the gay inaccurate shit, most GCN and PS2 games run perfectly fine but there are some like VP2 Silmeria that the S865 is just not powerful enough to emulate and there's nothing you can do about it
>everyone telling you Switch emulation is fine is a liar, they only ever test 1-5 popular games and everything else runs like shit and the emulator likes to randomly crash even when just switching apps or locking the screen, yes I was using the current best turnip driver
>DS and 3DS emulation sucks because the display is too small to accommodate two screens so forget about them unless you want to buy the dual screen attachment that released today
>Rocknix is broken and I don't recommend it at all because it has issues with screen refresh rate, it's juddery and some games stutter despite being able to run at like 500% when sped up without a hitch
>retro fags are blind and don't play games anyway so they probably never noticed it but it's objectively there (I looked at frametime graphs they are ROUGH)
>Daijisho is the best frontend on Android

>>718135546
>s I actually play games on it
prove it faggot

>>718130180
I have the flip2 which is that but as a clamshell and its great.
A RP6 will probably end up being more expensive so you gotta consider if its worth it and what games you would even want to cover with it.
If you just want to play up to and including PS2/Wii then the RP5 will suit you well.
Dunno about the ergonomics of it I dont like horizontals that much they tend to give me hand cramps but there's grips for it to add some girth too.

>>718130913
switch2 has no games

>>718135892
Switch 2 is for playing Switch games in higher resolution and framerate. It's like the PS5.

>>718136132
thats kinda pathetic

I can't be the only one waiting for a Android version of Steam so I could play all my indies and low requirements games on the go and on a portable sized machine instead of using that bulky piece of shit called Steam Deck.
Steam on Android fucking when Valve?

>>718136132
Dumb esl poster

Reminder you don't need a 500$ device

Get one of these little bitches and you can play SNES, MD, TG16, PS1, GBA, Neo Geo Pocket, some Dreamcast games (MVC2) and even ports like Gravity Circuit & Balatro for dirt fucking cheap

It even puts a "GBA SP" border on the screen for proper gba aspect ratio, and there's some black magic retroarch filters that almost completely remove any scaling issues, it's based

>>718136727
https://github.com/Woohyun-Kang/Sharp-Shimmerless-Shader

Sharp-Shimmerless is witchcraft

OP here. i've been trying to get google play store to work on this thing for over an hour now. it just doesn't fucking work no matter what. someone HELP

>>718137004
you might need to turn on google services in some settings for that.

>>718137172
they are on

>>718129975 (OP)
Check out Retrogamecorps's android setup guide but basically, get retroarch, set it up and as far as frontends go, ES-DE is the better one, it's not free but the apk can be found pretty easily. Retroarch will be fine for most emulators but for N64/Ps1 and beyond, standalone emulators are prefered. To make this easier, look up for an app called Obtanium and search for the emulation pack at github. With a mini you should be able to play most GC/Wii and Ps2 games, maybe some WiiU and Switch games as well.

>>718137242
pretty much did all of that except setting up retro arch but right now my issue is >>718137004

>>718137004
It's probably you clock, set it up manually. I had the exact same issue on a similar device and that did the trick.

>>718137330
jesus fuck it worked. i saw this fix too but for some reason i thought it was correct, and i just did a real good double take and noticed the time was incorrect and i put it in and now it works. thank god. i think its because its 4am and im tired as shit but i gotta keep moving

I got a R36S the other week and I love this thing, sure n64 and psx games can have some audio stuttering here and there, but it's amazing what this thing for under 30 bucks can do

been oggling at the RP5, looks enticing

>>718130641
it's not 4:3.

>>718136727
>It even puts a "GBA SP" border on the screen for proper gba aspect ratio
Stop using the stock OS on these things.

>>718137660
Yeah, for some reason the time on mine was wrong as well despite the fact that I set the correct time zone and everything. It took me a while to find a solution and ended up finding the answer on a Facebook post of all things. By the way, I just want to throw a random tip about ES-DE in case you haven't set it up. If you want to scrape your games to get the box arts and all that, before you do so, make sure to exclude useless stuff like manuals and fan art, those options can be found under content settings in the scrape menu, also, you have a daily limit but it resets at 4pm every day.

I'm waiting for the Mangmi Air X and the XU40 H55. They will probably raise the bar for the budget chinkhelds market.

>>718135892
>I have the flip2
RIP your hinge.

i set up retro arch on my retroid, but whenever i start any game, frames move slow and the screen flickers. whats the issue>?

Probably lobotomy since you clearly don't use your brain anyway. Like anyone who pays for that chink garbage.

>>718139831
You paying for chinese garbage.

>>718139907
chang is mogging the shit out of westoids when it comes to handhelds and controllers.
its not even close.

@718130913
Begone bot!

>>718129975 (OP)
Dunno, if it's anything like my 406H, your first step is to pick a frontend you like, or just pick one of the free ones, then use whatever scraper it's got.
Also my tip is to NOT just shit out entire libraries of games onto it or you'll just hop from game to game and never finish anything. Hand-pick your favorite shit.
Skimming the thread it sounds like you're already all set up and probably asleep in bed now though, so cheers.

>>718132525
Bottom sticks on 4:3 screens are based, nigga. Widescreen is when you want staggered sticks because you're more likely to be playing more modern/"modern" games that are more stick-heavy.

>see chinkdevice gamers bragging about how small the device they managed to grab is
>handheld for ants
how do people even see anything on those? sounds like a horrible experience to me

>>718140397
pretty much all of these have larger screens than the gameboy which millions of people used with no issue so whats the issue

>>718139946
i fixed it you dumb nigger. kill yourself

>>718130641
You do know he can just buy that DS add on if he wants to play 16:9 games on it right. But the majority of retro games are 4:3 so it's not necessary

>>718129975 (OP)
I fucking hate CPU manufacturers
>Want to do a n150 project
>Can't buy it directly
>Can't get any documentation at all on it
>Unless you're already a trusted manufacturer it's impossible to get hold of it
>All protected under mountains of NDAs
So you're forced to retrofit an already existing motherboard/processor or rely on a computer module for anything just because AMD and Intel are gigakikes with their laptop CPUs

For me it's the anbernic 477m, 4:3 metal beast with huge screen

The RP5/Flip2 are the endgame for me right now.
The only thing that could top them would be a proper dual screen thats actually affordable.
I dont know if these phone screens work well with a stylus though I know that their touch tech is different.

op here. this is kino

>>718141608
Can't speak for chinkhelds specifically when it comes to modern touchscreens and using a stylus, but I've owned tons of those stylus fucks for my phones and tablets over the years and there's absolutely no fuckin' way you're playing something like Meteos comfortably.
Most modern styluses have to rely on a decently large "cloth" pad at the tip with about the same contact size as a pinky tip, sometimes a bit smaller, definitely not a "point", since phone screens aren't designed for anything but fingers.

>>718140397
>buy a device with "mini" in the name
>get a mini device
Mind... blown...
Also that's the cool part about chinkhelds, if you don't like small devices, don't buy one, they make bigger ones, there's a fucking gazillion to pick from and most include video out.

>>718130180
Dunno, it's still the best in that price point as far as I know, though a widescreen handheld with both sticks on the bottom is a bit dumb.

>>718136727
are the hinges on those things good or do they break easily?

>>718142208
the ambernics are the only ones that have not reported any major hinge breaks out of all the clamshell chinkhelds out there

>>718134238
you know what, this thing does have motion controls, or at least something. every time i shake the device, mario does his usual spin attack in galaxy 2. i'm definitely going to watch that video later though, thanks

>>718142208
mine is fine my brothers cracked after cleaning it with rubbing alcohol so just avoid that

>>718136727
Portmaster is black magic, I tell you. Whoever codes that thing needs to be investigated by the FBI, because they're definitely using alien tech.
>use a handheld twice as powerful but with no Portmaster support
>same game runs at 1/4 the FPS somehow

Also, the based way to handle chinkhelds is to categorize them and only own one of each category, max.
1. Easily pocketable with no effort, small, cheap, plays up to (or including) PS1. Sticks and L2/R2 optional. Mainly for SNES or earlier. Passively cooled.
2. Plays up to and including PS2 (and 2D Switch games), probably costs around $200. Solid construction, pocketable in bigger pockets, has a cooling fan.
3. Deck-like. Plays Switch games or better, probably has a desktop OS. Requires a bulky charger, probably needs a standalone bag/case, runs legit Steam and plays legit Steam games.

kh2fm the goat running perfectly on this thing. damn. chink devices arent a joke these things are cuhrazy. cant wait to mess around with it more!

>>718131595
>Just carry around a controller
A second device is typically no bigger than a controller and is going to be better at playing games, without draining your phone battery.

I like my Slide.

>>718130180
If you're willing to pay more and wait for reddit to beta test it for you, sure.

>>718136727
>some Dreamcast games (MVC2)
False, even gutting the resolution in half it doesn't sustain fullspeed.

>>718142963
It's just loonix ports that happen to run on these extremely software starved environments. They ask the devs for permission first so no drama either.

>>718142336
That's not exactly true, but from the sample sizes alone it seems the 35xxSP is the most reliable chink hinge out there along the original v90. For what its worth mine is holding up, but I'd look at the 34xxSP instead as my 34xx's screen just looks so much nicer even at 3.1" for 4:3.

>>718142580
Do you feel the buttons scratching on the glass front? It's the one thing keeping me from biting the v2.

>>718142767
Crazy how casual people act with rubbing alcohol on plastic.

>>718131595
What's with you and the Switch 2? Your lowercase posts stick out in this thread.
Also,
>top-end phone with a Backbone or some other controller
>play PS2 on it, upscaled w/ filters because flagship owners can't stop themselves from maxing games and shit out
>battery dies in 30 minutes because most flagships have shit batteries under 3-4k mAh despite the powerful specs
>have to go without a phone and miss all calls/texts/notifications until you get home
>stuck lugging around that spare controller that you can't even use, too

>>718144845
hello crazy man, have you taken your medication today?

>>718144845
Marketers have to make up for everyone knowing the launch model is ass, please understand.

I don't get how you can enjoy playing PS2 and Gamecube games on such small screen

I got a r36s for 25€ and it's surprisingly good to play psx games. It's a original one, but it can't really play dreamcast and psp like the chinks say, and if you change the OS the battery led will stop working.

>>718136727
>Dreamcast games
not, it doesn't. I have an original r36s which uses the same chip and dreamcast and psp games are laggy. They are great for the price if you enjoy playing retro games till the psx era.

>>718144845
My iphone 12 pro max could stream MS Gaypass for 2-3 hours before shitting the bed with a backbone desu