Got a 2DS for free from a sibling (wasnt using it because he stopped caring about gaming), was wondering how it is as a handheld emulation machine (I have no interest on 3ds games as I'd rather emulate them on my PC).
Mostly interested in Game Boy/Color/Advance.

>>11797831 (OP)
It's 100% binary compatible with GBA
SNES emulation is decent
N64 and PSX is a no show

>>11797831 (OP)
it's not that good for gameboy becaue of the screen resolution. if you do pixel perfect mode it barely fills the screen. if you stretch its blurry as fuck because there's not enough pixels to scale properly. Better of playing just DS and 3DS games on it

I had problems with the audio on these systems, the graphics were fine but the emulators never did the sound correctly, would reccomend an actual nintendo DS lite to just plug gba game into with a ex flash drive

excuse me nintendo ds lite to plug the ez flash into

Works perfect with Vitual Boy
Didn't really try the others much

>>11797831 (OP)
>Got a 2DS for free from a sibling (wasnt using it because he stopped caring about gaming)
Follow your sibling lead

>>11798152
The writing is on the wall.

>>11797928
Psx emu is ok actually. I played SotN and Tales of Eternia on it. 2d games and games with pre rendered backgroinds should run fine, games like Silent Hill and MGS are a no go.

>>11798172
>The writing is on the wall
it won't go away

>>11798226
on a 2DS or 2DS XL?

>>11798098
3DS has GBA hardware in it. Same as DS but no need for a flashcart.

>>11798137
anon it's a 2DS. as in no 3D

>>11798272
New 3DS. I don't think old 3ds models can do psx emu.

>>11798456
OP is asking about the toast-shaped 2DS, which doesn't have all the fancy hardware

>>11798457
Oh I thought 2ds's had the beefed up hardware. In that case no, psx won't be doable, and honestly even SNES will be hit or miss.

>>11797831 (OP)
Emulation is kinda wonky at least on non-"new" models but you can cia inject the gba roms

I have one:
NES is great with VirtuaNES
Master System and Game Gear with Picodrive is great
Genesis is good with Picodrive, Sega CD games with it have slowdown though
SNES is good with Snes9x but some games (usually the troublesome ones like Kirby SuperStar, Star Fox and Yoshi's Island) have slowdown.
Game Boy with GameYob or GnuBoy works fine, some Color games have slowdown or don't emulate a few things (Perfect Dark on GnuBoy runs better than on GameYob but lacks the digitised speech), I think the DS version of GameYob has better performance.
GB Advance with open agb firm works amazingly well
Neo Geo can run using NeoDS, performance is not that good but its playable (beat Metal Slug 2 and X on it)
There's ports of Doom, Duke 3D, Wolfenstein 3D and Quake too, those work fine if you like Prime Hunter's control scheme
Haven't tested for other systems like Atari consoles, Wonderswan, Mame or Neo Geo Pocket.
But like >>11797991 said, the screen is terrible.

>>11798457
the toast-shaped wonder
>>11798596
The "*new* 2DS XL" has the beefed up hardware.

>>11797831 (OP)
not good imo
but you can sell it and buy an emulation handheld

>>11797831 (OP)
If you get a NDS flashcard, you'll have quite a few games to play. GBArunner is still not fully developed, but in a couple of years it should be quite good

>>11797831 (OP)
>I have no interest in 3ds games as I'd rather emulate them on my PC
Then you can't play the 3ds's best game on the go

>>11801238
>buy an NDS flashcard
>on the 3DS family, which have been fully cracked open in software

The annoying thing about the 2DS is the charging port wears out easily. Not that hard to replace but soldering is beyond a lot of people.
N3DS XL and 3DS XL had the extra contacts on either side that let you charge in a cradle without wearing out the main port, I dunno if any of the 2DS models had that. Nothing worse than a device that's otherwise fine but has a finicky port.

>>11797928
>It's 100% binary compatible with GBA
big if true

What's better for emulation?
O3DS or a PSP?

>>11803101
PSP, ironically. But both suck compared to $50 chink handhelds running retroarch.

>>11803082
I wouldn't say 100% but it's mostly compatible with GBA roms when injected
CPU, graphics and audio are fine. Cart hardware is the main deficiency that open_agb_firm had to work around

>>11803810
It literally has the GBA hardware in it
You can play them via VC injections or gbarunner2/gbarunner3

>>11803812
Yeah, I know. You know what GBA hardware the 3DS doesn't have? The hardware in the carts. Hence what I said.

>>11802219
It's an extra sd card slot

>>11803101
As >>11803180 said, both suck for emulation, sadly. I use my 3DS to play 3DS/NDS games and my PSP to play PSP/PS1 games.

N3DS are super expensive like wtf, even a Vita is cheaper.

>>11802219
nds without a flashcart is hit and miss.
unless some incredible progress was made since last time i looked into it.
not like i care too much since i have two dstwo for nds.

>>11805490
Exactly. I think >>11802219 doesn't even have a 3DS to make such a comment. Also a flashcart is way more convenient and simple to use.

>>11805490
>nds without a flashcart is hit and miss.
OP is talking about the 2DS (which is a 3DS)

>>11805490
look up the compatibility list on nds bootstrap, pretty much everything is playable nowadays