I just want something to play some emulated platformer games with :ooooooooooooooh:
Thanks, Nintendo :obama-spike:
That's no d-pad stands up on chair in tavern that's 4 face buttons!
On the Switch there's at least a reason since you can take the joycons off individually and turn them into two mini gamepads. This is just some Chinese company trying to make their cheap knockoffs look like a popular thing.
Which is whatever but in this case it's making their actual products worse for no benefit. Would some grandma or kid leave this thing on the shelf if it looked slightly less like the Switch but played better? Then again, I guess they're all playing Genshin Fortnitecraft and don't give a rat's ass about dpads unlike grandpas who want to emulate games from the 90s.
It sucks since it looks like this is basically the current king of sub <30 dollar telescopic controllers and is actually usable (if yours doesn't come from the factory broken)
I just want something to play some emulated platformer games with
I ordered a Retroid Pocket about a month ago it showed up last night. I'm new to the mobile emulator thing but it seems like a cool little device. It has a regular dpad at the very least.
Oh yeah, I've been looking at various Retroids and Anbernics as well as the Miyoo Mini Plus. However, I just recently discovered my old broken phone is actually easily fixable, and have been looking into cheap ways of turning that into a dedicated emulator. I had briefly tried PS1 emulation on it but it can apparently do N64 and even Dreamcast, which to my knowledge none of the <100 dollar devices do.
It's just a matter of finding the right controller. One one hand, cheap controllers are a crapshoot, but for the price of the expensive ones I could just get a dedicated device instead (and apparently they can still be a crapshoot). Yes, I could also use any Xbox or PlayStation controller and buy a phone mount for it, but I'm not gonna take a fucking DualSense onto a bus
I've been mulling over ordering an rg353vs for a few days now :palme-confusion:
That's one of their more beefier vertical handhelds, isn't it? Looks to be one of the ones with dual analog sticks- what were you planning on playing with it? Haven't used one but playing dual stick games in the game boy form factor doesn't seem like it'd be the most ergonomical experience in the world.
For PS1 and below a vertical would be fine, especially GB and GBC emulation but I would prefer a horizontal
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With stacked shoulder buttons anbernic why do you only do that on two devices
I'm mostly looking at them because I've got a baby on the way, so I expect I'll have a lot less opportunity/desire to pull longer sessions of tv-console or laptop gaming any more, but i might still want to play something thats not too demanding of my attention when i do get some Me time idk
It'd be nice to be able to play some n64/psp in addition to the older systems, so the 351/35xx/miyoo are out, but the 405/552/505/retroid are overkill for me. The android emu setup on those devices seems more cumbersome anyway, and I just dont like the look of the horizontal form factor tbh
Hot take (apparently) the buttons instead of d-pad is one of the only things I like about the joycons
They have controls made for certain types of controllers, it's way easier on stick.
I'd just rather have a d-pad, but considering how cheap and good for the price people say these are I might just deal with it
Aren't those more than 200 bucks though? Way more than even a Retroid Pocket 3+
