Retroid Pocket 2S now live. What's your preferred handheld for retro gaming?

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Retroid Pocket 2S now live. What's your preferred handheld for retro gaming? - Lemmy.world

Vita for me, does everything I want.

I love following these Chinese handhelds but there is always one deal-breaker which turns me off in each device. Maybe they’ll get it right one day.

I owned a GP2x back in the day, that was a fun device at the time. Playing portable SNES was unheard of but I could do it.

Same, I’ve been dabbling in these handhelds for about a year or so now and I always tend to go right back to the Vita, it’s such a solid device.
Same here! It has wonderful buttons, a gorgeous screen, long battery life, comfy form factor (compared to other handhelds, at least), plus is powerful enough to handle anything I’d want to use it for. If/when I pick up a Steam Deck I suspect I’ll use that more, but for pocket-sized handhelds the vita can’t be beat imo.
Wiat, I have a vita, how do I get retro games on it? Specifically snes games.
vita.hacks.guide has all the info you need to hack your vita. From there just install retroarch, put your roms on, and you’re good to go.
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A complete guide to PS Vita (TV) custom firmware, from stock to Ensō.

I also had a GP2x. Would be nice to play with it still but unfortunately it doesn’t turn on anymore. No idea what’s wrong with it. Though it also had a rubbish joystick so would need to fix that too in order to make it playable.

Mine has a similar problem, it would turn on under AC power but not battery. Maybe capacitors? I’m not sure I still have it anymore.

The joystick was terrible I agree. I loved the mods people did adding the Neo Geo Pocket joystick or a d-pad but they looked too difficult for me.

GP2X? That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.