TrimUI Brick

[scarlet kelp]

100% agree. I don’t care for box art so I love MuOS. Feels so much better than ES based OS.

[glacial belfry]

There are ways to add extra/additional emulators to minUI on most devices, I think RGC/Russ has a guide out there for how

[magic crane]

Shaun is such a TrimUI fan that there's a 0% chance this isn't getting MinUI

yeah tenlevels made some that I'm hosting on my GitHub for him

crossmix might work jankily out the box. Since the actual low level firmware is on the device itself, and the stuff on the SD card just kinda overlays on top of that, and we already have evidence that the stock firmwares are very similar... I think there's at least a non-zero possibility

[fair holly]

This has a metal backplate?

[subtle sandal]

not sure the metal plate is a good news, it will get hot with A133p, even TSP get super hot and it has plastic shell

(but on the other hand it will be work as a heatsink so will be good for the internals, not so much for hands)

[brittle garden]

Who needs fingertips anyway?

[indigo crystal]

If they say plate, maybe they just mean a small section so you can personalise/engrave it?

[unique gazelle]

From the renders it looks like it might just be the area above the shoulders that is metal.

Also, there is a 99.9 bar % chance of MinUI on this thing. The only thing that would prevent it from happening is if TrimUI ditched nand and put the firmware on its single SD card. But that's not their MO so I'm very confident saying that this device will get MinUI.

[wind prism]

https://tenor.com/view/cheers-happy-high-five-celebrate-champion-gif-16799628

Just waiting for those AliExpress links now

[paper cargo]

$99 USD

That’s a funny joke GGG

[indigo crystal]

Has anyone got a link to that integer scaling graphic for the display on this one?

[unique gazelle]

https://shauninman.com/utils/screens/#src_screen:6,src_nn:1,src_crop:0,src_width:240,src_height:160,dst_screen:14,dst_width:1024,dst_height:768,dst_size:3.2,show_all:1

[sharp trail]

Wow, thanks. Really useful site, the guy who made it must be awesome

[unique gazelle]

He's alright

[brittle garden]

I like to think Shaun's house is extremely minimal with all black appliances/furniture labelled with white text "Microwave" "Refrigerator" "Sofa"

[sick palm]

We have a real brand in canada called “no name” that does blank yellow labels with black text for everything

The minUI of groceries

[green cloak]

https://tenor.com/view/shocked-sunglasses-double-sunglasses-look-remove-shades-gif-1883256838391659341

[brittle garden]

https://tenor.com/view/archer-penis-gif-22113249

[green cloak]

In the US we have something similar called Cha Ching and their printer can't decide if they want to be Yellow or Orange: https://legacy.foodlion.com/content/dam/Our_Brands_Landing_Page/cha-ching/Pantry.jpg.adapt.full.high.jpg

[brittle garden]

Everything should be labelled like Dharma Initiative

MinUI Light Mode

[hazy sail]

we had this in Australia too, except the brand was called "black & gold", and the packaging was almost identical to no name

[next skiff]

Honestly this thing feels like it'll be a banger if they nail it right

I hope muOS comes to it (I don't see why it wouldnt)

MinUI too

[slender lion]

It's 79.99 for me

[next skiff]

give it a month and it'll be $49.99

and then 11/11 will be $40.99

[trim perch]

11/11 sale when

[rich pike]

Apparently samples are being shipped now

I dont know if the preorders will come before mine or not but if they don't ill have some looks at the device

[cunning tide]

Who knows, really

[cursive granite]

https://www.gogamegeek.com/CrossMix-OS-Trimui-Brick-Handheld-Game-Console-with-Built-in-Games-p2570847.html

Erm

They do realise not everything will work out of the box

[hybrid grotto]

They don't currently support this chipset... So that's a pretty big issue.

[slender lion]

And making it overpriced as shit

[bleak grotto]

resellers being shady? never!

[bleak grotto]

@radiant lynx guessing you weren't consulted on this?

[mighty kayak]

man ggg pricing is crazy expensive lately

[next skiff]

correct but i feel like its only a matter of time

theres technically knulli for the TSP

and i want to say i remember there being interest in muOS on the TSP.... could be wrong though

[brisk umbra]

they try port muos to TSP ...

[paper cargo]

Where?

[slender lion]

https://www.gogamegeek.com/Latest-Trimui-Brick-Handheld-Game-Console-3-2-inch-Presale-p2570586.html?sscid=91k8_12i9uv&

[errant geode]

ITS ON PRESALE?????

how stronk is the chip?

[sick palm]

Same as TSP but seems to have slower ram?

[rocky linden]

MechDIY are sending me one of these - they expect to get their shipment mid-Oct

https://mechdiy.com/products/trimui-brick-retro-handheld-game-console

[bleak grotto]

enhanced eye protection?

[sick palm]

https://tenor.com/view/rain-dog-goggles-silly-wipers-gif-7255151

[rocky linden]

bundled magnifier

[paper cargo]

RGB20 pro is 99 from GGG, this is 30 over the price of powkiddys website. Going by this the brick will be around 50 on AliExpress about the same as miyoo mini plus.

[rocky linden]

I think it's going to be similar to trimui smart pro pricing

[paper cargo]

I agree

Smart dropped its price pretty low at one point, I got one for $45 AUD.

[sick vector]

Which mini device do you like to purchase
1: Miyoo Mini Flip
2: TrimUI Brick
3: MagicX Mini28/32

[fair holly]

All of them

[indigo crystal]

Zero interest in 28, but other 3 are interesting.

[slender lion]

Im more interested in the brick

[dusky ivy]

brick is by far the most intersting to me. not really interested in the miyoo flip anymore tbh, they waited too long and i dont have a ton of faith in miyoo. not really sure how i feel about magicx right now

[unique gazelle]

What a surprise, the Brick is leading in the Brick channel 😂

[sick vector]

The channels of all three devices have voting, and the total number of votes is the fair result

[magic crane]

Except you get multiple votes from the same users 😅 I voted 4 times for instance

I think a single “actual” poll in https://discord.com/channels/741895796315914271/886938925380272188 would have been the fairest

[frail charm]

yeah based on how forums work, peeps would only follow threads for devices they are interested in

[unique gazelle]

Also without knowing how many people are in/active in a (where even are we? it's not a thread, it's not a proper channel, is it a forum? a post?) it's not really possible to compare the results between (whatever these things are called).

[frail charm]

I keep calling them threads just because I'm used to forum terms

[unique gazelle]

Yeah, unfortunately threads are already something functionally different in Discord.

I think they call them Posts even though that's already an established term too.

[frail charm]

ahh gotcha

[magic crane]

So… channels have threads but forums have posts

Threads are optional but posts are not

[unique gazelle]

Likes are now florps, timeline goes sideways, etc

[frail charm]

also may I ask what the purpose of the poll is? just curious on what would you do or what conclusion you would reach with that information since they all seem like rather different handhelds

[sick vector]

Out of curiosity, they are all upcoming mini devices

[frail charm]

fair 'nuff

[grim dragon]

Light theme? 🧐

https://tenor.com/view/flashbang-gif-22572243

[unique gazelle]

Thank you for policing my UI preferences. Have a 🍪

(For code and terminal I prefer light-on-dark but for text content I prefer dark on light 🤷‍♂️)

[grim dragon]

Thanks Mr. Inman

[magic crane]

Shaun never gives me cookies 😞

[azure cosmos]

Just question his UI preferences

[serene plinth]

without UI he’d just be shannman

[pale meteor]

The device is already on presale on GGG but no actual pictures or videos besides renders? What is Trimui's marketing team doing?

[unique gazelle]

I think resellers are just jumping the gun. I doubt TrimUI's "marketing team" has anything to do with it.

[indigo crystal]

Most interesting magics are the GBA/Tate and vertical portrait orientated models anyway really.

[sick palm]

They’re the only things that offer anything new you don’t already have from retroid or anbernic

[indigo crystal]

Indeed, the brick and 32 are nice tweaks to existing ones.

Obviously there's V10 and pocket micro, but one is just cheap and the other is just stupid.

[toxic smelt]

Do we have any real images of this yet ?

[azure cosmos]

I am silly excited for the GBA/vertical one, the rest are just kinda alright

I might get the mini32 over the brick depending on pricing

But the build quality on the brick looks nice

So maybe I'll just be a degenerate and get both

[clever glacier]

11 cm tall? can't be right

[bleak grotto]

sounds about right, that's like 2mm taller than the mm+ & it definitely has more of a chin

[clever glacier]

looking forward for see it on hand, from the images seems more big

the chip is the same from the smart pro, right?

if I'm not wrong this one whould have a volume wheel, like the miyoo mini

[rough haven]

How is the Smart Pro chip with Arcade and N64? Can it do Killer Instinct?

[hybrid grotto]

😂 no way

It's basically a H700 so very similar to a XX device anbernic. N64 Yes it can....killer instinct arcade. No that one needs serious power...like T618 and above

[rough haven]

Thanks for the info, I didn't realize KI needed that much power lol. I guess that's why most budget handhelds fail the KI test

[hybrid grotto]

Ki arcade version is notoriously hard to emulate. It runs great on x86 processors but ARM struggles so you need to basically brut force it with tons of power and cores

The brick will run a A133 plus which is basically a H700 with a higher clock speed. 1.8ghz and a different GPU (worse?)....it will struggle with the higher end stuff. Except upto Dreamcast / psp but some games will not run full speed

[magic crane]

It’ll play the SNES version of Killer Instinct just fine 😁

[hybrid grotto]

Just preordered both colours....couldn't help myself at £100 for basically both. That's a decent deal....

I can't see it going lower than £50 a unit this year

[dusky ivy]

Might play the N64 version even

But yeah probably not arcsde

[clever glacier]

i saw a nitrix video about the trimui brick
didn't show the volume wheel

but i do remember and found a image that overall for the rest rasemble the console

this one is from months ago

[bleak grotto]

Yah, while I'd love a volume wheel, it's not shown in the nitrix mockup or the teaser video renders unfortunately

[clever glacier]

😢

[dusky ivy]

I'm always cool with sacrificing volume wheel if it can remember seperate volume settings for speaker vs headphone

[serene plinth]

I remember the volume wheel being on the opposite side

maybe i’m crazy

[fading crystal]

@serene plinth it’s literally not 😅

[serene plinth]

nvm, this weird shadow made me think it was a volume wheel

carry on

[fading crystal]

Maybe that’s the performance mode switch that’s also on the tsp?

[serene plinth]

like a toggle for higher clock speeds? that’s cool

[clever glacier]

the only thing that seriusly puzzled me is the rgb BEHIND
there you should have either nothing or you hands if you take the handled like a psycho

[fading crystal]

Yes

[bleak grotto]

I do hope they're individually addressable, that one's going off straight away

[clever glacier]

i do not understand this rgb extravaganza now days
i'm still iffy about the one behind the computer screen or television, but i can understand that

but in a handled? 🥲

[bleak grotto]

I'm usually not a fan, but someone made a script for the TSP that makes the rgb go from green to red depending on the battery level that I actually found pretty helpful, I'd do the same here

[next skiff]

Yea

[serene plinth]

forgive me my ignorance, I own a smart but not a smart pro

might not ever own a smart pro if this turns out to be good

[dusky ivy]

It would be a major miss if this isn't good but idk I guess trimui is still a small sample size.

[bleak grotto]

I'm pretty impressed with the smart & pro, especially for the price, and as someone who's not usually a fan of domes. I think they'll get it right, haven't heard of any major issues with them in the past & they seem to take their time between releases

[clever glacier]

the size and that screen makes the handled probably the next vertical on a budget
i don't know raw power wise, but it seems better than the rgxx35 on paper

[bleak grotto]

About the same power wise, but the trimui build quality, screen quality & crazy sleep mode make it a better choice imo

[clever glacier]

well, it's a good timing for sure, next week i will gift to my brothers my miyoo mini and plus 😎
I was interested in the smart pro, but I was always reluctant because i have already a ps vita

[slender lion]

Speaking from having a TSP, if this thing is anything like the TSP, its gonna be awesome

Great sleep mode, solid power, screen quality being top notch, and awesome build quality

Sold my TSP since my Odin 2 replaced it as my horizontal handheld

But I would love a really nice and cheap vertical

[pale meteor]

Do we have some specs of it? like what is the screen size and the body size?

[hazy sail]

it's all in the pins

[pale meteor]

thx. 3.2" screen than. great, means it's somewhat micro 🙂

[fair holly]

I've never had a bad trimui though the model s plastic scratched easily 😦

the smart owns and I bought it at the overpriced launch price and still got my money's worth

So this should be good

[formal vault]

This is the device I am most excited about rn

[serene plinth]

it might be the thing that finally convinces me to part with the MM+

[grim dragon]

400ppi just cannot be beaten

[hybrid grotto]

Yeah this is the one I'm really looking forward to until the end of the year... Brick with minui....

[clever glacier]

did you reckon that on the bottom the small hole is a microphone?

[pseudo badge]

No

[clever glacier]

in the details is written that ispresent a microphone

is a strange hole if is not, but is anyway a strange position if it is

[formal vault]

Finally a handheld that can play counter strike multiplayer

[pseudo badge]

You dont need coms to play cs

Trust me

[unique gazelle]

The Smart Pro also has a MIC hole

[formal vault]

think of all those wiiu games where you had to blow at the mic to get things going

[magic crane]

DS too

[frail charm]

don't forget hey you pikachu on n64 and seaman on dc

truly some of the games of all time

[pale meteor]

does it only have a whole or also an actual microphone?

[unique gazelle]

Someone would have to look at the board. Even if it has an actual microphone there's also the question of does the system see it? And then does anything actually use it 😅

[trim perch]

Can we emulate Seaman yet?

[frail charm]

it wasn't playable in emulators?

never tried

[trim perch]

something to do with the mic not working with Dreamcast emulators last time I checked. That was over a year ago. Thought maybe something changed.

[clever glacier]

i thought more for the ds

[pale meteor]

even if it is there, i wonder what is the intention to have a mic? nintendo DS games used it right?

[dusky ivy]

yeah some ds games used it. usually not for anything too important but sometimes some progress-gating minigames. its often just used as like an analog input tho where you're supposed to blow into it or smth

[azure cosmos]

Yeah I don’t think it did anything other than hear that there was a sound, it didn’t care what the sound was

[fresh pier]

I hope this is good

Been eyeing to get a black model

[dusky ivy]

Some "tried" to do speech recognition. In one of the tony hawk games you could record your own sound effects for when you bail but it sounded awful lol

But yeah most it was just detecting sound/volume

[azure cosmos]

I’d never run into one that actually tried! That’s pretty neat even if it was terrible lol

[dusky ivy]

it was never like, full speech-to-text lol but the ace attorney games tried to recognize which keypharse you were shouting, you could yell "objection" or "hold it" into the mic and it would try to recognize which one. sometimes it worked lol

[indigo crystal]

Given massive corps still struggle now with voice recognition, not a shock that wasn't used a lot. 😀

[clever glacier]

if the ds game used the microphone sure like the sky it was using also the double screen

mario and luigi use it
the world ends with you
zelda

[feral phoenix]

“Without you”?

[clever glacier]

ops, spoiler

[feral phoenix]

Well also, the title is literally “The World Ends With You”.

[clever glacier]

yeah, without you is said in the game in a specific moment, i had a lapsus

[feral phoenix]

Yeah, I know, just trying to do damage control and make it look like an auto-correct issue

[slender lion]

Day 420 of no brick news: Slowly chewing away at my carpet for sustenance. See it all over my walls. Need the briiiiiiick

[clever glacier]

still no reviews?

[fresh pier]

They're scheduled to ship by the end of the month

So I expect reviews in like 2 weeks

[hybrid grotto]

20th Oct

[unique gazelle]

Where are these dates coming from? 😅

[ruby laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/saruman-palantir-gif-19765279

[fresh pier]

That's the date that sellers like MechDIY and GoGameGeek has listed

For when they first ship for customers

[unique gazelle]

Oh, right. I'm skeptical. Trimui hasn't even sent out dev units yet.

[gritty patio]

I’ll definitely be watching this. I loved the model S and Smart.

[fresh pier]

Ngl

I just want to get a black one and setup some sort of knock off analogue pocket

Aesthetically

[lost sundial]

That is pocket sized

[gritty patio]

I like the white one. With MinUI it’ll look like an analog pocket lol

[fresh pier]

The grey buttons kills the analog pocket look for me for the white model

[fathom dock]

In the past have you received it like really shortly before release or have you gotten it like a month before release just wondering if they have any sort of typical pattern to when they send out Dev units

[unique gazelle]

We had the Smart Pro for about a month before they started shipping to consumers I think. With Anbernic we usually get them a week or two after YouTubers 😅

[fresh pier]

Hmm

Hope it's not delayed then

[magic crane]

Why am I not surprised that Anbernic prioritizes free marketing over good software 😅

[magic crane]

The more I think about this the more nonsensical it gets

[unique gazelle]

It's still a week or two before they end up on consumers hands but yeah, definitely weird priorities.

[hybrid grotto]

To be fair I'll happily wait into November...I find that mentally if I know I have handhelds on pre order it stops me buying more... 😂

[fresh pier]

My interest goes down the longer it takes here

Just because the RP5 is probably gonna take up most of my time in November

[cursive granite]

Surwish Crossmix....

It'll be a bit broken by the looks of it

[unique gazelle]

Got word that prototype dev units are going out.

[slender lion]

[hybrid grotto]

20th seems likely then

[formal vault]

It was nice meeting you wallet

[fathom dock]

We manifested it

[trim perch]

have these shipped? I am way out the loop

[fresh pier]

Shipped for who?

[trim perch]

Anyone? It’s a open question.

[unique gazelle]

No. Prototypes are just going out to devs. No one has received one yet.

[fresh pier]

Websites like GoGameGeek and the like are first shipping out on the 20th

Since Prototypes are just being sent now, I think reviewers might get theirs shipped a week from now

[trim perch]

Thank you

[trim perch]

I take this to mean you will be getting one? Hopefully MinUI?

[unique gazelle]

Yeah, MinUI is practically a given on TrimUI hardware, it’s the birthplace of MinUI after all

[fresh pier]

It shouldn't take much to adpat the TrimUI Smart Pro version to this right?

[steep ermine]

Is this the same spec as the smart pro? Just horizontal?

[fresh pier]

Ye

[cursive granite]

Wonder if this applies to crossmix too?

[clever glacier]

don't undestand really the regular version vs the special?
does mean that the regular one will have a random distro?

[brittle garden]

Regular is Stock Trimui OS, special is some arsehole sticking their name in front of Crossmix and filling it with roms which is pretty shady tbh

[fresh pier]

There's really no reason to get the special

You can just get it yourself for free

[cursive granite]

i.e. would cizia get one

[clever glacier]

i was thinking some limited colours like gkd pixel🥲

[ruby laurel]

i would love for them to go more into the gbc style and get some nice color options

[sudden crest]

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