RG557

[warm wyvern]

Driver support turns Crash Bandicoot Remake from unplayable to decent performance

[trail elbow]

And when it runs, it’s not even comparable

[vocal loom]

I genuinely just needed 556 with better sticks and better chip lol. If others want even more, luckily there are other devices, but to me this is all I needed lol

[placid condor]

I dunno, a basically 100% performance boost over their current generation chipset is a pretty effing substantial improvement if you ask me lol

[ionic hornet]

Oh my

[trail elbow]

These benchmarks mean nothing to me. After seeing 1200 beat 865

[radiant meadow]

This

On paper 2x and 3x on ps2 and gc

But again I don't mind the chip

[trail elbow]

I mind not having driver support now. I have seen the light….

[radiant meadow]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[vocal loom]

Sounds like the device isn't for you then?

[silk sable]

I'd rather have a decently powerful Dimensity than some few years old Snapdragon. Drivers won't make or break things for me.

[trail elbow]

You’re right. Sometimes I forget what chat I’m in lol

[placid condor]

If ya wanna play Nintendo Switch games you could always just... you know... buy a Nintendo Switch. You can probably get one cheaper than what the 557 is gonna cost lol

[lapis moat]

The speculation train is firmly off the rails and we don't even have an official statement of what the chip is.

Breathe

[vocal loom]

It is always interesting, and I know I've done it too, but these chats tend to fill with people that don't intend to buy the device lol

[radiant meadow]

In the end of the day Thank God anbernic is not holding back

And thank God they kept the same design

[past tulip]

I'm one that won't be buying it, but am interested in the subsequent 7 range

[radiant meadow]

7 range yeah 👀

Long range I hear it

[lapis moat]

I'll prob be day 1 guinea pigging it, since enough of the pieces of this are pre established I don't feel the same risk as usual from a new device

[past tulip]

Hopefully we get their take on this ktr1 display that has suddenly become more readily available

[vocal loom]

556 was genuinely as close as it gets to my perfect device

557 should be there

[radiant meadow]

Imagine anbernic got that ktr1 display serious gamechager

[rocky nebula]

Still saying we don't know what the chip is after its making rounds on tech sites. This is some magnum tier cope

[radiant meadow]

Blame Stubbs

We should make him to drink chilli sauce again

[lapis moat]

"Sources indicate XYZ" isn't enough for anything more than pure speculation.

[radiant meadow]

🤭🤣

[past tulip]

pour chilli sauce on a handheld?

[rocky nebula]

He did that to the e6 plus

[placid condor]

I'm in the same camp, and will be buying the 557 if I can find a way around the absurd tariffs in the US. Barring any unforeseen QC issues with review units at least.

[rocky nebula]

My next purchase will probably be a used i5-1115g4 laptop to use for my mobile Wayfinder addiction.

Before anything, I want to see if the d8300 loads Killzone for ps2

[warm wyvern]

If it's a disappointment than we know the speculations are true

[trail elbow]

My apologies, that was never my intention. I came here excited hearing of the 557, hoping it would have a snapdragon.

[vocal loom]

Oh lol don't sweat it, more just something funny we tend to do

[trail elbow]

I held the 556 in my hands the other day and I remembered what comfortable meant lol

[vocal loom]

Fwiw I get people wanting snap dragon, but yeah that comfort with a bit more in whatever chip and better sticks. Send it lol

[warm wyvern]

Nah man , it's fun to talk about and also troll these devices when they act cringe.
It's the fun of our hobby

[vocal loom]

As long as it's not the miyoo flip it's likely to be a decent device anyways

[radiant meadow]

To be honest only snapdragon that it's been optimised is sd865 sd845 and sd 8gen2

[vocal loom]

What do you mean? Most mainline phone snapdragons have had a lot of adoption

[radiant meadow]

I mean 888 is no go and same thing with ayaneo g3x gen 2

[past tulip]

some were garbage tho

[radiant meadow]

I'm talking about handheld

[vocal loom]

888 is really overhated lol. It's still decent, would benefit from fans

[vocal loom]

Oh I mean. Honestly as long as it's not custom like the razer/pocket evo it should be roughly in line

[last fossil]

I'm guessing this means that the 407v 407h and cube 2 is on the horizon?

[radiant meadow]

I doubt the cube would come back

[last fossil]

It should!

[radiant meadow]

Don't get me wrong cube was a unique device

[warm wyvern]

The sacret order

557

RG Cube 2

407V

407H

[vocal loom]

Would be kind of overkill lol, but I would guess it would depend on sales of the og

[last fossil]

Cube 1 was underrated.

I think it pushed the line between comfort and pocketability to its limit.

[warm wyvern]

Implying they care lol They will just release it anyway 😆
I will wait for the 407V tbh

[past tulip]

Doubt we get a cube 2, maybe not even both V and H, besides the 557 I think we get a flip/sp and a 457

[last fossil]

That shit was small, and simultaneously the most comfortable handheld I've ever used.

[warm wyvern]

They should have released the H first imo

[vocal loom]

No way we don't get a v

[radiant meadow]

So annoying they did that

[warm wyvern]

I don't think the V sold a lot of units tbh Gameboy format is a niche inside the niche

[last fossil]

My issue with the 6 line is that the 406v and 406h sticks are way too tall. And also poor video out.

[past tulip]

I'm not convinced we will get both of H&V when a premium SP could replace one of them in the lineup

[radiant meadow]

All of the 406 series I seen 406v or Rgcube more than rg406h

[past tulip]

How many of each have you actually seen, I'm guessing it fits into the anecdote level rather than data

[vocal loom]

I genuinely can't imagine an sp having good stick placement. It would have to be much bigger

[warm wyvern]

406H was at the end of the T820 cycle
It didn't have as much of an impact because of their poor timing
Cube should have been the last release

[radiant meadow]

Yeah

And people saw it like Rgcube H

[past tulip]

CubeXX should have come out around the time of the Cube and the 406H been the main launch at that time, but perhaps the display shortage rumours had something to them

[warm wyvern]

SP can work with some thoughts on the controls placements. I agree with Tech Dweeb's take on the Flip2, if it was slanted it would have been perfect

[warm wyvern]

They gave what people wanted when the market was already saturated.
Even the colors of the Cube would have worked better on the RG406H . That grey and red one would have been killer for the 406H

[past tulip]

the pacman on the flip2 would still stop it from being perfect. 😄

[warm wyvern]

You don't understand bro , it's abstract bro

That being said in am neutral to it , don't love and don't hate it 😆

[radiant meadow]

That grey transparent with white buttons was beautiful

[past tulip]

To be fair to the 406H, that transparent purple is an awesome colour, their best transparent easily

[warm wyvern]

405V purple wass king imo

[wide bison]

same, its looks really good

[warm wyvern]

If they bring that back for the 407V it would be awesome

[wide bison]

405v, 35xx, 406h purple

[warm wyvern]

I think it was the White pcb they used that made the color pop out

[wide bison]

405v colourway are wacky

woodgrain, purple, dmg

[warm wyvern]

DMG looked awesome too imo

[wide bison]

yes it is, better than beige 406v imo

[past tulip]

One weird thing with anbernic, a lack of black vertical models

[warm wyvern]

I have one , smudge magnet

[wide bison]

35xx, 40xxv, 406v had black vertical models

[past tulip]

their defaults are black/white/dmg but verticals get one or more of the latter two

[past tulip]

I mean proper black not transparent which is a different slot in the release colours

[wide bison]

Black transparent oops

[past tulip]

considering the deluge of releases it is an oddity for them

[warm wyvern]

The grey 406V is better to maintain imo But in my head it felt so off lol Snes design + Gameboy , the OCD was planted and i didn't like it lol

[radiant meadow]

Do they ever do other colours when it comes to their high devices

[wide bison]

i bought the grey 406v because i want an sfc colourway on handheld which kinda rare to find for me and i like the bezels

id mostly play sfc games on it

[warm wyvern]

I don't think so
I don't know how the shell thing works but they seem to have that color palette of transparent purple / black ready to produce
The 557 is the same purple also

[past tulip]

557's casing looks way worse than the 406h

[warm wyvern]

Played a ton of GC / Wii and indie Big N on mine . It was fun and i love that format
Now i want more power in it and a more nostalgic color haha

[warm wyvern]

It's full transparent and the other is matte
Matte looks classier imo

[past tulip]

Yeah, transparent needs to be properly smoky

[wide bison]

i really love playing 4:3 native ps2 and gamecube on 406v i wish it had more power and analog triggers so i can breeze throught more gen 6 console games, better chipsets means more compatibility high end shaders for retroarch.

[warm wyvern]

All i want is the 405V DMG with the RP5 power 😅

[wide bison]

fair enough

[ruby skiff]

anything else? 😛

[rocky nebula]

i think people want more from this than the device can actually provide, which is the usual noob self-killing tactic

[vocal loom]

Oh bro the glossy finish in the transparent blue 556 was unique and I loved the feel

[rocky nebula]

'oh no I bought the 557 expecting Odin 2 tier power. I'm very upset now'

[vocal loom]

Literally it never seems like people are satisfied lol. It was gcn before, now that everything can do that people are looking for more.

Like somehow with every device people ask about the literal edges of what they can do instead of what they are best at

[ruby skiff]

almost as if people are idiots

[warm wyvern]

Nobody was expecting a Gen2 in there , most people were just trolling . It's a clowncar hobby and the trolling is part of it

[rocky nebula]

(Datafrog enters chat)

[radiant meadow]

I can't lie as long they fix the sticks and more power similar to rp5 for ps2 and gc I'm fine with it in fact if it goes well

[stark cape]

Dafuq does Datafrog even make

[ruby skiff]

weird bad stuff

[warm wyvern]

SD865 would have been more than enough.
Decent performance and we can toy with some Big N titles without having to wait 500 years for a preorder to ship

[rocky nebula]

sd865 junkies when the next handheld isn't an sd865 with full linux support

[warm wyvern]

Dimensity bros trying to convince everyone the chip will dimense without driver support

[atomic lichen]

Datas and frogs obviously

[stark cape]

AFAIK SD865 would suffice for full PS2 if not for the lack of development of PS2 emulators

[atomic lichen]

Same with sd8g2 and the console not to be named

[radiant meadow]

Man if only aethersx2 didn't quit it would be special

[atomic lichen]

Let's hope ethereal gets there in due time

[wheat needle]

Any official updates yet?

[vocal loom]

Don't think so

[meager hatch]

Nope

[radiant meadow]

Nope

[stark cape]

Oh I thought SD8G2 could brute force all of it

[atomic lichen]

it has the power to if rivers and emulation was mature enough

but the emu progress was basically killed when android side of it was starting to get good

[rocky nebula]

if only phone-users with crappy processors didn't rage out and death-threat the aether guy

[charred lion]

It's not that simple

[radiant meadow]

It can but it's just emulation really if it was like pcxs2 no doubt

[radiant meadow]

Man people was so idk

[pure nacelle]

what just happened to this chat forum. CPU choice War?

Why does it matter, as long as it runs what you want

if not move along to something else

[stark cape]

Ig people have started hating Dimensity chips?

[radiant meadow]

https://tenor.com/view/war-barraux-war-napoleon-roblox-waterloo-waterloo-gif-26080565

[stark cape]

Maybe because SD 865 is very similar to the D1100 in terms of specs but drivers and such can help with emulation a fair bit

And more people now know what the difference can make

[pure nacelle]

If anyone comparing benchmark - https://nanoreview.net/en/soc-list/rating

Choose your poison carefully

[tight steeple]

Dimensity is superior. If a game doesn’t run, it doesn’t run, no need to stress about choosing the right drivers

[wintry lark]

Glass half full I guess

[tight steeple]

People be going through 8 different drivers just to play breath of the wild at 22fps

[wintry lark]

Tbf that shit barely runs no matter what you run it on

[quaint jolt]

One can expect PS2/GC performance to be about the same as RP5. Switch is more of a bonus.

[stark cape]

I need that 22 fps for that original hardware experience 😤

[pure nacelle]

If its cheaper (RP5 + delivery duties + shipment) or in my budget. Its good.

[tight steeple]

Buy a switch 2

[stark cape]

Because Retroid don't charge taxes on their website, I find their devices a lot cheaper than Anbernic's

[wintry lark]

I'm not that big of a Zelda fan so probably won't for a while

At least until the switch 2 lite

[pure nacelle]

I have decided to wait for another 5 years for SWITCH 1 emulation under 250$

[quaint jolt]

Best place to buy Anbernic stuff is actually Aliexpress

[radiant meadow]

Don't let joey hear that 🤣🤣

[stark cape]

Yeah 100%

[tight steeple]

The most exiting part about the 557 and dimensity will be how much faster the price will drop compared to handhelds.

I can definitely see someone finding like a crazy ali deal for $180 a couple months after release

[stark cape]

AliExpress still tax me whereas Retroid doesn't at all lol

[radiant meadow]

180 for rg557 would be amazing

[stark cape]

It's a pretty substantial difference because I live in Ireland

[tight steeple]

xx line is so cheap it really isn’t worth it to buy 3326 handhelds anymore

[radiant meadow]

Oh yh Ireland long day

[tight steeple]

Right?

[wintry lark]

I'm more excited for what this means for their other 7 line devices and the xx line

[pure nacelle]

Me too actually, 4 inch end game 4:3. As Pocket Ace is too expensive for my taste

[zinc solstice]

Can anyone with bigger hands vouch for the ergos of the 556? Big bright screen and comfy for wide hands are my sticking points

[pure nacelle]

true, but people forgeting in race for CPU wars

[ionic hornet]

I think I’m gonna go 557 and cancel my flip 2 😔

[tight steeple]

Might as well get a portal

[ionic hornet]

Gross

[zinc solstice]

Exactly where I’m at.

[pure nacelle]

when you are playing more than 15 minutes, your hands like comfort more the FPS

[ruby skiff]

no way in heck this will be 180, i'd be very surprised

[quaint jolt]

Im only comparing Anbernic products bought on their official website to Anbernic products sold on Aliexpress. Even with taxes is still much much cheaper

[lapis moat]

The ergos are the last thing you will ever have to worry about. My hands are above average but not large, but it is the most comfortable device i've ever held thus far that isn't a high end handheld PC.

[ionic hornet]

Flip 2 seems to be just another victim of legendary retroid qc (or lack thereof)

[stark cape]

I haven't actually heard what the problem is with it

[ionic hornet]

Cheap flimsy plastic

[stark cape]

Damn

[ionic hornet]

Controls making contact with the screen when closed

[stark cape]

So much for extra sturdy hinges

[ionic hornet]

😔

[stark cape]

Wait what

Did the original Flip even have that problem

[ionic hornet]

No

[stark cape]

🤔

[zinc solstice]

Hell of a vouch. Thanks

[quaint jolt]

Is that QC issue? More like Retroid's own design choice.

[zinc solstice]

Joey posted a pic of the d pad wrecking his review units screen

[tight steeple]

Wrecking?

[zinc solstice]

It was a crap picture but it looked like a crack to me

[radiant meadow]

Properly not but man can dream right 😭

[narrow eagle]

it just left a mark

[zinc solstice]

Ah

[tight steeple]

It was just finger oil

[narrow eagle]

granted joey has the worst luck known to mankind for qc

[zinc solstice]

For a YouTuber that was a crap photo lmao

[ionic hornet]

Ah so cheap plastic is a feature

[lapis moat]

Russ also posted a pic of the same issue

[ionic hornet]

Kinda makes it worse tbh

[zinc solstice]

Oof

[tight steeple]

I’ll tell Joey that he hasn’t met Freshah’s standards

[narrow eagle]

yeah the flip 2 died for me a bit ago

i cant go back to a non 556 handheld

[zinc solstice]

Naw I’m blind and trying to be funny

[ionic hornet]

If retroids new Saturn classic test doesn’t do beetle at native res then I’m canceling my whole order

[narrow eagle]

saturn fans when i throw a brick at them

[real plover]

https://anbernic.com/blogs/news/anbernic-rg557-first-look

[rocky nebula]

not actually. I mean, if you want to dig hard into the psyop going on, its a handfull of retroid and ayn fanboys wanting to steamroll the market with their favorite soc so they can have more friends to talk to in their club.

[real plover]

Anbernic needs to drop the specs

[wintry lark]

You know after being strung along by retroid dripfeed news for a month this is pretty refreshing

[lapis moat]

Big thing to note here is they seem to have hired an actual native english speaker to write their blurbs now. Always been awkwardly google translated mishmash before this

[real plover]

I actually really like their marketing

[lapis moat]

Seem to be putting real effort into things now

[stark cape]

I always found it oddly charming seeing the word "rocker" being used for analogue sticks though lol

[rocky nebula]

yeah, anbernic is trying hard with this release

that means the pricetag is going to be pretty high

[real plover]

Immersive nostalgic and ACCESSIBLE. I respect that alot they try to keep the cost down

[quaint jolt]

Probably Ai LOL

[real plover]

They def used chat gpt

Lmfao

[lapis moat]

Could very well be, true. But still more effort than before

[real plover]

Ay as long as the RG557 is fire idgaf

[lapis moat]

Only shortcoming that apparent thus far is the lack of colorways. Which is an easy fix

If that's the biggest problem we're eating

[real plover]

Theyre going to drop black a month after everyone orders

[warm wyvern]

Problem with the black is the it can be used to scam people , some can sell the black 556 as the 557

[stark cape]

I want a colour similar to the purple Cube lol

I really liked this

[real plover]

I can see this being a problem but at the same time. Its a safe color

[pure nacelle]

Because GBA & PSP or other did it. Do everyone things its good to mess with START & SELECT position

[warm wyvern]

They will have to add something to distinguish one from the other, it will be the front button colors 100%

[real plover]

Yes and RGB joysticks

[quaint jolt]

If you buying in person, you can always ask to turn on and verify. If you are buying online well then you can bring it up ebay/paypal whatever

[warm wyvern]

That is correct

[real plover]

Ill be happy with skittles buttons

[warm wyvern]

Truly hope not to get refund involved lol
Just want the thing to work 😂

[warm wyvern]

Maybe DMG like that new Aya Neo , it looked elegant to me

[rocky nebula]

so pretty

[fading oxide]

Man if they don't do a cube or V for this new line, really tempting to go and get this instead. I think since I only want native resolution, the t820 would be enough for most things. Especially since a lot of ps2 issues have more to do with the emulator itself anyway.

The screen issues were fixed with later batches, weren't they?

[real plover]

I just got a 556 the other day and its insanely comfy

[fading oxide]

Anyway, while Anbernic is much better about this than retroid, I really wish these companies would just announce the stats when they reveal the device. It's so annoying to wait and watch people fall into meaningless arguments during, honestly kills the hype a little.

[real plover]

Ive just had issues with the T820 not being powerful enough for what I want

[warm wyvern]

The hype dying can be providence in some cases tbh 😂
The Flip 2 dies on me a little bit everyday on every video Joey posts 😂

[fading oxide]

That, the original flip, the original 35 SP, and Miyoo's flip, have kind of convinced me to stay far away from clamshell devices. Not worth all the issues.

But it's a little different to have people argue about QC issues, and stats that aren't even confirmed yet, so it might all be for naught.

[warm wyvern]

" Nintendo does it too " will be the CS answer when your screen end up scratched btw

[radiant meadow]

Welcome to the club miss

[long chasm]

Any updated news on specs folks

[radiant meadow]

Nope

[long chasm]

Same mate wanted smooth x3 on Batman Begins it struggled on x1.5

[long chasm]

https://tenor.com/view/luigi-crying-sad-sobbing-gif-12178659

[real plover]

Bro for me I was trying to do wind waker at 2X native and it was stutter fest

Im not playing Native thats crazy to me

[long chasm]

Wow lol

Well that cel shaded will look ok on native but yeah would look even better higher up

I wanted to do a run marathon n finish all the Batman games

[warm wyvern]

Windwaker with HD textures is gorgeous on the pc , i really want it on handheld

[real plover]

Yeah its so good.

I tried everything. Different dolphin version. Change setting. Vulkan, community settings recommendation. And still stutters in certain areas

[warm wyvern]

It is , the T820 is just not strong enough. It can only handle native

[real plover]

One thing I can forgive is if a handheld reminds me it’s emulating

Cant

[rocky nebula]

but it -is- emulating. you're literally not playing on original hardware lol

just game bro.

[real plover]

Yes i know but I want to feel like In just gaming not tweaking setting and dealing with emulation issues

[spiral sonnet]

Adreno 710 = no turnip drivers

[warm wyvern]

We're trapped with the SD865 and the Gen2 for now

888 is nuclear meldown tbh

[wintry lark]

8+ gen 1 in the corner crying

[warm wyvern]

I forgot my boi

[radiant meadow]

It's mad no one would touch 888

Or 8+ gen 1

[ruby skiff]

888 im glad nobody is touching, would love to see some 8+ gen 1s tho

[radiant meadow]

Same

[warm wyvern]

The cooling system would go wild

Gen 1 would be cool tbh

[radiant meadow]

https://tenor.com/view/fart-after-indian-gif-5030225

For 888

[vocal loom]

I got it to 1.5

1.5 gives enough to not look like the blocky-ness of native

T820 is incredibly rewarding for gcn if you know how to work it, but if you want no/less hassle you do need a stronger chip

Like it was my absolute favorite chipset to tune gcn because the results would be superb, but it would take a lot of knowhow

[warm wyvern]

I was impressed with how many Big N i could play with it as well
I finished a lot of Wii games but we just can't upscale it

The Twilight Princess runs well too if you can overlook the forest bit

[vocal loom]

Wii I could often get to 1.5. iirc the only one that I couldn't get to 1 (from what I play) was Galaxy, and I'm very specific on that game. And 1x for Mario kart Wii for smoothest experience

But yeah, new chip everything should be much better

Also note when I make these claims I do not accept stutter/major issues lol. You can genuinely get those experiences. I have import files for dolphins that has all my settings in the archive lol

[narrow eagle]

holy shit the podracer form star war

[vocal loom]

Iirc I had f zero at 1.5x. just under 60, bout 58-59.x, but super good, better than expected lol

Such a fun chip

[real plover]

Teach me master

Lol what is that MMR

[vocal loom]

Mmjr 2 with vbi. Pretty much the reason to use that is to go above 1x but below 2x

[real plover]

Im going to give it a try

Open GL?

https://youtu.be/CEppKBNTfZY?si=S4rZ33aoDIJQ6ZFh

Anbernic in 1 month after they drop new colors for the 557 and everyone double dips

[vocal loom]

In the RG 556 archive I left this. For mmjr since it isn't main dolphin, it puts its folder in a place you can find easily, you can just replace it all with an unzipped mmjr folder I have

I've used these files since and confirm they should work if you replace or import properly

[real plover]

Awesome

I think my problem is I need to spend more time in the forums

[ionic hornet]

This is play store dolphin performance on my end

Ignore my massive forehead

[vocal loom]

Res?

[ionic hornet]

Stutters at the start but the whole race is smooth otherwise

[ionic hornet]

Native

1x

[vocal loom]

I had a fix for that initial transition, can't remember what it was lol

But yeah I got mine at 1.5 with no initial issues

Also I recommend playstore beta if you like being a little more up to date. You just go on the play store page and sign up to beta test

[ionic hornet]

Still very enjoyable on T820 regardless

[vocal loom]

Yes it's a lovely chip

[real plover]

See I never said I couldn’t do native but what’s the point of having a 720 P screen if you can’t utilize it

[vocal loom]

Native is fine if you really have to, but even a 1.5x does a whole ton to fix blocky-ness

Not as good as 2x but still pretty good, noticeable upgrade

[sweet remnant]

Heh. Had I not just ordered a flip 2, I might be interested in this.

[ionic hornet]

It’s not too late to cancel

[warm wyvern]

Anbernic chat >>>> retroid chat

[placid condor]

On a humourous note, I tested Play Store Dolphin and every fork linked to in Russ's archive (about 8 or 9 of them) on the T820 and the version of Dolphin that gave me the best performance on that chipset was actually the MMJR Revamp fork that Ambernic included stock with their Android OS lol It was the only version of Dolphin I could get to run the more demanding parts of Star Fox Adventures full speed with no crashing lol

Normally Anbernic's stock app versions should be trashed and replaced with the latest builds, but for Dolphin and PPSSPP I'd actually recommend keeping the built in versions.

[vocal loom]

Is this with no changes to any settings?

[ionic hornet]

On a scale of one to ten, how better off would I be getting the 557

[placid condor]

There were some settings tweaks, which I used in all versions of Dolphin I tested. I used the PAL version of Star Fox Adventures with the Vulkan backend, left the resolution at 1x, then disabled Store EFB Copies to Texture Only and Fast Depth Calculation in Graphics > Hacks. With those tweaks it plays smoothly all the way through with no slowdown or stuttering on the stock version of Dolphin MMJR that Anbernic includes with their T820 devices, which for reference is bankaimaster's MMJR.v2.0-15993.

[vocal loom]

Wish I had my 556 still so I could compare lol, sounds like fun

[placid condor]

I was just happy to finally find a way to play Star Fox Adventures all the way through on a T820 without any slowdown or crashes lol I spent way too many hours figuring it out, but it was really rewarding finally getting to play through my favorite GameCube game ^_^

[ionic hornet]

One GameCube hack that always kills me is colosseum widescreen hack

It’s so bad

Built in widescreen hack deletes the floor textures

[vocal loom]

Is gecko better? I always just go gecko

[warm wyvern]

I run Dolphin Antutu on mine and got similar results as yours too

[vocal loom]

Speak of the devil lol

[ionic hornet]

Yeah I have that

Just a pita

It also crashes infrequently on the t820

For some reason

[vocal loom]

I usually check the dolphin wiki page to see if I have an issue that's well known

[daring hamlet]

I thought its going to be a qualcomm chip 😢

Aw shucks

Atleast its a good mediatek chip

[fickle belfry]

Have we actually had confirmation of the chip? I thought we were still speculating.

[vocal loom]

Idk didn't stubbs drop the chip

@signal cedar

[fickle belfry]

I'll take a D8300, though ... if the price it right. I only want this for PSX, PS2, PSP, Vita, and Android.

[signal cedar]

Yeah it's D8300

Our Anbernic contact leaked it first, in #🧧│anbernic-chat the other day

Wild lee

[wintry lark]

https://tenor.com/view/evil-smile-patrick-star-rubbing-hands-gif-18664752

This is going to be good

[signal cedar]

Here #🧧│anbernic-chat message

[wintry lark]

My oled rg cube is going to be beautiful

[fading oxide]

Hopefully they make another cube... I really want them to, since I already know thanks to the Cube XX that the format is very comfortably for my tiny hands. Also their cube lines tend to have nice colours.

[vocal loom]

Thanks g

[lapis moat]

Oh didn't know that wild lee guy was an actual company contact. Thought they just read from an article

[wintry lark]

The cpu is roughly on par with an 888

[signal cedar]

He isnt an employee, but he coordinates the western review units

[rocky nebula]

just like jdewitz and calten(rip) are both powkiddy companymen

[signal cedar]

This

Someone who can interface with English speakers

[thick sail]

So ps2 at 2-2.5x resolution?

[loud marten]

holding off on ordering rp5 then?

[fickle belfry]

If it's comparable with the Razer Edge (888+, basically) in power, then it'll be nice for what I would use it for.

[stark locust]

It's 100% guaranteed then?

[fickle belfry]

Just seems weird to hide that it's a Dimensity 8300 chip ... it's not like it's some new thing that might be embargoed.

[vocal loom]

Does anbernic usually mention the chip in a video?

[fickle belfry]

it'll probably just show up on their website at some point.

[signal cedar]

I trust Lee yes, he let's us know the chip right before official announcement every product release

[crude mango]

please god give us an arc pro based on this with 6 face buttons and one analog stick

(and a 4:3 screen)

[narrow eagle]

maybe it can do upscaled Saturn unlike a certain classic handheld

[crude mango]

8300 should be able to do beetle saturn (better cpu than the 865 which can do it) with very nice shaders (gpu is roughly on par with the s8g2)

for upscaling in yabasanshiro that's primarily gpu constrained so yeah I'm sure the 557 can rock that

just need to convince anbernic to actually make an arc pro

8300 + 406 screen + 6 face buttons + arc dpad + one (or two) analog(s) = my ideal retro handheld tbh

[narrow eagle]

they will make the rg square and you will like it

[crude mango]

well, my ideal would use a snapdragon chip with linux support but I can cave on that

[wary tiger]

i would say quite alot weaker than a 8g2. GPUs in the 8XXX series for dimensity are very cut down compared to the flagship 9XXX chips meant to compete with 8g2/8g3 etc

[crude mango]

because I can't see ayn making a saturn handheld

its quite a bit behind the s8g3

but not the g2

[vocal loom]

Why when they have a perfectly good xx chip

Maybe even the 3326

[crude mango]

https://tenor.com/view/annoyed-disappointed-mad-upset-gif-2863586643456136790

[wintry lark]

All I need is them to make a more powerful rg cube for 3ds, I'd prefer dual screens but a 1:1 screen is a good compromise

[regal quail]

Ok, so someone asked me to check what the prices for a specific 8300 device was after I asked how much it usually goes for in general, so I checked the Poco X6 Pro and the cheapest price I could find was $287 used.

[regal quail]

I do not find any entertainment in this and I’m not laughing at all at this idea, I really hope they’re not looking to repeat the same mistake they pulled with the RG552 again.

[wintry lark]

I take it the rg552 was ludicrously overpriced?

[lapis moat]

Can't really compare mobile phone prices to these plastic handhelds. Phones have camera arrays and a lot higher body material

[wary tiger]

those compute benchmark don't mean anything. i mean if you want to use benchmark at least use 3d wild life. The D9200 was mediatek 's offering against the 8 gen 2. that has a far larger gpu "Immortalis-G715 MP11", and still lost slightly to the 8g2 even in gaming benchmark

[regal quail]

$230 for the cheapest possible option.

[crude mango]

and phone chip manufacturers use retro handheld companies sometimes to dump stock at a discount without devaluing their bread and butter phone prices

that's the leading theory for how ayn pulled the s8g2

[vocal loom]

In a world where this is expensive, at least the chip wouldn't be 552 levels of ass lol. That thing is bad for many many reasons

[lapis moat]

I'd believe it

[wintry lark]

Ask and you shall receive

[crude mango]

since if they sell a discounted 8300 to a phone manufacturer that's presumably one less sale of a full price newer/higher end phone chip

+152% over the RP5

holy

[regal quail]

Keep in mind, it was using an rk3399, which was technically stronger than rk3566, but in practice was essentially just around the same performance due to sheer undiluted jank.

[regal quail]

And they charged $230 for that.

[crude mango]

arc pro arc pro arc pro

https://tenor.com/view/showtime-beetlejuice-gif-24573561

[vocal loom]

Honestly, just harass magicx to try it so anbernic can come in and say fuck you

[lapis moat]

Anbernic and taking other ppls lunch money, name a better duo

[warm wyvern]

It's a 😂😪 vibe tbh

[vocal loom]

Miyoo still hasn't recovered

[regal quail]

It’s either ask them, ZPG/GKD, or Miyoo.

[vocal loom]

Actually now that I think about it

WTF happened to the zpg lol

Everyone was hyped for that

[warm wyvern]

It won't be that price , waay too close to what the 556 goes on Aliexpress

[wintry lark]

Yeah that would work if magicx actually released it

[regal quail]

ZPG in general got shut down and the people were rehired for GKD again.

[crude mango]

the unicorn got sniped hard enough that it tanked zpg as a solo project

anbernic killed them with the cube

[vocal loom]

Lmao God dam bro

[regal quail]

Or at least I think that’s what the current situation is, it’s been back and forth a bit.

[vocal loom]

Anyone got that banger zhou pic

[regal quail]

Which sucks because the Unicorn is still legit pretty great and is honestly my preferred 1:1 handheld.

[wintry lark]

I mean honestly if it's any more than that they're going to be hard pressed to sell it when the odin 2 is right there

[warm wyvern]

They could pull of a 552 on people and care less about it tbh

[vocal loom]

Dam I really need that picture lol

[regal quail]

Oh no, I was using that as a reference for how wild they’ve been in overpricing stuff, since the rk3399, despite technically being way better was still outright only performing comparably with rk3566, thanks to software jank on apparently a kernel degree.

[vocal loom]

Classic

[wintry lark]

The bootleg handheld market is vicious

[warm wyvern]

They will use the " D8300 being more powerful than the SD " excuse tbh
Plus OLED
Plus NASA sticks

Plus " Redefine what you expect of a handheld "

[regal quail]

And now they’re gonna be getting a chip that’s apparently in between the sd865 and sd8g2.

[warm wyvern]

They're not lying the soc is more powerful but it's like having a Ferrari that you can't install the tires on it 😂

[vocal loom]

Tbh I don't really need to speculate lol. Just need price and release date

[regal quail]

I still hate how history turned out, the Unicorn is unironically a pretty good handheld and it didn’t deserve to get hard targeted by Anbernic being petty.

[crude mango]

does anyone use custom drivers for anything but switch

[regal quail]

Yup, Dolphin and Vita3k, as well as Azahar for some pesky games.

[vocal loom]

I mean from what I understand people liked the cube more, even as a value proposition. In this case they just won, even if Zhou said fuck you lol

[crude mango]

no way the 8300 is weak enough to need custom drivers for gamecube

[fickle belfry]

Vita? Although Borderlands 2 seems to work fine without them on Mali chips last time I checked.

[vocal loom]

Yeah I haven't had to for dolphin

Ran dolphin great on t820

[regal quail]

No, talking about Wii, which is way less of a surefire thing than GC.

[crude mango]

oh I never did custom drivers for that on odin 2

[regal quail]

Not for a total lack of capacity versus GC mind you, but mainly the fact that for some godforsaken reason, barely anyone actually tests Wii games, much less does dev work to make it run better on Dolphin (and in the cases where they do, they never bother to update their recommended settings to include the fixes).

Like, literally just ask @tribal haven about her “journey” to get MH Tri actually running well on a ton of different things in general.

[regal quail]

Vita3k is in no way an emulator that is “if it works for this game, it works for all”.

[ionic hornet]

Uhg I wanna cancel my flip 2 for this so bad

[thick sail]

You should

[ionic hornet]

I should

[regal quail]

Trust me, I literally went back and checked it, and I unironically went from this for Cyber Sleuth on…frankly almost all my Mali devices.

[thick sail]

Unless this turns out to suck, then you're dumb for doing it

[ionic hornet]

Flip 2 prolly gonna be a pos anyway

[regal quail]

To this on the Odin 2 Portal and RP5.

[warm wyvern]

I'd recommend you to wait tbh

[thick sail]

I want a flip 2 but I'd also put it in my pocket for maybe 2 minutes to walk out to the car or from 1 room to another

[ionic hornet]

I want the flip 2 but it’s a retroid device

[regal quail]

And that is just for this game where chipset apparently legit matters, there are still a bunch of games that didn’t work on the Odin 2 Portal at all.

[vocal loom]

Bro you gotta make a choice and hop off discord for like a week lol

[regal quail]

Shit, in all honesty there could be some vita games that run better on Mali.

[warm wyvern]

Tropical Freeze has the same graphical glitch on the Dimensity
That can be worked on the SD
For the limited list of games we're able to run , it does make a lot of difference. It's not a marginal difference

[ionic hornet]

And retroid have terrible QC

Whist anbernic QC is like

[regal quail]

Yup.

[ionic hornet]

[ionic hornet]

Probably a good idea Ngl

[regal quail]

…Unironically, I can’t even be sarcastic right now on that, so I’m just gonna ignore this instead and not say what I’m thinking.

[ionic hornet]

Truth is hard to swallow I know

We can just keep it an unspoken truth

[narrow eagle]

about the same

[lapis moat]

Dont take the bait.

[ionic hornet]

🤝

[narrow eagle]

the handheld explodes in the first 3 months or lasts for years

[vocal loom]

Lol this is gonna go unheard

[narrow eagle]

i am fish

glub glub

[regal quail]

No, frankly I would think the person who actually is basing their Anbernic QC critique on literally every Anbernic device they’ve ever gotten having at least some type of issue is the one avoiding saying it.

[ionic hornet]

https://tenor.com/view/mledp-gif-12194430558541150716

[regal quail]

True.

[narrow eagle]

my 505 killed itself while my 556 is doing fine

[vocal loom]

Buy 557

[ionic hornet]

Good idea

[fickle belfry]

Fair, but I pretty much only care about Borderlands 2 on Vita3K, so ... 🙃

[narrow eagle]

but switch 2 🤔

[vocal loom]

Both and get a job

[ionic hornet]

Jobs are for squares

[narrow eagle]

🤔🤔🤔🤔

[warm wyvern]

Plot twist : the 557 and the Flip2 are being assembled right now at the same factory

[vocal loom]

That's the Odin and retroid shit

[regal quail]

Well yeah, hence why I’m talking about in general, and I’m not saying “you’re wrong about Borderlands specifically running well”.

[warm wyvern]

100% and it doesn't matter if they deny it

[narrow eagle]

isnt the ps vita version of borderlands just bad

[ionic hornet]

Prolly just gonna stick with flip 2

It’s only fair to give retroid a uh…..

4th chance?

[fickle belfry]

On a Vita. On a lot of (the higher end) retro handhelds it runs at 60FPS.

[narrow eagle]

maybe

i would say dlc but those are mostly bad

[regal quail]

Welp, needing a 4th chance is better than needing 8.

[regal quail]

Well, a certain company needed way more, but “budget doesn’t count for that”.

[ionic hornet]

Man I wanna keep it but like

That creaky ass lemon Joey had was painful

[thick sail]

Joey's is probably only bad because it's ice blue. You should be fine as long as you didn't get that one

[ionic hornet]

But I did

[narrow eagle]

its not even the rp3+ blue…

whats the point

[regal quail]

…Good god, Anbernic really does have me under some kind of hate-based Stockholm.

[narrow eagle]

ALSO WHY DID SKITTLE BUTTONS GO AWAY

[fickle belfry]

The beef some people have with Retroid right now isn't about quality control anyway.

[ionic hornet]

Cuz skittles buttons is mad ugly

[regal quail]

Screw it, I’m done with Anbernic entirely starting now, and if Retroid manages to fuck up the Flip 2 I’m done with them as well.

[ionic hornet]

https://tenor.com/view/among-us-rant-amogus-stop-posting-about-among-us-stop-posting-gif-21710838

[narrow eagle]

powkiddy enjoyer

[narrow eagle]

☹️

[idle vortex]

ranking 100 chip 2025

19 vs 91

[ionic hornet]

Ye it’s a massive upgrade over T820

[warm wyvern]

It's quality control and business practices.
Unlike Anbernic with full transparency and excellent QC

[idle vortex]

🍻

[narrow eagle]

wouldnt say full

[ionic hornet]

Anbernic just doesn’t make bogus claims like “4:3 OLED handheld”

[regal quail]

No, they instead lie to CFW devs.

[fickle belfry]

Me, I think both Anbernic and Retroid have quality control issues. (This shouldn't actually be controversial ... both companies have had launch problems and after-launch problems with devices)

[ionic hornet]

It’s also why they’re hands off with the community

That stuff fosters para social relationships

[regal quail]

And trick them into making their stock firmware, only to ditch them the second they’re supposed to make it open sourced for the community.

[ionic hornet]

We all know how rancid retroid stans are

[regal quail]

Yeah, they totally were hands off “before” Jelos swore to stop supporting their handhelds.

[vocal loom]

I am loving what I assume RNS going insane over this love for anbernic QC

[regal quail]

…Ok that I actually agree with.

[vocal loom]

This has been a funny afternoon

[regal quail]

Like, I’m still having to tell people to not pretend that the Mini issue didn’t even happen.

[lapis moat]

Listen I'm an enormous Anbernic stan, they're by far my favorite retro company and this will be I believe my 11th device from them. But using the retroid shade to somehow paint Anbernic as saints is absolute bullshit

[narrow eagle]

there is no rp mini in ba sing se

[lapis moat]

They have so much wrong as well, don't trip

[warm wyvern]

They were ready to bounce back but evil Joey is being mean to them

[vocal loom]

I mean retroid is Chinese for "devil worshipers"

[ionic hornet]

At the end of the day I’m probably sticking with flippy 2

[narrow eagle]

the news in the 90’s idk im a zoomer

[thick sail]

Anbernic is the only company I've bought 2 of the same device from but the screens looked quite noticeably different brightness/color

[vocal loom]

Don't you dare play pokemon

[warm wyvern]

I think we are trolling , i was being sarcastic

[ionic hornet]

Yeah just baiting

I’m what the kids call a master baiter

Wait

[vocal loom]

Post the video

Post you master baiting

[wintry lark]

The humble trimui

[narrow eagle]

true

[regal quail]

Yeah, and I’ll tell you right now that’s how it started with Retroid as well. Then you find yourself starting to actually believe it.

[wintry lark]

They just need to release a damn trimui smart pro 2

[ionic hornet]

Brick 2 when

Metal brick

[narrow eagle]

oled at a budget

[regal quail]

Learn from our warnings and past mistakes, don’t fall down the same abyss we fell.

[wintry lark]

Brick sp

[narrow eagle]

ngl the brick is like the modern mm+ to me

[ionic hornet]

Bricked up

[fickle belfry]

You know what the RG557 needs? An animal. The Flip 2 has cows, after all.

[narrow eagle]

turtle

[ionic hornet]

Fish

Idk

[wintry lark]

Mule

[silk sable]

Totally not that I'm trying to paint them as saints or anything, but honestly after I got fed up with Retroid for their shenanigans over the years I would definitely be willing to give Anbernic my money more than Retroid lol. I'm just biased against Retroid now.

[fickle belfry]

... imagining an RG557 with a "scales" finish now.

[ionic hornet]

I’m gonna frame this

[narrow eagle]

snakeskin leather handheld

[warm wyvern]

And that whole fuss with the Win600 RAM but it's been a while and they're forgiven now

[regal quail]

Well, at the very least I can’t say I’m not in the inverse situation, so I’ll at least admit understand your logic now, even if I still disagree on which is deserving more shit.

[vocal loom]

Post the fucking video sniffer

[narrow eagle]

i think everyone forgot

[regal quail]

What do you mean? They’re totally don’t do stuff like that.

[ionic hornet]

Last time I did that I got put on a registry

[fickle belfry]

Everyone just forgot that the WIN600 existed.

[warm wyvern]

That surely wasn't their fault , it was Taki being mean to them.

[vocal loom]

Feel that /s

[regal quail]

I didn’t, I just don’t like commenting on handhelds I never owned, and I wasn’t sure if that was an issue with all Win600’s or if Anbernic QC managed to fuck up worse than usual for only some units.

[crude mango]

framework is also making a laptop with only one ram slot

the little 12" guy

[warm wyvern]

The bad form was putting better stuff ( still sucked ) inside the reviewers handheld and the mass produced ones had a different hardware.

[regal quail]

…Oh my god. That’s actually worse than the Mini screen since at least that thing was false for everyone. That would just straight up be them stacking “falsely advertised consumer units” with “cherry-picking the best units for reviewers”.

[rocky nebula]

there was no ram issue. we just halved the relay timing and undid the bottleneck at the cmos end. this was like the first thing dropped in the info thread.

[regal quail]

Like, I’ll give them the fact that I still don’t have it and can’t really confirm whether or not it’s legit true, but Jesus that actually would be awful if it was what happened.

[warm wyvern]

At the time i was a newbie at this and got excited they were releasing a Windows handheld , then the reviews came and then that stuff started soaring ... yeah no.

[vocal loom]

I wonder what that thing can do nowadays

Emulation looks like it might be worse than t820 lol

Seems close though

[rocky nebula]

3050e/vega3 still dusts the t820.

t820 will always do ds, 3ds, and vita better because of ARM:ARM interpretation being faster than ARM:x86

the prior will do wii-u, ps2, psp, and switch better due to better compatibility profiles pulled from their sdk sources

[vocal loom]

Oh so not terribly bad then

Bad but not unusable lol. Doubt many people have one though

[regal quail]

Well, it’s literally the price of the Odin 2 at a minimum right now (previously was $330 for the same specs), and was regularly retailing for $475 if you wanted the highest specs.

[ionic hornet]

How’s the efficiency/battery life tho

[rocky nebula]

depended entirely on how much a user docked it.

last time i heard from a lifetime win600 user, they had replaced their battery three times due to it ballooning while docked @25w. like... its a lipo meant to be used in a drone, not a bloody laptop battery.

[regal quail]

Yeah, they really shouldn’t have used a drone battery in what is literally a handheld pc.

[rocky nebula]

you drain it, you charge it, you drain it again. lifetime's about 2 years if that's all you do.

[vocal loom]

Jesus lol

[rocky nebula]

it makes sense that anbernic dropped the win600 just as they were exploding in people's drawers, cases, and hands lol

[prisma seal]

Have you tried this one: https://github.com/Medard22/Dolphin-MMJR2-VBI/releases

[rocky nebula]

Don't forget Ishiiruka. it still outdances mmjr2 and might work wonders. very innacurate though

[prisma seal]

Isn't that fork only for Windows?

[rocky nebula]

there's an android port too. i tested it on the a527 a bit

[prisma seal]

Really? Didn't know

[rocky nebula]

made a lot of unplayably slow gamecube games actually work at PAL speeds, but also could only use emmc storage, so i tossed it.

if someone talented enough could hack it to use modern android storage, that would be nice

[idle vortex]

or maybe "endgame" with lenovo y700 2025 16/256

👀

• a g8 gamepad

[crude mango]

I find the 8+g1 is good enough

And you get a microSD

Y700+g8 = steam deck weight though

I’ve got an x5lite en route for mine

[south arrow]

yeah hoping y700 gets a smaller brother.

Xiaomi also makes a cheap sd8g1 tablet around $100, but it's 11+ inches.

[crude mango]

8.8” 1600p is pretty sick tho

[placid condor]

I did try MMJR2-VBI, but it was back in October so I haven't tried the latest build. With the previous build MMJR Revamp outperformed it on T820 devices, but I couldn't say how the current January build might stack up.

[vocal loom]

@trail elbow looks like you wanting SD is consistent lo

Was going through some stuff to look for notes

[vocal loom]

Do me a favor, set cpu overclock to 400, back end to vulkan if you havent.

Then try skip draw on shader compilation. Tell me if that works for that initial start

[atomic lichen]

Wait a minute , excellent QC .... and anbernic?

That's like saying Asus has excellent RMA

[idle vortex]

yeah sometime i think i should go to this combo

because if the buttons or sticks of my handheld broken, i don't know how to fix it and very hard to find who can help me with it

a tablet + a gamepad, if the gamepad broken, just buy onother

[alpine bronze]

Any news about the battery and charging speed?

[crystal sparrow]

Maybe I'm just imagining things, but this appears to resemble a faint "27W" to me

[warm wyvern]

I was trolling lol

[atomic lichen]

Although I did bewr good things about 406h , when it comes to QC

[hazy goblet]

lol I remember when Anbernic build quality was considered the best, not that suprising when they were only competing with Powkiddy and old Miyoo handhelds like PocketGO and Bittboy

Now with Retroid and Ayn we have much better standards

[lapis moat]

I mean it's still considered the best among the budget brands, it was never competing with Ayn and Retroid left the budget scene completely

[pure nacelle]

Average budget target for Retroid & AYN is different as well

Ayaneo created its on niche of niche, where they don't care how many they sell. They just make it demonstrated and be forgotten

[alpine bronze]

Hmmmmm, that would be very nice, QC4.0

[real plover]

Can we start a protest no black no buy

[lapis moat]

Sorry transparent too good, me buy

[crystal sparrow]

You can wait for the black silicone case

[lapis moat]

Ribbed for your pleasure

[vocal loom]

For anyone that thinks that case is just a meme, it's wildly comfy

Somehow it adds to the 556

[fickle belfry]

It helps the vibration function be more effective.

[fickle belfry]

I thought I saw somwhere about the 557 doing fast charging but I can't find it now.

[ionic hornet]

Man it looks like a mini g cloud

I love it

[soft harness]

Got this

[crystal sparrow]

You might be thinking of this, but it is not the RG557

[soft harness]

Meanwhile internet

[fickle belfry]

Yeah ... possible I was just misremembering that rumor and mixing it with the current 557 info.

[wintry lark]

Makes sense, rubber cases are usually very comfortable

[wintry lark]

Yeah I need whatever this is

[rancid pond]

I was just told that the RG557 should be out soon, so the full specs should follow.

[radiant meadow]

By who Agent Max

[rancid pond]

Just making education guess and a troll comment kind of

[rocky nebula]

same as it ever was

[radiant meadow]

I hear it

[fickle belfry]

When will the RG557 be out? Soon.

[radiant meadow]

https://tenor.com/view/milwaukee-bucks-bucks-giannis-antetokounmpo-damian-lillard-dame-gif-17398501903436302082

[fickle belfry]

To be fair ... if Anbernic announced it, it won't be long. They usually don't troll their customers for months with a new device.

[radiant meadow]

You are right

[rocky nebula]

i just ordered a new 556 battery two weeks ago and still have many switch games to test lol

[rancid pond]

Takes about a week from the video. The order are live a week after that. Most of the time

[warm wyvern]

Probably wil show a video with more gamplay and specs this weekend and mid April it will be on Ali.

[rocky nebula]

i trust 8300 phone gameplay enough to know this will only be about 10-15% better at sustaining performance via active cooling

You'll get some quality Goat Simulator gameplay out of it

[wintry lark]

Hell yeah

[rocky nebula]

https://youtu.be/a1rAjA-L3XY?list=PLjCuVoItkpqPIhDK9PmcEV46WTEU1jjzr&t=972

nfs:most wanted with no tweaks locking 60 despite 45C throttling is already pretty high up there

[wide bison]

why the incredibles so laggy

[rocky nebula]

fps is tied to the vps cycle in that game. if you set it to VU affinity, gameplay will lock 60, and the ee/gs will harvest frames to match the gpu. or you could use -1/0. either would fix it

[rancid pond]

Dog's Life for the PS2 or we riot.

[rocky nebula]

this is one of those signs, right? like, as soon as someone needs to use EE skip to play like... Return of the King at 2-3x or whatever, boom... rg557's in the marketplace
😄

"it doesn't feel like a console experience anymore"

[rancid pond]

console experience is a feeling of being lock down.

[plain quest]

What in the feet massager is that

[timid elk]

bursts through wall

DOG'S LIFE FOR PS2 MENTIONED

[atomic lichen]

Yeah i got similar one for the cube and it is

[warm wyvern]

Nothing matters until Jaws for the PS2 is mentioned

[timid elk]

Is that a different game from Jaws Unleashed where the shark uses security keycards to open doors

[warm wyvern]

That's the one 😂

[warm wyvern]

If you watched the movie Orca then the shark from Jaws using security cards is not that far fetched 😂

[serene cobalt]

Any full hw specs yet?

[soft harness]

Not yet..

[rocky nebula]

Between this and the rgb50, there's a lot of "what else is onboard" silence

[warm wyvern]

Nothing really , it's this and the retroid pocket 5 / Flip2

[crude mango]

v90 refresh

[uncut storm]

A question, are the start and select comfortable to use? Looking at this and the rg556, feels like having to avoid the right stick to reach them could get old, but I do not know in practice

[silk crypt]

I’m at the anbernic show

Here’s the specs of the RG557

[uncut storm]

I'm not very knowledgeable about these things specs but seems quite the upgrade from the 556

[silk crypt]

Price : estimated $205 USD

[uncut storm]

Huh...

[silk crypt]

Yeah I agree, 12GB ram is a lot

Android 14 as well

[uncut storm]

Yes, that was what surprised me the most

[wide bison]

pretty neat

[uncut storm]

I was waiting for the flip 2 to get more coverage, but this makes it hard to choose

[silk sable]

Well the specs look good. And it looks like they're including the game downloader again lol.

[vocal loom]

256gb nice

[crystal sparrow]

12gb ram base is huge

[vocal loom]

12gb ram, wifi 6e, let's go

[silk crypt]

Interesting that they’ve got the 557 this time

[vocal loom]

27 w charging?

[crystal sparrow]

What show is this? In Hong Kong?

[silk crypt]

When I was there last year they didn’t have the 406V

[vocal loom]

Pics?

[silk crypt]

Yes, global sources

[vocal loom]

@crude mango

[silk crypt]

#1359106082781266044 message

[vocal loom]

Oh meant for a v?

Is it the grey

[silk crypt]

Oh sorry it was a typo

I meant 557

[vocal loom]

Ohhhhh lol

[wide bison]

where oh

[vocal loom]

Dam this device looks hot

Amazing specs too

[silk crypt]

The shape is pretty similar as the 556

I had to leave early for other booths otherwise I’d taken more pics

[wide bison]

seems pretty good

a bit less powerfull odin 2 with oled

[tribal meadow]

Man, I really don't like these are the only colors.

[vocal loom]

Chucking that to reddit lol

[vocal loom]

@signal cedar

[narrow eagle]

i am so

down

[crude mango]

Imma need an arc pro based on this

406 screen, arc with sticks

[silk crypt]

pics gets stolen

[crude mango]

These internals

[vocal loom]

Oh sorry, did credit you. If you want to post it yourself I'll take it down

[silk crypt]

Nah go ahead, I don’t mind

I just share it for everyone

[vocal loom]

Huge points seem to be:
12gb ram, 256 storage, wifi 6e, estimated 205$, 27w charging, android 14

[crystal sparrow]

Yes, significant improvements, especially considering the price

12gb ram, 256 storage is totally unexpected, superb value

[uncut storm]

The dimensity 8300 i read was more powerful than the snapdragon 865 but maybe that's less important?

[vocal loom]

They are really not fucking around with those specs lol

[uncut storm]

Yeah with that price it's hard to say anything

[silk crypt]

How much was 556 again ? I forgot

[tribal meadow]

Is this a straight conversion? They tend to charge a little more overseas.

[vocal loom]

I think MSRP 185?

[tribal meadow]

Sounds familiar, yeah.

[silk crypt]

It’s FOB price, not unit price

[uncut storm]

Fob?

[silk crypt]

Free on Board, it’s mostly used for business terms

[uncut storm]

Oh

[silk crypt]

Like buying a huge lot and then exporting to other countries

[uncut storm]

Ah i understand, it was the first time i saw that, thanks

[silk crypt]

No problem, that’s what the Global sources show was for

[uncut storm]

Any ideas of when could it start selling?

[crystal sparrow]

The capacitive joystick is a pretty huge selling point too

[narrow eagle]

i feel like anbernic is gambling on the tariff crap to be postponed again

[silk crypt]

They said within this month

I forgot to mention that, good thing you asked

[uncut storm]

What the hell, that's so fast

[tribal meadow]

Oh good, it was beginning to sound like this would be the one device to break the 2 weeks from reveal release schedule.

[uncut storm]

Well i'll wait for reviews for this and flip 2 and make my choice but this looks really solid...

I asked before but i want to ask again, are the start and select buttons comfortable in that position?

[narrow eagle]

yeah

[quaint jolt]

What makes you say that? Just because tariffs exist doesn't mean every company stops producing

[narrow eagle]

its very clicky so its kinda fun to press

[narrow eagle]

true..

[uncut storm]

I ask because they look to be quite apart from the main buttons, and having the stick between them, maybe when you have it in your hands is different though

[wide bison]

that's anbernic for you

[narrow eagle]

its not a issue at all

[uncut storm]

I did not expect to be this fast lol

[uncut storm]

That's great to hear!

[quaint jolt]

So 205 is the whole sale price?

[silk crypt]

I can’t say for sure of the public sale price, that’s why I say it’s estimate

But should be around

[uncut storm]

Even if it was like 220 sounds like a good deal

[wary tiger]

How much better is it than normal hall or TMR ones?

[silk crypt]

Imo probably $180-$230, shouldn’t be more than $240

[quaint jolt]

205 whole sale sounds bad. Retail may be 230-240

[silk crypt]

Probably because of new release

[wary tiger]

Did you have hands on with the unit? Is the joystick range feels closer to joycon 's or those used on Ayn/retroid/406h?

[silk crypt]

Yeah I tried a bit, the speed is noticeably faster than my RG406V

The sticks feels better as well

[wide bison]

oh damn

[silk crypt]

They unfortunately haven’t set up the game files directories so I couldn’t try any games

[quaint jolt]

Any news on 34xxSP?

[silk crypt]

Nope, I didn’t ask them about that

I didn’t even know that was a thing lmao

[wary tiger]

Better than 406v? sounds promising.

[uncut storm]

Feels like a rather well rounded machine

[vocal loom]

Just need the drop asap lol

[uncut storm]

The screen i imagine is 60hz right?

[wintry lark]

Dang 12gb ram is pretty nutty and 256 gb of internal storage...

This is nice

[crystal sparrow]

Higher resolution, lower latency, lower power consumption than hall effect similar to TMR but with no EMI issue

[wary tiger]

Interesting, all the most expensive 3rd party controllers still seem to be on TMR. Anbernic got a head start on them? Should shove it into their own controller.

[rocky nebula]

12gb ram is much needed

Switch titles that crash on hitting the system limit should finally run. Looking at you Skyrim and kingdoms of amalur

[narrow eagle]

hyrule warriors,..

[wide bison]

three houses..

[tribal meadow]

Skyrim on this chip isn't looking too hot from a cursory glance.

[narrow eagle]

psidozer will find a way

[pure nacelle]

If Anbernic are smart/sensible enough to "open source & unlock bootloader" on this model. They can actually destroy the competition.

As lots of developers will jump on correcting software & drivers issue making this device a miracle.

But one can just hope this dream comes true

[uncut storm]

Would it suppose doing that any risk to anbernic?

It'd be great if it happened

[pure nacelle]

Technically not, its strategy around market controls for locking other vendors to use your code.

As per research 8300 is very close or sometimes excel to SD 8+ Gen 1 in overall performance few 15% low than SD 8 Gen 2

Smart developers can definitely utilize the RAW grant of GPU to do better code

[uncut storm]

I see, sounds kinda exciting

Not that I'd go further than gc/wii/ps2 but better performance for those is always welcomed

Maybe some wiiu if it's solid

[pure nacelle]

As people are concern on SD865 comparison is all around software support ( Winlator, YUZU, Linux), Which is true

I am still happy Anbernic moving up the ladder on CHIP, as future can give something inline of 9000 series which will be SICK

[uncut storm]

But if this device goes well interest and support would increase, maybe?

[pure nacelle]

Yeah but people get narrow focus on FAN following, 557 might not be perfect today but it might open new doors of possibility

[ruby skiff]

That is some pretty damn nice specs

[uncut storm]

I see. I'm cautiously optimistic

Thanks for your input!

[radiant meadow]

205 wow

And 12gb ram

[narrow eagle]

https://tenor.com/view/meme-gif-8470516175995282617

me showing ayashitter and ayn that 12gb of ram can just be base model

[pure nacelle]

It should be able to brute force a few more stuff than usual

[silk crypt]

Doesn’t AYN has a better CPU

[narrow eagle]

🤫 let me make my joke

[silk crypt]

[fading oxide]

Sadly too heavy for it to be comfortable for smaller hands like mine. Not a surprise given the size. Will have to wait for another device in this line then.

[narrow eagle]

society

[ruby skiff]

Grow bigger hands 😄

[silk crypt]

And I’ll be waiting for all the same specs to be put on 407V

[fading oxide]

If they don't make a Cube this time, the V version is what I'll be getting too. Them not having Oled screens will likely make them even cheaper.

[silk crypt]

Yep, but the 480p jump from 720p still was a good thing with same price point for 405V to 406V

[fading oxide]

And we might get better colours too! Plus, it will give developers time to get used to this chip and make other front ends for it. Overall, not bad to wait at all, just happy with the stats we got.

[warm wyvern]

I want the 407V tbh , i hope they bring the colors of the 405V back 🤞

[tight steeple]

https://youtu.be/_XhF5scQptQ?si=ksPm8KR6PHSN-lgt

[wide bison]

god of war 2 on 3x, the battle is ours

[silk crypt]

Me watching that Need For Speed Most Wanted, I can run game better with PS2 on my 406V

[silk crypt]

Wood color ftw

[wide bison]

the game showcase on gamecube tho but nvm, it run much better with this thing

[crystal sparrow]

480p video

[lunar python]

256gb internal storage means no need for an SD card. That is a considerable cost savings

Flip 2 & RP5 have 128gb

[wide bison]

my college wifi is low rn so i had to default yt to 360p i dont notice the video cap at 480p lmao

[silk crypt]

Yeah it is, but they shoulda shown it running on PS2 instead of GameCube

[radiant meadow]

Mostly they want to flex

[wide bison]

they should flex how rogue squadron run on 557

[radiant meadow]

Innit be more cheeky

Where are f zero gx

[lunar python]

Their first 557 vid had PS2 gameplay

https://youtu.be/qgDRj9LVfmA?si=jIAO2lT-teOl6vAj

[warm wyvern]

They will , next week it may be on Ali.
I hope to see an H and V variants for it this year which won't take that long either.
Good thing with Anbernic is avaiability

[atomic lichen]

Ok anbernic

You have now shown it

Gimme me Arc07

[warm wyvern]

It's the D8300 issue there
I am not hating on the device , like at all ... but the chip lacks support

[radiant meadow]

Lack support 👀

[pure nacelle]

This can help, won't happen

[radiant meadow]

I'm worried if the chip has issues with the software

[silk crypt]

I meant the NFS Most Wanted game, but yeah they had other ps2 games

[crystal sparrow]

It's hard to say if the gameplay is actually smooth since Anbernic video is only recorded at 30fps

[silk crypt]

Pretty decent if you just want to play simple games, I just play visual novels for now, Switch VNs runs fine with it

[crystal sparrow]

But this video shows Need for Speed Most Wanted gamecube running at 60fps most of the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHDZo2xH3J8

[silk crypt]

The GameCube version is pretty easy to run

As its lower graphics comparing to the PS2

[crystal sparrow]

Oh sorry misread your message

[radiant meadow]

But need for speed most wanted ps2 version can run on this chip as well

[pure nacelle]

Phone are generally slower than these handheld, as those are power & thermal constrains

[silk crypt]

It does, I’ve finished the game on my 406V

[pure nacelle]

SD865 on Retroid faster than phone of this same CHIP

[silk crypt]

But still lags around 20% with tweaked settings

Had a few crashes but still worth playing

[pure nacelle]

Odin 2 is much faster than any 8G2 phones even faster than Asus ROG phone

[wide bison]

why is it tho

[pure nacelle]

Expect 15 - 20 % more performance, no guarantee tho

[silk crypt]

I wanna see a comparison Odin 2 portal vs 557

[crystal sparrow]

This is Most Wanted running on PS2 with Dimensity 8300, seems pretty smooth throughout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGT6SWl-2V8

[pure nacelle]

Not the best way, Price bracket comparison should be considered

Porche vs Prius doesn't sound great

[radiant meadow]

If we want comparison it would be rp5 vs rg557 performance

[pure nacelle]

557 will win, Only drawback will be

Winlator

[radiant meadow]

Switch

[pure nacelle]

GPU is kinda less supported

[radiant meadow]

And wii u

[wide bison]

rg557 smokes rp5 on native android games

[radiant meadow]

Oh 100%

[pure nacelle]

50% more

[warm wyvern]

We almost had it man , almost 🥲

[pure nacelle]

If you only plan to buy just one device, truthfully tell is it true???

[radiant meadow]

Good thing I know anbernic can make a decent software than ayaneo

[warm wyvern]

Gamma was already interested so let's see how it goes

[pure nacelle]

We need more Mali GPU open source driver which will be difficult

[pure nacelle]

Android doesn't can't help much, now a days

[warm wyvern]

Shame because it's interesting to mess with Winlator ... Dead Space , Tomb Raider 2013 are all playable...with support

[brisk lintel]

I didn't buy Odin 2 because I thought I already had a galaxy s23. But when I test Switch emulators on the phone I am getting really underwhelming results.

[warm wyvern]

Yep , i appreciate the intention though.

[pure nacelle]

I have content with playing on my Asus ROG Ally with 120 FPS & High settings. All the old games

[radiant meadow]

Don't worry if gamma can put gamma os on ayaneo pocket air he can do it over here

Oh you mean

[pure nacelle]

GPU drivers are different story, if you ever read blog of YUZU dev. What kind of struggles they went through.

[warm wyvern]

I know , i can play them too. It's just fun to experiment though

[pure nacelle]

Its difficult as well as SLOWER on recompilation or something on MALI GPU

[radiant meadow]

The problem is mail doesn't allow them to open drivers for them

But they also could find a another way

[orchid beacon]

How big is this thing compared to steam deck? I’d like it to compliment a steam deck and brick in the middle but if it’s getting near the steam deck size which can emulate the same stuff then probably won’t

[radiant meadow]

It's not big at all

[warm wyvern]

It's amazing that they put a powerful chip in there but with a lack of support bottleneck.
GC will have some hickups in there too ... and it has good RAM and all but the Chip ...

[pure nacelle]

Hoping next year they choose 9400 and we can brute force everything, Anbernic win by competing AYN

[radiant meadow]

Gc and ps2 would be small difference

I mean very small difference

Especially ps2

Good thing this is 12gb ram I mean rah

[pure nacelle]

I am more happy about 256GB base storage, we can finaly upgrade default install base & textures

Its also UFS4 which is faster than any other handheld

[radiant meadow]

Yes

[orchid beacon]

What’s the issue when people talk about the chip not having support?

[narrow eagle]

dimensity chips just have weird compatibility with emulators

it was an issue with the rp4, and the pocket air

[ruby skiff]

lot of complaints today huh

[narrow eagle]

yea

[orchid beacon]

The more things using the chip will then likely get more support? Anbernic and magicx both talking about using it

Or are they still not big enough to make much difference? Is the issue on the emulators end to implement stuff for them?

[narrow eagle]

emulators that arent in development anymore

like nethersx2

[warm wyvern]

Dimensity can have some problems with emulation because lack of support and custom drivers.
You will have a pretty powerful chip but it will have some midrange chip struggles because of that.
Stuff that could be played on Winlator becomes unplayable because of it

WiiU , Switch , some PS2 and GC will have issues too

[ruby skiff]

oh no

[pure nacelle]

Nobody plays 100% of any of those consoles, each has many thousands of games

Pick your game and than decide

[ruby skiff]

but but..... D8300 bad

[pure nacelle]

It will play as good as SD865 for PS2, GameCube and more in Wii & WiiU

[narrow eagle]

yall play games ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️

[pure nacelle]

Only struggle is Winlator, Probably limited people try. Less not make more fuss.

If it cost less its better with more performance my personal take

[orchid beacon]

Is winlator in active development ?

[pure nacelle]

I play PES 2014 mods 50% of times & Some ratchet and clank

[radiant meadow]

I love when you come here and being cheeky 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[narrow eagle]

yeah

[ruby skiff]

has to be done 😛 i also laugh when people get entitled, it is funny

[orchid beacon]

So that could improve support if more devices come out with it

[warm wyvern]

That doesn't work here , that's for the Retroid chat , it's cursed 😆

[pure nacelle]

I have seen videos of people playing GBA on Odin 2 portal because its comfortable

I know my sports games from Wii collection will work, because it works on mediatek 8020 phone decently

[warm wyvern]

Wii works well on the T820 too , never had an issue with the games i installed

[pure nacelle]

So why complaints or hate for CHIP

we have on these forums

[ruby skiff]

people want the best for nothing 😄

[fading oxide]

Cause, internet

[pure nacelle]

Fight for Cost

Fight for design

personal preference

[warm wyvern]

I am not complaining about the T820 , it does what it has to do

[fossil glade]

this is already an H no? or what you mean?

[pure nacelle]

Not intended on you, my friend. I see lots FAN following

[warm wyvern]

I meant the more compact H that came out later for the 406 series

[fading oxide]

Man, all I want freaking want is for the PS2 fatal frame games to run well. My PS2 died two years ago and my PS3 last year, and I hate emulating on PC. As long as it can play those well, and it's small and light enough for me to hold for hours, good enough for me. Most of the issues with PS2 has to do with the emulator, so until a new one comes out, little can be done anyway.

Sadly, you never see that series get tested in youtube video showcases.

[pure nacelle]

This year might be different for Anbernic, they might rethink stuffs

And i hope they do

[warm wyvern]

Lee said they took longer to release the 557 because of the sticks = logistics
Hopefully they do rethink stuff because imo they're the only company with avaiability rn

[pure nacelle]

They need to think about competition, model and its capabilities comparison and price accordingly. RG556 wasn't priced right

[fading oxide]

I mean, I'd honestly love them to make a few more devices for this line of power, instead of focusing so much on their budget lines. I kinda got what I wanted from budget handhelds at this point, but there's still a lot to be desired when it comes to form factor at this range.

And despite reviewers complaining about it, Anbernic offering so many different designs to suit so many tastes, is their strongest point in my opinion.

[pure nacelle]

They need to make bezel-less screen on 407 V & H please

[warm wyvern]

556 was expensive, specially because it felt like it was a beta product , unfinished.
They need to refine the model designs, rethink of the chips tbh ( yes it makes a difference with the competition) , i wish they would focus more on their more powerful line too.

[pure nacelle]

DS/3DS with PSP design clone would be Icing on the Cake

[warm wyvern]

Complaining about having options , i will never understand that tbh

[warm wyvern]

A bit more refined V series would be awesome

[radiant meadow]

Having d8300 in different form would be their end game in general

[fading oxide]

I mean, part of me understands that it's annoying to review the same specs in a different case almost every month, but the biggest part of me also goes that's why we're watching you in the first place. And then those same people got worried when Anbernic took a break as requested for a few months

[pure nacelle]

I said it before, but Clamshell Anbernic is coming before end of the year

So question is what will they skip this year

[fading oxide]

I don't doubt this at all, it was their best selling device. The question is if they'll upgrade it to this power, or if they'll stick it to whatever their new budget line will be.

[warm wyvern]

I mean , it's their job to review them so ... 😂
Just review the ergonomics then 😂

[warm wyvern]

That would be nice tbh
Retro formats are my favs , i think they may skip the high end Cube because that was overkill and a business mistake. It killed the hype and sales when the H came out

[pure nacelle]

Cube XX was excellent

[warm wyvern]

It was , for the H700 it's perfect

[pure nacelle]

More versatile, for classics before 1999

[warm wyvern]

For the T820 not so much , specially because people wanted a more compact 556
1:1 for Wii doesn't go well

[pure nacelle]

I haven't got 406 hoping 407 is decent for my PS2 collection

[radiant meadow]

Good question since this only form they haven't done in their high devices

[pure nacelle]

don't like Widescreen on PS2 OCD kicks in

[fading oxide]

As a Cube XX fan, that makes me a little bit sad; but as long as the new H has better colour options, I'll be happy. Both Cubes had such good colour offerings.