#GAMEMT EX8

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past patrol
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use adb shell wm size or adb shell dumpsys display for proper display info. this one doesn't account for taskbar/status bar insets which is why you get this weird resolution

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it is the proper 1620x1080 res

safe herald
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Ohhhh

past patrol
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PS C:\Users\Gamma> adb shell wm size
Physical size: 1620x1080
dawn dune
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after doing a bleak falls barrow run, i'm calling this thing's winlator performance at like... i5-4300m tier.

safe herald
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RP5 is about i5-8250u level if not a little better, might even be comparable to the win600

dawn dune
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yeah it's pretty impressive. i'll probably tag on script extender with some quality of life mods next

past patrol
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btw I fixed the analog stick deadzone issue, now smooth

dawn dune
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in tes5 that shows up as moving at half speed on diagonals and full speed for cardinals. it'll be interesting to try with modded Fallout 3 and State of Decay YOSE(with the shadow removal mod)

safe herald
dawn dune
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some ini tweaks borrowed from the win600 combined with stuff, yeah. i use bsaopt to repack any mod with a ton of loose files
what i should do is write another noshadows mod in tes5edit.

dawn dune
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I think i know how to record with audio now. i'll just run the scrcpy feed through obs and spit it out uncompressed so quality isn't lost

empty laurel
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Hell yeah

dawn dune
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with my nolights mod, fps hovers between 38 and 50 fps. recording, it drops down between 16 and 30, because the g99 is compressing video on the fly. reminds me of when i used to play on an old i5-3320m

dawn dune
dawn dune
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i am happy now. it never drops beneath 30fps or passes 76% ram usage. Fallout 3 will be next.

For FO3, you will need the gog installer + winlatormali. For -modding-, you will need at least wrye bash, FOSE, and the anniversary patcher. I would suggest setting up your mods on a pc and moving them + your appdata/local/fallout3/ folder over to keep things simple:
https://fose.silverlock.org/
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/24913

empty laurel
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Mine left HK three days ago... hopefully will resurface state side soon

dawn dune
empty laurel
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Fantastic. Think it's coming through Jamaica NY

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Wondered about Royibeila shipping. My MagicX orders were fast, 10 days to my house

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I'm about 9 days into the Royibeila AliExpress store shipping

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Most other stuff seems to take about two weeks

wintry rapids
dawn dune
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it almost feels like this is the new win600 chat.

dense ruin
dawn dune
# dense ruin What kind of performance you seeing playing the same game on the Win 600?

by default, it emulates switch and vita better due to the core count(which is kind of how t820 is). ps2 is a toss up based on if a game needs a decent gpu.(Killzone and Soul Caliber 3 for instance) It doesn't play pc games better, more than it plays them longer. I could put two hours of fallout 3 on the ex8, and it'll only be sitting at ~75% battery. on the win600, it will be dead or close to dead.

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They're both very capable and very underdoggish.

dawn dune
empty laurel
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Not a bad price at all with everything goin up

dawn dune
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usb-to-headphone, and cheap headset dongles do not work. 😕

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i still have my bluetooth-to-headphone adapter from the Samsung s20fe phonegaming days though. it works pretty well

real hornet
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Hmmmm... Does this have USB to HDMI?

dawn dune
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(grabs cable, opens OBS Studio)

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NOPE

empty laurel
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@dawn dune will it run GTA IV?

dawn dune
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it should. there's so much footage of gta4 running on g99

empty laurel
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Great

rugged fable
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Was anybody able to get this for less than $120?

empty laurel
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$122.xx

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So no

empty laurel
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Eh now arriving late...maybe next week. Hopefully a review will drop by then.

empty laurel
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Oooh maybe not, possible Saturday delivery 🤞

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C'mon local postal clerk 🙏

dawn dune
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did bleakfalls, slept in Oakwood after clearing out the wolf packs, came back to riverwood, did the Camilla Valerius romance quest for Amorous Adventures, walked over to Shriekwind Bastion, finished it, got to the ledge and...

  • crash
  • reload, go back to the ledge, seems fine, turn around to go back through the door, crash
  • reload, go to ledge, enter map to fast-travel out, crash
  • backtrack through shriekwind, make it back to Riverwood, go to LUcan to sell stuff, crash.

lol... It's been a good run i guess.

rugged fable
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Best Deal on this?

No Shipping & No Tax

This is to the US

muted steeple
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As of now this is the lowest cost EX8 you can get

rugged fable
wintry rapids
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I need this Handheld in my life so bad! 😭

muted steeple
empty laurel
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$125 about as low as I've seen. I got it a few bucks cheaper from their AE store with coins and coupons during the last sale.

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Someone on reddit says they got it around $115

real hornet
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i think while it's valid to be afraid of gameMT, they partnered with Powkiddy's sidecompany Royibeila, so there's some room for hope with this and the ex5

empty laurel
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I think it can be difficult to recommend GameMT devices over others but if you want what they are offering, their most recent releases are good value I think, and being slept on for being cheap/ugly when they still have decent specs for the price.

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I think they hit their stride with the E5 Ultra and the EX8 in particular

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They eeked out 6/128GB devices with good SoC at the tail end of 2025 before RAMpocalypse took full effect. That alone is desirable in the current market.

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Be interesting to see where things go for GameMT going forward with new hardware in 2026

proven whale
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They sent me this. It's good actually. I think if they can get the price to $100 it would be perfect.

dawn dune
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needs an hdmi out terribly

empty laurel
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Need that GammaOS nano in my life

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Also need my EX8

idle briar
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Ex8 should just ship with GOS nano and I’ll overpay for the privilege.

empty laurel
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Ok got the EX8, just need the nano

empty laurel
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Fwiw mine came with stick caps already on from the Royibeila AliExpress store

empty laurel
empty laurel
rugged fable
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Looks Good
Mine's on the Way
Have Fun!

empty laurel
empty laurel
empty laurel
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EX8 and RG Vita Pro bros

real hornet
# empty laurel

how do you like the sticks? they have a neat springiness to them

empty laurel
# real hornet how do you like the sticks? they have a neat springiness to them

Ok so unfortunately I have two gripes. One, my left stick is kinda janky. Like mildly defective. Right one is just fine, I do like it but the left is a little rough and noisy. Gets a little hung in a couple places. Might have to replace. Two, they need a lot of movement to register. The sensitivity seems off. I like the tension but the combination of height and actuation distance is taking some getting used to.

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So I do like the stick that works well. Maybe the sensitivity can be fixed in software.

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Where that dude at that replaced his sticks? Lol, let me buy them originals yo

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At the very least I'll probably swap the left and right sticks if I find the courage to open this up

real hornet
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He said that hall sensors were too sensitive and put these back in.

empty laurel
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Just seems like I have to move them quite a bit before anything happens, in game/menus/etc. Large zero area or something.

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Getting used to them

real hornet
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Gamma may fix that

empty laurel
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Do you have a link?

empty laurel
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Kinda bummed about the left one, stick lottery I guess. Easy fix though hopefully

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Just annoying

empty laurel
real hornet
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Huh. It actually does play well.

tidal raft
empty laurel
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Alright, I ordered 6 new JF-15 sticks.

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Hopefully I'll get one or two that work perfectly lol

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I had to get 2+2 to get free shipping so I went ahead and got another set from a different vendor.

empty laurel
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Reg cap vs Odin 2 portal cap

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If Gamma fixes the deadzone issues, these sticks with the AYN caps are lowkey fire

empty laurel
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Well after playing a bit of Contra, the down on the dpad is just God awful

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Might be the worst dpad I've ever used in that regard

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Down is nearly non-existent, only diagonals

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It's just feels bad too, there's so much rock to it. If it's supposed to be like this, that's terrible

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No other direction has the same feel

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Down sits on a fulcrum or something

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Between grid based movement and precision platforming, this dpad is no bueno

hoary jackal
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Disappointing. Wonder if it's a bad unit or bad batch of parts.

empty laurel
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Not sure. Nothing really seems defective but the down is just bad. Maybe it can be fixed.

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I'll record a short video. It just seems like there's no way it should be so wobbly

dense ruin
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Can anyone else comment that owns one about the D-pad ?
@dawn dune

hoary jackal
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dawn dune
dense ruin
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At least it seems it can be broken in

dawn dune
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i guess. the stick thing feels more like a calibration bug. if you boot it up and they aren't centered, they won't have 100% in all directions

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you definitely feel that in skyrim. you'll load up and your turn/run speed will be slightly off on one axis

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if gammacore comes with his typical calibration app, that's really all it needs

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my thing is I sit it down, make sure sticks are straight, turn on, and i don't get that issue anymore

empty laurel
dawn dune
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powkiddy dpad syndrome

empty laurel
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Yeah just down though, it rocks so much

dawn dune
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a square of stacked tape in the middle fixes it

empty laurel
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Will try that

dawn dune
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the membrane basically is touching too much metal down there

empty laurel
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Yeah that's exactly what it feels like almost

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Will try a tape mod when the new sticks come in

dawn dune
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tape or foam mod keeps it from rocking so much.

empty laurel
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I'll have to try that. Maybe this one is just not so great

empty laurel
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Paint masterpiece depiction of how down feels on this dpad

real hornet
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If the contacts are circular, you can cover up the inner hemispheres and that should fix it. Gba used half circle contacts

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Really cheap replacement boards have the same issue

empty laurel
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Interesting, thank you!

dawn dune
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lol this is now the handheld of degenerates and pc game pirates

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one of the powkiddy guys i talk to

empty laurel
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Handheld of degenerates

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I can get behind that

empty laurel
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Will try GTA IV tomorrow if I have time

inland slate
empty laurel
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Good review. Makes me think my dpad is just poor luck of the draw. Oh well. I agree the sticks are pretty tall. And I don't mind the height as much as the sensitivity is off for me. I feel like I have to move them like 30% before they register an input.

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Ergos are as expected, not the best but better than most would think.

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I think the screen is amazing. I like the buttons. Even the shoulder buttons aren't the worst thing to use. Definitely more for tinkering and collecting than a primary device but still a good contender.

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And the thing gets loud. I was just jamming out yesterday to OST

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Going to see if I can get GTA IV running today if I have the time, the degenerates handheld heh doggylol

real hornet
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good performance, meh ergo. spot on

inland slate
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Yeah that's a really good review, agreed on all fronts

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It's so close to being great though, the screen is such a good size

real hornet
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Any game that lets you remap controls can dodge the weird shoulder placement.

muted steeple
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At this point any G99 is going to be a tinkerer's machine unless it's designed for a specific thing

muted steeple
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No problem

empty laurel
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Yup yup

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Good job

wintry rapids
# empty laurel
  1. Does the D-Pad completely bottom out when pushing down the center?

  2. Push down the Center of the D-Pad and pivot it to check the Pivot point.

dawn dune
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i've played on so many controllers in my lifetime, i almost assume they come with some stiffness/dullness sensitivity issues and line up a whole field day of puzzle, racing, and fighting games to break them in. the new xbone controller that i now use as a main for laptop gaming came with really-really sensitive sticks and a touchy dpad, but now they've dulled down. wearing down the gears and softening up the membranes helps

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i get the idea that if you're reviewing or collecting, you don't plan on putting 100+ hours on a handheld, so those issues never vanish over time.

empty laurel
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I will say for grid-base movement in Advance Wars, which I have several hours into now, has gotten slightly better. Still false diagonals and those moments are frustrating but I feel like the d-pad has worked in a tiny bit. Trying to give it the benefit of the doubt.

empty laurel
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Psychological effects though, I feel like I'm focusing more on getting good dpad presses then I typically would. I'm using it when I don't necessarily need to just to work it in more. kek

dawn dune
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the rg556 was way worse when it dropped. you couldn't play racing games on those sticks until they broke in. everything oversteered

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the psychological aspect is swapping to keyboard controls in tekken 6 and realizing you're just really bad at combos and complex attacks lol

empty laurel
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I never thought of that

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What a shock

dawn dune
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maybe because its age, but i remember being really good with Christie Montero.

empty laurel
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I would be too if I had the chance

empty laurel
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Who do you even contact if you have issues with GameMT devices? Royibeila? I replied to a YouTube video from GameMT channel about EX8 stock firmware, asking for E5 Ultra stock firmware. Someone responded. They would contact me once it was uploaded to their site. I don't know if Royibeila is going to host files for these devices soon?

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Idk just need that GammaOS nano

empty laurel
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The offending

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Looks good though

empty laurel
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Did it to my E5 Ultra and had to do it to the EX8. Best part, the pre-cut tape is an amazing fit for this device. I only had to do minor trimming, and to cut around the fan. Could be more centered but I'm good with 95%. Y'all need this grip.

empty laurel
empty laurel
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Getting great battery life. Going on 5 hours with Advance Wars and just hit 75%. No WiFi really and brightness at 25% or less. Shutting down in between gaming sessions.

hoary jackal
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that...doesn't sound right. even at low brightness & low load 20hours of SoT for a 4.8" display with a 5000mah battery is bonkers

empty laurel
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Probably 4 hours 40ish minutes by my estimate

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Will see how the remainder goes

hoary jackal
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Can you install Accubattery and get an idea of the current draw while playing GBA? That'll give you a much better idea of real SoT.

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It would have to average 250ma to reach 20hours which would be -really- impressive for that display.

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that's 1 watt for SoC, screen and sound.

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I'd guess draw is closer to 4-500ma in-game, but 10 hours is still pretty impressive.

empty laurel
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Yeah definitely need better metrics and standards

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Full charge yesterday

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So started at 100% before the 3 hr 31 minutes

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Idk I'm no scientist. I'm sure it's not as good as it seems to me.

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I just been noting the time I was playing since my full charge. Seems like I'm over 4 and 1/2 hours now

hoary jackal
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It's really impressive, but generally completely idle will bounce between 150-250ma at lowest screen brightness on any given device. GBA would keep at least 1 core above idle.

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i'm curious to see how long you actually get out of it.

empty laurel
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Yeah I'm not making any wild claims

hoary jackal
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nah, you got pictures to prove it

empty laurel
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Just seems impressive to my monkey brain

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Need more science

hoary jackal
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current readings would remove any doubt.

empty laurel
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Just my observation, will work more on getting some tangible results

empty laurel
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Initial impression is good so, I'll see where it goes from there

dawn dune
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You know what needs to be tested on this, which crashes on t820? Killzone for PS2

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while that downloads, i'm going to give it the ps2 motorstorm test i submitted the rgCube to. this is also streaming video over wifi, which is really low-latency. the pc recieving it has a triband antenna which helps

dawn dune
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still crashes in 3v3 deathmatch, but not nearly as fast as the t820. you actually get some time to frag!

empty laurel
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Just hit 7 hours RetroArch screen time and battery at 58%. Rough unscientific observation today

hoary jackal
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not too shabby. all GBA?

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the g99 must be damn near idling.

empty laurel
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Yup only GBA

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Maybe I can get 12 hours?

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Will see how things go

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I don't know that it really makes much difference but for my late night and early morning gaming, I've been using the extra dim feature with the screen turned nearly as dim as it can possibly get.

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Even at the lowest brightness, it's really just too bright for my personal use in near total darkness

real hornet
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yeah by default, the g99 uses less than 1w of power. specs say it can reach 5w, but i've only seen it cap at 3

empty laurel
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10 hours at 29%

empty laurel
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12.5 hours at 3%

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GBA in RA

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Low brightness, often extra dim. Very low volume. No Wi-Fi. Turned off in between gaming sessions.

hoary jackal
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That sounds about right. Speaks to decent software with a good panel. That's about as much as you could possibly expect from 5000mah. Rivals the Classic.

empty laurel
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Good deal

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I'm happy with it

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Even 10 hours is great for me

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So with 12 on ultra low settings, not bad

empty laurel
dawn dune
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castle crashers, risk of rain, pizza possum, and battleblock theatre all run pretty well on this too if you stick to fexcore, dxvk 1.7.2, and 7-cores active

empty laurel
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Castle Crashers nice

gloomy dust
empty laurel
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Nice that it can fit a variety of handhelds

dense ruin
empty laurel
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Yeah a cover would be ideal

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Well I was just trying to put an adjustable grip on my handheld and that's how I went blind in one eye

gloomy dust
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Yeah I'm curious with the springs and the air for fan. Maybe not ideal. That and the rubber band effect.

empty laurel
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Let us know, we're counting on you

hazy jolt
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anyone have a link to purchase this on Taobao?

rugged fable
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The Dpad definitely isn't great but I'll play some Megaman and see if I can break it in.

empty laurel
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Hope it improves some

drifting copper
rugged fable
empty laurel
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Time to replace the stick

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Ginfull from Mangmi and some K silvers from AliExpress

rotund dust
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What is the one that came with it? Not ginfull? Thought it's similar to what is used in retroid/Ayn etc, at least the sticks (not necessarily the caps).

empty laurel
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I believe the ones that are in there are k silver

empty laurel
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Alright finished the campaign now I can open this thing up

dawn dune
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i'm going to dig into Resident Evil Revelations in my downtime tomorrow since i work ~12 hours. #1 is on 3ds, and the second is on vita. both should run pretty well on this. fair warning though. each game is 4gb
skip 3ds. find a switch or pc copy of RER 1

real hornet
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good luck with the 3ds version. it -doesn't work- unless you already have a save file. i think you just spawn into a black room and death loop infinitely.

dawn dune
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yeah... switch version runs pretty good at 360p with antialiasing. kinda weird because my rg556 doesn't run it that well. PC version is probably a different story

dawn dune
empty laurel
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Ok, I have the top part off and the screws out but man am I nervous pulling apart this front assembly

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Think I need more tools

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More picks

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Taking a break to collect myself

safe herald
empty laurel
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Any advice on getting this open? Seems kinda sketchy, I can't find where to enter from the sides or bottom

empty laurel
pastel turret
# empty laurel

Just wandering in here and completely out of pocket I think a Tape-Mod on D-Pads is supposed to somewhat cover the contacts

empty laurel
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Guess I should note that I swapped the left stick before I took this pic

pastel turret
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Had to do the same thing on my RGB30

empty laurel
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Idk what this is

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Dpad down is ass so I need some advice on how to improve this

pastel turret
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Put the square of electrical/kapton tape so that the inner segments of each contact are covered a bit

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One sec

empty laurel
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I just opened this up so I'll have to get some tape

pastel turret
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Something like this, will help eliminate false diagonals and it also improved the feel of my RGB30 D-Pad

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Personally I used black electrical tape as it's thicker which softens the D-Pad feel

empty laurel
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Sweeet

pastel turret
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Sorry just kinda wandered in here and threw my hat in to the ring kek

empty laurel
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Thanks, got it open and sticks replaced like 15 minutes ago

pastel turret
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I'm really intrigued by this device, even though it is totally surplus to my requirements... Must be that PowKiddy DNA coming through pulling me in kek

empty laurel
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Must be

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It's not terrible

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Gonna get the usual GameMT hate for being ugly and weird looking but it's worth $125 I think

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I mean, I do own a PAM kek

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So I enjoy all things more or less

pastel turret
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Seeing people turn their nose up at it is funny, it's cool and stands out!

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I really like the white/purple one sonicyikes

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How does it compare to the PAM?

Pretty much the same performance I believe?

empty laurel
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Pretty similar but I think it's supposed to be OC'd. I believe you can eek out some performance that is closer to T820 in certain ways but the GPU in the g99 isn't so great

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I'd probably get more personal use from tinkering with EX8 in Winlator and such vs the PAM. I didn't really plan to play PS2 on this anyway

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The white one seems to have a blueish tint to the glass in some lighting. Seen some people talk about that. Purple and white is cool but the blue kinda makes the white look off idk

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I'm not really a benchmark nerd. For me it sits kind of between the PAM and the 476h.

empty laurel
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Holy fuck my dudes

pastel turret
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Good job man, happy to help egg_salute

empty laurel
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Well now I have a bit of the opposite problem but I think I can fix that pretty easily by making my square a bit smaller.

real hornet
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Eventually you'll make the dpad perfect

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The GPU does need some babying for switch and wii-u games since it's two A57's and not four

empty laurel
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I'll give it another 20 hours like I did with the stock setup doggylol

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Ginfull stick a bit shorter though so that's cool

tidal raft
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Have you checked the range of the sticks?

empty laurel
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Is that not what I was doing in the video? Or should I use this app?

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Sorry not sure what you mean

tidal raft
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Oh sorry I just meant to ask whether the analog stick’s range of radius was full after replacing it with a Ginfull one and adjusting its height.

empty laurel
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Oh ok

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Yeah I believe so but will check the range more

vivid dove
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Just received mine, actually really like it, but the r2 "button" seems to be half broken, anyone else's unit like this out of the box? Normally I would take apart the unit and take a look at why its so loose/ hanging out of alignment, but with this one I have no intention of pulling the screen assembly / adhesive apart. I purchased from ali express so Im not very optomistic about customer service route and would rather just fix it myself somehow lol

empty laurel
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I've not had any issues with R2 or the other shoulder buttons

hoary jackal
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Wait wut...pull the screen to access the shoulders?

vivid dove
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All i know is to get to the internals you have to remove the whole screen assembly/adhesive, right?

hoary jackal
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Who the fuck engineered this thing, Audi?

rugged fable
empty laurel
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It's not quite as bad as it seems

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There's no adhesive

vivid dove
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So it’s all clips? On an all glass front panel? What a crazy implementation lol. Like give me 4 screw holes on the back please smh. You just ran a pick around the edge of the screen? Was there a specific place you found was best / easiest to get it started?

empty laurel
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All clips. Most difficult part was figuring out where they were located. But yeah, the glass front kind of sits in a micro housing... And that disconnects from the main body. The only connection is the screen cable.

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I didn't even look at the shoulder buttons tbh

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So I'm not sure how you access/remove those

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I think there's like seven main clips, two on each side and like three at the top. The bottom actually kind of just slides into the clips at an angle.

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I suppose if you're familiar with doing small device repairs, it's not too bad. A bit anxiety inducing to begin with but I would do it again no hesitation.

hoary jackal
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most tablets are built the same way. some have extra screws under the kickstand, but they still do the clips & lip

empty laurel
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I have not done a repair on a newer tablet but I have done several repairs on iPads in the past.

dawn dune
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i peaked in mine a bit just to see. yeah it just kind of pops apart with a guitar pick

real hornet
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A Short Hike for switch runs pretty well on this. like... solid 60fps good

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that makes me wonder how Hello Kitty Island Adventure and Dragon Quest Builders do

quartz tulip
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I still find it crazy that almost ages after that episode of South Park aired, someone actually made it a reality

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(It's actually on my "to play" list; got it on sale for $24 or so a while ago)

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(It's also a priority install for any handhelds that can run PC games I eventually get, heh. This kind of game seems like it's perfect for that form factor)

real hornet
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It runs pretty well. Made myself a weird little green cat

empty laurel
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I'm gonna have to get this

real hornet
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yeah it's a very chill game about building friendships through quests and stuff

hoary jackal