ANBERNIC RG Vita, RG Vita Pro

[blazing bough]

so flavors vary

[kindred widget]

I will be in my 2nd decade this year

[devout plinth]

i had both mac and kfc in the US, they're trash compare to mac and kfc across asia

[lusty adder]

People talk about British food , when i visited England i loved the food
Roast dinner , fish pie , bangers and mash

[acoustic bobcat]

Sausage in a hole🔥

[keen heath]

London won trip advisor best place to eat in the world for a reason

[devout plinth]

I've been to hongkong, malaysia, singapore and vietnam, they all have special and diverse menu and not just burgers

[keen heath]

There's like every single countries food almost

[keen heath]

They're decent but I do modify it heavily to meet my food standard I won't lie

[acoustic bobcat]

Good fish and chips is yet to be beaten by any other fast food

[lusty adder]

Home cooked food will always be cozier than restaurant food.
One thing is that UK food is quite healthy with the veggies

[lusty adder]

Fried cod and chips 👑

[acoustic bobcat]

I want none of that haddock business

Cod only

[lusty adder]

I am from Portugal. 95% of my body is Cod at this point

[devout plinth]

but the UK doesn't have cod?

[sour olive]

Um...I hate to be that guy but English Food is flavorless

Y'all don't season anything

[smoky igloo]

Frying your own Fish and Chips, Best Option. but im in the US and a Chef.....i just have high standards lol

[lusty adder]

They seasoned the hell of that roast when i tried it 👑

[minor warren]

If you live in northern USA like I do, the food is so bland and unseasoned. If you go to a grocery store in the south, there are literally multiple aisles for different seasonings

[sour olive]

They definitely know how to make Fish and Chips

It's so good

[minor warren]

Even fast food is better in southern usa

[sour olive]

That's not surprising

The US is Quantity over Quality

Meanwhile every other country is Quality

People want to Maximize profits here

[lusty adder]

One thing you guys won't like to hear , i didn't like the pizza in Italy

[sour olive]

I've never been to Italy so I can't comment

[kindred widget]

Little Ceasars clears

[devout plinth]

it's funny to see US tourists eat cheap street food here and act like they tasted 5 stars restaurant food 😆

[lusty adder]

Imagine everything you like about pizza , it's lacks that

[lusty adder]

Same in Portugal lol

[sour olive]

Years ago I was away on Vacation during the summer and I went to a shopping center and all the people that went to McDonald's were wearing Business Suits

Then I went to a Pizza Hut a few days later and they had a waiter at the entrance like it was a fancy restaurant

It was a bit surreal

[lusty adder]

Pizza Hut used to have waiters here too.

[sour olive]

What is Portugal known for Food wise?

[devout plinth]

same here

full table service

domino too

[lusty adder]

Sea food , Olive oil , cheese , wine .

[kindred widget]

I think you might be french

[sour olive]

Oui

[lusty adder]

Domino's arrived here 10 years ago , it skipped the fancy era.

[minor warren]

I've never left the country so I've only had the bastardized Ohio versions of foreign foods

[sour olive]

You mean Portugal is actually known for stuff other than Ronaldo and The Man

[lusty adder]

Last i checked i was Portuguese but i will confirm with my father

[sour olive]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal._The_Man

[lusty adder]

Ronaldo is the king of Portugal now

[devout plinth]

are you sure? you did not mention sardine

[sour olive]

He's going to be playing in my city during the World Cup

[lusty adder]

Sea food haha

[sour olive]

I'm going to try to get a Ticket but it's going to be difficult

Portugal has 2 matches here

[lusty adder]

He's from the Islands like me , it's cool to see that he made it so big tbh

[blazing bough]

The US doesn't really have a street food culture

[sour olive]

US has food based on a City or State

[blazing bough]

Closet thing is food trucks but they aren't the same

[sour olive]

So like Texas has Barbecue

New York has New York Style Pizza

[minor warren]

Cincinnati chili is my favorite food group

[frosty ferry]

Food trucks were ruined by over regulation

[sour olive]

Philly has the Cheesesteak

[lusty adder]

From what we see in movies , the homely American food is mash potatos , salad , steak and a glass of milk

[minor warren]

We don't eat salad

[sour olive]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-squarepants-salads-work-miserable-gif-14507463

[minor warren]

I won't stand for this slander

[lusty adder]

Bro veggies with the food is so good

[blazing bough]

Part of it is because the US is very commute car based. Street foods can't really form when the community for them is moving all the time

[kindred widget]

I agree

[minor warren]

True, diving 30-60 minutes to go to the store, or work, or anywhere is kinda the norm here

[sour olive]

We have Food Trucks

[minor warren]

Stuff like street food really only works in like theme parks around here

[sour olive]

Which I guess is close enough

[devout plinth]

across asia, food is always less than 5 minutes walk away

[kindred widget]

Theme parks, carnivals, fairs

[naive prairie]

Your problem was that you were eating a Snicker's bar in the first place.

[kindred widget]

That's about the most you'll get out of here

[sour olive]

Snickers are good though

[kindred widget]

Twix clears

[worldly meadow]

where I live in the Midwest, you see a lot of food trucks and street food at things like makers markets/night markets/sporting events which again are heavy foot traffic pop-up things and not constant

[minor warren]

I used to live in a small little cornfield town. And we had a Chick-fil-A food truck, it would only stop by once a month and we treated it like a holiday 🥲

[blazing bough]

Yea the constant part is defining thing I feel

[naive prairie]

I still can't fathom why Chick Fil A is so popular. Around here people line up around the building like they were waiting to get into Disney World.

[acoustic bobcat]

This is so true. It's more like bread with a bit of sauce and tiny bit of cheese on top. When I want pizza I imagine something like Dominos stuffed crust, extra cheese, load of toppings not some skinny ass flatbread with tomato sauce and 3 pieces of topping on top

[minor warren]

It had crazy marketing and word of mouth, it's good, but it's not any better than any other fast food

[naive prairie]

When I want pizza I imagine Giordano's.

[blazing bough]

Like back home in South East Asia, I can always expect to find a food stall or vendor of some kind on every other street

[kindred widget]

Their waffle fries are pretty gud

[minor warren]

In USA we have the same thing but it's just crack dealers

[sour olive]

They were

They switched to different ones last year and aren't as good

[naive prairie]

The problem with their waffle fries is thermodynamics. They have too great of a surface area so they cool to room temperature almost immediately.

[minor warren]

Facts, just give me the whole potato

[teal sonnet]

Wrong , you can find food street good trucks in almost every city .

Can’t get any more street than that

[keen heath]

It tastes amazing over here though

But it's a once or twice a month treat

In terms of fast food chains in England, I don't like any. McD, KFC, burger king, Wendy's, subway, pizza hut, jollibees, dominoes etc etc

Your average takeaway has way better food but I suppose it does vary town to town

[keen heath]

Ah the neopolitan style, it was nice but not worth the title of best pizza in the world

[acoustic bobcat]

I like subway a lot, I don't have many sandwiches throughout the week so I go to subway every Friday and have a footlong

[keen heath]

I think of Italian food as different shaped pasta but with similar flavours

[keen heath]

I go to a bakery and get a proper baked bread and fillings

I only tend to eat bread with 5-7 ingredients in them, so In England that's either from a bakery or Jason's Sourdough at the supermarkets

I don't hate subway I just think the quality is low for me

[acoustic bobcat]

I don't think we got one in saffron walden, there is a good bakery but they sell sourdough bread, no sandwiches

[keen heath]

Yeah that tends to be the case and why I mentioned it will vary town to town. I'm a northerner so there's bakeries everywhere and family run sandwich shops with fresh pies etc

[teal sonnet]

Im sorry I even brought this subject up now

[keen heath]

Dw you mentioned McD sucks, I agreed, and now wer discussing a more exciting Topic than the RG vita

[teal sonnet]

True

[acoustic bobcat]

Eating a bowl of homemade protein ice cream

Ninja creami has been so good to me

[keen heath]

I'm a big fan of the ninja stuff. I don't have the creami but I was given the blender and the 9 in 1 air fryer for free by ninja

Very nice of them

[acoustic bobcat]

My favourite cooking tech brand and my favourite emoji

[lusty adder]

@lusty adder I went thinking i'd have the peak pizza experience and got that dough soaked in sauce with very little cheese lol

[sour olive]

Anbernic wishes they could beat McDonald's

[acoustic bobcat]

I feel Mac is the perfect description for Anbernic

[lusty adder]

RG Nugget

[acoustic bobcat]

You never want to go there if there is something else, its ok in a pinch but each time you go you feel like you would be better off to go somewhere else because the food costs the same but worse than almost any other option

[sour olive]

Nugget Tetris still beats the RG Vita

[raw tartan]

max zhou decides to open up an anbernic fast food chain

[acoustic bobcat]

God forbid

[sour olive]

You pay for Burger and get a Salad instead

[naive prairie]

If you can’t eat it, it fails at being a chicken McNugget. Just like the RG Vita fails at being a Vita.

[sour olive]

Bossman is still cheap

[acoustic bobcat]

If AYN would open a fast food restaurant it would be a fine dining experience with the fast food serving speed

[radiant kettle]

the rg ds burger: a double decker burger, but they forget the meat

[acoustic bobcat]

Best of both worlds

[sour olive]

"So What, It's Cheap"

[acoustic bobcat]

Double decker but it's 1 for a price of 2 and the meat for the burger is from cows asshole, people would buy it because it would resemble their mom's childhood cooking

[lusty adder]

Truer words were never spoken

[lusty adder]

It's just called the AnberMac because it looks like a Burger, it doesn't have to be real meat.

[acoustic bobcat]

And it's cheaper than burger king so it's ok

You can also bring it home and replace the burger patties with the the ones you got from gamma store nearby, I don't know why people are complaining

People also complain that burger buns are only 48% natural ingredients, it's budget food, and you get 2 of them, it feels very retro and authentic because in the past my mom used to put 50% sawdust in my bread

They also say veggies feel a little rough, slimy and feel like they were bought near expiry date just to save costs. In my opinion it makes the experience more authentic, cheap slimy ingredients are best for the experience that I am looking for

You guys can go to the burger king and buy your thorburger all you want. What I want is the retro experience brought to me by RGBurger and I don't want the thorburger because it's double the price and I don't like the extra meat they put in there anyway so I won't enjoy it

[young sonnet]

I'll wait for the RGBurgerXXv

[stray saffron]

Giordano's is my favorite too! Absolutely adore their stuffed pizza, though it's so darn expensive that I usually just end up getting Domino's lol It's "nice for the price", as TechDweeb would say.

[sour olive]

Do people like TechDweeb?

His whole stich of being an Incel Loser is kinda annoying

[old jungle]

I like his videos

[teal sonnet]

Only in very small doses , he really is the Incel ETA with zero substance, either that or just Canadian

[sour olive]

https://tenor.com/view/confused-what-really-no-words-huh-gif-20886352

[lone imp]

he is a russ sockpuppet.

this was revealed last year, because the tech dweeb set is always somewhat in frame on every russ video. sometimes part of the costume is just -lying on the furniture behind him-

I think its kind of funny for obvious troll reasons.

[sour olive]

I thought that was just an April Fools Video

[young sonnet]

I like him way more than Joey, haha

[sour olive]

I like Joey

He doesn't shill for companies like other people

Looking at you ETA Prime

[young sonnet]

I feel like Dweeb pretends to be insufferable, but is very charismatic and has some really funny content. Joey is insufferable, without the charisma or humor. That said, I didn't like Dweeb at first, but he grew on me.

[sour olive]

I like Joey because he doesn't conform to terrible hardware and try to pass it off as good

Like a lot of other channels

[young sonnet]

See I feel the opposite, I think he looks for things to complain about so he can look like the counter argument guy, when really, it's mostly a lot of whining. It's cool to be the guy that never likes anything.

[sour olive]

Most of the stuff is says is pretty valid though

A lot of people just want a Yes Man

To validate their own opinions

[young sonnet]

I'd rather focus on what a device can do. I don't buy a device because of what it can't do.

[dry kelp]

Jigg heard Joey and showed up

[young sonnet]

Lol

[quaint mirage]

Most people pre order and watch reviews after for confirmation

[dry kelp]

Wait this is a different Jigg my bad

[quaint mirage]

But to be fair some companies rush their releases so much we don’t have a choice

[young sonnet]

What it can't do isn't helpful, and spending an hour whining about a minor gripe isn't enjoyable content.

[dry kelp]

Pick your poison

Mostly Positive Channel (with few negative videos)

Mostly Negative channel (with few positive videos)

[quaint mirage]

RG Vita Pro Reviews wen?

[dry kelp]

Soon™

[quaint mirage]

I need to know if this 3576 will be the first good linux chip or just another 3566 or A133P or A527 or H700

[quaint mirage]

Bet

[old jungle]

RGC and the RH crew do a pretty good job of being pretty objective IMO. TechDweeb is mostly positive about everything, which I can also appreciate because.... gaming is fun. Even the RG Vita would be fun to play on I'm sure - it is whether or not it makes sense to get it over the myriad of other devices that is the real quesiton (and sounds like no).

I like to watch TechDweeb videos to kind of see what a device can do and also get a little humor thrown in (and to listen to my wife groan when he mispronounces words or says something ridiculous).

[dry kelp]

He also made it pretty clear that he's positive on his channel because for the most part he's reviewing stuff that he actually likes or what interests him.

[old jungle]

If I want to really understand the pros and cons of a device I'm probably watching an RGC video though.

Russ is really covering a wide swath of the youtube viewership by having two very different style channels.

[quaint mirage]

What I like do is to just watch as many reviews as possible and not care about who they’re from

Except for the AI Slop

Even retro dodo sometimes has some good takes ;))

[old jungle]

Ya fair enough!

[quick cloak]

Saw somebody say Dweeb was a vibe channel and I agree with that.

Lot of forced humor and fluff for me but it's alright

I'll just skim to his take away

When the hand cuts come out I FFW

[old jungle]

I don't know exactly how to describe it but sometimes watching him share his enjoyment with a device (handheld, monitor, controller, etc.) or game (Shadowdark, "hidden G.E.M.") helps spur some ideas on how to enjoy the stuff you already have too.

[minor warren]

I like his videos, very corny and cringe, it kinda leans into that stereotype of the loser nerd. At the end of the day, we are all nerds. And most of us were probably losers at one point 😆

[radiant kettle]

for me tech dweeb is just entertaining and comfy to watch, i wouldn't watch his stuff for an actual review

i don't even care what he thinks about the device lol

[sour olive]

So I bought a Win600 because I hate myself

[old jungle]

We're all big boys and this isn't rocket science - if you can't figure out how to make a decision without trusting a youtuber.... it isn't the youtubers fault.

[glossy zodiac]

That sounds painful

Also lol at the concept of people being able to flash CFW and hack handhelds but not cook.

I adore cooking but still eat garbage too often because I'm running around a lot. Having a Complex Medical kiddo comes with some compromise in a lot of areas, my gut health being a big one.

[naive prairie]

It's not so bad. It's just a tiny old slow laptop. It's fine as long as you don't really want to game on it.

Or ... use it for more than about an hour.

Or, well, let's face it ... use it.

[sour olive]

Yep

You can also buy it for the RAM and Storage since they now cost more than the price of the handheld

[burnt vector]

I bought a Win 600 at one point because I wanted a handheld PC with d-pad up top, but smaller and lighter than a Deck. Somehow it felt heavier than the Deck.

[sour olive]

I'll probably just install SteamOS on it

[mental needle]

the SSDs for the win600 were always expensive

2242 in sata speeds

[sour olive]

Mine is the 3050e model with 1TB of Storage and 16GB of RAM

[mental needle]

oh you're good then

config the Vram at 4gb and you're good

[sour olive]

Will do

Does the Win600 have TV Out support?

[cloud tangle]

@sour olive play Ori on it

[mental needle]

yeah through the type c

[sour olive]

I can have it Docked to my TV if it does

And I wouldn't have to worry about Battery

[sour olive]

That's a great game

[mental needle]

I can't remember how well Ori runs on the Win600

[sour olive]

It's a 2D Indie Game from 2015

It should run fine

But it's also Anbernic so who knows

[mental needle]

it's also a low end chipset from like 2017

googles to be safe okay it's from 2020, but it's still a low end chip

[hardy sparrow]

its gonna run fine on there

remember the game is also on the switch

[sour olive]

I mostly just play JRPGs anyway

Most of those are still running on engines from the PS3 era

[mental needle]

the Win600 is solid for JRPGs

[naive prairie]

Problem is that unless you're getting it super cheap, a used Steam Deck is even better for JRPGs. I mean, if you already HAVE a WIN600 it's one thing to try to get some use out of it, but it's almost never a good deal to actually buy a WIN600.

[sly rock]

I forgot what it looked like so I looked it up and holy crap those stick placement looks atrocious

[mental needle]

they are

[naive prairie]

Don't even bother trying to play games that are analog-stick-focused on a WIN600. Just don't.

[mental needle]

unless you have a 3D printed grip or large hands

[sly rock]

we really need to have the LOKI sequel imagine having bazzite on it would be a great alternative to the steam deck for the people who just play indie games and other light weight games

[sly rock]

Dang I have small hands

[sour olive]

I was looking for a Ayn Loki but they're impossible to find second hand

[sour olive]

I got it for $275 which is higher than I would have liked but considering the going rate of used Steam Decks. I think I did alright.

[sly rock]

I'm suprised you can install bazzite on the AYN LOKI

[naive prairie]

Something the size of a WIN600 (obviously with better actual control layout) but with, say, an N150 would be something interesting to purchase.

[sour olive]

Win600 has SteamOS support as well

[sly rock]

Ohh TIL

[naive prairie]

You can install Bazzite on the WIN600 as well, but it runs like ass.

[sour olive]

I should clarify I got the 3050e 1TB and 16GB model which usually goes for way more

[sour olive]

I heard people say HoloOS is better

For the Win600

https://win.anbernic.com/download_data/215.html

Anbernic has their own SteamOS image on their site

[mental needle]

iirc it's a modified HoloISO image

[sour olive]

That explains that

[lusty adder]

The Loki was so cool when it came out and i remember there was a lot of interested for it. Idk why it died out

[sly rock]

Probably not alot of sales unfortunately

[lusty adder]

Probably , i believe that at the time it was expensive

[sly rock]

true

[mental needle]

it was iirc more expensive than the base steam deck

[devout plinth]

the deck was heavy subsidized, everything else was priced normally

[sour olive]

64GB Steam Decks are now going for $400

[blazing bough]

Because they are now "collectibles"

[undone hemlock]

[devout plinth]

no one wants to compete with the steam deck that that price level, so we have a funny situation that everyone else just compete at the $1000+ price level now

[untold hazel]

I've one sealed 😛

I forgot that I bought one!

[naive prairie]

Time to get a Steam Deck was that $320 256GB LCD deal. That was a steal.

[sour olive]

I should have gotten it when I had the chance

That was such a steal

[naive prairie]

I mean, yeah it was the LCD model but still ...

[untold hazel]

And I also have 4 AYN Lokis never used

[naive prairie]

Network them all into one giant small supercomputer.

[untold hazel]

Nah maybe I'll flip them on eBay this summer!

[naive prairie]

I'm curious about the Loki ... just never been curious enough to actually attempt to buy one. So ... maybe not that curious.

[devout plinth]

same cpu as the AOKZOE A1L but more expensive

less battery, smaller screen, worse screen, it' not competitive even in asian market

[lusty adder]

It's outdated now imo

[undone hemlock]

Wonder what mine is worth now....

[tawny lynx]

One aynillion dollars

[kindred widget]

Considering it's practically irrelevant I'd say an Aynickel

[sour olive]

Praise Ayn

[dense terrace]

So no new info on pricing or anything?

[hallow willow]

I have a Loki Mini Pro

[terse parrot]

I wouldn't expect anything until after CNY, and even then, RH said this isn't launching until the 3rd week of March. Anbernic don't usually tell us the price until close to launch

[dense terrace]

God dang, I didn't think they usually did reveals this far in advance!

[blazing bough]

3rd week of march? I thought it was March 3rd

guess i was mistaken

[terse parrot]

Yeah the third week of March thing surprised me too

[terse parrot]

Yep! According to Stubbs anyway

[spring island]

This! Then if good id like to know when and what the first vertical handheld with this will be

[dense terrace]

RG VitaV

[untold hazel]

Better wait for RG Vita Pro+

[minor warren]

$100 SHIPPED for a t618 is not a bad deal

[agile plume]

similar price to Trimui Smart Pro S, but much better performance

Pretty good price for a budget PSP device, it's a shame its so big - 5.5" screen

[terse parrot]

Not bad yeah, though the screen issues like some have ghost inputs, some have an unresponsive screen, and the universal oversharpening do make me think I won't bother with this

The Pro is supposed to be much better so I'm keeping an open mind about that

[minor warren]

Yeah, it's got the hardware, and the price, but anbernic loves to go the bare minimum with software

If it ends up being a decent device, I could see this as a great entry point for GameCube emulation. T618 can handle most of the popular GC titles

It's not perfect for GC, but for a lot of people, just being able to play Zelda at full speed will be enough

[terse parrot]

Oh I thought the T618 struggled with PS2/GC and you had to use PAL ROMs?

Never had a T618 device myself so just going off potentially-misremembered videos

I thought it was more of a DC/N64/PSP chip

[hallow willow]

it does struggle. Its one of those things where you 'can' get some working, but its more of a case of, how much do you want to work to have some payoff 😄

[teal sonnet]

So is the Pro going to have Gamma OS from the factory ?
Think I read some here posting that Gamma is working with Anbernic to have Gamma OS on it

Might be the only saving grace

[quick cloak]

I don't think most ppl would say it's a bad deal at $79

[teal sonnet]

I don’t think Anbernic would sell this at that price , sure at $79 it would be a pretty good deal , I just don’t see this costing significantly less that what they are selling the RG 505 currently on site for around $115

[minor warren]

I mean I was running twilight princess at 2x on my rp3+ with widescreen gecko code

Using official dolphin, not mmjr

It ran most games I tried at 1x, Metroid prime was very close, but not quite playable if I remember correctly

It wasn't great for PS2, but I was able to get some games running well on it. I think kingdom hearts 2 was at a 2x resolution. But most PS2 struggled at 1x

[agile plume]

yeah, I already posted russ video, when Retroid released the new drivers for RP3+, I believe it was before hugeofficial Dolphin improvements, so it should run even better now on official Dolphin build:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2ywf3p1msE&t=339s

[minor warren]

I remember a lot of games ran really poorly on mmjr, switching to official dolphin was like a 30% boost for most games

Yes yes

And that video was 2 years ago, so we have even more updates to dolphin

I think t618 is a sleeper GameCube chip. Plus it runs and Android games really well. Hollow knight port was a stable 60fps. Dead cells was great. I bet it can handle the silksong port really well too

Especially considering the silksong port runs on my RG DS 😝

I'll definitely keep an eye on this device, and I'm excited to see what the pro can do as well

[agile plume]

I hope they will use both chips in different form factors, 5,5" 16:9 is not something I'm interested in as I have some stronger handhelds in similar form factor.

[hallow willow]

Yeah I'd like to see some different form factors with these chipsets tbh

[hardy sparrow]

you have to rely on underclocking to get games running at "full-speed"

ngl though, i've been thinking

i wonder how these chips that are underpowered for ps2 games handle the 2d stuff that came out on that system

[agile plume]

A new SP could be pretty sweet with these, especially if they will reuse rg406 screen 😉

[rare drum]

Beautiful stuff I took that chance 🍾

[lone imp]

i record all my win600 vids with the hdmi out support

it's justice to say it can't play as much as people want, but if you already game on laptops old & new, this won't stop you.

[lone imp]

there's no answer that covers the entire ps2/gc/3ds library.

here's a clearer picture. if i rated ps2 and gc games from red to green where red is "will not play; don't try" and anything but green is some level of tweaking/underclocking, this is what the top-30 CDR look like. PAL runs 15-20% better by default, but it's not a 'does/doesn't play gc/ps2' sort of call.

[terse parrot]

All we know is Gamma said "GammaOS day one". He only had the Pro at that time too. I doubt Anbernic will be shipping it with GammaOS

[lone imp]

also, nothing got more hate in the t618 days than -THE SPREADSHEET- (which is why it isn't complete)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vf7SIS7ecWa_J301h0mb2bxMWBMtKLvcpAFyaa5-LDc/edit?pli=1&gid=580546752#gid=580546752

[silver idol]

Playing PS2 and GameCube games on a T618 feels like playing with mud. 😐

[teal sonnet]

That kind of sucks but understandable, really not a fan of flashing my own OS even if it's pretty easy to do when I got dozens of more important things to do with my time

[undone hemlock]

That not fair, playing with mud if fun

[lone imp]

justice says t618 sucks
logic says t618 40% sucks

like, you don't want a car that's 60% capable of getting you to work, right? some people live that life, and more power to em. they keep spare fluids, parts, tools, and shit in their trunk, and the paint is rotting off while the interior is covered in trash and dust.

[little crescent]

CD romance

[lone imp]

some tact, dude

[little crescent]

I love the site is ok, you can name it but you can't share it

[rigid ingot]

It's a pity they don't update it anymore since January

[little crescent]

I know that site from back them when was Nico blog, I talked with the Nico it was from Argentina like me, very chill dude

[little crescent]

You need to create a account in the forum

[rigid ingot]

I did that... In fact they updated it in October for everybody until January. Now it's not possible!

If you try to download you see this message now...

[silver idol]

I mean if your 5. 😏

[lone imp]

what a noob. LUL

[kindred widget]

Clearly someone has never experienced the joys of mud wrestling

[silver idol]

I mean mud wrestling is one thing, and watching women mud wrestle are completely different things. 😂

[lone imp]

I too watch AEW and Lucha women's pro-wrestling for the love of the sport.

[little crescent]

That a lie really

That need for speed was posted a day ago

[hallow willow]

Yeah I can download it no problem 😄

[rigid ingot]

You can download it only if you have an account. In the regular site you can't. And I'm not lying!

[hallow willow]

sounds like you should just get an account then it's not exactly difficult to make one 😄

[little crescent]

Yeah you need a account to download still CD romance, make a account... And that is that.

[kindred widget]

For a little bit the site itself came back out of the woodwork but it looks like they've gone back into hiding

[glossy zodiac]

CD Romance is fantastic and worth the 5 seconds to make an account.

[teal sonnet]

Not sure it’s a good idea to make a account with any personal info on a pirate Rom website unless it’s a throw away account

[cloud tangle]

What kinda mods this have

anything interesting

[little crescent]

is trow away only for mail, you can use a trow away one.

[keen heath]

Nooooooooooo

[golden ravine]

Why are you talking about downloading roms in a public Discord server?

[hardy parcel]

Forgive us Nintendo

[little crescent]

We are talking about a website

[little crescent]

Because we are sinners

[golden ravine]

Exactly don't talk about it in public

[hardy parcel]

(Fuck Nintendo)

[little crescent]

Nobody in sharing ro.... drug's here just thoughts and prayers

[little crescent]

Aleluya my brother

[golden ravine]

Still not a good idea to mention the site by name

[hardy parcel]

And spells

[little crescent]

https://tenor.com/view/fuego-elmo-hot-gif-18075814547737563092

[glossy zodiac]

I mean they're a great hub beyond any of that. As repositories for fan subs, mods, hacks (for legally acquired files, mind), their forum, I could go on

[fossil rose]

ghost inputs

Not universal, though annoying for those who got it.

My review unit has no sign of this, same with @jagged shoal from what I remember

[magic jacinth]

The over sharpening should be on every unit

[fossil rose]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wliV5hTem7Y

Gardiner's review went up (when he got stuck reviewing it when my unit got lost in the post!)

[rare drum]

Deja vu this spreadsheet always be in legendary books

[hallow willow]

ahh fun times 😄

[torpid python]

RG Vita PRO specs:

[dusty island]

This device is just a TikTok darling. It's not for enthusiast. It's a step sideways at best, but it's a looker.

[quick cloak]

Why's the pro specs show the RG Vita?

Does he know that's the wrong device?

[mortal island]

They have the same shell (pro and non-pro). I assume you're saying he shows non-pro because of the colorway?

[quick cloak]

Yes the color is RG Vita

But splashed with the pro specs

Amateur move imo

[mortal island]

It's not amateur, Vita Pro is just not available to reviewers

[quick cloak]

He also reviewed the Mangmi Pocket Max with no price

Maybe he should wait

And do it correctly

[mortal island]

What made you so nitpicky about useless details?

[quick cloak]

Not sure how that's useless

Are you Dweeb?

[mortal island]

Pro and non-pro have the same shell, different specs and colors, he used the regular one as a backsrop for specs. I actually see no issue in listing specs.

[mortal island]

No. Are you his arch-nemesis?

[quick cloak]

No but I'm not really a fan

[mortal island]

Ok

[terse parrot]

60hz and LCD on the Pro is disappointing

[mortal island]

It's gonna cost <120 I HOPE inhales a ton of copium

[smoky igloo]

What was the Magic X joke on Mangmi about having a 1080p screen but not enough power to enjoy it?

[mortal island]

That was luna if I remember, not magicx directly 😁

[naive prairie]

"Pro" ... a 2026 Android device with 4GB RAM, and 64GB internal storage. 🤣

[quick cloak]

Lol

[mortal island]

Soc is from 2024

[naive prairie]

Oops, had to correct ... the Pro SOC (the RK3576) isn't from 2019, it just has approximately the same power as a 2019 budget SOC (the T618).

Still ... "Pro".

[torpid python]

Dweeb reviews RG Vita, and compares is it do the PRO version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFT2LDWu0P8

[quick cloak]

Thanks

[mortal island]

It's cheap and power efficient (maybeeeeee). It's 8nm after all. "Pro" basically means more powerful than the base version, it doesn't carry much weight when it comes to electronics names.

Vita Pro is a funny combination though, I will agree.

[mighty pumice]

Ayn used pro to indicate more ram/storage

[naive prairie]

If the RK3576 takes over from their H700 as their ultra budget line, it could be interesting. But unless you're an emulation on ARM Linux fan that desperately craves a relatively weak device with a "new" chip, there's really no reason to consider the Vita Pro.

[naive prairie]

Which makes some sense. Anbernic forgot the storage, though.

[mortal island]

Linux handhelds require less ram, so I think we'll see more of those in 2026

[smoky igloo]

Close enough

"Mouse trying to Pull a Carrige" if I remember correctly

[mighty pumice]

But yea strange you have to pick between stronger cpu or stronger GPU between a base and pro

I think the pro should be able to make decent use of the 1080p screen, lighter psp should be able to 4x, and tougher ones to drop back to 2x. DC and older stuff should be able to run at 1080p as well.

[mortal island]

Seems like 3576 can emulate more than t618, so the cpu is better. We'll see I guess

[mighty pumice]

Where you getting this from?

[mortal island]

I made it up

[hallow willow]

https://tenor.com/view/popcorn-guy-relaxing-popcorm-popcorn-gif-26404903

[mortal island]

#1468184660474593300 message

If it's actually worse than t618, I'll be amazed. I don't expect it though

[sour olive]

[untold hazel]

Better wait for the Pro+ model

[mortal island]

That one's not coming for sure

Just like the arc pro

[untold hazel]

Hahaha arc

[mortal island]

We love to dunk on it

[untold hazel]

Anbernic needs a break from making crappy devices

[mortal island]

No slide pro either

[untold hazel]

Hahaha slide was also a joke

[sour olive]

Praise Anbernic

[hallow willow]

oddly i liked the slide even though it shouldn't have been made 😄

[devout plinth]

is this the first time anbernic have "PRO" model?

[keen heath]

I was super tempted to get it purely to have a sliding device

[hallow willow]

if i can find one at the right price i'll consider it

[keen heath]

Not gonna lie, so would I...

[hallow willow]

though i would just go with a 476h if i was going that route xD

[keen heath]

But£140 is too much

[tawny lynx]

Rg35xx pro technically

[near maple]

Namewise no, they had the 353s with extra gig of RAM and internal storage to run Android. Different SOCs, also no.

[keen heath]

Did we ever see an rk3588 device? That's the flagship right

[hallow willow]

the gameforce ace, which is a clusterfuck 😄

i have one and it's fun to mess around with, but it's not a great device and it suffered even worse dev than the KTR

[keen heath]

Holy hell I forgot that thing existed

3576 on left, t618 on right

Better on antutu, worse on geek bench?

[kindred widget]

Finally, Now you're speaking my language.

[terse parrot]

If only the screen could angle inwards a bit, like an AyaNeo Slide, then it would have been a good handheld I think. But as it is, I just found it to be awkward to play.

[naive prairie]

There's a consolized version of the RK3588 - Kinhank Super Console X5 Pro

[short goblet]

there are errors in this image

[mighty pumice]

For better or worse👀 ?

[kindred widget]

Worse

Its actually 1GB of RAM

[terse parrot]

That'll be twelve million dollars please

[kindred widget]

5 Anbernickels please

[sour olive]

"So what, It's Cheap"

[lone imp]

none of you are planning on buying this huh

[kindred widget]

Considering the specs and what this thing is gonna be competing with, no.

[naive prairie]

To be fair, we can't plan whether to buy it or not because as far as I know there's still been no price announced.

[kindred widget]

Plus I have no need for a faker

[naive prairie]

... but unless it's dirt cheap, there's going to be no reason to buy one.

[sour olive]

Even it's cheap, it still wouldn't be worth it

[kindred widget]

2 Anbernickels

[agile plume]

I think it depends, it could be good for a new people in this hobby, its better than Trimui Smart Pro S and similar to/also stronger than Mangmi Air X

[kindred widget]

But its from Anbernic

[sour olive]

It won't be the same price as those

[lone imp]

"i'm in this chat waiting for this device to release"
"I don't plan on buying it."

[kindred widget]

I'm in it to glaze Anbernic

[lone imp]

[sour olive]

Praise Anbernic

[naive prairie]

Don't underestimate the value of clowning on Anbernic ewaste releases.

[sour olive]

They'll probably still be some people that buy it

But it definitely won't be as successful as the RGDS

[agile plume]

Stubbs said regular one (which is stronger than TSPS) will be below $100 so its the same price I think

[near maple]

I'm only curious about how overpriced this will be. Were they a little more ruthless and less complacent, this could have been a very interesting $80 something T618.

[kindred widget]

Bu-But it looks like a Vita

[sour olive]

Just get an Air X

[kindred widget]

Now I can play PSP games with the second stick

[agile plume]

Which is also very close to T618 xD

[hallow willow]

air x went up in price didn;t it? still inexpensive but not as much as it was in early bird

[sour olive]

Snapdragon has better Driver Support

[lone imp]

if enough videos come out to diffuse the "rk3576 can't play X" Munchausen trilemma nonsense, people will buy it.

[naive prairie]

There's a decent reason to actually get an RG DS. If you're primarily interested in DS games and you don't want to shell out for a Thor, an RG DS at a hundred bucks is easily justified.

[kindred widget]

Yea because drivers are gonna be needed for PSP

As if a potato won't run PSP

[hallow willow]

psimans emotional investment in defending anbernic always amuses me 😄

[sour olive]

It is when they're using cheap ass weak hardware

[hallow willow]

the air x only getting 3.5-4 hours of psp isn't very appealing to me

[agile plume]

Im not interested any way, I just give my opinion that it can bw interesting to some folks,

[lone imp]

it's a purely logical investment. i don't mentally understand the need to buzzsaw a decent device

[kindred widget]

The chip is good enough for PSP

[near maple]

As long as you're not up to speed with its performance, I guess.

[kindred widget]

Afaik anyways

[sour olive]

RGDS with Light Bleeding

Yay

[agile plume]

Perfect for PSP according to Russ and other YTbers, Russ said that it can do pwrfect 3x on most games, hardest ones like GOW: CoO at 2x

[kindred widget]

Then a Snapdragon chip would be unneeded

[hallow willow]

it is t618, that was usually solid for 2-3x PSP

[lone imp]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1336793270092693525/1473370891764371518/1771207493190853.jpg?
"It's bad because anbernic made it."
"Anbernic is bad because they make bad things that I buy and don't like"

[naive prairie]

As far as I can see, it performs well enough for DS games.

[hallow willow]

he clearly thinks the anbernic owner is going to fuck him for his loyalty (i cant remember the dudes name) xD

[naive prairie]

Of course, "it can do PSP" is fine, but the list of "it can do PSP" is quite long. And some of those devices are quite cheap.

[kindred widget]

Boss Yang

[sour olive]

No Vita though

It's RG Vita

Not RG PSO

[kindred widget]

Neither is an 8 Gen 2 or elite

[kindred widget]

Ah ah ah

It looks like a Vita

[sour olive]

You can play Vita on those

[kindred widget]

We here at Anbernic didn't say it would play Vita

[sour olive]

Don't call it an RG Vita then

[lone imp]

it can definitely play Downwell. It definitely will not play Atelier games

[kindred widget]

But it looks like a Vita

Therefore we call it Vita

[lone imp]

that is the extent of rk3576 Vita support

[naive prairie]

Personally I prefer my Odin 2 Vita to this. 🙃

[sour olive]

This is such a bad argument because no one would have bought the RGDS if it didn't play DS Games

[kindred widget]

Oh sweet the same choppy experience but its on a Snapdragon so that makes it better

[sour olive]

Man I hope they make a 3 Mini

[kindred widget]

They need to make another

[kindred widget]

Now what if I told you it barely played DS games?

At least when it first released. It was chopped

Now it's alright

[sour olive]

Praise Gamma

[kindred widget]

Hail Gam

[sour olive]

People have low standards for these devices

[hallow willow]

we shouldnt have to rely on third party software for a device to be good 😄

[kindred widget]

You have standards?

[naive prairie]

Odin 2 Mini is funny ... some people trash it because the screen was too bright for RGC, but it's a pretty damned awesome device. Bring on an 8 Elite Mini.

[sour olive]

Nice Try Balls Anbernic

[naive prairie]

Technically, the emulators are third party software and we'd have a tough time without those.

[kindred widget]

I thought you just mindlessly consumed whatever Ayn farted out

[sour olive]

Praise Ayn

[sour olive]

Praise Ayn Thor

[sour olive]

Praise GPD

I miss their Android Handhelds

[kindred widget]

Expensive

No monies

[sour olive]

Praise PowKiddy

[kindred widget]

Irrelevant in the modern day

[sour olive]

So is half the stuff Anbernic releases

Praise TrimUI

[kindred widget]

So what? It's cheap

[sour olive]

Hey, that's my line

[lone imp]

persona 4, gravity rush, senran kagura franchise(lol perv), SF x Tekken, Dragon's Crown, Soul Sacrifice, Ys 8, Tales of Hearts R, Valkyrie Drive(lol perv), Attack on Titan, and Ninja Gaiden Sigma 1 & 2 are worth getting the rgVita Pro for.

[kindred widget]

No clue who those guy's are

[kindred widget]

Here me out

[sour olive]

Just get a real Vita at that point

[kindred widget]

There exists a device that will do all those games without fail

You ready?

Boo

[sour olive]

RG557 can probably play Vita

[lone imp]

yeah, but your vita can't watch PlutoTV

you need your dosage of columbo and nash bridges, bro

[kindred widget]

Ehhh it has the power to do so but you're gonna be running into emulator/software woes as you would given how Vita emulation is

[kindred widget]

Who the fuck watches PlutoTV?

[sour olive]

https://youtu.be/suk30kaCF6Y?si=8qa6wftMgZd2_H4g

[kindred widget]

Are you geriatric perhaps?

[sour olive]

This actually runs pretty well

[lone imp]

wow, ageism.

[sour olive]

I watch Columbo on Peacock

It's nice because they have it in 4K there

[sour olive]

Hey now, Columbo is great

[lone imp]

columbo is the fine wine of detective writing

[sour olive]

https://tenor.com/view/cape-of-new-hope-gif-1875490710420227609

Also the final episode of Columbo aired in 2003

Granted that's still 23 years ago

[lone imp]

"you said he died from a garlic allergy, but he doesn't smell like garlic" (CASE CLOSED)

[sour olive]

https://tenor.com/view/colombo-tbh-peterfaulk-tbfh-honestly-gif-7475349

https://tenor.com/view/columbo-columbo-detective-jumpscare-gif-25091256

[lone imp]

rgVita, the home of Columbo

free packet of pasta sauce with every unit

[sour olive]

The Vita has a Video App so you can put episodes of it on an SD Card

[lone imp]

also next month Tubi gets a huge chunk of the entire Cartoon network back lineup. might as well install that as well

https://x.com/Tubi/status/2022468701505695953?

Tubi (@Tubi)

my cartoon era starts march 1 🙂‍↕️

Abbott & Costello Cartoons
Addams Family (1974)
Adventures of Batman, The
Animaniacs
Aquaman
Astro and the Space Mutts
Atom Ant
Baby Looney Tunes
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Be Cool Scooby-Doo!
Beetlejuice
Ben 10 (2005)
Beware the Batman

X · Feb 14, 2026, 12:31 AM

[sour olive]

I wish Tubi has an ad free tier with how much great content they're getting

[lone imp]

yeah

[devout plinth]

why would you want to watch ad?

[sour olive]

Tubi is a Free Ad Supported Streaming Service

[naive prairie]

You can watch Pluto TV on your RG505 in all its OLED glory.

[sour olive]

True

[cloud tangle]

What that

[sour olive]

It's a RG Vita but better

[hallow willow]

i picked up a 505 last year, it is fun 😄

[naive prairie]

The RG505 ... watching Pluto TV.

[lone imp]

doesn't look bad at all

[sour olive]

Make sure you put GammaOS on it

[hallow willow]

already did 🙂

[sour olive]

That kinda looks like a smaller Win600

[lone imp]

the x28 is definitely a smaller win600 with it's trapezoidal shape

[naive prairie]

Anbernic's 2022/2023 design language.

[lone imp]

part of the reason i like it

[sour olive]

Columbo on OLED

https://tenor.com/view/noice-nice-click-gif-8843762

[naive prairie]

The RG505 has the same T618 as the RG Vita does, only it gets 4GB of memory and 128GB storage.

I don't even have a microSD card in my RG505 due to its massive amount of internal storage. 🙃

[sour olive]

The RAM is also apparently slower on the RG Vita

[naive prairie]

If I had an RG Vita I could do some comparative benchmarking, but alas...

[sour olive]

That's what Russ said in his review

[lilac bramble]

its hard to want to pay for a t618 device, when i have some cheapo prepaid phone with a d6300 that i paid $30 for, that i can just put a controller on

but i still want to see what this gets priced at

[naive prairie]

I'm thinking both models will be outside of impulse buy range, so my wallet is probably safe. But we will see what Anbernic comes up with.

[cloud tangle]

I wouldn't be surprised if more powerful

[lone imp]

nah. win600 can play Monster Hunter Rise and Tekken 7

It's sort of a completely different category than other anbernic devices despite the flak it gets. Even the rg557 gets some -really rough- dips trying to do MHR... like down to 12-14 fps during fights

[sour olive]

Funnily enough

After Valve sold out of all the Steam Decks and everyone on eBay raised the price of used ones

The Win600 is now the cheapest PC handheld available

[naive prairie]

Probably better off with an Xbox Ally in the "budget" PC handheld segment, though.

[lilac bramble]

can you install steam os in the win600?

[sour olive]

Yes

[lilac bramble]

neat

[hallow willow]

I have steamfork on mine, was thinking of getting orig steamOS on it provided no big issues

[sour olive]

I'll test it out when mine arrives

[sly rock]

is this handheld as big as the rp 6?

[sour olive]

I think it's bigger

[sly rock]

Dang this handheld is a wash I was interested in this since I was kinda expecting smaller than the rp 6

[sour olive]

Well it's a PC Handheld

[sly rock]

Whoos I meant like the RG VITA size compred to the RP 6 size

[sour olive]

Ah

It's around the same size

[sly rock]

ohh

[keen heath]

I see Ben 10, I'm in!

[glossy zodiac]

So the SoC looks like a lateral move. GPU may be better, should be more power efficient and slightly more performant. But only slightly.

Ridiculous. I hope reviewers dunk all over them for this mess.

[raw ice]

Gamma already showed the pro running vita fine.

This just isn’t a ps2 handheld and as long as the price reflects that who cares

[sour olive]

Literally everyone cares

[undone hemlock]

Cares about what?

[sour olive]

Nice Try Anbernic Shill

[undone hemlock]

I bash as much as I shill but ok

[kindred widget]

Considering this is shaping up to be a competitor to the Air X and that TrimUI device it'll probably be around that price range

Maybe a smidgen higher given the Anbernic tax

[undone hemlock]

And I really only shill the 476H

[kindred widget]

I just shill a device that will one day fill this case

[sour olive]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ANBERNIC/s/8iiEofe57e

This is neat

[lone imp]

just wait till you start installing full texture upres mods. also buy yourself some low-profile flash drives to put your roms and cracked pc games on. Samsung FIT's are decent

[minor warren]

I love how this is a channel for any device but the vita

We've already moved on

[sour olive]

That model has a 1TB of Storage

[sour olive]

That's kinda neat

[burnt vector]

Why on earth did Anbernic send everyone that ugly DMG color, anyways? I don't care if you normally like that color scheme, even if you do it's just morally wrong to use on a Vita clone.

[sour olive]

Would come in handy for devices that run Linux through External Storage

[sour olive]

Bought the RG505

[glossy zodiac]

We can argue semantics of naming, Anbernic essentially needing Gamma to fix their stuff, enthusiast expectations, etc.

But yeah, it's a chunk of plastic and kinda silly to get worked up about

[short goblet]

it’s up to the reviewer to choose the colour

[sour olive]

So basically all reviewers have bad tastes

[short goblet]

I have my reasons

[keen heath]

This has been the case for a while unfortunately

[magic jacinth]

I did not choose my color

[sour olive]

Like if you're getting a Vita Inspired handheld, at least get the PlayStation colored ones

Having a Nintendo color scheme is cursed

[magic jacinth]

My reaction to the retro color in-person

https://tenor.com/view/eww-brother-whats-that-gif-gif-8074674770873143295

[sour olive]

LMAO

That makes more sense on a Game Boy inspired one like the Retroid Pocket Classic or that one AyaNeo Game Boy that 5 people bought

[devout canopy]

pretty sure way more than 5 people bought a Pocket DMG

[agile plume]

I think only Dweeb likes it

[undone hemlock]

My reaction to all retro colors

[lone imp]

the big question: can the pro play Monster Hunter Tri for Wii and 4 Ultimate for 3ds?

[fossil rose]

Black glass fronts are such a smudge a fingerprint magnet!

That was my reason for choosing the Retro Gray version

[devout canopy]

nah

[sour olive]

Maybe?

I doubt it though

[naive prairie]

Only sad thing about the old RG505 is that all of the color options were horrid. "Retro", yellow, and turquoise. All ugly as hell.

[sour olive]

Get a RP6 instead

Or Ayn Thor

[devout canopy]

retro is okay

[sour olive]

Wii is 20 years old

3DS is 15

They are indeed Retro

[tawny lynx]

15 years isnt retro

Can't even join the military

[fossil rose]

We've not yet got the RG Vita Pro for review yet, since Spring Festival is in full swing in China, things have all slowed down!

The only ones who have the Pro model at the moment are devs from various projects who will probably kick my shins for tagging them and having people ask if ___________ game runs

[thick orchid]

Performance on the pro when?

[lusty adder]

Laughs in Roman Empire

[glossy zodiac]

DMG colorway on literally anything that's horizontal and/or looks like another corpo device takes years off my life

[lone imp]

hmmm

[sly rock]

So what's the price on thiss thing?

[tawny lynx]

Probably like $30 more than what most people are hoping

But we don't know yet

[sly rock]

oh I'm predicting that it's going to be around 130 to 160$

[silver idol]

I really wish they didn't name this Handheld the RG-VITA. The RG-DS was one thing but the RG-VITA makes no space. Vita Emulation isn't even mature yet.

[silver idol]

Hopefully $130 plus shipping but this is Anbernic we're talking about. I'm keeping my expectations in check.

[high junco]

We (yes we) been saying this

[sly rock]

True I hope so as well

[sly rock]

oh RIP

[silver idol]

TechDweeb likes it, and I'm happy for him. I'm might run with the Pro Black Color if they sell it.

[silver idol]

Never get your hopes up with Anbernic. Although one thing we don't factor in is the overall BOM of some Anbernic Handhelds. For example acquiring a 5:3 screen isn't easy.

[silver idol]

I know, we all have.

[sly rock]

Ohh I'll keep that in mind

[fossil rose]

I must be in the minority here, I've really enjoyed the shape of it (hardware is a huge thing for me, I love product design) and it feels nice to play.

To be fair all I've been using it for has been PSP, but I'm curious to test it against the Pro when that gets sent for review

[lone imp]

i may just skip this thing entirely and get the android box version

my s905x4 is kinda slow

[silver idol]

Personally I'm waiting for the Pro model because it will be Perfect for Portmaster.

[quaint mirage]

Is that like an Amlogic Chip? Like the S992X in the Odroid Go Ultra?

[thick orchid]

4X psp or no buy at all

[lone imp]

yeah, it's the younger one that's popular in el cheapo android boxes.

i have a tiny one with retroarch on it

[quaint mirage]

They gotta start making good but cheap Android boxes

Wonder if people would buy a D7350 android box if it was below $100

[lone imp]

i have the H95. the H96 M9 is the rk3576 one

[lone imp]

umm... there used to be a guy who sold kits for that sort of thing.

[devout plinth]

the S905x5M is supported by emuelec beta, you can try that out

[sour olive]

I might get the Pro depending on Price

We already know it can run Vita games thanks to GammaOS

[karmic minnow]

Too bad about the buttons not being dome like an actual vita

Honestly my favorite kind of buttons for any device

[mortal island]

35xxpro

[silver idol]

That's cool for you but for me I want another Portmaster Handheld. 🙂

[silver idol]

I wouldn't bank on this. 😬

[iron sun]

Just giving some food for the debate, this streamer reviews a tv box with same chipset as the vita pro and it plays gow ii pretty respectable

https://youtu.be/T7JHCv6vC_o?t=1209&si=-3NC0XrigI6scahh

[quick cloak]

Plays GoW 15 seconds, PS2 working amazing

Very thorough, much success

[untold hazel]

Don't forget the enabled hacks and frameskips

[terse parrot]

He showed Vita3K launching on it, and said that he got one of the Wipeout games working at full speed, and that was even with his global LCD shader active at the same time

But yeah I imagine most Vita games will still struggle even with his Scottish magic

[silver idol]

Interesting, can you share this video with me?

[gleaming oak]

3576 interesting only on GPU side (G52 Mc3, which is much more powerful compare to other, and even G99

cpu is 200% trash

[terse parrot]

Nah he deleted it soon after lol, that one guy in here called iwilljuggleyourballs saved it tho. It was literally just gamma launching the app, not showing gameplay

[terse parrot]

But here's Wipeout running #1468184660474593300 message

(PS he typo'd the CPU name in that post: #1468184660474593300 message)

[hardy sparrow]

they literally look the same bro

[silver idol]

@terse parrot This is definitely interesting, however Vita3K is still VERY immature. It's hard to know how much of the Vita Library will be playable on the RG-Vita.

[gleaming oak]

Even if they lower gpu freqs, this thing will not be weaker than G99 in gpu side.

[mortal island]

Yep, this will be mainly for portmaster I think. And psp

[silver idol]

Yeah definitely, I'm going to buy the Pro model because it can dual boot into Linux and Android. Plus the Performance will be better than the Trimui Smart Pro S and slightly better than the Mangmi Air X.

I can't speak for the price tho.

[untold hazel]

It will NOT be cheap

[mortal island]

It will be cheaper than 476H with its 8+128GB of memory, and that one costs $150

It has to be $120 or less, otherwise it makes no sense

Should be even cheaper than that, but I'm not sure it'll happen

[raw ice]

all black glass front is a nightmare to film

I bet the pro reviews will mostly be white

[gleaming oak]

it will be

this soc cost some $

(very dumb pick btw, bc Vita emulation bound on CPU not GPU)

[cunning bane]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86FjQ3VhH0o

trying to ping this group's anbernic hater but idk why it isn't working

anyways if they read this, have the time of your life

[short goblet]

finally, he admits the anti anbernic bias

J/K

[keen heath]

Csnt wait for the release, will be a great device 🙂

[undone hemlock]

For psp

[keen heath]

For whatever my heart desires at the time

Which is psp 😄

[lone imp]

yeah, this is the whole point of just grabbing a tv box version. it'll have full android and linux desktop support on day one, and you can use it as a pc or as a gaming device for ~100usd

[wicked idol]

I was considering getting this for my Uncle honestly. Bought him a MM plus a few years ago, but his arthritis stops him from really using it. And given all he really plays is Atari/NES/Arcade a higher end Android device like the RG556 seemed like overkill.

Course then he told me that someone local was selling an Atari game station thing, and he loves it

[lone imp]

gow 2 running smoothly out of the box is unexpected. If Wipeout 2048 runs well according to his banter, it will be -fine- for vita

russ and the other naysayers can eat goat-poo

[keen heath]

I don't really care for naming conventions, people get too attached to them and the entire convo revolves around that. yawn

I don't need it to play vita either. Vita struggled with vita let's be honest

[lone imp]

it's okay to not like psVita. you don't have to make a circular argument to justify why you never tried it

[keen heath]

Never tried what?

[lone imp]

Vita. the subject you're talking about

[keen heath]

You mean this thing in my hand? I've never tried this?

🙂

[lone imp]

yeah, the thing you keep posting about as the reason to not have an rgVita.

[keen heath]

You must be confusing me for someone else buddy 🙂

[lone imp]

no. i'm just holding you dead-to-rights

-bang-

[keen heath]

Coz i want the RG vita

🙂

[lone imp]

Target waffles and eggo waffles taste exactly the same. hrm

[keen heath]

Don't know what either of those things are, I guess you like spouting random nonsense today? 🙂

[lone imp]

they're not nonsense. they're breakfast foods.

it's 9:48am

[keen heath]

No, it's nonsense 🙂 and it's 14:58

[lone imp]

okay schizo.

[keen heath]

Never tried a vita I show him my vita

Claims I don't want a rg vita I show my interest in it

[kindred widget]

An RGC slander video has hit the 2nd Balls Trade Center

[burnt vector]

Still waiting for the RG Arc Professional... 🥹

[short goblet]

https://youtube.com/live/QQkoQ2NelmU?feature=share

later

ps2

[lilac bramble]

ignoring that colorway looks so wrong on that formfactor, it not having the vita dpad is.... upsetting more than the specs

[cloud tangle]

There is vid on that?

[hardy sparrow]

agreed

granted, its probably still a great dpad

[sour olive]

Yeah

Gamma posted it like a week ago

[lone imp]

rgVita haters about to be on suicide watch

[undone hemlock]

Why?

[lone imp]

because Max can't stop winning

https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTZjMDliOTUyeTk3d2FqN2hwbnZrY3k1N2Rsb290c25qMW5pdzhpOXEzem91ajAxbSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/uP781D6zVOdG0/200w.gif

[karmic minnow]

Damn so it’s actually good with gamma?

[blazing bough]

Guess what 1080p is for PSP lol

[blazing bough]

Nice

[keen heath]

Device looks dope.I'm still excited for this 🙂 #HatersKeepHating

[undone hemlock]

That's fine, I never understood the constant complaining. Just don't buy it. Sure you can make your displeasure known but it's anbernic, anbernic isn't going to make the handheld you want

My dream Anbernic handheld is a 476H with the start and select buttons in the right place and faster charging

[keen heath]

100%. it's the same thing almost daily, omg it's called vita but can't play vita? Bruh my 8 elite in my fold can't play half The vita games I've tried 😂

[keen heath]

Mines a 4" higher res version of the 353M. That's it. I'm a simple Man.

[undone hemlock]

Vita emulation is trash and will be trash for quite sometime

No one is really making an effort to clean it up

[undone hemlock]

Or a 476DS

[keen heath]

Man his videos are sooooooo long with so much wasted time on them 😭 and it'll be titled first impressions

[keen heath]

I'm at the point where I'll just pick up a Ayaneo pocket mini air tbh

[undone hemlock]

But it's Ayaneo

Ain't supporting them until they actually change

[keen heath]

Why do you think I've held out so long!

The magicx device looks promising, and potentially kt r2

But I really want to replace my 353M with something a tad bigger and better res 😭

[teal sonnet]

He said he is you don’t have to if you don’t want

I get why people are not happy with AyaNeo but you can’t deny they make really great hardware + the Pocket Air was released pretty quickly

[undone hemlock]

words are not actions

Ayaneo hasn't proven they've changed

[teal sonnet]

I got mine very quickly

They are trying to or at least saying they are

[lone imp]

poor ktr2. technically the best of this current pack, but people won't stop ragging on it.

[keen heath]

I'm not gonna lie, I'm not aware of where the aya neo hate stems from, but I do see the hate comments alot

[silver idol]

Hey @blissful parcel I'm watching ForTheNext's RG-VITA PS2 stream. Did you use those Custom RP3+ Graphical drivers like you did with the RG405M?

[blissful parcel]

It's actually using newer drivers than the rp3 ones

[silver idol]

So the newer drivers are better or the RP3+ ones aren't compatible.

[blissful parcel]

Better / compatible with A14

[silver idol]

I see... 🤔

[gleaming oak]

did u try something with drivers?

[blissful parcel]

A14 drivers, works slightly better than the RP3 ones

[gleaming oak]

u mean stock which comes with rg vita?

or u find a way how to upgrade them manually

[blissful parcel]

GammaOS replaced the stock firmware and drivers

[gleaming oak]

Oh

[gleaming oak]

what about pro version?

[blissful parcel]

TBD

[gleaming oak]

bruh

[lone imp]

nobody can talk about the pro right now. just wait for a bit, or get an H96 M9 box to fafo with

[inner parrot]

I can talk about the Pro. I would say it is better than an amateur, but not an Olympian 😜

[lone imp]

if i already didn't have 4 tv boxes in a drawer to mess with, i'd go full balls on an 8gb M9 and post some fun stuff, but eh...

[blazing bough]

Well technically we know Knulli works on the Pro

Acme posted that I think

#1468184660474593300 message

[raw ice]

are the controls actually decent or are they still datafrog tier

[sly rock]

I was excited to see the size but it's unavailable :(

[blazing bough]

It's smaller

It's about the size of an RP5

[sly rock]

Yeah i've heard that as well

[sour olive]

Y'all excited until you see the price

[lone imp]

in china, rk3576 boxes are 100usd. in the states, 131ish. the regular sbc's around 75, so we kind of know what to expect. t618 prices possibly

[sour olive]

That's for the Pro model

You're assuming Anbernic isn't going to overcharge

[lone imp]

yeah. the pro will probably be what i paid for my rg556, which is 140ish

[sour olive]

That's a good price for the 556

[blazing bough]

I would pay 130-40 for the pro model

Nothing above 150 tho

I need my psp machine

[sour olive]

I would pay around Tree Fiddy

[gleaming oak]

that much for potato soc O_o

[blazing bough]

I mean ideally it would be less but yea

[gleaming oak]

crazy

[blazing bough]

These days I genuinely don't give a shit about anything past an rp4

[gleaming oak]

u still can get pocket 4 ...

for that price

[blazing bough]

I have a pocket 4

I have an Odin 2 mini

[gleaming oak]

so

[blazing bough]

I want to play psp on a device that looks and feels nice lol

Odin 2 mini was that but stick top always bothered me

[blazing bough]

RP6 was exciting to me

But then they changed the design

So fuck Retroid atm

Still mad at them about it

[gleaming oak]

that was right move

[blazing bough]

No

The og design was better

[gleaming oak]

otherwise most of just reject it

og doesnt look good

[blazing bough]

I had an RP5, it's the only device I sold lol

I didn't want another one of those

More power meant nothing to me

[blazing bough]

I dunno about most

Reddit does not count as majority

Always pains me when companies take advice from it

[hardy sparrow]

i'm confused

what did people dislike about the rp5

[tawny lynx]

The rp5 needed more badly placed hotkeys

[blazing bough]

The device is fine, I don't like the design

Non of the RP6, Odin 2 Portals, Odin 3s excite me

They all just look the same to me

[undone hemlock]

Ergonomics for me

[hardy sparrow]

oh

i see your points

[undone hemlock]

But that just means I won’t buy another RP5 style handheld

So the Mark II and Mark III being nearly identical to it means I won’t buy it

[blazing bough]

I don't like how it's just so homogenized now

[undone hemlock]

I refuse the call them the G2 and 6

[blazing bough]

Give me the fun designs

[undone hemlock]

https://tenor.com/view/theyre-the-same-picture-the-office-pam-the-office-us-gif-20757621

They’re like the iPhone. It’s the same phone year after year

Am I gonna complain about them every hour on the hour like some people?

Nope

[tawny lynx]

I mean it is their flagship, it's not really meant to be completely different. Their other handhelds are where they don't play it as safe

[blazing bough]

Like their side stuff are what interest me

I adore the Retroid Pocket Classic, the Thor etc

It's more for the style rather than power

[lone imp]

yeah, i bought early bird. i wanted to raw-dog the OS.

then again, i bought mine to play switch and old pc games. unreal tournament 2004 and homm5 have been quite nice

[blazing bough]

My tastes have kinda changed on what I want to emulate on the go as well

I've only been doing handheld emulation on my sbcs

[lone imp]

for a while i was doing other stuff, but these days, i'm back to old pc games and their switch ports on t820

[blazing bough]

I enjoyed my 556. It was my most "powerful" for a while

[lone imp]

my most powerful is still the Pimax Portal Retro, but i can't be bothered with its shennanigans

[blazing bough]

Aside from this thing

And the TrimUI flip

My biggest interest for devices is the KTR2

[lone imp]

the rg34xx sp is something i want to eventually try

[silver idol]

$125 to $135 is my limit but I'm not getting my hopes up.

[sly rock]

Man I love how yellow the Retroid pocket g2 looks if we're never getting ODIN 3 MINI I'm definitely planning to get this

[dry kelp]

This is the G2

The RP6 is more cheese colored

[sly rock]

I know I mispoke

[dry kelp]

Oh FAIR

[sly rock]

Duuude I feel like I'm getting gas lighted every time I see that rp 6 color it always looks slightly different

[dry kelp]

Lmfao yeah a bit too off

I prefer the Silver or Lavender personally

[sly rock]

I'm just glad they do interesting colors unlike Anbernic these days

[silver idol]

16:9 screen 🤣

[hardy sparrow]

Bruh

that's brazy

[silver idol]

16:9 screens on Retro Gaming Devices. Not a good mix.

[sly rock]

Not having a more v shape sticks I think

[hardy sparrow]

oh

[blazing bough]

I mean

That's a weird thing to say on this channel lol

The vita vita pro channel

[sour olive]

Cancelled my RG505 order and got a RG557 instead

[lusty adder]

I mean , there are codes for the GC to go 16:9 and for the rest we can get some cool frames for the older systems. Even though 16:9 for me is to emulate GC and onwards

[sour olive]

There are some GameCube games that natively Support Widescreen

F-Zero GX is one of them

https://consolemods.org/wiki/GameCube:Games_with_Alternate_Display_Modes

[sly rock]

You can just stretch it like I do

[sour olive]

Banned

[blazing bough]

play gameboy like it was intented

that's right, ultrawide

[sly rock]

Now this is stretching

[silver idol]

Not everything below PS1.

[silver idol]

I was just giving reasons someone may not want an RP5 or 6.

[silver idol]

https://tenor.com/view/sanford-fred-heart-attack-nervous-gif-24657978

[sour olive]

Sanford and Son is such a good show

[silver idol]

One of my favorites.

[keen heath]

Demond Wilson passed away a few weeks ago, rip

[sour olive]

I saw that

RIP

[silver idol]

😭

[raw ice]

Stick too close to other controls, badly placed speakers, tiny ergonomic bumps that did more harm than good

[hardy sparrow]

I see

damn though, badly placed speakers?

[raw ice]

Rp6 needed to be taller, which is what the original design did

[hardy sparrow]

i feel like its at least better than down-firing

[raw ice]

Moved the speakers under the screen so they could be larger and not coverable with your palms

And moved the sticks down a hair so you don’t brush them while using the B button

[hardy sparrow]

ahh

[raw ice]

Then the redesign undid those fixes.

I was excited for the rp6 for a day before they decided twitter was better than professional designers, luckily ayn gave me a great deal on a portal instead

[tawny lynx]

The original rp6 design would've been a lot better if retroid used larger controls, as is though there was way too much empty space. Also having those hotkeys in the middle would've been annoying to reach

Original design kind of just looked like if a vita let itself go

[kindred widget]

I want a Vita that let itself go actually

[lilac bramble]

yeah the original rp6 design had better speaker placement, the current one has the same problems the rp5 had, oh well, maybe the rp7 will use the unused rp6 shell

[sour olive]

Just get a TrimUI Smart Pro

[kindred widget]

Just get a Vita bro

[sour olive]

Just get an Anbernic Bro

[vapid flax]

vita 1000 has horrible speakers though

[kindred widget]

We use to hang people upside-down and beat them with bats for saying stuff like that

[sour olive]

Use Headphones

[vapid flax]

still doesn't fix the low volume issue

you just get barely hearable volume now with your headphones

which is better than not hearable at all

[sour olive]

It could just be your device having faulty speakers

I never had any volume issues

[wicked idol]

Just want to say this pic has AeStHeTiC

[glossy zodiac]

Honestly this just makes me wish I'd been able to get an Odin 2 Mini or a RP Mini. Them shits are like $400+ from resellers now, but both were close to my endgame handheld.

I appreciate the explosive progress we've made in the hobby, but I do get really annoyed with Ayn and Retroid for just flat out stopping production on stuff. Yet you can still go find some overpriced Anbernic new from them.