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Anyone used one of these before? I've heard really good things. Mostly looking to emulate PS1, dreamcast, n64, and PS2 and from what I've read the retroid 4 does a solid job with all of them.

My main question is: how easy is it to get up and going with emulation on a dedicated handheld? I've done some really light emulation in the past, but only on pc and that was years ago.

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[โ€“] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Worth noting that portmaster specificly does not run on the 4 afaik, only the 5. If you want pc games on the 4 gamehub or winlator are probably options though.

[โ€“] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

Retroarch even has cores for some portmaster games. Like you can run quake and doom mods through both