Silksong running silky smooth on Eden on a Retroid 5
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That's a pretty expensive handheld is it not?
Just saying.
Edit: Everyone chill, I'm just broke and jealous haha.
Aw the poor little devs only made millions with their first game
And they crashed Steam's checkout system yesterday. They're going to be alright.
you won't believe this but they have a fridge and microwave too
Mid level-ish? $200? Compared to something like an Odin or an ROG, or some of the newer Anbernics, I dont think so.
There's also some other Retroid users on this site.
Also the Retroid Pocket 5's hardware makes it a pretty much one and done purchase. I have 4-5 emulators and I probably spent 3x that on them all said and done. Their hardware runs the gamut of barely emulating N64 to being able to play almost all retro up to but not the Retroid Pocket 4. $200 for something that will be good for the next 10 years is smart.
Been playing a lot of Switch stuff on the 5 and its been a tank. Some crashes but I can chalk that up to switch emu itself rather than the specs
If it can emulate Switch I actually might grab it as my Christmas gift lol. Not only is that dope as fuck but while we are processing this divorce, I'm realizing that since our oldest plays my Switch mostly, a lot of his hours clocked are on that. Might just let him keep it and grab an RP5 lol.
Yeah, im happy to talk about it! Eden is my emulator of choice, it makes getting the latest drivers super easy. It also just got a new update 3 days ago thats pretty rad. Helps with some compatability issues. You can also get older versions of emulators to try out if needed, depending on the game. Its a pretty fun little project, but I enjoy tinkering here and there.
Sounds on par with Proton version tinkering when getting stuff to run on Linux. Knowing my luck, I buy the device and Nintendo shuts down Eden next day lol.
Oh, if your point is that i have no money, then its about a year old.
who gives a fuck
No, not really. Pretty much the cheapest of it's kind imo. Anything x86 is going to be at least double, if not triple or more. Switch 2 is double the price. Anything cheaper is making significant compromises and imo isn't comparable.
edit: just going to keep talking because I've been very interested in these devices lately. I'd say the closest comparison devices would be like the odin 2 which has a more powerful chip but is $300, or the Thor which starts at $250 for the same chip as the Retroid pocket 5 (handheld OP has). Anbernic recently put out an all metal handheld for $280, worse processor and smaller screen though. Those are probably the three its most comparable to it. RP5 is a really good value for what's currently on the market.
FWIW I own an ungodly amount of these stupid little handheld consoles. Anbernic stuff is the best IMO but the retroid is also pretty neat.
Main beef with the retroid is just that it runs android. The devices with minimal Linux systems are way cooler IMO.
The pocket 5 runs rocknix as well, as does the Odin 2. Linux definitely has some good things going for it but I'm coming around on android a bit, the sleep is much better.
I have an Anbernic xx device and love it, its just a different beast then the RP5. snes/gba is where I feel like my xx shines, not gamecube/wii/ps2/light switch.
I've personally never had sleep issues with my Linux handhelds but as a daily Linux desktop user I'm painfully aware that it's not on par with android.
All the android bloat just drives me nuts. I just don't really love having the playstore and email and all that on my gaming device.
The simplicity of the Linux devices and the way they just do one thing really appeals to me.
FWIW I don't actually care much to play any games past PS1/N64 on handheld. Anything later just feels better suited for a desktop or steam deck (totally different class of device IMO).