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Hands on with the Retroid Pocket Nova; A custom OLED love letter to 4:3 gaming (gardinerbryant.com)
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So this is my written article covering the Retroid Pocket Nova. This one might be interesting to you because as well as chatting to Retroid, I asked them to share a couple of the early design renders of the Nova with me to feature in here.

They said yes, and you can see some of the differences between what they were planning, and what we got!

Along with that I chatted to developers like those behind Leaf Studio, rootComputer: the Steam Curator behind Is it 4:3 (the page covering all the PC games they add to their collection, which is super apt for the Nova), and bmdhacks, a friend and dev from ARMSX2.

Naturally I cover the usual things in here, but I thought these might be interesting too!

Hope you enjoy it :)

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[โ€“] popcar2@piefed.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Great interview as always, I'm glad this device is living up to the insane hype from when it got announced. Everyone looked at this thing and immediately decided it's the best 4:3 handheld ever. And it seems to be just that. The fact that it can perfectly emulate PS2 at 2x resolution on low power settings is wild. I would've been frothing at the mouth to get this if I were younger.

Side note: I've never been a fan of transparent shells (kind of heresy in this hobby, I know), but I'm really liking the look of these frosted transparent ones. Clear purple looks like it could go hard.

[โ€“] jaygray91@piefed.zip 2 points 16 hours ago

If you still sometimes look into the /r/sbcgaming, the purple shell is slightly redder than the marketing images. Of course, camera settings and all that as grain of salt, but a lot of people are disappointed and changed their orders to other colors.

I too hope the purple goes hard. It's one of my favorite colors.