Edit: What a great thread. I love you Lemmy nerds!

I’ve been seeing these new devices coming out that come preloaded with something like 20,000 roms across every console released from the 70’s to the 2010’s, and I have to admit, I’m tempted.

I’m wondering if anyone out there has purchased one of these and what was your experience with it?

  • cRazi_man@europe.pubEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Bro, you are looking down into a deep deep deep rabbit hole.

    What’s your budget and what do you want to play? I haven’t kept up with device reviews for a while, but here’s what I had in my mind at last reading:

    FYI: if you’re destitute, then your smartphone and existing ancient PC will still be able to emulate more games than you know what to do with.

    1. Budget: Mangmi Air X (up to PSP, gamecube and some 3DS)

    2. financially comfortable: Retroid Pocket 6 (up to many modern PC games and most Switch emulation)

    3. Trust fund: some top tier Ayn device

    These devices have come a long way and come in every for factor and budget. There are loads of videos to watch. Don’t worry about pre-loaded games, you’ll be doing all that yourself. But that’s one of the things you have to enjoy: hours of setup and figuring stuff out.

    Retro Game Corps is a great place to start and their device database will be the place to go to compare devices.