The Doom Spoon wrote:Wasn't sure if it was worth making a new thread for this but will start here first.
The market in the last couple of years has exploded with these cheap Chinese handheld emulation devices. The current ones are the BittBoy, BittBoy Pocket Go, LDK Game, LDK Horizontal, RG300 and soon the RG350. Never mind the likes of the RS-97 and the GPD XD Plus from last year.
Anyone have any experience of any of these? Love the idea of getting one to be able to take my ROM collection on the go. I know I can do it on my phone but I like to have dedicated devices for things.
Just noticed this.
I've got a couple of emulator handhelds myself. My GPD XD+, which is little bit of a beast and can handle quite a lot of stuff. It's great for PS1 games as it's got dual analogues, a nice big screen and it can crank the resolution up. It can also deal with N64 quite well, which is always the test of these thing. It's also an android device so it can run a lot of stuff for that as well.
I also picked up a BittBoy Pocket Go a few months back. It's pretty dinky and reminds me of the GB Micro, or an older mobile phone. Got it for the launch price of £40, but I think it's up to £50 now. Well worth it. It doesn't run everything. SNES is very hit or miss and PS1 is pretty much unusable, but everything else runs really well. Even GBA is nice. You'll never mistake it for a top of the line bit of kit, but as a tiny, portable way to play thousands of games at a very reasonable price it's worth a look.
I saw the RG350 on a video the other day and it looked pretty nice.
I've been wanting to pick up a GPi as well, but not sure I can justify the cost for something I won't really play that's not much more powerful than the Pocket Go.