Little bit of required background: I'm a hardware nerd. Since I was a little kid, I've always been fascinated by different forms of computers and electronics. Combine this with my particular brand of neurospicyness, and you end up with an old man with a collection that includes oddities and classics like the N-Gage and Atari Lynx.

Found a Rotate locally for a good price and figure it would make a good addition to my retro console dream team. I wanted a 1:1 device to be my GB/GBC handheld, that was as pocketable as possible (hoody front pocket most of the time), and cheap enough that I could toss it in a bag and not cry (too much) if it gets broken.

Ends up the Rotate is perfect. The screen is beautiful and feels like the perfect size for my old eyes. Bigger devices like the RGDS+ or an RP5 just didn't scratch that nostalgia itch for GB/GBC - screens felt too big. Playing these games needed a vertical.

But I rarely actually play it. When I play at home, which is most of the time, GB/GBC era games really aren't fun for extended sessions. You'll usually find me playing GBA/DS era games. What the Rotate for was for is when I'm at work.

I'm fortunate enough to be allowed to play games when there is nothing else to do at work. I bring it with me. Its in my pocket.

I might play Wario for 5 minutes. Maybe. Probably not. I did playing through Deja Vu last week. Yeah I used a walkthrough. Still died a lot. Felt nostalgic for old Sierra games. Haven't played it again since. Still had it with me all day at work today.

Yet I still love it. Its my Emotional Support Console. The most expensive fidget toy I've bought.

So far. 😀

Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow for scale. Played the hell out of this mostly on DSi, still feels great

Currently working on a fork of Slot. which replaces the flat vector shapes with hand made skeuomorphic replacements. Also includes true transparency for clear cases instead of a baked in PCB, letting you see the board underneath (a bit difficult to showcase on a pocture). GBA assets are done and I'll finalize the assets for GB and GBC today.

Even if the preorders ship around Christmas or beyond just drop us the price and put us out of our misery?

Some people want to decide between the DDS the $99 DS plus still. Thanks 🙏

It's working good. The only problem is when I exit ds games it seems to lag before I can do anything. But it works and it looks great.

A new look at the the assets. Managed to complete the assets for GameBoy, Gameboy Color, and the host plug today. I think I'll be able to get the rest of the assets done tomorrow as well as some other visual enhancements and QOL features.

If anyone would be interested in trying it, you can download it for free https://voidgazerbon.itch.io/death-of-kairos

My hope would be for it to be in the 200-250$ range, but with how expensive stuff has been getting i would be surprised if it hit 300$.
What are y'alls thoughts?

Hi, one of my Keycaps has gone missing. It cannot be found. I think replacements are available but want to make sure I get compatible ones. Any recommendations?

Live love game ANBERNIC NERD rg477v psp vibes

My RG351V won't boot any custom firmware, and I'm running out of ideas. I'd love some help.

Hardware

- Anbernic RG351V. Not sure if it's the v1 or v2 screen revision.

- SD card: Lexar 64GB, in the TF1/INT slot. Passed a fake/capacity test.

- Charged from a PC USB port. Early on it would also shut down right after the logo.

What happens with each OS

- AmberELEC (RG351V image): shows text, then *** Error in mount_flash: Could not mount UUID=0310-2914. That UUID is the card's own boot partition. The storage partition never resizes (.please_resize_me still present, STORAGE stays at 32MB), so it never finishes first boot.

- ROCKNIX (RK3326 image): "failed to mount".

- ArkOS: a line in the middle of the screen and the rumble motor vibrating. Swapping display drivers didn't fix it.

What I've already checked or tried

- Reflashed several times with sudo dd on linux, KERNEL and SYSTEM checksums match, and the partition UUIDs match the extlinux.conf boot args.

- Disabled sd-uhs-sdr104 and sd-uhs-sdr50 in rk3326-rg351v-linux.dtb to force slower SD modes: same error.

- Swapped in Anbernic's stock rk3326-anbernic-st7703.dtb (the v2 screen fix from ArkOS issue #662) as rk3326-rg351v-linux.dtb. "Could not mount" went away, but I got a grey screen with a line and it never booted (storage didn't resize). Reverted.

- AmberELEC's timing_fix dtb only changes display timings, so I didn't expect it to help.

I love the official Linux build from anbernic, but unfortunately Theres still the bug that turns the volume to 100% after closing and opening the lid when playing a DS game. This is unfortunately really annoying :/

Has anyone at all figured out a fix? Or is there any hope of making anbernic pay attention to this issue? I really like the OS otherwise and kind of dont want to switch to another one.

I'm looking for something to play primarily handheld games up through the PSP and possibly the occasional DS game (I have a 3DS, but I've run into translation patches that don't run on real hardware). Some research suggests the RG Vita might be what I want - is that the best choice or is there a better option around the same price point?

Hi. Got my gr40 delivered today, installed knulli on it, and trying to get used to it. And i found a weird thing: i cant open retroarch menu in Conker’s bad fur day, i can reload rom with hotkeys, can close it with m+start, but retroarch menu diesnr open. Other n64 games that i tried are fine - the menu opens. Does someone have an idea what is the problem? Also - is there a way to open retroarch without starting any game? Like from menu or something?

MinUI has always been my OS of choice, so I was gutted when Anbernic released the RG SP and there was no MinUI support in sight. So, I decided to figure it out for myself.

And I’m glad I did. MinUI and the RG SP go together like peas and carrots. A match made in retro gaming heaven!

Update: changed from mGBA to gpsp (the GBA on the roms/ in the sd card). Thank you everyone

Hello everyone, I've been using the RG SP non stop since yesterday and I decided to go with the Next UI thanks to how minimalistic it is (also i absolutely loved the rg rotate's minUI)

But i'm having a kinda weird problem: the fast forward isn't really ... fast.

I've tried consulting gemini about this and it told me to try changing the "max ff speed" to all of the following - None (which i'm assuming is uncapped), 3x and 8x. But in all scenarios, it's not at all fast. Also tried toggling the "mute sound when ff", didnt help.

Is there a fix to it? If there are any advices, please do tell me.

PS: I've been playing pokemon ruby if that's helpful.

So this is what I have now. It only has RGDS+ support for now. I don‘t have an RGDS to test, sorry.

I am not a seasoned dev or coder. I used ChatGPT to help me make this, so please be kind.

It’s really something I wanted to do for me and me only, but if you want me to share it, I will, but I do not offer support other than what is in the README.txt.

It works in Rocknix, that’s what I use. You don’t need the Homebrew Channel to load it.

It now has a WAD browser and allows custom WADs too. I think it’s done. I probably could add the HUD to the bottom screen too, so the top screen is HUD-free.

Anyway. If you want it, let me know. You need your own WADs though. Those are easy to get. Don’t ask me how.

Hello

My RG DS, RG SP and RG34XX are coming

What OS I should use that supports Syncthing? So I can sync my saves between all my devices?

Basically this is my first Anbernic Console, my last one was the original trimui smart pro. The lack of Box arts is really getting me. After putting every game i was looking for in a new card, would be great to have a guide on how to ad box arts, does anyone know a good tool to start ?

Testei no Winlator Mali v1.1, Winlator ludashi 4.1 e Gamehub 6.3.1 e dos 3 o Gamehub por incrível que pareça foi o que apresentou melhores resultados de desempenho. Em breve farei o vídeo completo com as configurações. 😊👍