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I've been somewhat thinking of getting one of these handheld Game Boy-esque systems, so it's nice to see some options and opinions, thank you. Does the RG350P p

by aquova 6y ago

I've been somewhat thinking of getting one of these handheld Game Boy-esque systems, so it's nice to see some options and opinions, thank you. Does the RG350P provide any other software besides emulation (Pico-8 support for example), or is that about it?

roywiggins 6y ago
There are basically three broad sets of handhelds: OpenDingux devices, ARM Linux devices, and Android ones. The RG350P is an OpenDingux device. There's a lot of OpenDingux devices- they have MIPS CPUs, so they don't run the same variety of software as the ARM-based ones. There's still a bunch of homebrew for OpenDingux, but it's not exactly organized, compared to Android and Linux devices. It involves hunting down poorly-documented executables, etc. Here's one list of software available: https://github.com/retrogamehandheld/OpenDingux https://github.com/retrogamehandheld/OpenDingux There are two Pico-8 emulators that run on those things, tac08 and retro8. They both work on many games, but it's a bit hit-and-miss. https://0xcafed00d.itch.io/tac08-rg350 https://0xcafed00d.itch.io/tac08-rg350 / https://github.com/Jakz/retro8 https://github.com/Jakz/retro8 However, it is apparently possible to get the official Raspberry Pi version of pico-8 running on the Odroid Go Advance, which is an ARM CPU running Linux, just like the RPi. https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=193&t=37256&start=800#p295789 https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=193&t=37256&start=8... Additionally to that, I dug up a version of TIC-80 ( https://tic80.com/ https://tic80.com/ ), an open-source PICO-like environment, compiled for the OpenDingux which will run on the RG350: https://github.com/retrogamehandheld/OpenDingux/raw/master/Emulators/TIC-80_2020-03-21.opk https://github.com/retrogamehandheld/OpenDingux/raw/master/E...

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I've been somewhat thinking of getting one of these handheld Game Boy-esque systems, so it's nice to see some options and opinions, thank you. Does the RG350P p

by aquova 6y ago

roywiggins 6y ago
There are basically three broad sets of handhelds: OpenDingux devices, ARM Linux devices, and Android ones. The RG350P is an OpenDingux device. There's a lot of OpenDingux devices- they have MIPS CPUs, so they don't run the same variety of software as the ARM-based ones. There's still a bunch of homebrew for OpenDingux, but it's not exactly organized, compared to Android and Linux devices. It involves hunting down poorly-documented executables, etc. Here's one list of software available: https://github.com/retrogamehandheld/OpenDingux https://github.com/retrogamehandheld/OpenDingux There are two Pico-8 emulators that run on those things, tac08 and retro8. They both work on many games, but it's a bit hit-and-miss. https://0xcafed00d.itch.io/tac08-rg350 https://0xcafed00d.itch.io/tac08-rg350 / https://github.com/Jakz/retro8 https://github.com/Jakz/retro8 However, it is apparently possible to get the official Raspberry Pi version of pico-8 running on the Odroid Go Advance, which is an ARM CPU running Linux, just like the RPi. https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=193&t=37256&start=800#p295789 https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=193&t=37256&start=8... Additionally to that, I dug up a version of TIC-80 ( https://tic80.com/ https://tic80.com/ ), an open-source PICO-like environment, compiled for the OpenDingux which will run on the RG350: https://github.com/retrogamehandheld/OpenDingux/raw/master/Emulators/TIC-80_2020-03-21.opk https://github.com/retrogamehandheld/OpenDingux/raw/master/E...