Thank you, as ever for following along with us!

RetroDECK deserves all the attention and accolades, and do know I’ll bring RomM integration up with both teams again for you :P

Just spotted that there’s been a firmware update.

Just be careful, updating basically resets all settings and favorites, dark mode to light etc

Thank you!

I’ve had a great time trying these out, and finding the one which will stick with me. You’ll have a great time with this, and while it is in the post you can start getting, building and curating your music collection! :P

(which color will you opt for?)

I love the shell!

The word ‘junk’ on Buyee/Japan’s online marketplaces doesn’t mean what it does elsewhere. It can mean anything:

• Not having a charger on hand, so it can’t be tested
• Literally just dusty
• They don’t know how it works
• …all the way to actual issues (which typically I’ve found are things like muck in the power switches which isopropyl alcohol fixes right up!)

Junk absolutely doesn’t mean they’re broken! Listings tend to go into a little detail on what is wrong with the consoles :)

I’ve bought a TON of handheld consoles through Buyee. DSi’s (I got a great DSi LL in box with all the bits, barely used for $52 AUD), GBA SPs, I even got a launch Switch to jailbreak from Japan!

I actually wrote a article on a ‘junk’ PSP from Japan, you can read more on it here:

https://gardinerbryant.com/i-bought-a-junk-psp-from-japan-heres-how-it-went/

You knew exactly what I meant by my headline with this article. If you thought I literally meant every person alive then you’ve got a rough go ahead of you!

Sorry for your (PSP) loss :(

It was the design on the back battery cover. Technically Vader is the black part!

PS Vita and RG Vita…just because I can

And a PSA for anyone who has a terribly dead or spicy pillow battery, OSTENT make great batteries which do an even better job than the originals. I opt for the 1,400 mAh ones, which give you more capacity with the same size!

No better time than now to pick one up!

I went from being amazed that anyone would opt for native hardware for older gaming (I am a huge fan of retro handhelds!) to being amazed anyone would not want one. There’s something to be said about the original games on the PSP, it just feels ‘right’.

And they’re relatively inexpensive (if you buy from Japan) to get one in nice shape these days. I’ve got another on the way from Tokyo right now:

Picked up a dedicated audio device recently (with another few on the way!), and it feels nice to curate my own offline, add-free, algorithm-free listening experience. Having music myself his been half the fun of this, I won’t be using any streaming app going forward.

It is also super adorable:

I know you mean a Meshtastic style internet in general. But this is too fascinating to not share. Meshtastic is amazing:

https://meshtastic.org/

Nothing about this is in any way similar to Stadia.

GameNative is open-source, free, and 100% spyware free.

What on earth?! I’m confused, are you saying GameNative is locked down, bloated and filled with spyware? Or that users who are running Android shouldn’t have something that is open-source and spyware free? Just checking for some clarification here, since your rant seems a bit…off-topic.

I’d recommend seeing what the community has shared, others may have uploaded their games/settings for that phone on EmuReady. The sites is maintained purely to share exactly that.

https://www.emuready.com/listings?deviceIds=["b600b2d5-3631-4f50-b235-a9d0d2559445"]

(here is the results filtered just by your handset, but these include all kinds of emulation, not just GameNative)

But by the same token, 99% of games which do (and don’t) run won’t have been shared there either. So it is a game-by-game basis.

A good one to start with would be a ‘light’ title like DREDGE, if you own it?

I’ll do a little checking and see what I can find on your phone though, will come back and edit with what I find soon!

Edit: Here is a post on Reddit where the OP asks the community how the Pixel 8 is for emulation in general. The top comment says that they’re using Winlator and have 60FPS/720p performance for BioShock, New Vegas, Wow with dx9/10 games. So these should translate to being the same performance/playability on GameNative (I’d hazard, anyway)

There’s also results in the GameNative Discord, but too many to share here. I do hope this helps, though!

Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE

Here’s the filter for just your device, if it helps:

https://www.emuready.com/listings?deviceIds=["fc4ef9e4-8df9-48b7-97b4-c9cace9a417f"]

I’m just wondering where the ‘conflict of interest’ is here?

It is a clear, attributable quote and perspective from the interviewee. What conflict?! Who else would the quote be from, when I am interviewing one person?

Edit. Yeah, doesn’t seem like you understand what a ‘conflict of interest’ actually is.

Have a look at my friend’s site:

https://www.emuready.com/

It is a space where community members upload their experiences and ideal settings for the devices and games. I might be biased because he is a friend, but I can also say that objectively it is a wonderful space to double-check how you’re approaching things.

Filter your search by your device, and then on the far-right, click on each result’s ‘eye’ to see what the person’s recommendations are in there (I do hope this helps!)