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Guest2 said:
£53 extra for shipping. Think id wait the ~10 days it took to arrive.
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Why would I wait extra 10 days for same price? It’s not any cheaper with shipping it’s 179 plus $20 for shipping and plus taxes. So over 200. On Amazon it’s 195 plus taxes so also it’s just over 200. But I will get it in 2 days…

I appreciate you taking the time to help me.
 
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DabboPiff said:
Why would I wait extra 10 days for same price? It’s not any cheaper with shipping it’s 179 plus $20 for shipping and plus taxes. So over 200. On Amazon it’s 195 plus taxes so also it’s just over 200. But I will get it in 2 days…

I appreciate you taking the time to help me.
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Eh, are you talking in usd or gbp for amazon? Are you in uk?
 
Ok I pulled the trigger thanks for your helps now I’m not sure if I’ll keep my rg34xxsp or not. I’ll have a week or two after I get that pocket mini to decide.

Also can I transfer my roms/bios and emulator folders to the retroid pocket mini v2 from the anbernic I have? I know I probably can’t use the same UI but will it be easy to transfer over all my Roms I currently have from the anbernic? Should I use the stock UI on the retroid or is the android UI?

Thank you
 
DabboPiff said:
Ok I pulled the trigger thanks for your helps now I’m not sure if I’ll keep my rg34xxsp or not. I’ll have a week or two after I get that pocket mini to decide.

Also can I transfer my roms/bios and emulator folders to the retroid pocket mini v2 from the anbernic I have? I know I probably can’t use the same UI but will it be easy to transfer over all my Roms I currently have from the anbernic? Should I use the stock UI on the retroid or is the android UI?

Thank you
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Of course (if you have bios in a bios fokder and roms in roms) :)

I doubt you will, i had a 34xxsp and sold it as i moved on. I just like using 1 device mainly, but some collect them.

I wish retroid did soft buttons similar to Ambernic. The mini was fantastic for me apart from the super clicky annoying buttons. No one should need to mod their device buttons by taking it all to pieces just to make it quieter, just off a damned ‘quiet buttons’ version for thise who dont like clicky.

RG Cube buttons and dpad have been the best so far (my opinion of course)

Edit - not sure what you mean about stock or android ui, it’s android by default and i think Rocknix is also supported on the rp mini.
 
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I just heard of this new handheld coming out called AYANEO pocket air mini. The only downside I really see is it has 3gb of ram. But it says it can play a lot of ps2 titles and game cube. And it’s priced under at or under $100 max. About 75 pounds o believe

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Guest2 said:
Of course (if you have bios in a bios fokder and roms in roms) :)

I doubt you will, i had a 34xxsp and sold it as i moved on. I just like using 1 device mainly, but some collect them.

I wish retroid did soft buttons similar to Ambernic. The mini was fantastic for me apart from the super clicky annoying buttons. No one should need to mod their device buttons by taking it all to pieces just to make it quieter, just off a damned ‘quiet buttons’ version for thise who dont like clicky.

RG Cube buttons and dpad have been the best so far (my opinion of course)

Edit - not sure what you mean about stock or android ui, it’s android by default and i think Rocknix is also supported on the rp mini.
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Hey thanks again I actually canceled my order :( haha I’m gona wait and see about this ayaneo and if anything else might come out in early 2026. Plus Black Friday is right around the corner so might as well atleast wait until than
 
DabboPiff said:
Hey thanks again I actually canceled my order :( haha I’m gona wait and see about this ayaneo and if anything else might come out in early 2026. Plus Black Friday is right around the corner so might as well atleast wait until than
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Just an FYI the Ayaneo Pocket Air Mini is running Android 11 which is 5 years old at this point and I believe doesn't get any further security updates. If you're just running emulators that might be okay for you. But personally I wouldn't want a device with such an old version.
 
KraniX said:
Just an FYI the Ayaneo Pocket Air Mini is running Android 11 which is 5 years old at this point and I believe doesn't get any further security updates. If you're just running emulators that might be okay for you. But personally I wouldn't want a device with such an old version.
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Oh ok good to know thanks, what does retroid pocket use? Are any other handhelds compatible with anbernic software? I would prefer just an easy swap and not have to worry about setting up a whole new system.

Do the higher end anbernic still work with the ui as the lower ends?

I mostly only run emulators so probably wouldn’t affect me too much.
 
DabboPiff said:
Oh ok good to know thanks, what does retroid pocket use? Are any other handhelds compatible with anbernic software? I would prefer just an easy swap and not have to worry about setting up a whole new system.

Do the higher end anbernic still work with the ui as the lower ends?

I mostly only run emulators so probably wouldn’t affect me too much.
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Retroid pocket classic uses Android 14.
Sorry, what do you mean ‘Anbernic software’?

Anbernic devices (similar to all other devices) use either Android as the OS or some form of Linux. All Anbernic Linux devices come with a ‘stock os’ (custom firmware made by Ambernic) but you can put your own on, own as in MuOS, rocknix, knulli, GarlicOS, MinUI and others. Stock os is usually pretty poor.
Androud devices usually come with a ‘launcher’ app as the frontend for opening games. The Retroid one is pretty good. You can add your own, e.g. emulation station or Daijisho. I use the latter.

Technically speaking, Android runs on Linux. It relies on core system services (kernel) to run the Android runtime for its core libraries.

Anyone, feel free to correct me. Im no expert!
 
Guest2 said:
Retroid pocket classic uses Android 14.
Sorry, what do you mean ‘Anbernic software’?

Anbernic devices (similar to all other devices) use either Android as the OS or some form of Linux. All Anbernic Linux devices come with a ‘stock os’ (custom firmware made by Ambernic) but you can put your own on, own as in MuOS, rocknix, knulli, GarlicOS, MinUI and others. Stock os is usually pretty poor.
Androud devices usually come with a ‘launcher’ app as the frontend for opening games. The Retroid one is pretty good. You can add your own, e.g. emulation station or Daijisho. I use the latter.

Technically speaking, Android runs on Linux. It relies on core system services (kernel) to run the Android runtime for its core libraries.

Anyone, feel free to correct me. Im no expert!
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When I reference the anbernic software im speaking about how if you put a micro SD card in and and power it on it will pre load all the folders and what not so you know where everything goes.

Thanks that’s that’s a lot of help information
 
DabboPiff said:
When I reference the anbernic software im speaking about how if you put a micro SD card in and and power it on it will pre load all the folders and what not so you know where everything goes.

Thanks that’s that’s a lot of help information
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You could copy the Roms over, no problem. But the OS would not be transferable. Anbernic Linux devices store the OS on the SD card. Android devices the OS is stored on the device itself.
 
Quite tempted by this. In purple it looks fantastic.

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AYN Thor

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Mobius 1 said:
Quite tempted by this. In purple it looks fantastic.

www.ayntec.com

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I actually saw that today def going to keep an eye on it. Very nice

I feel like the base is plenty enough for emulation up to ps2 GameCube easy

You can use the top screen separate from the bottoms screen. That’s very cool. So you can watch a walkthrough on the top screen while playing on the bottom screen.
 
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Figured out my slow booting with MUOS. It seems to be the latest software version (Silly Goose) that is causing slow booting. I've reverted back to an earlier version (Banana) and this is now booting consistently within 8s. I guess the developers sacrificed boot time to add more functionality, but boot time is probably my key feature! Hopefully they can improve it a bit in later revisions.
 
Macky said:
Figured out my slow booting with MUOS. It seems to be the latest software version (Silly Goose) that is causing slow booting. I've reverted back to an earlier version (Banana) and this is now booting consistently within 8s. I guess the developers sacrificed boot time to add more functionality, but boot time is probably my key feature! Hopefully they can improve it a bit in later revisions.
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I like the original mustard / muos and i think it was beans after. The boot time and power down were always the key things for me.
 
The sleep then save functionality doesn't seem to work correctly with the latest MUOS for my RG35XXSP when closing the lid.

I have auto save and load set and MUOS to resume game, if I change the option to immediate shut down then it does save my progress and switch off as expected.

But using the sleep then shutdown doesn't make an additional save.

That's quite annoying, although minui supposedly does support this so might try that instead.
 
Tried MuOS last night on my RG35xx Pro.

Not impressed. Yes it boots faster and has themes but other than that everything seems worse than modded stock.

Having to remember shortcut buttons that aren't always the same just to quit for example (tried changing the retro arch one back to just menu key but it didn't seem to save). No boxart by default (even though I still have the boxart that shipped) and no built in scraper either.

Will try Knulli tonight, but was hoping MuOS would be decent as read that Knulli is very slow to boot etc.
 
Armageus said:
Tried MuOS last night on my RG35xx Pro.

Not impressed. Yes it boots faster and has themes but other than that everything seems worse than modded stock.

Having to remember shortcut buttons that aren't always the same just to quit for example (tried changing the retro arch one back to just menu key but it didn't seem to save). No boxart by default (even though I still have the boxart that shipped) and no built in scraper either.

Will try Knulli tonight, but was hoping MuOS would be decent as read that Knulli is very slow to boot etc.
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Is GarlicOS still a thing for RG35XX / Pro? That's incredible. Boot time around 7 or 8 seconds and the OS just works. You do have to sort your own box art though as it was before the times of having Wifi / network access.
 
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