Well, I’m sure most know by now that I’ve been reviewing handhelds for a good while. Anbernic sent over the 12GB/256GB ‘RG 477V’ handheld they released (this stands for ‘Retro Gaming’ - 4.7" Vertical and the other 7 denotes their higher tier set inside), which runs Android 14, for me to review. And…well, I did so.

It’s a much bigger handheld, and a vertical (the kind I have the least experience using), which was newish to me.

This is capable of upscaling PS2 games around 5x, playing full PC games via GameHub Lite (but…not all games, they’ll have to be lil fellows), and even some Switch games. Its a very powerful handheld. I went into it not expecting to love it, but…yeah I got won over.

In the end (since I finished my review), it’s just been playing original Game Boy games. The solid, thunky d-pad makes playing all the ollllllld games just so satisfying.

As ever, you can find the link to my full review here, if you’re curious about it. In this one I also asked Gamma to share his experiences in making GammaOS for this (he is a developer who creates a curated Android OS based on LineageOS for these handhelds), which was fun.

Or, as I always do, just…ask me something here about it, if you’re curious but don’t want to read a long review!

  • PerfectDark@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Oh thank you! So very much!

    Especially for the compliments on the site. Which I should add is actually created and ran by Gardiner Bryant who you might recognize from YouTube?!, but I’m an author on the site. And his good friend. So the fact you pivoted and read through other posts, and enjoyed it?

    I can’t tell you how happy that makes me (us!) :)

    And you’ll love the AIR Mini, though AYANEO is currently being put through the wringer for promising the world and being very slack with deliveries. So I do hope yours get posted and delivered soon.

    Thank you again!