old and retro video games and how you play them (emulation, fpga, vintage hardware, remasters, analogue, whatever)

psp is great too! sadly the battery on mine turfed out, and then i bought a replacement online which proceeded to grow very big and scary...

but the vita screen... my god. it's insane that that thing is as old as it is and still looks better than most things on the market. just a gorgeous screen. (the original vita specifically -- as i understand it, they cut the OLED from the slim vita!)

Ok I had had a digital io board on my mister and was running hdmi thru a series of different hdmi converters/scalers for crt... Finally caved and bought an analog io board. If you plan on using this thing on a crt even occasionally, JUST GET THE ANALOG IO BOARD. You can still use hdmi (afaict the only advantage of the Digi board is it lets you slot two ram cards, which is... Unnecessary for all stable core releases?) and the difference between a pure analog signal and an hdmi to converter... My god, THIS IS WHAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE

Also, the 8bitdo m30 controller is so damn nice

I'd use it for everything if the 6 button layout didn't feel weird for... Anything non-sega. I have an sn30 for everything else, which is... Fine? But not as good

How do you find the latency on bluetooth?
How are the various clone portables in terms of controller feel/responsiveness?

i don't use the BT much, i've just got them plugged by USB. i'm sitting right beside this little 20" trinitron so no need for it. i'll try it later today though

https://rpubs.com/misteraddons/inputlatency

from that list it looks like the worst case is about 30ms lag, which is a frame i think? seems within tolerable limits, much better than the brutal experience i had with trying a 3rd party switch controller on BT with my phone that one time (that was like 3 second lag. brutal)

30ms is closer to 2 frames, a 60hz frame is about 16.7ms

2 frames total lag (from button press to onscreen result) would be very good indeed but game, console, and monitor-specific lag all need to be taken into account and that list has latency figures *only* for the controllers and *only* when used with the mister

ok last spam of the day 6th gen poll (ps2 era)

any of yall use one of the many many handhelds emulator machines?

Think there was talk of this in the "what are you playing now", or some other I love games thread

Yeah, I recently got an RG35XX and I've been playing it tons. Currently working through some of the GBA library that I paid to access on Switch, but which I'd much rather play on this cuter/more portable device. I was worried that the 3.5 inch screen would seem too cramped, but it doesn't bother me at all.

It's also been fun for light tinkering; I installed a custom OS, and took it apart to install improved shoulder buttons/put some electrical tape under the D-pad, which was registering false diagonals. So now it feels really like it's "mine," which is not how I ever expected to feel about a piece of cheap consumer electronics. These things are neat!

looks way more affordable/easier to get than an Analogue... tempting

Yeah if not being FPGA isn't an issue for you, and you don't mind a cheap build quality, I say go for it. You get the added benefit of being able to play older console titles too, not just handhelds. Some of these things can even run up to sixth-generation consoles. As m bison noted, there are many of these things on the market, with a wide range of capabilities. It's quite the rabbit hole.

the steam deck is awesome but obviously much more than just an emulator handheld and much more expensive.
my only gripe is that many of the recommended "emulation launchers" are written by linux newbies who are figuring it out as they go along. not really an issue for most people, but there have been a few times where i thought i'd contribute or fix a bug, took one look at the code, and immediately dropped the idea

i still haven't installed emudeck. i hate steam deck desktop mode.

Chuck Tatum was your sticklebrick thing a "Multiface"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiface

I’ve got a miyoo mini+ loaded with onionOS. it’s great

i still haven't installed emudeck. i hate steam deck desktop mode.

yeah desktop mode is pretty intolerable without a mouse and keyboard, i generally try to do any non-steam thing remotely over ssh. but i'm also a huge linux dork who is over the moon that a best-in-class gaming device runs the OS

also if you're more used to the retropie-style retroarch+emulationstation approach, there's also retrodeck you can try but both will require dropping down to desktop mode :)

i got paid today so i dropped some money on the retroid pocket 4, i like that it'll handle all the n64 games im interested in and some ps2 as well