Looks nice. I am not a huge fan of the form factor though, I prefer the GBA style layout. I have a RetroSnap Play I got as a gift, I wonder how it compares. By biggest issue is it can never tell me the battery percentage, and it drains quickly when I close it with a game running. This combo sucks and makes me constantly nervous about keeping it charged so it won’t shut off in the middle of an important game.
The RetroSnap Play looks great! Glad you’ve been enjoying it! This is one of the R36S clones, basically its ‘one’ handheld that just keeps on selling and selling, and broke out of the niche hobby scene. That’s why you’ll see it on spaces like YouTube and (apparently, I don’t use it!) a ton on TikTok.
If you want to change the firmware so you’ll be able to see the battery state, then you can check out this guide on what is available:
Oh yeah, that is exactly what I want out of a handheld! And thank you so much for the link, I didn’t realize the firmware these things ship with is so out of date. If I can get the battery percentage working thanks to this, you’re a real life saver.
It doesn’t need anything more. These emulators are so well optimized now in RA that they just run beautifully. Well, with a couple exceptions I noted in my review.
This is a handheld that isn’t trying to do more than it claims, so 1GB is perfect!
If it can do it with just that then it’s sensible to have less, since idling memory will use power and the less you have the longer the battery will last.
Ive got the brick. Not the brick hammer. And it’s really quite fun to have. I’d whip it out on public transport or a plane faster than my steamdeck just because it’s less bulky. I mostly play pico-8 games on it.
That’s the nicest part of this kind of handheld. While being relegated to older games (unless you’re using something like the Odin 3 for example!), the convenience and portability are unmatched.
I love how slim and unobtrusive the Brick and Brick Hammer are, its been so easy to take on the go!
$10 clip + a used xbox controller + your phone and you have a gyro capable (your phone) mobile gaming system with probably the best gamepad ever.
I don’t think this takes the place of a gadget like the Brick Hammer but I do HEAVILY recommend going this route first as you likely already have an adequate phone and xbox controllers are cheap and plentiful on the used market (and their only real achilles heel is they don’t have gyro… which your phone solves).
notethis clip uses the model 1914 xbox controller to be precise, xbox controller names are so stupid… but also this clip is $10, who cares, fold some post-it notes/cardstock up a bunch and jam em in there and you can make a different controller work if it is a similar shape and size
Agreed but battery life is clutch with mobile devices. Dead phone batteries don’t facilitate travel. Or waiting for your car to get fixed and having this in the glove box … I mean your argument is basically against all retro handheld devices.
Yeah it depends on how much you’d use it I guess. I remember playing some old titles on a GBA emulator app back during highschool breaks, but it kinda got old quickly. Would be pointless to buy something specifically for it unless you’re really into it, but if so something like this that’s well integrated would be pretty neat to have.
This thing looks slick. How does it do with sleeping it mid-game session and resuming later? That’s the biggest make-or-break feature for me with any of these handhelds.
It does really well. The default OS which TRIMUI ships it with performs really well on the sleep front, but the community OS I’ve installed (NextUI) is known for how well they implement their ‘deep sleep’.
The overnight power draw I’ve seen has been 1% of the battery. NextUI’s use of it has by far been the best I’ve seen for a device’s sleeping. I saw someone say it lasts around 2 months in their deep sleep.
The brick hammer is great for everything up to Snes and GBA. It is my most used device of 7 or 8 that I own. It isn’t good for n64 and up, not because it won’t play them, but because it has no joystick. Even so, for Snes, nes and GBA I really believe that there is no better platform to play them on.
I think you can pick and choose the N64 games, there’s definitely some which are quite playable with the lack of the N64 claw’s odd controls. I’ve found that like you, sticking to those 3:2 systems are where its shined the most! Though right now I’m enjoying FFVII on there :)
A stonemason’s hammer, also known as a brick hammer, has one flat traditional face and a short or long chisel-shaped blade.[1] It can thus be used to chip off edges or small pieces of stone, cut brick or a concrete masonry unit, without using a separate chisel. The chisel blade can also be used to rapidly cut bricks or cinder blocks. This type of hammer is also used by geologists when collecting rock and mineral samples and is one of several types of geologist’s hammer.
If I’d known this, I’d have put it in my review! Thanks for sharing!!!
Just to be clear, this is basically a guess but feel free to add it if you want, if I am right I didn’t come up with it, it was just lost in translation.
What’s with the face censor? Is that just a photo mode thing? (I get it, it’s a reference to the Kiroshi optics blocking cameras. They say it once but it doesn’t seem to matter later, if you run from NCPD and break line of sight, others still know who you are despite the Kiroshis hiding your face from the cameras. So it was just flavour text.)
how do you lemmings deal with these random friend invites?
Dude, just talk to the person. You already seem to know every possible red flag there is. If they do something shady, you’ll know, but there’s also the possibility they’re just looking for friends.
I’ve made friendships online that are going for more than a decade at this point. I’m not saying you should trust everyone, but maybe just be less suspicious and let time show you what kind of person you’re taking to, it will reveal if the person is friendly or not.
Yeah I am talking with them, they do seem legit so hopefully I’m just being paranoid/overly cautious.
The reason I thought I’d post here is to make sure I’ve not missed something obvious and to understand what the risks are. I guess “something shady” would be asking me to do something weird like install unknown software, or asking lots of personal questions out of the blue.
Almost everyone uses discord for voip now. You can even use it in a browser.
I’ve got friends I still talk to on a regular from over 20 years ago from an MMO I played. Hell one of them, is a friend myself and another friend who I know offline still game with to this day, we’ve known them for almost 20 years now.
Get a better mic, download or browse to discord and act like a human.
I do already have a discord account & if that’s all they want to use, it wouldn’t be an issue at all. Only if it’s something weird they want me to install, like Team Viewer or some shit 😅
The most consistent DRG group I play with is women, so not that far fetched IMO. To your concern about leaking your IP, steam uses their own networking solutions to conceal your IP in non peer to peer games based on the settings under “Steam / Settings / In-Game / Steam Networking”. Check that and read up on the options and what they do.
conceal your IP in non peer to peer games based on the settings under “Steam / Settings / In-Game / Steam Networking”
Good tip thanks! Here’s the Steam page about it. The upshot seems to be that Steam itself won’t reveal your IP to others, but games might depending on how multiplayer is implemented.
“Steam doesn’t share your IP address with other players. Whenever peer-to-peer networking is needed, for example in a voice chat, that communication is always relayed. However, we don’t control what games using peer-to-peer connectivity do.”
“If a game uses our newest networking APIs (ISteamNetworkingSockets and ISteamNetworkingMessages), the traffic can be relayed using Steam Datagram Relay (SDR), Valve’s worldwide backbone and network of relays, and you can decide when to allow an app to share your IP address. Under Steam / Settings / In-Game / Steam Networking, there is an option that controls when your IP address is revealed”
and crucially regarding the default setting, “Default. This will not share your IP address, unless it appears necessary to avoid excessive ping times.”
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