So this is my written article covering the Retroid Pocket Nova. This one might be interesting to you because as well as chatting to Retroid, I asked them to share a couple of the early design renders of the Nova with me to feature in here.

They said yes, and you can see some of the differences between what they were planning, and what we got!

Along with that I chatted to developers like those behind Leaf Studio, rootComputer: the Steam Curator behind Is it 4:3 (the page covering all the PC games they add to their collection, which is super apt for the Nova), and bmdhacks, a friend and dev from ARMSX2.

Naturally I cover the usual things in here, but I thought these might be interesting too!

Hope you enjoy it :)

  • jaygray91@piefed.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    At most I would want to spend US$ 100. And of course waiting for aliexpress sales.

    There’s plenty there but I have shortlisted

    • the two anbernic SPs (always pros and cons that I can’t between the 3.5" 4:3 lower res screen of the 35sp, and the 3.4" 3:2 higher res screen), and now there’s the RG SP as well coming out soon…
    • the cubexx like you mentioned because it’s just so cute cube,
    • the trimui brick because that seems neat as a music player as well, the RG rotate because it’s gimmicky (but the 3.5" square screen is a big trade off for playing anything other than GB and pico8),
    • maybe the PAM but that has risen in price above $100
    • magicx one35 because it’s also gimmicky able to turn 90° and play TATE and somehow NDS as well with both screens the same size

    I really should just go with either of the SP for now, and if I don’t play much of it I didn’t lose too much money.