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The Powkiddy X18 Is Another Clamshell Android Handheld
GPD haven’t had much competition when it comes to clamshell handhelds. Over the past few years they’ve done an excellent job of cornering the market with high quality devices spanning most niches from...
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BennVenn’s New Backlit GBA Solution
With the rising costs of reproduction AGS-101 LCD panels it was high time that a better solution was made available to modders, and it looks as though BennVenn is coming to the rescue. Over the past...
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Baidu Comes Alive With Talk Of Powerful Open Source Handheld
It’s been mere weeks since Xiaolong Wang released the LDK Game, a Linux based JZ4760B handheld running OpenDingux. But the same designer is now talking of a sequel, and this time he’s set his sights...
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Wanted: 2 Older Chinese Handhelds
This is a longshot, but if anyone has either of the 2 handhelds listed below knocking around in a cupboard somewhere that they’d be willing to sell to me, I’d be very interested. Feel free to leave a...
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The Little Dragon King (LDK)
Things are finally changing, it seems. The New Bittboy and the LDK are both shipping directly from China with OpenDingux/RetroFW pre-installed on them. Thanks in part to the commitment of Chinese...
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The RetroMini 2 aka RetroMax – Don’t get too excited
7 months ago a thread on reddit started by the “creator” of the RetroMini promised us a follow up device with improvements in almost every area. Although the thread quickly took a downward turn as...
View ArticleThe RetroMax is a Stop Gap – RetroPlus Coming Soon
Nobody panic! The RetroMax is not the successor to the RetroMini after all. We earlier reported that the RetroMax was listed on retromini.com (it has since been removed) and Aliexpress, and knowing...
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RetroMini 2.0 vs RetroMini Shell
Now that we know the RetroPlus (aka RetroMini 2.0) will be sharing the same shell as the cheapo Famiclone RetroMax, I thought it’d be a nice idea to compare them and see how they differ. The new shell...
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The Digi RetroBoy GBA Hardware Clone
I was kindly sent one of these a couple of weeks ago, though I wasn’t asked to review it and I have no retailer or other beneficiary to promote in this post – just so you know! The Digi RetroBoy’s...
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A Round Up Of Currently Available Handhelds
It’s been a good few years since I did this, and a few people have asked. Below is a table of some of the more obscure handhelds that are currently available. I’m sure this list isn’t exhaustive,...
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Dust Off Your RetroMini, OpenDingux Has Arrived
The RetroMini was released back in November 2017 and despite its good looks and authentic 240×160 Game Boy Micro LCD, it never really found its feet. The problem for the most part is that the factory...
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New BittBoy With Shoulder Buttons – PocketGo Available Soon!
One of the problems with last year’s BittBoy is that many of the systems it can emulate require use of shoulder buttons, which weren’t implemented on the portrait oriented version from last year. The...
View ArticleA Wild Prototype LDK v2 Appears
This thing appeared on Tieba today, and from the comments it looks to be a prototype of a new revision LDK Game. There’s only this one photo, and from what I can gather it’s only a change of form...
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LDK ‘Landscape’ Hits The Shelves
The updated landscape version of the LDK is now available to order. Housed inside a similarly chunky looking shell, the LDK Landscape is more of an iteration than an upgrade. The hardware matches that...
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Is This The Long Awaited RetroMini v2 aka RetroPlus?
Not by name perhaps – but this thing sure looks familiar. The RG-300 is another portrait oriented OpenDingux handheld, this time with a 3″ LCD display similar to that of the Revo K101 in that it has a...
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Is the Pocket-Go Really That Good?
The last week or so has seen a whole load of Pocket-Go reviews go up on YouTube, with almost nothing but amazingly positive conclusions. Mine arrived yesterday and I’ve spent the last couple of days...
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RetroGame RS-97 2019 Edition
The hugely popular RetroGame RS-97 from December 2017 has already seen one update in the form of the RS-97 Plus, which features an “analog” nub tacked on to the lower left corner. Unfortunately for...
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Tony Jih’s RG350 Handheld Prototype
For the past few months speculation has been rife on Tony Jih’s forthcoming RG350 handheld over at the Retro Gaming Handhelds discord server. Finally we have some photos of the brand new open source...
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Is the RG300 King Of The JZ4760B Handhelds?
Despite being almost 10 years old, the JZ4760/B SoC from Ingenic is currently living it up in a whole host of different handheld systems. It’s said that they can currently be had for as little as $5...
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Creoqode’s Lyra is a very expensive RPi3 handheld
The Raspberry Pi Compute Modules have never gotten much love from manufacturers of obscure handhelds. In many ways they’re the perfect candidate for driving these things – the software is already...
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