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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Gonna catch some heat with this but I feel like this is just future e-waste. I think it's better to take advantage of old but good hardware to run stuff, like hacked Vitas or 3DSes. Even switches should be usable for retro stuff down the line.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

3DS doesnt have portmaster or moonlight which is pretty cool about these devices. But yeah i do understand the ewaste sentiment especially since the people who buy these (me) have multiple devices that run the same games

[–] pory 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Miyoo also doesn't have portmaster. Not sure about Moonlight.

The most "future-proof" sort of SBC game device would probably be an Android based one like the Odin, since Android software at least pretends to be consistent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Ive heard this one will have moonlight since it uses a chip thats on other devices that have it. I havent looked in depth into it tho

[–] BeardedBlaze 2 points 5 days ago

I have vita and n3ds (both modded) and they have been collecting dust since I got the rg35xx-h. The form factor and most importantly portmaster makes it way better in my opinion.