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SBC Gaming

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SBC Gaming is for Single Board Computer aimed to play video-games, also called Retro Handhelds

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Retroid Pocket 2S Officially Announced (www.goretroid.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just wish they weren't running android. I find it so clunky compared to something like onion os or emulation station

[–] OptiZonion 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes I'm always skeptical with the Android choice. I get that they can sell the idea that you can run Android games (but on such a small screen ?) but I'd rather have an OS solely dedicated to retro-emulation. To be fair, the firmwares shipped by these Chinese brands before they went with Android were often quite awful and custom firmware were needed to fix the issues but still...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Even when I love Onion OS I feel having Android brings a more dynamic setup, you can just slap on a sweet front end and you are pretty much good to go.

What I have seen is that it seems that some brands are making the Android initial process setting a bit less of a pain in the ass... I custom ROM frequently so I don't need more of that in my life lol.