Stupid cheap handheld gets absurdly versatile with new custom firmware

Remember the Data Frog SF2000? It's a re-donkulously cheap handheld game system sold on Chinese mail order outlets like AliExpress and Temu. You can get one of these for as little as twenty dollars, not a bad deal when you consider there's just enough power packed into one of these systems to play Capcom arcade games and a hefty assortment of 8-bit titles.

Well, the world's cheapest handheld that you'd actually want to play (there are cheaper, but for your sanity's sake, just don't do that to yourself) is that much better, thanks to the efforts of one Madcock and his custom firmware. Multicore Alpha 0.10 was just released, and features support for Atari 5200 and Atari 7800 games, in addition to the dozen systems supported by previous builds.

If you're an Atari fan, this is very good news. Thanks to this firmware update, the Data Frog runs the libraries of nearly every Atari game console, save for the 64-bit Jaguar. (I've played the Jaguar. Trust me, you're not missing much.)