I never had time or headspace to tinker with my #anbernic but it came with some preloaded games. I played a few, just to get the feel of it. I didn't own many consoles when I was young, so many old games are new to me. I found Fire Emblem 4 there and started playing it. It works fine, better than my Awakening clunky Samsung S22 edition lol. Ah, and rumors say #fireemblem4 will be remastered. I'll definitely get that. I'm sure they will do something with Awakening too.
@helligbird Oh, gotcha. Mine came with just one SD card. I ended up making two separate folders for some systems, one with my favorites and one with hundreds of games I will probably never play but can always explore if I want to…
I've been quiet most of this week because I've been slightly off the grid and just chilling in rural Maryland while house sitting (and pool sitting and dog sitting) but I spent a bunch of time messing around with the Anbernic RG35XX running GarlicOS so I'll probably do some posts about that...
I had a ton of game for the Game Boy (plus GBA and GBC) loaded but had paired them down to just my favorites, but I added in tons again to try new ones.
I think ultimately I'll just make two swappable SD cards, one with favorites and one fully loaded with every ROM I can find.
(I'll just keep them both in the travel case I use.)
This will allow a "fun/play" mode and an "explore" mode by just a card swap.
So basically multiple copies with different names.... though I'm guessing they would not save state since the system would see them as different games so... maybe not.
thinkin' about picking up one of those little #emulator handhelds for my birthday. anyone have strong opinions on the #miyoo mini vs. one of the #anbernic consoles? looking to spend around $100.
@espercontrol I like the #Anbernic#RG35XX but I'm very much a fan of Game Boy style stuff, not so much later consoles or systems. GarlicOS on the RG35XX is really nice!
Okay, I've got a basic script that works to fix corrupt PICO-8 files on the Anbernic RG35XX running GarlicOS. You run it using SimpleTerminal and it's interactive so you just need to type Y, N, or Q as it loops through the most recently modified files. It's probably not perfect but seems to work in my basic testing.
Just did a search on whether anyone’s gotten Apple II disk images to run on an #Anbernic#RG35XX and found only my own lonely Reddit thread. Anyone? Anyone?
Accomplished two things things early this afternoon:
Plopped in a replacement battery for my Anbernic RG552 after the original one turned into a spicy pillow. The back cover has a small bulge from there the battery had puffed up. I had to use two-sided tape to stick the new battery to the back cover.
It's charging now and hope the replacement one doesn't become another spicy pillow.
Replaced the 4 GB Pi 4 that had the flaky Ethernet port with a new 8 GB Pi 4 board that I will be using to play around with Prometheus and Grafana.
I still love the Anbernic RG35XX with GarlicOS but wow I find myself having to write a bunch of scripts to run on the device to fix things that go wrong...
Luckily I'm getting better at writing them, so that's a nice bonus. (Shell scripts were never my strong point.)
While I do really like TIC-80 I’ve found that most of the games just run too slow on the Anbernic RG35XX. One that does work is Robavoid, which doesn’t rely on things moving quickly. There is one game I tested that showed the FPS and it looks like it’s just too slow for most games with fast movement or jumping. (Almost every PICO-8 game plays fast enough though.)
New core for TIC-80 (tic80): HUGE performance improvement, here are benchmark results:
Bunnymark (bunnies number till stutters): 40 bunnies in old core, 340 bunnies in new core
Crapmark (overall score): 3170 in old core, 10015 in new core
I haven't seen a Game Dad post in a while... I've been doing a routine where I play a game/games for maybe 15 to 20 minutes before I go to sleep, which matches up well with my partner who plays iPad games before bed. I've found it to be a relaxing wind down before sleep, and much better than doom scrolling.