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Retrogaming Hardware

jpfriction

jpfriction

(He, Him)
An old ds with an R4 card is probably still the best way to do that, just hard to get the form factor right otherwise. I haven’t looked much into hacking a 3DS but have to imagine the community has that figured out too.

I can confirm saturn games work great on a retroid 5. I was playing panzer dragoon saga just the other day.
 
Kazin

Kazin

did i do all of that?
(he/him)
Saturn runs great on the 5 and Mini, yeah. Sadly, its N64 emulation that still has issues here and there, and from what I understand it's an emulator issue, not hardware. Pilotwings 64 having weird shadow issues whenever you're over land makes me sad :(
 
Patrick

Patrick

Magic-User
(He/Him)
jpfriction said:
An old ds with an R4 card is probably still the best way to do that, just hard to get the form factor right otherwise. I haven’t looked much into hacking a 3DS but have to imagine the community has that figured out too.
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Yeah, I have a hacked 3DS with DS games on it. Unfortunately, the screens are different resolutions (and it's not a convenient multiple), so you can't play them at the full screen height and have them look as sharp as they do on a DS. So you can:

1) force the DS games to play at their actual resolution, but the display area is smaller. Or,

2) scale the DS games to full screen and use a filter. The default filter that Nintendo uses is terrible and blurry, but there are a lot better ones available on a hacked system.

I use option 2 and it's good enough. But, if you really want perfect DS emulation a hacked DSi will look better.

Fakeedit

I just searched and yeah you can totally play DS games using flip grip.

Flip.webp


Hmm... I bet that resolution isn't the best though. Maybe worth checking out down the road though.

Real EDIT:

DS is 256 x 192, vertical switch is 720 x 1280. yeah, that's no better than 3DS. Ah well.
 
Patrick

Patrick

Magic-User
(He/Him)
Oh man, I’m a dumbass. I’ve wanted to swap Start + Select with the function buttons on the Brick, and for some reason I assumed it was going to be complicated or require some weird method. But in MinUI you can just go in the menu and set Select to L3 and Start to R3. Then you can go to shortcuts and set save state to select and load state to start. And… it just works.

I have no idea why I assumed that wouldn’t work.
 
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