Edit: What a great thread. I love you Lemmy nerds!

I’ve been seeing these new devices coming out that come preloaded with something like 20,000 roms across every console released from the 70’s to the 2010’s, and I have to admit, I’m tempted.

I’m wondering if anyone out there has purchased one of these and what was your experience with it?

  • otacon239@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Yep. About 19950 of those games are junk you wouldn’t want to play and the other 50 are usually poorly ported and you have to dig through the list for hours to find them.

    You’re better off getting one that has no preloaded games and pirating.

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      Getting a handheld that runs something that lets you swap the emulator/software and run your own ROM’s would be best, cuz then you’re the ome in control. “Ah but then theres the whole setup!” realistically you set things up once and thats it, only mess with it in future if you want to change anything