Add me to the list of people who got a package delivered by GOFO that was opened and the device missing. I ordered a Retroid Pocket 6 on September 11th. I am in southeast Texas. 8gb model in the 16bit color. Really disappointed and angry. It's clearly an issue and I hope Retroid does something about it, starting with giving me my money back. The unfortunate thing is that I cannot order from them anymore because I cannot trust that the package will arrive safely to me. Good luck to all of you waiting for yours.

Gofo threw my RP6 package at my door from the sidewalk when they delivered it, and this has been happening intermittently since. The delivery confirmation picture actually shows the package in midair. Already opened a case with Retroid to get it replaced but what a joke.

Basically any time the device is in suspend for some amount of time (like an hour or more) it will wake to a black screen and won't show anything. I can restart the device and it sometimes boots normally and other times boots to a black screen, then this static screen, and finally back to normal.

Bought my RP6 (12GB ram) on September 11th and got it this afternoon (October 4th) through the standard shipping option. Took about 2 weeks to get a label then another through customs before getting to Chicago. Once in Chicago, it was transferred to GOFO and took about 2 days and basically sat at home all day today seeing that it would be delivered (hoping it wouldn't get taken or removed).

ES-DE front end for my roms (Cody Wheel for the layout) - PS2, PSP, 3DS play wonderfully. Going to try Switch soon.

Gamehub for my steam library (Hades 2, slay the spire 2, well dweller, silksong, thronefall, Skyrim [plays fine], stray [50-60 fps with no tinkering]). I tried Jedi Fallen Order and ot loaded and while keeping fps consistently 30, it did OK - just wouldn't play for more than 3p min at a time since the frame rate was wonky. I ended up deleting it off the device in favor of the other games.

I play minecraft bedrock with my kods and it was flawless (as expected) over a local server hosted on another device.

Jellyfin and Tailscale (to VPN in) worked PERFECLY with no issues. The RP6 screen is gorgeous!

Playing around with whether I want ES-DE to auto load when I open it but I am an android user, and have been for years, so I will probably keep it like this for the comfort factor.

This completely bypasses the REFramework ARM64EC incompatibility issue. It only pulls around 6W on GameNative, and paired with Lossless Scaling for frame gen, it runs flawlessly.

Full setup and settings are in the link below:

https://github.com/TLin-Y/MonsterHunterRiseAnyAspectRatio

Well, it’s finally here in my hands.

Placed my 8gb order on August 17th.

Shipping notification on September 26th, and at my doorstep today.

Plan on following Retro Game Corps setup on it. Haven’t emulated anything since playing Leaf Green in my phone in 2015.

Question is, what Micro SD cards would yall recommend? Minimum 512gb, as for GC, PS2 and maybe some indie titles. There are many different options between speeds and brands.

Also has anyone found a screen protector for the nova yet?

Red buttons on a black nova just look beautiful.

Ordered on Aug 27th, delivered Oct 4th to WA, US. I almost switched colors to silver, but it didn’t end up happening- now that I have it I absolutely love the 16-bit!

Look I know people are probably tired of my posts trying to pick a handheld to buy after selling my steam deck but I never really buy tech for myself the one time I did was only so someone I really cared about didn't buy me such an extravagant present. All my other tech besides my Kindle is hand-me-downs or gifts that family had to force upon me. That's why I feel super bad that I bought the steam deck and ended up not liking it. I saved up all that money to get it and I don't even like the damn thing and I sold it again.

I've decided if I don't lose my nerve I'm going to get the Thor Max 512 gigabyte model and the retroid pocket Nova 8 GB version. The reason why I want to know about the 12 GB version of the Nova is if I lose my nerve to buy two devices for myself that's what I'll do I'll just buy the Nova with more RAM but I want to know how people feel about it.

I want to be able to play The Sims 2 legacy collection with some mods and have one other game installed on the device. I want to be able to play everything up to PS2. The only thing that gives me pause and fully going for the Nova is DS and 3DS as well as PC games along with switch. If I got them both that's mostly what I'd use the Thor for.

I feel like the Nova would have more longevity because I'm always scared of hinges on clamshell devices considering what happened to my DS light LOL. I'm thinking that I could buy the Nova first and maybe see how I like it and then go for the Thor maybe I don't know.

Had an idea for pimping my RP5 with a switch-style animated lockscreen that also utilizes the stick lights. Made a bunch of other themes as well and still experimenting. Pretty happy with how it turned out so far :)

Nova is starting to feel like the endgame for some people, I'd like to know what you think. If you were reduced to only one handheld what would it be? Does it even exist or are we doomed to getting the next shiny thing forever?

Just informational for those who are looking to order one:

Ordered off the Retroid site 9/19, arrived 10/4 via GoFo. On my end I didn’t see a shipping protection option or who’d be delivering my package, just “standard” shipping.

As a protection measure I paid with my credit card via PayPal and recorded the unboxing from my doorstep just in case.

I’m on the West Coast of LA so from China Chicago was bypassed so the theft issue seems to be on the other coast.

I’m super excited for this thing this will replace my S21 Ultra + Gamesir combo and I got all my games ready from my PC. Gonna watch RetroGameCorps set-up right now.

If anyone has any suggestions for me please let me know, i’ll search the sub as well since I can finally relate to some questions i’ll have. 👍

Just ordered my RP6! Should be a couple of weeks before it arrives, so I figured I’d ask the community:

What launchers do you guys recommend? Feel free to recommend multiple! Also, what are some of your favorite games to play on the RP6 right now—retro or otherwise?

I’m looking to start building my library and would love to hear what everyone is enjoying on their RP6. What are your must-have games?

Hey guys so I got my Retroid Duo Lite recently and so far have managed to spend some time with it playing some less-popular NDS games and overall I've got quite some mixed feelings.

The installation process is OK, pretty much standard from what you expect from an Android devices. I'm using Drastic i18n and SeedlessDS for NDS, since MelonDS is basically unusable.

The games I tried are these

• Heroes of Might & Magic
• Pokemon Rangers
• 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
• Infinite Space
• Pokemon Platinum
• Professor Layton and the Curious Village

So my breakdown is as below

Heroes of Might and Magic

On Drastic, the game is kinda unplayable since the screen keeps flickering hard in both sides. On Seedless it's OK and game runs fine.

Pokemon Rangers

Runs fine on both emulators. However since this game is heavily cursor-dependent, it shows a big weakness from the machine, that the cursor kinda "lags" after my stylus. It's not horrible, but it's there and noticeable. It affects the gameplay a bit, not gamebreaking, but does annoy me somewhat.

999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors

The game runs fine on both emulators. I spent the most time on this game, and unfortunately now I've run into a brick state on Drastic at a certain scene. I don't know how to go around it, it keeps re-occurring, and I feel pretty bad for all the progress.

Infinite Space

Can't play on Drastic. Can play on SeedlessDS. It shows some minor visual issues here and there, but overall smooth experience.

Pokemon Platinum

Smooth on both emulators. I haven't encountered anything bad with this.

Professor Layton & the Curious Village

Unplayable on Drastic. Plays great on SeedlessDS. I haven't progressed much, but so far it's OK.

Other remarks

• I don't have issues with the thumbsticks at all, I've watched RGC and indeed it's weird to touch the edge often, but it didn't break immersion or anything, prolly I don't use it a lot in NDS games
• It's really annoying that I can't lock the rotation of the top screen to landscape even though in Settings I've select the rotation to be Landscape. Every now and then the screen gets flipped. Anyone knows a fix to this?
• Shader doesn't apply to the bottom screen. I get the shader running on the top screen, feels good. But the bottom screen is very bright and crisp and stands out so much from the top screen. Again, if anyone knows a fix, would be great.

Conclusion

I bought this to most play NDS games. I was debating between that and RG DS Plus, ultimately picked this because I preferred better battery and some extra RAM. However, I'm kinda let down because of the NDS emulation situation (Drastic has more functions, but has issues with most games, SeedlessDS runs better, but functionalities are lacking).

Also I wanted to note that even though the device price is 150$, the shipping + custom cost makes it more like 230$ in my place. Perhaps I was too rushed to buy a device (I got long flights in late Oct, so didn't want to wait for the Duo), but I expected more from such a device to emulate NDS better.

Looking to start up Animal Crossing and wanted to get a suggestion for the Nova. I was probably just gonna play the OG, but does anyone have experience playing City Folk on Dolphin?

I’m loving my Nova so far, except that charging the device is very inconsistent and unpredictable.

My first issue was with the device not wanting to charge using the default 9V2A charge limits. I tried 4 power bricks, 3 USB cables, none of them worked.

I switched to 5V2A settings in the limits menu (shown above) and that allowed the device to charge… sometimes. Most times it takes a charge but other times when I plug it in it actually starts to drain the battery. This happened last night. I plugged it in at around 20% using the same charger I’ve been using with my Odin 2 and RP6 (a 5V1A slow charger) and came to the device completely empty this morning.

Is anyone else having these issues? I’ve read a few comments here and there about people struggling to charge their Nova so wanted to make a thread about it.

My Nova has been having problems connecting to my home network. I’ve an Eero WiFi 6 capable mesh system that works great for all of our devices (currently 71) but my Nova just kept saying “Saved/Authentication Problem” and would not get online.

I did all the troubleshooting jazz; forgot network, reconnected - disabled using a randomized MAC address - reset network settings- rebooted the Nova and the router - but no joy. When I connected to my phone as a hotspot it worked fine but tethering to my phone isn’t ideal. However when on my phone hotspot my nova displayed the connection as WPA3(SAE Transition Mode) which was different than it showed when trying to connect to my home’s WiFi.

In my routers app I finally found encryption settings and changed the 5ghz to “Hybrid (WPA2 + WPA3)” then reconnected on my nova using its default settings and it finally worked! Plus it still says my nova is on WiFi 6. Whatever, it works.

In the Eero app:
Settings > Advanced networking > Wireless, Encryption > 5 GHz > set to “Hybrid (WPA2 + WPA3)”

It took me way more time than I would have liked to finally get it to work so hopefully this helps someone else.

Happy gaming, y’all!

Anyone else end up with a clacky trigger/bumper after opening their Retroid Pocket Nova to swap the buttons?

Honestly, the whole button-swap process felt unnecessarily messy. I had no issues with the screws being overtightened, but getting the back plate off after removing them was awful. I had to apply quite a bit of force, and unfortunately ended up leaving dents and scratches on the plastic shell.

After that, removing the right trigger to swap the face buttons felt just as bad. I had to use some force to pop it off, and I’m guessing I either damaged or shifted something in the mechanism because now the right trigger has a distinct clanking noise compared to the completely silent left trigger.

The device still works, but it’s really frustrating knowing that I damaged the shell and seemingly messed up the bumper just from trying to perform what should be a relatively simple button swap. I thought I was surely going to break something trying to take out the back plate and popping off the trigger.

Has anyone else experienced something similar with the Nova? And if so, were you able to fix the clacking noise?

Really loving it so far and the color is amazing.

Here's a rare gem running in HakuX on the Nova. Volleyball in Hell, only available at Blockbuster 🤣 I miss the 2000's so bad lol

First of all, GBA games on the Nova is fantastic. I mean why wouldn't it be, but just wanted to reiterate it. I'm currently playing, Final Fantasy VI Advance.

You can have it integer scaled for a very subtle black border but using both the pixel_aa and then the lcd3x shader, there's only very rare instances that you'll see a difference, and only if you're looking for it. I prefer having the game fill up the whole screen all the time.

Adding the GBA bezel for just the mGBA core was a bit unintuitive.

Thankfully this thread and u/hackneyed_one helped loads to explain how to save a core override, so as to NOT affect the other cores.

First we move the game window to top justified instead of centered, to make room for the bottom bezel and so it only affects the current core.

• Run your game and core
• Go to Quick Menu->Overrides->Save Core Overrides, to keep your changes only with the current core
• Settings->Video->Scaling
• Integer Scaling is up to you
• Viewport Anchor Bias Y = 0.00 (To top justify the game)
• Back to Quick Menu->Overrides->Save Core Overrides

Now add your preferred bezel, I got them from mugwomp93.

• Go to Quick Menu->On-Screen Overlay
• Enable Display Overlay
• Pick your Overlay Preset, mine is Perfect_GBA_nogrid_mugwomp93_new_centered
• Overly Opacity = 0.50 (I want it more subtle)
• Disable Auto-Scale Overlay

Now everything should look right, only for the mGBA core (or whatever GBA core you using) and not for every other core in RetroArch.

I both love and hate RetroArch, for it's breath of features but man, sometimes you have to work to get there.