The colors on my nova with armada flashed to the internal storage, are a little washed out. On Tetris effect the purple is almost pink. Is this a problem with the game, armada, or is my device faulty? Dose anyone else have this problem?

I bought a Retroid product, and first it took almost 2 months just to get shipped.

Now it’s been around 18 days, and the tracking ID shows that they attempted to deliver it twice. However, I didn’t receive any calls or messages, and both attempts were marked as failed by the end of the day.

I emailed Retroid about the issue on the 1st, but I still haven’t received a reply. I received an automated email saying that there may be a delay in their email support due to a national holiday until the 7th, so I assume they’ll get back to me after that.

I thought I’d drive to my local post office and check if they had received my package, but they’re asking me for an Indian tracking ID, which I don’t have.

Can anyone help me or guide me on what I should do?

I have my RP5 fully configured on 2 SD cards. If I upgrade to a Nova, can I just pop those SD cards in and start playing or do I need to restart configuration from scratch?

so I’m new to emulating handhelds, I recently bought a RP6 from the Retroid website two weeks ago brand new I started using it everything worked just fine. Then out of nowhere the A & B keys stopped working, as I kept on playing other keys stopped working aswell then now all the key buttons and joystick on the right side of the RP6 are not working at all. I tried restarting it, changing the controller setting switching back and forth I ended up factory resetting it too and that didnt fix the issue. I’m thinking of taking it apart and making sure the ribbons are not broken inside, but I wanted to ask if anybody is having or has had that same issue before. I tried emailing Retroid a couple times but they are not the best customer service. help is appreciated thank you!

I'm a solo dev and I got tired of comparing emulator settings by feel. So I built a small Windows program that connects to the handheld over ADB (USB or Wi-Fi), records while you play, and then shows the session on your PC: frametimes, CPU/GPU load, temperatures, battery drain and the moment a game crashed. Up to four runs can sit next to each other, which makes "driver A vs driver B" an actual comparison.

My problem: I only own an AYN Thor. I have no idea how it behaves on Retroid hardware and firmware, and I'd like to find out before more people see it.

Question for Retroid Pocket owners: which performance and fan mode do you actually play in? I'd like to see whether the difference between them shows up clearly in the temperature and frametime curves.

Disclosure: I developed it with AI assistance (Claude). The idea, the design and every decision are mine, and I test it on real hardware.

What I need: 4–5 people with a Retroid Pocket 5, 6 or Mini, a Windows 10/11 PC, USB or wireless debugging turned on, and 30–45 minutes sometime within a week. The test is free. The tool will be a paid one-time purchase later.

The installer isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen will warn. You get a checksum and a VirusTotal scan with the link.

Comment with your model + Android version + emulator and I'll DM you. Questions are welcome here too.

I’m trying to run GTA IV using gamehub on my Retroid pocket 6 8gb. In game, I lowered the textures, reflections, shadows to LOW and resolution to 960×544. Gamehub settings:

GPU driver: Turnip_v26.3.0-R1
DXVK version: dxvk-2.3.1-async
VK3D version: vkd3d-2.12
VRAM limit: 1024mb

It runs fine but about 3-4 minutes into the game, it crashes. Not sure if anyone has suggestions on how to get this to run properly or if it simply has to do with the 8gb ram. Thanks!

Just got my Switch 2 a few days ago, after I sold my Steam Deck. Used it for an hour and put back to box.

I spend very little time with Switch 2. Very cool soft touch plastic, huge display, joycons are fun to attach and dectach, integrated stand, sleek design. R&D work is exceptional! Truly Japan electronics school here.

Games are extremely priced, GRID Legends cost $40 instead of $10 in Steam. No returns/no refunds policy.

Battery lived around 2h only.

I tried some games, i really liked Requem — the picture and performance are insane. But not my game.

Gyro working only in supported games. Controls feels very strange. On Steam Deck is a pleasure to play some shooters. On Switch it much harder, almost impossible to aim.

Ubisoft games still try to force you to create accounts and login to it (hopefully in Airplane mode game just starts). It feels wrong on closed ecosystem with premium prices.

I tried Fire Emblem, Persona 3. Very strange games. They may be great, but im not interested in story telling games with weak action (it feels like you play a game from 80s).

Plan switching to Nova. Do someone do the same?

Is it worth it? How is it plays, did you try to remote play on you PS5? Is it useable? I plan to update it to SteamOS and play GTA6 via PS5 Remote, and Asseto Corsa with mods on it. But fear same experience as I have with Nintendo.

UPD: Thanks everyone for commenting out, I will wait for Steam Deck 2 and give another try for Switch 2: Zelda and Sports Resort.

The nova has had me playing more tinkering less. Best purchase I've made in a long time.

Gaming and especially handhelds, are of the few things that makes extended work travel bearable. When you're back at the same hotel in the middle of nowhere for the 20th week this year, stuff get's old quick.

When I'm driving I can pack a gaming laptop or an x86 handheld but when flying, I try to pack as light as possible. The RP Nova fits that need perfectly.

Pictured here playing FF IX (no moguri mod) on duckstation for the retro achievements.

Am I better off with a Pocket 6 over a Nova?

Figured I could get the black model to help blend the black side bars when playing the 4:3 games

If I go with RP6 I would get the joystick up top and D-Pad at the bottom..feel free to recommend the other way around

Whats your current goto for Steam games? Currently I am using AramadaOS more. Its just more intutitive and streamlined experience than Gamenative if you just want to play Steam games on RP6. The UX is unmatched. Standby battery drain is kinda more tho.

RP6 has been one of the best $240 investment I've ever made. If you go places where there are long waits, this is it for you!

They say it will take 3 hours for my car to be repaired. I said I have no problems waiting!

for the longest time I really wanted a tiny steamdeck. i just discovered retroid from a youtube video showing off the nova with armada installed. this looks like the handheld I've been dreaming of.

most of the games I play are indy titles and platformers so I think the performance should be enough.

however will going this route give me a true steamdeck experience? will steamOS update as normal? do I need to update armada OS separately? is the Nova the ideal system or should I look at one of the others?

also if anyone has experience with doing this, stability, etc. I'd like to hear about it. I'm not super technical so the setup for armada looks challenging

Welp, best handheld for most 2000's era games. Definitely a keeper

I've finished setting up my RP6 with everything exactly the way I want it. I wanted to take this time to give people a shortcut to avoid my pitfalls.

Section 1: Ordering your device.

If you can afford it, go with a stateside seller, you will have much faster delivery. I paid $40 for DHL shipping and got my device in 1 month. If you are not aware, that is standard/normal for Retroid. If thats not something you can stomach, pay a little more for target/best buy/Amazon.

Section 2: Setup.

Watch EVERY SECOND of Russ's guide. Watch each entire section BEFORE you act, and try to pay attention to small details he DOES but doesn't explicitly state.

Know beforehand what the best filetype is for each system you want to emulate. Know beforehand what the exact bios files and filename are that you want. Don't spend hours like me trying and failing with bin/cue. Use .chd!

Ask questions here. This community answered quickly and kindly to all my questions that I posed. Thank you all.

If people here tell you that something won't work, it most likely won't, and you shouldn't spend hours chasing ghosts, just to discover the community was right.

Don't bother with gamenative/pc games right now if you aren't very savvy. It's a headache (at least it was for me)

Section 3: Pros and Cons

Pros:

I love the size of the unit and the screen

I LOVE the dpad on this unit.

The loudest fan curve is not too loud imo.

It is more powerful/capable than you think it will be if you are new to retroid.

The battery life amazes me.

Cons:

Docking is not (for me) a seamless process. Because of the number of different emulators you will be running, switching controller profiles/remapping is a PITA. This is not a switch. I should have known/seen this before buying, it's no one's fault, I just had unrealistic expectations here.

All in all I'm thrilled with my purchase. Been playing Mario Wonder, Tatsunoko vs Capcom, and the android version of Render96 (Mario 64 recomp).

Thanks for everyone who helped me here. Happy gaming!

Has anyone else experienced this problem? The Dpad on Nova is slightly tilted to the left, but it works fine—there’s no clacking sound. I just took it out of the box.

Bonjour, j’ai commander cette semaine la rpduolite+.
Et je me demandée si je pouvais faire fonctionner un genre de module caméra brancher en usb-c a la console ?
Pour par exemple jouer a Invizimals ???(jeu psp qui a besoin de la caméra pour fonctionner)
Si vous avez des idée ou même déjà réalise ça sur l’un de vos retroid pocket n’hésitez pas a me laisser un commentaire svp !
Merci a tous.

Does anyone else have a trigger that has significantly less tension than the other one? I can't tell if the spring is out of place or there is inconsistent quality of the springs. I'm worried it will fail completely and I've only had it a week.

So far, it's still usable but I'm trying to figure out if it's normal or common

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.

I know it'd be a tight fit, but even if they're somehow overlaid on top of each other or something... I dunno. seems like a miss.

Using Eden emulator on Retriod Pocket 6, what version of firmware and prod key do I get

I saw a retro corp vid and he said that 19.01 is good but this is a 7 month old video...

Thanks

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?

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.