I want to stay away from the Site That Shall Not Be Named, so I figured I would check on Lemmy.world for some useful info.

Got an Anbernic RG353V coming in today, and I’m just curious about what I should know getting started with it? I’m trying to temper expectations and have an idea of how to get the best experience possible from it.

  • agnostictofu@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I got mine a few weeks ago and love it. I recommend you check Retro Game Corp’s YouTube channel. These machines have a learning curve and there are as many opinions as users regarding what to do or tweak.

    I did the following steps: 1. Installed ArkOS. 2. Downloaded ROMs (there is a Reddit thread called “A curated and scraped ROM collection - 2.0 Reupload”; downloaded and selected the ones I wanted). 3. Played with the scrapper, theme master, etc. to adjust preferences. 4. Tried different emulator settings when a game was not working well (very useful with N64 games).

    I just finished Ocarina of Time and I’m playing Metal Gear Solid and it has been a blast! Hope you enjoy your experience.

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    1 year ago

    Love my 353v, but I did do some hardware mods to make it even better. I don’t know if you’re comfortable with opening up electronics but I had a great experience upgrading the shoulder buttons and the D pad

    Also, it’s not generally advised to use the SD cards the system comes with as they’re cheap and prone to corruption.

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      1 year ago

      I already did full backups of both cards and moved the games over to a 200gb Lexar card, along with my own ROM archives. The one thing I have found a consensus on with these systems is that the default cards are garbage.