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Have you tried Rocknix on this Retroid? I have a Retroid 3 but I never use it because Android is bad at being a handheld gaming device. (Boot is slow and just letting it sleep means it’s dead in 3 days.)

I love Retroid hardware so I’m intrigued that it says you can run Linux.

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Shatur@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yes!

Unfortunately, audio through the 3.5mm jack only works if you power on the console with headphones already plugged in.

Also, the setup is opinionated. For example, it stores save games alongside ROMs, while I use the default emulation directories on my PC. This makes syncing saves more difficult and it’s not something you can disable in the emulator setting, they hardcode these directories via scrips.

Lastly, the idle battery life is significantly worse, which matters to me since I prefer to put the device to sleep.

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GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
got a RP5 and I can use rocknix on it.

tbh it’s really not worth all the hype unless you want to take the 100-300 hours to set it up properly and ensure all the boxart is there.

there are some people who can do it and it looks great, but I personally don’t have the time to mess with it when all I want to do is play some games.

the problems I’ve had with it might be related only to the RP5 but here they are:

WiFi cuts out and refuses to reconnect

WiFi won’t reconnect after full reboots

some games have locked the entire system up

1% of the box art is available for my Roms so the UI is less than dazzling

can no longer download boxart from games db for some reason

there’s some others that are minor gripes but those are the major ones that cause me to not use it anymore.
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- Count042@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  If it takes you that long to hit the start button, select “Scraper”, select “Scraper Settings”, and put your username and password in, hit the back button, and then hit “Scrape Now” then there is something wrong.
  
  Rocknix is great and takes much less time to configure than a bunch of different android apps.
  
  Plus you get all the ports from portmaster.games which is the best benefit of a linux distro on these handhelds.
  
  P.S. Aside from the lack of a libmali gpu driver, the retroid pocket flip 2 is the best retroid device out there.
  
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- Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  tbh it’s really not worth all the hype unless you want to take the 100-300 hours to set it up properly and ensure all the boxart is there.
  
  So Rocknix isn’t as developed like Emuelec and all the other Linux gaming front ends? Because fixing boxart was one of the huge hassles on the Retroid 3+. The Retroid front end got 90% of the art but fixing that last 10% took hours. In comparison my Anbernic and Miyoo Mini were perfect. And customizing it was trivial because I could stick the SD card in my PC and move the files around. The Retroid front end didn’t let you do that. The other hassle was some of the emulators on the Retroid had their own menus so entering and exiting games wasn’t a single button push like Linux emulators.
  
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  - GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    your assessment is spot on. Don’t get me wrong, I love my RP5 but the UX leaves much to be desired.
    
    it doesn’t bother me much since I use it more as a streaming handheld than retro.
    
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