15,000 Retro Gamers Voted And Chose The Best Retro Handheld Of All Time

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• sandwichwhiplashparrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  TLDR; It is the GBA.

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  • Strider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Really? I thought it objectively clear it’s the DS.

    The gba is a little too much a remade snes and features many games of the like, nevertheless still a very good device.

    However, the DS is spectacular in comparison imo. A far better library (over its lifetime - the first year was bad). Classic games, touch games and a huge slew of RPG and starts of great series.

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    • Sirence@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      But the ds is a fairly new console, surely it wouldn’t even be an option in a retro cont- oh…

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    • Nima@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      it was not a remade SNES. that’s what people assume but the GBA was a powerful little guy. and had some decent 3d capabilities that were solid for the time.

      and it was backwards compatible with the original gameboy carts that pushed it to being extremely popular. and the library for it was massive as well.

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    • massive_bereavement@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It's a nostalgia contest.

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    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I personally liked the GBA SP better than any other handheld and I was not a fan of the DS at all. The only positive of the DS for me was that it was relatively easy to write homebrew games for (though not as easy as the GBA).

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    • Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Plus, if you have a DS Lite, you get both a GBA and a DS.

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  • Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Soo many fire games for it - Currently playing FF:Tactics

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• Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Homebrew on the PSP was actually insane though. You could play everything up to the Nintendo 64 on it and even some PC games like quake. I played so many super Mario world ROM hacks on it

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  • elevenbones@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nodded psp was the shit too!
    “Hey can I borrow your game cartridge for a few minutes? I wanna copy it to my memory card.” 😎

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Could you rip UMDs to MS Duos? I was big into PSP CFW (like, modified the firmware of an a battery to boot into recovery menu on the 2000s before they were easily moddable) and was unaware of that functionality. That would also take ages!

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    People slept on the Vita but it’s like a PSP ultimate. Plays all PSP games and emulates an insane plethora of consoles on a beautiful OLED screen.

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• BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think DS should take the final round - plays the DS and GBA library + relatively easy to emulate GBC if you really want to.

  And still the only way to play some games - Contra 4, Sonic Rush for example, are horrible to play on emulator but still really fun games.

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• capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  PSP is clearly the uncrowned king

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  • WhiteRice@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Pata-pata-pata-pon!

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    • capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Pon-Pon-Pata-Pon!

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• PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Hacking a vita is so easy you do it straight from the console browser. I still can’t manage to get my DS properly hacked no matter how many guides I try.

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  • Sirence@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    To “hack” a ds you simply buy a 5€ flash cart and you’re done.

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Love my R4DS!

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• B0NK3RS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  GBA is a worthy winner.

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• rozodru@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Man they did they Wonderswan dirty. I always felt that was a fantastic handheld. IMHO way better than the Lynx.

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