taizou @lion@computerfairi.es

Favorite original (i.e. not a ROM hack) bootleg/unlicensed title?… — Squirrel King. It's one of my favourite Mega Drive games overall & probably the best example of Gamtec's work on the system. Fun to play, great music… https://retrospring.net/@taizou/a/113852356266914658

Wednesday, June 5, 2024, 3:33:19 PM — ?????????????? https://retrospring.net/@taizou/a/113852313144703295

Did you have a nice holiday? — Assuming you're asking in the American sense it was Okay https://retrospring.net/@taizou/a/113852303878500803

Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food? — Actually it comes from ovum because people used to bake eggs in them in the olden days https://retrospring.net/@taizou/a/113852137796392643

Favorite bootleg romhack? — Monster Go Go Go. between the adorable chubby pikachu sprite and meowth reciting the haters version of My Heart Will Go On there's no contest really https://retrospring.net/@taizou/a/113852055396955231

anyone want to ask me a question on here while it still exists https://retrospring.net/@taizou

i need a new chair since my current one is barely holding together. but my desk is small & most chairs don't fit under it so really i'd need a new desk first. oh but a bigger desk with drawers won't fit so i'd need a separate drawer unit too. at this point i can't be arsed

for adults with cat ears

It's frustrating though because this same company previously made 2 devices with IMO perfectly good controls, the D007 and D-R35 Plus, they had decent d-pads and big chunky face buttons so its weird they reversed track on something they were actually doing right

On the hardware side the screen is nice and it feels well built but i'm not enjoying the controls, the D-pad doesn't have much pivot & gives false diagonals, and the face buttons are too small and far apart. So even if the OS issue can be solved this might be kind of a miss sadly

It probably is able to boot from SD though since the SOC can usually do that as standard. So a custom OS is probably possible but it's unlikely any existing builds will work since they have to account for the screen and controls. And who knows if any devs will take interest in it

The OS is on internal EMMC here, and it's a dubious version of EmuElec. It works okay enough out of the box but I haven't found a way to access the EMMC which means customisation is limited. And another owner has managed to get it stuck in a bootloop by trying to change the theme

RK3326 devices are pretty widely supported with custom linux based OSs & the common setup for them is to have 2 MicroSD card slots, one for the OS and one for games
This does have 2 slots. But. However. It only came with a card in slot 1, which is full of ROMs and not much else

it has a 2.8in screen with an RK3326 CPU, that CPU is very common these days but its still quite rare to see it paired with a smaller device with smaller screen and no analogue sticks. and it looks very cool imho

finally got hold of one of these.... a Diium D-R28S aka D28S aka D-28S
it's a mini emulation handheld!