KONKR Pocket Advance Peach Drops, and Early Buyers Got Burned
Ayaneo's pinkest GBA homage arrived with the second wave, not the first. The KONKR Pocket Advance 'Peach' edition — a two-tone Sakura palette that's…
#emulation
Page 5 — 81 articles
SteamBoy, Pokémon Recomp, Faster PS3: Handheld Emulation's Big Week
The retro handheld scene rarely lands three stories worth blocking out an afternoon for in one week. This was one of those weeks: a community builder…
Anbernic RG SP Review: Slimmer, Cheaper, and Better Than Expected
Anbernic's lineup is a hall of mirrors — every shelf holds another RG XX variant, and the H700 chip keeps turning up like the house's favorite…
DraStic's Successors Drop Big Updates for Dual-Screen Handhelds
DraStic is dead. Long live DraStic. That's the subtext of last night's twin drops from developer Sapphire Rhonodite: WatermelonDS 0.7.0 and the first…
Mangmi Air Y Pro Review: PS2 Power Without the Magic
Mangmi's first two handhelds each came with a party trick. The Air X delivered playable PS2 and GameCube emulation below $100 — a price point that…
Ayaneo's $89 GBA Clone Proves Retro Handhelds Can Stay Cheap
Retro handheld pricing in 2026 has been a war of attrition. RAM costs ballooned, budget MSRPs crept upward, and even the Super Pocket took a price…
Switch 2 Outsold GameCube — and It's a Handheld
The GameCube was never a handheld. It was a purple lunchbox of a home console that Nintendo supported for five years, and it ended with 21.74 million…
Anbernic RG Vita Pro v1.15 Adds RG Home and Keymapper
Anbernic has built its reputation on shipping a lot of hardware — sometimes a lot of nearly identical hardware. Software support, though, has…
AYANEO KONKR Pocket Advance Hits $89, Retro DMG Colorway Included
AYANEO finally dropped its worst habit. The KONKR Pocket Advance's new Retro DMG colorway — the obligatory gray-and-red nod to the original Game Boy…
RPCS3 on ARM Gets 60% Faster — Here's Why Your Handheld Wins
One four-line function was eating half of RPCS3's CPU time on ARM hardware. That's the kind of invisible tax that has kept Android handhelds firmly…
NSO Icons for Mario Paint and Super Circuit Arrive — Play to Unlock
Nintendo knows its retro catalog is one of the strongest arguments for owning a Switch: the SNES and Game Boy Advance Classic apps turn the console…
Pokémon Gen 1 Recomp: The Handheld Remake Nintendo Never Made
For 30 years, portable Pokémon Red meant emulation: a secondhand Game Boy brain inside a phone app, save states doing the heavy lifting, and a screen…