Xiaomi Poco X7 Pro, Hyper OS 2.

I’m sure hardware is fine, I had a budget phone from six years ago (Huawei Y7 2019) before I upgraded and while it wasn’t good, it wasn’t unusable either. And that phone was just a hair above an Android Go phone. At this point performance upgrades should slow down. I can’t speak for their software support though.

It’s only worth it if you can get a custom ROM friendly phone. Otherwise, no. Stock ROMs are approaching Apple’s levels of lockdown. With Apple you can at least get software updates for longer. And more games if you play on mobile.

I hope Raptor Computing sticks around. If I manage to get a well paying job I’d love to move on to the POWER ISA on desktop and a Fairphone with Ubuntu Touch.

I know it’s exteremely expensive (I mean the POWER desktop) but with the recent Android news I believe the time for compromise has passed. Those of us who are fortunate enough to be able to do so should adopt fully open hardware whenever possible.

I don’t think this is it, a lot of people were ok with that. The problem is drivers, they seemingly never matured enough to get the device to a usable state. Why?

Except it absolutely did. Sure, it got hardware in the hands of developers, but that effort didn’t amount to anything. Pinebook paved the way for Pinebook Pro, which made good on company’s promise of an open, affordable, low power laptop for Linux enthusiasts.

This never materialized with Pinephone, it didn’t even mature enough to satisfy most of the early adopters, who for the most part only wanted reliable calling and texting.

It absolutely failed. Pinebook succeeded, they wanted to build a cheap Chromebook alternative for Linux enthusiasts and they did it. Pinebook Pro was a functional product and it was well received.

Pinephone failed, it made some progress but it never reached a point where a Linux user with basic needs could daily drive it. It seems like Linux phone space moved on to Halium at this point.

Once my phone becomes that limited I may as well go back to a feature phone after mine stops being usable.

I don’t know why a gazelle variant of all things wanted a mascot, but hey I’m not complaining. Awesome work as usual.

On my phone I use https://byebyepaywall.com.

After Burner, Space Harrier and Virtua Racing are cool ports. Playing them through 32X is more convenient than emulating the arcade originals. Knuckles Chaotix looks and sounds great but the gameplay can be clunky, still worth a look though.

That’s about it, most other titles are available on other platforms and the 32X ports aren’t really an improvement as far as I know.

Is it me or does this not look that much better than the original?

Best news I’ve ever seen in this community 🤘

An amazing first pick, I hope you love it as much as I did.

Oh hell yeah, I hope one day we get SNES titles ported as well. Having them in high resolution and at over sixty FPS would be amazing.

F-Zero. Super Mario Kart doesn’t hold up very well in my opinion, it’s successors did everything better.

If we are talking Sega then it’s The Terminator on Sega CD.

lol

I think that is a disservice to Batman Returns, there is a fair number of gameplay differences. I find it plays way better than Final Fight.

What does this have to do with retrogaming?