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Rather just buy a bittboy for the same price
Honestly a used 2DS is one of the best deals in gaming. You get the whole DS / 3DS catalogue and it'll emulate everything up to SNES really well.
But I get that people like this as a fun collectible.
Yeah, agree it's over priced for what it is but the nostalgia has sucked me in. It makes me cringe when I compare to the 2DSXL with Mario Kart 7 delivered for $99 I was lucky to snag during during Amazon lightning deal.
Honestly a used 2DS is one of the best deals in gaming. You get the whole DS / 3DS catalogue and it'll emulate everything up to SNES really well.
Not if you're using it primarily as a retro console emulator.
The Bittboy/PocketGo can emulate 20 different retro consoles, works out of the box (no fiddling around with homebrew/CFW nonsense), loads ROMs off an SD card slot (so you can have thousands of games stored on there) and runs everything up to 1990s PC games like Doom, Quake and Quake II just fine. Not to mention the IPS screen is arguably much sharper and brighter than the 2DS's rather blurry display.
For ~$40 AUD, there is no better retro gaming handheld.
Where is it $40? For that price I'll buy one :)
That's been the normal price for a few years now (below prices are in USD; $30 USD = ~$40 AUD):
https://bittboy.com/products/new-bittboy
https://pocket-go.com/collections/frontpage/products/bittboy…
https://retromimi.com/products/new-bittboy?variant=195247867…However, all of the official distributors are out of stock at the moment so maybe follow AMLagonda's suggestion and buy it from AliExpress.
@mskeggs: Assuming you're not talking about the TurboGrafx-16 (a.k.a PC Engine) which the Bittboy also does emulate, the PC ports of various DOS/Win95 games that come with the Bittboy are actually bundled with the OS/firmware (I don't believe there's any way to copy images of PC games onto the Bittboy yourself; it won't recognise them as it's not running a Windows-based OS). It's basically a bonus feature (or just a showcase of the 900Mhz Allwinner CPU inside the unit) that gets updated/expanded with each new firmware release.
I haven't updated the firmware on my Bittboy for a while, so it's still on v3.5 (the latest is v4.2 I believe) but that came with Doom, Heretic, Hexen, Tyrian, Quake, Quake II, Rise of the Triad, Wolfenstein 3D and a few more classics from the 90s.
That being said, running games like those on a 2.4" inch, 320×240 resolution screen, even though those titles did originally run at similar resolutions, is not ideal. They're playable but it's damn hard to make out small details and a D-Pad with 4 buttons is not a well-suited control scheme for FPS games.
The Bittboy/PocketGo was supposed to get TV/AV output added in future firmware releases so you could hook them up to a TV but that still hasn't been implemented.
In any case, those games are a sideshow distraction from the BittBoy's main attraction, which is very smooth and stable emulation of 90% of titles from 20 different retro consoles; a feat pretty much no other off-the-shelf retro handheld or modern hacked/CFW-modded handheld can match and even not any custom Raspberry Pi-based builds I'm aware of.
I've tried out over 100 different ROMs by now on my Bittboy and ran into maybe 2 that either had CPU speed issues or crashed inexplicably (and they tended to be less popular, more obscure titles).
Is there a link I can learn more?
The one failing with the Bittboy/PocketGo is a lack of documentation and official support. To be fair, there's only so much you can expect from a $35 dollar gaming device whose development obviously prioritised resources on the IPS screen, 900Mhz processor and case/buttons.
There's a decent community on Reddit and other forums that will answer any questions and point you in the right direction if you're trying to figure out how to do something with them, but a lot of things you just find out through trial-and-error yourself.
That being said, each BittBoy/PocketGo comes pre-loaded with about 100 or more ROMs of classic Atari 2600/NeoGeo/NES/SNES/GB/GBC/GBA/PSX/Mega Drive games (pretty much all of the top-selling titles for each of those consoles come on the included SD card) that will work at the push of a button, so you absolutely don't need to do any fiddling around if you just want to jump into some classic retro games right away.
@Miami Mall Alien: Hey Gnostikos, what is the build quality compared to a 2DS? One of the reasons I like using my 3DS or PS Vita for portable retro gaming is just how fantastic the build quality, buttons and screens are.
I also use my PS Vita to play DOS games, in fact I play them more than the retro consoles, I also don't mind playing Arcade games from CPS-2.
@FabMan: It's surprisingly good but as mentioned before, you need to keep in mind it's a $35 dollar gaming handheld. It definitely doesn't feel as solid as my 3DS XL or a PSP and the D-Pad is a bit squishy/uneven but I have to say, you quickly forget that when you're looking at that ultra-crisp, extremely bright IPS screen that puts the 2DS's/3DS's blurry and lower contrast displays to shame; it just gives all of those old classics from the GB/GBC/GBA, SNES and Mega Drive era a whole new lease on life as you've never seen them before. The screen really is half the appeal of the Bittboy and I dare say it out performs even older PSPs as well as the 2DS/3DS; have a look this review that features a close-up playthrough of Donkey Kong Country 2 (SNES). That's the best video I could find that gives the closest impression of what that screen looks like in-person. There's also a compilation of gameplay footage from the different emulators here (but this video doesn't do it justice imo; it's hard to find a video that showcases the real-life image quality on that screen).
Even playing the original 1989 Tetris for the GameBoy is a pleasure because it's so vividly bright and crisp; all of my memories of the SNES/GameBoy era are of the original DMG-01's terrible dot matrix display with no backlight or a tiny, old, dim CRT hooked up to a SNES that had rubbish picture quality (even the GBA SP's screen looks like crap compared to the Bittboy); playing those games again on the Bittboy is kind of like playing HD Remasters of old PC games.
One word of advice if you are set on getting a Bittboy and you do intend on doing a lot of retro gaming with it; the PocketGo is the exact same hardware in a undoubtedly more ergonomic form factor for the same price.
I went for the Bittboy purely because I like the retro DMG-01 styling but I can't deny playing twitchy, old-school platformers, racing games, shmups or fighting games that require a lot of button mashing does cramp up your wrists something fierce after a prolonged session, especially if you have bigger hands. For turned-based, slower-paced stuff like Pokemon, Advance Wars or Final Fantasy it's fine but if you intend to do more than just fire up an old game for 20 minutes at a time with it while you're waiting for the bus to arrive, go for the PocketGo as it'll be a lot more enjoyable.
@Miami Mall Alien: Thanks for taking the time on that response. I appreciate it. I'll check them out more.
This is lightweight, USB Charging Port, the battery lasts for ages and it is so compact.
Have you actually physically held one?… But more importantly it only has 2 games as opposed to literally thousands
@Merlict: 3 actually.
But it'll be homebrewed soon enough, not as easy as a RDS cart in a DS/3DS, but i'm willing to wait.@Damonator84: already been homebrewed. Just require a ST-link interfacing directly with the board. guide
@Damonator84: It can't easily be modded as the USB port doesn't transfer data. Can only hard mod it.
people down vote a valid comment? get a grip you savages :)
Please note: this item is available for pre-order purchases only. Release date 13/11/20 has come and gone?
Says in stock 1-2 days, that looks like an old copy paste
Some retailers have opened for pre orders, awaiting stock from supplier. Same thing from JB Hifi the other week.
Pricebeat there about another 1000 items you can put up with that $20 off code . Never mind its a pain in the a$$ to use .
Go to work boy !Feel free to draft the posts, happy to help you. But make sure those 1000s items have had 99 votes before the $20 off
I forgot you can put up another 10K deals with the little birdie $20 voucher as well :)
Pointless salty comment, this is a useful deal imo
It's not just a random item, it's an item that has continually had a high level of community interest here on ozbargain…….that's why he's posted it.
if only it was SMB3, then i can speedrun this on the go.
really wish 3 was on this
😂 to all the scalpers.
Omg, I had the originals of these as a kid. Oil panic, Octopus, Greenhouse, Climber, Donkey Kong 1 and 2. Micky and Donald. what a trip down memory lane. Ty very much.
edit. mine sure wasn't colour lol.I got all those you mentioned now, except climber
Climber was the best out of them all!
If you find them again they're worth crazy amounts on Ebay now
Finally closer to what it's actually worth imo