“Excellent write-up! SBCGaming is one of the communities I miss most and I love your breakdown.”

Thank you! Sorry you’ve had to give up some communities, but it is nice that you’ve stayed strong and landed here in stead. I do share each retro handheld review I do on here, so you’ll see them over time as a (terrible) consolation prize! I have the TRIMUI Brick Hammer Pro U, the Retroid Pocket Nova, Anbernic’s RG 55G1 and…one more I forget still coming to review, too :)

“Should ‘Pro’ denote an upgrade? Probably; but things are really hinky in the electronic parts department, and a more comfortable playing experience is likely worth it to some.”

I think that is the finnicky part. No one really finds this a ‘Pro’ upgrade, but for what it does (especially PSX on this for me), it is a beautiful and fun time :)

Thanks for reading through and enjoying it. I appreciate it!

Thank you so much, you’re right! I appreciate it, edit has been made :)

(and sorry, weird thing to get wrong!)

Time for you to get it back out, maybe get a new adapter card for that micro SD, and then enjoy some games again!

(And yes, dead easy. Just copying two files over, not even ‘all the stuff’!)

Technically it is, but there’s a huge scene of influencers who have set up shop on there and run their own businesses. There’s a bunch who run ads, but you pay a crazy bit of money on top of what you’d pay on Aliexpress, just because they hope to rope in people who don’t know any better!

And like I said, if Etsy is more your scene, there’s a bunch there last time I looked!

Yes, there’s a bunch on Aliexpress (I’d probably recommend there over anywhere else, since their prices are the most reasonable and you get the same thing everyone does)

Etsy also has a bunch, as does Instagram. But again…you’ll be paying slightly more there

A few weeks ago I wrote about taking a chance on a cheap “junk” PSP-2000 from Japan, replacing its faulty charging port, and ending up with one of the nicest handhelds I own.

Quite a few people here on Lemmy reached out afterwards asking about jailbreaking, or just sharing that they planned to buy UMDs for it. I guess this article is my answer (or maybe just yet another thinly veiled excuse to write about my favorite old handheld…the PSP) to that.

Rather than another super technical wiki, I wanted to write a bit of step-by-step with just pictures of all of it. I cover installing ARK-4 custom firmware, setting up a microSD card, loading games, movies and music, a handful of homebrew recommendations. I really, really love Sony’s PSP. I think as far as industrial design language goes, you just can’t beat it.

So if you’ve recently picked up a PSP, are thinking about picking one up, or have one sitting in a drawer gathering dust, I hope this helps you give it a second life!

And if you don’t want to read through, then ask me here and I’m more than happy to recommend things to you.

So my latest article is something that’s been on my mind for a while: the people still making physical games feel genuinely special, the lack of physical games going forward (looking at you, Sony), and what everyone lost with the old-old ‘big-box’ PC gaming era.

I just try to take a look look back at the era of PC gaming, manuals, maps and all the little extras that made opening a new game part of the experience. How “physical” has changed in recent years, and a handful of developers, publishers and community creators who are still putting real care into physical releases today (including RowanFN, whose work creating custom manuals and inserts I had the chance to cover last year)

If you’re interested in game preservation, collecting, or simply miss the days when a physical game was more than just a case and a download code (shitty shitty GTA VI discovery), I hope you’ll enjoy the read. It might be a bit of a…watch-me-go-off-on-tangents article, but it is still important in a way. I think.

We replaced our site’s (not-very-used) Discord server with Matrix, and even if a few thousand don’t know/didn’t follow, we’re happier to be on a nicer space than Discord :)

The lack of nice ad-blocking has me favor things like Iceraven, but for pure privacy it can’t be beaten

That title confusion is on me! I should have realized (this happens when you get too close to drafts on a subject and interview!), I’ll go back and edit that title a little to make sure the word ROMs is in there somewhere!

Sorry!!!

They’re less known, but ZOOM-Platform are DRM free for everything, and given you the offline installers.

https://www.zoom-platform.com/

No, don’t worry! It comes up a bit! Being on a space like Lemmy, writing and chatting about a subject like F-droid, and seeing the link to our site…it is a natural assumption to make!

I’m just glad you enjoyed the article!!! :)

Isn’t Peertube on F-droid? People should get it so they can watch your video

Sorry for the miscommunication! I’m Gardiner’s friend, dash. Together he and I run the site linked here, but Gardiner’s videos are all 100% his side! If you asked me to film and or edit a video to save my life, I’d have to start digging my own grave because all of that is pure sorcery to me!

You can view my articles on the site specifically with this link here:

https://gardinerbryant.com/author/dash/

I had to laugh, I had F-droid comment when I shared my article (about me recommending Droid-ify)

Feel free to send me a DM if you’d like :)

They do so much, and cover so many important ‘system’ or default included Android apps, I swear by Fossify! Was very glad to see someone keep on going and fork Simple Mobile Tools!

Amen!

The respecting a user’s privacy is the key point for me. If I have an Android phone, it has to have alternative apps from a space like F-droid :)

I’ve tried so many Mastodon clients, Tusky is a close second, but Mastodon’s own official build just remains my fav.

But I have never seen nor heard of Moshidon, I’ll check it out now, thanks!

This is a small follow-up to my recent F-Droid-focused article, this time highlighting some of the apps I enjoy most from the platform.

From the unusual and fun (birding, anyone?) to the useful, these are the apps that keep me coming back. F-Droid is a powerhouse of options for Android users, offering a huge range of open-source software that is often far more respectful of your privacy and data than mainstream alternatives.