The rg353 has a cpu which only has small cores and only 4 of them at that.).ĭepends on your budget, how important GameCube is to you, and how important it is that it be handheld (you say 'handheld' in your title but you go on to talk about mini PCs). The developer of the ps2 emulator even says don’t use it on a cpu with no “big” cores(cell phones have CPUs that combine bigger more powerful cores with smaller much weaker but much smaller in area cores. That’s not true unless it barely plays 1 or 2 extremely simple 2d games. I’ve had both prefer the “base” as opposed to the “lite”Įdit: also don’t listen to the guy that said you can play PS2 or GameCube on a rg353. The lite have a Dimensity 900 chip which has the slightly stronger cpu but the base has a sd845 with a better GPU and the GPU can be put into an overclocked mode where it’s on par with the GPU of a sd855+. Another option is the Odin base or Odin Lite.

The only downside is screen area you can’t really use in emulation. Having a separate phone set up purely for gaming with a telescopic controller is completely different experience than just gaming on your daily driver phone using touch controls. With that he could play virtually any emulation available on Android for about $250 or cheaper depending on the controller. The absolute best value to play just about anything would be getting a used LG V60 or Samsung s20 for about $150 and mounting it in a controller. For the things you mentioned a Retroid Pocket 3+ would be the cheapest to do that stuff but Gamecube is kinda hit and miss.

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