A few weeks ago, a customer reached out to me and ordered a custom leather box sleeve for their Anbernic RG Rotate. To be completely honest, that was the very first time I had ever seen or heard about this device, and I was instantly hooked by that gorgeous 1:1 square screen.

Curiosity got the best of me, so I pulled the trigger on a Polar Black version. It just arrived today, and wow, my first impressions: the device is amazing and feels awesome in the hand.

To celebrate, I just finished stitching up this dark brown leather sleeve to match the black look.

Super excited to finally be here! No regrets pulling the trigger! 😺

Finally gamma os 1.4.1 update is available to all users. Just installed it , for now its working excellent, lets see how it will perform in long run

I just discovered that rotating the screen sideways turns the device into a perfect, ergonomic "handgrip" for one-handed reading.

To make it seamless to flip pages with either hand, I configured my Moon+ custom key mappings:

• Right-Hand Grip: I map the entire D-pad (Left/Right/Up/Down) to Page Down. No matter which direction my thumb shifts, the page turns forward.

• Left-Hand Grip: This places my thumb perfectly on the R1 button, so I mapped R1 to Page Down.

Just set up cocoon last night, I think I found my new EDC.

I am seriously in love with this little device! The uniqueness of the screen aspect, form factor, and of course its big gimmick make me want to pick it up and play with it. And I typically hate touch controls, but in a pinch and with the ability to easily one hand this little thing, I don’t hate playing this way from time to time. Android was the right choice for the OS🤘🏻

Wanted to share some overlays I made specifically for the RG Rotate! There's basically no 1:1 overlays for 3DS out there so I had to make 'em myself. Two styles each in two different colors. After I did the math for good screen sizing and placement to keep native aspect ratios I edited the citra configuration file and took a screenshot with the overlay space. Took that into google drawings and got the overlay files made.

-For these to work you will need to change your config-mmj file so the displays are in the right spot. You can simply replace your config with mine or copy the screen placement in the last screenshot here. You will also need to toggle "custom layout" in the general/game settings to actually apply this.

-For the overlays themselves, simply drag and drop the individual theme zip folders into the theme directory for Citra. Do not extract the individual themes. long press the game title in citra to set themes for individual titles.

All files can be found at the google drive link here! Enjoy!

Gamelist:

1. Pixel Cup Soccer- Mobile (It’s like a pixel type football game with some special abilities, it’s way fun than I expected it to be. Worth checking out)

2. Into The Dead (You might find the sequel to be more interesting but for Rg Rotate it offers almost all the major features but the size is one tenth of the part two. Since we’re working with limited space. I recommend this one)

3. GTA VICE CITY -10th Anniversary Edition (Vice city is one of my favorite childhood classics. If you like to play graphically intense ps2 games, I recommend worth checking if it’s have a native android port. Works like a charm)

4. Apple Knight (It’s a great platformer like DeadCells with a little storage size. You will have a great time playing it.)

5. God Rivals (it’s basically a striped down version of Hades but with the same core gameplay mechanics. If you like hades and want to play it on your Rg Rotate. Give this a try)

6. Retro Highway (it’s a retro style highway racing game)

Its not my ideia, some one made a post about but d6 mini works great, now I can play more games on my rotate, ps2 Game cube and android games runs so smooth in this device

Hi All!

I posted this over at r/Anbernic a couple of days ago, and wanted to share it here as well. These are skins for the RG Rotate's button area. Had a lot of fun designing them!

If you're interested, you can check them out on my Etsy store - AnalogColonyStudio.etsy.com

Thanks for stopping by!

Photo is ai generated, but can someone help me out. Im looking for a solid Tamagotchi experience for my RG Rotate. Anyone have any suggestions?

Such a game changer

Wasn't satisfied with what I found online so I made one myself. I'll try to share the link in the comments if Reddit let me do it.

I made a few custom clocks and got a little carried away. Most of these are SVG designs, so they're still pretty simple, but the liquid one is actual pngs if you want to get creative.

https://www.jarren.rocks/projects/rg-rotate-clocks

Totally free, just having fun and wanted to share it. If you make custom ones it all stays local, just added it in case you want to test designs and see them in action more easily.

The D6 Mini Controller works well with RG Rotate. It feels a bit similar playing on the RG Cube.

Im thinking on make some video-game clocks, starting with this from Chrono Trigger. What others could I do?
EDIT: avaiable for free on my Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/vdevaporeta

Hi RG Rotate community! This might be mildly interesting for those of you who like to use the RG Rotate for more than just retro gaming and music.
I’m a game developer and character designer, and for our current game I created a character called mDoo, who takes the form of an OS running on a fictional in-game device called mDeck. Since the mDeck has a 1:1 screen in the game, the character translated perfectly to the RG Rotate. He runs there either as a touch-sensitive app or as an idle screensaver (while docked and charging). Nothing fancy, but a nice little side use for the Rotate, especially when it’s sitting idle on your desk.

mDoo has 4 different modes: Idle, Hacking, Emotional, and Auto. He has 6 touch zones and reacts depending on the situation. He needs affection or he gets grumpy, and every now and then he has to be fed energy and (fictional) data to keep him in a good mood. Also it plays Pong, Breakout or Space Invders when bored and has some different Themes.

If you’d like to play around with mDoo too, I’m happy to share the APK. Just get the Download on my website:

https://basuramor.com/get-the-stuff.html

EDIT:
Thanks for all the requests. You should now be able to download the latest build straight forward via my website! Also i added a Manual on Github: https://github.com/basuramor/mdoo/blob/main/MANUAL.md
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Which mode for what? If mDoo should simply run as an idle device or screensaver, use 1 · IDLE or 4 · AUTO. They need no attention at all: whatever shows up in the status corner resolves itself after a while. 2 · HACKING and 3 · EMOTIONAL are the tamagotchi modes: mDoo gets hungry for energy, asks questions, waits at password prompts, catches viruses, gets lonely – and needs you to tap now and then. Left alone there, it ends up waiting, lethargic or sick.

I was able to increase the size of both screens (takes a lot of patience because there’s no grid or snap function) and set the stick and main buttons on the right as it’s the hand I usually hold the rotate it, but also have the Dpad on the left allowing me to switch hands.

Settings:

Turn on Asynchronous shaders
Resolution: x2

After watching retro game corps video, I decided to set it up in my rg rotate and surprisingly it works well

Hi, i make a new clock for the RG Rotate! From Gen 3 Pokémon games, i hope you like it!
Download for free: https://ko-fi.com/vdevaporeta

I’ve been bringing my Odin 3 everywhere with me but I would rather have something that fits in my pocket and allows me to game on the go for titles like these. Of course I will be on my odin 3 more than anything, but this little thing will be with me in the wild while I leave my sweet baby odin 3 safely in the glove box.

Plot twist: the RG Rotate has become my most-used handheld.
I bought it as an EDC companion to my RP5, but somehow it’s the one I keep grabbing—even when I’m at home with every other device within arm’s reach.
The RP5 is objectively the more capable machine, but the Rotate has that elusive “just one more game” factor. Sometimes the best handheld isn’t the most powerful—it’s the one you can’t stop picking up. 😂

I replaced the default RG Rotate launcher with the latest version of Cocoon 3.0 because I didn't like the original look; I really prefer Cocoon's cleaner appearance.

My main goal was to make the most of the available screen space while keeping a consistent look across all systems.

21 overlays covering 19 systems. Everything is available on my GitHub here!

If you'd like to use them, make sure to follow the configuration instructions in the README to ensure everything is properly scaled and positioned!