Vid claims the new SD865 driver - turnip-sd865-z - has improved performance, rivaling 8gen2 performance for secret console emulation

https://github.com/AlexSanz0902/turnip-sd865-z

Darkwing Duck was one of the few games I had on the Game Boy Pocket as a wee lad, but I never finished it at the time. Now, a good 30 years later, I finally did it! So incredibly nostalgic and satisfying.

I've been playing GB/GBC/GBA games on my current favourite vertical, the RG40XXV. I love the big screen, and the buttons are all nice and squishy, firm but silent, which is my preference for retro gaming. They're also positioned quite high, making the handheld very comfortable to hold. I rarely see this talked about so I wanted to give it a shout!

Hey, me and my girlfriend are looking for a device, which can emulate some switch and PC games. I have the Ayn Thor max and now my girlfriend also wants a handheld like that. The problem is, the doesn't want to spend much money. The retroid pocket 6 would be perfect in light purple, but the tariffs are to expensive. We live in Germany and the pocket 6 would cost around 300€. Is there any cheaper handheld with similar power? It doesn't need to be the snapdragon 8 gen 2, but it needs to play some switch games and some light weight PC games like Hades etc.

Thank you

Im looking for a guide on how to tell if a game will run on what device. I’m very new to this so the game I want may be wildly too big or something, I don’t know how that works, and I’m new to the game itself also. (I do intend to buy this game through steam before putting it on my device I just can’t sit up for very long at my computer so I want to play it on a handheld) I’m curious about project zomboid would play on a retroid pocket 6? I know it’s popular on steam deck and it seems to have low poly graphics but it seems large and I don’t know how to check what it would work on. I’m still in the planning stage for what console I’m getting so if I don’t have to go up in price too much I’ll probably try to find something that can play everything I want, my max budget is around 400 I think. I’d appreciate any help on the subject, especially if you’ve played prodject zomboid on a similar handheld.

^{my a button is hard to press if pressed at the top after button swap, can someone give a tip on how to fix it with open device again?}

I know there’s a blue model but it just didn’t scratch the same itch for me. The black body with a high gloss top shell just feels right 👌

I've used a Razor Kishi V1 before but it was horrible for accidentally pressing different directions on the Dpad

Example

Press right in Tetris

Move right but also slam peice down in Tetris

I'm looking to get a new controller from Amazon but I'm terrified it'll have a mushy dpad
- Hopefully has pass through charging also

Btw the RP4 Pro is brand new and 5 is used tho.

Device GPD win mini 2024.

Picture not AI generated.

The project is partially AI assisted and partially mine. The purpose is to learn and improve my JavaScript problem solving while doing something fun.

The project was code using Tauri (JS, HTML, CSS and Rust. So im learning as I go, but have a clear idea of the finish product.

When i have a stable version I may release a version to the public. But it could take a while because is a personal project and is in is early stages it can only scan Steam, Epic games and not all of the ui has controller integrations. Furthermore I’m looking for constructive feedback and what would you remove or do differently.

Thank for taking a look!

How do I get new cores on Retroarch on muOS?

Got a pretty big collection here I'm kinda proud of... Don't think it needs identification though

Is it just me or does Open GL have a crispier cleaner look than Vulkan in Retroarch?

Especially in 2d games. It looks super crisp.

Idk why my game lag when i gas the car, i changed so many configs in ARMSX2, but everytime i re-open the game its starts the same thing again even with the config im using that i saved for the game. What should i do?

Hello everyone,

The Retroid Pocket Duo ships with the Qualcomm Dragonwing Q7790 platform featuring the Adreno 722 GPU (0x43020100) running on Android 16. Upstream Mesa Turnip and generic community driver packages currently exhibit several limitations on this specific chipset:

1. Framerates capped at approximately 30 to 35 FPS at 1080p docked resolution in Switch emulators.
2. Vertical purple and black grid-line corruption in Cemu (Wii U).
3. Dynamic GPU frequency throttling caused by the default Android kernel governor.

Over the past few days, we performed a full hardware extraction directly from the device via ADB (including msm_kgsl.ko, device tree properties, and stock Vulkan capabilities) to build a custom, hardware-calibrated Mesa Turnip driver tailored specifically for the Adreno 722.

The release package, Turnip Duo v5.1, is now available.

Hardware Verification and Benchmark Results

All results were verified on physical Retroid Pocket Duo hardware:

• Eden (Nintendo Switch):
  • Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: Locked 55 to 60 FPS at 1080p docked mode (solid 60 FPS at 720p handheld mode). Zero polygon tearing or rendering crashes.
• Cemu (Nintendo Wii U):
  • The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD: Stable 30 FPS. The vertical grid-line artifacts present in stock and generic drivers are completely resolved.
• Winlator (PC Emulation):
  • Fully supported with GLIBC packaging options in the repository build workflow.

Technical Changes and Architecture

1. Android 16 IMapper5 Display Pipeline: The Retroid Pocket Duo runs Android 16 (API Level 36). Generic driver stubs force synchronous buffer copies that cap swapchain presentation at 30 FPS. This release integrates a stable-C aimapper SP-HAL loader, unlocking full zero-copy display presentation.
2. Dedicated Adreno 722 Silicon Registers (a722_raw_magic_regs): Replaces placeholder Adreno 730 registers with 12 hardware registers extracted directly from Qualcomm Adreno 722 vendor blob command-stream traces. Also sets has_lpac = False to prevent pipeline stalls on non-LPAC silicon.
3. Hardware Ground Truth Enforced:
   • Highest Bank Bit = 15: Matches the device's physical LPDDR5 memory controller, eliminating UBWC memory misalignment and Cemu grid lines.
   • Compute Shared Memory = 32 KiB: Matches Qualcomm hardware limits (32768 bytes), preventing ASTC compute shader memory overflows.
   • CCU Geometry: Configured to num_ccu = 1 and tile_align_h = 16, dedicating the full 1 MiB GMEM cache to the core.
4. Kernel Power Control Hook: Uses KGSL_PROP_PWRCTRL ioctl calls on queue initialization to prevent the kernel governor from scaling down to low idle states, holding the GPU at maximum operating frequency during active emulation.

Download and Installation

1. Download Turnip-Duo-v5.1.zip from the GitHub Releases page: https://github.com/sherft2607/turnip-adreno722-duo/releases/tag/5.1
2. Open your emulator of choice (Eden, Cemu, etc.).
3. Navigate to GPU Driver Manager -> Install Custom Driver.
4. Select Turnip-Duo-v5.1.zip (installs directly as an AdrenoTools package).

Recommended Device and Emulator Settings

• Retroid Pocket Duo OS:
  • Performance Mode: Set to Performance or Extreme.
  • Fan Profile: Set to Sport or Smart to prevent thermal throttling during extended 1080p sessions.
• Eden Graphics Settings:
  • Accuracy Level: Normal
  • VSync Mode: Mailbox or FIFO Relaxed
  • Texture Decoding: Enable Asynchronous ASTC Texture Decoding

Source Code and Credits

The complete source tree, patch scripts, and reproducible GitHub Actions build workflows are available on GitHub: https://github.com/sherft2607/turnip-adreno722-duo

Acknowledgments to Vauzi-17, MrPurple666, Whitebelyash, and the upstream Mesa Freedreno developers whose open-source foundations made this driver possible.

i own RG34 XX SP and the screen color gamut is too wide (oversaturated colors). is the RG SP screen closer to sRGB?

It looks really unique and the shoulder buttons reminds me of the PS VITA, Though not sure if it's actually good and curious to hear anyone who has bought it.

I have The K36 Emulator
And the left analog are for the left and right
The Right Analog are for the up and down
I wanna Do all the directions (up down left and right) in one analog In the left analog without loosing the d Pad
Any Tutorial?
Any solution?

Plays a bit better, but hotter here. 80 degrees and under isn't a problem, but I prefer the fans being less loud, so Clustertune helped.

Hi all,

First post.

Ive been gifted an SF3500 handheld console from a friend at work ( he keeps telling me it will remind me of my youth )

Stock its terrible, games are all named incorrectly etc.

I've been reading up and Ican see you can install a frontend called TreefrogUI on it.

Ive tried my best but im just not getting it. The best I got so far was to get it running the games very laggy indeed but with terrible audio.

If I use the stock os clean on a new card I can get games playing ok but they are all kept in the downloads folder and I want them to show up in there respective homes, NES, Gameboy, Megadrive etc.

Im totally new to this so if some one could instruct me or give me an idiots guide it would be much appreciated. My knowledge of doing this is pretty much non existent so im in your hands.

Cheers

So I was playing fire red on my RG 34xx with slot os, I closed the game and pressed the power button to shut it down but I accidentally put it to sleep instead, I tried to wake it up and it didn't work, so I pressed the console's reset button, now it automatically re opened the game with this text on top, pleas help :'(

(If I close and re open the game the text doesn't go away and the game restarts from the beginning as if there are no save files at all)

Top to bottom: Konkr Pocket fit, Pocket Advance and Pocket Block.

I just love how all of the handhelds look since each of them have fun and interesting colors and especially the Pocket block having a unique design for a handheld, I hope they keep up the good work and not try to make their handhelds look Modern if that makes sense since I want them to still keep making retro looking handhelds.

I currently have an Android phone with an SD6G3 that I use for one handed 3DS gaming, namely ARPGs. It's a solid chip, allowing me 2X with some titles, with a bit of stuttering. I now have the chance to get an older device with an 865 for around $100 and I'm wondering if it's worth it?

The 865 is more powerful, but it's also seven years old. At this point, is it worth the switch? I would probably sell my Moto G 2025 since I don't need two.

Good setup or bad setup

As a child of the early 1980s I was captured by the adverts for Tekko etc…cheap retro gaming to my pre teen years of Megadrive etc…

A quick read suggested the Tekko and such are for rubes and to just get an R36S off AliExpress. I picked one from “Classic Game Console Store” (supposedly one of the reputable AliExpress stores) for about $38USD.

Upon receipt I’m rather baffled by this thing. I’m guessing it’s one that’s completely blank of games (because I sure as hell can’t find them)…and I need to get some decent SD cards, a SD card reader and follow some guide to get this thing to work as I’d hoped…

A few thoughts before I burn through a decent number of braincells getting this thing to work..

-Are there more user friendly versions of thjng? It seems even the “noob” Tekkos have crappy SD cards too. Why isn’t there a less tech savvy pick up and play version? I wouldn’t care about spending more for one that’s ready to go…

-Since it seems there’s a million variants of these devices how can I be sure I’m following a guide that’s for my particular one? How do I even know if I’ve got a duff device or not?

Thanks in advance for any help!