[jayofdoom]

The 3DS hacking scene is still pretty active. Great form factor devices, fully jailbroken. Guide is pretty easy to follow at 3ds.hacks.guide :)

I've got mine as the best form-factor emulation station (for older games) you could imagine :).

[haunter]

+1 it's worth it for the NSUI [0] alone. The 3DS, especially the New 3DSXL is the best handheld to play NES/SNES/GB/C/A games, pixel perfect!

0, https://3ds.eiphax.tech/nsui

[messe]

> The 3DS, especially the New 3DSXL is the best handheld to play NES/SNES/GB/C/A games, pixel perfect!

For me at least, I think the Steam Deck has it beat these days, although I'll admit I miss the smaller form factor sometimes.

[BoorishBears]

If you're into the kind of emulation where the 3DS is a contender, the Steam Deck is miles behind so many other options.

There's a cottage industry of retro emulation machines that all have much better battery life, more faithful control schemes, etc.

The Steam Deck shines because of all the other things it can do, but those mostly come at a cost to how great of a retro emulation handheld it is.

[idonotknowwhy]

Love my New 2DS XL with cfw, but the best form factor for me for those you mentioned is the Miyoo Mini.

I have it in my pocket all the time and put has save states, fast forward and low power standby with instant power on.

I can play it in short busts whenever I have a few minutes spare instead of using my phone.

I recently beat Pokémon Emerald for the first time thanks to this and I'm further through dk county than I've ever been

[ngcc_hk]

Any starting point for steam dock. A run emulation now. Just treat those rom as well roy and start to hack from that I supposed.

Btw that is 6 years ago or starting 7. No need of any update?

[maxioatic]

Guessing you meant to ask "any starting point for steamdeck running emulation now" or something like that.

If so, I'd recommend EmuDeck [1]. It took me about 10 minutes to set up and has emulators for essentially every platform you could want. (Just need to have roms.) Also, it's open source [2].

[1] - https://www.emudeck.com [2] - https://github.com/dragoonDorise/EmuDeck

[britneybitch]

I'd never heard of NSUI, this looks awesome!

Is it true that 3DS hardware supports Genesis games (as seen in the screenshot)? I'd love to know the story there. Was Sega involved? How does it works in hardware, since the Genesis has 68k/Z80 CPUs, and the DS family uses ARMs?

[chungy]

Only GBA and NDS games can run natively on 3DS hardware. Everything else is software emulation.

[britneybitch]

Thanks that makes more sense. I must have misunderstood the blurb at the top.

[throwaway6734]

For gba games it's hard to beat the anberic 351p. Almost the same exact size as the gba with the same screen size

[giantrobot]

I've got a GBA with a backlight mod and a flash cart. Flash carts are a game changer (pun intended) if you've got original hardware. I love systems like the Anberic but if you've got original hardware flash carts are the way to go.