…where does he keep them? Make sure you wash your hands after touching them!

Yeah… I love both but Led Zep is way more of a hippie rock vibe and motorhead is like biker rock

I’ve never heard of PortMaster, I still haven’t got bored of all the tiny best set games yet!

I think I played half life (maybe 2?) when I was a kid and it scared the crap out of me!

Aliexpress. I bought from a UK website first time and it was double the price but still shipped from China, making it a bit pointless. This is the aliexpress link I used, I have no connection to the seller and only bought from them once, but it arrived in good condition and I’ve tested it works as expected. The unit I received was a “v5”, or “screen panel v4”, I paid £25:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007448762232.html

Edit: maybe it’s the tariffs? Haha

Yeah it’s great, my daughter has been enjoying all the old games as well so i bought her one too for her birthday. It’s much easier as a parent to give her the R36s and the retro games because they are all self contained offline things unlike a lot of modern games.

Some things I’d say to consider before buying:

• Factor in the cost of a good quality SD card (or two, one for the system and one for ROMs) to replace the one that comes with it. There are loads of warnings in forums etc about the cards that are supplied, but even so I was shocked when the card that came with mine broke after 2 days. Get a decent card like Samsung Evo Plus 128GB.
• It’s easier to start fresh when you get a new card than it would be to clone the one that comes with the device. Get the OS from here: https://github.com/AeolusUX/ArkOS-R3XS/releases
• For ROMs, search archive.org for “tiny best set go”

I’ve been playing Crash Bandicoot on an R36s recently, it’ such a nostalgic game. Amazing that you can play it on a ~£35 handheld! You can’t beat the gameplay in some of the old classics.

In my experience (as a Brit), people generally only refer to Americans as Yanks in a mildly pejorative way or if we’re taking the piss, otherwise it’s Americans.

Agreed. And alternatives exist, like Kobo

Oof

He’d probably like today’s politics, it seems fashionable to just lean into anything bad someone says about you.

I haven’t used windows in about 15 years on my personal machines but see 7zip referenced everywhere…why is it so popular? Can windows 10/11 or whatever we’re on now not compress/extract most things itself or do people prefer it for some reason (nice interface etc)?

I’m always amazed when I’m following a tutorial written for windows and it says “download and install 7zip, then extract the file using 7zip”. I just right click the file and extract it…

That’s cool!

Ouch.

Is your username a reference to this song by the way? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4LWIP7SAjY

Yep, I got an absolute novel length comment from some far left .ml person as one of my first interactions on Lemmy.

I had no idea, thanks!

For other unenlightened lemmings:

4X is apparently an abbreviation of “Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/4X

It’s also possible I’m wrong, I never played the games before CIV6 (or not enough to learn them), but on Fdroid it’s described as an “Open source 4X civilization-building game” which I assumed means it’s a CIV4 clone.

Either way, it’s a good game - one of the best open source mobile games for sure.

Isn’t it based on CIV4?

This is very cool

It also looks like the Firefox logo!

Jesus, how high were the parents when they made that decision?

That’s also a nice compliment though, I.e. it’s so good they think people would pay for it!

I’m also mostly interested in slightly older games like Rome Remastered, I probably won’t be playing many brand new titles.

Might try and get Age of Mythology working as well as I have so much nostalgia for it!

What kind of games are you into?