post pics of your handhelds to me I will rate them from 0/10

(spoiler warning, every rating will be a 10. it'll be like we rate dogs, only better)

@Nine time to show off my babies (I apparently don't have a good photo of my PSP Go on my phone, and I've lent it to my dad rn, but I assure you it's beautiful)

@noiob wow, that last-model PSP looks so tiny, i didn't know it was so compact. a little tempting.

@gatewave it's a wonderful little console! a little short on storage since it's 16GB internally and without mods it only takes M2 (basically small Memorysticks). Might be a problem if you want to carry a lot of PSP games, those are usually a few gigs. There's a hardware mod thing but I haven't done it

@gatewave oh yeah and it's the second-to-last model, the PSP Street came afterwards, it's the budget model which looks pretty cool but from.what I've heard feels and is super cheap

@noiob aw jeez i forgot about the street, what a piece of junk

yeah the proprietary storage sitch sucks (possibly worse on Vita, which has corruption issues). i'd only use it for PSP games i think. for GBA i'd rather have a nice modded GBA and console games are better on CRTs / emus with good shaders.

@gatewave here's the mod, though my friend has had some trouble with a Memorystick adapter on a regular PSP, maybe get one with just one microSD slot https://m2adapter.cart.fc2.com/ca1/1/p-r-s

oh yeah and apparently the Street was hacked the first time it was shown to the general public and they had to remove the demo units

@noiob yeah TV-out's a good feature. i'm a purist though so i wouldn't want to play 240p PS1 games on an HD screen. i actually have a CRT for that and am satisfied with RetroArch's PS1 CRT output.

sexy as it is - it really is - i'm generally moving away from owning specialized hardware with the exception of a DS and maybe that future expensive GBA. for console platforms RA + authentic controller adapter + CRT is my happy spot.

ha, that's hilarious about the Street!

@gatewave you're the only person I've ever heard of playing emulators on a CRT

@noiob that's what CRT_emudriver is for. and before that the ArcadeVGA which was a slightly modified, not-very-fast Radeon card

MAME has also been at the forefront of this for obvious reasons

this past year RetroArch incorporated CRT mode-switching logic which greatly simplified and improved the experience of running it on a CRT. that's when i finally jumped in cuz I've had a big old Japanese-imported Sony here for 15 years.

CRT gaming is beautiful. it's one thing that really re-awakens my old enjoyment.

@noiob it makes the visuals messy and analog again, like my memories. and of course much brighter with great colors, that lovely phosphor glow, yadda yadda.

@gatewave I recently happened to acquire a lovely small Trinitron and I love how bright and sharp its picture is

@gatewave bonus Trinitron pics (I should take some proper ones tbh, those were just from testing it once I got it home)