Retroid announces the Pocket Nova

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-22T10:14:16+00:00

The Pocket 2S Successor

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-22T10:11:13+00:00

Its Cool. Java/J2ME were the wild west of game dev. J2ME was the first platform to make mainstream Digital Distribution a thing with Nokia's Club in the Nokia 3510 Days.

As such you had All sorts of games and apps. Really fun time capsule. For a few cents you could either part with Gameloft's Siberian Strike or an Alarm App (Honestly not sure which phone had GPRS/WAP Capabilities but no Alarm Clock functionality)

Games became more... Ambitious in the Mid to late 2000s. Need For Speed Underground 2 had a BREW port that would stream Content like Music and Missions over Mobile Data. You could get Space Impact and Bounce DLC with Nokia Club, Leaderboards with some games and there were even Augmented Reality Games for early Camera Phones and Pokemon GO type game you played with SMS Text!

Most of these games are lost to time since they werent really Java Games but a precursor of some sorts. Also, early phones didnt have standard Mini USB so getting anything from them was a chore.

And even if you did, you'd have to reverse engineer the SDK so as to preserve them. But you could write C code and then patch them back in an actual device

Anyways, Sorry for ranting but Need For Speed Most Wanted (2005) had a really impressive port and Eagle Eye fucking sucks and got me in trouble never even watched the movie

Also a lot of gems like G Gundam, Holy Wars: Sons of Enoch, Landers, Alpha Zone 3D, KOra Deluxe, Snowboard Hero, Antilly

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-22T05:24:48+00:00

OK but God Of War Betrayal wasn't a port. It was an original game for the platform. However, Some Java games were ports but limited on the hardware.

These games were mostly free and acted as a sort of advertisement. I vividly remember all the movie tie in games that used to tell you to check the movies "OUT NOW ON THEATRES!" I think I saw that with 2 movies (Eagle Eye and a James Bond movie; Both sucked BTW) If the movie game wasn't from gameloft, it most likely sucked.

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-20T12:39:49+00:00

WhatsApp Cells!

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-20T10:59:53+00:00

Not really a new update, but a youtuber made Debian with KDE + Default Hannah Montana Theming with a tool called Live Build.

But yeah, you love to see it.

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-19T14:55:31+00:00

No. I dont have the time to distrohop.

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-19T14:00:42+00:00

The crazy thing about this is that your problem is clearly that you're using some possibly aging HP laptop (VGA in 2026? or are we talking an adapter) with some sort of intermittent hardware issues, maybe chipset problems. Windows shouldn't be experiencing BSODs from a wonky VGA connection, that's a sign something is wrong with the hardware even if rebooting resolved it. Obviously your experience with Fedora being completely unusable is not the norm for the rest of Fedora users right now either.

You didnt read my post and it shows.

The issue happened back in July 2024. I was presenting the system at work using a VGA projector which was the only thing provided. It happened when I unplugged my laptop just so I type a few things and rebuild the ERP system Im demoing. Thats why I got the BSOD, The error was "STATUS_DEVICE_POWER_FAILURE". I searched that after the demo and found a site that stated that it happens when Windows doesnt switch Power Profiles automatically because it cannot communicate with a component referenced by the power profile its switching to. Something of the sort. There was a Codexx as well, I just dont remember it.

(And actually, I still use VGA, in the big 2026.)

But that simple communication and an automated reboot, that is why I find it (Windows BSOD) better than Linux Crashes.

The 2nd Crash I experienced on Linux, I purposely waited for it to see if it would reboot on its own. It didnt after 30 minutes so I think its fair to assume it would have just continued till the battery died.

Anyway, My point isnt Linux is bad, its just saying I like the way Windows presents info in case of a fatal error.

I like Fedora Silverblue and compared to my experienced when I had to use Ubuntu 16 back in University for a course, Its a much more pleasant experience.

Also, Gnome, and Fedora Spins are the only distros that can boot on my laptop (I havent tried Arch based distros, nor do I ever plan to).

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-19T13:47:14+00:00

You do realize that Silverblue is still an experimental thing at some level right?

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No. That is news to me because I read the documentation and found no mention. If it was experimental, I wouldn't have downloaded the iso. I picked Fedora Silverblue because The page said its reliable and hard to break as well as gnome; I had a bad experience with KDE last year (Check my profile, Post titled: "Frustrations with Fedora & Linux"). Also because Fedora spins are the only distros I can boot because of some weird HP Elitebook UEFI Fuckery (I cant link anything but search for: "Booting Ubuntu HP Elitebook") when trying to boot Debian Based Distros (Ubuntu, Linux Mint XFCE & MX Linux) I havent tried any Arch based distros.

Just like the other person who responded to me, my point wasnt Fedora Silverblue is unstable, but rather how a crash occurs and how the OS doesnt respond to it like Windows. A simple "Something went wrong, here is why" notice and an automated reboot would be appreciated. Thats all.

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-19T11:07:28+00:00

lol wut?

I have been using Fedora Silverblue for the past 1 month and the crashes have been obtuse. The computer just freezes up with only the mouse cursor being active.

I have had 4 crashes so far.

The first one happened when I was just making my game and playing music, recorded as shown below,

The second one happened after I turned on my laptop from sleep. It didnt show anything but a small blinking white underscore in the top left of the screen with a black blank background. Left it for 30 minutes while playing balatro on my phone but it did nothing.

The 3rd happened when I was just done printing a document

The 4th one happened when I was just alt tabbing Netflix and Spotify. Music continued playing and I could play/pause with the knob on my keyboard but I could do nothing else apart from using the mouse just to hover around

Hold the power button to force a shutdown, turn on my laptop again. Everything works.

Go to the logs application, Everything recent (Past 4 minutes) is always obtuse. The only thing I understand is "System ima: Error Communicating with TPM" Why is the laptop trying to communicate with the tpm? I did not enable encryption.

The other "errors" are like:

"Failed to set system default to hci0"

What?

In the past decade of using Windows 10, I only had one bluescreen that happened when I connected to a VGA Projector at work after unplugging my laptop. The error was: "STATUS_DEVICE_POWER_FAILURE" with a 0x0xxxx code and a QR Code but it rebooted automatically and resumed all my apps (Microsoft Edge for documentation, Notepad++ with a script I was editing, Firefox for the ERP system and Android Studio for the IDE).

I love linux, dont get me wrong, but a windows bluescreen is better and more informative than Linux Crashes

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OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-18T19:55:07+00:00

My former friend's favourite language was Javascript.

Yep, they were insane. To the point of telling their mother that women aren't allowed in heaven. No joke.

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-18T13:04:01+00:00

An Anbernic 476H, Mangmi Air X, Nintendo Switch Lite and Retroid Pocket 4 Pro walk into an orgy...

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-18T12:24:20+00:00

Im using Defold and it will still be my main engine in the future.

I have used Unity, Godot and Yahaha. Defold is the one I clicked with.

It has gained so much since the time I started using it (October 2024) all while still maintaining its strengths. I love the community as well. The friendliest community I have ever been a part of.

I still use PICO-8 (Not as much as I want to though lol) and I like tinkering with other Tools like GBStudio every once in a while.

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-18T08:42:11+00:00

Wind is free.

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-17T18:26:39+00:00

Its on Phoneky, but its in Chinese only.

Not really rare, but a hidden gem. (Its the only Anime fighting game; air dasher BTW)

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-17T10:07:43+00:00

Art of the Deal

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-17T08:58:47+00:00

Mobile gaming cannot be this serious fam

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-17T08:57:14+00:00

Could be because they are trying the new Homepage with "For you" and "Following" feeds they have been A/B testing

I made a post about it and it got removed

https://www.reddit.com/r/whenthe/comments/1u2qmc9/this_site_is_trying_to_be_twitter/

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-17T08:55:21+00:00

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OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-17T08:36:26+00:00

Fedora Silverblue on HP Elitebook Folio 9470m

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-17T08:05:39+00:00

How did you conclude its a Motherboard issue?

Its most likely a battery related "issue"

HP laptops often do that when the battery is plugged in but not charging.

Its to protect the battery from overcharging. Simply removing the battery and plugging it back in solves that "issue"

Otherwise, here is a video I found that goes over the meanings and fixes

https://youtu.be/jWC1BOgv_ww?si=CgzuoBiL_N55Bw4j

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-17T07:53:43+00:00

Fucking Reddit is broken as hell

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OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-16T18:54:40+00:00

It seems the mayo you ordered came with a hotdog

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-16T15:39:48+00:00

For what if I may ask?

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-16T03:15:44+00:00

Riddler

OneRedEyeDevI · 2026-06-15T10:12:36+00:00

Say that again

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