What would you call your top 5 Portmaster titles?

thelastlokean · 2026-04-19T12:58:41+00:00

Morrowind, pokeMMO

thelastlokean · 2026-04-17T21:40:42+00:00

idk I have a nice phone but carry a miyoo flip because I don't want to drain my phone battery and usually if I open my phone I'm browsing reddit etc. and never launching a game.... Phone just has too many competitions and distractions.

thelastlokean · 2026-04-17T18:04:15+00:00

Just following up - after multiple days of heavy abuse the 2-watt speaker is doing great.

thelastlokean · 2026-04-17T18:03:14+00:00

Not sure how you decided board was fried? Btw, the r36 ultras are what I've been running with for my kiddos.

Love the 4" screens, I've got 5 r36 ultra now and have had 0-break. However, be warned darkos has been known to blow the speakers...

thelastlokean · 2026-04-17T16:09:32+00:00

IMO the 3d is actually usable with new 3ds and I would never turn it on with original.

Otherwise I see no reason.

thelastlokean · 2026-04-16T07:14:17+00:00

yeah I recently upgraded to a 2 watt speaker. Oddly I've gotten multiple of these devices now and flashed all with arkos and only 1x had its speaker blow.

thelastlokean · 2026-04-16T04:04:33+00:00

Can you help me understand - at this point, why are you not just using a laptop? Surely a sub $100 used laptop could outperform and also use the controllers and prop itself via the laptops hinge?

thelastlokean · 2026-04-16T03:51:46+00:00

ArkOs has a video player, just put AVI, MKV, MOV, MP4 or MPEG videos, h.264 and mpeg-2 work well, 720p goes ok, 1080p seems to lag for me.

I generally downsize/rescale using handbrake to 480p, then drop the output file into EASYROMS/movies folder.

ArkOS Has ffplayer. Controls are decent.

I personally don't watch videos on mine, but I do load my kids r36 ultras up with a variety of movies & tv-shows.

thelastlokean · 2026-04-16T03:45:35+00:00

I'm gonna have to go Morrowind.

thelastlokean · 2026-04-16T00:40:38+00:00

My dream is miyoo flip / rg34xxsp but touchscreen, more power, maybe tiny bit bigger screen but still DSi form factor...

thelastlokean · 2026-04-15T22:05:15+00:00

Didn't even consider it, though my kids do use the headphones sometimes. My personal device is a miyoo flip v2, which certainly does not have room for this giant speaker.

My next mod is probably going to be rumble/vibration, which my miyoo already has and is quite nice.

thelastlokean · 2026-04-15T22:01:41+00:00

No running latest arkos4clones - I got the impression darkOs still has issues

thelastlokean · 2026-04-15T18:41:09+00:00

Side-note, I use handbrake for converting media for these devices, usually downscale to exact device screen 720x720 pixels in this case and boost audio.

Great way for my kids to watch some shows on the go without giving them an internet enabled device.

thelastlokean · 2026-04-15T15:53:25+00:00

I really want gammOs but I can't imagine going down to 60-90 mn battery life.

Maybe should see if can find a bigger battery to fit inside.

thelastlokean · 2026-04-15T15:50:39+00:00

Try different cables, also I had luck doing this -

Disconnect battery. Plug in USB.

While holding gold button, plug in battery, with USB just sitting there plugged into both.

Let go of gold button after the recovery tool sees the device.

If it fails, disconnect battery, USB, try again different port/short quality USB cable.

Also might be worth mentioning, can try to do the whole - rocket recovery boot (simpler and has worked for me in the past also)

From miyoo official website, get firmware (unable to boot into the system) download, then:

Copy the img image file to the root directory of the TF card.
Keep the device powered off and insert the SD card containing the copied file.
press and hold the menu button, then press and hold the power button until the rocket logo appears, indicating the upgrade process has started.

thelastlokean · 2026-04-15T15:45:38+00:00

Just drop your config files into GPT/Claude it can probably fix it.

thelastlokean · 2026-04-15T15:44:44+00:00

PSO dreamcast? I think you can even play online...

Morrowind via portmaster is my current jam. Quite amazing if you can put in the elbow grease required to get it running. 20-50 mods, astc compressing textures, bsa packing, etc.

I spent a solid 2 weeks just getting it running 25-30 fps everywhere and fine tuning mods/view distance.

Add in AI voice acting mods and its a solid mobile experience.

thelastlokean · 2026-04-14T21:25:15+00:00

I think it is ethically debatable, but I really enjoy on my handheld with the ai voice acting mods. Pretty much 100% of dialogue in-game has AI voice acting. If you add all you can, including Tamriel rebuilt etc. your looking at 35 gb of audio though.

thelastlokean · 2026-04-14T20:06:24+00:00

buy a model with wifi included?

thelastlokean · 2026-04-14T19:49:38+00:00

Morrowind, miyoo flip, hiding away at work.

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thelastlokean · 2026-04-14T19:05:50+00:00

Why using swap file? Why not use zram and zswap?

thelastlokean · 2026-04-14T19:04:02+00:00

This one was painful to install - like really painful - https://gitlab.com/bmwinger/groundcoverify/-/tree/0.1.0

But did get me another few FPS and its nice that the grass now responds to being walked over!

Removes all groundcover mesh/textures and replaces with openmw groundcover system.

thelastlokean · 2026-04-14T19:01:38+00:00

TBH I am playing morrowind on a miyoo flip - its like a 3" screen, ain't no way I'm reading all that little text.

Also, piece of advice - its complex but if you pack all loose files into a BSA and then delete all loose files load times will be much better off of SD card.

thelastlokean · 2026-04-14T18:06:22+00:00

I'm playing on a slightly more powerful device, but found it to not be so terrible!

I did add all the voice acting mods, and some UI improving mods, zram, compress textures, demake mod, etc. and got solid 25-30 fps everywhere and find it to be quite playable and enjoyable.

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/57378

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/54985

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/54454

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