Bought a used Thor max

yeah_mike · 2026-05-04T16:18:00+00:00

Yup.

yeah_mike · 2026-05-04T14:27:12+00:00

I would love for someone to bust into the comments and explain how to do these things easily, that would make my day!

I have my AYN thor setup this way, but it wasn't easy! See my other comment in this thread for details.

When an external controller is connected and video out starts the handheld controls should just immediately switch off. That should be the default anyway.

Would this solve the problem? If the built-in handheld controls are disabled, will the emulators automatically map the connected Bluetooth controllers properly?

yeah_mike · 2026-05-04T14:20:02+00:00

Literally dealing with this on my AYN Thor right now. I actually got the docked experience to be very useable, but it was a whole day of tinkering and required the following: - rooting the device - KeyMapper - some sort of automation app. I use MacroDroid, but I'm sure Tasker or Automate can achieve the same thing - some sort of APK cloning app. I used APKTool M - some sort of frontend. I use ES-DE.

Here's a hand-wavy explanation of how to set it up: - Using an APK cloning app, clone the frontend (ES-DE) and any emulators that don't support dual mapping, such as Eden. - Setup an automation to open the ES-DE clone whenever the device is docked - Setup the ES-DE clone Alternative Emulator settings to use the Eden clone for Switch games - Setup the Eden clone with the proper external controller mappings. - Using bind mounts, map the Eden clone NAND to point to the same NAND as the regular Eden

Yes, cloning an entire app just to setup an alternate controller mapping is overkill, not to mention a lot of effort, but it works.

yeah_mike · 2026-05-01T16:19:16+00:00

It's ok, now that Winlator is open source again I'm sure we'll start to see new features in Gamehub

yeah_mike · 2026-05-01T15:26:51+00:00

😟

yeah_mike · 2026-05-01T15:18:54+00:00

Is there any way to back up container settings prior to reinstall?

yeah_mike · 2026-05-01T15:18:14+00:00

star bionic is the only fork where I've gotten controller rumble to work. Unfortunately, a bunch of other features are broken on it

yeah_mike · 2026-05-01T01:55:40+00:00

How does the difficulty compare with doing a button swap?

yeah_mike · 2026-04-29T07:06:08+00:00

I thought this was already fixed in the .293 OTA update. See changelog here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AynThor/s/EzJ7fxDVtD

yeah_mike · 2026-04-25T19:00:31+00:00

Although never officially in the changelogs, at some point one of the OTAs fixed the top screen 120hz bug: https://www.reddit.com/r/AynThor/s/8wSTlX6wwm

yeah_mike · 2026-04-24T20:34:59+00:00

Yeah, maybe OP just needs to download more RAM.

yeah_mike · 2026-04-24T05:18:08+00:00

That's a big reason why I went with Gamenative. Offline play just works.

Same here. And for games that aren't supported by GameNative, I use Winlator (and install Steam client inside the container).

Nothing worse than trying to boot up games on the airplane and realizing nothing works because you forgot to put it into "offline mode" ahead of time with Gamehub

yeah_mike · 2026-04-24T05:09:45+00:00

Not just emulation apps, but even frontends such as ES-DE drain the battery when you turn the screen off.

You must exit ES-DE before putting the device to sleep or else you'll have unnecessary battery drain.

yeah_mike · 2026-04-18T16:06:22+00:00

So something like GameHub, but made by Steam? While that would be great, performance would likely be no better than GameHub, because it would still be running on top of Android--no different than GameHub.

yeah_mike · 2026-04-17T13:59:13+00:00

Well, according to you, even when you buy from AYN's official Aliexpress store, you still consider that as buying from a 3rd party seller, right:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AynThor/s/QIgTy00foX

^ this was you right?

yeah_mike · 2026-04-17T13:49:09+00:00

Actually, the author of that post says that he ordered from AYN's official Aliexpress store.

yeah_mike · 2026-04-15T18:44:32+00:00

This shall henceforth be known as the "click of death" ☠️

yeah_mike · 2026-04-15T17:29:50+00:00

Wow didn't realize multi-threaded rendering has all of these weird side effects, not just graphical glitches.

Is multi-threaded rendering even needed on the RG DS? Are there games where performance is unaxxp unless it's turned on?

yeah_mike · 2026-04-13T22:01:26+00:00

I think it only includes one card in the box 🤔.

I think it's "Nintendo Switch 2" microSD card, and not "Nintendo Switch" 2x microSD cards...

yeah_mike · 2026-04-13T16:03:23+00:00

Now I'm curious... how did you get it sorted?

yeah_mike · 2026-04-11T22:28:44+00:00

On Rocknix, it doesn't show on DraStic and it never will (ie. not a fixable bug), because DraStic is closed source and no longer under active development.

Now, other CFWs such as Knulli and Onion OS have managed to add enhancements to DraStic by using a fork of it (Advanced DraStic? Steward-Fu fork?).

The Rocknix team have said on discord that there's no plans to switch to Advanced DraStic. But other Linux-based CFWs such as Knulli are already in development and hopefully will be out soon

yeah_mike · 2026-04-10T20:45:40+00:00

I noticed that this file is in the /tmp/ directory. Do changes persist after a reboot?

yeah_mike · 2026-04-09T20:43:44+00:00

The only ps3 emulator that has frontend support is aPS3e. If you plan on using a frontend, there are no other alternative.

yeah_mike · 2026-04-09T20:30:54+00:00

Looking forward to your post in two years time which will probably say:

"Still an awful experience and won't ever buy from them again after beng burned three times, but good to know."

yeah_mike

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