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Zippy6 said:

The Aya Neo and OneXSugar both look really uncomfortable and ugly to me. I'm not sure why I'd want a 7" dual screen handheld that's primary draw is obviously ds/3ds emulation. Aya Neo is way too big for me.

Thor looks fantastic, anbernic looks like a great price...

I'm just concerned about the specs of the anbernic, sub $100 dual screen device makes me think it might be running the h700 chip like all of their XX handhelds... In that case drastic will be the only ds emulator it'll be powerful enough to run and there'll be no retroachievements support.

If they can put something better than the h700 in the rg DS I'll be very interested, the t618 for example, but at $100 they'd seriously impress me if they did.

Thor looks perfect, and it's a great price for what you get but my miserly ways stop me from pulling the trigger. A dual screen 3DS XL sized device capable of 3DS/PS2/GC/Switch emulation though? Pretty much a dream device.

Yeah, T618 or H728 would do the job for MelonDS, but it's left to be seen if they manage to squeeze that under $100.

AYN Thor indeed looks perfect, and from few reviews I watched it delivers on what was promised for fantastic bang/buck. The only thing keeping me from squeezing the trigger is my assumption that, since they are launching Odin 3 with Snapdragon 8 Elite in November, AYN will announce Thor 2 with that same SoC as well by the end of the year - and 8 Elite is, IIRC, almost twice as powerful.