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The shell looks injection moulded, and so do the buttons. Unfortunately, as you can imagine this one isn’t for sell, but he has mentioned that if he were to make them for people it would be upwards of $1500, so not cheap!īut that said the quality does look great, and beats anything currently on AliExpress. In fact, he has been picking at this project for over 6 years, and has created what can be only called one of the nicest PS2 handhelds we’ve seen.
HANDHELD PS2 EMULATOR PORTABLE
He created a portable PS2 back in 2019 using an old PS2, a Raspberry Pi and a 5.6″ display, along with lots and lots of hours tinkering. This is the only “decent” PS2 handheld we could find, and of course it’s been made be a reliable modder known as /DarkWingMod on Reddit. But, do not fear, there are some mad men out there that are trying to make it a thing using the PS2 internals instead of emulation, but this alone makes it even more expensive and harder to mod. It quite simply comes down to demand, and profitability. Not only does this make profits for manafacturers somewhat non-existent, it won’t have enough demand, because well, you can buy a Nintendo Switch for that, or even half a PS5 should you actually manage to find one for sell. The chips needed to power emulation within a PS2 handheld are expensive, and push the price of handhelds way above the $250 mark.
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Now before we jump in, we thought we’d explain why PS2 handhelds aren’t widely a thing and that’s simply because it takes a lot of power to emulate and play PS2 games. We’ve came across a wide number of these PS2 handhelds that you can actually buy, so we thought it would be hilarious to showcase these monstrosities, in hopes you can laugh the dream of them becoming a reality, away. “What’s the best PS2 handheld?”, well, in all honesty there really isn’t one as of yet.īut, that doesn’t stop modders and weird AliExpress sellers from attempting to make this magical unicorn a thing. The demand for a decent PS2 handheld is high, throughout our best retro handhelds review, it’s the question we get asked the most.