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Turnip drivers on your AYN or Retroid: what they are, which build, how to install (2026)

Turnip is Mesa's open-source Vulkan driver for Snapdragon's Adreno GPUs. It installs inside one emulator at a time, never system-wide. Here's which handhelds it covers, where Eden, Azahar, Dolphin and Winlator keep the switch, and where the code comes from.

Aliteq Team · Oct 16 · 10 min

Close-up photo of a bare square processor chip with a metal lid on a dark circuit board, lit warm amber on one side and violet on the other

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Will your Retroid or AYN run PS2 and Switch? Check the chip first (2026)

Every chip inside a current Retroid, AYN, Anbernic or AYANEO handheld, read off the makers' own spec pages, set against what the PS2, 3DS and Switch emulator projects say they need. No benchmarks, no guesses: just the parts list and the fine print.

Aliteq Team · Oct 16 · 11 min

Evercade Super Pocket and cartridge pricing update, official graphic

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your $25 retro game cartridge is getting more expensive. the reason? AI datacenters. seriously

Blaze put Evercade cartridges and the Super Pocket up across the UK and EU. the cause has nothing to do with retro gaming and everything to do with AI datacenters — and this is the corner of the market least able to absorb it.

Aliteq Team · Jul 18 · 7 min

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Retroid Pocket Nova vs Odin 2 Portal: same chip, so pick the screen

Both run a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, so they emulate the same systems. The $239 Nova is a 4.5-inch 4:3 pocket machine; the $259 Portal is a 7-inch 16:9 OLED. Prices checked 4 Oct 2026.

Aliteq Team · Jul 18 · 6 min