A new EU law will require portable consoles like the Steam Deck and Nintendo Switch to have batteries you can replace yourself.

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    My 9 year old Nephew got a small handheld emulator for his birthday. Some cheaper knock off unit.

    He was excited and was showing me all the cool old NES games he could play. Most from my own childhood.

    While grinning at me, my Sister told him to tell me what he had told her the best thing about it was.

    My Nephew exclaimed that the very best thing about it was that it took AA batteries. So he didn’t have to wait for it to charge. He could just swap batteries.

    It blew his mind when I told him everything was like that when his Mom and I were kids.

    I’m down to get back to that.

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      I’m down for a single swappable lithium ion brick, but I’m not super keen on having a pocket full of AAs again.

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      Do you mind sharing the name or a link of the object? I am looking for buying one but I just find everything so cheap made or I can’t rally understand if something is good or not

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        If you’re looking for a handheld emulator, I recommend the Miyoo Mini+ or Anbernic RG35XX. They’ll last you years longer than the cheapie ones that play NES games since they have community custom firmware. Plus they play way more: NES, SNES, Gameboys, PS1, Genesis, etc.

        MSRP on these are ~$50-60. However you can get them for as low as $25-30 if you use Chinese sites like TEMU. If you’re curious I can send you more info

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        Not OP, but can recommend two similar ones, data frog SF2000 looks like a snes controller with a screen on it, it’s cheap (~20-30 USD) but it gets a little laggy running GBA, and anbernic rg35xx is pricier but higher quality, and has a gameboy-ish shape (~60-70 USD) don’t know about any of the other ones, but those two seem decent-ish from what I’ve heard. Haven’t used them myself but they seem to be the most popular. Both have replaceable/upgradable batteries, but they’re not AA’s.

        They’re mostly on aliexpress

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        I must have misspoke or misheard. If I found the correct unit it’s AAA batteries.

        I think it’s this unit. My Sister said it was cheap on Amazon.

        It was definitely a knock off thing. Had games I remember and then some obviously hacky knock off games named things like “Super Mario 26”.

        I’d say it seemed worth $20ish bucks. But, if you’re interested in something super serious this probably isn’t it.

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    Good. Make everything more repairable please. I’d rather a device be a little heavier/thicker with easily replaceable parts.

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    I thought the Switch battery was easy to get to, but then I checked iFixit and saw that it might take 40 steps.

    I hate batteries that are glued in.

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    Am I the only one worried that the manufacturers will just have two versions of the same product? One for North America with glued batteries and one for the EU with replaceable batteries.