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PiBoy Mini: just add a Raspberry Pi and you've got a handheld retro gaming system
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this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2023
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I bought a piboy from the same company. It was hot garbage. Took forever to boot, fan whined like crazy things of problems.
I sent it on to be fixed and they told me nothing was wrong with it. Never again.
That's rough.
I genuinely do understand the realities of manufacturing niche stuff making the high price kind of unavoidable, but you have to have high build quality to justify it to the consumer.
I don't see how that could be a PiBoy issue (except for the fan, but that could be caused by high CPU usage).
Slow bootup could be an issue with the RPi or the microSD card, or most likely the OS that you chose run on it.
Yeah I got a dmg from them. I wouldn't necessarily go as far as hot garbage. But I did end up being pretty disappointed with it. Communication was bad. The fan was awful. Constant screen tearing. Lots of issues overall. It was a really neat idea. And I'm sure they can/will improve. But now that I have an analogue pocket, and a steam deck, I feel no need for another one of these. And I can use my pi4 for other things now