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To my knowledge the RGB20 Pro is about to be the only HD 4x3 handheld on the market, right? Does this mean HD 4x3 screens are finally more accessible and companies like Anbernic etc are about to update all their 4x3 handhelds with HD screens? Because 4x3 is my favorite aspect ratio for retro gaming and having that in HD sounds like a dream to me

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Hello Everyone,

As per requested by some of you, I am providing a guide here to help scale up Balatro to make the game more playable on smaller low-res screens like the RG35XX series.

Note: This requires you own/purchase your own copy of Balatro, and note that you will be editing some of the game's code to get it to work. I do not condone piracy.

Step 1: Open your Balatro game files. This is typically called Balatro.love or simply Balatro.. it is the file you moved over to portmaster to make the game work. This is actually a zipped series of lua files and other game files. You can rename the file to Balatro.zip and extract it.

Step 2: Once you have the Balatro files extracted, you'll see a series of folders (engine, functions, localizations, resources) and some lua files. The .LUA files we are going to be editing are "game.lua" and "globals.lua". They can be opened in Notepad.

Step 3: globals.lua changes. Go to around line 217, you will see some variables within the RENDER SCALE heading. I made the following changes that I found work for me:

self.TILESIZE = 70 --originally 20, scales up title page size
self.TILESCALE = 5.65 --originally 3.65 scales up title scales
self.FPS_CAP = 40 --originally 60, caps FPS for less heat and battery drain
self.TILE_W = self.F_MOBILE_UI and 11.5 or 21 -- many others users change this, do not change it, keep this default
self.TILE_H = self.F_MOBILE_UI and 20 or 11.5 -- many others users change this, do not change it, keep this default
self.CARD_W = 2.7*35/41 --originally 2.4, increases card size
self.CARD_H = 2.7*47/41 --originally 2.4, increases card size
self.COLLISION_BUFFER = 0.03 --originally 0.05, allows things to be tighter

You should notice after these above changes that the card sizes will be a decent amount larger and much more readable, however the text will still be small.

Step 4: game.lua changes. Now to now increase the text side scaling. Open this lua file in notepad and go to approimately line 968. Look for " self.FONTS = {"

In here you will notice there is a variable for each font type called FONTSCALE. Change all of the lines with 0.1 as the FONTSCALE to be 0.17, and all of the lines with 0.12 FONTSCALE to be 0.18. Leave all other values the same.

You will notice this drastically increases the font size without getting in the way of much.

Step 5: Save all of the .lua files, and re-zip your extracted Balatro files. Rename the .zip back to Balatro or Balatro.love and put it back in your Balatro portmaster folder. PLEASE NOTE, make sure you zip everything up properly, so that the balatro folders and lua files are in the ROOT of the zip. If you aren't careful, Windows will nest the zip into a subfolder which will cause the game to not be able to find its files.

Feel free to try these settings and let me know if you find better ones!

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Original Title: If anyone lives within driving distance of Birmingham, Alabama, I’ve got a spare 35xx and/or 35xxH both to give away completely free. Hell I’ll even throw in a rgb10 max3 with a mildly damaged display if you want it.

All my real-life friends have already had their retro-gaming needs covered by my other hand-me-downs There won’t be any SD cards included because I throw away the originals and I’m not giving away my Sandisks.

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I've been following the retro-handheld scene for a while and it seems that at the moment when it comes to sub-70$ devices we have a choice of four (decent) SOCs: Rockchip rk3326, Allwinner h700, Allwinner A133 Plus and Rockchip rk3566.

In terms of CPU architecture -> Cortex-A55 > Cortex-A53 > Cortex-A35.

Current devices from least to more powerful:

• rk3326 28nm (4x ARM Cortex-A35 @ 1.5 GHz)
  • used in: r36s
• Allwinner h700 28nm (4x ARM Cortex-A53 @ 1.5GHz)
  • used in: anbernic RG28XX H, RG35XX plus/H/2024, RG40XX H (>70$)
• Allwinner A133 Plus 28nm (4x ARM Cortex-A53 @ 1.8GHz)
  • used in: Trimui Smart Pro
• rk3566 22nm (4x ARM Cortex-A55 @ 1.8 GHz)
  • used in: RGB30, rk2024, X55 (>70$)

The interesting point here is that in theory the Trimui Smart Pro is close to rk3566 level of performance as it has a similar processor frequency, however the A53 architecture is less performant and it gets hotter to reach the same frequency as the rk3566 so the rk3566 still wins this one.

Do you agree with the ordering? If not let me know in the comments below. :)

Evaluation criteria

When it comes to performance there are several factors such as:

• CPU performance (e.g: processor type, speed, cache size, extensions, cores, lithography)
• GPU performance (e.g: speed, cores)
• Memory type being used (e.g: DDR3 vs DDR4)
• Thermal efficiency (if the SOC cannot dissipate heat well, it will throttle)
• Kernel/Software support (bad drivers, software -> bad performance)

I focused on the theoretical performance. Ignoring thermal efficiency, kernel/software support.

The GPU is more important for upscaling than it is for overall performance. They all have a decent GPU so I ignored that for the comparison.

The memory, while important, is not the most important bottleneck. The most important bottleneck for emulation is the CPU which is what I focused on. The CPU extensions (e.g: NEON) are also important but all the CPUs in the comparison, have similar extension support.

Other SOCs not considered for comparison. Semi-sorted by performance

• Allwinner A64 (4 x ARM Cortex A53 @ 1.15 GHz, used in: Retro Pixel Pocket)
• Allwinner A33 (4x ARM Cortex-A7 @ 1.5 GHz, Miyoo A30)
• Rockchip rk3126 (4 x ARM Cortex A7 @ 1.2 GHz, used in: M17)
• SigmaStar SSD202D (2 x ARM Cortex A7 @ 1.2GHz, used in: Miyoo Mini Plus)
• ATM7051 (4 x ARM Cortex A9 @ 0.9 GHz, used in: PowKiddy X70/X39 Pro/X51)
• Ingenic x1830 (1x MIPS32 XBurst @ 1.5 GHz, used in: GKD Pixel)
• Allwinner K3S (1 x ARM Cortex A7 @ 1.2 GHz, used in: Anbernic RG Nano)
• Allwinner V3S (1x ARM Cortex A7 @ 1.2 GHz, used in: FunKey S, Powkiddy Q36 mini)
• AllWinner F1C200S (1x ARM926EJ-S @ 700 MHz, used in: TrimUI Model S/PowKiddy A66))
• AllWinner F1C100S (1x ARM926EJ-S @ 700 MHz, used in: Powkiddy V90/Q90/Q20)
• HCSEMI B210 (1x @ 918 MHz MIPS, used in: DataFrog SF2000, GB300 and other frog-family devices)

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