Retroid Pocket Duo Lite, Dreamcast, Sonic Adventure 2 and your games tested
Dreamcast game samples on Duo Lite using Flycast at 1×, including heavy slowdown in NBA 2K2. Some tests are written up here; chapter links cover the rest. Watch the full video on YouTube ↗
Watch on YouTubeOnly some games from this stream are written up below; the other chapter links are there to watch.
Jump to a chapter
- 0:00 · Retroid Pocket Duo Lite, Dreamcast, Sonic Adventure 2 and your games tested
- 1:00 · Stream start
- 5:30 · Sonic Adventure 2
- 16:10 · Dead or Alive 2
- 22:22 · Dynamite Cop
- 26:28 · Grandia II
- 49:49 · Sega Marine Fishing
- 57:24 · Space Channel 5
- 65:25 · Ready 2 Rumble Boxing
- 69:39 · Alien Front Online
- 74:10 · NBA 2K2
- 79:00 · Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes
- 88:15 · Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 Pro
- 96:15 · Dino Crisis
- 111:20 · Mars Matrix: Hyper Solid Shooting
- 113:15 · Psyvariar 2: The Will to Fabricate
- 118:00 · Stream closing
Settings and findings
What the reviewer found in this video at the time. Newer app versions can behave differently.
Duo Lite Dreamcast tests use Flycast, Vulkan and 1× resolution. The reviewer reports high-performance mode and the system GPU driver; the numbered Flycast build and firmware are unknown.
- emulator
- Flycast; exact build unknown
- renderer
- Vulkan
- resolution
- 1×
- performance
- High performance
- driver
- System GPU driver
More detail
- Tested on a Duo Lite; the regular Duo may differ.
Sonic Adventure 2 runs acceptably in the reviewer’s early 1× Flycast test on a Duo Lite. They say upscaling had felt laggy, and only an early stretch was shown.
More detail
- Tested on a Duo Lite; the regular Duo may differ.
For Grandia II on Lite, the reviewer tried 2× but settled on 1×, and later gives the shown section a positive verdict. A 60 fps patch is discussed but was not tested.
More detail
- Tested on a Duo Lite; the regular Duo may differ.
- The later verdict is at 48:05–48:16. The patch was only discussed, not tested.
NBA 2K2 slows heavily on Lite despite high-performance mode. The reviewer reports roughly 60% speed in this short Flycast test. Frameskip 1 is suggested, but no retest is shown.
More detail
- Tested on a Duo Lite; the regular Duo may differ.
Dino Crisis looks very dark to the reviewer in this Flycast test on Lite. They ask about a brightness setting; the cause and a fix are unknown.
More detail
- Tested on a Duo Lite; the regular Duo may differ.
About these notes
Taken from what the reviewer says in the video. App and driver versions appear only when the reviewer names them, and each link jumps to that moment.
Related game notes
DreamcastSonic Adventure 2Sonic Adventure 2 runs acceptably in the reviewer’s early 1× Flycast test on a Duo Lite. They say upscaling had felt laggy, and only an early stretch was shown.Pocket Duo Lite
DreamcastGrandia IIFor Grandia II on Lite, the reviewer tried 2× but settled on 1×, and later gives the shown section a positive verdict. A 60 fps patch is discussed but was not tested.Pocket Duo Lite
DreamcastNBA 2K2NBA 2K2 slows heavily on Lite despite high-performance mode. The reviewer reports roughly 60% speed in this short Flycast test. Frameskip 1 is suggested, but no retest is shown.Pocket Duo Lite
DreamcastDino Crisis (Dreamcast)Dino Crisis looks very dark to the reviewer in this Flycast test on Lite. They ask about a brightness setting; the cause and a fix are unknown.Pocket Duo Lite
Card screenshots come from Libretro, not from a Duo.
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