This is for the Retroid Pocket 3 Plus. More information on it:
If you want one yourself, you can purchase from the following trusted retailers:
Affiliate disclosure, though when was the last time you could afford to buy something online? Well if you do through any links that sends you to a retailer from this repository, I get a percentage of a percentage that I probably won't get because I don't meet the threshold from directing you there.
If you ever need to reformat your device (Requires a Windows computer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsysP8avelk
- Daijishō (I used for Year of the Arcade): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.magneticchen.daijishou&pli=1
- Dig: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digdroid.alman.dig
- Pegasus: https://pegasus-frontend.org/#downloads
- Plain Launcher: https://bokonon-yossarian.itch.io/plain-launcher
- Launch-box app: https://www.launchbox-app.com/android-download
- To fix button issues with RetroArch: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroArch/comments/107kwrk/comment/j3o8slf/
- Other issues with the Pocket 3 Plus: https://www.reddit.com/r/retroid/comments/xl23a9/solutions_to_all_the_retroid_pocket_3_issues/
For advanced features, you need root access:
- Bootloader: https://github.com/Seriousattempts/Bootloader_Unlock_Retroid_Pocket_3Plus
- Magisk: https://github.com/Seriousattempts/RP3Plus-Magisk
- TWRP: https://github.com/Seriousattempts/RP3PLUS-TWRP
- termux https://github.com/termux/termux-app
- termux-11 https://github.com/termux/termux-x11
Magisk:
- Busybox: https://github.com/Magisk-Modules-Repo/busybox-ndk/blob/master/update.json
- chroot-distro: https://github.com/Magisk-Modules-Alt-Repo/chroot-distro
- This will allow you to run other Linux/Windows games that you may have trouble with using Winlator Bionic Vortex https://github.com/SEGAINDEED/winlator-bionic-vortek/releases
Untested Magisk Modules yet interesting:
- Limbo: https://github.com/limboemu/limbo
- Universal GMS Doze: https://github.com/gloeyisk/universal-gms-doze
- Uperf Game Turbo B: https://github.com/yinwanxi/Uperf-Game-Turbo
- Cross Compiled Binaries: https://github.com/Zackptg5/Cross-Compiled-Binaries-Android
- Kexec tools: https://github.com/evdenis/kexec
- Overlay FS (There's a built in module for the RP3Plus already, though it may not be accessible through normal means): https://github.com/Zenlua/Overlayfs
Other Android non gaming software:
- scrpy: https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy | scrpy plus: https://github.com/Frontesque/scrcpy-plus
- Video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZhpagUgIHI
I'm personally done with Retroid and Unisoc devices
- I
- am
- done
- Tell Retroid's boss he'll need to get another loan and not botch a response to device failures for me to trust that company again.
Only a few devices can truly boot into an alternative OS natively with SailfishOS, PostMarketOS and Ubuntu Touch while having screen access and not even all of those device's respective models as people trying Ubuntu Touch found out.
But this was before I've made these attempts. This is my documention on what I've tried, as organized as possible in my view.
- 1.05. Layout modifications
- 1.15. Zackptg5