Italy's financial police said Friday they have dismantled a ring trafficking counterfeit vintage video game consoles from China containing some of the most popular titles of the 1980s and 90s."Around 12,000 consoles on which more than 47 million pirated video games were illegally stored were seized, for an estimated value of more than 47.5 million euros ($52.5 million)," Alessandro Langella, head of the economic crime unit for Turin's financial police, told AFP. The figure includes the value of

Not much info here but I wonder if these were some sort of fake NES/SNES/Mega Drive minis or just handheld emulation devices in general

I was wondering if shipping SD cards full of ROMs would ever come to bite the manufacturers in the ass and I guess it might have. Will this be a one-off thing or a sign of a wider EU crackdown? I think there was a warning earlier issued by some agency this month about how the solder in one of the Anbernic devices exceeded EU's maximum lead levels

Edit: There's a video of the Italian cops' raid on the warehouse where the devices were being held, looks like a large variety of different devices

https://youtu.be/U4lYIzijJSU?si=mmvXSsipSaMEnaOv

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    5 days ago

    I don't think you can play Fallout NV on a cheap handheld just yet- if you go look at the Android emulation subreddit you'll notice most posts are people playing various PC games through Winlator on current high end phones.

    The most demanding PC game Anbernic showed was GTA III

    • bortsampson [he/him, any]
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      5 days ago

      I didn't know about Winlator. Thanks! I just watched someone on the rg556 playing NV on it. It's almost there. Maybe another 10% increase in hardware performance and it would be playable. Apparently mods work too.

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        5 days ago

        Can't imagine the battery life will be great, but apparently the Steam Deck can get away with like 3 hours so what do I know

        Meanwhile I'm still thinking it's incredible that I can play PS1/N64/Dreamcast games on my phone

        • bortsampson [he/him, any]
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          5 days ago

          Oh I definitely enjoy those games as well. And it's cool to see them look even better with all the emulator tweaks. I think I've clocked more hours in DS games than I feel comfortable mentioning lol.