“Love my picosystem!! right now I play games on it made by other people like celeste but I plan on making my own games or porting games made with Lua. My system had a small problem the faceplate wasn't well-cut but I used a nail filer to file the excess faceplate. The community within 32blit discord is awesome they help me out when I couldn't understand why something didn't work because of my lack of c++ coding knowledge. It would sell like crazy had it been widely available on amazon worldwide. I wish more people knew about it. The only reason I learned about it was when I was trying to debug my raspberry pi pico code and found this cute tiny console that I had to get.
Best gaming/dev device ever to work on your dev skills.
If I do end up making a nice game on it, ill buy one, add my game and gift it to a friend. Could be a very cool personal gift if I made a sprite that looked like a friend and made a game with him in it.”
“Excellent build. Crisp hi-res screen, satisfying weight, clicky buttons, real nice.
No volume control or even an off switch for the speaker.
No SD slot, so you can only upload games via USB and they can only store data in the flash.
All in all, a very nice platform for tinkering with games.”
“IT'S SO CUTE! I got my order today - started it up and there was plenty of battery to play a couple of games of "Square Bros.," the game it shipped with - I'm really bad at it so more practice is in order! Despite the tinyness of this game system, the screen is bright and the sound is plentifully loud to have fun. I can't wait to learn more about how to program games for this device - I'm a total beginner but there is already plenty of how-to out there so I look forward to learning!”
“Amazing device but I would like to have volume ON/OFF button. For game handheld, it is also very excellent because no screen tearing issue found on this device, which has TE pin connect to RP2040, excellent design !”
“Well worthy of your time for hacking. What gives this little guy a more premium feeling is the black anodized aluminium cover, which is also soft enough if you want to do some light modding to it. My unit has arrived with a bit of a fault as it had a recessed screen, but this was an easy fix. I just had to disassemble the PCB sandwich to free the top edge of the LCD module frame, which got caught during assembly. I like the use of PCBs because it gives this small device a lot of extra rigidity. The screen ribbon cable is not routed as cleanly as, for example, on the Pico Explorer Base, there is too much slack, but hey, it works.”
“The device feels solid and well made. The buttons and D-Pad have good action and work well. The screen is bright and sharp but very small, I can play games on it but I have difficulty reading text in high res mode, it's probably better for younger eyes.
I had problems with the Python setup designed for the PicoSystem but I can use the circuit python modified for it. I'm currently using the C++ SDK on a Raspberry Pi 4 to create a game. This is easy to use. I'm a C programmer and I'm trying to get into C++ but you don't need to use any of the OO stuff to call the API. You could just write everything in C even though you are using a C++ compiler. The API is easy to use and it includes everything you need to write games on the device.”
