I’m thinking about getting a Retroid Pocket Classic but was wondering whether or not I might be able to use the same SD Card I use for my Retroid Pocket 4 Pro. I was hoping I could resume my saves between devices.

Is this is possible?

EDIT: had originally written RP4P. Updated to Retroid Pocket 4 Pro

  • Count042@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    I do just this between my rg353m and x55 with Rocknix as the os on a separate SD card for each device and a separate larger SD card for games that I switch back and forth.

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      4 hours ago

      That’s promising. I’ll have to double check and see how I have mine configured.

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        3 hours ago

        Just to be clear, I have three SD cards. Two just have the rocknix is on them and are in slot 1 of the two devices. The third has all the roms and ports in it, and it gets swapped into the device I’m using second slot.

        I use the x55 at home, and the rg353m when I’m out of the house.

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    2 days ago

    A quick poke at the retroid pocket’s product page says it’s underlying OS is Android 14. Android defaults external storage formatting to fat32 or exFAT, both of which Raspbian or most Linux distros can support (with an extra package in exFAT’s case). You should have no problems with each device reading the cards, but I’m not sure what emulators each uses.

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      2 days ago

      Oh no, that’s my bad. I meant to write that as RP4P Retroid Pocket 4 Pro, not a Raspberry Pi 4, but interesting to know all the same!

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    2 days ago

    I have an RP2+ so I don’t know if it’s exactly the same, but with most Android devices, if you’ve configured the SD as an extension of internal memory, then no, it won’t work (and might screw some things up on the old device if you remove it). But if you’re just using it as external storage, I don’t think there should be any problem.

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    2 days ago

    I’m not half the nerd as some of these guys, but I don’t see why not as long as there’s plenty of space.