Beyond the Second Screen: The Story of PokeDaisy

While playing Pokémon Emerald on his phone, the developer known as lidor30 kept running into the same frustrations. Looking up information meant constantly interrupting his game, and his preference for playing in fast-forward came with another annoyance: the familiar soundtrack was speeding up alongside everything else. These might seem like relatively minor complaints, but they eventually sent him down a development rabbit hole that would grow into something considerably more ambitious than he'd initially imagined.His first attempt at improving the experience involved creating a ROM hack with some additional quality-of-life features, although the results weren't particularly stable. A separate companion application built around RetroArch came next, but that introduced its own complications. Eventually, he decided that bringing the emulator and its accompanying features together into a single application would make far more sense. The AYN Thor, with its two displays, subsequently…

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