Retro-gaming Handhelds (Anywhere)

This device type is still in the In Progress Phase. All information on this page is subject to change. Do not follow any instructions unless you know what you’re doing.

Ultramarine aims to provide support for various ARM-based retro-gaming handhelds from various vendors, including but not limited to:

AYANEO
AYN
TRIMUI
Anbernic
Retroid
Mangmi
Powkiddy

Most of these handhelds have low-powered AArch64-based SoCs from Rockchip, Mediatek and/or Allwinner, comes with very tight memory requirements as small as 1GB and requires extensive custom BSP integration for vendor-specific hardware and boot firmware.

The currently experimental Ultramarine Embedded Handheld edition is designed for these weaker handhelds that do not have the hardware capability to handle Steam and/or SteamOS.

Since traditional desktop environments and shells do not typically target this hardware profile or form factor, we created Marina, a lightweight gamepad-first shell built to handle the hardware and software requirement of these low-powered devices.

Currently Ultramarine Embedded Handheld only supports the TRIMUI Smart Pro S powered by a custom Allwinner Tina Linux SDK kernel patch, with planned experimental support for the Anbernic RG55G1 from our fellow Open Gaming Collective member ArmadaOS for Qualcomm ABL support