Retroid’s $69 second screen is ready for your favorite DS games

Turn your modern handheld into a makeshift Nintendo DS utilizing Retroid’s clamp-on secondary surface accessory. | Image: Retroid

The Nintendo DS was a wildly palmy console, but emulating its unsocial dual surface plan connected modern handhelds is simply a challenge. You tin effort to compression some screens onto a azygous touchscreen, effort to wholly recreate the DS’ unsocial hardware, oregon bash what Retroid is doing and merchandise a impermanent clamp-on, secondary surface that’s compatible with its handhelds and different third-party devices.

The Retroid Dual Screen Add-on is currently disposable done the company’s online store successful black, purple (inspired by the GameCube), and translucent achromatic colour options for $69, but are presently sold out. That includes a mentation designed for Retroid’s ain Pocket handhelds including the RP Mini, RP Mini V2, RP4 Pro, and RP5, and the mentation for third-party handhelds. As agelong arsenic a instrumentality isn’t taller than 115mm and supports DisplayPort implicit USB-C it should beryllium compatible, but Retroid specifically points retired the Steam Deck is not.

Featuring a 5.5-inch AMOLED surface with a solution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and dedicated brightness buttons connected the side, the Dual Screen Add-on attaches to devices with an expanding clamp and tin beryllium positioned astatine 3 antithetic angles utilizing a “click-stop hinge.” However, the 2nd surface can’t beryllium folded level against the handheld it’s attached to similar with the DS.

The add-on features touchscreen functionality, which is supported done the DisplayPort protocol. If your handheld of prime is lacking interaction capabilities, hanging the add-on disconnected the bottommost volition fto you play DS games that heavy relied connected little touchscreen interactions. But since Retroid’s Dual Screen Add-on is astatine its halfway conscionable an outer show for a handheld, what games you tin play and however the surface volition beryllium utilized is near to the device’s operating strategy oregon the emulator you’re using.

The add-on weighs astir 130 grams, acknowledgment successful portion to it skipping a built-in battery. It’s powered straight by the instrumentality it’s connected to, but it does person its ain USB-C larboard with pass-through charging capabilities truthful you tin support some the show and your handheld moving without sidesplitting its battery.