Anbernic RG DDS

About this device

A 3DS-shaped Android clamshell whose two panels are an exact 3x integer scale of the 3DS screens, with a Snapdragon G2 Gen 2, Android 16 and a built-in stylus. The best 3DS screen geometry anyone has shipped, minus the emulator team.

The Anbernic RG DDS is a dual-screen Android clamshell built to look and behave like a Nintendo 3DS, announced on 11 October 2026 and shipping gradually from 10 December. Its headline achievement is screen geometry. A 3DS outputs 400x240 on its top screen and 320x240 below, and the RG DDS pairs a 4.7 inch 1200x720 panel with a 4 inch 960x720 touchscreen, which is exactly three times both in each axis with matching 5:3 and 4:3 aspect ratios. No other handheld maps 3DS output to whole pixels on two separate panels. The tradeoff is DS, which lands at a non-integer 3.75x, so the cheaper RG DS Plus is the better DS machine. The Snapdragon G2 Gen 2 is stronger than its name suggests, with an Adreno A22 that benchmarks within roughly 8 to 10 percent of the Adreno 740 in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, and the same chip has been handling PS2 and GameCube in the Retroid Pocket G2 since October 2025. The complication is software rather than hardware. On 26 October 2026 the Azahar team withdrew official support from every Anbernic device after Anbernic advertised this handheld using a fork that decrypts games for you, so the best 3DS panels on the market arrive without the backing of the only actively developed 3DS emulator.

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