Your place for retro-handheld News, HowTo's and Reviews!

Welcome to my channel,
I focus on tutorial/HowTo videos where i show you how to improve your experience with your retro gaming handheld, different emulators, front-ends and games. In addition, i try to invent the device with new features and try to break common boundaries to share them with you.

If you are interested in videos about retro gaming and handhelds, feel free to subscribe to my channel to stay tuned. I will constantly upload videos about interesting stuff you can do with your device that you might not see on any other channel!
As backup for this channel i keep written-guides on my homepage on www.mashtec.online.

You're very welcome to join the community.

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# MashTec

Hoho guys,
i hope you had some chill and lovely chritmas time with your families & friends!
I wanted to share my favorite christmas present of this year. What do you think about it? :)
Are you guys into LEGO or building blocks as well?

4 months ago | [YT] | 13

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Hohoho guys, it's MashTec here,
I wish you a Merry Christmas and want to say "Thank you!" for being with me this year, all your comments and feedback to my videos.
Enjoy last days of the year. We'll see eachother back in 2025.

4 months ago | [YT] | 26

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Can‘t wait for the RG34XX 😍
Looking forward to this upcoming handheld from Anbernic. The RG34XX !!! All leaked colors and tech specs here in the post.
I personally love the GBA style very much. My favorite color is the purple-blue. What‘s yours?
Here is Anbernics official promo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2nQp...

4 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 17

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Hi,
i'm sorry to say that i have to postpone the current video i've been working on where i wanted to guide you through a new Tool to customize your SF200 or GB300.
Not just that it supports both devices, the SF2000 and GB300, but also allows to change Multicore settings such as the overall aspect ratio for emulators or easily apply the Screen Tearin fix.
For this video i was looking into The SF200 + GB300 Tool, Tadpole and a promising new tool called Madpole (a Tadpole fork that also supports Multicore).
Unfortunately, every tool came with downsides and i was hoping to give you an easy tool to the hand to handle all together. Still here is the outcome of my investigations so far:

"TADPOLE" is great for stock devices to add new games and thumbnails, change the bootlogo, menu theme or background music, button mapping and to apply firmware updates or cruscial fixes such as for the Bootloader or Battery.
Link: github.com/EricGoldsteinNz/tadpole/releases

The "SF2000 and GB300 Tool" is great for devices with Multicore installed. You can add new games and their Thumbnails, button mapping or change Multicore settings such as aspect ratio for emulators or apply the Screen Tearin fix for the SF2000. Still there is no way to change Menu Themes or Background music.
Link: github.com/nummacway/gb300-sf2000-tool/releases/

"MADPOLE" is the most promising tool of the three. It combines the power of both tools mentioned above. As a fork of Tadpole, Madpole comes with all basic customizations such as add new games and thumbnails, change the bootlogo, menu theme or background music, button mapping and to apply firmware updates or cruscial fixes such as for the Bootloader or Battery. The perfect tool for the SF200 and GB300.
Link: github.com/fjdogar/madpole/releases


While i've been making the video and recorded the neccessary steps in the tool it kept crashing, so i decided to postpone the video about it and wait for a later version that is more stable and worth to show it to you guys.
Still, if you like to have a look meanwhile, i posted the links to these tools. I will come up with a video about them in future :)

5 months ago | [YT] | 30

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What is your preferred Handheld layout?
Please leave your reason in the comments.

5 months ago | [YT] | 9

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TOMORROW, on Halloween, i have a Special Video for you my friends, showcasing a very well made, free and captivating homebrew game for the Nintendo Gameboy. I bet you're gonna love it as much as i do!
See you tomorrow...muhahahha!

6 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 14

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How do you enjoy your Retro Gaming Handheld?

6 months ago | [YT] | 6

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What do you prefer in a review video?

7 months ago | [YT] | 1

# MashTec

Greetings from the LUDO Retro Gaming event !! where i had the chance to meet "Russ from ‪@RetroGameCorps‬" and other Youtubers (‪@RGGeek‬, ‪@ironcladcobra‬ and ‪@deBaer‬) in person. The event took place at a abandoned trainstation named "Esperanto Stacio" in Halbe/Berlin Germany.
We enjoyed a weekend all about Gaming, Retro Gaming handhelds and Tech-talks. Thanks to everyone showing up and make this an unforgetable weekend. It was a very inspiring time for me!

P.S. I plan to summarize the impressions in short video here on my channel!

7 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 18

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Hey guys,
some guy from the retro gaming community called "CanvasChroma" designed two potential handhelds Anbernic could realize in future! What do you think about it? Top or Flop?
A Nintendo DS clone style handheld and a XL version. Now that we've seen the RG35xx SP (Gameboys Advance SP clone) that recently came up, we might see more classic console clones from Anbernic?
link to his reddit post: www.reddit.com/r/SBCGaming/comments/1cxhohr/i_desi…

11 months ago | [YT] | 14