New Project Announcement: Deep Technical Reviews Coming Soon!

Hey everyone! 💙

I wanted to share something new I’ve been working on, something many of you have asked about, and something I’ve wanted to do for a while.

Starting December, I’ll be posting detailed, developer-level hardware reviews here on Patreon. These won’t be the usual overviews you see everywhere. Instead, they will focus on how these devices behave from a technical and programming perspective, with content that only someone actively building tools like iiSU, dual-screen features, emulation layers, and custom display logic can provide.

🔬 What makes these reviews different?

These upcoming breakdowns will cover topics most reviews never touch, such as:

• How each device handles dual-screen pipelines

• Differences in display flags, presentation layers, and focus behavior

• How drivers handle touch input, per-display events, and surface redirection

• Concrete examples of how certain quirks affect iiSU, external display layouts, and emulator UX

• Real programming impact: what makes a feature easy on one device and complex on another

• Benchmarks that matter for emulation, not just general performance

• Explanation of input latency, rendering stability, and multi-display synchronization

• Practical insights from actually developing and debugging on these consoles

This will be half–review, half–technical deep dive, something aimed directly at the community that uses these devices for development, emulation, and multi-screen workflows.

🎮 First Two Reviews: Pocket DS & AYN Thor

The first review series will compare the Pocket DS and the AYN Thor side-by-side.

Both are dual-screen-capable, but they handle things very differently:

• Screen role assignment

• How each device exposes its displays to the OS

• Behavior of TYPE_PRESENTATION vs TYPE_MAIN windows

• How they react when swapping surfaces

• Differences in gesture handling and safe areas

• Why iiSU behaves differently on each device

• These will include short videos, test scenarios, and comparisons of how the same code path behaves on each device.

🧪 Upcoming Comparison: Pocket 5 vs Pocket G2

After that, I’ll move on to a comparison between the Pocket 5 and the Pocket G2 to break down:

• Performance differences

• Thermals under emulation loads

• GPU vs CPU scaling behavior

• Real emulation benchmarks

• Display quality and latency

• Input behavior and controller differences

• Which one is better suited for dual-display workflows and iiSU layouts

This will help answer one of the most common questions in the community:

1. “Which one should I get for emulation and advanced layouts?”

💎 For Patrons & Supporters

All these reviews will be exclusive to Patreon supporters first.

They’ll include raw notes, tests, and behind-the-scenes debugging clips before I create the final, polished posts.

Thank you for continuing to support iiSU and everything that grows around it, including these new deep-dive technical reviews. I hope they help both users and other developers better understand how these devices truly behave under the hood.

More soon!

— Sapphire 💙