Guide: Timespinner on Retro Handhelds (PortMaster)

The indie classic game Timespinner has recently been ported to various handheld devices, thanks to community developers and the PortMaster tool.

Timestamps:
00:00 introduction
01:23 buy Timespinner
02:12 prep your device
03:47 grab the data files
05:38 install the game
06:23 setup and configuration
07:52 summary and conclusion

Theme song written by Jim Gray of Our Ghosts:

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[alexfizz]

I played this game a while back on my Vita, it is amazing and super recommended for those who love metroidvanias. I'm definetely gonna play it again on my RG351V. Thanks Russ!

[rafadono]

Timespinner is such a good game! I played it a few months ago on the vita.
I'm glad now it can be played on more devices, I hope more people could play it.

[barryisanerd]

I love Timespinner. I've bought it several times on different platforms. Steam, Nintendo Switch (twice: digital for convenience, and physical for the collection), Xbox.. it's a real gem.

[grzegorz__]

As always - great guide :)

Thanks to you, few months ago, I bought my first "serious retro" ;) handheld - RG351P and thanks to your guides I managed to play with stock firmware as well as custom ones, then I learnt how to setup / configure emuelec and retroarch, libretro and all these custom emulators. At the end, I had fairly average / good knowledge to experiment by myself, I managed to setup some weird systems like pico-8 or my beloved (from childhood) amiga, c64 (which are little bit hmm less user friendly due to being microcomputers with keyboard, not consoles per se).

Just wanted to say thanks for all these very professional videos, text guides. It's a pleasure to follow them step by step :)

Now only the additional tax in EU keeps me from buying Odin ;) (unfortunately, it's not only about paying additional money - sometimes it requires quite a lot of hassle to pay this additional tax)

[funkdefy]

I played this when it was on Game Pass previously. Really enjoyed it!

[tjs]

Thanks Russ! Looking forward to a quick project this weekend!

[elleCX]

Really good metroidvania. Has that SOTN feel. Thanks for the guide

[williamtalbot]

Looking through and configuring MAME on my RG351p when I see this video pop up! Its nice to see you didnt forget about the original chinesiums

[SicketMog]

Will be trying to do this. I see a LOT of games in your port folder. Hope to see tutorials for whatever isn't possible to install through Anberports. Thanks for all the content.👍

[Evercade_Effect]

I like how you can run popular indie games natively with out too much work. I geek out over these types of videos even though I don't own any of these handhelds....yet.

[HiTechLoLife]

Timespinner is an excellent game and I'm amazed that the community managed to port quite a few other indie titles over to these handheld emulation devices.

Games I thought would never get ports because they weren't open source... like Timespinner lol.

I wonder how they did it

[novelezra]

Such an underrated game. Don't get me wrong, the whole indie metroidvania subgenre is filled with games clamouring for the attention they are due; but this one especially has me coming back every year to play it through.

What I love most about the game is the artstyle; which feels like a mix of those late Amiga titles/early PS1 titles by western developers (games like Lomax with surreal dark fantasy spritework) and that weird bastardised anime style (Elfmania etc). It's really beautiful and evokes a great atmosphere. Whilst most metroidvania's tried to go for 16bit or late playstation 32bit. This feels like early Sega Saturn. It's great.

[thinkmakepush]

uh oh.. no written guide? page not found

[stonie]

I also played this on the Vita, great game and good to see it's been ported to other handhelds. Nice video mate!
I would love to play games like this on the Steam Deck but I live in Australia and there is no chance of me getting one anytime soon. :(
By the time they are available in my region there will probably be a new version out (Steam Deck 2). :)

[TheContradictator]

Would you be able to do a guide/quick look at installing the Doom 3 (and Jedi Knight) ports for the RG552? I just randomly saw they were available when looking through portsmaster site. These are probably the biggest ports we've gotten on an Anbernic device, and I have yet to see anyone discussing it, and there isn't even a video here on YT showing that they work.

[swtchpoint]

I do love how dedicated the ports teams are for these titles. Honestly they keep making these handhelds more and more worth it with all these tweaks and ports they bring forward

Also now that you have a Steam Deck with Linux, have you ever considered doing these ports tutorials for Linux users ?

[adamc.]

i wasn't aware of this game. good thing it's on vita, which means it's in pkgj.

[jaredt]

I’m curious if anyone knows what other games are compatible for porting to a device like the 351MP from steam? Would love to expand my library to include more modern titles!

[Moontorc_]

I really need to try some ports on my 351V

[cpaulo]

Thank you! I was having trouble to run this game! It'd be very cool if you could guide us to run solarus games! ocean's Heart is very cool and it wold be very cool to run it in a retro handheld.