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  • Custom Firmware, Explained in Plain English

    If you have spent any time reading about retro gaming handhelds, you will have seen the phrase “custom firmware” — usually dropped into a sentence as though everyone already knows what it means. This is the plain-English version: what it is, why it matters, and why the difference between a handheld that frustrates you and…

  • Best Retro Handheld for PS1 Games (UK 2026)

    TL;DR — the picks All four are in stock and dispatched from the UK. Every price is live on the day this was written. What actually makes a good PS1 handheld Here is the part most guides skip. By 2026, almost any retro handheld can run PS1 games. PS1 emulation has been mature for years…

  • Retro Gaming Gift Guide UK: How to Choose a Handheld They’ll Actually Love

    You want to buy a retro gaming handheld as a gift. You’ve seen them online — pocket-sized devices packed with the games your partner, parent, or friend grew up playing. The idea is perfect: a small machine that hands someone their childhood back. The problem is the buying. The market is full of cheap devices…

  • Why Do Retro Handheld SD Cards Keep Failing?

    You switch on your retro handheld, and nothing. A black screen, or an error you’ve never seen before, or the menu that refuses to load. After a moment of confusion comes the realization: the SD card has died — and with it, every save file you’ve built up over weeks. If that’s happened to you,…

  • Why the RG405M?

    The RG405M is the device people come to when they want more than PS1 and GBA. Saturn, Dreamcast, even PlayStation 2 — all wrapped in a solid aluminium body that feels like it was built to last. It’s also the device I’ve spent the most time configuring. Fifty-five console setups, individually tested and tuned. Double-resolution…

  • Why the Anbernic RG DS?

    There’s a moment that happens when you first open a clamshell dual-screen device. The smooth reveal of two screens. If you played Nintendo DS as a kid — or watched someone else play one — that form factor hits you somewhere specific. It’s not nostalgia for a screen. It’s nostalgia for the way you held…

  • Why the G350?

    People often ask me how I choose which devices to stock at K-TEC. It’s a fair question — there are hundreds of retro handhelds out there, and the differences between them aren’t always obvious. So here’s the story behind the BATLEXP G350: what made it stand out, and why I decided it deserved a place…

  • What can the Miyoo Mini Plus play?

    What can the Miyoo Mini Plus play? Arcade classics, NES through PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, and home computers. Plus the current K-TEC equivalent.

  • Why I started K-TEC

    Ikigai Ikigai is a Japanese concept that, roughly, can be translated as “a reason for being”. You can see from the diagram that Ikigai is the intersection between what you love, what you can be paid for, what you’re good at, and what the world needs. At various times in my life, I’ve spent time…

  • Do I need to replace the SD card I received with my retro handheld?

    If you bought your handheld from K-TEC then, no, you don’t need to replace it. I supply brand-name microSD cards with my handhelds and they come with my lifetime guarantee. If you bought your handheld elsewhere, then take a look at the SD card that came with it. If it has a brand name on…