Retroid Pocket 2026: 5 Handhelds Ranked, RP6 at $244

There is no such thing as the Retroid Pocket. There is a lineup, and in 2026 that lineup got mugged by a memory shortage. What used to be a tidy ladder — a cheap Pocket, a mid Pocket, a flagship Pocket — is now closer to a crime scene. The Pocket G2 is dead. The 12GB Pocket 6 was executed in March and then partially resurrected in June with half its storage removed. The two-year-old Pocket 5 got a price hike in July for the privilege of shipping with more RAM nobody asked for. Type retroid pocket into a search bar expecting one clean verdict and you will get a body count instead.

So let us do the autopsy properly. Five Retroid handhelds matter right now: the flagship Pocket 6, the discontinued Pocket G2, the veteran Pocket 5, the incoming Pocket Nova, and the pocket-sized Mini V2 — plus two peers you will inevitably cross-shop, AYN's Odin 2 Portal and Valve's Steam Deck OLED. The headline number is the Pocket 6's price: $244 for the 8GB model as of July 2026, up from a $209 preorder. That fifteen-dollar climb is not a rounding error or a greedy markup. It is the visible tip of a supply-chain story that reordered the entire product stack, and understanding it is the difference between buying the right handheld and buying the wrong one at the wrong price.

This piece compares them the way The Machine compares anything: specs first, benchmarks second, marketing never. We will rank all five, tell you which one fits which player, walk you through migrating off an older model, and — because someone has to — explain why running a PlayStation BIOS on an Android handheld is legal in the first place. If you already know you want the flagship, our full Pocket 5 vs Pocket 6 breakdown drills deeper into that single matchup. Everyone else, keep reading.

The DRAM Crunch That Broke the Lineup

You cannot compare the 2026 Retroid Pockets without first understanding why half of them cost more than they did at launch and the other half no longer exist. Every price in this article carries an invisible asterisk, and the asterisk is memory.

What actually happened to memory prices

Through late 2025 and into 2026, the hyperscalers building AI datacenters ate the world's supply of high-bandwidth and low-power DRAM. Fabs that would have printed LPDDR5X for phones and handhelds reallocated capacity toward HBM and server memory, where the margins are obscene and the buyers do not flinch at price. Contract prices for mobile DRAM spiked, and every company that solders RAM onto a small device felt it at once. Retroid, a mid-size Shenzhen outfit with none of Apple's purchasing leverage, felt it hardest.

When Retroid raised the Pocket 6 and killed its 12GB tier on March 2, 2026, the company did not hide behind vague language. Speaking to Android Authority, Retroid said plainly that "the recent surge in memory pricing has reached a level that we are unfortunately unable to absorb" and that it "cannot continue offering the 12GB configuration at a reasonable price." Steam Deck HQ's Shawn Wilkins framed it as an industry condition rather than a Retroid problem: "The increasingly difficult RAM shortage continues to impact hardware companies across the industry." When Retroid later bumped the Pocket 5 and Flip 2, Engadget put the cause bluntly: AI companies' demand for memory has prompted component makers to radically hike their prices.

The casualty list

Here is the damage in chronological order, because the sequence is the story. March 2, 2026: the Pocket 6 8GB/128GB rose $15 to $244, and the 12GB/256GB SKU was discontinued outright. March 16, 2026: the Pocket G2 was pulled — listed as "Sold Out" within minutes of the announcement — and the entry-level Pocket Classic climbed $20 to $149 the same day. June 2026: the 12GB Pocket 6 returned, but reincarnated as a 12GB/128GB model at $279, offered only in the top-stick layout. Storage was the ransom. July 14, 2026: the Pocket 5 and Flip 2 each gained $10, moving to $209 and $219, and their base RAM was forced up to 12GB because Retroid had, in its own words, simply run out of 8GB/128GB parts to build.

Why this reshapes the whole comparison

The practical effect is that Retroid's clean price ladder collapsed into a $209–$279 knot where four different devices now sit within seventy dollars of one another. The old logic — buy down for value, buy up for power — broke. A Pocket 5 at $209 and a Pocket 6 at $244 are separated by $35 and a full silicon generation, which makes the mid-tier almost pointless. This is not unique to Retroid; it is the same shortage that has frozen RetroPie while Raspberry Pi board prices climb. Every comparison below is really a comparison of how each device weathered the same storm.

Every Retroid Pocket, Spec for Spec

Numbers first. The table below covers the four fully-specced devices in the current conversation; the Mini V2 sits outside it because it is a different class of machine — a 3.92-inch, Snapdragon 865 pocketable — and folding it into a column would mean a row of dashes. It gets its own paragraph afterward.

The lineup at a glance

The Mini V2, for the record: Snapdragon 865, 6GB of RAM, a 3.92-inch AMOLED panel, a 4000mAh battery, and Wi-Fi 6. It is the device you buy when you want a Game Boy-shaped object that happens to run PS1, not a flagship. The entry-level Pocket Classic ($149 after its March hike) sits below even that, in vertical-format territory.

Reading the table: where the RP6 pulls ahead

Three rows decide the flagship's case. The Pocket 6 is the only device here with a 6000mAh battery, the only one that pairs its 120Hz panel with an active fan, and the only one on Wi-Fi 7. The fan is the underrated line item: sustained emulation of GameCube and PS2 titles is a thermal problem before it is a compute problem, and passive handhelds throttle into stutter after twenty minutes. The Nova matches the fan and the 120Hz refresh but shrinks the screen to 4.5 inches and drops the battery to 5000mAh. Everything else in the table — storage, jack, video out — is close enough to be a tiebreaker rather than a decider.

The inversions nobody mentions

Read the table carefully and you will find the specs do not all point the same direction. The dead G2 actually shipped with a newer Android build (15 versus the Pocket 6's 13) and newer Bluetooth (5.4 versus 5.3). The Pocket 6 answers with newer Wi-Fi (7 versus 6). Both use hall-effect sticks and analog L2/R2 triggers, so neither wins the drift-and-precision argument. These inversions matter because they puncture the assumption that the flagship is strictly superior on paper. It is not. It wins on the three rows that govern real-world emulation — silicon, cooling, battery — and loses or ties on the rest.

The Silicon: Three Generations of Snapdragon

Every meaningful performance difference in this lineup traces back to the chip. Retroid sells three distinct silicon tiers right now, and the gap between them is wider than the marketing implies.

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2: the Pocket 6 and, sort of, the Nova

The Pocket 6 runs the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (Qualcomm's SM8550 "Kalama," built on a 4nm N4P process). Its CPU is a one-plus-four-plus-three arrangement: a single Cortex-X3 prime core at 3.2GHz, four Cortex-A715 performance cores at 2.8GHz, and three A510 efficiency cores at 2.0GHz. The GPU is an Adreno 740 clocked up to roughly 680MHz with Vulkan 1.3 support. In Geekbench 6 the device posts a single-core score around 1,985 — and single-core throughput is exactly what matters for the interpreter-heavy inner loops of PS2 and GameCube emulation. That 1,985 is about 69% higher than the Pocket 5's 1,176, which is the single most important number in this entire comparison and the one the brief-writers routinely round down to "50%." It is 70%, not 50%.

The Nova is the asterisk. It uses the Qualcomm QCS8550, which Notebookcheck's Habeeb Onawole describes precisely as "an IoT version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2" — the same compute silicon with the cellular modem stripped out, since a handheld does not need a phone radio. Same Adreno 740 at ~680MHz, same performance ceiling, in a cheaper package. On paper the Nova should trade blows with the Pocket 6; in practice nobody knows, because as of late July 2026 the device has not shipped and no independent review exists. Treat its benchmark row as an educated guess.

Snapdragon G2 Gen 2: raw power, immature drivers

The G2 is the interesting corpse. Its Snapdragon G2 Gen 2 is a purpose-built gaming chip — a Kryo CPU cluster with a single Gold+ prime core and an Adreno A22 GPU. Benchmarks put its single-core throughput about 50% above the Snapdragon 865 (landing near 1,780) and only around 10% behind the 8 Gen 2. Its GPU is roughly twice as fast as the 865's and, by most measurements, only 8–10% behind the Adreno 740. On a spec sheet the G2 looks like a near-flagship at a mid-tier price. The problem is not the silicon. The problem is that almost nobody has written drivers for it, which is the subject of its own section below.

Snapdragon 865: the Pocket 5 and Mini V2, still competent

The Pocket 5 and Mini V2 run the Snapdragon 865 (SM8250 "Kona," 7nm) with an Adreno 650. This is 2020's flagship phone chip, and in 2026 it remains a perfectly good sixth-generation emulator: it plays PS2, GameCube, Dreamcast, PSP, and everything older without drama. Its Geekbench 6 single-core of 1,176 is the floor of this comparison. The 865's real advantage is maturity — five years of driver optimization and community tuning — which, as we are about to see, is worth more than a spec sheet admits.

Emulation Performance, System by System

Benchmarks in the abstract are useless. What you want to know is which console runs on which handheld and at what quality. The figures below are drawn from three independent review sources — RetroDodo, HandheldRank, and Steam Deck HQ — plus Geekbench data, and they are specific about the ceiling.

GameCube and Wii: the 3× tier

On the Pocket 6, GameCube is the showcase. In his RetroDodo review, Brandon Saltalamacchia clocks GameCube emulation "at 3x native resolution" — enough to make Rogue Squadron and, critically, F-Zero GX run cleanly. F-Zero GX is the canonical torture test here; as Hardcore Gaming 101 documents, it was built by Sega's Amusement Vision on Triforce arcade hardware and has broken emulators for two decades. When a handheld runs it at 2× without tearing, the GameCube is settled. Wii is practical rather than perfect: Super Mario Galaxy, Xenoblade Chronicles, and Donkey Kong Country Returns are all playable. The Pocket 5, by contrast, handles GameCube at native resolution only — Wind Waker, Luigi's Mansion, and Melee are fine, the demanding stuff is not.

PS2, Dreamcast, PSP: the comfortable middle

PlayStation 2 is where the Pocket 6 earns its keep for most buyers. Saltalamacchia runs it "at 1.5x and 2x native resolution" through NetherSX2/AetherSX2, with heavier titles like God of War II pushing closer to 2.5× and Gran Turismo 4 playable with minor tweaks. Dreamcast, PSP, and PS1 all run at roughly 4× native, which is to say flawlessly. On the G2, Steam Deck HQ's Noah Kupetsky measured PSP at 4× and PS2 at 2.5× — genuinely strong numbers that, again, are undercut not by the chip but by driver gaps. The Pocket 5 sits one notch down: PS2 is comfortable at 1.5×, PSP and below are effortless.

Switch, PS3, Xbox 360: where reality bites

Here is the correction the marketing never volunteers. The Pocket 6 is a sixth-generation-and-earlier machine. It is not, despite breathless framing, a device that runs "nearly all PS3 and Xbox 360 ports." RPCS3 and Xenia are a slideshow on this silicon — full stop. Nintendo Switch emulation is possible but conditional: select titles, heavily dependent on GPU drivers, not a wholesale Switch library. On the G2, Kupetsky was blunter still, calling PS3 emulation "not enjoyable." If your buying decision hinges on seventh-generation HD-era consoles, none of these handhelds is your answer, and you should be looking at a Steam Deck or a gaming PC instead. As for battery under this load: the Pocket 6 delivers roughly 4.5 hours of mixed emulation, 8–10 hours on SNES and Game Boy Advance, and 2.5–3 hours flat-out on GameCube and PS2. The Pocket 5 manages about 3 hours 35 minutes under heavy load with no fast-charge to bail you out.

The Driver Problem Nobody Advertises

This section is why the raw benchmarks lie, and why the dead G2 — a chip only 8–10% behind the flagship on paper — lost so decisively in practice that Retroid recommends its own older Pocket 5 over it.

Turnip, and why chip age matters

Android emulators lean on Vulkan, and Vulkan performance on Adreno GPUs is transformed by Turnip, the open-source Mesa driver that replaces Qualcomm's stock blob. Turnip has years of tuning on the Adreno 740 because that GPU shipped in millions of flagship phones; the driver ecosystem around it is deep. The G2's Adreno A22 is newer, rarer, and barely supported. HandheldRank put the maturity gap in one line about Switch emulation: "The RP6 wins here, and it's not close. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has years of driver optimization from the Android phone ecosystem (Turnip Drivers)." The same review calls the G2's chip "a brand new, gaming-focused chip that almost nobody has access to yet," which is a compliment and an indictment in the same breath.

The app-compatibility tax on the G2

Driver immaturity does not just cost frames; it breaks software. HandheldRank found that on the G2, "some major Android apps straight-up don't work. Netflix games? Nope. Certain big Android games? Nope. Fortnite? Nope." That is a consequence of a SoC so new that app developers have not whitelisted or tested against it. The Pocket 6, running the ubiquitous 8 Gen 2, has none of these problems — every Android app that runs on a 2023 flagship phone runs on it. This is the hidden cost of chasing a novel chip: you become the beta tester.

What this means for your purchase

The reviewers converged on the same verdict from three directions. HandheldRank framed the Pocket 6 as "the safer long-term bet if you care about Switch and PC emulation" and the G2 as merely "the faster way to get a solid handheld in your hands." Retro Handhelds' Ban was harsher in his G2 review: "If it were my money, would I buy the G2? No." Kupetsky, reviewing the G2 for Steam Deck HQ, liked the hardware but concluded it was "let down only by the next handheld coming so soon." And Retro Handhelds' Andrew, writing up its discontinuation, diagnosed the deeper issue: "Part of the problem with the Pocket G2 is that it never really seemed to 'fit' anywhere in Retroid's lineup." The market agreed. The G2 is gone.

Pricing and Availability in a Broken Market

Pricing in this lineup is a moving target, so here is the full state of play as of July 2026, including the two peers you will cross-shop against.

The pricing table

What "discontinued" actually means

Two of these entries are tombstones, and the difference between them matters. The 12GB/256GB Pocket 6 is gone — replaced by a smaller-storage stopgap. The G2 is paused: Retroid's official line is that it is temporarily discontinued due to "ongoing fluctuations in memory pricing" and will return "when market conditions allow," with the company steering buyers toward the Pocket 5 in the meantime. GamesRadar captured the moment in a headline: "Weeks after the Steam Deck disappeared, Retroid discontinues Pocket G2 'due to ongoing fluctuations in memory pricing.'" Do not buy a G2 on the secondary market expecting warranty support or restocks; treat it as abandonware hardware.

Cross-shopping the Odin 2 Portal and Steam Deck

At $244, the Pocket 6 has a specific pitch that Retro Game Corps' Russ summarized on the money: "Even at $245 it's the most affordable Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 handheld on the market. The 12GB RAM model provides more headroom for PC gaming, and it's a bummer that it's discontinued." The AYN Odin 2 Portal Base costs $249 for the same 8 Gen 2 silicon but wraps it in a larger 7-inch 1080p 120Hz OLED and an enormous 8000mAh battery — the choice if you want a bigger screen and do not care about pocketability. The Steam Deck OLED, now $789 for the 512GB model after its May 2026 hike, is a different animal entirely: an x86 PC that actually runs the PS3-era and modern games the Retroids cannot touch. Three-and-a-quarter times the price buys you a different tier of capability, not a nicer emulator.

Which Retroid Fits Which Player

A comparison that ends in "it depends" is a cop-out, but the honest truth is that these devices serve genuinely different buyers. Here are six concrete scenarios and the right answer for each.

The sixth-gen purist and the couch player

If you emulate PS2, GameCube, Dreamcast, and below, buy the Pocket 6 8GB at $244. It is the most affordable device that runs GameCube at 3× and PS2 at 2× with an active fan to hold those speeds. The 8GB of RAM is plenty for standalone emulators; the 12GB tier's headroom only matters for heavy native Android and PC streaming. If you mostly play docked on a TV, reconsider the Odin 2 Portal or lean on the Pocket 6's USB-C 3.1 DisplayPort output, which pushes 4K60 to an external screen — the Pocket 5 only manages 4K30 over USB-C unless you buy the official dock. The bigger battery and the 4K60 out make the Pocket 6 the better living-room citizen of the two flagships.

The minimalist and the budget buyer

If pocketability is the entire point, wait for the Pocket Nova ($229) or grab the Mini V2. The Nova's 4.5-inch 4:3 1280×960 panel is, as Engadget's Lawrence Bonk noted, "a great fit for PS2 and GameCube games," whose native aspect ratio is 4:3 — you get more usable pixels and less letterboxing than on a 16:9 screen. Bonk also flagged that with the Nova, "the best part, however, is the price." Just remember it has not shipped or been independently reviewed yet. If your budget is genuinely tight in a bad market, the $209 Pocket 5 is the value play — or step outside Retroid entirely to a $54 Miyoo Mini Plus if you only care about 2D systems up to PS1.

The tinkerer, the streamer, and who should just buy a Steam Deck

If you want native Android games, emulation front-ends, and PC game streaming alongside your ROMs, the 12GB Pocket 6 at $279 is the pick — the extra RAM is real headroom for Moonlight, cloud streaming, and multitasking, and unlike the G2 every Android app just works. If you need PS3, Xbox 360, or modern PC titles, stop looking at Retroids. Buy a Steam Deck OLED. No amount of Snapdragon optimism turns a mobile SoC into an x86 gaming PC, and the reviewers who ran RPCS3 on these devices all reported the same slideshow.

Migrating From an Older Retroid

Say you already own a Pocket 5 (or a 2, or a 3+) and the $35 gap to a Pocket 6 finally tipped you over. Or your G2 preorder got canceled when the model died and you need a landing spot. Here is how to move without losing a decade of save files.

From a Pocket 5 (or older Retroid) to a Pocket 6

The upside is concrete: about 70% more single-core throughput (Geekbench 1,985 versus 1,176), a jump from 60Hz to a 120Hz panel, active cooling in place of passive, and 27W fast-charging the Pocket 5 never had. The catch, which Saltalamacchia named repeatedly, is that the Pocket 6 is an incremental upgrade in feel rather than a revelation. He rated it 8.4/10 but called it "a perfect, yet slightly dull Android handheld," arguing Retroid "played it too safe to turn heads" and that "a $250 device should have something unique." If your Pocket 5 already runs everything you play, the honest move may be to keep it — Phil Retro's verdict on the RP5 in 2026 was that "in a vacuum, it's still a fantastic gaming machine," and that "the problem isn't the device; it's the neighborhood it lives in."

Moving saves, states, and BIOS without losing progress

Both devices run Android, so migration is a file-copy job, not a conversion. Move your ROMs and, more importantly, your save data. The layout that matters looks like this:

/storage/emulated/0/
├─ RetroArch/
│  ├─ saves/     # .srm cart saves — copy 1:1, fully portable
│  ├─ states/    # .state slots — tied to core version; update cores first
│  ├─ system/    # BIOS: scph5501.bin, gba_bios.bin, dc_boot.bin…
│  └─ config/    # DELETE retroarch.cfg — let the new device regenerate it
├─ AetherSX2/    # PS2 memory cards (.ps2) + per-game configs
└─ Dolphin/      # GameCube/Wii: GC/ (memcards) + Wii/ (NAND saves)

The one rule that saves headaches: save states are version-sensitive. A RetroArch .state written by one core version can refuse to load on another, so update your cores to matching versions on both devices before you rely on states, and lean on battery saves (.srm) for anything you cannot afford to lose. Delete the old retroarch.cfg rather than copying it — a config tuned to the Pocket 5's 60Hz panel will fight the Pocket 6's 120Hz output. If you are rebuilding your emulator stack from scratch, our walkthrough on installing 200 RetroArch cores in about 30 minutes covers the clean-slate path.

From a dead G2 order to something that ships

If you were in the G2 queue when Retroid pulled it, your realistic options are the Pocket 6 (more expensive, more capable, actually available) or the Pocket 5 (cheaper, older, the model Retroid itself now recommends). Do not chase a G2 on resale at inflated prices; you would be paying a premium for the driver headaches documented above, on a device with no restock path.

Pros and Cons, Model by Model

No device here is without compromise — that is the whole point of a shortage-era comparison. Weighed honestly:

The Pocket 6, weighed honestly

The flagship's strengths are unambiguous: it is the cheapest 8 Gen 2 handheld available, it has the only 6000mAh battery and active fan in the range, and its driver maturity means both games and apps simply work. Its weaknesses are equally real. It is heavier (~320g, though some listings cite 304g), its 12GB tier costs storage and forces the asymmetric top-stick layout, and it is fundamentally conservative — Notebookcheck's roundup summarized the review consensus as praise for "its performance and value," knocking "some of its design choices." Saltalamacchia's line lingers: "the only disappointment comes from knowing that Retroid can do better here." He did, however, call the panel "beautiful... one I simply cannot fault," noting a "5.5-inch AMOLED display makes the device feel incredibly modern."

The rest of the lineup, weighed honestly

The G2's pro was raw price-to-power; its cons were driver immaturity, broken apps, and, ultimately, extinction. The Pocket 5's pro is value at $209 with a mature chip; its con is that it is a generation behind and, per Phil Retro, has been "cannibalized" by its own siblings — a "sale-only device... outpaced by its own shadow." The Nova's pro is a purpose-built 4:3 screen and 8 Gen 2-class silicon at $229; its con is that it is unproven vapor until units land and reviewers weigh in. The Mini V2's pro is genuine pocketability; its con is a 3.92-inch screen and 865-class limits.

Pros and cons at a glance

The Law: Why Any of This Is Legal

The Machine promised to know the law as well as the lore, so here it is. Buying a Retroid Pocket and installing emulators is not a legal gray area. It is settled American case law, and the distinction that keeps it settled is worth internalizing before you fill a microSD card.

Emulators are legal; Sony v. Connectix settled it

In Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. v. Connectix Corp., 203 F.3d 596 (9th Cir. 2000), the Ninth Circuit ruled that Connectix's Virtual Game Station — a PlayStation emulator for the Mac — was legal, even though building it required copying Sony's BIOS during reverse engineering. The court called the resulting product "modestly transformative" and found the intermediate copying protected as fair use. The emulator software on your Pocket 6 — RetroArch, Dolphin, AetherSX2 — stands on that precedent. The programs themselves are clean.

ROMs are the part that isn't

The software that runs is legal. The game files are where liability lives. A ROM or ISO of a game you do not own is an unauthorized copy, full stop, and no amount of "abandonware" hand-waving changes that under current law. The clean path is to own the media and dump it yourself — which is exactly why a cartridge reader belongs in a serious emulation setup. Our guide to dumping your own SNES and Genesis carts covers the legitimate route to a library that is provably yours.

Why Retroid ships a bare Android box

Notice what Retroid does not include: games. Every Pocket ships as a stock Android device with no ROMs preloaded, because bundling copyrighted games would convert a legal hardware business into an infringement case overnight. The company sells you a capable computer and a microSD slot; what you put on it is your legal responsibility, not theirs. That deliberate emptiness is a feature, not an oversight — it is the same reason a blank hard drive is legal to sell.

The Verdict

Five handhelds, one broken market, and a surprisingly clear answer at the end of it.

The winner, with an asterisk

Buy the Retroid Pocket 6, 8GB, at $244. It wins on the three rows that decide real emulation — a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 with mature Turnip drivers, the only active fan in its price bracket, and a 6000mAh battery — and it does so as, in Retro Game Corps' words, "the most affordable Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 handheld on the market." RetroDodo's 8.4/10 is the right score: this is a very good, slightly boring machine that plays everything through the sixth console generation beautifully and asks you to pretend the seventh does not exist. The asterisk is that "slightly boring" is a fair charge. If you want a device that surprises you, this is not it. If you want a device that works, it is.

The runner-up and the wildcard

The Pocket 5 at $209 is the value runner-up — 70% slower in single-core but genuinely competent to PS2, and $35 cheaper. In a normal market it would be an easy recommendation; in this one it is squeezed so tightly against the flagship that only a strict budget justifies it. The wildcard is the Pocket Nova at $229, whose 4:3 screen and 8 Gen 2-class silicon could unseat the flagship for pure sixth-gen play — if it ships as promised and reviews well. Until it does, it is a promising pre-order, not a recommendation. The G2 is dead and the Mini V2 is a niche within a niche.

What to actually buy in July 2026

The final ranking: (1) Pocket 6 8GB for almost everyone; (2) Pocket 6 12GB at $279 if you stream PC games or run heavy native Android and can stomach the storage tax; (3) Pocket 5 if $35 genuinely matters; (4) Pocket Nova to watch, not yet to trust; (5) Mini V2 for the pocket purist. And if your real desire is PS3, Xbox 360, or modern PC titles, the honest recommendation is to close this tab and buy a Steam Deck — because the one thing every reviewer agreed on is that no Retroid Pocket, at any price the 2026 memory crunch has produced, is going to run them.