I live in the states … Specifically Massachusetts .. We have a huge festival/carnival every September and there has been a booth for the past few years selling game sticks and handhelds that appear identical to this … So I price one out fully being aware of how much I could order one for and the young man, blue to my face said “ Oh the handheld? I can do that today for $250.00 for you sir …. Needless to say I held in laughter and respectfully passed.
You're talking about the Big E? I haven't gone in quite a few years but I live in Mass too lol. But yeah, that's messed up. That shady salesman's lucky you were nice and just laughed it off. Some people might have caused a scene over someone trying to rip them off like that....
I think you are perhaps the only reviewer Wicked that has actually thought about what we used to get £40...when I started watching your channel over 2 years ago the choice for handheld gaming at this price was pathetic. Fast forward 2 years and the quality to price ratio has reached a new dynamic... Spot on my frien
my first handheld retro video game device, i love it. i just got it found a new hobby, i got my eyes set on a bunch of them now. trimui smart pro, PK x28 , sf2000 data frog, odin #2 etc
JUst incredible you can get that quality screen at that price. We are living in glorious times as a retro gamer. Aliexpress 11/11 sale coming soon. This thing will be even cheaper. Woohoo!!
I just ordered one of these from Ali Express with a Black Friday deal at $39, I only ordered because of your review. I love playing Atari, Gameboy, Lynx, NES, SNES and it seems this will play all of those great!
I don't mind the analog method for playing DS games on these devices. I've had a DS with an R4 card and it's great for stuffing all your games on the system but needing firmware updates every so often which became a hassle. Frankly, Nintendo probably thinks they can stop emulation by making devices with gimmicks like dual screens or touch displays and the fact that that Emulator is functional and playable on almost all the cheaper handhelds with a single small screen at this point is a testament to the tenacity of Emulator developers.
My atomic purple R36S should be passing customs tomorrow! I love my R35S but that stick placement... the R36S seems like my perfect vertical budget handheld! 😤
It's perfect! Like, who want to play any retro games on only one device BUT including the psp ones. This device is great but I wish they made a version that is NOT like a gameboy and more like a Nintendo switch (without any joycon colours). Anyways, as always, great review Wicked gamer and collecter! You are one of the best UA-camrs that review the cheapo handhelds and retro game players!
actually if you have a nintendo switch (specially lite) you can modded with a chip and play retroarch in it, i have mine like that and it's awesome, plus you can play some DS, 3ds amd psp games as well.
Looks pretty good and the price is very reasonable considering a lot of the prices of some of these games. My brother had a gameboy and GBA after and we had a snes when we were kids.
I had Gameboy and Game gear yes I still remember beating every game on my Game gear multiple times! My favorite we're X-Men Mogos world Spider-Man the Sinister six and Sonic and Tales!
Good review. I have the Miyoo mini plus so I probably should skip this one. Thanks for testing N64 Crusin' USA I will be very tempted to get it if it runs well.
Just got it last week from Ali express. I freaked love this $50 device. I did buy the wifi toggle $18 and USB adapter $12 to get to updated. Stereo sound not the best but again $50 from arcade to nes DS. 64G SD card. Only problem was, windows wouldn't properly copy and paste the files to a better SD card.
Ordered one of these things for my brother for Christmas. We grew up with the ugly grayscale brick Game boy. We loved the game gears color screen, but it was six AA batteries for a fraction of the game time. Good old dot matrix LCD. We collected gaming handhelds over the years and eventually did get our hands on one, and even an Atari lynx.... I really wish that console taken off. The Atari lynx was ahead of its time. The GBA was my go-to In high school.
Have you tried connecting it to TV? Does it work? And can you add a gamepad to play 2p? And if so can you connect it to the TV and connect a pad at the same time or there's just one OTG port so you have to choose either TV or pad?
Thank you for the review- i've just ordered this last week as i was in need of a decent portable "Game Box"- thank you for the heads up about the N64/PSP/DC emulation. i wonder if there's a way to replace the emulation software with better running /more stable emulator
I think it’s difficult because the emulators are not optimized to run it, not because they need an octa core to run. Having an octa core processor in your own PC back when the N64 was the latest console sounds extremely expensive!!
No, it's the chip. Even under ideal conditions with optimized firmware including optimized emulators - it is simply not able to run the whole n64 library. Guess that there are not many chips around for which the emulators were optimized as much as for the rk 3326. Full N64 emulation is just beyond its technical abilities. Same goes for DC and PSP. Some light games will run nicely, but not Chains of Olympus, GTA or so. Sadly this won't change a lot in the future. These 3326 handhelds should be bought for up to PS1, because that is where this processor really does a great job. btw Nice testing, Sir Wicked! 👍😁
That would be sega saturn unfortunately. Many handhelds that can emulate dc and gc quite well do not even attempt saturn. It is crazy that Saturn emulation is not even close to being accurate after all those years.
I have also this awsome handheld console. You can give the console more ram usage because it has 1Gb of ram and i have set it that the console uses 520Mb of ram and N64 and PSP games run smoother
pretty good product for the money, i'm tempted. Problem is that I don't like the way all the buttons move when you press one button and the clicky start/select/function buttons, why don't they use rubber membrane buttons.
Does the R36s have a real time clock? I want to buy one for playing old pokemon games, but not having day/night cycles or berries not growing would be annoying!
Correct your information please! This device has RK3226S! (I know is not written on the chip but if you search the code you will find it is S version) (Also has DDR4L, the R35S had DDR3L. It has better performance than the R35s.
I got the R35S. I cut up and put a small piece of electrical tape over that blue light. It's meh. Pocket-Go S30 does the job for everything I like that's not on my Switch.
Does anybody knows if it can emulate other platforms besides the ones they are included? The other day I saw someone with a scummvm emulator on it. Also, what happens if use a 128gb on the rom card and a 32gb on the firmware one? You know, bigger sd cards, does it affect anything?
It's a good device, but they pushed it too hard. It doesn't play N64 worth a darn, it's just too taxing for the device. Other than that, I like it alot. Nearly an Anbernic RG353VS
They will play perfectly. The console he is showing is already superior in hardware than the Miyoo Mini+, which can already play all Pokémon games for those consoles (the 3ds will not play on the Miyoo Mini Plus)
I have it for 2 weeks now... I find it... The idea is great, but the quality of the console itself is... Bad... It often gets stuck at startup loading screen and not all the game works... Also my left joystick needs to be repaired already, it stuck tilling down... 😢
I live in the states … Specifically Massachusetts .. We have a huge festival/carnival every September and there has been a booth for the past few years selling game sticks and handhelds that appear identical to this … So I price one out fully being aware of how much I could order one for and the young man, blue to my face said “ Oh the handheld? I can do that today for $250.00 for you sir …. Needless to say I held in laughter and respectfully passed.
You're talking about the Big E? I haven't gone in quite a few years but I live in Mass too lol. But yeah, that's messed up. That shady salesman's lucky you were nice and just laughed it off. Some people might have caused a scene over someone trying to rip them off like that....
I think you are perhaps the only reviewer Wicked that has actually thought about what we used to get £40...when I started watching your channel over 2 years ago the choice for handheld gaming at this price was pathetic. Fast forward 2 years and the quality to price ratio has reached a new dynamic... Spot on my frien
Yeah ... it's crazy what you get now for you money.
They are improving very quickly !
@@WickedGamerCollectorIm waiting PS2 emulation for $50😊
my first handheld retro video game device, i love it. i just got it
found a new hobby, i got my eyes set on a bunch of them now. trimui smart pro, PK x28 , sf2000 data frog, odin #2 etc
4:3 + good form factor + good sound + good buttons. Looks like an ideal console
the buttons here are not good
JUst incredible you can get that quality screen at that price. We are living in glorious times as a retro gamer. Aliexpress 11/11 sale coming soon. This thing will be even cheaper. Woohoo!!
11/11 it is going to be CRAZY ! 🤣
What was the price like on 11/11? does anyone know? I'm curious.
It's back on sale again. $32 US @@AJ-po6up
30 dólares
Paid $31 plus taxes so happy with it I don’t get why people drag it so harshly it’s so good the controls are really not bad imo
17:06 Mortal Cumbat?
I just ordered one of these from Ali Express with a Black Friday deal at $39, I only ordered because of your review. I love playing Atari, Gameboy, Lynx, NES, SNES and it seems this will play all of those great!
WOW.... 39 that is CRAZY !
yeah americans get crazy good prices@@WickedGamerCollector
I don't mind the analog method for playing DS games on these devices. I've had a DS with an R4 card and it's great for stuffing all your games on the system but needing firmware updates every so often which became a hassle. Frankly, Nintendo probably thinks they can stop emulation by making devices with gimmicks like dual screens or touch displays and the fact that that Emulator is functional and playable on almost all the cheaper handhelds with a single small screen at this point is a testament to the tenacity of Emulator developers.
One of the "L" buttons ( I think L2) will give you both screens for DS games
Like you said, i quit the Gameboy just before the screens and games really improved. Now I'm glad to be back with the quality they have today.
My atomic purple R36S should be passing customs tomorrow! I love my R35S but that stick placement... the R36S seems like my perfect vertical budget handheld! 😤
I like how you can easily replace the joysticks, unlike the Nintendo Switch Joy Cons
yup... maybe better joysticks is a great thing in the future 😎
@@WickedGamerCollector Well said
I just love the music you play at the end of your video.
Quite good portable not perfect but worth it. Good review and cool video Wicked!👉😃👈
just orderd one for 43 euro, amazing what u get for that price these days, cant wait to get it.
It's perfect! Like, who want to play any retro games on only one device BUT including the psp ones. This device is great but I wish they made a version that is NOT like a gameboy and more like a Nintendo switch (without any joycon colours). Anyways, as always, great review Wicked gamer and collecter! You are one of the best UA-camrs that review the cheapo handhelds and retro game players!
actually if you have a nintendo switch (specially lite) you can modded with a chip and play retroarch in it, i have mine like that and it's awesome, plus you can play some DS, 3ds amd psp games as well.
I have the exact game.I love it.
aaaand the Analogue Pocket takes another hit.
thousands of more games at good quality for 1/4 the price
I don't think these two are targeting the same audience.
Just ordered mine for £23 all in, cant wait
Looks pretty good and the price is very reasonable considering a lot of the prices of some of these games. My brother had a gameboy and GBA after and we had a snes when we were kids.
Sounds familiar! 😁
I had Gameboy and Game gear yes I still remember beating every game on my Game gear multiple times! My favorite we're X-Men Mogos world Spider-Man the Sinister six and Sonic and Tales!
Yeah.. I just purchased one lol about time i have one in this form factor
Good review. I have the Miyoo mini plus so I probably should skip this one. Thanks for testing N64 Crusin' USA I will be very tempted to get it if it runs well.
Am I endoctrinated to buy things with a clear purple shell? Yes.
Got mine on offer for 35$ - what a bargain... Even managed to connect keyboard and mouse via OTG to play Doom 1 on it - wicked :D
You can find this 49$ handheld for as low as 85$ online. Very good deal for a 49$ device. Those 49$ device are normally over a 100$
Very nice for the money 💰 thanks Wicked
Ow wait ... XU10 coming up ... it's going to WILD !!!
I can't find it anywhere for 49...
It can be a SUPER deal.
Prices go up and down 😳
Allie express usa
Now it is
Good looking device
Hey Wicked I'm a game pad guy too
Ow yeah.. that means we are D-Pad Gamers ! 😎
For the price this is pretty unbeatable
According to tracking mine just arrived on my doorstep. I'm gunna shit my pants so I can go home from work and play it
Yeah enjoy !
The flying Dutchmen ❤❤💙💙🇦🇺🇦🇺👊🎮🎮🕹️🕹️the best reviewer hands down ….cool little device 🇳🇱🇳🇱
Just got it last week from Ali express. I freaked love this $50 device. I did buy the wifi toggle $18 and USB adapter $12 to get to updated. Stereo sound not the best but again $50 from arcade to nes DS. 64G SD card. Only problem was, windows wouldn't properly copy and paste the files to a better SD card.
Is a modified switch any good for emulation?
No idea .. i don't bother with Switch itself.
Or it's needs to when it comes for testing hardware of talk about fun games to buy.
Ali express has a sale now, so they are much cheaper now :)
Looks like iam adding yet another handheld to the pile
Does the sound play on stereo over the headphones jack?
Great reviews on your channel. I just ordered one from Ali.
Ordered one of these things for my brother for Christmas. We grew up with the ugly grayscale brick Game boy. We loved the game gears color screen, but it was six AA batteries for a fraction of the game time. Good old dot matrix LCD. We collected gaming handhelds over the years and eventually did get our hands on one, and even an Atari lynx.... I really wish that console taken off. The Atari lynx was ahead of its time. The GBA was my go-to In high school.
Anyway to connect wifi through the otg port?
Yes
Have you tried connecting it to TV? Does it work? And can you add a gamepad to play 2p? And if so can you connect it to the TV and connect a pad at the same time or there's just one OTG port so you have to choose either TV or pad?
I dont think u can connect it to TV. Also no WiFi or Bluthooth.
He should mention this in the video
Paid 43 Euros...great Deal and use this more than the Miyoo Mini Plus.
Link please.
Same here! It’s so good!❤
Perhaps r36s is handle better than Miyoo Mini plus but just for the communitie dev tool you can customize your onion os like free who did this ??
How did you manage that - it's coming up as 72 Euro for me and that's the cheapest one
72€ Portugal VAT included
Very cool device.
Maybe I just have bad taste but the D pad the back bumper is the buttons they all feel good to me
Thank you for the review- i've just ordered this last week as i was in need of a decent portable "Game Box"- thank you for the heads up about the N64/PSP/DC emulation.
i wonder if there's a way to replace the emulation software with better running /more stable emulator
I had PS1 and PC when I was kid. No hand helds except some really retro 80's thing. It was already considered retro back then lol
How does MVC2 on Dreamcast play?
No great ... see part.
It have many glitches.
And DOA 2 haves FPS drops 😶
I've got and I love it , more comfortable than r35s 👌
Now it's $35-$40!!! 🎉
Muito obrigado, me ajudou bastante ^^
i have a steam deck but this is very nice small handheld that I can play custom rom hacks for pokemon or older games. I got mine for $41 on aliexpress
N64 seems to be the most difficult to emulate, so i guess a good octa core 2ghz cpu is needed.
I think it’s difficult because the emulators are not optimized to run it, not because they need an octa core to run. Having an octa core processor in your own PC back when the N64 was the latest console sounds extremely expensive!!
No, it's the chip. Even under ideal conditions with optimized firmware including optimized emulators - it is simply not able to run the whole n64 library.
Guess that there are not many chips around for which the emulators were optimized as much as for the rk 3326. Full N64 emulation is just beyond its technical abilities. Same goes for DC and PSP. Some light games will run nicely, but not Chains of Olympus, GTA or so.
Sadly this won't change a lot in the future.
These 3326 handhelds should be bought for up to PS1, because that is where this processor really does a great job.
btw Nice testing, Sir Wicked!
👍😁
That would be sega saturn unfortunately. Many handhelds that can emulate dc and gc quite well do not even attempt saturn. It is crazy that Saturn emulation is not even close to being accurate after all those years.
Just paid 36 us bucks on AliExpress... Can't wait
First handheld I ever got was gba sp day after I bought psp
I grew up with a Philips MSX2 home computer... yes I'm old🧐
Love those old pc's 😎
Have seen a few videos - really surprising
For the price you can't ask for more.
For 49 dollar... that plays up till PS1 and GBA games flaweless and a decent looking overall it's a steel!
Yup, for that money it's amazing.
You should check out the XU10
doesn't it work in Android environment as well as in Emuelec? It would have better performance with optimized Android drivers. 16:52
Can you play street fighter or contra with the joystick instead of the D pad?
I have also this awsome handheld console. You can give the console more ram usage because it has 1Gb of ram and i have set it that the console uses 520Mb of ram and N64 and PSP games run smoother
Do the button long lasting？i got a m17 before be the button already have problem in 5months？
Can you clone the SD card?
Just in case the original stops working
Yws , it's suggested
got my galaxy note 10plus exynos as emulation device. are these retro handheld still worthy to buy?
Still can't figure out how to save. Pressing both of the joysticks is not working
How does it feel in your hands? My favorite handheld was always the GBA. I never liked how the more vertical GB felt.
I had a gameboy and gamegear. I don't have many titles for them ;/
Will you check out the XU10 too? 😊
That is the next one 😳, finishing review today.
Then going to see to make a compare in the end. 😎
Getting on 50 dollar is it good
pretty good product for the money, i'm tempted. Problem is that I don't like the way all the buttons move when you press one button and the clicky start/select/function buttons, why don't they use rubber membrane buttons.
You still could decouple them by cutting them individually.
Does it actually come with games set up on it or do you have to go through some sort of setup? Getting it for nephew not very tech savvy
These things come with the games installed, hope this helps😊
Does the R36s have a real time clock?
I want to buy one for playing old pokemon games, but not having day/night cycles or berries not growing would be annoying!
Yes it do
why noone do the conectivity to the tv or use external gamepad??
Lad, what chinese console do you think would be the best to play DS games?
You need a dual screen handheld or a big screen console-tablet for decent gaming.
Rgb 30 would be nice.
What they said 😳
Just get a DS...
They are like $60
What's with the weird edit at 7:49?
luv it
Could buy E6 Please
Yes, made orde it's waiting to be shipped out 😎
We will starting sale R36s yellow!BOYHOM R36s!
Skip to 1:44 for HUGE GIRTH.
Correct your information please!
This device has RK3226S! (I know is not written on the chip but if you search the code you will find it is S version)
(Also has DDR4L, the R35S had DDR3L. It has better performance than the R35s.
😳
They need one with 6 buttons on front 😊
Did Anbernic not announced something like that ?
I can't find it cheaper than $180??
Aliexpress
@dampfermaniac5335 that's where I'm looking unfortunately.
@@ThaCyNiQ Type: Open source r36s retro handheld ..... now there one for 55 Euros
@@dampfermaniac5335 I got it for $90
Except you can’t change the emulator for MAME2003. A couple of favorites won’t work like alien storm.
I got the R35S. I cut up and put a small piece of electrical tape over that blue light.
It's meh. Pocket-Go S30 does the job for everything I like that's not on my Switch.
Does anybody knows if it can emulate other platforms besides the ones they are included? The other day I saw someone with a scummvm emulator on it. Also, what happens if use a 128gb on the rom card and a 32gb on the firmware one? You know, bigger sd cards, does it affect anything?
Anyone can suggest CHEAP handheld that can handle Sega Dreamcast games?
No Atari systems? :(
Pretty good for only $50 dolars
It's CRAZY !
Can someone help me my psp analog controll have somehow being reversed
Just bought one for $25
Just bought it in ali from 31usd
u americans are lucky with those prices, we europeans pay 50-60 usd for this from aliexpress.
is it weird my phone ( realme x) runs psp games better then ps1 games?
You sold me at MvC2
It's a good device, but they pushed it too hard. It doesn't play N64 worth a darn, it's just too taxing for the device. Other than that, I like it alot. Nearly an Anbernic RG353VS
I’d use mine for old school NES/SNES games as I miss them the most!
I got an orange one…
👍👍
No mario games?
There there.
Do you know if it has the Pokémon GB, GBA and NDS games and if so, do the NDS games play fairly well on the device? Thanks!
They will play perfectly. The console he is showing is already superior in hardware than the Miyoo Mini+, which can already play all Pokémon games for those consoles (the 3ds will not play on the Miyoo Mini Plus)
GB,GBA perfect...NDS really good way better then Miyoo Mini Plus
I have it for 2 weeks now... I find it... The idea is great, but the quality of the console itself is... Bad... It often gets stuck at startup loading screen and not all the game works... Also my left joystick needs to be repaired already, it stuck tilling down... 😢
It's only $30 if you dont use an affiliate link.
49 euro in your dreams.
Got it for 47 2 days ago on AE, shipping to spain for free, expected arrival on thursday
after Aliexpress random discounts I got one for $43 with free shipping to US. It'll likely be here this week.
Paid 43 Euro at Aliexpress as a " Early Bird" Deal.
Sometimes you have EXTREME deals.
I had that 4k game stick last time for 28 usd. 😅